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by ifqwz 1346 days ago
This reminds me of people who even in adulthood confuse "left" and "right" - I have always wondered how that happens.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2319959/

“It follows that the participants were not in a state of complete ignorance. Rather, they relied upon extraneous knowledge of either a general or a specific nature (bias and schema hypotheses, respectively), whose importation into this domain was in fact invalid. The resulting belief that coin portraits face left was not right.”

The piece of the brain that handles that works better for some people than others. Whether it’s genetic or developmental, it’s just a thing which happens to some people.
It happens because not everyone is wired the same as you are. You probably already noticed this in other fields of life.