Do You Wander?

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^^^^thank you

When I was a child, I wandered into bookshops. My dad knew where to find me.
When I am an adult, I still wander somtimes, but no one knows I am wandering because I have always been a loner. However, I once got myself into trouble: I collapsed at a train station due to heavy bleeding (I had a tumour). The ambulance took me to hospital and a nurse called the emergency contact number on my medical ID.
I normally carry an AAC device in case I can't speak (I do become nonverbal when overloaded). I am always orientated and know how to get help if I get lost so long as I am awake. I wear an ID so that when I fall unconscious, they contact my support person.

back in the days of home organs [late 60s] my parents always found that I had, when in a department store, invariably wandered over to where the organs were.

I have been known to wander around,as when I'm at a shopping mall for I feel a sense of contentment and peacefulness if this makes sense?

^^^I can dig it

I have wandered ever since I was maybe two. I do it less now because I have agoraphobia and am usually unable to leave the house alone without having a panic attack. I also have done bolting since I was maybe three. I do it less now because of the agoraphobia situation.

I have gotten lost many times. Once I was picked up by the cops for eloping from a residential treatment facility.

This was at its worst when I was maybe four through age 17, both wandering and bolting. Once I’m inside a business or restaurant the agoraphobia lessens significantly and I’m prone to wandering/bolting/eloping again.

I have even eaten off other people’s tables in restaurants maybe just a few times.

I wander but not in the sense the others have mentioned, and i have since i was a child, mostly just a few occasions per year and i always know where i am. All i need to see is a map and i can freely associate where i am. Never gotten lost more than once and that was in a tight pine forest where i lost my heading from twisting and turning as i went around trees that blocked my path (it was a small area near a city so no biggie).

As an adult i wander longer distances, i sometimes get bored, take the commuter train somewhere then i walk back, i've walked back from Stockholm to my suburb home as well just to learn where to go if the trains don't work, last time i walked 10 miles through a nearby nature preserve. Only drank 0.5 litres of water that day and took two breaks, which was a record for me.

The thing is, i like exploring, regardless if it is in an MMORPG or in real life. Google earth has taken some of the fun away from that as i can just scroll around for hours if i feel like it.

When I moved to a city with a convoluted coastline and many misaligned street grids I would ride my bike around looking at the scenery, but I didn't use the sun as a reference and always wound up confused about my location. Then I'd map-read my way home.
More recently, I was driving on a rural grid with many incomplete sections, and might have flipped my memory of which way I'd turned one time in the chain. Luckily, I soon noticed the moon 180 deg from where it belonged, saving many miles.

I don't wander. I live like a pseudo-hermit, meaning I don't like going to public places which when wandering is bound to happen. I do, however, pace, especially when I'm learning something new-- I like to read, then pace around for bit while the newly acquired knowledge sinks in.