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[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 38 points 1 month ago (12 children)

this is a very real condition. my wife has a phd in experimental physics and can NOT remember which is which. if she looks at her hands she has a trick (the L your thumb and index fingers make is the correct orientation) but say "turn right!" to her and you might have well just made the muted trumped voice from the old peanuts cartoons

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Does she remember whether she's right or left handed? Just as a static fact about herself? I feel like it should be easy to reconcile an instruction like "turn right" by cross-referencing the knowledge of "I'm left handed" with "this is the hand I prefer to use".

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

truuuust me she's tried everything you can think of. I find it surprising that she cant remember right as in correct as in dominant hand but she cannot. its honestly a little baffling

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