I know the difference between left and right, but sometimes it takes a few seconds for my brain to find the answer.
East and West for me.
Same for me. I have to stop for a few seconds and think every time.
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WE
SI only remember it as they spell WE.
I have to look at my hands to get it right. Palms down and thumbs out at right angles and the left hand looks like an L.
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I was like that for many many years (maybe 20?) then suddenly I never had problems with it. What I did back then was going in for a hand shake then I knew what was right. And the more I did it the less obvious I had to do the shake. I don’t know if this is why I don’t need to do it anymore but now days I am amazed by it instead every time because of how bad I was at it for so long.
I used to. Here is how I resolved it. Left starts with ‘L’. I 'L’ike ‘L’ a lot more than ‘R’. So, I started liking left more. When someone says left, I think, “Oh, the side that I like.” If they say right, then I think, “Oh, the side I like less.”
Yes and my mind has a block between east and west
Me too! It makes me question myself every time lol
Yeah I always thought there had to be something super wrong with me lol
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I do the same thing. This always got me yelled at in elementary school because my teachers thought I didn’t know the difference.
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Yup! Especially when I’m driving.
yeah. as a teen learning to drive my mom asked me what direction i should turn out a parking lot, i pointed left, meant left, and said right. and then felt as smart as a box of rocks.
I have to think about it for a moment. Port and starboard are easy because because port has the same number of letters as left, so starboard has to be right. But I don’t live on a boat, and even if I did, I’d still have to get the left and right thing straight.
I got L and R tattooed on my (correct) thumbs to use as quick reference. They’re incredibly useful.
No way that’s so fucking cool! I would’ve never thought about doing that lol
Right and left as directions…problem. Right and left as places on a stage…no problem.
Stage directions have universal consistency, otherwise it’s relative to the observer and dependant on the observer’s position, even if relative left and right do not change there is still the potential for inconsistency and that’s where the wrench falls into the braingears
My grandmother was famous for this, and my family made fun of me for having a lot of her “weird” traits. Guess the jokes on them, since I’m positive I got it from my dad (his mom).
