I spoke about it before but whenever I have things I need to do, I find myself putting them off even when I’m out of the house in no small part because of how constantly busy traffic is. I may live in the middle of nowhere, but it’s car dependent so there are near constant traffic jams.
Even at the grocery store I find myself wandering aimlessly because of how constantly packed the place is. The gym? It’s full all the time too so it’s hard for me to actually do my workout. When I’m actually in traffic I feel myself getting more and more angry and irritated. I despise how poverty forces me to stay a basement dweller in rural Ohio, I despise how slow going from point a to point b is because of how busy traffic is at all times. It makes me sad seeing fire trucks not go anywhere because of how backed up traffic is.
I think it’s cutting a lot into my productivity in trying to find a job and get myself off my feet when I have to take care of other things, and I wonder if any neurodiverse people feel the same way.
Yes.
Actually relocated to a big city after living all my life in a rural area where you had to drive everywhere. I started to despise it so much, especially in poor weather. Then one time got into a very close call type of situation in bad rainy weather with my small child babbling away on the next seat and my driving pretty much ended then and there. I was a good driver, used to even do it for a living and never connected how drained I felt after a longer drive to my neurotype until lately.
I am lucky to now live in a place where public transport is so good that I don’t have to drive even at work, but the downside is the intense traffic where we live. Constant car noise, constant blinding bright lights when it’s dark, constant stress. I miss the rural silence, but not the driving. I truly think I am more sensitive to it than neurobasics.