And yes, after my brain injury I had trouble navigating around the town I had lived for 30 years, I had forgotten how roads met up or were parallel and I got lots of ‘jamais-vu’ = known but not quite known any more – sort of different and strange, hard to explain, and heightened sense of smell = each shop smelt different and strong as I walked past their open doors; even supermarkets I’d known & used for decades felt unknown-ish.

And because my sight was damaged everything was darker and my new double vision together with feeling dizzy when standing (almost fainting at start, had to sit on ground) was very disorientating, still is sometimes.

Now I’m living in a place I didn’t choose and had never even visited in my life and to try to learn it is very tiring and confusing (and lonely, but I do try to make contacts), luckily I was given a satnav which I can actually use (mostly) which really helps but I miss living where I’d lived for over 5 years and knew my way about mostly.

But nobody looking at me would know I struggle with all this (and where/what light switches are) and how exhausting it is. I haven’t got a smart phone, I was given one once but I could’t use it (I’m way left behind with technology now sadly), so can’t use these apps you talk about. Thank you for talking about this.