I remember I heard about the L thing, but then immediately looked at my little hands and thought '...But which way does the ⅃ go? That tells me nothing.' Then I spun them around like finger guns akimbo and it made it worse. I think I was ~4.

My wife still does. It's adorable and reminds me she's fallible.

When I was a kindergartener, the way we sat to face the teacher meant that the room's wall clock was on the right side. The teacher used the clock to teach us which way was right.

Decades later, I still see a little clock in my head, but I never confuse left and right.

Never.

Heard about the L, after I learnt left and right.

Really?

Not intuitively knowing left and right is one of the signs of dyslexia btw

No what am I a moron, I make a little writing gesture with my right hand because I know I'm right handed and write with my right hand.

If you do this you should seriously get checked for dyslexia

Remember, it's whichever one makes an "R".

I had never heard of this.

Is this in case the polarity of the universe flipped again?

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...

No I've never had problems with left and right.

Compass directions get me every fucking time though. I have to cycle clockwise N E S W to remember that west is "left". If I'm in a fast-paced action packed video game and they say "head east/West" I'm going the wrong way every time.

I do on occasion. I was very frustrated when I learned that left and right comes as naturally as up and down for most people.

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.

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

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.

Only when dealing with electric fields

No. I'm not sure I ever did. I've never thought about it, but don't most people (adults) generally just remember and/or know intuitively? I don't think it's something I need to think about. Just something my brain knows.

Port is left (and red, same as port wine) - both words have the same number of letters. Starboard is right (and green). But that's from the cox's viewpoint - for us rowers, facing the cox, port is on the right. Does my head in every time.

Used to have to do it all the time up until a few years ago, now it doesn't take me as long to figure out left and right.

I've never had any issues with dyslexia so, idk why I have issues discerning left and right.

Left vs right hand is automatic for me, but I still do the right hand rule when screwing or unscrewing bolts.

I try to and then I realize I don't know which direction the L is supposed to face and now I have two problems.

I've never done that but I have excellent proprioception.

🎶 She was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an "L" on her forehead. 🎶

It's really cool when I see other people do it (like SheafificationOfG), but my left-right mnemonic is imagining myself sitting in the back of my parents car, where i sit on the left side.

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.

Only while driving at high speeds in residential nrighborhoods

No. Left doesn't start with an L in my native language, and I'd get confused on which way to write an L just by watching my hands anyway. Instead I pretend to shake someone's hand, and whichever hand I want to put forward is the right hand.

I pretend I'm writing something

I still say the wrong way though

every time. also my mom. i just cannot keep them straight.

I am one of the fortunate (right handed) so I remember one of my uncles eliminating all confusion by asking me which hand I "right" with.