Can you tell your left from your right?

That made me giggle. I generally do know my left from right without thought, except when I'm giving directions! My partner asks ' actual right/left or your right/left', as I wave my right hand saying go left 🫣

Spatial awareness - I have none. I bump into things all over the place. I also cannot see a straight line for love nor money. I cannot line things up in a straight line. I don't walk in a straight line - always veer off, mostly to the left.
I am exceedingly clumsy. Can't catch a ball. Totally uncoordinated.

No, but I am dyspraxic

I have zero spatial awareness but have never had trouble with right & left.

Neurodiversity runs through my family.
I am ok with left and right, but struggle to remember East and West. Certain middle times tables (7x8 for example) would not stick whilst I could answer all others in mixed order at speed.

It's hard for some of us...

I’ve heard this phrased as knowing left/right just as instinctively as you know up/down and I’ve never met anyone who knows it that instinctively (when the conversation has come up, it doesn’t a lot to be fair).

I don’t instinctively know. Nor does my mum.

During my driving test, the examiner said “my way/your way”, which I doubt was allowed.

I have this. It's even worse if someone's facing me and says something on the left/right. I just tell my family to point in whichever direction they mean

Probably easier to say what you want them to do, move left, rather than confuse by mentioning right, though that won't help those who can't tell the difference.

I have to look at my hands to tell left from right.

I have to actively think about L and R. Many people struggle with remembering 7x8 = 56. My quirk is if you rattle off a phone number or spell out a name quickly, my mind freezes. Likewise, if I have to spell something out loud I actively have to think about it or draw it out in the air at the same time, although when writing my spelling is fine.

No, I often get them mixed up and have to think consciously which is which - but sometimes it's as if my brain goes off on a little jolly of its own and even thinking carefully about it, I get it wrong.

One reason why I have never managed to learn to drive; can't synch up indicators reliably with steering.

I am AWFUL with face recognition though!

But there's nothing to get? You can just learn it? It's not a concept. Like others have said, you can use a method to work it out if you need to.

Not immediately no. I'm left handed and my mum is the same, but worse. She doesn't even get it after a few seconds.

I have to put my left hand in an L shape and say 'L for left' in my head.

I once had this job where I had to use a clicker to count the flow of pedestrians. Obviously I got it totally wrong because the pedestrians were moving from left to right, or vice versa. I was marking the ones coming from the left as left, rather than right.

You can see how confusing it could be right?!

OMG - green and orange - me too.

As in I might be asked, which colour sweet would you like? I’ll say, ‘Green please.’ I’ll get the green one and will be disappointed because I wanted the orange one but when I recall what I said I definitely said green but I meant orange, was thinking orange, looking at the orange one. But the word came out green. It happens so often.

I’ve seen similar. 😁 I always go slow and am prepared to stop.

I have struggled with this all my life. I have a great sense of direction and know exactly where I want to go, but giving directions I consciously have to think about whether it is left or right. It doesn't come naturally like knowing whether something is up or down.

I don't think I am neurodiverse, maybe I am, but not to the extend that i've ever thought of being tested. I am not stupid, I have a Masters degree. I also really struggle with those 3D puzzles which show you a shape and ask you to imagine it rotated or with a bit taken away.

Edited to add that I'm left-handed too.

Left and right are instinctive to me - I don't have to think about it.

I cannot do left and right. When navigating I have to say your side/my side as my DH is the same. There is neurodivergence in my family (ADHD, AUDHD and dyslexia) but I do not have a diagnosis. Never had a problem with times tables (neurodivergents have memory issues so I would put this down to that).
I always thought my left/right issue was due to being largely ambidextrous. (I lost the use of my right hand for around 6 months and learnt to write and do everything with my left except spread butter).

My intelligent creative daughter has never been able to tell left from right, learn times tables, read a clock. She is hugely dyslexic so maybe she also has dyscalculia. For ages I wasn’t very kind or sympathetic saying she just needed to sit down and learn left from right once and for all but the ‘L’ trick doesn’t work for her because of dyslexia!!

I'm autistic and have no issues with this, I'm really good at spatial awareness, reading maps, finding my way round places because I can visually picture where I am after a look at a map, same with driving somewhere I know which direction I'm facing and can plot a mental route even if I don't know the area.
I'm ambidextrous.

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