There are a lot of basic assumptions about thought that don&#x27;t apply to everybody.<p>My wife, for example, <i>can&#x27;t process &quot;left&quot; and &quot;right&quot;</i> without great effort.<p>She&#x27;s intelligent and is a gifted artist in a variety of mediums, and is not dyslexic in the least. But if you tell her to &quot;turn right&quot; in a car it&#x27;s very confusing for her to translate that into which direction she should take.<p>Even more confusingly, <i>she&#x27;s a very good navigator,</i> much better than I! I process &quot;left&quot; and &quot;right&quot; like a &quot;normal&quot; person and yet I&#x27;m legendarily bad at finding my way while driving.<p>I&#x27;ve tried to get her to explain the left&#x2F;right difficulty and it&#x27;s hard for her to put into words, because of course how can you explain how your brain <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> work? The most she&#x27;s been able to say about it is that she understands what her &quot;left arm&quot; or &quot;left foot&quot; is but can&#x27;t translate that to what my &quot;left&quot; is, or vice-versa.<p>Anybody else ever heard of or experienced anything like this?