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People like to feel special in some regard. When we're kids, it's about having the latest and most popular toy. When we're teenagers, we want to be popular or stand out from the crowd by being different from everyone else. Listening to and gatekeeping pretentious, obscure bands was my thing, personally, but there's no judgment among Pandas, right?
In a couple of threads online, people started sharing what makes them different from everybody else. The answers to the question "What are you in the 1% of?" varied: people covered everything from genetics, unique experiences, and, of course, some morbid stuff.
But what exclusive club do you belong to, dear Pandas? Don't forget to share with us in the comments and let us know what makes you special!
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#1
I had pancreatic cancer last year. Out of 10,000 patients they normally find 100 who have another form of this cancer who kill a little slower, like in 2 years instead of months.
I was one of the hundred. Out of those, normally 15 can have surgery. I was one of them.
Out of those 15, some die and some come back to basically normal life.
That's about a 0.07% chance in all.
I am still one of them. I should be dead by now. 🙂.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
Congratulations! My grandmother was one in the 100 who had the slower form, unfortunately, due to her age and progression of disease, she wasn't able to have surgery, just chemotherapy and I think she also had some radiotherapy, but she fought it for almost 5 years, she was so strong throughout, too. I'm currently battling cancer myself, but thankfully not as serious as Pancreatic, which is known to be one of the hardest to fight and be cured of. My doctor is incredibly optomistic, I've had treatment and surgery and it's mostly going well.
H.J. King 1 year ago
2 months ago, my mom died from complications of pancreatic cancer. She was diagnosed in the late stages. It's a quick spreader. I am happy you were able to beat it.
Philippa Davies 1 year ago
My understanding is that sadly, most of the time, it is generally diagnosed in the late stages when it’s too late to treat it, because symptoms don’t usually present until then. So sorry to hear about your mum ❤️
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#2
Mine's pretty godawful. I have 2 uteruses.
Edit: lot of people asking why I put up with it till I was around 33. *I* *didn't* *know* . Because doctors don't listen to women complaining of menstrual issues, is why. The endless pain and bleeding? Suck it up, take 3 Advil not two (holla). Starting at age 12. Till I lucked into a rare empathetic gynecologist who, since I'd always known I was uninterested in parenting, offered me a minimally invasive (just removes the top of the uterus, the rest of me stayed there) hysterectomy to stop the pain and hemorrhaging. And in doing the surgery, he discovered what no other doctor had cared enough to find.
I love that guy!
N.B. in the States, it is rare and usually extraordinarily difficult for a young woman who has not borne children to get a voluntary hysterectomy. Criminal.
Fishpanda (fish/panda/it) 1 year ago (edited)
US needs better women's rights. A lot of surgeries that have to do with the uterus are refused for one stupid reason or another.
Roni Stone 1 year ago
At 68 years old, I had a 55+ pound ovarian cyst removed. I thought I was gaining weight - even the doctor thought that's what it was. During the pandemic it ballooned, and I could barely walk. Still didn't know what it was and was honestly afraid to go to the doctor because of the virus. Eventually had an unrelated chest CT that showed the cyst protruding into my abdominal and chest area. Fast forward and I was in surgery within three weeks. My surgeon was stunned but walked out of the hospital almost 60 lbs lighter. Only about 1% of women will experience a cyst that size in their lifetime.
MoMcB 1 year ago
Terrible. I have a friend who experienced similar in the UK, but yours is about twice the size. Hope you are on the mend x
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Panda 1 year ago
I'm now 37 and have never wanted children, not wavered once. Still I'm not allowed a hysterectomy because "I'm a fertile woman and might change my mind". This is in the Netherlands btw
MoMcB 1 year ago
When I was married to my ex (UK), I wasn't allowed unless he said yes. Has one at 57. The relief was palpable.
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Alia Hood 1 year ago
I went through hell before they found I had 2 (bicorneat uterus I believe is the name, I'm sure I spelled it wrong). Even after finding out, it took another 8 years before I found a gynecologist that would give me a hysterectomy.
Clown fish 1 year ago (edited)
It's called Uterine didelphys my friend has the same thing they knew before she was born that she has two as they could see them both on scans. She had 4 successful pregnancy and had a hysterectomy last year with they were doing the C-section for her last baby. A bicornate uterus is one that's the wrong shape they tend to end up love heart shape.
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Jane 1 year ago
Wouldn't they have seen that on an ultrasound? My first ultrasound was when I was 12... I had PCOS. The doctor wanted me to go on the pill to help with the symptoms. I wish he hadn't called it that, because my mother said we were Catholic and therefore couldn't take birth control. So I had to suffer until I was 21. Had I known PCOS contributed to infertility, I would have had a surgery to stop the madness. After adopting, my doctor still refused to do a surgery, because he said I might want to have more kids down the road (???) even though I explained my husband had a vasectomy (he said I might remarry?????). I never went back to him again. He should absolutely not be an gynaecologist!
Ansi 1 year ago
I don't know how it is for other people, but when I did a ultrasound in week 11 with my second child, and they knew what they were looking for, they had a hard time seeing my second uterus because it was like a deflated ballon pressed against the one. Later in the pregnancy they couldn't see it at all. Same with my second cervix, I had taken tests for cervixcancer and they never seen it. (It's smalland a bit deformed) I think my doctor said it best: when you see it (the thing they are about to examine) you don't keep looking.
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Lupita Nyong'heaux 1 year ago
i, too, had 2 uteruses, and my menstrual cramps were agonizing. i'd be incapacitated the first 2 days. when we were in college, we discovered that smoking a joint was the only thing that helped. so, every month when it started, my sister would go out and find a joint from somebody and bring it back to the room. best. sister. EVER!
Jenny Mason 1 year ago
It's not just the US. Here in the UK they can be pretty adamant about this stuff. My daughter has 6 children (hyperfertility) and was begging to get her tubes tied after number 3. They refused point-blank. She had 5 sons and then a daughter, only after the daughter was born 2 years ago did they finally agree to the surgery.
Ansi 1 year ago
I refuse to think this puts you in a 1%. I have two functional uteruses. I have different periods, one gives me mostly spottings and no pain, the other one is like a sharkweek. They discovered this after 24h in labour with my first child, my two birth canales are twisted with each other so I can't give birth. With my second child I was scheduled for a c-section but my placenta detached and we almost died. I was sterilised after that because the placenta could detach earlier with a third pregnancy so the baby would die, and with my second one he/we lived because we already was at a hospital..... and yes, they both work and my two kids didn't even want to share uteruses so they used one each. (It would be cool to have siblings like this and it has happened that a woman had siblings due with a few months apart. THAT is definitely 1%)
Mylo 1 year ago (edited)
It's actually closer to 0.5%. Although it often goes undetected due to reasons similar to OP's, so it's likely to be higher, but not by much.
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MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
Only 3 Advil?? I normally take four at a time and that barely touches my pain.
Agat 1 year ago
4 of which dose of ibuprofen? I was just wondering, why not switch to stronger meds? Or better yet, some antispasmodics?
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I have a double gene mutation that makes me highly resistant or even immune to the HIV virus.
Fishpanda (fish/panda/it) 1 year ago
I've been reading a lot of books on HIV for an essay recently. This is an amazing trait to have.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago (edited)
That's a win and hopefully science can figure out how to mimic this mutation to maybe create a vaccine or something to prevent it, especially in areas where it is rampant.
Bookworm 1 year ago
That would be great, but the depressing thing is that the world already has a set of tools that could basically eliminate HIV - modern d**g regimens that can get patients to undetectable status, and PREP. The roadblocks are mostly cost and motivation now.
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Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
didn't they first discover this in someone from Edinburgh? which is known for having a real heroin issue. so maybe it evolved there because of that. shared needles being enough of an issue to make it a genetic advantage in the area
Kalikima 1 year ago
Didn't everyone who's alive ancestors survive the plague? Otherwise they wouldn't be here.. And yet, so many people died of HIV and Aids.
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#4
I fell off a 100 foot cliff and landed head first on rocks.
Broke my neck and back. Smashed up a lot of my body. Had to travel about a mile to find help immediately after the fall. Doctor said I caused more damage by trying to walk for help, but would have bled out if I stayed where I fell. 15 months later, I am power lifting and ran a half marathon. Should not be alive, much less be able to walk.
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How: Camping on a mountain. Found a spot to lay down and observe the stars. Had to pee, stepped into woods, lost my footing. Geronimo.
Injuries: Head was scalped. Huge piece of flesh was just hanging off my head. Must have been a sight to the folks who's door I knocked on in the middle of the night for help. Neck was broken and had to wear an immobilizing neck brace for many months 24/7, as they were concerned surgery may cause more damage. Initially a had a loss of sensation in my hands. Multiple vertebrae were broken, one had broken into over a dozen pieces. The neurosurgeon figures at impact my body folded in half causing that one to essentially explode. I had to have spinal fusion and relearn how to walk after. Multiple ribs broken.
Recovery: At first I essentially lived in one of those geriatric chairs that lift you up to stand. I could barely get around with a walker. Sitting on the toilet was the most excruciating thing. At some point it turned into laxative use and stand in the shower. I couldn't bend or care for myself much in any way. Some of my friends think that being a Marine made me tough enough to survive this, but I credit an inherent stubbornness to never give up. I constantly pushed through the pain to get myself to the next level. From walker, to cane, to walking sticks. The neurosurgeon told me the best thing I could do for physical therapy was walk, so boy did I. At first I could barely make it to the end of the block and back, then a quarter mile, then on and on. Every hard effort day required a day or two of sitting in the chair and suffering through the pain. Got off meds the moment that I could stand to. 5 months after the accident I got on a treadmill and tried to run. The impacts were excruciating, but I kept coming back for more and more. At 10 months I was able to race in a 5K on memorial day in honor of a fallen veteran. I raced my heart out and was able to run it in less than 30 minutes. I immediately began half marathon training and at 14 months was able to finish at about 2 hours and 40 minutes. Started back to lifting serious weights at about 11 months and here I am in month 16 about to become a member of the 1000 pound club. (Bench press, deadlift, and squat all totaling 1000 pounds.) I still deal with pain regularly and I have a lot of discomfort that makes sleep challenging. I've still got a couple of months until the bones reached 100% of their healing potential.
It's been quite a journey. Never give up my friends!
John Powers 1 year ago
How the heck get up from that fall, and walk for help with those kinds of injuries?
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
It's Trauma Shock, I think it's called that. Adrenaline can flood your body which means that you probably won't feel exactly how much excruciating pain you'll be in after it wears off. The night my ex attacked me? I didn't feel that bad, the police came a few days later to photograph my bruising and I should've been in hospital really but? Covid had arrived, I couldn't go to the hospital and I could still somewhat walk with a cane I had because, the specialists explained to me after at the hospital, I'd been in extreme Trauma Shock. That's how I'd managed to somewhat walk with a cane for a small while after.
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BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
This dude is a major league bad-a*s. I solute you sir. May you pillows always be cold, your towels always be dry
Deborah B 1 year ago
Hope he got approval from his physio about the running and weightlifting, because it sounds like the sort of thing that could impair healing and cause permanent damage. "Toughing out the pain" sounds hardcore, but is not always the best strategy with injury, because pain is the body saying "Stop doing that, moron, you're about to break something."
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
It's amazing that you have been able to do all of that in that timeframe. I'm wondering if you're slowing down some of the healing since you said you still have some time until some of the bones are completely healed
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
I do not envy him his geriatric years, which are going to be excruciating.
Nikole 1 year ago
Good question. Maybe it’s just my headache, but when he mentioned having been a marine, my response was, “Oh come on!”. I’m surprised he didn’t have to fight off a bear as well and exorcise Hitler’s ghost.
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#5
Chefs. I have earned a Michelin star.
Aleksandras Tvardauskas 1 year ago
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I do believe that actually earning a Michelin star is a team effort. You can be the best chef in the world, but without Joe washing the dishes, you won't have clean dishes to dish out.
Pernille 1 year ago
You are right, and I remember when the Danish restaurant Noma had their first star they travelled to Paris with the entire crew, including the dishwasher.
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#6
I’m one of only @200 deaf pilots in the world and one of only four (that are commonly known of) in the world with Commercial & Instrument training.
I’m also one of the only deaf people who hold both a pilots license and a commercial drivers license.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
So I just learned something new because of this post. I was under the impression that in order to hold a commercial driver's license CDL, one has to pass a hearing exam, but in 2013 a law was passed allowing deaf people to apply for a hearing waiver which includes other documents. This is awesome for all those in the non hearing community.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I did flight training for a while, and about half of it was learning all the radio jargon. How does a deaf person do that? Not saying they shouldn't be flying, just honestly curious. I can see possibly having a co-pilot, but I imagine for a commercial pilot needs to be able to handle all of the duties should one pilot be incapacitated.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
OP said on Reddit in regards to communicating with ATC: "If it’s absolutely necessary I either bring a copilot along with me or I prearrange light signal comms." OP isn't a commercial pilot and does not fly into controlled airspace. They do crop dusting, stuff like that.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
OP stated on Reddit that they can speak, and have some small amount of hearing, so they are legally deaf. They also know American Sign Language. There's no difference between "legally deaf" and "sign language deaf" (it is not called "hand language") - they are not mutually exclusive. Some deaf people never learn sign language. Some people with normal hearing learn sign language.
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Only 2% of pregnant women experience 2 miscarriages in a row. Only 1% of women experience 3 miscarriages is a row. I have had 5 miscarriages in a row and I fully hate any type of statistics now. Statistics used to make me feel safe. Now I just know how easy it is to be on the wrong side of them.
Edit: Thank you for sharing your support and your stories. I feel for so many of you that also make up the 1% (or less than 1% I guess). Sending all the love and healing your way if you’re in this same sucky boat as me.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
This is so awful. I know from experience how dismissive doctors can be of women who've just experienced a miscarriage. In general, as a male person, I feel like women got the sh*t end of the stick in most things in our society. I don't know why people as educated as doctors have to pile onto the trauma (speaking from personal experience of two miscarriages)
Debbie 1 year ago
I don't think those statistics are correct, as I believe more miscarriages happen but women didn't know they were pregnant and don't recognize them. It would be a more useful satistic if they mentioned weeks into the pregnancy.
PhaseWitFact 1 year ago
They are not correct. If they are then I'm in the top 1% too. There are more miscarriages than successful pregnancies. Maybe OP's obviously wrong stats are because lots of miscarriages happen before women realize they're pregnant and many don't report miscarriages to their doctors especially early ones.
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Mere Cat 1 year ago
I'm sorry for your losses. :( I have almost the same - 3 miscarriages, 1 live birth, then 1 more miscarriage.
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Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
My sister was one of the people who had 3 miscarriages in a row. He middle son is 9 months older than my older daughter and her youngest son is 4 months younger than my younger daughter. There are 2.5 years beteween my 2 daughters.
#8
Survival. I fell 25 feet out of a window when I was about 2 years old. I’ve also been hit by a car that was traveling over 50mph/80.4kmh. I’ve had two near drownings. I was also held hostage at gun point for over three hours. All if these things happened before my 14th birthday.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
It's like Angela Lansbury. If that lady came to your town, you knew some mothafusker was about to dye (censors)
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Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
You and the guy who has a talent for surviving plane crashes should get together!!
Dzessa Golden 1 year ago
That sounds like someone who is at very high risk for PTSD! Poor thing.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago (edited)
Oh jeez!!! I thought I've had it bad... I have had a loaded gun held to my head, been through physical attacks. Faced down a guy who had thrown a chair across the room at a pub I was working at, got him outside, identified him to the police a year later... R*ped. Left disabled because of Domestic Violence, survived having Covid and my heart restarted twice... It's no bloody wonder why I've agoraphobic tendencies now! I mean... If I wrote a book about everything bad that's happened to me in my life? It'd probably be in the fiction category because you cannot make it up!
Patti Golden 1 year ago
You had a life time of bad circumstances, now you will be on easy street
#9
Genetics. A red head with ab- blood and hazel eyes. I’m a walking recessive gene.
Sinclair13 1 year ago (edited)
I have blonde hair, ab- blood, and green eyes. My second toe is also longer than my first toe.
Dee Rutherford 1 year ago
This was my sister. She survived several surgeries. She lived to be 86 and died of natural causes.
Jean Dogmom 1 year ago
Thought that was me, except I have A- blood. I have weird medical stuff happen.
Dave In MD 1 year ago
Red hair and AB+. Not sure if my eyes could be called hazel. Kind of a grey/grey/blah color. Both second toes are marginally longer than the big toe. Also have a strange bone bump on my instep that no one else seems to have. Left handed as well.
Slytherin4Lyf 1 year ago
They say having red hair with blue eyes is actually the rarest combination. Then it's red hair and green eyes, hazel is a farely common eye color with redheads.
Kalikima 1 year ago
My sister has red hair and blue eyes.. mine is more of a washed out auburn tending towards brown, so I dye it, but she's a true red head. The funny thing is, she hates it and always dyes it, while I dye mine red.. lol
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Winter Eleven 1 year ago
Cool i have central heterochromia (my mom has it too) more green around the small brown in the centre of the eye. Almost blinded myself talking pictures with the flash on to capture it 😅
BlitheSpirit 1 year ago
I (had - now it’s more white, so i just went blonde) red hair, green eyes, and a double row of eyelashes (which isn’t as cool as it sounds; I can barely wear contacts and my eyes get scratched alot 🙄)
#10
I’ve been in 2 helicopter crashes and 1 plane crash. There is only a small group of people who have survived that many crashes. I’m also not a pilot.
THEVibingShark92 1 year ago
Dang, you're not a pilot? No wonder you've been in so many crashes...
Winter Eleven 1 year ago
Do you by any chance have a cat that survived howmany sinking boats/ships?
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Thanks for the clarification. Still not getting on a plane with your tho
#11
I suffer from a relatively harmless “phenomenon” called “Aphantasia”.
I am incapable of conjuring images inside my head. I “know” what object or thing I’m supposed to think about but all I see is nothing.
When I dream, I know what’s happening and what I’m supposed to see but it’s just a whole lot of nothingness. I guess you could say I’m “blind” in my mind.
Apparently around 1% of the population suffer from this weird condition.
Must be nice having a screen in your head that shows anything you can imagine :/.
"Disembodied voice" 1 year ago
I have aphantasia and no internal monologue, funny how these things work out sometimes.
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
I'm not gonna lie, that sounds terrible. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't see pictures in my head.
Nikole 1 year ago
Yeah, I can’t even imagine it. Picturing something in my head is so second nature.
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Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
I have acquired aphantasia and the first couple of years I was cognitively stupid - I had to learn a different way to think but even worse was how scary it was - it was like a void and I was in the middle of it, I would try to think but there was nothing to reach out to - I've now re-learnt how to think, there's still 'nothing' there but it's not a void any longer
AnnaB 1 year ago
I have it too. But I have the most vivid, detailed, goofy dreams every night. I've taken to writing them down as soon as I wake up. But if you asked me to close my eyes and imagine an apple...nothing but darkness.
Katie Everswick 1 year ago
I have it too, but I can see in my dreams. I can't believe you can't! I'm sorry :(
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
It’s two different parts of your brain that produce visual images in your imagination/memory and in your dreams. I have a former colleague who has aphantasia and she’s an academic librarian so she’s done a lot of research on this! I’ve learned so much from her
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Ace 1 year ago
This is much more common that 1%. every time it comes up on BP there's a flurry of people saying "me too". It's often not noticed because we (yes, me too) always assumed that when people said they could 'envisage' something it never occurred to us that they meant they could actually bring up a picture in their head. I still struggle with the idea.
Bryn 1 year ago
People cope by thinking in words rather than pictures. Or they watch/listen to porn (audio erotica exists).
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I can make my eyes shake (voluntary nystagmus) and I can wiggle my ears.
It was a lot more impressive when I was 7.
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
Hey, me too! My brothers as well! It was fun as a kid to tell others "hey, look at my eyes" ....then they vibrate back and forth like a paint mixer and freak people out! Lol!! I don't bother with it anymore.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I can do it too! I loved weirding/freaking people out with it when I was a kid. I don't think I've done it since my teenage years, though I just checked and I still CAN do it XD
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Grape Walls of Ire 1 year ago
Yeah, my mom used to tell me if I kept shaking my eyes, they'd stay that way. Hah, showed hererererer...
John Nelson 1 year ago
I actually trained the muscles to be able to wiggle my ears, as well as to be able to move my eyes independently of each other, as a kid. I can also do the reverse tongue roll that's rare. Yeah, I was a weird kid! lol
Maartje 1 year ago
are we related? Ear wiggle and reverse tongue roll here and I can bend my fingers backwards against my hands.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
One of my grandfathers could wiggle his ears. It was a frequently requested trick from all the grandkids. :)
Dzessa Golden 1 year ago
I can too, always wish I had practiced more as a kid! I can only do it for like, two sec.
Id row 1 year ago
Oh, like that shaky eyed actor. I love him, but his eyes are what make him memorable. shakey-eye...b296e3.jpg 
MaryHadaLittleLamb 1 year ago
I can make my eyes shake, too! Used to have fun freaking out my friends when I was a kid.
#13
Cancer survivor. Think that’s 5%. I had it 3 f*****g times.
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
I have a friend who has survived cancer three times. Hodgekin’s disease in her teens and thyroid and breast cancer in her thirties. Good news is she has been cancer free for 15 years.
Tropical Tarot 1 year ago (edited)
Four times for my mom. Breast cancer twice different types. Kidney cancer and brain cancer
LadyRougarou 1 year ago
2 types of cancer here! Uterine and Barrett's esophagus/stomach cancer. Both discovered within 2 yrs and neither one effected the other. I was told this was extremely rare 🤷🏻♀️
#14
Far less than 1% of people make their living creating crossword puzzles. I've also written five novels, three of which were published.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I enjoyed doing them with my parents, back when people still got newspapers. If I happened to be over at their home, we'd sit down at the table and work at it until it was done. So I thought it was rather clever. Then one day on a flight back from England, I bought a little book of crosswords. Well I learned just how little I knew about English cultural references during that flight. Did you guys know they had a Queen?
John Powers 1 year ago
I do them nearly daily, for decades, and I'm pretty good at them. But I never thought about wanting to try to make one. Or even thought about those who do
Kelly Scott 1 year ago (edited)
Then as a crossword puzzle fanatic, may I ask that you PLEASE stop making the answers of puzzles relate only to movies, actors, actresses, and sports. I don't watch movies and I don't like sports. That means the majority of all crossword puzzles are too frustrating for me to do. Surely there are other things in the universe that can make answers to crossword puzzles.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 year ago
A crossword compiler ought to know it's 'fewer' and not 'less' in this context.
Jane 1 year ago
Really? Now I'm intrigued. I would have thought it'd be "fewer" when referring to a number, but "less" when referring to a percentage.
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According to my step counter, walking.
Not even kidding, I manage a warehouse and walk 10-15 miles a day at work. Apparently this is more than 99.3% of users.
Turns out the one thing I'm exceptional at is the one thing almost everyone can do. Yay.
Bookworm 1 year ago
Probably Amazon or similar. Those major distribution centers can be bigger than football fields.
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Spooky beck 1 year ago
I walk 5-6 miles daily just hopping out delivering packages as a mai carrier. Also in the morning we do sit of walking getting ur routes ready.
zububonsai 1 year ago (edited)
Same here ✌🏻. I deliver parcels and packages only (no letters) and totally plan on using a step counter/tracker device this Christmas season. (My kid got one in a competition in class last spring for free). I'm really curious. Years ago our, um, Department of working healthy (?) conducted a research and tracked the routes of some coworkers. In the end they conclude " you walk 10-23 km (6-16mikes)each day (route prep included), depending if route and day in the year. Buuut not in one run but interrupted by sitting (driving), standing (waiting at doors) walking stairs, lifting weights (parcels).... We workers use to joke " It's actually sooo healthy that we ought to PAY our employer for our fitness course instead the other way round ". 😆
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LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
Hey! I work on a boat and depending on my position, I average this out too!
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
Worked as a team lead in small -ish warehouse. Managed about 12-15 thousand steps a day, around 8-10 km. Not good for your joints and muscles at all.
David Morgan 1 year ago
You need high-quality supportive footwear to walk that much on hard surfaces. We are evolved to walk on grass and mud, which cushions the impacts.
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Brian Droste 1 year ago (edited)
Need to get fitbit or some other typecof device to see how many steps you walk a day. Probably a easy 20k a day.
#16
Not me but my dad.
He was born with a backwards heart and didn’t find out till his heart attack a few years ago and it actually saved his life.
His doctor later told him that after being a doctor for over 30 years he’d never seen someone with a backwards heart and that apparently 1% of people on the planet have it.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Does that mean the heart is on the opposite side of the body than normal, or that the heart is in the usual place but facing towards his back?
Kat 1 year ago (edited)
I think, usual place, facing towards the back. Opposite side would have been harder to miss. Plus you can feel your heartbeat 💓
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A. HAM 1 year ago
My brother-in-law’s organs are reversed. His heart is on the right, his stomach is on the right, his liver is on the left, etc.
Work_is_just _a_phase 1 year ago
My mum had this, they found out when she had to have a valve replacement, she lived 'til she was 84.
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
I have a retroverted uterus (aka: tilted/tipped/backward) - about 20-25% of women suffer from this issue (not really fitting into this post, but the backward heart got me sharing this info). When in labour, 80% of the pain was in my lower back.
#17
I’m naturally ambidextrous. Apparently that’s something only 1% of people naturally are. I can use both right and left hands ably for any task. For example, I often switch which hand I write with based on how I’m sitting.
(It’s worth noting _natural_ ambidexterity is not the same as _learned_ or _acquired_ ambidexterity. For example, left handed people often have to use things designed for right handed people but otherwise are left handed.).
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
And little Benji Franklin, who apparently could write in Greek with one hand and Latin with the other *simultaneously*
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
I have the even rarer mixed-handedness. Commonly mistaken for natural ambidexterity, it results in different things having different hand dominance - some are right handed only, some left handed only, and some fully ambidextrous.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Yep! I am like that as well! I write, draw, and do adult things to myself with my left hand. I use a computer mouse right-handed. I shoot a bow left-handed. I use a hammer right-handed. I use chopsticks/a fork/spoon with my left hand, and scroll my phone left-handed. I'm definitely left-eye dominant and my left boob is larger than my right. I'm definitely NOT ambidextrous (I can't use my right hand to hold my chopsticks/fork well, or write well) and I always thought I was just a weirdo. It's good to know that mixed-handedness is a thing and that there are others like me! <3
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StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
I'm a lefty, my sister is a righty, and my brother is fully ambi, lol. If he'd been the middle child instead of me, it would have been a perfect trio ;-).
Eleanor Howard 1 year ago
Same! It’s a fun trick to show off to people, and when one of my hands cramps up from writing i just switch hands lol (with my right hand i still hold my pencil incorrectly and it still is easier with my left hand to do so but i can hold it correctly in my left hand. I also have decently different handwriting with both hands when writing super fast, my left hand is more vertical and even and my right hand is more diagonal and messy.)
Dana AlZarouni 1 year ago
I'm naturally ambidextrous too, I just never realized it was that rare!
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
Same here... I can write, eat, scissor, throw, catch etc. with both hands almost equally well. I'm slightly better with my left but hey! (I'm also aquadexterous... I can adjust my bath water temp with both feet. /s) Being diabetic and using sugar, equal, sweet and low, stevia etc, I'm also ambi-dextrose. OK I'll leave now! The first statement is totally true though!
Jan Moore 1 year ago
My Dad wrote left handed but fired his pistol right handed. He was left handed and couldn't read in 2nd grade. My grandfather found out that his teacher was forcing him to write right handed. My Grandpa was a minister and told the teacher what for, threatened his physical appearance if he didn't stop. Grandpa was a tough guy.
#18
Typing in my PC.. I can type up to 170 WPM sometimes, and in the human benchmark site that's 1%.
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
I'm lucky nowadays I can think at 40 WPM! LOL!
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Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 year ago
OP didn't specify without errors. I can probably type 170 words a minute, but it would be gooble-de-gook.
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Id row 1 year ago
I could easily do that on a steno machine when I was a court reporter, but I'd have to see someone at a keyboard typing 170 wpm to believe it. The average person speaks at 160 wpm. I'm a very fast typer, but there's no way I'd crack even 120, let alone 170. I'd love to see it though.
Lowrider 56 1 year ago
I forget the WPM my step daughter can do but she set an official record at the school she was at. Got some job offers because of it too!
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
I knew someone who was making the keyboard rattle. I asked him how fast he typed and he told me he had been tested at 200wpm with no errors. And I can barely type 35wpm and I still have to go back and correct half what I type.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
Back in 8th grade taking typing was a required class where I lived. I beilive I could type somewhere between 40 to 50 wpm. I know that is probably slow by today's standard. Probably was slow back then too.
Sky Render 1 year ago
I can do that when I get really focused, but not continually! My normal typing speed is a much more modest 100-120WPM.
Roni Stone 1 year ago
That, my friend, is a very rare skill! I used to type 120 wpm or so, but no more. Age, yanno. Damn, I'm jealous, though. (Not really. Excellent on you.)
#19
Surviving a crossbow to the head. Directly between the eyes. Only one other person has been documented in surviving a crossbow head impact, and they became brain dead. Not only did I survive, but I still have enough brain function to type this out and even go to work on a daily basis. I'm very blessed to be here, and I do my best to not take it for granted.
Edit: apparently more people have survived this than I originally knew, and that's kinda cool to know!!
Edit 2: holy crap I did not expect this to blow up so much!!! Thank you all so much for the kind words and awards!!! I'm not going to reply to everyone just because there's so many comments, but if you have a question feel free to ask and I'll do my best to respond!!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Yeah, I'm not normally a pedant, but that was my first thought XD I was like, my friend, you didn't take a crossbow to the head, you took a quarrel/bolt to the head...
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Mirror writing:
writing the same exact thing with my left hand, except backwards and to the left, while I write it normally and with my right hand.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
I used to work to work with a person who could do that. Now I wonder if it was you.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago (edited)
I can do that with, say, chalk on a blackboard, but not with pen on paper.
Paulina 1 year ago
Isn't that common thing? I have a clear memory of this being a "trick" shown in Donald Duck Magazine back in my childhood 😅 You take a pen in each hand, place them close together on the paper and start writing with your dominant hand, allowing the other to kind of loosely follow the movement. It results in mirror writing.
#21
I’m an American of North Korean descent
Jane 1 year ago
Why wouldn't he be safe? Are there people hunting down people of North Korean descent in the US?
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StrangeOne 1 year ago
I believe there is an American retiree who moved to North Korea. He was featured in a NK documentary.
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No, but North Koreans have been more or less living in a "prison" under the family of Kim dictators that rule North Korea for almost eight decades (it started with Kim Il Sung, continuing with his son Kim Jong Il, and now Jong Il's son Kim Jong Un.) They are tyrant leaders and do not allow dissention or allow people to leave the country. It is rare for a North Korean to escape North Korea. I'm assuming OP's ancestors escaped North Korea in the late 1940s before it started to get REALLY unhinged.
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#22
My actual name. My last name is one of the rarest in the country and I am the only person with my name out of the entire population.
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
This is also true for me! I actually didn't think it was that rare. If you have an unusual last name it's gotta be pretty common to be the only "you".
Sandella 1 year ago
Same from marrying into a culture that is very uncommon from my culture
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Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 1 year ago
Anyone with my last name is a relative, it's that uncommon. Additionally, anyone with my mother's maiden name is a relative!
Libstak 1 year ago
For over 30 years it was the same for me. Actually, it kinda still is as my combined surname and first name are one of a kind in my country. The surname, we were the only known family with it for 30 years.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago (edited)
I (and now my children) are the only people in the United States with my last name. First, most of the members of my family were killed in Dachau, except for my direct grandparents who left Poland in 1928 and settled in Brazil. But when they got there, they changed their sir-name to make it pronounceable to Brazilians, but without changing it too much. But then when my father was born, there was an error in transcribing his birth certificate, so his last name ended up being different than the rest of the family (and his parents only spoke Yiddish, so it was never corrected). Of his 4 children, I am the only one that moved to the US. So before I had kids, it was just me.
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago (edited)
Snap!!! I've weird first, middle and last full names! The three combined? I'm the only person in the world with them! 😀
Professional Bastard 1 year ago
Must be nice. I have the most popular indian last name. I use my fathers last name to order stuff because I don't look like my name at all.
Id row 1 year ago
My first and last name combined make me the only one of me as well. Even after I took my husband's last name. I was the only one in my school growing up with my first name. And it's not even one of those newer precious Bratleigh or Snotlynn names. Just an actress from the 1930's.
My O My 1 year ago
Same here. But I don't think this is all that special - and impossible to prove
Load More Replies... Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
my irl surname is also one of the rarest, only a few people within my family have it. Even cousins etc don't have it, it's only more direct family, heck, I tried to search it up but there's no database that it's in or anything. xD therefore, I am never going to share my real surname online, even when sites ask me to, I tend to use a fake one. >.>
#23
I'm albino.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Survivors of dad jokes tell their horror stories here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__DApLNFJlw
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Lloyd Christian 1 year ago
My Grandma was also albino. From kentucky and a real firecracker! Amazing woman.
Leoninus Fate 1 year ago
Im Japanese, and albino, sadly the tiny place where I lived was filled with old people who thought "omg albino? That's a demon!", I and my birth mom got treated rough and it turned when i was 7 when a bunch of drunk old men "came to clean the demon"..... they tried to shot me and instead my mom took the bullet..... i was only saved as one of my neighbors was one of the kinder old people {she was like a grandma to me cause when they wouldn't let my mom shop cause of me she would go get food for us} She called the cops while she overheard them, but the cops only got there about 10 mins after my mom passed, I was only alive as they kinda didn't know what to do since they didn't want to kill her.....Im 38 now with a few kids my own so... I'm doing much better
#24
So apparently my left eye is 32mm. The average size is 21-27mm. My eye doctor said it was neat.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
The eyes are the one part of the body that does not change size as we grow, meaning the size of your eyes when you were born are the same size as they are now...
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago (edited)
Okay!!! I'm definitely a wonky person! My right eye is stronger with vision than my left and it's bigger than my left but not hugely noticeably unless you're looking for it. The right side of my body is very slightly bigger/stronger than my left hand side. My right leg is approximately 0.5mm or so longer than my left one. I've known about my eyes for years but my legs? I found that out when they were measuring my legs for my calipers! I guess I kinda knew because of how my shoes would wear out. I'm heavier on my right foot than I am with my left
#25
I am a super recogniser. Super recogniser is a term coined in 2009 by Harvard researchers for people with significantly better-than-average face recognition ability. I am not in 1 percent to be precise actually, it is around 2% but wanted to share anyways.
There is a free online test for you to check if you are one as well.
Roni Stone 1 year ago
We must be related. I'm pretty awesome at the non-recognizing thing myself.
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Steve Robert 1 year ago
On the other hand, I'm so bad at facial recognition, that if someone commits a crime in front of me, there are no eye witnesses.
jean48thompson 1 year ago
Now that street cameras are used so extensively to fight crime, you would be very valuable to the police, to watch crowd videos to recognize persistent offenders. A new career for you?
Liz Siemens 1 year ago
I just took the test and am also a super recognizer... now what to do with this new found skill?
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
Guard your anonymity on the internet and offer your services to local law enforcement.
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shankShaw deReemer 1 year ago
Sorry...I meant this for the prior one, the STEM school student!
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Alex Mosby 1 year ago
And then there is me, who can't remember what I'm currently wearing without looking.
#26
If you make 40k a year and have no debt... Wealth, globally speaking.
Marilyn Holt 1 year ago
I guess no matter what your income, having no debt is rather astounding.
#27
Eyesight. I have 20/10 vision, turns out only about 1% of people have better than normal 20/20 vision.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
My Dad was a big Ted Williams fan. The best hitting non-Yankee in baseball history, and it was largely due to having freakishly sharp vision. The guy could read the stitches on the ball coming at him (which would tell him which way the pitch was going to bend or not bend). Never topped many career milestones because he served as a bomber in WW2 for three years, and went right back and served another two in Korea.... he thought he owed it to his country to put his eyesight to the best service possible.
Cammy Mack 1 year ago
Being trained to kill is "the best service possible"? I think not. May every last country on this planet with their arbitrary lines on a map be damned.
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Andrew Irish 1 year ago
I wonder how you even find that out. Idk if it's true for most people, or if op is in the US where I am, but I have never had a real eye test. I mean, I've looked at a poster after head injury and they had me read 2 lines and I got them right, they dropped it. Besides that, insurance won't allow me to go to an eye doctor without a problem, so I've never been. I'd have to convince a regular doctor to refer me. I'd have to lie etc. Why do that for no reason? My wife thinks I have insane vision, and I can say,nothing is ever blurry in anyway, and I can read signs really far off that always blow peoples minds. Instead of getting blurry, if something is too far off, my brain can't make out what direction or the presence of some lines that make up letters because not enough information is coming in. I can force my eyes blurry, but I do not see blurry naturally. Anyway, for years I've been wanting to find out if it's better than 20/20! I don't trust online tests.
Clown fish 1 year ago
Yes there is my son has better than 20/20 vision. He also has a birth mark in his eye that can only be seen with the lights and cameras they use to check your eyes.
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Keveros 1 year ago
I used to have 20/10 vision up until 55... It was funny to read the bottom of the eye chart and the technician had to walk up to the chart to verify... I used to be able to read car plate numbers before most people could see the plate... I also see better at night than daylight, bright lights wash out things... But, after a cataract and getting older late 60's I now have to wear tri-focals... It was good while it lasted...
Mere Cat 1 year ago (edited)
Interesting you see better at night, me too! Sorry if sounds odd, may I ask if a certain tone of bright blue in commercial lights etc goes halo-ey/blurry in your eyes if you don't squint? (I have been wondering if these things are both part of hypersensitivity to light or if the blue thing is something totally different..)
Load More Replies... Paulina 1 year ago (edited)
Are any countries other than USA measure their vision in feets?... It always boggles me, seeing that 20/20 thing and the concept is so foreign to me that I keep forgetting how it works 😅 In my country (central Europe) we use dioptre - they go below zero for near-sightedness AKA can't see things far away, or above zero for far-sightedness AKA can't clearly see things close to me. We basically measure when and how your eyes focus, not how much you can see at a distance of arbitrary 20 ft (although reading a chart is part of basic examination).
char 1 year ago
my dad has 20/15 and I'm fairly positive I inherited it since I seem to be able to see better at longer distances than most people. Someday, I'll probably get it tested to find out if I actually do have 20/15, but I've never had the need to go to an eye doctor... for clear reasons.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
Chuck Yeager, yup. Although his wife once said he was a deaf as a dumbbell on account of being around all those jet engines.
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I'm a totally in the 0.2% of something. People who have a rather nasty reaction to the blood thinner, Heparin. Lost half my toes because of how lucky I am.
Sunshine 1 year ago
I think he's talking about heparin-induced-thrombocytopenia (HIT). My mother had this reaction to heparin back in 2020, except hers was even more rare and unique--she had autoimmuneHIT (aHIT). This means her bad reaction to heparin did not clear up once the heparin was discontinued. What makes her a one-off is that she did not present with a blood clot.
Sunshine 1 year ago (edited)
Heparin is a blood thinner but in these incredibly rare instances it cause a person's body to react by destroying the blood platelets. You would think this would make the blood even thinner--which it does, but it also causes whatever platelets you have left to be "sticky" and they clump together to cause blood clots. My mum was in the hospital for 5 weeks and it was a delicate balance between watching out for clots and watching for bleeding out. She was finally given IVig and it saved her life. Edit: added an apostrophe
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Grandmaster in league of legends (0.02%) 😎, this results in not having a social life or girlfriend so don’t recommend.
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
It's OK I don't have a social life or any romantic interest in anyone whatsoever anyway
Nathan Lewis 1 year ago
The poster doesn't mention that they are also a masochist. LoL has the worst player base ever.
#30
Degrees. I have a BA, MA, JD and two PhD's. If I'm not mistaken, less than 1% of the world has that many (and neither should I).
Aleksandras Tvardauskas 1 year ago
Can you even have two PhDs without the rest of the degrees mentioned? I am a bit puzzled why there is a need to even mention a BA when you have a PhD. It is like being a CEO of Google and mentioning that you have worked at Burger King in your CV.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Yes you can, my middle nephew went straight to masters then PhD
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Max Fox 1 year ago
Around 1% of all Americans have a PhD, so the percent with two PhDs is miniscule.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
I have eight college degrees. I'm looking into earning number nine but haven't started yet.
Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 year ago
When my uncle and a cat are alone in a room, the average number of degrees is 1.
P R 1 year ago
If they are both in the room at the same time, they're not alone
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
None of their degrees is in English, obviously :p It's okay, no need to be a pedant.
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Liz Gallagher 1 year ago
My ex-husband has 3 degrees which, apparently, made him 3 times more intelligent than me!!!
DelvianBlue 1 year ago
I'm honestly curious how anyone could afford this. I assume you're not American to have so many degrees? I really wanted to get my PhD in regulatory biology but I was already $90,000 in debt by the time I got my master's and just couldn't afford any more education. It still leaves me a little salty wondering what my life could have been if I could have afforded another $100,000 to get that degree.
#31
I can stop my hiccups on command.
RaisedByCats 1 year ago
My husband can too and cannot fathom why other people can't control it ("you just tighten the muscle at the top of your stomach")
Roni Stone 1 year ago
My mother used to offer to buy mine if I could hiccup just one more time. Seems my hiccups liked me poor because I seldom was able to collect.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I can too, to an extent. I sit up straight and "pull in" my stomach muscles to help tighten my diaphragm. Concentrate on my breathing so I'm not "gulping air". Usually it stops after the first few.
#32
Birth control. 99% effective right? I'm living proof of the 1% XD.
(It's cool though, my parents never acted like they didn't want me.).
Rahul Pawa 1 year ago
I had a vasectomy...then a kid, and then another vasectomy.
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StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
Am beginning to think it is more than 1%, lol, judging by the comments. My daughter is now 35 (I was on the Pill), & my son is 31 (injection). After the 2nd time, I decided to go for the implant and hubby used condoms as I was in my 30s and Labour is a b***h when you have a retroverted uterus. Admittedly, on the Implant, I never saw Auntie Flo for each 3-year span. (forgive the TMI)
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 1 year ago
I'm a nurse. This is important. I was on Depoprovera and the pill at the same time using them 100% as directed. My son is 27...
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Don't act like it's that rare. Birth control is known to not be completely foolproof. Better to expect the unexpected, always, when you're sexually active.
Perfectly Cromulent 1 year ago
I am an IUD baby. My mom jokes that she had to have it removed so I wasn't born with it sticking out of my forehead, like a unicorn.
Darcy Segura 1 year ago
I had an IUD and got pregnant with number 3. Got my tube removed (I only had one tube to start with), and ended up pregnant with number 4
Jaya 1 year ago (edited)
What do you mean, birth control is 99% effective? That's like saying "food has 280 calories". It completely depends on which form of birth control. The best one is super effectivee (99.95%), but condoms for instance are 98% effective when used absolutely perfectly but only 87% effective with typical use. And there are other birth control methods that are even much less effective, all the way down to 79% effective with typical use.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
::hugs:: I'm sorry. I'm adopted as well and was informed very early on that I was "only" adopted because my mom didn't want my older sister (my parents' biological child) to be an only child. I was told throughout my entire childhood that I should be "grateful" that I was adopted. I'm lucky my dad was a good dad and treated me like his actual daughter, because my mother was physically, emotionally, and verbally abusive.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I was on the pill and we used condoms just to be safe. Well, my son should have been born with a hormone imbalance wearing a shower cap.
#33
According to Amazon, I'm in the top 1% of kindle readers. They keep track of these things and within the last couple years started sharing the info with users as seasonal "Achievements."
At the end of the Spring season, they sent out emails with the final data: from April 1st to June 31st I read:
74 days
For a total
193 hours.
I don't really have a social life. As though that wasn't clear enough from the stats
David 1 year ago
It's unnecessarily creepy that Amazon wants to track how many minutes you spend reading your kindle.
Pferdchen 1 year ago
Yes, it's pretty trivial in the grand scheme of dystopian technical & privacy realities in the 21st century. Musk ostensibly buying Twitter to promote free speech and doing something quite different is but one example.
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whineygingercat 1 year ago
Don't feel too bad, I read the 7th Harry Potter book in a single, 8 1/2- hour sitting. The joke in my family is, I don't 'read' books, I 'inhale' books.
painttheyellowsubgreen 1 year ago
My husband says I devour them. Definitely a book dragon, not a bookworm. Lol
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Jenny Mason 1 year ago
I would quite like to know where in my Amazon account this stat would be as I can't find it.
#34
I’m of the .002% of people with osteopoikilosis. This freaked the s**t out of me because when I was diagnosed the first thing the doctor said was “wow I’ve never seen this in anything but textbooks before”...
RaisedByCats 1 year ago
Osteopoikilosis is a benign, autosomal dominant, sclerosing (hardening) dysplasia of bone characterized by the presence of numerous bone islands in the skeleton. (Wikipedia)
#35
I'm one of around 1% of people directly related to Swedens great king Gustav Vasa, still living. I'm one of 100k people.
Aleksandras Tvardauskas 1 year ago (edited)
Did I get it right, there are 100k people in the world like the OP which makes them 1%? I am one of karaites. According to wikipedia, there are 50k of us in the world. Does this makes me a 0,5%? ^^
#36
I have AB- bloodtype. Less than 1% of the worlds population have it.
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
Welcome the rare population! My sister and I have it. Nobody else in our family does.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Your parents must be literally A and B then, if only you and your sister are AB! XD And at least you guys can get transfusions from all of the major blood groups in an emergency.
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Silly-Rabbit 1 year ago
I am A-, I have always wondered why I never received an A+ in school.. it's because it's in my blood! (Sorry, not sorry mom joke 🤣)
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I'm lucky because I'm A+ which used to mean I could donate blood and platelets regularly. Which I did. I'm not using it atm so here have at it! 😄 I can't donate again unfortunately because of having had Covid and also other physical issues such as my disability and my medications. It'd leave me too weak. But if you do donate? Regularly or when you can? Thank you so much! 💜💜💜
Steve Robert 1 year ago
My kid and I have AB+, which is also rare, and we are known as Universal Receivers.
Marti J 1 year ago
I have AB- blood as well. The blood bank people are always really surprised when I go to donate.
Lorraine Woollands 1 year ago
My mum is AB-. When she had me, we had to stay in hospital for three days so they could test my blood, to see if the mix between her's and my father's blood had caused any problems. It hasn't
#37
Im the 1% of the top students in my stem high school.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Congrats! Are you on one of the First Robotics Teams? My son is an engineer now because of it & wasn't a STEM highschool.
#38
Hyperhidrosis. Excessively sweaty arm pits for no reason. I could be sitting there completely at ease and sweat rolls down my sides from my pits. I have found a product to fix the issue however I know no one else who has the same issue personally.
Mother of Giants 1 year ago
My S.O. has this, but all over his body. He has to take multiple changes of clothes with him to work because he sweats through them. He also can't carry his phone in his pants pockets while working because he sweats so much, he'll destroy it. It's already happened twice. During the summer, it's physically impossible for him to drink enough water to replace what he sweats out and because of that, by the time September rolls around, he's had at least one (last year it was 3) attacks of kidney stones. He has dealt with it his entire life, as did his father. He's also a carrot top redhead. So definitely in the <1%. For reference, he's 65yo and has worked his whole like doing concrete work, everything from foundations and driveways to patching roadways.... even installing in ground swimming pools
Kalina Martinage 1 year ago
I have diagnosed hyperhidrosis in my feet and hands lol 😬 one of my cousins has it too and she has to wear like three shirts so she doesn’t sweat through. I didn’t know this was rare as I know like 5 people who have it (people in my family have it as well as friends who aren’t related).
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
Yes it can, because it patalyses the overactive nerve endings that cause people to sweat. It also has other therapeutic uses, such as correcting squints and easing temporomandibular joint dysfunction.
Load More Replies... Maartje 1 year ago
Not that uncommon, i had to deal with that when I was perimenopausal and it was WAY worse than that. I sweat everywhere, especially my scalp . (That is , incidentally , where the Botox injections are offered- scalp or other places)
Lesley Shore 1 year ago
Me too. I have MS. The nerves that were damaged were those that affect menopausal symptoms. But I will have them forever. My meds cause my hair to thin. Add in the night sweats, day sweats, and humidity in Indiana. I end up looking like Schmeigel
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Megalodon Meg 1 year ago
Hey fellow sweaty friend! I use CertainDri. Just can't use it right after shaving lol
Laura Osborne 1 year ago
Me too! I've used so many products that are supposed to stop the sweating but no, they don't work. At all, even in winter I'm sitting here sweating (even though I feel cold).
Jenny Mason 1 year ago
My eldest daughter has this and hasn't managed to find any product to stop it as she has very sensitive skin. All the commonly available sweat-blocking stuff causes her to have burning armpits and a horrible rash.
Learner Panda 1 year ago
I worked with a family who suffered from this. They had their sweat glands removed from the underarms.
#39
Not as interesting or cool as others but im in the 1% of the population that has no immunity to Rubella even though ive been vaccinated for it several time. Apparently some peoples bodies dont take to some vaccinations. Fine with everything else like mumps measels etc its just the rubella.
Ive also got type 2 duanes symdrone in my right eye. Duanes being a uncommon eye condition anyway, right eye being least common to have it in an type 2 the least common of its type out of the 3 types. Won the duanes lottery with that one.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago (edited)
So I recently had to make sure all my vaccinations were current since I'm back in college and I'm in the medical field and will be starting our internship for our clinical hours, so these are mandatory requirements for most hospitals. After getting blood drawn to prove that I've already had many of these vaccines required, which would show the antibodies. Well I somehow was no longer immune to the measles but the mumps and rubella part of the MMR vaccine both came back as reactive for those antibodies, meaning I was immune to them still. I did have to get another MMR vaccine though, anyway. So I'm fully immune once again but I'm a little curious now just how long I'll stay immune this time.
Vivian Mwamuye 1 year ago
I'm a medical student and I believe there something called immune amnesia that is caused by measles
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Kelly Scott 1 year ago
My friend is like that with the plain old measles vaccine. It just doesn't take. Since measles are so nasty on older people, she's always scared to death some anti-vaxx nut is going to pass them on to her while they're incubating measles.
CF 1 year ago
FYI: "Duane syndrome (DS) is an eye movement disorder present at birth (congenital) characterized by horizontal eye movement limitation: a limited ability to move the eye inward toward the nose (adduction), outward toward the ear (abduction) or in both directions."
CF 1 year ago
"There are three types of Duane syndrome. In all three types, the opening of the eye narrows and the eyeball retracts when the eye moves inward. By far the most common is Type I, in which, in addition to the retraction of the eye: There is limited or no ability to move the eye outward The eye has little to no difficulty moving inward The opening of the eye and widens when the person tries to move the eye outward In Type II Duane syndrome: There is limited or no ability to move the eye inward The eye has little to no difficulty moving outward In Type III Duane syndrome: There limited or no ability to move the eye either inward or outward"
Load More Replies... Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
It does work, but in some people it wears off after a certain amount of time.
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I held a 2nd place world record for the Mushroom Gorge time trial in mariokart Wii for 15 minutes.
Edit: thanks for all the replies! Didn’t know this would touch the hearts of many!
#41
I am diagnosed with Visual snow syndrome. Basically seeing through static. It may not be rare as thought but I am one of very few people to be formally diagnosed.
EDIT:
1) no this isn’t normal and sorry to all the people who found out they had VVS through my stupid Reddit comment lol
2) lots of ppl asked how I was diagnosed- I was at an eye specialist for an unrelated reason and he asked if I had any other concerns. I described my sight to him and he said that’s probably VVS. He referred me to a neurologist and she diagnosed me.
3) I don’t remember not seeing flickering dots. I’ve never done psychedelics. I was unaware d***s could worsen or cause it. Thanks for the warnings though! Definitely won’t be doing psychedelics now haha.
penguino (they/them) 1 year ago
lol makes ur bedroom looks like an analog tv horror show at night
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Visual snow is known to occur quite often in people with high stress or with severe anxiety disorder. I have it from the latter; the snow gets worse and way more visible just before I have a panic attack.
Nikole 1 year ago
That happened to me during panic attacks before my vision went complete white.
Load More Replies... My O My 1 year ago (edited)
I always see everything double. You know, like if you cross your eyes a bit? Eye doctors can't find a reason - officially it's impossible
happybabyelephants 1 year ago
I've this too, prisms in my glasses corrects it about 80%
Load More Replies... Paulina 1 year ago (edited)
I wonder if this can be something that resolves on it's own/passes with time 🤔 I remember first time I went for eye exam (5-6 yo) I tried to explain to the doctor that I see flecks, like static on TV (although not so dense) and that it's there all the time... They didn't believe me and/or couldn't understand what I meant so it was entirely ignored. But I can't really remember when it stopped... I'm almost 40 now and haven't thought about this for ages!
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Sort of like tinnitus, disturbance in your hearing--but it's a disturbance in your sight!
LittleWombat 1 year ago
My daughter has this!! Her neurologist said there really isn't any safe treatment for it. It's pretty miserable. She does have anxiety problems, but then, I think I would if I had to see the world through that all the time too.
Aballi 1 year ago
Woah. This happens to me at night/in the dark. Everything turns into a grainy landscape around me, tv static could be one way to describe it, I've always thought of it as a sort of cloudy film of dull gold sparkles. Now that I think about it, I have a slight case of this in the day, too. There's a very, very thin film of static/sparkles over the world. Spooky story, a few weeks ago I was camping in the California Sierras and took my dog for a night walk. I always wear a headlamp when I walk at night. Well, I decided to turn it off for a bit and see how well my eyes would adjust. My vision was not great. After about 15-20 minutes, I decided to stop and turn on my headlight to orient myself. I was standing on the edge of a 9 foot drop off (the half of the campground I was walking in was closed to cars since
Aballi 1 year ago
when I walk at night. Well, I decided to turn it off for a bit and see how well my eyes would adjust. They did not adjust well, and everything appeared covered in a haze. After about 15-20 minutes, I decided to stop and turn on my headlamp to orient myself. I was standing on the edge of a 9 foot drop of. My right foot was just inches from the broken edge of pavement, which dropped straight down about 6 feet before gently rounding out. It was like standing at the top of a vert ramp! Freaked me out, and I kept my headlamp on for the rest of the hike!!
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Infertile people. The people who can’t have children after a year of trying, for whom no treatment works, have no diagnosis to explain why, and end up the 1% of the 1% and move on to surrogacy/gestational carrier.
YakFactory 1 year ago
It took me and my husband nine years of trying to have our first child. He died at 5 weeks, and it took another 4 years until our second child was born. No, we didn't try again!
Jane 1 year ago
Us as well. I know so many people who couldn't get pregnant. I always assumed it was because they waited until their 30's... I feel like young people get pregnant on their first try!
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#43
As a Lithuanian I belong to a nationality that makes up 0.03% of the world population.
WindySwede 1 year ago
With 8.2 billions today, it's not that difficult to be under 1% of something. Beeing a Swede is something like 0,1%..
#44
Everyone is born with a space in the base of your skull, I have an enlarged space. The Dr called it an Enlarged *Cisterna Magna*.
Having it isn’t what makes me part of the 1%, it’s the fact that it hasn’t caused me any trouble or neurological issues that puts me there. It was only found when I had an MRI for migraines.
Edit: totally got the wrong wording. I’m sorry for misleading anyone, that came on the back of flu meds and little sleep.
I have stress induced migraines and hormonal ones too. Nothing to do with the lack of brain function, that just makes me a little dull 😁.
Kitty 🥀 1 year ago
I don’t get actual migraines, but I’ve gotten headaches since I was a toddler. I still get bad ones during my period. They can totally be hormonal. (Day one of my cycle right now, and I’m on Advil as we speak, haha.)
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WrappermumMOU 1 year ago
I have a cocktail of migraine types. I suffer since primary school and it is genetic. My mother has one type, my sister and me we have migraine type cocktails 🙃
BunnyMommy 1 year ago
I have chronic migraines. "Complex migraines", the neurologist said. Lots of auras, and hallucinations as well as once I thought I was speaking normally, but heard my voice change to gibberish. It's weird to speak English, and it comes out sounding like a foreign language.
#45
Being deaf.
Only 0.22% (roughly 600k people) across all age groups in the US are deaf. More than half are over the age of 65. I've been profoundly deaf since birth, so I'm in an even smaller percent than 0.22%. Lmao
[Source](https://www.gallaudet.edu/office-of-international-affairs/demographics/deaf-employment-reports/).
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
There’s significantly fewer deaf and blind people now that children are vaccinated against measles.
David 1 year ago
My brother is deaf because my mom caught rubella while she was pregnant with him. (near the end of the 50s)
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The Mediterranean Fruit 1 year ago
Me too! My boyfriend has 5 siblings with special needs and they communicate via sign language and i want to be able to talk to them.
Load More Replies... Leoninus Fate 1 year ago
it's not that im deaf... it's that I have no full ear canals as well!, I was born without them, I have to wear a BAHA hearing aid, it's attached to my shull just behind my ear, my ear looks fully normal till you try to look in it and then there's just suddenly a place of skin over the ear hole, and behind that a small layer of bone from the skull, we weren't able to fix it while I was younger mostly due to hugely F uped childhood, but at 16 my adopted mom offered to have it fixed.... but by then could hear ok in a way and i enjoyed peoples reactions to it {it's so funny if someone asks "are you deaf?" I get to say "Yep and blind too!" and point to my right eye}
#46
Distance runners. My marathon PR is faster than 99% of marathon finishers world wide. That said, the distance from my time to the world record is about the same as from the 70th percentile to me.
#47
According to the census, my town is 1% black. So that means it's just me.
Edit: Woodstock, CT POP: 8221 The racial makeup of the town was 97.2% White, 0.4% African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.000001% Pacific Islander, 0.4% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I'm probably 1% or 0000000.5% here! I'm a Full Blood Native American Indian in Scotland!!! Unless it's the Fringe Festival? I've never met another N8V in the UK apart from one guy who was doing a show at the Fringe!
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
There are 33 Black people in Woodstock and one person is 0.01% so not sure what happened to the Pacific Islander.
Victor Botha 1 year ago (edited)
Woodstock is a suburb of Cape Town, so not a town in it's own right. Also where do the African Americans come from? We live in Africa, they are more likely natural born black Africans, the whites are natural born white Africans as are the Asians etc. I'm curious and interested to know where the OP got their stats and information from?
#48
Technically this is 2% but I have curly blonde hair I don’t really have a trait that’s 1%.
tabitha donnelly 1 year ago
My sister has that? I don't think it's that rare. I have curly ginger hair and green eyes I don't know how rare that is.
ShellO 1 year ago
I have curly blonde hair too. I don't think it's rare either!
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Kelly Scott 1 year ago (edited)
I'm a failed redhead. I have brown hair with red highlights and hazel eyes that look green if I put on anything green. And curl? Geez, does my hair curl. It's the biggest pain in the butt. Ringlets all the way. It's getting worse as I get older, too. I always say I'll look like a flipping dandelion gone to seed before I'm done.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I feel you. My hair is curly and thick. I can't brush it out while it's dry or I turn into a Chia Pet. The only thing I've found that works is to use a toothed comb or this one brush from Mermade (called the Quick Dry Brush) when my hair is soaking wet. XD That's the ONLY time I can get through the tangles. If I'm having a depressive phase and I don't comb out my hair for a few days, it felts like wool straight into mats like on a neglected longhaired cat/dog :x I've cut it short a few times, but it just poofs out if I do XD I feel your pain!
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Top 1% of sellers on Etsy.
#50
Fewer than 1% of Americans have completed a full marathon, I have completed 10.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
I did two in my 20s, but neither were IN America. Does that count? Also, I blame my knee problems on running. I’ll accept no other explanation than running a marathon for my torn meniscuses.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
I wanted to try and figure out if I fell into anything that was a small percentage of the population. I have green eyes, which makes up about 2% of the world population but I realized I'm part of something even smaller. I did some research and learned that 0.8% of people become US Marines which is cool to be a part of this less than one percent group, but I couldn't find a specific number for those who are women. I know that the Corps is made up of more than 90% men but didn't want to begin to try to work out the math of it all to get a rough percentage. If any of the math wizard pandas or any pandas feel like figuring out that number, it will be greatly appreciated.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
I completed one marathon - the Okinawa Marathon in 1993. One was enough for me.
What do you think ?
WindySwede 1 year ago
Approximately 0,0000000121951219512195% according to Excel
Load More Replies... "Disembodied voice" 1 year ago
I've survived cpr outside of the hospital, also in the hospital but that's not as remarkable.
Sky Render 1 year ago
I've mentioned my biggest rarity before often, but... I was born with XX/XY chimerism, and also with a double genital tubercle. Both are very rare, but both simultaneously is so rare that there's no records of it ever happening. As an unusual side-effect of the chimerism, the two sets are different sexes, and both are fully functional. The doctors tried to seal away the female parts with a skin graft, likely believing that the parts would just "go away" somehow; they did not and that skin graft just gives me zero direct access to my female anatomy plus regular issues during periods.
Isaac Harvey 1 year ago
My name was misspelled on my first AAA insurance card as "IAFAC HARVEY."
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
I’m a homosexual with heterochromia, have a form of synesthesia called “chromesthesia” and am fully ambidextrous. I’m one of the few Americans with duel citizenship and less than 1000 people worldwide have my specific job. None of these things enhance or highlight my flippant character or irreverent personality.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
My me it is the combination of unusual events. I completed eight college degrees. I have been trapped in two malfunctioning elevators. I have been on five volcanoes while they were erupting. I have been bitten by two rattlesnakes, stuck in quicksand, struck by lightning, run over by a van, and had an anaphylactic allergic reaction to a bee sting. I have been in five car crashes, two motorcycle crashes, and one helicopter crash. I got shot once and stabbed twice. I have broken nine bones, one at a time. I have had 32 jobs.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
me too, though my all time rank out of all users is 125,... but i guess when you consider the site probably has thousands, is still a bit impressive xD
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T 1 year ago
It's more like 2-4% of the population, but I'm pretty sure I have lexical-gustatory (LG) synesthesia, which is a long way of saying I taste words.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
Oh that’s really cool! What do your favourite words taste like?
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WindySwede 1 year ago
Approximately 0,0000000121951219512195% according to Excel
Load More Replies... "Disembodied voice" 1 year ago
I've survived cpr outside of the hospital, also in the hospital but that's not as remarkable.
Sky Render 1 year ago
I've mentioned my biggest rarity before often, but... I was born with XX/XY chimerism, and also with a double genital tubercle. Both are very rare, but both simultaneously is so rare that there's no records of it ever happening. As an unusual side-effect of the chimerism, the two sets are different sexes, and both are fully functional. The doctors tried to seal away the female parts with a skin graft, likely believing that the parts would just "go away" somehow; they did not and that skin graft just gives me zero direct access to my female anatomy plus regular issues during periods.
Isaac Harvey 1 year ago
My name was misspelled on my first AAA insurance card as "IAFAC HARVEY."
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
I’m a homosexual with heterochromia, have a form of synesthesia called “chromesthesia” and am fully ambidextrous. I’m one of the few Americans with duel citizenship and less than 1000 people worldwide have my specific job. None of these things enhance or highlight my flippant character or irreverent personality.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
My me it is the combination of unusual events. I completed eight college degrees. I have been trapped in two malfunctioning elevators. I have been on five volcanoes while they were erupting. I have been bitten by two rattlesnakes, stuck in quicksand, struck by lightning, run over by a van, and had an anaphylactic allergic reaction to a bee sting. I have been in five car crashes, two motorcycle crashes, and one helicopter crash. I got shot once and stabbed twice. I have broken nine bones, one at a time. I have had 32 jobs.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
me too, though my all time rank out of all users is 125,... but i guess when you consider the site probably has thousands, is still a bit impressive xD
Load More Replies... T 1 year ago
It's more like 2-4% of the population, but I'm pretty sure I have lexical-gustatory (LG) synesthesia, which is a long way of saying I taste words.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
Oh that’s really cool! What do your favourite words taste like?
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