When you have no sense of direction

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This is me except I don’t drive, and a lot of the time I wouldn’t know whether to go left or right.

I have a poor sense of a direction too. Hey, I ain't called LOST dragon for nothing you know.

The only time I really had a constant feel for north and south was when I lived in coastal cities - "Okay, the beach is over there which means that direction is ...".
I seemed to always know where I was relative to the beach, but beyond that, nope.

Sometimes I felt like I got lost a lot. But I also explored new cities in San Diego county a lot. Age 18 to 24.

You can't measure your sense of direction

But now I feel mentally slower and emotionally fragile. So I hardly ever go somewhere new

When I was 20 years old I was in someone else's car. And I correctly gave directions. Another passenger said that "(my former female name) has a good sense of direction "

It's like negative

I had gone there numerous times before

Anyways flimsy lil compliments like that make me wanna puke

Sure social acceptance is good and serves a function

But when someone gives so many compliments it makes me suspect that they are so judgmental and that they notice bad things I do and judge me constantly.

Bad judgments and good judgments go together



But whatever being

Judgemental is not illegal

And if it was then what

Take a videotape and tattle to 911?

File a civil lawsuit?

Precious lil "people" do it all the time

I feel bad for when I start driving because I have so bad of a sense of direction that I get lost on maps in some video games ...

Me too. It always takes me a moment to figure out which way is left or right, I never have any idea which way north, south, etc. are, don't know street names... I'm hopeless when it comes to directions One of the many things that would make driving a real challenge for me.

Me too. Sometimes I even end up going around in circles and don't realize it until at least the third time around

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

I hate it when people give me directions, by saying "north", "south", and so-forth. I can only give directions by associating things, with the destination (like: "go down there 3 blocks, and turn right at the gas station").

I was finally able to figure some stuff, out, by STUDYING, real HARD----but, STILL, if something is off of the "main drag" (what I've studied), FORGET it!!

Its easy im over ere

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Yes, directions involving landmarks and number of blocks are best.

When the speaker tells me how many miles, that is not as good. Because sometimes the speaker guesses the distance wrong.

Cardinal directions like north and south are not helpful

A lot of times on the way to job interviews I got lost and almost late. Or late.

Nowadays pretty much the only time I go somewhere unfamiliar is job interviews and bathroom hopping

I'm not sure how good my sense of direction actually is.

I dunno.

Have had opposite experiences in giving directions.

Folks who cant grasp compass directions.

And folks who demand that I give them compass directions when compass directions wouldn't work.

There are local culture differences. Towns and cities in the western USA, and in south Florida are all less than 150 years old. And they were all set up by the railroads with perfect grid street plans. So westerners tend to talk "east west north south" whether you're traveling across the state, or across the street. Westerners will even say things like "I left my glasses on the northwest side of the coffee table". Easterners, and Brits, and Europeans, don't talk that way.

Mom and I tried to explain to a visiting relative from Seattle how to drive somewhere here in the nation's capital . Talked to him in "right-left-straight-ahead" language, and he demanded compass directions. We had to explain to him that "this is Washington DC" and that compass directions don't work here. Here its about whats right in front of you- and you gotta think "right-left-straight-ahead".

But I have gotten frustrated with another friend who couldn't grasp more general Washington DC geography in my terms when I talked about "going north from such and such". Was amazed that she couldn't visualize the DC area in a general way in a mental map the way I do - that the main city is in the center- that there are suburbs in Maryland and in DC around it- and that there is this big highway that goes in a circle around the inner city bull eye than runs through the closer suburbs called the "Beltway". Despite living here for decades it took several conversations with her for her to grasp the concept of "inside/outside the Beltway".

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You can't measure the quality of your sense of direction

An article claimed that clinical depression causes a weaker sense of direction

Literally. Geographically. Physically

But figuratively I have a bad sense of direction

In that I ain't got no clue what. If anything. Do do with my "life"

Applied to a wide variety of jobs. For a long time. Nobody will hire me

It appears that nobody wants to be my "friend" either

And there is nothing productive or meaningful that I am good at doing or even like doing

So I just waste the days loitering

Going online

No purpose

No meaning

No future

No "friends"

No job

No job skills

Reminds me of this song.

Do not have an Instagram account

It appears that, with few exception, all jobs fire me and all "friends" dump me

So why bother trying?

Cost benefit analysis

Yeah, I don't like being told by miles, either, for the same reason. Also, miles seem different, in different situations----like, traffic, in-town, highway; and, there's a REASON for the expression "a country mile"! ! LOL