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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad is an electrical engineer and since I know how his brain works in order to be one, and you say your sister has a PhD I don't think she has a learning disability like you mean.

I wonder if it's connected to nerves. Kind of like when a woman is uncomfortable with her sexual partner she clenches and can't relax so thinks there's something physically wrong with her body. There is, but not in the way she thinks.

I wonder if all your sister's car accidents were ways of trying to get out of having to drive.

My daughter is very smart and when she was 13 and begging to go out without me, I would say "Tell me HOW you would get to the mall".  It was a 20 minute walk that literally involved ONE turn.  She couldn't tell me. I'd say "visualize our building. You walk out the front door. The gas station is across the street. Now to get to the mall do you turn right or left?" and she couldn't tell me. Even though she knew. I pushed her through this and now she can explain how to get anywhere in our city.

I think your sister might be very scared of driving and that is causing her to not be able to think about directions. She's a grown adult - tell her you've thought about it and whatever she wants to do about driving, it's her choice and you support her, and you're sorry about how much you teased her as kids.  Then DROP IT.  [/quote]

Interesting connections about engineers and driving. My mom worked in engineering for 35+ years and honestly does not know left from right. She also has zero sense of direction even when driving in the town that she's lived in since 1989! My dad also was an engineer and is a terrible driver. He tailgates people frequently and does not realize when he's speeding. He almost lost his license back in the 1990s because he had so many points.[/quote]

+10000

Husband with aspergers and successful career can’t drive well at all - rear ends cars, drives to wrong destinations mindlessly using gps (ie puts in wrong place), tailgates, speeds and doesn’t realize it, Can’t read signs while driving, gassing it when going downhill, doesn’t know right of way rules so gestures for everyone else to go).  The worst was he used to use left food for braking and right for for acceleration and argue like and A-hole with me that that was just fine and better! (Aspergers people never admit fault or mistakes)

Don’t let her drive if she doesn’t want to. She is self-policing herself.

If she does want to, she should pay up for good behind the wheel lessons. [/quote]

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