Sense of direction

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Yep I can get lost easily. I've wandered like a lost child through the Walmart parking lot many a time...and in many towns. I tend to rely more on landmarks. I think that's a Southern thing anyway. I've gotten lost in the woods twice, but found my way out both times. The last time it happened was real scary. I wandered for hours in the wilderness. If you're reading Waterdogs I was one of those idiots that got lost on Anderson Mesa. The place has a history of people getting lost and some dying or never reappearing. It was early spring, but I ended up in knee deep snow totally unprepared and not dressed appropriately. I think I had my cell phone but I refused to call for help because I didn't want to be in the newspaper. I finally calmed down and remembered what my greatgrandmother had taught me about finding my way in the woods. I was cold, soaked, hungry, thirsty and exhausted, but I sure learned a lot that day.

I can even get lost in a small building.

I have a great since of direction,when my mom used to live in Las Vegas I would come to visit and lead her all around town(she has lived her entire life,until recently) of course everything changes so quickly in vegas...I don't blame her

I have a very good sense of direction. I don't get lost. No problems with finding my way around. I enjoy road trips in foreign countries, as long as I'm the driver and navigator. I've had to fire passengers as navigators because they can't read maps.

yeah i cant read a map very well. and i do get lost...a lot..if we were on a road trip we would kill each other...at least you could tel me where the morgue is.

I have a good sense of direction and almost never get lost. But i have difficutly telling left from right.

Anyone who thinks they have a good sense of direction should drive around Cincinatti, OH or San Antonio, TX and many other cities designed by drunken fools on blind mules, chasing blind fools on drunken mules.

I usually do OK, but at times I feel lost even in a familiar place.

Since getting a car, I have found out I have an excellent sense of direction and remember roads quiit easily. I though everyone was like this unttil my work mates told me that they could not possible have such memory for remembering the roads

I have an excellent sense of direction.
I never get lost, especially not in a place I've been in before, and that even when it's snowing or dark.
Usually I'm the only one who, inside a building, without any direct view outside, know exactly which way is which and where outside places lie in relation to this one.

Well, I'll go the other way. I have a bad sense of direction and I get sensory overload quite a lot. I am still bedazzled and amazed at how people can listen to their IPods on full blast. It sickens me.

My sense of direction is very good but I have always been obessed with maps and have a job that invovles finding adresses. I'm in Ct also and know it very well but it's a small state as Johnnie said but I have lived in Florida which is big but suprisingly its's easier there becuse everything is laid out in a grid pattern.

"Anyone who thinks they have a good sense of direction should drive around Cincinatti, OH or San Antonio, TX"

I've actually lived in both places. Somehow than drunken aimless mindset they used when laying out the roads didn't bother me much.

Pittsburg beats anyplace in the country.

Places like Boston and New Haven CT weren't planned. The roads all lead out of town like spokes on a wheel. The central city is the hub where all the roads connect.

Ya I’ve got scenery/stimuli overload problems too, I’m really wondering if this might have something to do with extra bad directional skills.

I have good sense of direction too but will get lost if I drive on a road I don't know so that's why I stick to my normal routes when I got to places. When I do get lost, I just go back the way I came. I'm visual so I used buildings, if it's out in the country, I use roads and houses I see and fields.


I wonder if my ex boyfriend had AS too because he told me he gets lost going to places even though he has been to that place many times. he told me if he did have his driver's lisence, I'd still have to take him to work anyway because he get lost and for him to remmeber it, he has to go to work everyday three works striaght. But my mother told me that's short memory term problems. I even thought he was saying it as an excuse not to get his lisence because he can remember what people tell him about Bush, what his friends say to him etc. so it was obvious for me he has a selective memory and broke up with him after I got tired of that stuff. There were other problems too.
My ex-bf certinally does not get lost in stores. I was probably being an NT in that situation lol because I hated that part of him and didn't want to live the rest of my life with a guy whom can't remember how to get to places.

The one way streets realy get you thought in both those places. In parts of New Haven it's alost like a maze if you don't go in the right way you can't get to were your going