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Old Apr 12, 2016, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by peaches100 View Post
The visual problem I have is that I don't notice obvious things in my visual environment that normal people do. For example, I can sit and talk to someone for 1 hour, and then go away and have no idea what they were wearing. I can go to someone's house several times and still not remember exactly how to get there. I sometimes don't notice familiar faces if I don't see them in the same environment I am used to seeing them. I can walk past object and sometimes people and not realize they were even there.
I have experienced all of these. I'm not sure if it has to do with being triggered or not.

I am extremely directionally challenged, even sometimes when it's been to places that I have been before. If I'm going somewhere I've not been before, I'll put the address in the navigation system of my car and follow that. I still usually get into a panic and think it's wrong, and that results in me getting lost anyway! Yikes!! Actually I was going to drop something off in a friend's mailbox last week. I've been there several times, and dropped things off before. There are 2 entrances to her neighborhood... I couldn't remember which one it was. When I figured that out, I couldn't remember which house it was. Finally, I was her van in the driveway. That kind of shook me up. It WAS an "off" day that day. I do remember that.

Remembering people's clothes.. Unless it's something really out there... no. I have a hard time remembering what I wore yesterday.

Faces.. I have a really hard time with that too, if they are not in their normal "place" and out of the element I usually see them in. I'll see someone out in public and have an anxious argument with myself whether it's that person or not. I usually try to dodge the person because I can't decide if it's them or not. If they see me first and call my name, then I know it's them. It's not that way with everybody. I'm not sure what the factor is that determines it.

I've also gone into places that I've been several times and saw a door and questioned myself if it had always been there.