Social Do you have difficulty determing your left hand from your right?

[Berserker13]

Throw Football with right hand


Shoot basketball with left hand

safe to say I'm better at football

 

[LEWIS540]

Not left and right, but to be honest, often have to take a second to remember east and west.

 

[Fedorgasm]

When I was a little kid I used to think of the pledge of allegiance to identify my right hand.

Once I started wearing a watch it became easy because my dad said only women wear it on their right hand. So my left hand was always the one with the watch on it.

I can't imagine any adult being confused by this except when it's one of those situations where someone says go left and you have to ask, "my left or your left" because you're facing different directions.

 

[Contempt]

Put your hands out in front of you, extend your thumbs out to the side... which one makes an "L" for left?

How were people not taught that when they were like 5 years old?

Edit: like this:

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Put your hands out in front of you, extend your thumbs out to the side... which one makes an "L" for left?

How were people not taught that when they were like 5 years old?

Edit: like this:

When I taught elementary school I used this example.

 

[Grrrr]

I always assumed that people who didn't know were less intelligent but the example given in the article was a surgeon. I now know why when I had my knees replaced, they had me write on the leg that the knee was going to be replaced on. There have been cases of operations done on the wrong side which may have been due to right/left confusion.

My oldest son had Tommy John surgery when he was 15(wrestling). I laughed when I walked back to see him after he got prepped. Black sharpie marking the arm to be fixed.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

My oldest son had Tommy John surgery when he was 15(wrestling). I laughed when I walked back to see him after he got prepped. Black sharpie marking the arm to be fixed.

There was a case in Europe a few years ago where doctors removed the wrong leg. Then they had to do another surgery to remove the one they should have. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/health/austria-surgeon-fine-amputation-scli-intl/index.html

 

[Zer]

There was a case in Europe a few years ago where doctors removed the wrong leg. Then they had to do another surgery to remove the one they should have. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/health/austria-surgeon-fine-amputation-scli-intl/index.html

Man, they must have felt like idiots

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Man, they must have felt like idiots

And the payouts in damages for a just few grand was ridiculous. In the U.S. that poor guy would have received millions.

 

[ThaiSexPills]

No. When I was a kid, my father taught me to make an L with my thumb and index finger. The hand which the L was correctly pointed was the one that was my left.

Years later, I had to show my french girlfriend that so she could remember in English what the word for gauche and droite are.

 

[revoltub]

Seriously?

 

[7even]

Wow

 

[GSP_37]

In English and Japanese, the words left and right are alpha order.

The problem is some adult administrative support staff aren't good with alpha order.

 

[Osculater]

Left hook to the liver and right hand to the face

 

[Fugazy]

Not left and right, but to be honest, often have to take a second to remember east and west.

When I'm in a new place takes a while to feel out the cardinal directions

 

[-sin-]

Should be an easy problem to remedy.

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

Funeral home and hospital

 

[Renard]

Apparently the confusion between L and R is pretty common because it takes some amount of cognitive resources to mentally rotate objects and maps in your head. This is the parietal lobe's job, and some people naturally have a parietal lobe that's not as efficient or effective as others.

 

[Starck]

Can safely say that the Sherdoggers who can't distinguish left from right won't self-report in this thread.

 

[zapataxiv]

no way
write right beat left