LOST EVERY DAY
Sharon Roseman was five years old when her world changed forever. She was playing Blind Man’s Bluff—a game of tag in which the “it” person is blindfolded—with friends outside her house. When she removed her blindfold, she couldn’t recognize where she was. “My street was not my street, my house was not my house,” she says. “I was in this totally unfamiliar place that I had never seen before, and it scared me to death.”
It was only the beginning. From that moment on, Roseman has been lost every day of her life.
Lost Even in Familiar Places
Such a turn of events might sound like an episode of . But Roseman’s story is true, and. DTD is a disorder that dramatically affects people’s abilities to navigate their environment. “It’s almost as if somebody picks up the entire world, turns it, and sets it back down,” Roseman explained to the in 2013.
