AS and sense of direction?

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I have horrible sense of direction. I get lost all the time. Confuse right from left, get lost in new places, get lost in computer game enviroments unless I've played in one area repeatedly. Even still I get lost but at least some of the anxiety wanes.

I have no natural sense of direction. But if I pay close attention and take mental notes, and repeat those notes to myself...it helps a lot. If I'm stressed out, it's almost impossible to orient myself directionally.

My sense of direction is terrible. No matter how many times people tell me which direction north is at, I always forget. I've lived in the place I do now for almost 12 years & I still get lost in the city.

I have an awful sense of direction and can never orientate myself properly, even if places that I am familiar with. In my office building I still have to think hard about which way the streets outside run in comparison to my desk position.

As I am underwater a lot, I have learned to use a compass (this is especially important when the visibility is bad or I am diving at night) and it has been quite strange to orientate myself to a compass as it feels very wrong.

My sense of direction is pretty much off kilter. I've always had trouble distinguishing between north, south, east, and west.

I have a very hard time following even the simplest verbal directions, but I am very good with maps, coordinates, compass or azimuth.

I'm bad with spatial perception. Even though I can orient myself in videogames, it takes me a while to orient myself in new areas. At a school I substituted at as an assistant, there was a 4th grade kid with HFA that was there for his 1st day, and able to orient himself much faster. Also, I'm dependent on a compass to tell me what is North, South, East, or West.
However, I'm okay with orienting myself while I'm in my car. Though, for some reason I just can't park in corners of parking garages, or I might have a rough time locating my car.

I have poor sense of direction, especially in shopping complexes and carparks. At times when I leave a specialty shop and I have no idea where I am in relation to the complex levels. Rather a fearful feeling. Not sure wether this is specific to AS or related to abnormalities of my R hemispere.

I did a number of test which indicated I have: Visual spacial processing intergration issues.

I have no sense of direction.

I'm great at backtracking, but suck at remembering how to get somewhere. Also, don't ask me which way is north... I'll never know.

Well, unlike most of the previous posters here, i have something that i only could describe as a "built in GPS" in my head

I have autism & have a very poor sense of direction. I get very easily lost when I go out to places. In fact: at the moment I can not go out to unfamilia places unaccompinied. I know my way around my local town, but if I've never been to a place, I could easily get lost. But I have CAutistic Disorder (not aspergers), so I can't speak for everyone with AS.

try googling these phrases:

directionally challenged

topographic agnosia

place blindness

This is the 21st century. We have maps. We have GPS systems. We have the internet. How could anyone ever get lost?

I don't have the best sense of direction, but I'm really good at memorizing maps (and I like them). If I know I'm going out of town, I'll study google maps and figure out how to get all the places I need to go ahead of time.

I have no sense of direction at all.