More On My Case.

I was also going to say on the subject of driving in Michigan. I sometimes think of the law regarding who's safe to drive, and they sometimes don't make sense to me. Like for example if have epilepsy, you can drive. As long as you are seizure-free for one year. I have often wondered if you have epilepsy and you are prone to seizures at all whether you should be driving. And literacy and driving. I think I read at least on the 8th grade level. Maybe better than that. I supposedly have the equivalent of an associates' degree, mostly from community college. But like I've said, I can read a road sign a paragraph long in a glance. I was reading online recently that people who are illiterate are allowed to drive in most states. But as I was thinking around 1989 when I got my license, I wonder if they should be allowed to drive at all. Some signs just have symbols on them. And some you can easily recognize I guess, even if they have words. But some signs, like "Bridge out in three miles. Take a left on the third road." would be dangerous not to be able to read. Also, I was just thinking. Detour signs often have more instructions on them. Where the alternate route is, and what lane you should avoid. Or just where the detour begins up ahead.

It's ironic, because like I was telling my therapist once, I took a wrong detour around 1990. Near my house, I seem to recall. The Detroit police were there. And when they say me do it, this one officer gave me this wide-eyed knowing look, like he recognized me somehow. Which I thought was strange at the time. (Actually my mother confused me with detours. She told me shortly before then you should never follow what the person is doing in front of you when there is a detour. I must have misunderstood her, because of course you should always do what the person in front of you is doing. I think I just panicked in 1990 too, IOW it was partly anxiety since I was a new driver. And now I think I mostly understand those detours, and their strange rules and signs, and how they are a little confusing. Now I mostly pause or even wait if I don't know exactly what is going on there.) But reading as a driving requirement. It's something to consider for driving ability in Michigan to begin with. And it is clearly a good skill I have. Plus did the police think I was unable to read? Because like I said, some people seem to have thought I had very low intelligence. And that was part of the reason why they thought I just shouldn't be driving. Even though I had a license. As I keep saying, the state of Michigan and the secretary of state decides. Not police and paramedics with their own personal agenda. But I think there was a record of the fact I could read at least. And I did tell those Dearborn police who tried to take away my license for pouring coffee in 2001 I went to a community college, in case they wanted to look it up. Because they seemed concerned about that subject in general. Asking me if I wasn't mentally handicapped, maybe then I was mentally handicapped and just didn't know it.