I too have a major issue with spacial awareness. I'm able to understand
it from a theoretical perspective, but I get turned around and lost very
easily.
On 7/27/2020 7:59 AM, Jessica Hodges wrote:
Hello:
I have admittedly been watching this thread a little carefully, and
have been impressed at the ingenuity of some of the helpful ideas.
However, I have also seen, I think, a rather unfortunate amount of,
"Duh, this should be obvious." While I recognize that cardinal
directions, compasses, and on a broader level, spatial understanding,
are concepts that are second nature in simplicity to many, I'd caution
that this is not the case for all, perhaps as proved by the fact that
this is a topic to begin with.
There are many reasons, neurological and otherwise, why someone
might have trouble with ideas and understandings related to things in
space. I speak to you as one of those people. No matter how much
training I have received, I still have very limited comprehension of
the way cardinal directions change and interact as you move in
relation to you, why crossing walks form squares when two intersecting
lines make an X, and why, when cars are on the road, they don't run
into each other when turning. Though you have only my word on this, I
can safely say that I have been blind since birth and have had many
lessons throughout my life that have improved this very little, and I
have been told this is quite common with my eye condition. On the
gaming side, I gave up on a hero's call when I got lost for two hours
in someone's back yard, and generally actively avoid games in which
radar mapping, heavy cardinal directions, and complex spatial
awareness become necessary. So I beg people, in this day and age of
inclusion, to temper dismissive responses to a very real, and I can
imagine very frustrating, question from someone who wishes to help
someone else enjoy a game. To the original poster, I hope that you
find success with answering this question, and that both of you end up
having a blast.
May everyone have lots of fun playing, and forgive me for not speaking
on this list more often.
Jessica.
On 7/27/2020 7:21 AM, Luke Hewitt wrote:
Simple test, ask him about physical space.
EG if your standing in your living room, with the sofa behind you and
the door to your left, and you turn to face the door, the sofa is now
on your left.
Better still if he has an Iphone or other smart phone device get him
to activate the compass and turn around physically.
for me at least, once I understood the physical difference between
absolute directions and where I was facing relative to them, getting
the compass in shades of doom and other first person titles was no
problem.
Hth.
All the best,
Dark.
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