I dunno. When I was a New York taxi driver, someone would say Penn Station and I would head for Port Authority. Even though I knew perfectly well where both were.
Well she is but she’s been dealing with it for a while. It’s kinda like how a blind or deaf person gets by with coping mechanism, flashing lights instead of an audible doorbell or learning to read in braille etc, it’s just a coping mechanism for the brain.
I have spatial awareness issues so I know I need to give everything a double wide berth or risk hitting it. I also have no real internal clock so I always cook with my phone and use timers and alarms to cook with otherwise I horribly undercook stuff like pasta and rice because it’s been forever and I’ve done all these other things in the 3 minutes it’s been boiling or overcook things in the oven because it’s only been five minutes since I put the tray in there 20 minutes ago.
So! How Many Steps are there from the street to the landing of 221B Baker Street? This is what I’ve been expecting Briar doesn’t simply see, she Observes! Who else would notice the Room Numbering System in a building? I certainly wouldn’t! Her Coping Mechanisms are fantastically Intricate. Her Observational and Analytical Skills are finely honed,by Constant use. If Briar can ever apply that Focus to something other than Coping they had better hope she uses her Powers for Niceness, instead of Evil. This Girl’s a Savant.
I think she could have a good career as a New York City taxi driver, long as she relies on GPS and everybody gives her a street address.
I dunno. When I was a New York taxi driver, someone would say Penn Station and I would head for Port Authority. Even though I knew perfectly well where both were.
On an (sort of) unrelated note, I see on the Sciene Alert website of a ‘new’ Nazca etching done on a hillside. (Link: https://www.sciencealert.com/meet-the-newest-uncovered-geoglyph-at-nazca-lines-site-this-sunning-cat“.
I wonder if Bud had anything to do with it? (I’m sorry but I can’t seem to make the link live . . .)
(Disregard last comment, it became live once I posted . . .)
US military bases number everything with a roof, including paint sheds.
The college I work at has room numbers assigned to all rooms, even offices & bathrooms.
My college and employer assigned all rooms numbers . . . but didn’t always post said numers!
I usually navigate by landmark, so exact direction isn’t an exact science to me.
Hmmm; Briar makes a valid point (maybe she’s not as mixed-up as she appears…)
she just gives “mix-up” a whole new definition.
Well she is but she’s been dealing with it for a while. It’s kinda like how a blind or deaf person gets by with coping mechanism, flashing lights instead of an audible doorbell or learning to read in braille etc, it’s just a coping mechanism for the brain.
I have spatial awareness issues so I know I need to give everything a double wide berth or risk hitting it. I also have no real internal clock so I always cook with my phone and use timers and alarms to cook with otherwise I horribly undercook stuff like pasta and rice because it’s been forever and I’ve done all these other things in the 3 minutes it’s been boiling or overcook things in the oven because it’s only been five minutes since I put the tray in there 20 minutes ago.
But her stream-of-unconsciousness dialog is getting old…
So! How Many Steps are there from the street to the landing of 221B Baker Street? This is what I’ve been expecting Briar doesn’t simply see, she Observes! Who else would notice the Room Numbering System in a building? I certainly wouldn’t! Her Coping Mechanisms are fantastically Intricate. Her Observational and Analytical Skills are finely honed,by Constant use. If Briar can ever apply that Focus to something other than Coping they had better hope she uses her Powers for Niceness, instead of Evil. This Girl’s a Savant.
Savant might not be strong enough in her case, but it sure seems to fit better than any other label.
So how many licks does it take to reach the center of a Tootsie-Pop? the world may never know…
Letting her outside her own house w/o adult supervision seems a truly terrible idea.
If Briar is a CCR fan, then she knows that There’s a Bathroom on the Right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExViB7ArQNA
is it worth pointing out that the lyric is “there’s a bad moon on the rise”? no, probably not…
Nobody gets the lyrics of “Proud Mary” right, either.