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submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For someone with extremely high anxiety, yes it does. She’s like a chihuahua.

[–] ___spannungsbogen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Throw her on a hill and she'll see that it's way easier than she expects to find the catch. I'm also pretty high strung, generally speaking, and when I couldn't get a hang of changing gears, the moment would devolve into sheer panic and make everything worse as I snubbed the engine with each attempt. And this was during parking lot practice with someone's old car that they were planning on junking anyways, so no need for that level of stress whatsoever.

But then I was taken to a little incline where I could clearly /feel it/ for the first time and after that, I just "got it".

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have extremely high anxiety and can attest that it took a lot of time and effort to master a stick shift. It's definitely valid that your wife doesn't want to go through that struggle.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I forced myself. My first car was a 1992 Pontiac with a manual transmission. I didn’t even know how to drive it off the lot haha. I just wanted the damn thing.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Similar situation for me! I bought a Mazda6 and learned to drive it on the 30 min drive home. Had a buddy follow me to keep cars off my ass. It's definitely a skill I'm glad I learned, and I'm sad to see manual transmissions die off as EVs come into popularity. And honestly my daily driver is an EV now. But I still miss the precise level of control that comes with a manual, especially in Winter.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago

There are whole countries where virtually everybody has to learn manual, even anxious people.

They just don't have the crutch of automatic gearboxes to fall back on.