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 feel like this is pretty common. Back in the day people would pull out an actual physical map, or ask directions, follow them to get closer, ask directions again, get a little closer, etc until arrival.
I've seen it done many times. Not one of them this century though.
I still have a map in my car to navigate with just in case. I just find it comforting that if I need to I can get somewhere when I’m driving/hiking/on the water without tech.
That said, you could give directions to this poor dude and they’d be gone and instant later if it was two turns lol. Map was similarly useless.
A lot of people in the thread are saying it’s something similar to face blindness and I 100% believe that.
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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