Co-worker acts like I need special care

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I have a student job (kind of like an internship except more like a job) at a government office, and I have a female classmate who works in the office with me and acts like I need to be taken care of. Always explaining things to me like I'm a little kid. Taking me places instead of just telling me where they are and insisting on driving me to the garage where my car was parked because she said "it's not safe to walk there alone."

LOL. I thought I was a pretty functional person. I mean, I have trouble finding my way around spatially, but that doesn't make me a "special needs" person who has to be taken care of. Can one incident of getting lost in a big office building really make someone think l can't take care of myself?

Man, in my teens and early twenties, I would have been really offended by her behavior, but at 25, I think I'd sit back and enjoy the extra attention and free rides. I mean, you can't fault her for going out of her way to be supportive and helpful, especially since so few people I've come across have given even the slightest crap about my difficulties. Maybe once she spends enough time with you, she'll realize you're capable of understanding more normal instruction and drop the little kid talk because that'd still kind of get to me, ha. Also, perhaps she's just taken a particular liking to you and doesn't know how to show it beyond accommodating any difficulties you might have ever had, even if they're only perceived.