My Mama and I discussed the reasons why I struggle with trying to learn to drive and are in agreement that it is OK for me not to get the license.The symptoms that I described previously are more than just distraction. My eyes are in focus mode by default. When I walk into a room I don't really see the whole room at once except perhaps as a blur . My eyes focus on one thing at a time like the door knob, the ink pen on the desk ect. If I am trying to take in my surroundings, my eyes dart from item to item so that my mind can form a whole from the different data points much like assembling a puzzle. If there is a pattern like a row of similarly colored books, and there is an alteration from the pattern it tends to grab my attention. I never used to know that was not normal . People always thought I was daydreaming when I would try to drive or learn a route so I would make extra sure that my mind was on what I was doing yet I could not gather enough data points fast enough while moving at that speed. Here back,I noticed when we were leaving from being stopped at a stop sign (I was just a passenger at that time) that I knew that there had been precisely six screws in the sign but had no idea as to what was on either side of the sign. I later tried to find out from my Mama how to glance at enough items quickly enough to see the entire view as you drive and then we ended up discussing the fact that apparently most people see the entire wider view at once. Ironically I think this very trait has been an asset in other ways .I often see minute details in things that others miss. People often ask for my help when needing extremely small print. Once I even scored very well on a test to see how well you could recognize fingerprints even partial and smeared ones. Unfortunately I doubt that law enforcement would want to hire someone who can't even drive .
