It's also annoying and incomprehensible to people who don't suffer from it. They think I'm just not trying.
Oh, so much sympathy for this!
I'm not quite as badly off as you in the navigation department - I can learn routes and remember them if I travel them a few times - but I know so well the "but I can do that, It's easy! So of course you can do it too!' attitude.
Rob is like this with me about mechanical things. Her knows, apparently instinctively, which way to tighten bolts or move something so that it aligns properly with something else. I can't do that I have no concept of it whatever. And he cannot get this through his head.
He can do it, so of course, I must be able to. It's one of the most annoying things about him, and although I love him dearly, it drives me distracted.
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Oh, so much sympathy for this!
I'm not quite as badly off as you in the navigation department - I can learn routes and remember them if I travel them a few times - but I know so well the "but I can do that, It's easy! So of course you can do it too!' attitude.
Rob is like this with me about mechanical things. Her knows, apparently instinctively, which way to tighten bolts or move something so that it aligns properly with something else. I can't do that I have no concept of it whatever. And he cannot get this through his head.
He can do it, so of course, I must be able to. It's one of the most annoying things about him, and although I love him dearly, it drives me distracted.