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edit: Thank you to all who answered! I’m amazed at how many ways you came up with to answer this.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It does. Every part of a reflection is made so that your reflection touches you. If it were upside down, it couldn't do that. If both you and your reflection raised your left hand instead of one raising their right hand, it also couldn't do that, and there would be nothing preventing you from reaching your hand in that parallel universe.

I am an aphantasiac and needed to look at the two queen of hearts in a deck of cards to realize this.