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[quote=Anonymous]My sister doesn't drive and she is 35 years old.  This is affecting her life in multiple negative ways, especially during quarantine.

She got her license at 16 and had a terrible sense of direction.  She actually got lost driving to our grandma's house, which was an hour away, and a place where she'd been driven weekly her entire life.  My parents would make her drive back to grandma's every weekend after she got her license and...she seemed incapable of remembering where to turn or what to do.  We would laugh and she would cry.  My parents made her get a summer job and drive herself there, and she got lost over and over again that summer just driving between the mall and home.  This was of course in the days before Sat nav.  She also repeatedly damaged the car going in and out of the garage and we think she hit another car in the parking lot at work.  My brother and I were really mean about this and my parents were angry and frustrated, but now I wonder if she had something really wrong, more than just a bad sense of direction.

My sister has a ph d. in electrical engineering now.  She is brilliant and functional in all other ways, but refuses to drive because she says she knows she will have an accident.  I think she should take lessons with a patient teacher and try to figure out this important life skill, but I'm not sure.  She got so upset the last time we spoke about it and said she thinks she has an actual disability that manifests in her difficulty with driving and directions.  Does anybody know anything about this as a possible condition or symptom, or have you known anyone like this?  [/quote]

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