I Remember Things So Differently From NT People, It's Actually Damaging To My Education.

I remember things so differently from NT people, it's actually damaging to my education.

Like, sometimes it's funny. For example, I can't remember the name of roads or streets or anything like that except if they're very important to remember (and even then I'll mess up.) My little sister knows every road name precisely. My dad did like a little fun test. "What's this road called?" he asked us. My littler sister replied: "Cotton Road." I replied: "road with bendy's and the man-tree at the corner. golf court."

He asked again when we made a turn. My little sister: "Holly Oak Street!" Me: "road with the big blue house and the rainbow flag."

I still know exactly where we are, just don't know the names.

The times it's absolutely horrible that I remember things like this is during exams, or even just homework or schoolwork. I can't remember scientific words. Much less if it's chemistry or physics. They have nothing to compare it with, it's just letters, words, symbols. With biology you can still kinda match words with things. But I'll remember what the thing does, why it does that, what it looks like, I just can't for the life of me remember what it's called. What the hell is it called?? For me; "purple stripe with bumps and is in charge of making proteins." I told that to my friend and she just went "oooh you mean the rough endoplasmic reticulum?" No idea what she meant. I just nodded.

But like, I know I'm not alone in this. I'm sure I'm not.

My questions is, though... how do schools not know this? That people think like this? And in many other ways than this? Why do they focus on just naming things for marks? Why are marks even a thing? Why are exams a thing?

And if schools do know... why aren't they doing anything about it? Or is it just the US and its shitty school system?