People Share the Behaviors They Thought Were Normal Until They Realized They Have ADHD

Some people are hopelessly bad at directions. This person has always had a total lack of directional awareness. Their poor sense of direction is so bad that they can’t find their way home from most places unless they have the assistance of Google Maps or something similar. It turns out that ADHD may be to blame.  

Some researchers think that sense of direction and ADHD may be linked. Many people with ADHD lack the focus to process and remember their surroundings. Because their brain doesn’t focus on their environment as they are navigating through it, their working memory doesn’t encode things like the direction they walked or significant landmarks they may have passed.