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by Wiseacre 1558 days ago
Are you able to tell right from left without thinking?
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Nope, I have essentially zero spatial abilities. I get left and right confused constantly, and frequently write letters backwards(In addition to writing totally unrelated letters if I don't stop and think about each one)

I also can't really rotate something. When I spent a few hours with a driving simulator game to see if it was at all possible one big issue I had was not being able to figure out which side was the right side of the road, relative to the new perspective after a turn. So I turned straight into traffic more than once.

That is rather fascinating. I wonder if there is some sort of treatment or inner ear procedure you could take to ground your spatial awareness.
Pretty sure I just have dyspraxia, which is one of those dyslexia/add/etc type conditions that doesn't have any drug or surgical treatment aside from occupational therapy and always having 100 different backup plans.

But there's GPS apps now so aside from driving and math it's not that limiting. If they ever fix the public transit here I'd probably be fine...