ABC’s and left vs. right | ADHD Information

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I don't have a problem with my left and right but for some reason I will always say purple is orange and orange is purple

Anyone got a reason for this????

My son is ADD/dyslexic.  The literature says that an estimated 30%-35% of dyslexics are comorbid ADD, but my son's psychiatrist believes it is closer to 50% . 

I have a problem with left and right.  I always have to stop and think about what hand I write with.  I hate it when someone tells me on your right because I'll hesitate for a moment having to figure it out, and if I'm under pressure I'll almost always get it wrong and look to my left.  Which leaves me feeling like fool!

Ok maybe I just dont get it.. maybe I am dumb, maybe there was a bid sign on the front door of the forum, heck I dont know..... But why does everyone want to say the ABC's backward? I have a hard enough time with the  right way. I am, however, 27 years old and still have to make the little l with my fingers to know my left from my right! ( Dont ask me for directions unless you are dyslexic!)

 

I think confusing left and right is common amongst dyslexics, and many with add do have some dyslexia. 

I don't get confused with the big things - like, "turn right at the stop sign," but with the small things I do - like when the eye doctor says, "ok, now read this row with your left eye or what is the letter to the far right."  For some reason, that becomes confusing.

 

Recently I had a blow out and could not get the lug nuts off to change my tire. When a nice person came to my rescue, I saw how effortlessly he removed them. That is when I realized I got my left and right mixed up and had been actually been tightening them.   I even said to myself first....lefty, loosey - righty, tighty My husband is just dying laughing at this thread. All this time we just thought I missed that day in kindergarten!

I can get the colors just fine.  Left, right, north, south... forget it.  I do better with "just past the McDonalds, if you get to the school zone, you have gone too far."I can do directions, as long as I am in my home town.  I have a terrible time when I get away from home, into areas where I am unfamiliar.  I have a hard time taking directions, and get lost a lot (I do live in the midwest, by the way).  I sometimes really have to stop and think about left and right.Left and right are difficult enough! Cardinal directions are impossibe, unless the sun is rising or setting.   See, u r not alone, girl in the bathtubI always have to think, if only for a second, which one is east and west. Also if I give directions in english I have to quick think so I don't mix up left and right but I have some small mind-notes so it's not that hard.

*wisper* and I have to admit I thought everyone were doing that until my sister told me she did that automatic.

/Kaks
 Ok, I  am really bad at left and right--but am fairly good at north/south/east/west. Usually if I'm in the car and someone has to give me verbal directions, turn left or right--I'd rather them say "this way" for their side and "that way" for my side.See all you guys have it figured out.. Its the rest of the world that doan't understand that this way and that way are the only way to get us ADDer's there on time!!
My ADD/dyslexic son used to have such difficulty with left and right that I taught him, "I write with my right."  We would practice saying this over and over.  One time we were at the mall, and he asked where a store was.  I told him to walk down the walkway and take a left.  I watched him walking away, then saw him stop at the end of the walkway, look both directions, bring his right hand up and pretend he was writing, then turn in the opposite direction.  Too cute!  He recently brought home a social studies test, and he had only missed three questions.  All three of them were directions--which country is to the north of such-and-such country, which country is northeast, etc.  If there isn't a compass rose to refer to, forget about it!Yep, I WRITE with my RIGHT hand, too.  People always do that, "your other left" thing with me.

I have a  horrible sense of direction and tend to get lost when going to new places. I'm just glad that I don't live in the Midwest where directions are given as north, south, east, west instead of  left/right. YAY! THis thread alone has been enough to make me so happy that I signed up! You guys are da bomb!