Girls & Guys - Do you have to turn maps upside down?

[roxyruby]

My boyfriend uses this GPS map on his iPhone so I was looking at it to tell him where to go,

he says "do I have to turn left or right"

and I had to turn the iphone around to figure out if he had to turn left or right!!!

And I have to put my hands up and look for the hand that makes the "L" shape to tell left from right.


Is this like you for you girls? Is this a female brain thing? Or is it like this for everyone?

[aelle]

My mother is not lateralized. She is physically unable to tell her left from her right, just like colorblind people cannot tell some colors apart. Which means I wasn't taught left and right at a young age and it's not an engrained reflex in me. I need to pause a few seconds to remember which side is left (that made driving lessons fun...), or which direction to follow if I'm using a map, but I still can figure it out without having to turn the map.

I also have fairly poor sense of directions. My boyfriend is the opposite. He can sense directions, and he can step out of the subway or get off a spiral staircase and tell which way is North Looks like he has a sixth sense to me.

[Janine]

I have no sense of direction whatsoever. As for maps, they upset me as I cant fathom them at all, no matter which way up they are!

Also,while driving a car I find that I have to open my legs when I go round a roundabout. Does anyone else find that they have to do this? I also have to think hard about right and left sometimes. Maybe I'm just weird..

[Angela]

Spatial relations aren't my strong suit, either.... but I must say, I LOVE this "hold up the hand that makes the L" thing -- I've never heard that!

I was just reading an article in this month's Psychology Today about a woman who is utterly without a sense of where she is in space. She routinely gets lost 3 blocks from her home! Pretty interesting. She became a very well-known and admired author.

[James81]

Originally Posted by Angela

Spatial relations aren't my strong suit, either.... but I must say, I LOVE this "hold up the hand that makes the L" thing -- I've never heard that!

The hand that makes an L when you look at it tells you which is your left hand.

The hand that makes a J when you hold it up is the hand you hold to your forhead when you want to call someone a "Loser."

[Mounds]

I have an unnaturally gifted sense of direction. I've been lost in the woods before and recognized a single clearing, which lead me back to the parking lot.
Don't think I've ever been lost in a city before. I do come prepared though. Always bring a map

[James81]

Ok, I wanna hop on the av bandwagon. Where are you peeps making these avs at?

[Mounds]

Scott Pilgrim Avatar Creator!

Aelle, thank you for the link!