Woman Gets Left And Right Tattooed On Her Hands To Defeat The 'Daily Struggle'

We all know someone who has never quite managed to distinguish their left from right, and it can certainly pose some problems when they need to act quickly...

For one TikToker, it was becoming such an issue that she decided to take the matter into her own hands (literally) by getting 'left' and 'right' tattooed on each.

Her sister Eiza shared a clip of her getting the tattoos via the social platform, writing: "My sister doesn't know her left and rights so she got them tattooed on her lmfao."

In the clip, Eiza's sister can be seen getting dainty tattoos of the letters 'L' and 'R' on each respective hand just below her thumbs and TikTokers can't quite believe what they're seeing.

"I WOULD DO THIS THEN ACCIDENTALLY GET THEM TATTOOED ON THE WRONG SIDES," one user joked.

Another wrote: "i think i would question myself three times a day if i got the tattoos on the right hands," while a third boasted: "I think I'm the only one left on earth to know left and right without thinking," - no need to brag!

Some were flabbergasted that Eiza's sister had resorted to getting the tattoos, instead sharing their own hacks on how to remember the difference between the two (without having to be permanently inked with a reminder on your body).

One user shared: "As being a right hand writer I always tell myself 'you write with your right.'"

Another joked: "So just making the "L" shape with your thumb and index finger of your left hand isn't easy enough?"

Another user seemed pleased that one good thing had come from breaking their left arm, writing: "I used to struggle too until I broke my left arm, now I have a massive scar to help me know my lefts and rights."

At least it had one perk...

In 2015, Gerard Gormley - Senior Academic General Practitioner at the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast - explained to the Independent why it is some can never quite figure out their left from their right.

Apparently, distractions can be largely responsible.

"While objectively measuring 234 medical students' ability to distinguish right from left, we subjected them to the typical ambient noise of a ward environment and interrupted them with clinical questions," he explained.

"Our findings were startling. Even the background noise of a ward environment was enough to throw some medical students off when making right-left judgements.

"Asking them a series of questions while they were trying to distinguish right from left had an even greater impact. The 'distraction effect' was greater for older and female students.

"An individual’s ability to self-determine how well they could distinguish right from left was also often imprecise.

"So many students thought they were good at distinguishing right from left when, objectively measured, they weren’t."