Same goes for the cardinal directions. I could only distinguish W/E after distinguishing N/S, which required physically orienting myself to the surrounding houses. "X lives in the house to the N and Y lives in the house to the S. Now that I'm facing N, it's 'WE,' not 'EW.'"
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In "adulthood" (whatever that means), I've gotten lost so many times, even using maps. So many instances getting stranded atop a mountain in Japan and being rescued by monks, or in the middle of the Cambodian countryside on the back of a stranger's motorcycle. Inconvenient.
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Time also throws me off. I get really disoriented converting centuries to standard years and vice versa. Converting between "military time" and "non-military time" has resulted in some very unfortunate mishaps.
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That goes for the PM hours only. AM and PM made no sense to me as a child, so I had to call them "at morning" and "partially midnight" in order to even begin to wrap my head around them. Dear Lord...
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This all goes to show that I've long been stuck in some kind of mental wormhole that defies the standards of the space-time continuum. Or something like that.
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