Getting lost

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How often have you gotten lost?

How good or bad at you at not getting lost?

On accident?
I can count like 3 times that only happened. In my childhood.

On purpose?
Plenty. To a point it worried people.

Am I good at preventing myself from getting lost?
Yes. Very much.

Am I good at getting lost?
Intentionally, yes. Unintentionally, never need to try.

Am I good at reorienting myself from being lost?
Yes. To a point I'm quite certain of myself of returning somewhere familiar.



The only thing that pisses me off is the stress over the time and effort it'll take to go somewhere, regardless of familiarity or unfamiliarity.


My above average sense of direction is not merely another autistic trait out of favoring visio-spatial cognitive profile and similar oriented focus or interests.

It's also skipped for a generation maternal trait that I end up having.

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I don't get lost often because I know what I'm like. So before I make a move, I do research, I make maps and notes to pre-empt the expected problems.

A lot of it is memory trouble - I can go into a public toilet at say an airport, and when I come out again I can't remember whether I approached the toilet from the left or the right. I often wish I could take a tin of paint and a brush with me and paint a line to lead me back to my point of origin. Otherwise, one second I think I know where I am, and the next my brain just goes pop and I'm lost.

I still pine for the old days when buildings were smaller and things had more character so that it was easier to identify landmarks. These days it's all uniform and repeating, massive bus stations and hospitals, every floor identical and two parallel corridors to confuse. A magnetic compass is useless in a modern car. It's all smartphone satnavs and subscription fees. So I avoid a lot of it and just stay local, and then when I'm forced to navigate the big wide world, the shock to my system feels like a clout round the back of the head.

Last week after the land surveyors test, turned the wrong way. Was trying to go to the bus stop. Didn't occur to me until the dead end. Got lost

When I was in undergrad, used to take long bike rides to unfamiliar locations and often got lost

42 years old. Haven't gone anywhere different, since the land surveyors last week. before that went to my sister's house in January. September 2023 to June 2024, took public transportation to a lot of home Depots

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I've gotten minorly lost a lot like I start going the wrong way or I pass a stop or turn but I quickly realize I screwed up & figure it out after a little bit. The reasons why include

I get directions confused maybe due to my dyslexia like I get left & right mixed up along with numbers. I zone out & daydream a lot. I have a rare low visision disorder that includes some colorblindess & I also very likely have a visual processing disorder on top of that. I can have problems noticing/recognizing places. Things look familiar but I may not be sure exactly where or what something is. This is more of a problem when riding buses than walking(my vision is too bad for me to drive).

The reason I never got majorly lost is because I don't go to a lot of places by myself & I'm very familiar with the places that I do go to by myself.

I'm blind. I get lost all the time .