do you get lost easily?

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No, my sense of direction is very powerful, and I can use maps well too. Strange, as I struggle with the facial recognition thing.

Object Recognition - 100%
Identity Recognition - 80%
Expression Recognition - 100%
Landmark Recognition - 100%
Heading Orientation - 80%
Sequence Matching - 70%
Path Integration - 50%
Cognitive Map Test V1 completed in 8 trials
Cognitive Map Test V1 part 2 - 60%

I get lost a lot inside buildings. Less so outside in a city. In nature I am quite good, but only equipped with a map and/or a compass. As a girl scout I was really good at orienteering races. I love maps and abstract visual patterns of any kind. I've always been good at understanding the correlation of visual abstractions (such as maps, and schematics in manuals) and the reality they are based on. I read faces and expressions like abstractions, too - like complex abstract patterns, broken down into details and memorized that way. That's why I get high scores on tests with photographs of facial expressions, while in real life I get confused by the fleeting nature of peoples expressions. I can't very well ask someone to slow their face down, so I can 'read' them properly

It has made open world video games very very difficult for me to play...

I can't say I remember getting lost, I generally know where I am based on my direction of movement, time moving, distance moved, and the shape of my path (contours, angles I've moved along/at) relative to a starting point.

I generally have a very good sense of direction (to the point where I've had people comment on it) but much better when I have physically walked a route. I'm absolutely useless at finding my way around computer games, for example.

If I plan my own trip I'm fine.

If someone gives me oral directions I'm screwed.

Where is the test link?

http://gettinglost.ca/tests/

YES. I am like James May from Top Gear- I have absolutely no sense of direction. I have to rely on strangers all the time to help me get to where I need to go. It's ridiculous. Sometimes I feel a tad cheated by having been born a girl with Asperger's, rather than a boy, as so many boys on the spectrum are excellent at finding their way. Ah well. At least I'm not blind.

No i don't get lost very often as i am quite good with maps and have a good sense of direction.

Yes, but strangely enough, I've been contemplating traveling all alone by myself for sometime now, it would 99% be done by public transportation too since I don't drive. This would be very challenging and risky but It's definitely on my "Bucket list"

pretty bad. but better at the face matching than i thought. i felt like i was guessing. i relate to what another poster said about going somewhere and "blacking out" just like shutting off the brain until you get there. not even knowing how you got there, but there you are.

Object Recognition 100% Correct
Identity Recognition 90% Correct
Expression Recognition 100% Correct
Landmark Recognition 90% Correct
Heading Orientation 80% Correct
Sequence Matching 90% Correct
Path Integration 30% Correct
Cognitive Map Test V1 completed in 14 trials
Cognitive Map Test V1 part 2 70% Correct

no, not really, sometimes i get confused but recover, i have a fantastic photographic memory so i always remember where ive been