Visuospatial Dysfunction and a fun test!

Ronni

Ronni

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My whole life I've struggled telling my left from my right. I'm left handed by birth, but ambidextrous by training. I also have other issues that I had no idea could be related to that left/right struggle.

Some examples:
I have difficulty reading maps. I'm constantly either turning the map, or turning myself...literally in circles sometimes...trying to visualize the directions.

I struggle with understanding the positional relationship of objects to each other.....kid's wooden jigsaw puzzles for example, SO hard for me to fit the pieces into the correct places the right way.

I can't do those three D wooden puzzles...CANNOT!!! And so many more things.

I wish I could describe to you what I deal with because of this. It's funny, but it's also frustrating. If I'm in someone's home that isn't mine, even if it's familiar to me...like one of my kids' when I go visit them.... if you point to a window I won't be able to tell you what it looks out on....front, back or either side.

The house I'm living in has two stories. I've been living here for several years. If you ask me the relationship of any of the rooms upstairs to the downstairs areas, like for example what's above or below where I'm sitting at any given moment, I can't tell you. I
e.g. if I'm sitting in the living room, I have NO CLUE which room is above that. Even when I try and work it through, visually imagine going up the stairs and going to the various rooms, I just can't figure it out. Even now, as I'm typing, I would SWEAR to you that the bedroom across the hall is directly over the living room. That's the way it feels to me. But I know, intellectually that it's wrong, because that room looks out onto the street, and the living room looks over the back yard.

Those problems (and more) fall under the heading of visuospatial dysfunction. I'm not unintelligent, am an avid reader and have no trouble with dyslexia, but this area of visualization of positional relationships??? Just can't manage it!

Here's a fun test....I failed it miserably!! Take it and tell me how you did!

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/test/1328
 

I tried the test & answered all questions, but it didn't score it, just went to a page of stuff that Psy Today wanted to sell..
Am lucky in that I've always done well with nice big maps & atlases & cant adjust to trying to locate someplace from a square inch image on a phone. Am right handed but prefer left for many things.
 
Well that was a depressing test. All I have to say,is that you aren't alone Ronni. Half the time I didn't even understand the directions. I'm going to see if the hubby will take the test. Maybe men do better. The hubby took the test. It said he was below average. I didn't want to download the results so I don't have the exact score. Just as well. Some things are better left alone. lol
 

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Your score on the test was average. It seems you have a good foundation of spatial skills, but have not yet mastered them.


 
I had no idea there was a cost!! I’m sorry. :( I did the test a while ago and there was no charge.
 
Ronni, don't worry about it. As for myself, I quit at the first test question. Hey, I'm retired; I don't want to have to think that hard. LOL But I do (dare I say like a lot of folks) have confusions between left and right having to consciously think about it. And I'm terrible at directions (don't ask me how to get anywhere). Puzzle pieces, no problem. So, really, Ronni, you have the worst condition of all that. I understand it must be hard. Visuospatial Dysfunction sounds like a really good description of that kind of condition, though.
 
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