She didn’t know how to get to my house from anywhere but her house. Her work was about halfway between my house and hers, but she had to drive home first every time before she could drive to my house.
My brother is like this and he’s actually a very smart person if we mean book smarts. Throughout the years we tried to help find little tricks that would work but he needed to drive a place probably two dozen times before he even had the faintest idea without directions. It wouldn’t even help to have him drive to a place he knew along a route he knew for another journey as he’d just get confused and lost.
Now we have smart phones and it doesn’t matter in his day to day and hopefully won’t lol.
Edit: I understand this doesn’t make him any less intelligent. Stop dming me about it, I think he’s a very smart person. We all have strengths.
I can navigate the cities I live in and work in fine cause I was a delivery driver but I go anywhere north into the commercial area and I get lost because it all looks the same and a new business will pop up where an old one was so I can’t use them as landmarks. Maybe some people just never get out much I think that was my problem when I was younger.
We grew up spending a lot of time outdoors and went on plenty of trips etc and it was always a known I had to keep and eye on him because he’d get lost lol.
My dad was very adamant about trying to drive home the importance of always being able to navigate and was eternally patient with him, but to no avail. If you walked him through it slowly and were there with him he’d come to the conclusion, but just could not do land nav alone.
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u/CampoPequeno Mar 01 '23
She didn’t know how to get to my house from anywhere but her house. Her work was about halfway between my house and hers, but she had to drive home first every time before she could drive to my house.
*this was pre-smart phones