Just some miscellaneous ramblings from an Upstate New Yorker.


Monday, June 30, 2014

My response to "Autistic Adults Have Poor Driving Skills: Study"

If there one thing the press has gotten both right and wrong on is on autistic drivers. It turns out that many of us are simply mediocre drivers, and not by choice.

The reason I'm a so-so driver is because of the fact that I'm a slow driver, as in with reaction time. When you're driving in the tri-state area (most of the Hudson Valley, New York and all of its suburbs) slow drivers are a recipie for accidents. In fact, I drive so little just for that reason. Driving ideally for me, is a means to access frequent public transportation.

What's surprising is how the study was conducted by the lesser of likely schools: Drexel University.

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