do you get lost easily?

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I don't generally get lost, though I was starting to wonder during the Cognitive Map Test.
It seems odd to have the identity and expression recognition tests in there... it makes me wonder what exactly they're investigating. I guess my scores on those two weren't that bad, despite feeling like I was just guessing with those.

Object Recognition 100% Correct
Identity Recognition 70% Correct
Expression Recognition 80% Correct
Landmark Recognition 90% Correct
Heading Orientation 100% Correct
Sequence Matching 100% Correct
Path Integration 90% Correct
Cognitive Map Test V1 completed in 9 trials
Cognitive Map Test V1 part 2 60% Correct

The cognitive map test gave me fits.

Object Recognition 100% Correct
Identity Recognition 70% Correct
Expression Recognition 70% Correct
Landmark Recognition 100% Correct
Heading Orientation 80% Correct
Sequence Matching 90% Correct
Path Integration 50% Correct
Cognitive Map Test V1 completed in 11 trials
Cognitive Map Test V1 part 2 50% Correct

Are you sure you have aspergers?

If you look at the other scores posted, it looks like several others had scores that were close to mine on those tests.

Otherwise, I'm still waiting to be assessed so I don't have a proper diagnosis. But the report from the in-hospital evaluation I had as a kid in the 80's (years before the DSM-IV) did note things like an "almost total lack of any initiating social skills", "only occasional eye contact", lack of affect or changes in facial expression even when describing very emotional events, that I "demonstrated difficulty analyzing social situations and responding appropriately," and a whole host of other observations that suggest it's very likely. I also have two teenage sons who are diagnosed on the spectrum, and their mother is absolutely convinced I am as well (and has been encouraging me to get assessed for years). So I'm pretty sure, but it hasn't been confirmed professionally yet.

Me get lost easily? Nah. That just does not happen with me. I'm good with maps, directions and I memorize places I happen to frequent (happen to visit often).

There may be a higher tendency for people with AS to have trouble navigating, but it's nowhere in the diagnostic criteria. It's a spectrum, after all.

I might get lost the first time at an unfamiliar location, but i then can easily remember it if there again so i am not lost.

I get disorinted in new citys and buildings, as an aspie I don't ask for directions so I leave lots of time and bring a map, prepare to pace around for awhile. I always has a copy of my school floor plan in hand just in case I had to find a new room.

Yes I do. It's ridiculous sometimes. Maybe worse in some places than others.

It's that I get distracted by my environment; overwhelmed, disorientated, overloaded- and so miss all the right turnings and don't pay attention to where I am going.

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This is a problem for me too, but I sort of snap out of it periodically and generally know where I am when I do (so I don't consider myself "lost"). I do have to put a fair bit of effort into making sure I don't miss bus stops and such though... otherwise I'm usually walking so I tend to notice I'm off course before I've strayed too far.

This is an interesting discussion. After I learned the compass directions in grade school, I was always aware of North, South, East, and West -- and am still keenly tuned into it. But when I go back to visit childhood home towns before I knew the compass points, I get disoriented.

I tried to do the test, but some parts were slow-loading or did not load.

I don't get lost easily in the real world. When I was little, I was the family GPS. Oh wait, I still am.

I've read that prosopagnosics tend to get lost easily. Apparently it's a similar part of the brain.

Object Recognition 100% Correct
Identity Recognition 50% Correct
Expression Recognition 70% Correct
Landmark Recognition 100% Correct
Heading Orientation 100% Correct
Sequence Matching 100% Correct
Path Integration 70% Correct
Cognitive Map Test V1 completed in 9 trials
Cognitive Map Test V1 part 2 70% Correct

I didn't know I was so bad at recognizing faces and facial expressions.
I've done better than I expected about the environment things, though in reality I really am confused and often lost.

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.