do you get lost easily?

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I didn't go to the test, but I can say with strong confidence, that I don't get lost easily. In fact, I tell people that you could blindfold me and drop me off anywhere, and I'll figure out where I am, and know 3 ways to get where I want to go . I can't really explain it, but it's just a feeling that you might say, "turns a red light on" in my head if I start to go in the wrong direction. I can somehow feel it. Even in cornfield mazes, although I might take a long way to find my way out, I never take the same wrong path twice, and never feel as if I'm not going to figure it out.

I've driven all over the USA, and often just glance at the map prior to leaving, and needn't check again until I'm ready to leave again for the next stop. In the wilderness, even without marked trails or roads, I never feel lost even if I don't really know where I'm going. I can always find my way back exactly how I came, and I "know" my directions whether or not the sun is out.

Charles

I get lost easily, as I have a poor sense of direction, become easily disorientated and terrible navigation skills.

I hate maps as I have great difficulty using them, (turning the map all directions trying to orientate myself as I move, but suffer translation difficulties).

I rely on my GPS in my car, to get me to destinations in a slightly calmer state.

If I don't use my GPS, when driving to a location I've driven many times before (in my small city), I go into "auto mode". Whereby, I cannot picture the route in my mind, couldn't verbally direct someone there, yet somehow I just arrive at my destination. I have a mental gap/blank/a chunk of missing data in my mental map, of the route I want to drive. (I've learnt to accept this black hole in my mental processing, otherwise my anxiety would increase, and I my mind would just jam up!) However, sometime my "auto mode" fails, I drive round and round in circles, never reaching my destination, so have to abandon the journey and go back home.

Unfortunately, no GPS when walking, so I especially get lost inside shopping malls (my instinct is invariably wrong, and I go the opposite way to which I should be travelling). I always feel lost coming out of bathrooms!! Visual signs directing you how to get there, but once you come out, no signs directing you how to get out - back to your original point of shopping before the detour! Now take care to note a visual feature before I make my detour.

No, my sense of direction is very powerful, and I can use maps well too. Strange, as I struggle with the facial recognition thing.

Object Recognition - 100%
Identity Recognition - 80%
Expression Recognition - 100%
Landmark Recognition - 100%
Heading Orientation - 80%
Sequence Matching - 70%
Path Integration - 50%
Cognitive Map Test V1 completed in 8 trials
Cognitive Map Test V1 part 2 - 60%

I get lost a lot inside buildings. Less so outside in a city. In nature I am quite good, but only equipped with a map and/or a compass. As a girl scout I was really good at orienteering races. I love maps and abstract visual patterns of any kind. I've always been good at understanding the correlation of visual abstractions (such as maps, and schematics in manuals) and the reality they are based on. I read faces and expressions like abstractions, too - like complex abstract patterns, broken down into details and memorized that way. That's why I get high scores on tests with photographs of facial expressions, while in real life I get confused by the fleeting nature of peoples expressions. I can't very well ask someone to slow their face down, so I can 'read' them properly

It has made open world video games very very difficult for me to play...

I can't say I remember getting lost, I generally know where I am based on my direction of movement, time moving, distance moved, and the shape of my path (contours, angles I've moved along/at) relative to a starting point.

I generally have a very good sense of direction (to the point where I've had people comment on it) but much better when I have physically walked a route. I'm absolutely useless at finding my way around computer games, for example.

If I plan my own trip I'm fine.

If someone gives me oral directions I'm screwed.

Where is the test link?

http://gettinglost.ca/tests/

YES. I am like James May from Top Gear- I have absolutely no sense of direction. I have to rely on strangers all the time to help me get to where I need to go. It's ridiculous. Sometimes I feel a tad cheated by having been born a girl with Asperger's, rather than a boy, as so many boys on the spectrum are excellent at finding their way. Ah well. At least I'm not blind.

No i don't get lost very often as i am quite good with maps and have a good sense of direction.