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<blockquote data-quote="Andy" data-source="post: 307318" data-attributes="member: 5096"><p>Just reading your post brought back the feelings I know you are going through. I have done the same with driving downtown Minneapolis - I just refuse to. It brings so much fear that when I was 16 years old and driving from Superior, WI home to Brainerd, MN, I ended up in the hills of Duluth because the road signs said left to the Cities and right North. There was no way I was going to the Cities so I went North. I didn't realize that I had to take the freeway toward the Cities.</p><p> </p><p>I shut down for elevators and driving in Minneapolis. I do know the terror you are going through. I am getting somewhat better about elevators. It is super hard still but stairs are getting harder. I do not ever forsee me ever driving downtown Minneapolis though.</p><p> </p><p>I had a co-worker tell me one time that I had to drive in Mpls at some point in my life. I told her no, I do not! </p><p> </p><p>Maybe that is why I can understand my difficult child's anxiety and hesitation in other people when they just refuse to do certain things. Sometimes it does go so much further than a "I don't want to" sometimes it reaches that terror point of really can not make your body do this.</p><p> </p><p>I hope you can get together with more students and maybe start a carpool for all clinicals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 307318, member: 5096"] Just reading your post brought back the feelings I know you are going through. I have done the same with driving downtown Minneapolis - I just refuse to. It brings so much fear that when I was 16 years old and driving from Superior, WI home to Brainerd, MN, I ended up in the hills of Duluth because the road signs said left to the Cities and right North. There was no way I was going to the Cities so I went North. I didn't realize that I had to take the freeway toward the Cities. I shut down for elevators and driving in Minneapolis. I do know the terror you are going through. I am getting somewhat better about elevators. It is super hard still but stairs are getting harder. I do not ever forsee me ever driving downtown Minneapolis though. I had a co-worker tell me one time that I had to drive in Mpls at some point in my life. I told her no, I do not! Maybe that is why I can understand my difficult child's anxiety and hesitation in other people when they just refuse to do certain things. Sometimes it does go so much further than a "I don't want to" sometimes it reaches that terror point of really can not make your body do this. I hope you can get together with more students and maybe start a carpool for all clinicals. [/QUOTE]
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