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directile dysfunction 

A disability that causes those it afflicts to be unable to follow even the most simple instructions.
Bill: Dude, wtf!?! You were supposed to pick me up at the airport yesterday.

Tom: For realz? I thought that was tomorrow. My directile dysfunction must be acting up again.

didactic 

adj.
1. Intended to instruct or inform or inclined to moralize excessively. (e.g., a didactic story)

2. A word that is overused by English majors as a pretense to sound intellectual when they are actually stating an obvious and trivial fact.
"I liked the story, but it was a little too didactic for my taste."
didactic by octechwriter September 25, 2007

didactic 

a speech or writing that is didactic is intended to teach people a lesson
Usually whenever I do something wrong, my mom gives me a super long didactic speech! It gets pretty annoying after a while.
didactic by BearCastle November 24, 2011

Directile Dysfunction 

When your navigation system isn't working.
I wanted to go to Taco Bell, but my navigation to me to the post office. It must be having directile dysfunction.

didacticism 

-noun

dih-dakt-a-siz-uhm

1. A word commonly used to fill a gap in knowledge; often appearing in conversation that surpasses the intellectual ability of the speaker.
The true aesthetic moment hangs in suspension between pornography and didacticism.
didacticism by Relyt44 April 24, 2011

[directile disfunction] 

one who has a great deal of trouble of with directions.
isabella: "where's the bubble tea place?"
lily: "2 blocks to the left, then 1 block up, and then 6 blocks east"
priscilla: "fool, it's right across the street!"
isabella: "dannng girl you got yo self a bad case of directile disfunction"
[directile disfunction] by lilllllly December 16, 2008