Can you tell your left from your right?

We'd better not have a conference, we'd never get there. 😂

I have to pretend I'm writing to be able to to tell left from right.😂 Been like that forever.

I think it's more of a dyslexia thing.

Anecdotally, my son (ASD, left handed) has a great sense of direction, no issues with left / right, and is brilliant with numbers, maths, etc.

Whereas me (Left handed, many ASD traits) cannot do left or right, fractions, or clock reading, have a terrible sense of direction and map reading, lack of facial recognition out of context, huge problems with dyscalculia.

I was diagnosed dyslexic in my twenties. It was never picked up on when I was at school, because I was a keen reader and no issues with words.

I write with my right hand, that's how I know. I definitely don't know without thinking!

I remember left because I'm left handed.cant everyone do it that way?

I have to wear specialist pressure stockings. They are made to my very precise measurements so it's very important to get them on the right leg. These socks say left or right on the label but I still have to look at my hands and make the L sign in order to know which leg to put them on. Every single time. 😂
Left handed and struggle with travelling south. Also absolutely no spatial awareness and have difficulty visualising anything in 3D.

Love sarcasm.

As a child I mixed up Tuesdays & Thursdays Wednesday’s & Fridays. Also Left & Right. I always thought I was dyslexic but now believe I am also ADHD after my son got diagnosed at 36.

I’m a Catholic. When I first started school the nuns would say eg: turn right and if we (5 year olds) were confused, they then say: the hand you bless yourself with. That’s how we learned left from right.

Have trouble telling left and right apart. Up / down no issue, compass no issues though use news. Timetables no issues. Tests were you have to flip shapes lots of issues. Telling time on old clock difficult. Generally straight As. Do have autism in family but not me. Husband no issues. Lots of trouble with alphabet as child and spelling difficult but not dyslexic afaik.

I have to say to myself, you RIGHT with this hand.
My daughter says it's a sign of intelligence....LoL
I'm also ambidextrous.

It's funny how our brains work. Left and right are as natural to me as up and down, but I do have a problem naming colours. It's weird, but I have to think about the names of basic colours.

The best way for East and West is Never Eat Shredded Wheat - North, East, South, West when going clockwise

It took me a long time to but now I do know it automatically. But that little voice in my head still says ‘I write with my right’ every time.

Lol no, never have been able to. My DH says it’s as instinctive as up and down but I think he’s lying or showing off.

Yes of course I can but unless they're marked H and C, the only way I can tell which tap is hot and which is cold is to sing the Katy Perry song, as they're mentioned in order of how they appear in the sink or bath.

This has been a revelation to me! The 'middle tables' were a horror for me. We used to have to stand up & recite tables at school in front of our classmates (this is early 70s) and the 'middle tables' were the ones I dreaded! I taught myself methods to deal with it.. but I remain scarred!!

That's interesting. DP really struggles with reading, and sometimes transposes numbers. I have always assumed he must be dyslexic, but he is in his mid-seventies, so dyslexia wasn't really a 'thing' when he was at school. He struggles with his left and right, despite me telling him the way to remember it is, "You write with your right hand".

I am the only one in the house that doesn't get muddled with left and right.
The other two are both dyslexic.One is left handed. The other is predominantly right handed, but can do a few things with tthe left uite well too.
When going anywhere unfamiliar, I am tthe ne that navigates, otherwise I might get told to go left instead of right.
Once in the left of three lanes, indicating left, there isn't much I can do when I am told " not that left, the other left", other than turn left, and gind somewhere to turn around. When I navigate and say left and right, if needed I also say which exit on a roundabout, or to me/to you. 😃

Had to write L and R on my thumbs for my driving test. I mix up numbers a lot - 724 becomes 427 for example. Really struggled with times tables and number patterns like phone numbers or registration too. Maps are so confusing. On google maps I move in wrong direction all the time.

A tip for East and West which my DM taught me was that Left pretty much rhymes with West.

YANBU
I literally have to wave my left and right hands to get it right 🤣🤣
There are lots of us about!!

I always think with left and right (as opposed to up and down) it can switch, like if you look at a photo your right hand is on the left side of the image but up is still up. Another one that got me was if you say something is on your left but then you turn 180, it's now on your right, but again up is still up whichever way you turn.

I do exactly this! I struggle massively with it and will confidently say the wrong one quite often. My daughter is the same and I've recently been taking her out for driving lessons, it's been interesting to say the least cos neither of us know which direction we're talking about 😂

No I really have to think hard, and even then sometimes get it wrong.
I'm ambidextrous though which doesn't help.