PIP Q13 - Going Out – 1f: 'Cannot follow the route of a familiar journey'

Hi

Does anyone else find this PIP descriptor bizarrely expressed? I stared at it for ages trying to work out what it meant:

Q13 1f. Cannot follow the route of a familiar journey without another person, an assistance dog or an orientation aid.

Why don't they just say make - or undertake - a familiar journey?

Following the route of a familiar journey sounds like they're asking you if you know how to read maps, or if you can remember which route to take without getting lost, not whether your condition prevents you from walking/driving a journey that is familiar to you.

Or do they in fact mean just that - following a route?

Sometimes I picture these executives sitting around a large conference table arguing for hours over each word so by the time each phrase has been through the ringer, they can no longer see the wood for the trees, have lost all connection with the original meaning, and where their question sits on the ambiguity continuum of the average human being.

Meanwhile, claimants stare at pages of opaquely-worded questions like this, feeling utterly overwhelmed and wondering if it's all worth it...

*sigh*

Raph

Hi Bis,

I cannot do this activity, due to severe social anxiety, and having to ask people directions of a route or how to be sign-posted, would cause me severe panic attacks, and subsequently cause me overwhelming psychological distress.

therefore i cannot do this alone, and even with someone else, i would still be totally stressed out, and in such a state of panic.

I also gave lots more examples of how this activity affects me.

That's what I've put down on my pip review, which incidentally was sent back and received by Coffey's crew last start of July.

And yes i had difficulty in understanding the descriptor/s for this activity, as it's ambiguous, and tricky.


Regards.