Left and Right?

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Right-handed. I'm excellent at drawing, but I can't write neatly no matter how hard I try. Even when I spend 10 seconds writing out each letter, they are uneven in size and spacing. When I'd answer questions on college exams and assignments, professors would frequently complain about my poor handwriting, no matter how hard I'd try to write neatly. Writing at a pace considered 'normal', my writing is nearly illegible to anyone but myself.

i have always had left & right issues! imagining which hand i write with does not help me as i often pick my pen up with the wrong hand anyway! i use the L rule as well, but then sometimes i cant remember which way round is the correct way!
i have been hit in the face a few times at my jitsu training as someone will be told to hit me right or left handed & i have gone the wrong way thinking they were going to hit me with the other hand! ah well at least i have a high pain threshold so it does not bother me much!

I remember which is which by the positioning of my moles. I still have to look at them and work it out. I'm 21. It's getting harder because the mole on my right hand is fading. It's not so much remembering which hand to write with - that's intuitive - it's following directions I can't do.

I had to until I started writing with my left hand instead of writing with my right hand as I had learned to as a child. Since then I have no trouble telling left and right apart any more.

I too blame the teacher for not recognising that I'm not quite right handed. It took me a long time to find out which hand is supposed to hold the pen and while I was told that I should put it into the hand that feels 'right' (= my left hand), the pen was constantly put into my right hand!