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mullion
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05 Sep 2006, 7:22 am

Cherokee wrote:
I’ve always had a really poor sense of direction (I used to get lost in grocery stores). I don’t think this is related to AS, but so many things are related to AS that I didn’t think would be. So I just wanted to ask what are all of your senses of direction like?


Mine ain't too hot as have AS & NLD. Not all aspies have NLD, but believed to be 80% crossover. www.nldline.com has some excellent info on the various symptoms.
I will avoid a new shopping mall in favour of the same street of shops that I know inside & out. :)



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05 Sep 2006, 10:35 am

I do have a lot of the symptoms of NVLD, but I actually went to a psychologists to see if I had that when I was like 14 and she said I didn’t. I’m not really sure it was a disability she knew much about though.



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05 Sep 2006, 12:59 pm

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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.


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


There is no driving around the block or turning around because of the one ways.

driving a trailer truck around the country was a total trip. I can close to getting totally trapped a few times. Turning around something over 70 feet long just ain't an option too offen.

Chicago is like Milford with the railroad tracks, can't get to the other side of them for miles. Going the wrong way on one way streets was sort of legal with trucks, it was the only way to get to places or to leave places and people just excepted trucks going the wrong way on one way streets.
Milford has one set of tracks, chicago they are all over town. Every major railroad built tracks into chicago and all the bridges where built low.

Maps and trucks have their limits, what looks good on a map has a slim chance of working



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05 Sep 2006, 2:39 pm

My usual routine for learning to get around somewhere new is to go off and get lost and then try to find my way back. It's not that I do it intentionally, it just seems to be what always happens. I've done it so many times now it's untrue.
Eventually I just get a 'feel' for a place, which usually means I've found a few landmarks that I can orientate myself on.