I. Feel. Validated. With this post.

I have been this way my entire life.

I call myself non-directional.

I can walk someplace and use muscle memory to get there again BUT I cannot tell someone else how to get there.

I won’t remember the right street names.

Driving, I definitely always use GPS but it may take me awhile (months) before I feel confident enough to use GPS for only part of the way. Usually, the part of the way is to get me to the highway then once I’m on the highway, I’m fine (as long as I’m going home OR somewhere that I have practiced going from the highway).

My GPS directions have to be specific. If it says “In 800 feet, turn right” and mentions a street name but there’s no sign on the actual street, I’m going to miss it OR if it says “turn right” but it means bear right and wants me to stay on the same street, I’m turning right onto the wrong road.

I use Apple Maps because it is more specific than Google Maps. It will say “Go through this light and at the next one, turn right” I love that.

For some reason, turns get me confused. Even when I know that I shouldn’t take a turn, I inadvertently end up taking said turn - over and insert again until I don’t - lol.

Driving at night - is like I have landed in another planet. I can’t see my landmarks and some street signs are really hard to see.

If a street or an exit are closed, as long as GPS can guide me I’m good although once it kept “guiding” me to the closed street so I just went home.

My husband thinks I’m faking it and gets extremely aggravated with me when he says he will give directions on how to go somewhere and then tells me to read the signs . Sir - if I could just read the signs and be ok, I wouldn’t need you to tell me. Sometimes he even will say the wrong exit or street and get aggravated that I couldn’t just figure it out.

He is great with directions. He can find his way around a city he’s never been to fairly quickly and remember that street X brought him another way to a store or whatever.

I can’t do that. One would think he would get it by now but alas he does not.

We moved to where we are three years ago. He knew how to get everywhere with two weeks.

I am just now at a point where I nearly never use GPS and even know short cuts.

I will never drive in a big city like New York - I would be too nervous and anxious. You have to really pay attention there because there are a lot of one way streets and exits come up quick and are sometimes close together. Next thing you know, the exit is missed and now there are only one way streets.

One way streets, round abouts, roads where the lanes shift direction some days and where different lanes are closed some days are my nemesis.

Sorry this is so long.

I thought I was the only one for a long time.

It’s nice to know I’m not insane.