I often do it even though I usually already know before doing it. It just feels like a habit/sanity check.
every time. also my mom. i just cannot keep them straight.
every single time! i’ve done it often enough that i don’t need to physically move my hands any more though, i just visualize what my hands would look like if i were doing it. that said, even with that optimization it still takes me a couple seconds to decode a “left”/“right” instruction and figure out which side was actually meant.
Port is left (and red, same as port wine) - both words have the same number of letters. Starboard is right (and green). But that’s from the cox’s viewpoint - for us rowers, facing the cox, port is on the right. Does my head in every time.
Never have, it would never occur to me to doubt that I already know. My assumption is that if you’ve ever needed to, you always will. I’m that way with the alphabet or months, I need to whisper the entire alphabet to myself to figure out which letter comes after q, same idea to figure out whether august is the 7th or 8th or 9th month. I assume we probably all have mental blind spots of one kind of another.
Edit: unrelated, but did you know that September, October, November and December are so named because they were originally the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months? Would’ve really helped me out if we stuck to that calendar…
No I’ve never had problems with left and right.
Compass directions get me every fucking time though. I have to cycle clockwise N E S W to remember that west is “left”. If I’m in a fast-paced action packed video game and they say “head east/West” I’m going the wrong way every time.
I’ve actually been playing a video game with a translation that confuses east and west a lot, and because I’ve never had that problem it’s been making me feel like I’m losing my mind.
Fucking same. When I first learned compass directions, I mistakenly thought east was left and carried that habit for years and now I can’t unlearn it.
But things I know others struggled with learning as children I got right away and didn’t need to use any tricks to get. Like using your thumb and forefinger as the less than sign and turning your hand so it’s an L for “less than”. And I know some people who need to use that trick to remember which one is which as adults still.
Bizarre how the brain works.
I had never heard of this.
Not intuitively knowing left and right is one of the signs of dyslexia btw
add it to the list
Or the lesser known Left Right Confusion. There’s a test available at the university of Washington to see if you have this!
Then there’s the third thing where you say “you’re gonna turn left at the light” and I say “ok, got it… Wait, did you say right?”
My mom struggles with it but she’s left handed
Only when dealing with electric fields
I do on occasion. I was very frustrated when I learned that left and right comes as naturally as up and down for most people.
No. I’m not sure I ever did. I’ve never thought about it, but don’t most people (adults) generally just remember and/or know intuitively? I don’t think it’s something I need to think about. Just something my brain knows.
Yeah this is exactly where I am too.
Left vs right hand is automatic for me, but I still do the right hand rule when screwing or unscrewing bolts.
Anything not straight-up-and-down always messes with me so bad. There’s an extra hellish sweet spot around 45° and facing away from you that melts my brain as it approaches
Edit: also wtf, for me the post below this one is about screws lol
I pretend I’m writing something
I still say the wrong way though
I’m not sure I even register a complete thought about it when thinking about left/right. It fell into the instinct box a long time ago, I just sorta immediately and unquestionably know, if that makes sense
Only while driving at high speeds in residential neighborhoods
🎶 She was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an “L” on her forehead. 🎶
