Anyone else have this issue?

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Maybe it's just me, but for the life of me I am just AWFUL with directions when I'm driving. Someone says: "Oh, just take 21st and get on 75 and take it up to Snokomo." Or something of that nature and to me it sounds like a garbled bunch of nonsense and I typically forget what they said. Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me and my failure to observe properly? Oh and FYI I tend to have trouble comprehending what people say, I know there is a technical term for that but I forgot it =P

I need things written down for me to remember. But if people are more visual I seem to remember it better unless it's too much to remember.

Sometimes. I find it usually helps just to ask the person giving directions to talk slowly and try to picture in my mind what's being said.

I'm horrible with directions. I can't take highways due to my utter inability to understand how they work. I'll take a regular street 12 miles instead of a highway if I have to.

Yeah. Horrible at verbal instructions longer than about one syllable long ("Right. Right. Right.") Drawn maps are way better. Written instructions too.

I despise driving directions. Much prefer to use a map. Or even a verbal description of the key streets on the map rather than "turn left at X, go to the third Y, turn right at Y, see Z, turn right at Z, etc".

I'm just the opposite. I can follow directions if they're not too complex and explained reasonably clearly. But if someone asks me, I can't give them however hard I try. Even local routes that I could get in my car and drive to right at that moment, I can't explain to someone else. At least not until they leave. Then it all comes to me what I could have told them. It's aggravating, because I really want to be helpful.

I don't have problems with directions If they are written down, but verbal directions seem basically impossible to follow. Pretty much every time someone gives me turn-by-turn directions I have this 'Oh my god, I didn't get any of that!' moment when they are finished. I have a pretty good sense of direction and kind of feel like I have a GPS built into my head. When someone starts giving me directions I start picturing the route in my head and I just can't keep up with them. I much prefer if someone gives me the general area where a place is and a street name or two for when I am close.

I just can't stand when people give you turn-by-turn directions all the way from point A to point B. Seems to me if I am going to start at point A I probably already know where I am and how to get going in the right direction!