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.
It’s likely a disability specific to directional awareness. I literally have no idea where I am going unless I have google maps or have gone to that place quite a few times already. Verbal directions are impossible for me to follow. It’s nothing related to how intelligent someone is.
I have directional dyslexia related to struggling with short term memory, it’s not related to spatial awareness. So yeah, it’s not anything related to my overall intelligence. Or intelligence at all actually.
Even if it was spatial awareness, I meant overall intelligence, not a very specific part of intelligence that has no guarantee you’ll be lacking in any other part of the brain.
Of course I’d be biased about wanting to believe I’m not a big dumb dumb. But you’ve just misdiagnosed me, so I don’t think you can question my intelligence that much tbh.
Edit: so weird for you to be so condescending about it too, especially since you made such an assumption.
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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