Sense of direction

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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?

yes it is an aspie thing.
i get lost driving, at school i would get lost..to the extent that when i go soemwhere new..i need to go there before hand and do a rekkie before i feel comfortable going.
i get lost in supermarkets as well.
i also park my car and go somewhere and forget where my car is.

I have an excellent sense of direction. In fact, I have to have one, because I work with maps, and I use the GPS system a lot.

Tim

When I am walking in London with my Mother, I often wonder where exactly we are. I have lived in London for my whole life.

tim thats cheating, what would u be like without it?

i have to use maps as well and grid references, if i didnt i would still be lost.

I have an excellent sense of direction, but my impairment is very mild and specifically social.

I'm not sure if I have a poor sense of direction or whether it's a case of
having 'absent-minded' moments in general !

I've seen me take a wrong turning in places I know well enough but probably
due to lack of concentration or sensory overload if it's a busy place.

you won't get lost if you keep track of where you are.

It sounds stupid but if you know what grid on the map you are in, you can always find you way.

Interstate highway I-91 splits CT in half, as long as one knows which side of it they are on,they can always head east or west and find it and I-95 runs along the coast,so going south will lead to it.

Now thats a big grid to be lost in so breaking it down to smaller grids by keeping track of where one is in relation to other highways.

CT is a box, use I-91 to divide the box in half, use I-84 to make the 2 boxes smaller and use other roads to reduce the size of the boxes even more.


I'm in CT, don't help much

I'm west of I-91 just cut the state in half

I'm south of I-84 box got smaller

I'm east of route 8 (limited access hightway)

I'm north of the parkway route 15 (limited access highway)

now I make the box between the limited access highways smaller

I'm west of route 10

I'm east of route 69

I'm south of route 42

It's still a rather large area of land a few miles by a few miles so make a small box dividing it by using main city streets.

Benham street is a main east west street, so I just cut the box in half again

I'm south of Benham street

The box I'm now isn't much more than a few square miles and if a drive for a few minutes I'm going to find either the parkway/route 15 or rt 10 or rt 69 or Benham street


http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr= ... name=&qty=

It works anyplace
like take Iowa
I-80 divides the state in half,you are either north of I-80 or south of it
I-35 divides it in half east and west, you are either east of I-35 or west of it
You just cut the state into 4 smaller boxes

if you are in the southwest box you use other roads to divide that box into smaller boxes

you can get Lost In Space but not on a round planet

In a way I have any excelent sence of direction I can always retrace my path it helps that I am a very visual thinker

I-35 also cuts Texas roughly in half, but there is a problem with I-35:

I-35 splits in two in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and becomes I-35W in Fort Worth and I-35E in Dallas.

I-35 splits in a similar fashion in Minnesota, becoming I-35W in Minneapolis and I-35E in St. Paul

Tim

I have a good sense of direction if there are distinctive visual landmarks, but in places such as supermarkets I get lost very easily.

In general I'm okay with sirection, but sometimes when I'm walking among a crowd I sort of lose all sense of direction until I manage to get out. It might have something to do with Sensory Integration Dysfunction though; maybe my sight gets overwhelmed by having to process all that information in order not to trip into someone. No idea.

Mine's bad enough that I can get lost on the way from my school to my home after attending said school for four years.

i have a great sence of direction im like Tom Tom sat nav refered to as MAT MAT

Thank you all for the info. Maybe it is something to do with sencery overload. To the people here with good diection, do you have many sencery problems?

if somebody knows they are east of the E35 they head west to hit it and it they are west of the E35 and east of the W35 they can take their pick and head either east of west and find one of them and if they are west of W35 they need to head east to find it.

The point is being able to know the boarders of the box you operate in . me thinking the Hudson River and Canadian boarder is my box makes for a huge box. I need to know more local limits to my box and divide up my territory into smaller more managable pieces. But I need to know the boundries of my area of operation and use landmarks like major highways.

If I don't have a clue which side of I-91 I'm on,there is little chance of having a clue where I'm at or where I'm going because i haven't a clue where I am in relation to a major highway.

CT is about 100 miles wide and has a few main roads that run north south
Rt 7, RT 8, I-91, RT 9 I-395, and only a few boarder to boarder east west roads.
if somebody figures out where the about 10 main roads are in the state,they will never be more then about 20 miles away from one.