My am walking on the left.

[ailbhe]

Linnea is absolutely reliable in identifying her right and left now. Other people's are still hard but hers is almost instinctive at this point.

I still have to think hard every time I need to say right or left.

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[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

I have to hold my thumbs out at right angles from the rest of my hand and see which one makes an L.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that depend on which way round your hands are?

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

remember, two rights do not make a wrong. They make a left.

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

That's cool, Kate can't do that yet. I also have to think each time & can't do it when stressed.

Kate & I currently say "that way or that way" when looking left & right to cross the road.

She can now turn the key in the front door to unlock it & can't grasp my instruction to turn it to the left, so it's turn it towards the coats.

[rosefox]

Actually, they make a backwards.

[pauamma]

So in the bottom hemisphere, your right hand looks like a left hand? :-)

[nicolap.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, my eldest two both seemed to have a year or two when they knew their right and left instinctively, as you describe, then I suspect formal education got in the way and turned it into something you had to think about, and they've not yet got back that easy assurance. Number three is still perfectly reliable, at just four, and unlocks the door for her nearly-eight year old sister who gets worked up about which is the right way...

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Hunh. It never makes sense to me when people say to turn keys or screws or taps right or left. "do you mean turn the top to the left, or the part closest to me, or what?" Clockwise and counterclockwise work for me.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Yup, me too. I *know* which way is clockwise because I can almost instantly visualize the face of a clock. For left and right I have to think about which hand I hold a pen in, though now I suppose I could try to learn that my wedding ring is on my left hand (apparently that's how they taught the WACs to march during WW2). But I'm slow enought to figure out 'right' and 'left' that I use "your side" and "my side" when I'm a passenger in a car and giving the driver directions.

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

Yes! Don't know about anyone else, but I find it really uncomfortable to hold them up in front of my face with the palms towards my hands, so palms outwards is the "natural" position and that's the way it works :)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

me too :) when i was a kid i had a handheld donkey kong video game the instructions to which said "jump when the crane hook swings left", and to this day i picture an imaginary swinging crane hook when someone asks me where my left is.

[radegund.livejournal.com]

Cool! Coincidence: today, I discovered that Oisín knows them too. "No, 'ou want the weft one, not the wight one." - "This one?" - "Wess."