Is there anyone else who cannot pass a driving test, or just goes to pieces when required to concentrate and perform. Today I was having a lesson before my test was scheduled and I just fell to pieces. My instructor wasn't being great, made me feel like an idiot so I just up and left, telling him I wasn't ready, and walked home!

Back in the UK I did my driving test 3 TIMES! I was/am a good driver, but whenever it comes to doing a test I F up, my concetration goes and I cannot do what is required, my brain disengages. This is driving me insane.:mad:

oh i know what you mean. i hate any test someone is watching me for and the first time i took my driving test,i ran a stop sign. in a closed off parking lot. he told me to pull over and then said,"you do realize that when you see a stop sign,you should stop right?"
the next time she said i passed by a hair and i have no idea what i did wrong. except she asked me if i knew where the emergency brake was,and i said,what's that?
so....i have no advice,lol

That would be me.

Although after not doing any driving for 2 years I am suddenly twice as good as when I stopped.

A wee story. I hope you don't mind. It helps being able to relive the triumphs.

I struggled to learn to drive in my late twenties when I was still going through the worst of my stuff. I didn’t really feel anything, I was so spazzed out. I got such awful headaches and my mouth was so dry I couldn’t speak. Then one day my instructor turned around and told me that she had put me in for my test, I thought I was going to die.

I don’t know what kept me going apart from the fact that my husband encouraged me so much, and kept telling me that I could do this. I didn’t believe him. I got so tried of feeling like crap during the lessons and with the thought of taking my test that I gave up. Seriously, I just thought **** it I can’t do this anymore. I didn’t have the heart to tell my husband so I thought I would just carry on and get it over with. I thought I’d just take the test fail and that would be the end of it. I had no intentions of trying again. I only played it out because he had already paid for the lessons.

Then came the day of the test. I just went along with everything feeling like I was on auto pilot. I didn’t want to think about the demolition derby that was going on in my gut. Then it was over and the instructor handed me the piece of paper and said “Congratulation”. I looked at him and I thought “Are you stupid?!!” I had passed my test first time. I almost passed out with the shock.

Apart from giving birth to three kids that was the only other thing I did in my life that made me feel like I was this amazing person and not the stupid little **** that they lead me to believe I was. I wasn’t stupid, I had given birth to three kids and I had passed my driving test first time!