No way some tattooer wouldn't have caught this unless they're somehow just as dyslexic... Seems fake
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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.
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.
Them: just make an L with your fingers for left
Me as a kid: shit... Why can't I remember which way L faces!?
just make em a little thicker and it can be port and starboard

Your left hand makes an L with your thumb and forefinger
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
My wife has 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!
Righties loosies lefties tighties
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 mean, if it works, it works.
looks at pic
shrugs
Right?
Right?
Do you mean Left?
Holy shit, the comments on this post have me worried for you all.
I hate that I'm saying this, but this would be handy for my wife. Except like, correct, ya know?
y her thumb mad
Is she a lefty?
I had this problem for a long time because teachers saying your right hand is the one you write with.
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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.


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