How My Personal Issues Impact Driving and Make Me Hate It
posted on 17 February 2011 | posted in
Cars and Transport
Even though I drive a lot on my job (in my van with its various van accessoriesthat help me do my plumbing job), I have two seemingly small medical problems that are big issues when it comes to driving. Together, they make me hate driving. The first is that I have a problem with "lazy eye" in my right eye. It is worse when I am tired. But it always interferes with having binocular vision because - according to my optometrist - my brain is always cancelling images that would make me have double or triple vision. This means I have trouble with depth perception, and that makes it hard for me to judge distances. The result is that I often wait unnecessarily to move into traffic or to make turns. It also makes me angry when I feel that others have cut in front of me or endangered me, but then people who are with me think I am being ridiculous. Add to this issue that I also have a type of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - the type that means I am often dreamy and preoccupied, and am also easily distracted. It is very hard for me to concentrate when driving. People talk a lot about the dangers of texting or talking on cell phones when driving, but these things are nothing for me compared with the distraction of having a passenger in the car. If the passenger is a talkative child, I am nearly sunk. So, I hate driving. I especially hate driving if I have passengers. I hate it because it is a constant mental struggle. I have never had a serious accident, but I have had plenty of small, stupid ones. For example, I backed into a concrete pillar I thought was much further back than it was. My insurance agent asked me, "Did you really do all this damage all by yourself?" I confessed that I did, and the company paid the claim. But I really wish I lived in a place with subways and buses that went everywhere I need to go.
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