ADHD here driving for about 5 years

As others have already been popping in here a tip that works great for me (and actually I’d give to anyone driving) is I like to drive with a better safe than sorry mentality and over all drive cautiously

Making an unprotected left turn for example, I’m sitting at the light waiting for the on coming car to pass I’ll wait if I have any doubt i won’t make it. I’m probably going think “am i really sitting here I could have totally made that turn” but it’s better than the alternative of getting hit

A more adhd focused tip that personally I don’t like it because I find it distracting but my GF is diagnosed with adhd (she thinks it’s autism) listens to a play list to help her focus

Personally I couldn’t do a radio or playlist cus I’d be too distracted by trying to find a perfect song or something

Now of course you want to be aware of as much as possible when driving but sometimes when I drive I… tune out sint the right word, but id say focus my attention on the immediate surroundings when my brain is bad

Kinda what I mean is I know there’s a car tow lanes over and some guy 3 cars ahead of me, but I can only pay attention the 1 car ahead of me and to my sides an behind

That’s not a perfect description of what I do actually phrasing it like that make it sound dangerous but once I’ve established that “local area” I expand my attention outwards the back to local then expand again so it makes me aware of all that’s going on around me

And like others have said driving is a different and difficult experience when your starting so if you practice and it still feels like you can’t do it then probably carpool or take transit or something

Kinda turned into a word vomit so hopefully there’s something resembling a coherent idea in here