Does anyone else find it hard to find their seat in a restaurant after going to the loo?

[LettuceBeFree]

Does anyone else find it hard to find their seat in a restaurant after going to the loo?

or remember where they left their shopping trolley at the supermarket?

or get back to where your friends were sitting at an open park festival if you've been to the loo?

Are these just normal occurrences most people get or dyspraxia etc.?

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I can’t do any of those things simply because I have no sense of direction.

I also have no sense of direction I note markers to find my car and immediately forget them. I now text dh if I'm alone with a description of my parking spot, I try not to refer to it but always end up on the wrong floor if I don't

I don't think they are normal apart from a festival if you're in the middle of the crowd. If you're sitting in a less crowded area, then less normal. A something like finding your car in a big car park, everyone find a challenge!!

Yes to all of these.

I also don't know which way I'm facing on a street. So if I'm heading along the road and pop into a shop then come out intending to continue in the same direction I have to stop and look around to look for shops I've already passed to know which way to go.

I get lost in restaurants.

Yes to these. I'm visually impaired so assumed it was just another thing affected by it. I'm better if I can find a distinctive landmark, but also regularly do the walking in the wrong direction after leaving a shop thing.

Yep all of these. Sense of direction totally missing in brain

Have you read the recent bad sense of direction thread? This is all me! Just to let you know I'm pretty sure I have AS. Cinemas are a nightmare

Sometimes even panic trying to find way out of said loo

Apart from the festival one, I can do most of those things. Still can’t tell left from right though, so don’t ask me to give you directions there.

Sometimes even panic trying to find way out of said loo

Yes, I often end up trying to get into locked cleaning cupboards thinking it's the door back to the restaurant.

No, not at all. I find it easy to retrace my steps or driving route. I couldn't find my car in a multistorey the other day though - it had a weird half levels arrangement, and I'd just got a film of panic sweat up my back when I spotted my car through a gap at knee height

When we lived in a flat DH once said something about our bedroom window facing the same way as the front door to the building (I forget why we were having such an epically fascinating conversation). I was astounded he just knew that instinctively. The only way I could verify it was to mentally walk out of my flat, along the corridor and to the front door while physically turning on the spot. He thought this was hilarious.

Oh god I always get lost coming out of bathrooms. I can never remember where I entered or what way is the way back to the restaurant.

Oh definitely - my kids still talk about the embarrassing Nando's visit where I took a wrong turn out of the loo, found myself having to weave between tables and ended of managing to hook my long cardi around the handles of a buggy (including child!) and was dragging it behind me!

I put it down to me being very shortsighted and restaurants being very dark - I just get disorientated!

@LemonMousse Sorry but that has me in stitches as it's exactly the type of thing that happens to me. DP just shakes his head now and tries his best to disentangle me from whatever situation I've got into.

Yes I'm the same I had an X-ray last week , the room I went in to was small, one large door marked entry/exit (depending on which side you stood on), and a small unmarked door inside, as the nurse said I was free to leave I opened the small door ended up in some random room & felt a huge wave of confusion because I was sure that was the way out. The nurse directed me to the large door marked EXIT that I had come through when I entered 🤦🏻‍♀️.

Thats just one recent example there have been many others!

Also I need a Sat Nav to get anywhere that I haven't been more than ten times before.

Me too! I get hopelessly lost in hotels and never try to take short cuts in the car after one try lengthened my journey by about 20 miles

Thanks everyone. Glad to see I'm not the only one.

So it might not definitely mean dyspraxia then?