Is it normal to be very afraid of driving at age 20?
Even when I think about it myself, it seems absurd and I keep telling myself that I can do it and it's a piece of cake. But whenever someone asks me to park the car or move it, - I don't know, something inside me just freaks out. I don't trust that I won't hit anyone or they won't hit me.
When I was 17, some friends of my family, three of their kids died in a car accident. It was a 22 year old women, a 10 year girl, and a 1 year old girl. They were hit by a truck and they all died instantly. There was something about seeing all three of them in the same coffin at the wake that was unsettling.
And then on top of that when I was 18 last summer I was hit by a car twice within two weeks and my knee got messed up. The cars were only pulling out of a driveway. Must have only been going less than 5 mph. It's not like I was stupid either for getting in the way - I had the right to go with the walk sign lit up. All this really showed me how destructive vehicles can be and how fragile the human body is. I really try not to let this hinder my ability to get over my fear of driving because ....I'm 20 and do not know how to drive. I'm a pretty normal individual who plans on going to college just like everyone else. I just have this fear of driving. Is this normal? Do other people put off learning to drive at such a late age?