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19 Oct 2015, 10:45 am

I don't have problems with orienting, navigating, or map functions.


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19 Oct 2015, 2:20 pm

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This whole left/right thing is very interesting for sure!

I find myself wishing I could also blame my habit of pushing the "pull" doors (or trying to always open whatever one is locked) on my neurology but sadly I think I just have a knack for that one. :lol:

You'd think, "50-50 chance:...right? Apparently there are actual rules to it - building & fire codes - so there should be some way to learn it. I've never been able to do so, either...


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19 Oct 2015, 9:17 pm

Yeah, this is me----I can't find my way out of a wet paper bag.

I've learned downtown, pretty good now, but when people say "Go east on such-and-such, then turn left....." I don't know where friggin' east, is!! I have a little cheat-sheet, that I made-up in my head, and I can find my way-around downtown, surprisingly well, now----but, it didn't come without a whole lotta WORK----and, I DO know where east is, if I can work-it-out, from my little cheat-sheet!!

I can follow a map, pretty well, but I have to do as someone else said, and point the map outward, from myself.





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19 Oct 2015, 9:39 pm

Edenthiel wrote:
LivingInParentheses wrote:
This whole left/right thing is very interesting for sure!

I find myself wishing I could also blame my habit of pushing the "pull" doors (or trying to always open whatever one is locked) on my neurology but sadly I think I just have a knack for that one. :lol:

You'd think, "50-50 chance:...right? Apparently there are actual rules to it - building & fire codes - so there should be some way to learn it. I've never been able to do so, either...


Well...if you're leaving a building its gonna be a "push out", and if you're entering its gonna be "pull in" because of fire codes. If you're inside trying to go out just imagine pulling a door toward yourself while a panicked mob bears down behind you. The press of people will stop the door from swinging inward. That will force the door closed- and you all will pile up behind the door and be trapped. Hense: the inside side of the door HAS to open out. Just think about fires, and will have it down.



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20 Oct 2015, 6:31 am

naturalplastic wrote:
Edenthiel wrote:
LivingInParentheses wrote:
This whole left/right thing is very interesting for sure!

I find myself wishing I could also blame my habit of pushing the "pull" doors (or trying to always open whatever one is locked) on my neurology but sadly I think I just have a knack for that one. :lol:

You'd think, "50-50 chance:...right? Apparently there are actual rules to it - building & fire codes - so there should be some way to learn it. I've never been able to do so, either...


Well...if you're leaving a building its gonna be a "push out", and if you're entering its gonna be "pull in" because of fire codes. If you're inside trying to go out just imagine pulling a door toward yourself while a panicked mob bears down behind you. The press of people will stop the door from swinging inward. That will force the door closed- and you all will pile up behind the door and be trapped. Hense: the inside side of the door HAS to open out. Just think about fires, and will have it down.


That's very helpful, thanks! I think what throws me are the doors that swing both ways - it's kept me from forming a memorable working pattern in my head (our local mall has doors that swing both ways, but they're heavy as heck both ways.. so I just push no matter what as a first try unless a door is clearly marked as pull, because the mall doors push both ways). I'll think in terms of fire codes from now on though! (so then is it weird that some places that have dual doors always leave the left one locked? I always pull with my left hand on the left door first because my right hand has my keys or my child's hand or whatever in it, but the left door is almost ALWAYS locked in those situations. seems dangerous!)


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20 Oct 2015, 7:04 am

I have no problems with navigating as long as I have this faux 'north' I'm following in my head. It's useful indoors.

With the temporary sense where faux north is, I would know if I'm facing faux west/east/south while remembering how many turns I went through and passed, creating a mental map in the process.


I could do the same with outdoors if I haven't let go of the faux north. I have difficulty replacing the faux north with the actual north. Funny enough my usual faux north is actually west, where the sun sets.

And how I end up getting lost has something to do with my short term memory...


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20 Oct 2015, 11:34 am

I can navigate quite well by landmarks, but not so well by road signs. It seems like they don't register with me.
Maybe this is because I grew up and have lived most of my life in the country.


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21 Oct 2015, 12:34 am

LivingInParentheses wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Edenthiel wrote:
LivingInParentheses wrote:
This whole left/right thing is very interesting for sure!

I find myself wishing I could also blame my habit of pushing the "pull" doors (or trying to always open whatever one is locked) on my neurology but sadly I think I just have a knack for that one. :lol:

You'd think, "50-50 chance:...right? Apparently there are actual rules to it - building & fire codes - so there should be some way to learn it. I've never been able to do so, either...


Well...if you're leaving a building its gonna be a "push out", and if you're entering its gonna be "pull in" because of fire codes. If you're inside trying to go out just imagine pulling a door toward yourself while a panicked mob bears down behind you. The press of people will stop the door from swinging inward. That will force the door closed- and you all will pile up behind the door and be trapped. Hense: the inside side of the door HAS to open out. Just think about fires, and will have it down.


That's very helpful, thanks! I think what throws me are the doors that swing both ways - it's kept me from forming a memorable working pattern in my head (our local mall has doors that swing both ways, but they're heavy as heck both ways.. so I just push no matter what as a first try unless a door is clearly marked as pull, because the mall doors push both ways). I'll think in terms of fire codes from now on though! (so then is it weird that some places that have dual doors always leave the left one locked? I always pull with my left hand on the left door first because my right hand has my keys or my child's hand or whatever in it, but the left door is almost ALWAYS locked in those situations. seems dangerous!)

...this is so not mocking you. I think I actually get a mental block on how to operate any door that defies me...
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21 Oct 2015, 12:46 am

It's good to know that I'm not alone.


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