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where-am-i-and-do-i-know-you:

Ok so how many of you out there with Prosopagnosia also have other issues like synesthesia or no sense of direction or other? The 2 specific examples are additional issues/quirks I have. I don’t recall the source but remember reading somewhere that this was common with Prosopagnosia? Also does anyone else also have social anxiety either aggravated by or as a direct affect of Prosopagnosia?

Thanks!

brin-bellway:

Me too. I’m mildly sound-colour synesthetic, and I have a pretty terrible sense of direction. I never had much cause to notice the latter until I started learning to drive (I live in the kind of small town where all the places worth going to are on the same street), but the more I drive the bigger a problem it’s going to be. I really need a GPS.

I’ve also been meaning to practise navigating the nearby city with Street View. That way if I get thoroughly lost I have the option of giving up without being forced to find my way back home first, and I will have neither the stress of trying to both drive and navigate nor the stress of it all happening in real-time.

where-am-i-and-do-i-know-you:

Yeah that was why my mom got me a GPS years ago…I don’t think she was entirely kidding when she said she was worried about me not being able to find home & never being seen again…it has definitely been helpful, just make sure you keep the device updated and also Mapquest where you’re going as a backup…

totallyacomputer:

Eeek! I never ever ever mapquest. It’s gone horribly wrong so many times. I’m all about Google Maps (which is what I use on my phone as a GPS as well and it updates itself). I’m more of the type to bring my phone (as a GPS) and whatever I need to charge my phone.
I used to have a dedicated GPS, but no matter how often we updated it, it was still wrong. Google, on the other hand, seems to know when a road is closed for an accident (and when it’s open again), even, and reroutes accordingly. I’d be so lost without it!

Reason #746 why I need a smartphone.

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