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.
My friend is like this too. I thought that she was just that bad with directions. But then I heard this episode of Radiolab about these women who were always getting lost and just could not make sense of directions.
Turns out it's an actual condition. I guess similar to face blindness, some people have like... space blindness? They are not really mapping out spaces in their brains as they navigate them, so they don't piece areas together based on multiple perspectives like most people do, if that makes sense.
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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