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Is knowing which way is left or right as automatic as up and down?

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Dramatic · 07/10/2024 18:36

Saw a video online about this, apparently for some people knowing their left and right is as automatic as knowing up and down. Is this you?

I struggle so much, I can be confidently saying left and pointing right or vice versa and when someone gives a direction it takes me a good few seconds to know which way they mean. Whereas if someone said up or down it would be instant.

YABU left and right are as easy as up & down
YANBU left and right takes a few more seconds to think about/I quite often get it wrong

OP posts:
moonlight1705 · 07/10/2024 18:42

Nope, I still get laughed at when I hold up my hands to check which one has the L shape so I know which is left.

Didimum · 07/10/2024 18:42

No. Me and left and right aren’t friends.

Storyland · 07/10/2024 18:40

I'm same as you. I have to think about it every time and I still don't understand stage right and left. Like I do understand that what is left for actors on stage is the opposite of what left is for the audience. But to work out what that is is like solving a long multiplication sum in my head.

I am otherwise a fairly intelligent person but my brain has never fully absorbed left and right.

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