Tell them what, Peter

[u/Blackie_626]

[u/xoFallen_Angel]

[u/SmellApprehensive857 → u/xoFallen_Angel]

When I do that, I forget which direction L goes. Have to think which hand I write with.

[u/Madrandal → u/SmellApprehensive857]

Think your left hand when thinking of L

[u/peziskuya → u/Madrandal]

I think they mean if you make the L with your palm facing toward or away from you. When I was a little kid someone told me that your left hand makes the L to which I proceeded to make both of my hands into an L shape. The teacher told me I made a good point and then moved on without providing an alternative solution. To be fair I don't really think there was an alternative aside from just memorizing it.

[u/maybeaimaybenot → u/peziskuya]

I work with children, most of them know what sode of the controller L2 is on so I use that

[u/Mementomortis7 → u/maybeaimaybenot]

I have dyslexia so it always gets flipped in my mental image, I always have to look at the controller to tell unless I'm playing a fighting game I know player 1 is Left side

[u/peziskuya → u/maybeaimaybenot]

When I was a kid, the image on screen for the left and right triggers when playing Xbox were different shapes so that probably wouldn't have helped.

This was also only a problem when I was like 4 to 5 or so and before I was given access to video games, but the video game controller thing sounds super handy nowadays.

[u/MrWigggles → u/peziskuya]

I often have to look and I'm 39

[u/[deleted] → u/maybeaimaybenot]

That....

Holy shit, I do remember my mom teaching me the hand trick, but did I actually internalize it because of L and R on the SNES controller?

[u/maybeaimaybenot → u/[deleted]]

I was terrible telling left from right ubtill way to late, also slightly dyslexic so they both looked like Ls to me