I've never had any other symptoms of dyslexia, I think my spelling is ok, I work with numbers as part of my job and have never had a problem with them either. But one thing I have so much trouble with is 'left' and 'right'.
Is this a common problem for non-dyslexics? I am in my 20s and I still get confused. It's embarrassing.
No, dyslexia is seeing the numbers or letters in reverse, or backwards. I know of many adults who don't know there left from their right. would it help you to remember things like, when turning water faucets on and off Left-loose and Right-tight. so that when you loosen the faucet, turn left, and when you turn it off, turn it right, to tighten. ?
Or if you write using your right hand, that can help you remember right.
Well it coulod just be that you struggle with it, but most learning disabilties have this symptom, if you have no problem with reading or wrting it is probably not dyslexia.
No. I used to be that until I broke my left arm and now I know left and right!
Confusion between left and right is very much a symptom of dyslexia, but its only one part of Dyslexia. Dyslexia can affect many aspects of learning, such as reading, writing, spelling, maths, memory, sequencing, letter reversal of d, b, m, w, p & q etc, and transposing or omiting words when reading or writing.
I know a few people who are not dyslexic who don't know left from right. if you wear a watch, then always wear it on your preferred wrist, and ask a trusted friend which hand is the one that has the watch on, or you can draw a capital L on a piece of paper, and then use your hand to make the letter L, extend your hands out with your fingers pointing upwards, then extend your thumbs so that they are directed toward each other, the left hand will look like an L.
Both my daughter & I had a lot of problems learning left to right, I learnt by putting my watch on my left hand, and asking my father which hand was which, and then would always put my watch on my left hand. my daughter as a toddler often had problems putting her shoes on the wrong feet. so I taught her to make a letter L with her hand, by drawing a large L on a piece of paper, then hold up her hands (as above), and the one that looks like the L on the paper was correct, I would also put a bracelet on her left wrist to help her. We knew we were successful in teaching her left to right, when she placed her left on her forehead, and shouted looser to a school bully.
We later learnt, that we were both dyslexic, I was some what shocked and dismayed that I had gone through school, and no one picking up on it and was the reason I struggled through school, eventually failing high school.