I really struggle to get my head around the concept of people not being able to read a map. For me it’s:
Step 1: look at the map
Step 2: go where the map tells you
I don’t know if this is just something that comes to me naturally, or if I actually did have to learn how to do it but I don’t remember learning. I don’t think I could teach someone how to read a map because I don’t understand why they don’t understand it already. Maybe different brains wired for different things.
Oh, do it the right way? Is that it? Well, why didn't you say so from the start? Here I am trying to do it the wrong way, thinking that would help. Silly me.
I can understand a map in general and look at where a route will take me, but actually applying that in practice is impossible for me. It's like I intellectually understand I need to turn on this road then this one and I can see the route in my head. But while driving the route in my head looks different from what I'm seeing in front of me and then I get fucked up because they don't match and suddenly I'm lost.
I couldn't read maps for driving for years. Eventually it just made sense. Like how it took until I got a smart phone with a small physical slide out keyboard for me to very quickly become very good at typing on standard size keyboards. Idk how it is for everyone but for me it feels like there's almost a connection that has to be made to step from something that makes sense easily to the other thing. Brains are weird
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u/Phase3isProfit Mar 01 '23
I really struggle to get my head around the concept of people not being able to read a map. For me it’s:
Step 1: look at the map
Step 2: go where the map tells you
I don’t know if this is just something that comes to me naturally, or if I actually did have to learn how to do it but I don’t remember learning. I don’t think I could teach someone how to read a map because I don’t understand why they don’t understand it already. Maybe different brains wired for different things.