I often do it even though I usually already know before doing it. It just feels like a habit/sanity check.
The more important one to remember is “lefty loosey, righty tighty”.
Not intuitively knowing left and right is one of the signs of dyslexia btw
My mom struggles with it but she’s left handed
add it to the list
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
I had never heard of this.
Really?
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…
🎶 She was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an “L” on her forehead. 🎶
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.
Never.
Heard about the L, after I learnt left and right.
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’ve never done that but I have excellent proprioception.
No
No. Anytime I have been so out of it that I couldn’t tell left from right I also couldn’t remember if the L or ⅃ was right. I have no good solution left at that point.
Do you have a solution right though
Never did, never had s problem telling which is which. It’s just spatial awareness to me.
We did a lot of orienteering at school, and for sports. Maybe that helped.
If you do this you should seriously get checked for dyslexia
I’d say that I’d think I’d know if I had dyslexia, but I had a friend in college who didn’t find out until after he was in college. It’s hard to understand how that’s possible. He just said his school sucked and they thought he was just dumb when he had trouble reading. Somehow got into a top school though, so I guess he found a way to work around it or something.
That said, I don’t think I’ve really had a problem with reading. My best class was history and most of that was reading tons and tons of textbooks.
