Can you tell your left from your right?

Me: easily, instinctively (possibly something to do with doing dance and the like when little and then a lot of physio later which improved both my proprioception and awareness of muscles and joints) and can flip perspectives and positions in my head without conscious thought - I also have great spatial awareness for moving things around in three dimensions, size and planning processes from multiple competing factors. Technically, I'm ambidextrous, but physically favour my right since a cervical spine fracture (so I end up dragging the mouse over to the opposite side now I can't operate a trackball as accurately as I used to).

DP: On your left. Left. Your other left. That's your right. Left. LEFT. Turn back round and it's on your left. YOUR left. The hand you write with. Your fretting hand. No, the one you actually use, not the one people thought you should use but couldn't. LEFT. PUT YOUR LEFT HAND UP IN THE AIR. Oh, FFS, wait there <stomp stomp stomp> This is your left. Let me move your hand. THERE. ON YOUR LEFT.

Really struggle with left and right (my family have only just realised that I’m not doing this to be funny). I have to make an L shape to confirm which way is which. Weirdly I am very good at cardinal directions and map reading which no one who knows me can understand. I appear to instinctively know what direction north is. As far as I am aware I’m not neurodiverse although chronic dyslexia runs in my family (I’m not dyslexic).

I can only walk in a straight line after a drink...

I always have to think about left and right

It’s a family joke that I have real difficulty telling my left from my right !
I think it’s because I’m left handed, and therefore I write ( right ….. get it ?) with my left hand, so I often have physically hold up my hand to work it out .
i think the fact write and right sound the same scrambles my brain !

I usually need to think for a second. I write with my right hand, that's my go-to when I need to determine left & right.

I used to just pretend I was keeping up, kinda like 8 7s is blahdy blah.

I’m left handed. I’m fine with right and left but have to work out east and west EVERY time. I can read a map and compass, navigate on land and water and could probably explain the differences between true and magnetic north if pushed; but east and west.. nope. Never Eat Shredded Wheat. Every. Single. Time.

I was a genius at times tables. I’m double crap at maths, but could learn the “chanting” of the tables, which we did every day at school, really quickly.

Left hand is Lovely Sucky Thumb (more than half a century ago 🤣) and I write with my right. Time ahead is measured in telegraph poles of weekends stretching away into the distance. Hopeless at faces; better at recognising people by the way they walk. Can’t hold more than three directions in my head at any one time.

Left and Right. Is immediate some days and others I have to think really hard, lol

Times tables, 6 and 7’s are a mystery to me. Although I know 6x7=42 and so work forwards and backwards from that, luckily I’m very quick to add and subtract in my head.

Easiest way to remember, near side = near the kerb

I can tell left from right, up from down and east from west but I just cannot get it in my head the number bonds 8+5 and 7+5. I just can’t get it to stay in my head! I literally have to count it out on my fingers!
Oh and I’m in my 50’s and have worked in a school 🙈

I have real problems distinguishing left and right. My sister is the same and sat her driving test with the letters L and R written on the back of her hands.

I'm right handed, but can do almost everything, including writing legibly, with my left. I'm a teacher and when I injured my right hand, I just wrote on the board with my left. No problems reading or with multiplication tables, I can remember number strings easily, great sense of direction but clumsy as hell.

I also can’t seem to walk in a straight line I always end up walking into the person I’m walking next to

I'm pretty much ambidextrous and I really struggle with distinguishing left and right. I've trained myself to treat right - the slightly dominant hand - as the go to and it's helped, I can even give directions now 🤣

By the way, I'm your woman in a rounders or cricket match. Catching stuff is my forte. But, in all seriousness, I wouldn't ask me for directions just after a match

I have found it to be the opposite, although not the point of the thread as the OP has pointed out.

Why? I struggle with left and right. But only when directing other people. I know exactly where I'm going, what lane I need to be in, how to use my indicators. Sat navs use maps with arrows, they don't talk to you (or at least mine doesn't).

There is nothing that makes those of us who struggle with left and right unsafe on the road. It's just the NAMES for the directions which confuse us, nobody is going the wrong way round roundabouts or driving on the wrong side of the road.

I wouldn’t have a clue if someone said ‘my left’ as I can’t even work out my own left

I know which is left and right but it takes me a while to figure it out, if someone says to me look left I don’t know which way to look. I say to myself I am right handed so that’s the right.
I also have trouble reading maps and direction is not great either.

However I’m not neuro diverse, I don’t have autism or adhd and I don’t have dyslexia or dyspraxia - so I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
Dh is used to it if he says it’s on the left and when I go the wrong way he just says the other left

I have to really think about it. So does my friend. We’re both NT. I think it’s just something that’s really common

Have been driving 30 years and no idea what nearside and offside means.

Driver's side, passenger side.

I’m good for left and right.
That’s not a boast because other things like vertical and horizontal absolutely pickle my brain. (I have to remember that Vertical Limit was a film about rock climbing and therefore up not across!)

Never eat cake eat sausage sandwiches and remain young.

I'm truly shocked by the poll result! 😧