Why Am I Always Getting Lost?

Sometimes, if we take a minute - or maybe five or ten - to read an article, it can really have an impact.

I was searching the web for something, which led to something else, then on to another topic, and then … there is was.  Reading through this thread has totally changed the way I feel about myself, and explains a lot.

http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-58770,00.html

Many people believe they have a poor sense of direction.  Mine is, and has always been, nonexistent.  It is a disability.  I am often embarrassed by my lack of navigational skills. Friends and family sometimes become impatient with me, perceiving me as timid or inattentive.  I am really neither, and my life has been full of adventures. A fear of becoming lost, though, has often resulted in anxiety and has limited some of the choices I have made.

I cannot visualize the next steps of any route.  I routinely turn the wrong way when I come out of a store.  I often get lost coming back from the bathroom in a restaurant - or someone's house.  Driving unfamiliar routes (going anywhere I haven't been numerous times already) causes me to be anxious.

After reading the information linked above, I now know about numerous other people whose lives are similarly challenged. It is reassuring to find out that, as I have always suspected, this is not my fault, a sign of a lack of intelligence or even something I have just failed to learn!

Geographical or directional dyslexia.  Now I can give it a name.  Sometimes a diagnosis can be comforting.  Maybe we can start an on-line support group!  At least we won't get lost trying to find it!

Click on the link above, take a minute to read it, then let me know what you think!