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This explains why some of us have no sense of direction
If you have taken a walk and would like to return home you need to have an idea of where you are in relation to your destination. To do this, you need to know which way you are facing and also in which direction home lies. This all seems fairly instinctive to humans and other animals, so how do we manage it?
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It doesn't really explain all that much, other than "there's an area of the brain responsible for spacial awareness which doesn't light up as well it does in normal people. hunh."
Which is sad since I'm pretty much totally worthless when it comes to any directions. So bad I'm the butt of jokes with friends.
Sure, I can program in six languages, write massive technical documents, troubleshoot like a master engineer, but god forbid you hand me a set of keys and ask me to go pick up some milk at the corner store. I'd end up in another state if it wasn't for my car's GPS.
Are you... me? I know how it feels.