My wife had a freckle on her right hand. It’s the only way she can tell left from right. Ask her for directions and watch her eyes check the back of her hands.
I still hold my fingers in the L shape like I was taught as a kid to figure it out a lot of the time!
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I’m not even dyslexic but remembering which direction a letter goes in just on its own is lowkey so hard. I’d never mess it up in normal writing but ask me what direction the letter L or R goes in, and I’ll have to think for an embarrassing amount of time. Or even worse, lower case D and lower case B. I do actually mess those up if I think too hard about them. Oh and I get N confused sometimes too, but that’s just because technically Russian is my native language and the Cyrillic alphabet is all kinds of fucked up.
My daughter is learning to write and gets about half her numbers backwards. After I’ve corrected her on a 2, a 3, and a 7, I’ll look at a six and genuinely not know which way it’s supposed to face.
Righties loosies lefties tighties
Or Lefty losie righty tighty
Until you get confused with reverse thread bolts.
Is she a lefty?
I had this problem for a long time because teachers saying your right hand is the one you write with.
It’s reft and light
No Ragrets
Pobody’s Nerfect
I hate that I’m saying this, but this would be handy for my wife. Except like, correct, ya know?
Picture is edited. She did it right, I mean her tattoo maker wanted to get paid ofc.
Playstation controller prompts with L/R solved this issue for me in English, but on my main language the directions are called “Sağ/Sol” which I still sometimes get wrong
i think you got it wrong there again :p
Which language is that? I want to check the etymology.
Turkish apparently
Turkish
To me it worked with mouse clicks. Right click does X left click does Y. The mouses right is the same as my right.
Nice smile
I taught my daughter with this song and said b is left, d is right.
The Difference Between b and d | Jack Hartmann Telling b from d
She’s a keeper
Your left hand makes an L with your thumb and forefinger
Looks at palm of hand to check
…Well, the years start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’
🎵 I was LOOKIN’ kinda dumb with my FINGER and my thumb in the SHAPE of an L on my forehead 🎵
Your left hand is where your thumb is on the right.
I’m afraid the people who struggle to tell left from right apart will also have a problem remembering which way the letter L bends
Is the backwards L used in any languages?
J
not that I’m aware of. Γ (gamma) is sort of like an upside down L
In Japanese, the right quotation symbol is one: 」
Surprisingly, there isn’t one in Korean but there is a gamma for the k/g consonance: ㄱ
Mandarin doesn’t have anything remotely like this.
Cosmo and Wanda hanging out on the thumbs, you can’t fool me this time
I mean, if it works, it works.
looks at pic
shrugs
Right?Right?
Do you mean Left?
No, your other left
To this day I have problems telling left from right.
I will go the correct direction when I’m driving, and point the correct direction, but I will often say the wrong direction.
One friend tried to help me by telling me that “Right is the hand that you write with”, but I’m left-handed.
Fortunately, I have a massive scar on my arm from where my arm was shattered into three places, and that scar is on my right arm, so every time I’m about to tell someone directions, I end up tapping the scars on my arms until I find the correct scar, and then I know that direction is right so I can point in the right direction.
think of it like their alphabetical order (assuming reading left to right, of course). L is left of R, R is right of L.
I wrote so much as a child that my middle finger on my dominant hand is actually slightly deformed. Sometimes I still catch myself touching that messed up bone to remind myself which direction is which. :/
Are you me? My scar is from breaking it in 2 places, but all the rest lines up exactly. Left handed, good sense of actual direction, and even useless advice that only makes it more confusing.
It’s entirely possible. Are you a six foot one Native American dude?
If so, like, hate to break it to you, but we might have dissociative identity disorder.
What if it’s the opposite of DiD? Like it’s two bodies that believe they’re the same person?
Right/Left Confusion is very common. I have it, too.
People like us tend to say “No, your other left.”
I had real trouble for a long time, but I can always glance down at my hand and see the L made by my left index finger and thumb. Eventually I could see it in my head. I memorize things with visual cues somehow IDK.
I try that method but then have to sit there and think about what direction L should be pointing.
This is so bizzare to me. I can easily memorize people’s phone numbers, I can remember what I did a month ago, I can learn fucking JavaScript, but remembering which is my left hand? Hardest job ever
Have you considered getting a R tattoo on your left hand and a L tattoo on your right hand?
That would unironically work since in my language L means right
In the time and country I grew up, almost everyone had the same Converse style trainers at school for gym class. I thought I would mark mine to prevent mixing them with the rest, so I put my initials on the front: first initial on the left, second on the right. When I was done, I looked down at my feet and realised I had just written (the equivalent of) L and R on the according sides. Not smort.
