I was wanting to know if my nightmare sense of direction was something people in this community could relate to. I get lost in places I shouldn’t and can’t see easily a mental picture of where I will be. (Driving) I read this was a dyscalculia symptom. Can anyone here relate?

Just a few examples:

Today I past the wrong street when I went to my bank of 30 years and got turned around.

Coming home from a school I’ve been too once a week for 7 years. I get confused getting off the ramp and feel like I need to turn left even though it’s right.

And two times I turned in the wrong direction. Despite knowing the area for nearly 35 years.

I can’t find my way to my sisters house without gps. I drove her home one day and guessed the wrong turn at every single turn.

And this in the town I grew up in as a child.

I cannot remember how to get to a job I worked for in another town for 4 years. And I can’t see in my mind how to get there.

I have like 25 percent mapping memory or something.

So what I have gathered is that I have no sense of left or right, coming or going. So I can’t tell which direction I’m heading so I don’t know if something is right or left.

And I can’t form permanent mapping memory.

But I can form habitual mapping memory. Like driving someplace so often that I don’t have to think about it because it’s a routine.

And I’ve been looking for years for a reason: and recently I found an article that said those with dyscalculia may have difficulty with driving directions and spacial awareness. So I just wanted to know if this was something anyone else can relate to.