anyone have problems with left and right?

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Still to this day I cannot make a left or right turn on reflex command. I always have to think about it. Usually I hold my index finger and thumb up and see which hand makes the L shape, and this is how I know it's left. Now, up and down I have no problem with, but left and right have always been a struggle. Does anyone else have this problem? Wonder if it could be due to AS?

Yes... lol. I didn't have left and right down until I was a teenager.

I have a scar on my right thumb and always have to stop and rub it with my index finger just to make sure I've got my right and left orientation correct.

Yep. Was many years behind other children in this regard, and still often have to think twice. Wristwatches are a crutch. So is being inside a car.

Oddity -- never any trouble with cardinal directions unless there's no horizon. Stupid, because a featureless horizon is no trouble, spin me 'round and round in the middle of Kansas and I'll still point out North fine, but I'll get lost in a city with tall buildings, or indoors.

You bet I have a problem. So does my sister. You should see us giving directions to each other.

Cardinal directions are rarely a problem for me either. If the sun is out I can accurately point North at any time of the day. If it is cloudy I can usually "feel" which way is north but with a few degrees of inaccuracy.

I had issues until about age 9.

I am TERRIBLE at directions, always have been! But if I have a map to guide me, I am fine... I still have problems.. well not so much with left and right but north, south, east, and west. I can't tell you how many times I have had to change directions driving because I went the wrong way!

I had left and right mastered before I was in double digits with my age. I also had the 24 hour clock figured out too. Many people didn't have a clue about this one....

I had trouble with right & left until I was about 9. I had to figure it out in relation to my schoolroom. I still have to mentally rotate things to match that relation sometimes. It's not automatic. I don't know the cardinal directions worth a darn, except in Albuquerque and that's only because there was a mountain in the East.

To tell right from left, I hold up the hand I write with, and I know that's my right side. But if someone says, for example, ''It's to the right of the door'', I never know- to my right as I'm looking at the door, or to its right as it's looking at me? (But you'll notice I never get its and it's mixed up!) What's on the right or left of a picture is also confusing. Maybe it's just as well that I never learned to drive. I crash into stuff enough just walking around the house, imagine the damage I could do with a car!

I have a lot of trouble telling right from left and viceversa. Then again, I'm left-handed.

I struggle with knowing left from right. When I'm calm and unrushed I can figure it out quite quickly using one of a number or means, but if someone puts me on the spot, often I go blank and cannot think how to work it out.

I had a HUGE problem with left and right (I thought I was the only one that did!)
I have a long cut on my left palm that I look at, even to this day, just to make sure.

the concept of right and left always seemed pointless and relative anyway. I'm also colorblind, so when I give directions I never use colors either, and say, "I'll turn on to Main St." not. "take a left after the brown house!"

women are generally known to have this problem.