I’m sure if I was at school as a student these days I would have been diagnosed with an ‘ism’; not only do I have a fundamental problem with left and right (I can remember if I concentrate) but even when I read a sign which says push or pull I do the opposite, and electric switches are another difficulty. I remember volunteering to go into the school hall at junior school and see what the time was – I guess the teacher had forgotten her watch or forgotten to wind it; I stood for ages in the hall staring at the big clock face high on the wall trying to work out which way round it was. Turning keys in locks… that’s another thing, if I want to unlock a door I can’t always immediately figure out which way to turn the key!
When I’m doing Tai Chi, even if I see the instructor doing a movement, I somehow do the opposite – whether he is facing me or whether he is facing away. If I come down the stairs of the car park at our shopping mall, I always turn the wrong way and end up in the toilets, when we stay in a hotel, I always head the wrong way down a corridor… I don’t know what ‘ism’ I have but I definitely have one!!
Lois Elsden 
Could be dyspraxia!
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That sounds interesting… I’ll look it up!
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As long as you can find youre way to the Dolphin and back I don”t see a problem.
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A great comfort to me! I think I ought to go as often as possible to reassure myself that I can manage!
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Take a ball of string with you just in case though.
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Shrewd thinking!
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