Telling left from right.

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Does anyone else have an absurdly difficult time remembering whats left and whats right?

Sometimes I have to see which thumb and forefinger makes the L shape to get my bearings back. I often refer to the left as the right and vice versa which confuses the hell out of people I may be talking to, although I only really have my immediate family and 1 friend in my life and they've gotten used to my inability to accurately tell left from right.

Yes, I have that issue as well. A disadvantage to being cross dominant. I can write with either hand. Fine motion is better with the left. I have more strength on my right side.

I have trouble with this as well. I’m somewhat ambidextrous, so maybe not having a rigid dominant hand is part of that.

I have lots of trouble with that too and I am also ambidextrous

Not any more, but I'm pretty sure it took me way longer than most people to learn when growing up.

I think I was in my mid-teenage years before I stopped having to physically move my arm as if I was writing something in order to figure out which way was left and which was right.

I have a lot of trouble with this and am ambidextrous. It's quite difficult when people ask me to use my left or right arm, turn right somewhere quickly and stuff like that. I need to think a few seconds before I know what left and right is. Had therapy for it as a child, but it never really got better.

I'm ambidextrous as well, but I don't suffer from this problem-- yet, we'll see when I hit the golden years.

Haha strange as I'm somewhat ambidextrous too. I would never have thought to connect the issue to being ambidextrous. I'm better at writing with my left hand but I can do it with either in a pinch.

I have trouble with this but I’m not ambidextrous. I’m right handed.

I had difficulty with this well into young adulthood. It was especially hard when giving directions -- I'd have to gesture, and then mentally ask myself whether I was using my left arm or my right arm.

I write left-handed and do most everything else right-handed, and I've always assumed the problem was connected to that.

I only mentioned it because a lot of other people did, but it does make me curious: what's the ratio of ambidextrous autistics compared to the general population? I'm curious because like 4 or 5 people have already mentioned it, and there's only 10 posts. Granted it's a very, very small sample size, but it does raise questions...

I can’t tell reft from light.

Left and right causes me no problems. But East and West is a big problem. Funny, because North and South is no problem at all.

I learned that by first picturing the letter E attached to the compass rose by its middle stroke, …

… and then remembering that’s the wrong orientation for east and west.

It is interesting. It's all neurological after all, so perhaps there is somewhat of a connection between autism and handedness. Another thing apparently common in individuals with autism is poor handwriting, and mine is absolutely awful. I tried for many years to write like everyone else but my handwriting still looks like that of a 10 year old.

Oh please sister, you don't even know what crappy handwriting looks like. I have virtually no fine motor skills, I'm ambi but I write left handed so I'm always smearing what I just wrote, and I got criticized so much as a child that I just flat don't give a s**t anymore about how bad my writing is. I mean seriously, my best isn't good enough in the penmanship department so why give anything less than the minimal effort since it won't make a difference? Besides we're in a typing society now, I'm kind of glad I didn't go overboard learning a dying art. That's right, not only do I not care about my poor penmanship, I'm kind of actually proud of that fact.