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I was like that for many many years (maybe 20?) then suddenly I never had problems with it. What I did back then was going in for a hand shake then I knew what was right. And the more I did it the less obvious I had to do the shake. I don’t know if this is why I don’t need to do it anymore but now days I am amazed by it instead every time because of how bad I was at it for so long.

Yes and my mind has a block between east and west

East and West for me.

I used to. Here is how I resolved it. Left starts with ‘L’. I 'L’ike ‘L’ a lot more than ‘R’. So, I started liking left more. When someone says left, I think, “Oh, the side that I like.” If they say right, then I think, “Oh, the side I like less.”

Have there been studies about why some people need to make an L shape with their left hand to know the difference, and some just don’t?

I have friends who are highly intelligent, educated and otherwise competent humans who don’t know their right from left.

Whereas I just can ‘feel’ my left and right. It’s not a conscious decision, or at least doesn’t seem to be.

I played some competitive sport growing up (whereas aforementioned friends didn’t) and perhaps that gives you more of an instinctive connection to your body relative to your environment? Just my anecdotal musings…

I got L and R tattooed on my (correct) thumbs to use as quick reference. They’re incredibly useful.

I have to look at my hands to get it right. Palms down and thumbs out at right angles and the left hand looks like an L.