Weird Disorientation when I was Younger
When I was younger this used to happen too often.
If I were to return home or to school from a different direction from the one which I had used to leave, I would be disorientated and I could no longer find my classroom or house.
This could last from a few hours to a few days. It was a miserable experience that would consume me until I would eventually "click" back to normal.
I eventually managed to develop a technique to get myself back to my familiar place by burying my face into a pillow and leaving it there until I had managed to visualise my familiar surroundings. It worked too.
Has anybody else experienced anything like this?
Undxed.
Yes. All the time. I get very disoriented sometimes. I must use "landmarks" to find things, even rooms. I'm ok in places like a house. But in places where there are lots of rooms... I get lost. I can get lost in the mall. I have to use the play area in the middle, the croc stand, and JCP as landmarks otherwise I get turned around.
The worst for me is driving. I cannot find my way around, I almost always use my GPS. The only places I can get to with out it are routes I travel everyday Or places that are very close and require less than two turns and have lots of landmarks at that turn. I can get to work from my house, to daycare from work and from daycare to my house. I can get to target because it is right next to daycare. I can get to mcdonalds (and the surrounding stores) because it is less than two turns away. But places like... the mall I need my gps or someone to give me turn by turn instructions even though I have dirven there 100s of times. Same with other shopping areas, going to visit my dad, the zoo, my doctor I just can't find them. Also I often get disoriented while enroute. I look around and I have no idea where I am or what turn is next until I see one of my landmarks. I silently freak out until I get to one. I hate it.
If I were to return home or to school from a different direction from the one which I had used to leave, I would be disorientated and I could no longer find my classroom or house.
This could last from a few hours to a few days. It was a miserable experience that would consume me until I would eventually "click" back to normal.
I eventually managed to develop a technique to get myself back to my familiar place by burying my face into a pillow and leaving it there until I had managed to visualise my familiar surroundings. It worked too.
Has anybody else experienced anything like this?
Hmmmm.....I wonder if you have a deficit in what we call topographical orientation.
Thanks for the replies.
I should have mentioned that it was kind of like somebody has picked-up my neighbourhood and spun it around, so that everywhere is now facing another way.
Or maybe it was like a mirror image of my local area. I knew exactly where I was, but it suddenly looked strangely-unfamiliar.
It is very difficult to explain, but it hardly ever happens to me as an adult. Thankfully.
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Very interesting. I had always wondered if it was just me, clearly not.
I wonder if is specifically to to with people on the spectrum, or something that could happen to NT's too?
I'm glad that I bothered to make the thread now. I half expected nobody else to have any idea what I was on about, to be honest.
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