TIL there is growing body of scientific research showing that reliance on GPS erodes our ability to make our own mental maps.

via reddit.com

But if you’re like me or a lot of other people with attention deficit or other disorders, you never had that ability to begin with!

I can learn a route exclusively by landmarks and if I stray from that route by a single turn or two, I have no mental concept of which direction I’m facing anymore or where I am relative to anything I’m familiar with.

I asked my mom, who has ADHD as well, what she did before GPS. She paused and then said, “I just got lost.”

Clocks have eroded our ability to tell time by looking at the sun but I don’t hear anyone bitching about that.