I figure if I care about it enough, I can probably fix it one day.
red->left->port green->right->starboard.
note that on a sail boat, lines are traditionally colored depending on what side of the boat they are on.
The "method" is just saying "punch with the hand that you write", "punch with the hand that you don't write".
I had a hard time believing, until a couple days later, he was driving and I said "turn to the left!" (many times) and he missed the road. Then we developed our own method, which was "turn to the side of the radio", and "turn to the side opposite of the radio".
Freaky. But fun :p
East and West gives me a hard time too, so I have to think about where California is or where Florida is.
Response: "Look, this way (point) is right, this way (point) is left." Never had trouble with left/right again.
In a similar fashion, I learnt left and right because I 'write with my right hand'. I still run through this in my head to this day.
One of my friends from high school, also diagnosed as being LD, still remembers my drivers license number. He saw it when I showed him my photo after passing the exam, more than a decade ago. Oddly enough, I have never had a particularly good memory for numbers, even back in my freakish days. (It also took me until about age 10 to figure out the difference between left and right. My little brother, who was exasperated at that and thought I was playing, mentioned that left is always the same side as the mole I have on my left wrist. I still check my wrist to this day, out of semi-conscious habit.)
Ahh, the human brain -- it is pretty freaking weird.