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If You Grew Up Somewhere Rural, You Probably Have a Better Sense of Direction

I don’t know what it was but until I visited home last Christmas after the personality change I just didn’t have a good integrated geographic sense of where I grew up – I registered it as a series of linear paths with totally random Clue-style secret passages between them I guess – but possibly in compensation I have amazing dead reckoning uh… reckoning, you can drag me all around in circles uphill and downhill and I will retain a sense of what exact direction and how far away my starting point is

I figured it out, this actually comes from how I was stereoblind and never saw in true 3D, and so instead of generating 3D mental maps of places I just had senses of the linear experience of particular routes with no sense where they were relative to each other, so this developed to compensate