For those who drive to work everyday, how do you deal with the overstimulation of your commute?
For context, I am looking at a job that is between 45 minutes to an hour away from where I live. All interstate driving.
I used to drive about that far to my last job, fighting traffic, and how loud the cabin of my car is. After a long day at work and a long commute home (it would take almost two hours to come home), I would have to decompress for several hours afterwards. Lying in bed, in the dark, doing whatever on my phone, alone. I know I need the decompression time, but spending hours in my room and accomplishing nothing else isn't ideal. It's also not good for the rest of my mental health outside of being on the spectrum. I felt like I was wasting half of my life in bed and at work. I also have ADHD so I know the constant focus for that amount of time also doesn't help.
Are there ways to make the sensory overload of commuting less taxing? Dealing with the noise, the light, the extra mental work it takes to read what other cars are doing.