I’m like that, the only way I could tell my right from left is that I said the Pledge of Allegiance with my right hand on my heart. Seriously that is STILL the way I can tell. I also had trouble learning to tell time, obviously on a clock with hands.
I was no dummy by any means, good grades and all that.
Yes, little tricks work. It seems like some mirror-image thing for me, to remember how life looks as if looking from a distance instead of from the inside out.