East and West for me.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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I only remember it as they spell WE.
Same for me. I have to stop for a few seconds and think every time.
I have to look at my hands to get it right. Palms down and thumbs out at right angles and the left hand looks like an L.
index finger and thumb on your left hand looks like an 'L'. that's the only way i can tell. someone taught me that in karate class as a kid and it's saved my ass almost every day since.
I have never thought of that, mostly as neither left or right starts with an L in my language, but I will definitely start using it.
I used to. Here is how I resolved it. Left starts with 'L'. I 'L'ike 'L' a lot more than 'R'. So, I started liking left more. When someone says left, I think, "Oh, the side that I like." If they say right, then I think, "Oh, the side I like less."
I was like that for many many years (maybe 20?) then suddenly I never had problems with it. What I did back then was going in for a hand shake then I knew what was right. And the more I did it the less obvious I had to do the shake. I don't know if this is why I don't need to do it anymore but now days I am amazed by it instead every time because of how bad I was at it for so long.
Yes and my mind has a block between east and west
Me too! It makes me question myself every time lol
Yeah I always thought there had to be something super wrong with me lol
This reminds me of a book I read once that had a lot of talk about four continents in the four cardinal directions.
My imagination always went like "North? Up. East? Up. West? Up. South? Right."
Though I didn't have any problems with keeping in mind that north and south, and east and west were opposite each other, so you had to pass through one of the others first to get there.
The husband pointed out that it's west (left) and east (right) because they always spell we I find that kinda helpful
Oh that's good. Usually I think of east as left and west right, probably because reading would be that way round while listing them is always "north east south west"
yeah. as a teen learning to drive my mom asked me what direction i should turn out a parking lot, i pointed left, meant left, and said right. and then felt as smart as a box of rocks.
I got L and R tattooed on my (correct) thumbs to use as quick reference. They're incredibly useful.
No way that’s so fucking cool! I would’ve never thought about doing that lol
I have to think about it for a moment. Port and starboard are easy because because port has the same number of letters as left, so starboard has to be right. But I don't live on a boat, and even if I did, I'd still have to get the left and right thing straight.
My grandmother was famous for this, and my family made fun of me for having a lot of her "weird" traits. Guess the jokes on them, since I'm positive I got it from my dad (his mom).