Driving behaviour pre-HRT and post/during-HRT: the changes

[Muffin]

How has your driving style changed during transition?

Less/more road rage?

Can't parallel park any more?

Have a sudden urge to learn to master freestyle drifting?

I used to be a mechanic but now I'm worried about what might happen if I get a flat tire?

I totally shredded my first fishtail last night?

:S

Dus-cuss??

[cynthialee]

I do not drive. Ever. I have no license and you do not want me on the roads, trust me.
My spouse however...When Sevan started taking T ze went from a slightly agressive driver to the master of road rage. Ze cuts people off and is almost always going faster than anyone else and is mad when other drivers do the same things ze does.
Before the T such behavior would have been unthinkable.

[Muffin]

Yeah it's interesting noticing differences in such seemingly simple things as driving.. I'd say I definitely would love to give drifting a go these days. I still speed more often than I should, I have a keen eye though and it very rarely lets me down. I don't heckle people any more.. now it's like ..whatever. meh.

I also just made a picture because I was "board"....

[Krissy_Is_A_Gem]

This is something I have noticed. My depth perception is terrible when parking either forward or reverse. I think Im really close to something but in fact when I get out Im quite a distance from the object.

[April Dawne]

Funny, I've noticed that I am a far less aggressive driver than I used to be. I still get frustrated from time to time, and I notice it's usually directed at the aggressive drivers I now encounter haha. I'm also more fearful of being hit by other drivers.

[Cruelladeville]

Yoh Muffin.... I lurve ya handle btw....

Aheemm in ma old life I used to race cars....at a club level relatively successfully...

Tracks I enjoyed included the following Donington Park, Zaandvoort, Spa Francorchamps....Le Mans.... and last but not least the Nürburgring... I lived in Germany for over 8 years...

If I'd be 110% girlie from birth then I'd probably have ended up like dis lady....





But yep reversing into tight spots a few hours after my E shot can turn a bit ugly...but my domestic car is still chipped...

(I'm an appalling petro-head if truth be told)....lol

[Cruelladeville]

PS: Dis was the car/class I used to race around Europe... tee hee... for the UK club team...

[aubrey]

Nice Cruella

I'm probably just as aggressive and given to road rage as ever, but much more concerned about being hit. I attribute that to an accident I was in last year where I was knocked off of the road by a drunk/senile driver, and the fact that most people around here must have paid someone off to pass their driving test. But I'm not bitter

[AmySmiles]

I still speed a small amount, usually about 10% over the limit.  Everyone around here speeds (and most faster than I do) so I've never been pulled over in my life.  Probably the only actual change is I'm calmer now.  Still mutter under my breath in a girly way about bad drivers

but much more concerned about being hit. I attribute that to an accident I was in last year where I was knocked off of the road by a drunk/senile driver, and the fact that most people around here must have paid someone off to pass their driving test. But I'm not bitter

Ditto.  My junior year of college I was about 6 feet from being killed by a drunk/drugged driver who blatantly swerved into an empty turn lane to run a red light around parked traffic.  He then proceeded to run from the police on foot when it was clear his car was ruined.  I was lucky that he hit in front of the front wheel and ever since then I've looked both ways at every intersection I drive through.  I'm very bitter... he got off without a scratch before they received our witness statements for the trial.

[LivingInGrey]

This is something I would hope that would change for the better for me. I get very angry when I drive and on rare occasions it shows. I have great distrust for other people and their driving habits. Seeing people talking on their cell phones while driving is the number one thing that makes me think 'meh, you've got a big truck... just run them off the road and the people will rejoice you as a hero".

I've been ran off the interstate (at 70 miles an hour) twice, totaling one of my vehicles (the person never stopped and got away with 'hit and run', that case is still open) on the concrete guard of a bridge just about head on (I was lucky and walked away with a minor injury that didn't require medical attention).

My S.O has said that she's never known anyone in her life to attract so much stupidity to them while driving, the idiots just gravitate to me every time I start a vehicle.

As for 'the need for speed', I'm one of the few people out there that will only do 5 miles over the posted speed limit. I have a clean driving record with only one minor at fault accident EVER (got cut off once and gave a pickup truck a love tap, more like didn't slow down for them, on their back bumper to let them know I was there and the cop called it my fault for not yielding =/ ).

When I was younger I used to love jumping cars (I've never damaged a vehicle doing that) and drifting during the winter time. The fastest I've personally had a vehicle up to on a public road is 115 mph. Lately though I wont even leave the house unless I have a darn good reason to.

Future aspirations... I'd love to go 'rock climbing' with a 4x4 one day. Not like aggressively speeding through the woods in the mud or anything but like this... (Turn your volume down... it's windy in Moab Utah)

[rejennyrated]

Possibly unsurprisingly given that I am technically intersex, my driving is a huge mixture and it didn't change just because of HRT and surgery.

My spacial perception is poor and always has been and I have learned not to attempt any tight spaces or gaps. However I can reverse into a space with ease. I have never been aggressive but I am sometimes absent minded when driving slowly, hence I am generally far more dangerous in a car park or urban street, where I can get distracted by chatter or pretty things in shop windows, than I am on the open road.

But on the open road I do drive way too fast on occasion ( and I do mean WAY too fast ) I have a chipped car which will do well over 130mph, and I know that for reasons other than having read the manual if you take my drift.

So all in all I guess I'm your typical intersex driver. 

[ggina]

I don't drive cars on public roads, only bicycles But I race karts and I noticed that my concentration lapses sometimes since I'm on E. It has put me in some nasty accidents already. I hope it's only temporary and I can return to the level I was before. I love speed, I want to be a woman rally driver someday, now how about that

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[Karla]

I have still to see what changed after HRT but I know what pre- was like :

Where I learned they only had stick shifts/clutch.. I sucked. I do it too early, too late or miss the gear!! (The Stall of Shame)

I can't 'feel' the edges and boundaries of the car when I'm driving, but I can reverse blind folded

I can't bring myself to hit the brakes when I should

I'm too nice to people, I let every one pass. Someone jumps in front of me, the instructor starts yelling in road rage, and I just go about my usual business looking dreamily into the distance, I'm thinking he should really save the energy and he's probably thinking wtf, this person either has nerves of steel or doesn't even care!

Bottom line is I should not drive. Also when I know how to!

[aubrey]

he got off without a scratch before they received our witness statements for the trial.

I've been ran off the interstate (at 70 miles an hour) twice, totaling one of my vehicles (the person never stopped and got away with 'hit and run', that case is still open) on the concrete guard of a bridge just about head on (I was lucky and walked away with a minor injury that didn't require medical attention).

Same here, the perpetrator was never found. I was knocked off of the road close to 70mph, tried to slow down gradually and the car spun out of control back onto the road, got hit by 2 cars, ran into the gaurdrail, then a semi hit me, then back to the other side into the ditch. It was like highway pinball and I was the ball. No injuries. What can you say to that really? I'm still speechless.

[Pippa]

My driving hasn't changed much and I still get frustrated by the doddling pensioners we get in my area.   On a sixty limit road, you usually end up doing about thirty five!    There a lot of people where I live who are used to only taking the car out once or twice a week.

The last crash I had happened because the lady in front of me lacked so much confidence, she slammed on the brakes in front of me at a roundabout when there was plenty of time for her to move.  I as left with nowhere to go other than straight into the back of her.

[Muffin]

I'd say taking corners feels more like rallying driving these days, especially at higher speeds. It's gets me in teh groove for some power sliding *dreams*. GRID!

how dirty does that lap want to be? at 2:50 that is awesome....

[Cruelladeville]

@ Muffin..... do you get a vibrating, motion sensing game seat with that? ROFL

[Muffin]

I wish! Though I would probably never leave the house if it did! 

There is a chance I'll be playing a great deal of GRID while recovering from SRS, a bit of excitement to pass the time! If anyone walks past my room and hears lots of cars crashing and skidding, being rammed into walls etc then that will be me ^___^

[ggina]

I have a steering wheel that vibrates. Could be better though

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[marleen]

Interesting thread
With myself, I noticed a lot less agression (verbally, confined to my own car): in the past I was constantly making comments about the driving style of others, while now, I more or less think 'if you want to go first, go first'. And when I do get excited, I start to wonder if there is still too much androgen in my system :-)
Since school started this week, and I have to back-up into parking spaces, I notice this has become a problem...in the past it was always easy...could this be because of hormones? It's hard to believe but brain deterioration could be the only other explanation, so I prefer hormones...