One woman has come up with a solution to her "daily struggle" of trying to figure out which hand is her left and her right.
Many people have come up with their own unique ways to remember which direction is which but the effort is still very real for those who have to think twice.
A woman named Eiza Murphy, who goes by the handle @eizamurphy on TikTok, shared a video of her sister seemingly getting an 'L' and 'R' tattooed on each of her hands, just below the thumb.
The TikToker captioned the post: "My sister doesn't know her left and rights so she got them tattooed on her lmfao," and showed a close-up shot of the tattoo artist cleaning up his inked work.
Check out Eiza's TikTok below:The video amassed more than 9 million views and over 500,000 likes on the social media platform, with many people in the comment section saying the sister's method is the best way to deal with her struggle.
One user wrote: "Feeling good knowing that I am not the only one well done."
Another said: "I've wanted this done for the LONGEST time. 29 today and I still struggle most days."
A third commented: "I wish I could have had these done while I was growing up."
While a fourth user shared: "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."
However, it seems that other viewers were shocked by the whole thing, with one person commenting: "I think I would question myself three times a day if I got the tattoos on the right hands."
According to The Independent, professor Gerard Gormley conducted a research study involving medical students that showed how many individuals still struggled with their left and right.
"In research, we published in Medical Education, we explored the impact of such interruptions on medical students’ ability to correctly discriminate right from left," Gormley wrote.
"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."
"Our findings were startling. Even the background noise of a ward environment was enough to throw some medical students off when making right-left judgments," he continued.
"Asking them a series of questions while they were trying to distinguish right from the left had an even greater impact. The 'distraction effect' was greater for older and female students," Gormley added.
"An individual’s ability to self-determine how well they could distinguish right from the left was also often imprecise," the research concluded. "So many students thought they were good at distinguishing right from left when, objectively measured, they weren’t."
