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“Lived Like This Until 21”: 50 Times People Found Out Their Bodies Were Different From The ‘Norm’
Many of us are so used to how we perceive things that we barely think about how things could be different, on a sensory level. But here’s the rub: the way we see, hear, and interact with the world in our day-to-day lives can be very different from how others experience it. Sometimes, it takes a doctor’s appointment, a random test, or an objective outsider’s comment to make us realize that something’s very different about our bodies.
Some of the braver members of the AskReddit community opened up about their personal biological quirks that they were stunned to learn about, from suddenly realizing that they’re color-blind to having rare allergies and more. Keep scrolling for their stories.
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#1
I was 22 when I found out I barely had a sense of smell. Random allergy test for something else flagged up some weird lactose intolerance thing that knocks the smelling device in my headholes on its a**e when I eat dairy. Gave up dairy for a few weeks. Turns out the world f*****g stinks, and life without cheese or milky delicious cereal isn't worth living. No regrets.
[eats large piece of cheese].
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
I lost smell and taste from covid before there was a vaccine. It took me almost 2 years to get all of it back and cheese, which has always been my favorite food was the hardest. Especially Swiss. Then I forgot to get the new booster because I had a foot surgery that was worse than expected and my senses went off again not as bad but steak and Swiss are still off.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
I have the opposite issue. I can smell EVERYTHING! Considering how bad my allergies are and the fact that I always have a runny nose you'd think I'd have a diminished ability. But no, lucky me gets to appreciate every nasty scent that exists. I've actually learned to only breathe through my mouth when something is foul. My parents are getting old and have gone "nose blind". So they frequently ask me check and see if their ancient cat peed somewhere, because they can't tell. So like a Bloodhound I go around their house sniffing carpets and corners until I find something. It's weird, LOL.
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Goddam, that’s now the second thing on this thread I’m wondering if I could have. Mildly lactose intolerant and I barely have any sense of smell
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Have you had Covid? Or possibly had Covid and didn’t realize it. My husband only realized we had Covid the first time when he couldn’t smell his spicy soup. I thought I just had sinus issues. He barely had any symptoms except the smell and taste. The next day I had a fever and felt like I got run over by a truck. That’s when we went and got tested. He still felt fine.
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Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
I can't smell at all unless I smoke. Since I quit in 2017, I live in a scentless world.
barkbark25 1 year ago
I found out the world stinks when I quit smoking. I also couldn't eat spicy food anymore as it burned my mouth. I'm glad I quit smoking, but I miss all the delicious Mexican food. I can still tolerate tabasco on my eggs.
Donna Katsuranis 1 year ago
Funny that they chose a picture of a forsythia, which is largely scentless
DaveC 1 year ago
Yep. Same here. My son smelled garlic I was cooking from across the room and I had to put my nose in the pan to detect any. Finally he said, What's your favorite childhood smell? *crickets* Yeah Dad, it's you. They know if my wife passes they'll have to hire some one to test my food so I can tell if something's off that isn't visually obvious. On the plus side, I have my own bathroom because the cats litterbox is there..
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#2
I didn't know until I was in my twenties that people had different faces, unless there was something usual like a really big nose or a scar. Turns out I have me some face blindness. When I was working in a grocery store around 2000, I saw this woman walk in. I thought she was really cute, so I watched her as she shopped in the produce section. It wasn't until she came up to me a greeted me that I realized she was my then live-in girlfriend. Once I learned there was something called face blindness, it kind of changed my life.
Bored Seb 1 year ago
welcome to the club :) it helped me a lot to when I understand that. It also explained why I've always been more attracted by very specific faces/features. When I tell someone "you're different that others" that 150% true!
Clown fish 1 year ago
Lol I thought I was odd for years as I'm never to sure if it's the same person who just walked back in a room that walked out. I'm so cr#p at recognising people and I'm cr#p at names as well
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Sadie Dingfelder (ɹǝplǝɟƃuᴉp ǝᴉpɐS) 1 year ago
I didn’t realize this till my 40s and I’m a neuroscience reporter! Wrote a book about it called “Do I Know You?”
M O'Connell 1 year ago
Given how relevant this is, I'll plug you: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sadie-dingfelder/do-i-know-you/9780316545143/
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Dave Walters 1 year ago
I have that to a degree. It's not terrible but I can see the same person daily for years and not always immediately realise that I know them. It does sometimes give people the wrong impression that I'm standoffish or rude - I'm not I'm quite snuggly actually.
Calane E. Vanya 1 year ago
I don't think I have a full blown prosopagnosia, but even just poor memory for faces is really problematic. I'm so glad when I get to know someone and she/he has distinctive facial features or distinguishing marks. It's a great relief not to have to recognize someone mostly by their voice and gestures.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
this kind of sounds like me, but im not sure if its face blindness or its just that everyone in my school looks exactly the same .-.
Linda Riebel 1 year ago
Prosopagnosia. Believe it or not, Jane Goodall has it! Yet SHE's the first one who could identify individual chimpanzees in the wild. Long live Jane G.!
Janissary35680 1 year ago
I have this too. With a few exceptions I recognize people by their voices and body language.
Gracie Mae 1 year ago
i have to wonder if face blindness can be selective, if that's the right word. The last 2 times I ran into a family member in public, I thought it was them, but wasn't sure until they approached me & said something. or maybe it's my near-sightedness, even though i was wearing my glasses? weird
#3
I thought music has colours for everyone until I realised no one understands what i'm talking about. 10 years later I discovered there's actually a name for it - synaesthesia. Thanks, criminal minds :)
Lyoness 1 year ago
Numbers have always had colours to me. Diseases are also male or female. That second one got me some seriously strange looks the first time I said it out loud. Probably because it's a strange thing to think. 😆
Ash 1 year ago
Oo, that's interesting! A lot of things have genders to me, but not diseases. Tho I can really see it...
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Depressed Lesbian(she/they/he) 1 year ago
Omg I have this and it’s magical. C is a coral, d is light blue and so on. Also have perfect pitch
Winnie the Moo 1 year ago
Do people tend to see the same colors with the same notes?
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can this work for smells and taste? because when i smell and taste things, its like theres colors, and im wondering if this is synaesthesia
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
Yes. I have 2 weaker forms of gustatory synesthesia. Certain words, names & colors seem to affect me most with taste. It's not something I talk about much because people already think I'm odd enough 🫤
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Lord of the wings 1 year ago
I see colors from people names. Welcome to the synaesthesia club!
Aline Vargas 1 year ago (edited)
I also have synaesthesia, but I sense smells from stuff that don't smell like pictures and sounds. Also I can taste some sounds.
Ash 1 year ago
There was a character in the later seasons of the show Heroes that had colored-music synaesthesia, and the way they portrayed it was absolutely gorgeous.
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Music not only has colors, but different sounds have shapes and the music moves as it plays.
Everybody has their biological and behavioral quirks; there’s no way around it. But they can be a real nuisance. Someone might feel self-conscious that their ears are a certain shape or that they constantly sneeze whenever they get near cute and cuddly animals. Someone else might find it exhausting that they can’t dine out with their friends as often as they’d like due to their numerous food allergies. Or someone’s still shocked that they’re actually color-blind and literally see their environment differently from most other people.
It can be emotionally taxing dealing with all of this. And nobody’s dismissing the impact of these biological quirks. However, reframing how you view them can reduce some of that anxiety you feel. For instance, instead of seeing your color blindness as a ‘burden,’ you could try to see it as something of a superpower or cool mutation.
On the other hand, instead of focusing on your uniqueness, you could go the other way and look for commonality. There are likely millions of other people around the globe with similar genetic mutations as you. There’s strength in finding a community that can support you.
#4
Period pains that no otc d***s would touch and that kept me home from school several days every month.
I was just told it was the curse of being a woman and that periods are supposed to hurt.
Turns out I have endometriosis and the pain was caused by internal bleeding every period.
Thanks mom.
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
My periods got so much better but not great after I got on the pill at 16. I think people need to talk more about period control, not birth control. It can be both. When I was around 40 I was surprised that there was only 1 person who would give an IUD to a woman who had never had children. Even though my neurologist suggested it, I knew the risk and my husband and I didn’t want kids. A vasectomy would be $4k the IUD was free. Luckily for my 2nd one I found a new one and she’s great. It it has been so great. I get some occasional spotting every few months or some cramps. Unfortunately it’s true Covid did mess with my periods and cause more periods but still not like I had in my teens thru 30s. No girl or woman should have to suffer when there are so many options. Get a second opinion. I wish I would have been brave enough when I was younger.
Mabelbabel 1 year ago
When my daughter was 15(she's now 18, so this was fairly recently), she'd had two years of her periods getting heavier and longer. She was bleeding 2 weeks every month, with maybe 5-10 days in between. She was having to change tampons every 20 min at times. We saw her GP (family doctor, we're in UK), who dismissed it with "You're young, it'll settle." Next GP-young people complain so easily, it's meant to be sore" Third GP in the practice "I don't put girls under 18 on birth control because it'll encourage them to have sex" We changed practice then, and our new GP immediately sent her for review and a scan, then prescribed birth control which is helping, along with iron, because she was anaemic at this point. It's so hard to advocate when so many doctors remain dismissive and uncaring.
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Surly Scot 1 year ago
23yrs of agony before i finally evicted my uterus. No doctor would help me in the UK or USA, finally found an OBGYN who would believe me. When she got inside she was astonished at how bad it was. Endometriotic cyst on left ovary, endometriotic adhesions spiderwebbing all through my pelvic region and had started growing onto my bowel and bladder, pelvic adhesion disease where my left ovary and whole left side of uterus were 'glued' to the pelvic wall - so everytime I turned to the right my body was tugging on my reproductive organs. Periods were agony, on the floor screaming, eyes rolling back in my head, fighting to stay conscious. Doctors need to stop dismissing women's pain as everyday issues.
Disgruntled Pelican 1 year ago
Thought it was normal to be passing out at 12 and bleeding for 2+ weeks at a time without ever knowing when it would start again because my mom went through the same thing. Nope. Basically ALL the women on my mom's side have endometriosis. No one started talking about it until I had a laparoscopy a couple years ago and a hysterectomy over the summer.
Stephanie Barr 1 year ago
When my 14-year-old daughter was in so much pain she threw up, she went right to the doctor.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Yup. Same here. Took years of suffering before a doctor would take me seriously. By that time it had destroyed both my tubes. I don't want kid anyway, but I would have been devastated if I did. :(
Dawnieangel76 1 year ago
I had 2 heavy, painful periods a month for 20-odd years. I saw dozens of gynes and NOBODY was ever able to figure out why, nor how to fix it. I already have pernicious anemia that sure as Hell didn't help! I finally hit early menopause earlier this year, and all the hot flashes in the world are worth not having to buy & carry around dozens of ultra tampons & pads to backup the near constant flow...ingesting way too many ibuprofen & Tylenol to try & even take the edge off the pain.
Gracie Mae 1 year ago
THIS! Same thing & didn't find out until i was in my 30s--thankfully a complete hysterectomy took care of that!
#5
My science teacher held up a color blind test, the one with all the colored dots, and everyone in class is yelling out the answers and I'm looking at them like the guy at the beginning of Ghostbusters getting shocked and wondering how the girl is getting them right. This cleared up a lot of confusion with my crayons.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 1 year ago
Ishihara Test. Me too in Primary school. Greens and browns mainly.
Fluffbug 1 year ago
One of my kids thought his nans sofa was grey for years (it’s green)
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frederick clause 1 year ago
I'm red/green colour blind and am told that I dressed really weird until I got married.
Tim P 1 year ago
I found out I was colorblind via the same colored dot test. I found out during my entrance physical for the US Naval Academy when I was 18 years old. The USNA does not accept colorblind candidates, so off to a state college for me. I joined the Navy via Officer Candidate School, so I did get my commission as an officer, but as a staff officer where color acuity was not required.
Keith Lancaster 1 year ago
My partner was colour blind. It also caused to not be able to tell left from right.
#6
Being born with only one ear and a few other issues with my face. Potential diagnosis of mild Goldenhar's. I thought it was the best thing ever and totally normal until I got to school and tried to make friends. Nobody likes the ugly freak. Had a new ear created in 2001/2002 by the wonderfully renowned Dr. David Matthews of NC. It failed and had to be removed. They never learned why. I've since accepted it and no longer give a f**k what others think about it.
ChimeraBubbles 1 year ago
People are so cruel to others with facial difference. I don't think making disabled people the villians in films for over a century has helped! The concept of 'disfigured' = evil is as old as time. Glad this person has learned to ignore others, as a physically disabled person myself I know that's not easy.
Kenneth Daniels 1 year ago
Born with a cleft pallette honestly f@$# them if they can't see the person inside
Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
You can get a tiny metal implant and magnetic prosthetic ears that pops right on and right off. I knew a guy who had one of those
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
I wonder if Dr. Dave Matthews was once in a band?
Load More Replies... MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
Good for you, enjoy your life, people are too much about beauty these days anyway.
According to Enchroma, there are a whopping 350 million people who are color-blind on our planet. Though this is far from the majority, it’s such a large minority that you never have to feel alone with your condition if you get diagnosed with it. Literally a third of a billion other human beings know what you’re going through and can potentially guide and support you. That being said, it’s still not an easy life.
Color blindness affects around 1 in 12 men, as well as 1 in 200 women. 90% of color-blind people admitted that it does affect them at work, while 75% said that they need their colleagues’ help to verify certain colors.
Around half of students with this condition are less interested in drawing, painting, and art galleries. And more than half of color-blind women revealed that they left out of activities like shopping, makeup, and fashion, where color plays a key role. Furthermore, nearly half of all color-blind people didn’t find out about their condition until the 7th grade.
#7
My internal monologue is entirely in song. My mind is a musical and I didn't know that was odd till I was talking to my GF when I was like 25...
howdylee 1 year ago
I wonder if more people think in song/music, and if there'd be a correlation to whether or not they like musicals.
LB 1 year ago
Or would they think everything that is not a musical is like, earily silent?
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Calane E. Vanya 1 year ago
Oh, that one is something I've never heard of. I imagine something like this as a nightmare, because just hearing "earworm" songs is annoying enough. I wonder what about this person dreams.
highwaycrossingfrog 10 months ago (edited)
That's pretty cool! I love musicals and am musically-minded. My internal monologue went crazy last year. Specifically when I turned on my portable heater I would hear it playing music under the sound of the fan, and if I was somewhere quiet I would get mad sound in my head, like nonsense words or celebrities' voices saying random stuff, usually accompanied by a couple of pop songs switching back and forth like a remix. At the time I thought "Huh, never noticed that before". It wasn't until I got to this winter and my heater didn't sing to me anymore I realised all the random stuff had gone away. At the time I was going through a stressful work and financial situation, although I didn't feel or act stressed. I guess it just manifested in my brain!
Grace Note 1 year ago
Odd to me is people who don't have an internal monologue. I don't know how I'd cope without my inner voice annoying as she can sometimes be!
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I never knew some people only dream in black & white. How boring!
#8
Being able to dislocate one of my shoulders at will.
An orthopaedic consultant then told me that I shouldn't do it even if the Queen asked me to. Fortunately that situation has never actually arisen.
Linda R 1 year ago
I used to do that, too, until doc said one day I might not be able to pop it back in as I get older. I'm older, and I can understand why it could be a problem. Stuff doesn't work like it used to.
My O My 1 year ago
On the plus side: it doesn't pop out randomly anymore with increasing age
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g2jz2jvpcd 1 year ago
I play cello and my arms are too short so I dislocate my arm sometimes on purpose.
Grudge-holding Treefrog 1 year ago
One of my friends can do this. My shoulders dislocated on a regular basis, but I can’t do it on command
Michelle Rutherford 1 year ago
Ahhhh, hyper mobility! I have this - it's not good. My shoulder dislocates at random, quite often when I'm sleeping or relaxed. Absolutely painful experience. I sympathise x
#9
I genuinely believed that everyone's hands and feet turned blue in the winter, and hurt all the time during the summer, or in high temperatures.
Turns out I just have Reynaud's Phenomenon.
Ladedah 1 year ago (edited)
Mine's not quite that bad. Worst in the spring and fall when temps seem like they should be OK to trust (around 40-60°F), but then my body decides to take it back. Freezer aisles and stores with great air conditioning suck in the summer for the same reason. My husband likes to tease that I have "Dead people feet" when I get bad episodes in the winter. I've found that it's keeping everything else warm (core, legs, arms, head) that solves it more so than putting on warm socks or gloves.
H Wiley 1 year ago
I have vasculitis (circulation issues cause by autoimmune). Thanks for the last sentence because I am so sick of hearing " just put on socks/slippers".
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RM 1 year ago
Have this too - my fingers go white, the knuckles on my hands go red and the backs of my hands purple, my toes go while too. No feeling in them for a while but if you go past that point and don't get yourself inside to warm up, it then hurts. A lot. Feels like every fingertip has been hit with a hammer and all you can do is sit and suffer until your hands warm up again. About 8 months of the year here in the UK I have numb fingers to some degree. In the middle of a heatwave, I can walk into a shop where there is Aircon on and my hands go numb. If you have Raynaud's, you also feel the cold more as well. Other people are a nightmare with things like aircon and opening windows, making places cold for no reason. No idea how many times I've heard "don't be stupid, it's not cold" or "but I'm too warm". Yeah, you can take your coat off to cool down, I literally cannot get warm or feel my hands.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Raynaud's this severe only occurs as a secondary effect to other illnesses, and is incredibly rare even then, a less than 1% chance with secondary raynaud's.
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Perhaps a fellow panda has an idea: mostly in autumn and the beginning of winter my hands hurt. My finger bones and joints hurt and I can only move my fingers slowly and lack the usual strength. Nothing helps
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Maybe it's a dialect thing, but to me and the docs here, it pronounced how it is spelt.
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Anna Drever 1 year ago
I don’t seem to lose the circulation in my feet, only my hands. Perhaps because my feet are usually covered when I go out in the cold.
pineapple87 1 year ago
I had a colleague with this, didn't know it was a condition with a name
What are some of your biological quirks that you were shocked to learn about, dear Pandas? How did you realize that your life experience is different from that of the folks around you?
How do your biological differences affect your life, whether for better or for worse? What advice would you give anyone who’s shocked to learn that their body works rather unusually? Let us know in the comments!
#10
My best friend got glasses when she was 10. Until that point she had no idea that trees had individual leaves on them, she thought they were just green blobs on brown trunks like you draw when you are a kid.
Edit: To clarify, of course she knew they had leaves, but she just thought they fell from the big fluffy tree blobs. Not sure about if she had climbed a tree, maybe she was just too busy playing to make the connection.
David Paterson 1 year ago
My first words after getting my first pair of glasses "I can see every leaf on that tree".
Alro 1 year ago
my first memory too after receiving glasses at around 8yo, to be able to see clearly the leaves from the neighbour's trees
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Littlemiss 1 year ago
My Dad said this after he got glasses after many years of not needing them.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Well, he obviously needed them, but did not realise.
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Fluffbug 1 year ago
My son had his first eye test when he was 6 and I was told he had severely poor vision, we had no idea because it was normal for him and he was really funny so covered issues by joking. I felt awful, how had I not picked up on it? He’s 26 now and wears glasses or contacts full time.
Papa 1 year ago
My grandson had his first eye test about that same age. When the school nurse who administered the test said he was likely to need glasses to correct the vision in his left eye he casually said "Yes, that's the eye I can't see out of very well." Apparently it never occurred to him to mention it to his parents. Maybe he thought everyone had one eye that didn't work well?
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Tim Richards 1 year ago
My daughter played soccer and one of her teammates left her glasses behind. Not being able to see anything myself, as this girl was getting ready for a throw-in, I said "Throw it to a green blob and not a blue blob". At that point, the blue blob - a ten-year-old girl who didn't understand what I meant - turned and looked at me and said "HEY!" I felt so bad.
Mabelbabel 1 year ago
In my primary school, students sat in alphabetical rows. I ended up on the front row because my surname starts with A. I was fine at schoolwork for the first year or two, but a proper eye test showed I couldn't even read the giant letter at the top of the chart. I'm now -8.5 dioptres in one eye, and -9 in the other. When I first moved in with my now-husband, he thought it was odd that I used different brands of shampoo and conditioner, rather than the same range. I have to buy differently coloured bottles because in the shower, I can't read the label and it helps me recognise body wash, shampoo and conditioner.
Paul Rabit 1 year ago
I remember my grandmother telling me this about a week before I got glasses. She said, 'Paul, when I was a girl, I thought all the trees were one big blur, but then I got glasses and could see all the individual leaves!" I was nine years old, and that memory makes me smile. :)
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
My dad got strong glasses when he was quite young (1930's). His mom felt so bad because she hadn't realized that was why he had so many problems moving around. She'd put a halter and a long leash on him then tie that to the clothesline in the back yard so she could get housework done without having to fish him out of the creek or hear him walk into a tree, again.
#11
The constant ringing in my ears. Took me years to realise that not everyone experienced it and it was actually tinnitus.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Tinnitus has two types - internal and external. Referring to the direction that the sound seems to come from. Internal ringing sounds like it's a sound inside your head, commonly caused by illness or stress. External ringing sounds like an environment sound, commonly caused by ear damage from external factors. I have the former, caused by stress.
Ace 1 year ago (edited)
Mine's definitely from inside, low level and often I can ignore it, but constant, like 24/7; been like that for many years, I always figured it was from riding motorbikes since I was a kid, waay back before anyone thought about wearing earplugs to protect your hearing.
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Ansi 1 year ago
How does your tinnitus sound like? I have a part that sounds like white noice, but I heard a distant firetruck/ambulance emergency beeping too. Sometimes in my car I roll down my carwindo to make sure there's no emergency vehicle around and I'm blocking something.
WindySwede 1 year ago
A constant high pitch note. Also lately, something sounding like an propeller airplane at a distance in only the left ear. Supernice 😅👍🙅♂️
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Hassel Davidhoff 1 year ago (edited)
Much like many of you in the comments I have tinnitus too. Constant ringing, 24/7. The audiologists have told me it's from all the rock and roll I indulged in during my youth as I was in a band. However, if what Kira Okah has posted is accurate then I'm not quite sure. I don't rightly know if my tinnitus is internal or external. It sounds like it's coming from my right ear though that could be an illusion I suppose. Anyway, it's a constant ringing, never goes away. Been about ten years at this point. I guess I've learned to live with it. Though, honestly, if you knew what I'd be willing to do to cure it, you might not respect me. Trust me: one does not realize how truly beautiful silence is until one is robbed of it.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago (edited)
I had the same experience. One day, I was talking to a classmate, and she said something that made me pause (I don't know what it was a long time ago), and I asked what she heard when a room was silent. She said, "Nothing," as if I was dumb. I said, "So you don't hear a constant 'eeeeee'? Nope, I've had tinnitus all my life.
BannedFromABoatShow 1 year ago
I’ve been told it doesn’t run in families. My mom has it, my father-in-law, my sister, me, my husband, and both my daughters. Take that, statistics.
Carla Campbell 1 year ago
I hear what sounds like a muffled radio talk show constantly. Never diagnosed. It's annoying and I can't sleep.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Same. Lately it's driving me nuts! It's only in one ear though.
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oh im so sorry my bestie has this i had ringing in my ears during a sinus infection and i swear i would off myself if i had to deal with this constantly i was awful
AnnaB 1 year ago
I have auditory musical hallucinations. There's a 24/7 song playing in my head. When it started about 4 years ago, I thought I'd left the radio on somewhere in my house. Nope, it's just random songs, voices and all. So far it's all been recognizable songs I like, although it did once start playing the National Anthem! Had an MRI, nothing wrong. It's VERY annoying.
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
Musical ear syndrome. Please read up on it. I had some terrifying experiences with it and didn’t sleep for days. I hope yours doesn’t get that bad. None of my Dr.s have hade any useful remedies. It was Christmas when it first got bad. I was afraid of having a breakdown and feeling suicidal. Diehard was on and my husband had weed and I had vodka. So at 6am on Xmas we blasted the Diehard marathon, smoked weed and did a couple shots. I don’t recommend it for every time but it helped me come down and understand what was going on. DIEHARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE! Fight me on it.
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Hypermobility - apparently it freaks people out if you stand with your knees bending the wrong way.
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
Hypermobility can be a sign of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome which affects connective tissues.
Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago (edited)
It can also be a sign that you have ADHD, oddly enough
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Mason Kronol 1 year ago
I didn’t realize this wasn’t normal. Apparently even though I’m older and out of shape the positions I can get into are um, not some all women can. It confused me why my foot surgeon asked if I was a dancer because of the way I can point my feet. Apparently I could have been a good gymnyst or ballet dancer if my parents would have enrolled me in lessons. I have a habit of sitting on the couch with my right foot almost level wirh my shoulder resting behind me. I guess if I lost weight and stretched enough I could contort a lot more. It grosses my husband out how I can contort my fingers.
Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
Please stop doing all that, it seriously wrecks your joints. Ask me how I know
Load More Replies... A Very Glittery Moth Indeed 1 year ago
It probably just goes against everything people think is right/natural
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
so true!! as a kid i always wondered why i was the only one at pe that could touch the ground without bending my knees, or why it was unusual for someone to bend back so far they look like the letter c, then i found out what hypermobility was last year
E.V. 1 year ago
I have this and people always freak out. Now I'm super conscious when I stand to make sure I don't hyper extend my knees.
glowworm2 1 year ago
I always did it on purpose after realizing it could freak people out.
Load More Replies... V 1 year ago
It doesn't just affect joints either, it can affect any connective tissue. It can cause issues with sinus, digestive and respiratory systems.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Yep, connective tissue issues are a primary one here, especially around the chest - a lot of sternum and rib issues here from it affecting the cartilage.
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My wife has that. She'll stand normal at first, and then...clink...her legs bend like the aliens in The Arrival
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
I remember getting into fights with my cousins and then SHRIEKING when I bent their fingers back, as I saw it "not even that far" apparently, most peoples fingers don't bend backwards on themselves without hurting
#13
Turns out its not normal to have constant feeling of fight or flight due to anxiety.
E.V. 1 year ago
I suffered from this my whole life until I read a book 2 years ago and the author described all her symptoms. Lightbulb moment for sure. Now I'm on medication and everything is pretty chill!
Surly Scot 1 year ago
Lol it's called "itchy feet" in my family (stupid name), me, my mother and grandfather all had it, our anxiety was so strong we constantly felt the need to move house, move job, move country. Any issues arise we suddenly become a flight risk. Been decades of work to overcome this and make myself a predictable and reliable human being, hard to have stability otherwise.
N. 1 year ago
So anxiety is a symptom of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. You can ask your doctor to check not just your thyroid hormones but the ANTIBODIES. This might be something you can fix. Also, beta blockers worked a miracle on my anxiety before I was diagnosed with hashimoto's.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
It's also a symptom of Graves Disease. It can make you very shaky.
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EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
I have cptsd and it's horrible living like that. It can really take over your life
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
I’m in my 60s and finally treating the anxiety that has plagued me all my life. I always thought it was normal to feel like this.
Alex Barnett 1 year ago
My parents tell me about times when I was a little kid having panic attacks and passing out. It's made me reclusive and antisocial. I'm very lonely, my family is the only reason I'm still here.
ManuelQue 1 year ago
If you've been able to get any treatment for it I really hope it helps. I don't know if there are any organizations that match up pen pals who exchange emails or actual letters but that might be a safe way to ease your isolation a wee bit.
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Food would routinely be very hard to swallow.
Often would get stuck and involve either throwing it up or forcing it down with other food or water.
Lived like this until 21.
Turns out I had eosinophilic esophagitis. It's basically a constriction of the esophagus due to allergic reactions that are more or less permanent without treatment.
I sought after medical help, upon my first endoscopy the scope found my throat to be 7mm in diameter.
A normal one is 20mm for comparison. I've since had upwards of 10 dilatations to achieve a normal status of 15mm.
All is well now.
Amanda Bednorz 1 year ago
This runs in my family. My dad, my brother & myself all have it. None of us has really done anything about it other than chewing our food very carefully & we make sure to have lots of water with us while eating.
Ingrid Smith 1 year ago
Go to a GI, for crying out loud! YOu can do food elimination and take meds, and you will feel like a new person.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
My best friend had this. She went on an elimination diet and is now doing great. She did not enjoy having a camera stuck down her throat every month, though.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My dad has the same symptoms but never got an answer about what causes it, despite seeing doctors.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
At one point I had a lap band (weight loss surgery) and developed scar tissue in my esophagus. I had the band removed, but food can still get "stuck" if I'm not careful with chewing. At which point I lift my arms over my head and hope it goes down. If it doesn't, I have to make myself puke. Being stuck is really painful too as you can probably imagine. Luckily I haven't had to make myself puke in years, but I do occasionally have something get temporarily delayed going down. Usually it's meat that I didn't chew enough.
AshHills 1 year ago
Yes. I always thought I had a weak 'Gag Reflex' until a few years ago when I had to have an Endoscopy done. They told me that I had a very strong reflex and while I was in 'Twlight' they had a hard time getting the tube down because, I kept gagging and coughing. They then asked me if I choked often on food. I said, 'Yes, as a child a lot and have had to learn to make sure I really chew my food before swallowing'. That's become interesting to know.
Grace Note 1 year ago
Mine started over twenty years ago. It started out as one thing but others followed. Lots of dilatations. It got a lot worse in the last four years three trips to A&E because a tablet or food was stuck for more than 24 hours. Last year's visit was to a new hospital (I moved) and things went ballistic. After many biopsies - they refused to accept questionable results - cancer was found. Chemo and radiotherapy started together in Jan this year. It worked! Within a month a new tumour arrived and I could barely swallow water. A stent was put in my oesophagus but it perforated it. Emergency surgery, oesophagetomy with a better than average chance of death. But! New oesophagus meant cancer free! Currently on immunotherapy, weak but alive and able to eat most things in v small amounts. My stomach is now tiny. Never ignore these problems. Please.
#15
I didn't realize people breathed through their noses till I was 18. I thought they were just there for occasionally smelling things. Turns out I had a severely deviated septum.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I don't breathe through my nose well, sometimes not at all. Depends how blocked my sinus' are. I'm allergic to so many things...
Fire Singer 1 year ago
Same! If I can breathe through my nose it's only one nostril at a time. My husband likes to play "which nostril works" and will randomly push on one side of my nose to plug it and see if the other side can breathe lol!
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Cthulhu Kitty 1 year ago
Been there. Best decision was to have the surgery to fix and also shave down the nodes. So much less sinus infections and subsequent bronchitis from laryngitis. On the other hand made scuba easier cause I never used my nose to breathe
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
I had that problem for decades, had my septum fixed but still have sinus issues. The trio of doctors who evaluated me over 17 years ago decided to just call it non-allergic rhinitus. It means my nose runs or gets stuffed up and they don't know why so we just treat the symptoms.
Mad McQueen 1 year ago
Funny enough I never open my mouth to breath. Always use my nose. Even sleeping. But I'll snore with my mouth closed too. lol. Deff made it hard to swim under water.
Dawnieangel76 1 year ago
I can't breath well through my nostrils either. Former stepdad broke my nose with a punch, and it was never fixed, so now my nostrils collapse inwards when I breathe. I have to be a mouth breather or suffocate.
#16
The two little toes next to my big toe are connected part way up. My mums are the same. Didn't know it was weird until i bought toe socks when i was about 10 and they really hurt my toes so i told my dad and he was just like yeah you and your mum are actual freaks.
Ansi 1 year ago
Is webbed toes really that big of a deal? Feels like this should be further down on the list. (The most common webbbed toes are the second and third toe.) I think my feet looks more normal. On your hand where the fingers are attached you get a little "slope" from the first to last fingers attachment points. I have that but with my toes. 🤷 Seeing my husbands toes are like seeing a hand with the thumb attached at the index finger. They are like long spiderlegs or something. It kind of creeps me out. Link to wikipedia about webbed toes, mine looks like the example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webbed_toes
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
from my mums side, my little toenail on each foot grows upwards in a spike, and curves over. I call it my velociraptor claw. usually keep it trimmed down though, otherwise I'd get through a lot ofsocks.
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
My toes are weird. The first 3 are the same length then the last 2 are seriously shorter than the first 3. It's not a gradual slope from the big toe to the pinky toe like most other people.
Peter Warholm 1 year ago
I have the same 'feature' partial on one side on the other they are joined all the way.
#17
My friend has a 3-inch tail, he didn't seem to think that was abnormal until I told him no one else has tails.
Veronica Monell 1 year ago
This reminds me of the movie Shallow Hal! Jason Alexander's character (George from Seinfeld for anyone wondering) has that and you see it at the end of the movie.
Jocelyn Webster 1 year ago
Technically speaking we all have tails.. just some more prominent than others.
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
My little brother thought he had a tail until our big brother told him it was his penis
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
It is possible in some cases, depending on if muscles and nerves are also components of said tail.
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#18
For decades I just sort of assumed everyone's head would fill up with these terrifying, violent scenarios that would make you feel like a terrible person. It was either that or I was a psychopath. I figured everyone felt the need to do stupid little things like me, but it turns out saying a made-up prayer in your head every time you have a violent intrusive thought to keep yourself from going to hell is abnormal.
I found out much later that OCD wasn't always just counting steps while wanting everything neat and tidy.
(edit): To anyone reading or commenting here, now thinking they have OCD or any other related illness - trust not what you read on the internet to give you a diagnosis. Take what you've read and written here and think long and hard; if you still feel that my experience fits your symptoms, talk to your doctor, male an appointment with a therapist or psychiatrist and be open and honest about what you experience. Leave it to experts who are sitting in front of you to diagnose what you're experiencing.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Ordinary intrusive thoughts are normal and most people shouldn't worry. Obsessive intrusive thoughts, which is from OCD, are a whole other beast, and very unpleasant.
Surly Scot 1 year ago (edited)
Brain won't let me sleep due to this. Struggle falling asleep everynight, found I have to 'smoke' myself into a coma first. Then my brain likes to wake me up from deep sleep at 3am going "hey, remember that annoying thing that happened 10yrs ago, WAKE UP AND THINK ABOUT IT". I dated a narcoleptic for a while and envied him, stupid irony and I know he has a medical condition too, but damn I envied how much sleep he could get.
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Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
I used to do stuff like counting random things in my head or only walking on the black tiles of a checkered floor when I was little, but I got so tired of it that I started forcing myself not to. I'd even sabotage myself if I realized I was doing something like that, forcing myself to step on sidewalk cracks, even though it felt wrong, or throwing in wrong numbers to make myself lose count. After self-sabotaging my intrusive habits enough, eventually I just stopped doing them altogether.
Cthulhu Kitty 1 year ago
Omg please do not self diagnosis. Go to a professional if you have concerns. The amount of people I see that see a tiktok and they are suddenly have some disorder is shocking and then they tell everyone and perpetuate false info and also diminish people who actually have it. Can social media help you realize that maybe something isn't normal and maybe get evaluated, omg yes, but let pros do it. Just because you get distracted sometimes you do not necessarily have ADHD. You have patterns of behaviors that have interfered with your life, relationships, or success repeatedly? Let's really talk.
Amelia Jade 1 year ago
I have ocd and it is exhausting. I finally found an amazing therapist and working on exposure therapy.
Bettye McKee 1 year ago
Mine started at about age 13. It's not severe but can be annoying at times.
Sanfransweety 1 year ago
It wasn't until I was 22, I realized not everyone had anxiety daily. On the phone when my best friend and asked him, "You know that one hour of the day where you get really nervous for no reason," and he had no clue what I was referring to. I literally thought that for an hour a day, people would be nerovus....no matter what the conditions. So, I have that going for me.
Disgruntled Pelican 1 year ago
Welp. Guess I know what I'll be bringing up at therapy tonight. I thought that was all normal as well...
#19
I never thought much about the weird yellowish lumps I'd sometimes find in my mouth until I realised they were tonsil stones and not everyone gets them.
MadderPacker 1 year ago
My tonsil stones are very convenient in that I get them whenever I get stressed, so when I cough up one, that my signal to de-stress and they really do go away.
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago (edited)
Thanks that's really interesting. I will check myself next time i have them.
Load More Replies... George Costanza 1 year ago
Tonsil "stones" are solid colonies of bacteria like Actinomyces that form in the little grooves and pits of the tonsils. That's why they smell and taste terrible.
Nuku Nyara 1 year ago (edited)
I get tonsil stones when I have bad allergies with severe post nasal drip and occasionally when I get food trapped in my tonsils
Courtney Christelle 1 year ago
Not everyone gets them? I thought that was a normal consequence of having tonsils.
Kinshenewa 1 year ago
Tonsil stones aren't normal? I just suddenly feel them in the back of my throat and spend 5-10 minutes sucking on my tongue to pull the stone out from the back of our throat It taste good 😋
#20
I thought everybody got itchy and bumpy in the cold. Then a friend told me my face was terribly swollen. I was diagnosed with "Cold Urticaria". I am literally allergic to the cold. And I live in Michigan.
Spirited7Wolf 1 year ago
My brother had that! Even eating a popsicle would turn his lips blue 😬
kristina law 1 year ago
And here I am allergic to the sun, have lupus, and live in freakin Phoenix. Misery has become my middle name
S Bow 1 year ago
I'm in the Phoenix area too, you have my sympathy, especially after the two summers from hell that we've just had. Normal summers here are bad enough ☹
Load More Replies... Cthulhu Kitty 1 year ago
People are also allergic to the sun and the same treatment for like an allergy to cats. I know people with both and they just take daily antihistamine to combat it
Alien-Gal-19 11 months ago
Come live in Australia. Queensland is hot basically all the time. You'll be good.
DaveC 1 year ago
Knew a guy like that in the Navy. Was from FL. We were in Great Lakes. In the winter. Planned to go to the Antarctic post. Had a massive reaction one day and after lots of testing was told that. I think he was medically discharged or had something put in his file only warm weather postings.
#21
Grew up with PCOS. I thought everyone had periods once every 2 or 3 months which would completely flatten them. I'm talking 10-12 days of pain so bad you can't get out of bed.
whineygingercat 1 year ago
Try no period for 6-8 months, then hemorrhaging for 59 days, with a bonus of MASSIVE blood clots. That was my life from 8th-12th grade.
Sandella 1 year ago
My periods used to be on for 3 weeks and off for one when I first started. Rather than look into it, the gp just stuck me on the pill at age 14, which i remained on for nearenough 10+ years and therefore didn't discover it had pcos until trying to conceive and it making everything harder!
justme 1 year ago (edited)
I have PCOS also and I do not have pain that flattens me. Not even when I've gone 6 months without a period. I think this person might have something else going on too. Maybe endometriosis?
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago (edited)
I know a two people with PCOS, one of them has pain like the OP and the other doesn't. Just because you don't doesn't mean this person doesn't either. Not everyone is the same.
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Lez Be Honest 1 year ago
I was diagnosed with PCOS when I was 27 after 11 years of no periods. I was on the depo shot for 5 of those years then when I went off of it I was told that however long you were on the shot, it can take that long to start again. It was another year and a lot of Dr. visits to figure out what was wrong. Oddly, my dermatologist suggested it...the rest is history
Laserleader 1 year ago
Had 6 mo off 1-2 mo on for 10 years before they started getting closer, and by 40 they were less than 2 weeks off 2 weeks on with a hormone IUD. Early on it was massive blood loss and random sharp pain, and later on in life it turned to cramps with severe soreness and fibrosis pain. PCOS treats everyone different over time.
#22
Even though I have a year long tan thanks to genetics, you could still see all my veins across my whole body. I looked like a human road map. I also shook a lot.
It wasn't until someone mentioned how weird it was that I went to the doctor about it.
Turns out I had been severely deficient in many nutrients for years.
Ladedah 1 year ago (edited)
Are we talking about livedo reticularis? Or is it something else? I've had livedo reticularis my whole life, so I'm assuming it's idiopathic in my case. Anything less than 80°F and it's a wee bit embarrassing. I'm super pale though, so getting a bit of a tan seems to help disguise it in my case.
HTakeover 1 year ago
Something else. Popping veins all over. In OPs case, it was severe vitamin D deficiency plus general vitamin deficiency due to decreased ability to absorb nutrients coupled with a shiatty teen diet of mostly ramen.
Load More Replies... Laserleader 1 year ago
Severe nutrient deficiency can have many causes, but the easiest solution is to eat a large variety of foods, and try new ones as often as possible. When you find ones you crave, give into healty amounts of those cravings.
#23
I didn't know it wasn't normal to start daydreaming during a test or have periods of time when you got hyper-focused to the point of shutting the world around you out.
Until I started studying to become a special education teacher. Then it was like, "Huh... imagine what my life would have been like if someone had actually diagnosed my ADHD while I was still in school...".
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 year ago
I do that all the time and I don't have ADHD. I just like shutting the world out and can do it very well.
Sue 1 year ago
I had my whole 6th grade class yelling my name when I was sneaking a comic behind my school book. I didn't hear until my friend tapped me. And we were in a pod school - it was the whole 6th grade. I always wondered if I was just really good at focusing or if I was ADHD & not paying attention to what was around me.
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Fire Singer 1 year ago
I don't have diagnosed ADHD, but the more I learn about it the more I wonder...
Pandamonium Pandas Pandie 1 year ago
I have ADHD so I feel u girl. only thing is I was diagnosed in 2nd I think so I had a 504 (I also have autism) to meet my needs and help me with this kind of stuff.
Surly Scot 1 year ago
ADHD hyperfocus. I didn't know I was doing this for years. Would get so mentally drawn into something, i forget to go to the bathroom, eat, drink water, to sleep or even take a break. Took a few times of nearly collapsing after a 10hr straight hyperfocus session to start moderating my ways.
Cthulhu Kitty 1 year ago
Glad you got dx'd eventually. Many people get missed, especially girls
Laserleader 1 year ago
ADHD with other LD (working memory disorder, dyslexia, hyperfocus, etc.) Was diagnosed at 13, and knowing helped me pay attention to research and studies about my conditions. It helps at any time in your life to get diagnosed, but medication isn't nessisary unless you are trying to change some aspect about yourself.
#24
Getting an itchy mouth after eating chinese. I figured it was part of the whole "hungry one hour later" thing. Turns out I'm allergic to soy.
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Makes me wonder if I’m slightly allergic to pineapple. I figured it was just really acidic
Bored Seb 1 year ago
nop ; that's normal. When you eat pineapple, pineapple eat you back :) there's something in pineapple that likes meat :)
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Jo Ann Jeffcoat 1 year ago
The itchy mouth is how I discovered I am allergic to walnuts and almonds.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago (edited)
I get this but only after I've eaten a lot of it. There are these dark chocolate covered edamame that I absolutely love, but I can only eat a handful before my throat/ears get itchy. Same with kiwi. Slightly swollen lips and itchy throat/ears. Sucks cuz I also love kiwi.
highwaycrossingfrog 10 months ago
Ah, I had this with grapes, blueberries, and grapefruit. It wasn't till I was on holiday with my partner at the age of 42 and we were having fruit salad for breakfast I asked him "Do grapes make your throat all scratchy?" and he replied "...No". And then I found out I have Oral Allergy Syndrome
#25
I thought everyone had tiny red bumps on their shoulders and arms. Turns out I have keratosis pilaris.
George Costanza 1 year ago
It's fairly common. Not everyone, but a decent percentage of the population has it.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Me too. There's a body scrub I use in the shower that works pretty well on it.
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Amy Roberts 1 year ago
I’ve have that, and on my legs too- and I think it’s had the lucky side effect of my legs being (visibly) hairless. All the other women in my family have hairy legs, but not me, never needed to shave them.
Surly Scot 1 year ago
I have a bad case of this, exfoliators do nothing. Have to have a bath once a week and use a pumice stone on my whole body then moisturize like crazy when I get out. Found that solution myself and makes all the red bumps/blocked follicles go away, doctor kept throwing steroid creams at me that made it worse. She also said to avoid sunlight, but sunbathing makes the condition better.
Deannamite 1 year ago
This could be me-specific, but if I avoid foods I'm sensitive to (white flour, dairy), my skin is much clearer and those bumps go away.
Load More Replies... Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 year ago
I have this on my legs. I exfoliate regularly, but perhaps not regularly enough is these comments are anything to go by. I have extremely pale skin, so they show up really obviously.
Bookworm 1 year ago
No. Severe vitamin D deficiency is rickets. Chicken skin is just a buildup of keratin in your hair follicles.
Load More Replies... KittyMommy 1 year ago
Try using baby oil after your shower. I used to have it really bad on the backs of my arms. I started using it to lock in moisture and after I'd been using it for a few months I'd touched the back of my arms. I kinda sat there for a while trying to figure out what was different. And then it clicked I wasn't feeling as many bumps. I've been using it for a few years now and don't have any bumps
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Occasional crippling headaches where any light or sound would destroy you and sometimes you throw up but to feel better you take a 4 hour nap in the middle of the day. Legit thought all that was normal. In other news, migraine specific prescription pills are a godsend.
whineygingercat 1 year ago
Even better when one eye feels like it's about to explode, and dear lord I wish it would. It might give me some relief
Elizabeth Crosby 1 year ago
the desire to "just put a tiny hole" in my head to relieve the pressure
Load More Replies... Papa 1 year ago
I wish napping helped mine, but if I go to sleep with a minor headache I will usually wake up with it much worse.
Mason Kronol 1 year ago
🤣 thought that was just me! When I was younger, under 40, I hated naps because of the headache and confusion. Other people thought I was crazy. Now sometimes I NEED naps so my how times have changed. My head doesn’t hurt as much but I get much more disoriented on what time and day it is😳
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david stephens 1 year ago
I (44M) have suffered from migraines since I was 12. At 23 was diagnosed with "abdominal migraines" where my "aura" is crippling pain behind right eye. I have found a few triggers over the years (milk, high fructose corn syrup, bananas and kiwis). I still get migraines even avoiding those foods. Recently took to cataloging migraine symptoms with ChatGPT and it has provided me with enough questions/evidence to have my Doc check my thyroid function. Essentiall my migraine issue could be caused by interplay between thyroid and vegus nerve.
ChimeraBubbles 1 year ago
That's interesting. I know there is a link between the vegus nerve and migraines. My migraines are triggered by monthly hormonal changes but are worse if I've been hunched over doing anything like phone scrolling or reading a book (basically stretching or crunching the vegus nerve).
Load More Replies... Fire Singer 1 year ago
I have only had one headache that even remotely could be called a migraine and for anyone who suffers true migraines I am so so so very sorry. Whenever someone says they need a dark room and a nap because of a migraine, they get a dark room and a nap no question.
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
Oof, migraines are awful! I used to get them 2-3 times a year until my oldest was born. Now it's just dehydration when combined with heat over 95°F (35°C). It made visiting my now-ex in-laws in Phoenix just a barrel of fun for me.
Stephanie Barr 1 year ago
Familiar with these types of headaches where you not only understand why people have drilled holes in ancient heads and think it might even be a good idea.
Christy Barrett 1 year ago
I would get migraines whenever I cried. If I cried a lot they would be horrible and would cause me to throw up. I remember once having to take a bath with aromatics (like rosemary) to help ease it as I couldn't take meds by mouth. If my eyes watered up and felt sad from watching a movie or reading they would be milder. I pretty much stopped crying as much as possible to avoid it and now when I cry it doesn't seem to do it anymore. Never looked into why it happened but assume its pretty normal. I also used to get a visual clue (neon squiggly lines in my field of vision) before getting migraines but that doesn't happen as much anymore either.
BookFanatic 1 year ago
Migraines are fun. /s I was told my "complicated migraines" didn't occur often enough to require special medications. So now I take Motrin and then a nap.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago
I get migraines every two weeks or so. I'm hoping menopause will cure it.
#27
I have anosmia (can't smell). When I was younger, I just thought that I was being stupid when people said "ohh, can you smell that?" and I couldn't. However, now I'm older, whenever someone asks if I can smell something I just can't. It became pretty obvious when a manure truck drove past me and a friend one day and I had no reaction.
A Very Glittery Moth Indeed 1 year ago
Most of the time i can’t really smell things. I can smell manure and stuff, but not urine, sweat or flowers that are supposed to smell.(and probably more) I can smell perfume. 🗿
Nichole Harris 1 year ago
Had this problem since COVID.... And some things no longer smell as they once did. For instance, coffee now smells like wet paper
Load More Replies... Veronica Monell 1 year ago
My cousin has this! I remember when we were about 7 and she was 8 she asked me if one of my cousins diapers stunk and needed to be changed. I said eww no why can't you? And she's like oh I can't smell. I still remember how shocked I was then! She is the best cousin and she's thriving without her nose smelling abilities <3
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 year ago
I have the opposite problem. My sense of smell seems to be greater than many people, so I'm the one always asking "what's that smell?" while everyone else looks confused and replies "what smell?!"
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
Horse lover and owner here. I find the smell of manure comforting- especially when combined with the smells of good hay and well oiled tack.
Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
My son seems to be anosmic. He has an intellectual disability so it's difficult to be sure, but he never responds to smelly - one time he had his nose in a clump of garlic flowers and couldn't smell it while I could smell it from across the street!
Paul Rabit 1 year ago
I have a severely limited sense of smell. My mother told me it's more a blessing than a curse because the world has more bad smells than good. It's also a great quality to have if you are dentist (though terrible if there is a gas leak lol!)
#28
That only using the phone on one side was completely normal, and everyone picked a side.
Turns out I'm just deaf in the other ear. Explains why headphones never worked properly for me.
Nikki van Reenen 1 year ago
I had a car accident and went deaf in my right ear (the ear I used for the phone). For ages afterwards, the phone would ring, I would pick it up and put it to my right ear, say hello and nothing. So I'd put the phone down.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago
I'm deaf in my left ear. The lack of directional hearing is the most annoying.
A Very Glittery Moth Indeed 1 year ago (edited)
Don’t people swap ears? (No, not give each other their ears)
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
I pick the phone up with my dominant hand and put it to that ear. So...
Courtney Christelle 1 year ago
I prefer to use my left ear for my phone or ear bud and it’s because I’m slightly hard or hearing in the ear due to my ear canal being oddly curved. Might as well preserved the one good ear.
#29
Looking at the sun makes me sneeze. I know it happens to a lot of people, but I thought it happened to everyone.
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
Yes, and it's hereditary. I'm the 3rd known generation to have it and so does my son.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
i remember as i kid, i thought i was allergic to the sun XD
OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah I've got this too. Not just looking at the sun, but stepping into a sun basked room/ stepping outdoors from a dark space
Roland Nijveld 1 year ago
I have to sneeze when I'm hungry. Haven't come across another who recognises this.
You didn’t know me 2 mins ago 1 year ago
Yup. I sneeze in the sun all the time as well. Playing outdoor sports is very fun, especially the looks you get from people who think you are getting everyone sick.
#30
Getting blisters under your tongue.
It suddenly started when I was 21 - I'd get little blisters that would burst and give me a really horrid taste in my mouth for a couple of seconds. Then it would be fine, and a day or so later a new blister would pop up. It was irritating, but I thought it was like mouth ulcers, nothing serious. I went to the chemist after a couple of weeks and asked if mouth ulcer stuff would work on the blisters - she told me what I was experiencing wasn't at all normal and to go to my dentist.
Turned out, I had the teeniest tumour you've ever seen in your life growing under my tongue. Its location had interfered with a mucus gland and that was causing a build up of mucus to form little blisters and then burst, hence the rancid taste.
It was caught obscenely early because of the mucus build up. If it had went undetected for a longer time, I could have needed more extensive treatment. If it had went on long enough, the cancer could have even spread to other parts of my body and put me in real danger. As it was, once they removed the tumour, that was me cancer-free. It was no more traumatic for me than a trip to the dentist. I'm pretty lucky.
So, feel pretty lucky to have had my little mucus blisters giving me a heads up.
**EDIT:** So, I've apparently sent a lot of people into a bit of a panic by making them think getting oral blisters means they've got cancer. Sorry about that, folks. No panic was intended in the making of this post.
I got blisters because the tumour grew in a way that interfered with a mucus gland. Blisters aren't actually a common symptom of cancer, so if you're getting oral blisters, please don't panic. My case was unusual, and you're probably fine.
I am not a medical professional however, so if you're concerned I encourage you to get checked out by your dentist. Even though you're probably fine, better safe than sorry, right? And getting checked out will help put your mind at ease.
For anyone concerned about mouth cancer, here's a list of the most common symptoms to look out for.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
I'm curious if they actually tested said tumor for cancer cells. So many people hear the word tumor and assume they have cancer but many tumors are benign, meaning non-cancerous. The only way to know for sure is to have the mass tested.
Bookworm 1 year ago
They said it could have spread, which would make it malignant, so I assume they were told that by a doctor 🤷♀️
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Cyber Returns 1 year ago
It's always best to get checked if you have any kind of persistent symptoms
#31
My friend has no mind's eye. He can't picture things in his head.
He didn't know this was unusual until he saw a documentary on it on the BBC earlier this year. He never understood why books had so much descriptive stuff in them and thought 'picture this' was just a phrase.
Maikku 1 year ago
I think my "mind's eye" is somewhat broken. I mean I can understand descriptive stuff and I know what things look like, but I would never ever call it a picture. More like a feeling.
Ash 1 year ago
This is called aphantasia. Psychologists have only recently realized that this is a Thing, and there are a surprising number of people out there with it!
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Zaach 1 year ago
It is called aphantasia (people with it are called aphants) - there is a spectrum from no 'mind's eye' to someone like my friend Steve who can look at a blueprint and build it in his mind. I have no mind's eye but I also have no ability to compare/remember tastes, smells, or sounds. I have probably never heard a song all the way through - within about 8 bars my mind wanders.
Ace 1 year ago
I have extremely good spacial awareness including the ability to assemble things in my head, but I cannot see them. So I don't think your fried Steve's ability is in any way the opposite of aphantasia. Just because I can't "see" a picture of something doesn't mean that I don't know what it looks like.
Load More Replies... AnnaB 1 year ago (edited)
It's called Aphantasia. I have it, too. I also had Alice in Wonderland syndrome when I was a child. Every once in a while everything would go very distant and very small. Like Alice after taking the pill. It would last about 10 minutes and then go back to normal. It hasn't happened since I was about 10 years old. I just recently found out it was an actual 'thing'. I thought I was the only one who experienced it.
Jujumojo 1 year ago
What????!! I thought that was just something that happened.when your eyes were tired like a cramp on your leg l, i think of it like a mental tightness, and then the world gets small a stretching away until things look very distant then it pops back
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John Starr 1 year ago
You mean some people can "see" a giraffe, for example, in their mind? I mean, I know what a giraffe looks like. But to somehow be able to "see" one when there is not one there? That to me seems like an unusual condition.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
It is the most common way people conceive of things. Only about 1% - 4% of the population has aphantasia. So if you can't picture a giraffe or an apple in your head, you're in the minority.
Load More Replies... Surly Scot 1 year ago
That's a little sad, to read a fabulous fantasy novel and not be able to imagine/see the story in your head, the child I was wouldn't have been able to survive life without the ability of imagination.
Joshua 1 year ago
Don't worry, aphants (people with no mental imagery) can still have tons of imagination! Seeing characters/scenes may not be on the cards, but we've still got plenty of bandwidth for fantasy realms
Load More Replies... Never Snarky 1 year ago
I just met someone like this. Not only does she have no mind’s eye, she never has any kind of internal dialog. I can’t even begin to imagine a quiet mind.
#32
I have visual snow, which is sort of TV-like static that overlays your vision. AFAIK, I've had it since birth, or if not I developed it at such a young age that I don't remember a time when I didn't have it. I thought that everyone's vision was the same as mine until I was in my mid-teens.
Ladedah 1 year ago (edited)
I didn't hear about this term until a year or so ago. I, too, thought it was normal. My mind ignores it most of the time, but the second I remember (such as right now) I can see it again. I've had it as long as I can remember, too. I always thought that it's just visible dust (but very tiny, not like the dust motes you see in a beam of sunlight) or particles suspended in the air and reflecting light... It's almost like adding a really fine grain to a clear picture in photoshop. But I can see them in the dark, too. When I was little, I would wave my arms around in the dark at bedtime and it would seemingly swirl like its moving with the wind.
A Jones 1 year ago
I have the same thing. It gets more concentrated in a dimly lit room.
Load More Replies... Mad McQueen 1 year ago
I get eye migraines an it's like looking through a tv of snow but super blinding. Perifriial isn't affected. But if it happens and I'm driving I have to fight it to get safe somewhere. Usually a bit of water or some ibuprofens will ease it in like 20min.
Depressed Lesbian(she/they/he) 1 year ago
Same here. Small black and red dots. I’ve been trying to explain it for ages.
Laserleader 1 year ago
There is a perception filter most people exist with that blends all their cones and rods together so they see solid and sharp world, but some people (especially if they have taken specific hallucinogenics) can actually pay attention to their eye's cones and rods and it creates the "static" effect.
#33
I have scoliosis - not bad enough to be immediately noticeable, but because I'm so aware of it I know that one half of my ribcage sticks out more than the other and one of my shoulders slopes while the other is at an almost 90 degree angle.
I didn't realise there was anything wrong until I was in Year 9 at school and one of the girls in the changing room called me hunchback of Notre Dame.
HTakeover 1 year ago (edited)
Middle school P.E. had quarterly checks for scoliosis. Is that not a thing anymore? Edit: I did a little digging and it's still a thing, but doesn't seem to be as widely done as in the 80s & 90s. But maybe that's anecdotal. Utah and Texas have formal guidelines for schools. The national scoliosis board has a map of which states have programs, which is a little over half, but I didn't go digging into how widespread those programs are.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
We had them as early as grade school. (which for me was in the 80's)
Load More Replies... Surly Scot 1 year ago
20+yrs of back and muscle pain, noticed one shoulder slightly lower than the other, left rib cage juts up into the air when I lay flat but the right side is normal and curved. Years of xrays by medical professionals, doctors telling me it's in my head, even my BF at the time telling me i'm imagining things. Finally went to a good chiropractor who did xrays and immediately pointed out a left leaning curvature from t3-t4. Now receiving proper chiropractic care and didn't know how much pain I was in for so long as I was blocking it out. Thanks to all the doctors who missed it for decades and told me I was delusional, you guys are champs.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
I didn't find out I had scoliosis until was over 60. I have a "C" shape to my spine going from one side of my back to the other. I never could figure out why my shirts always hung crooked on my neck.
Bamamom2boys 1 year ago
I found out when I was in the 3rd grade(40 + years). My current doctor was very upset when he found I that I could have had surgery to correct it. It's really bad.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My coworker didn't know she had scoliosis until last year, when she was 21. Mild enough not to notice it visually and she wasn't getting much pain until then. I think they only found it when looking at a scan for something else.
freakingbee (she/they) 1 year ago
i have severe scoliosis, both curves are 50 degrees and i've had constant pain for four years :(
#34
I get panic attacks and twitch uncontrollably if someone goes too close to my right ear, or if there is a particularly loud sound or even a high or low frequency noise on my right side. Turns out I have Hyperacusis, and many people I know still think I'm making up and just being a wimp.
Debby Keir 1 year ago (edited)
I'm partially deaf - ie one ear has nerve damage, and the other a bit of age related loss. I had Meniere's syndrome for many years (now burned out but causing the deafness) and also have very annoying tinnitus. Lately I've been 'jumping' at some sounds - a brain shock type of thing and can't think for a moment - and now been diagnosed with hyperacusis too. Deaf and hyper hearing!
#35
I thought it was normal to sneeze after drinking beer. Turns out I have an allergy. I do not drink any less after figuring that out.
Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
My daughter always sneezes once when she starts eating chocolate. Doesn't stop her either.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I wonder if it's the sulphites rather than the beer. I know I have to avoid a lot of wines because I am allergic to the sulphites and they make my sinus' stuffy.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
Beer doesn't typically contain sulphites. It's supposed to be made of malted grain, hops, water and maybe a little residual yeast.
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Heather Rhoades 1 year ago
This is actually caused by 'Snasiation'. A hereditary, very minor condition where your stomach nerves are too close to your sneezing nerves. A full stomach will trigger it. Carbs, like beer, aggravate it more. My husband and dad have been making bets for years on whether my mother or I will have a sneezing fit first during Thanksgiving. There is a NYT article about it, which is when I learned about it myself.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
and if you drink enough, you won't remember you sneezed - sneaky solution.
#36
When I would sing, hum or even talk loud my eyes would vibrate and turn 45 degrees. I had superior canal dehiscence. Also was able to hear my eyes moving in my sockets as well as the blood whooshing through my arteries/veins in my neck.
Sue 1 year ago
It's common in albino people, from what my daughter's friend tells me. I thought she just meant she felt them vibrating, but I could actually see it. Once time I looked far to the left & my eyes were stuck & I couldn't get them back forward for several minutes. I thought I was having a stroke. The doc said tired eyes can do that, kind of like a cramp? And I'm on the computer all day long. I also wondered if it was the severe anemia I had but didn't know about until later.
#37
This is being buried because I'm late to the thread but, I was born 2 and a half months early and because of this I formed a hole in the abdomen wall that separates my ball sack and my stomach. Well a small pocked of fluid had formed in the hole not letting it close.
I grew up with this and didn't think anything of it. It would only hurt it I would sneeze, and I didn't do that, that often so I didn't worry.
Well fast forward to when I was 18. I was getting my before college physicals and the doctor saw it and said, "Well that shouldn't be there" and we scheduled the surgery to fix.
3 Days after I had my HS graduation I was getting ready for the surgery. It was suppose to only take 45ish minutes, but it ended up taking 2 and a half hours because of how bad it was.
Apparently the pocked that formed was fused with everything and was a b***h to separate. On top of that my small intestine had started to fall into the pocket. I was told by the doctor that if we had let it go another year I would be dead because my small intestine would have kinked and burst.
tl;dr: Born with a hernia never got it fixed. 18 years later got it fixed. Almost died from waiting that long.
Jubum 1 year ago
My son was born premature and had this too. The pediatrician diagnosed it when he was 3 months old. Before he was operated on a short time later, I had to repeatedly push his intestines into his groin.
DC 1 year ago
That would frighten me. I'd fear to cause damage because I don't feel when it's too far or so. Is it any dangerous, the pushing-in? He well now?
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justme 1 year ago
My guess is the parents knew, live in the US and couldn't afford the surgery. They examine babies thoroughly when they are born there is no way doctors didn't know. And before anyone comes at me I was born and have lived my entire life in the US and yes our insurance/health care system sucks.
Load More Replies... You didn’t know me 2 mins ago 1 year ago
Does anyone else sneeze immediately after they see the word sneeze or hear somebody sneeze?
Dawnieangel76 1 year ago
My grampa was apparently born with a hernia that was never fixed. He was 82 & having surgery for colo-rectal cancer and they decided then to fix it while they were in there. Far as I know, his only problem was having to buy pants that were WAY too big everywhere else on him & had to wear tight belts to hold them up so he'd have room "down there".
#38
I have a bifid uvula. Kind of looks like a ballsack. I thought for the longest time that's what everyone's looked like because, well, how often do you look at other people's uvulas? I can remember as a kid watching the intro to Rugrats where it zooms out from Tommy Pickles crying and you see his and thinking it was weird that they drew it like that, but then I figured some cartoon characters also have 4 fingers so that must just be how they are drawn. I found out my uvula is weird when I was in high school.
Dave Walters 1 year ago
I was convinced I knew what an uvula was but started to get quite concerned the more of this post I read. Turns out I was way out!
Cyber Returns 1 year ago
I've had mine removed as it was oversized and giving breathing issues
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
I had to google what that was (floppy thing in your throat near the back of your mouth)
Dogcat vet (retired) 1 year ago
Dogs and cats don't have uvulas: a picture of a human uvula freaks me out sometimes.
#39
I can make both my calves painfully cramp just by flexing my foot a certain way. Works every time. Like a Charley Horse on command. And if I hold it long enough (20-30 seconds) the pain will start to kind of ease, at which point I can briefly make it cramp by pointing my foot instead.
Apparently this is not normal.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I can do this and also thought it was normal. Doesn't help much when my restless leg syndrome kicks in but does okay while I wait for soluble magnesium kick in.
visacrum 1 year ago
I'm not a healthcare professional, but I'd suggest eating bananas. Not a joke, usually muscle cramps like this are from a potassium deficiency. I used to get cramps exacly as described here (except the post makes it sound fun, mine would wake me up in the middle of sleeping, it was like having an ice cream headache in my calf or quads). I was told (by a health care professional) I needed more potassium. I've been mindful of that ever since. The cramps still happen, but thankfully it's to the order of once every few months instead of multiple times per week. Eat bananas, or some other potassium-rich food!
Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
also magnesium - leg cramps can be both potassium and magnesium deficiency
Load More Replies... Fire Singer 1 year ago
My dad had charley horse issues and could basically do this too. Turns out he was low on potassium and not drinking nearly enough water so was dehydrated all the time. So I'm no doctor by any means, but it could be just a deficiency of some kind of vitamin or something?
Surly Scot 1 year ago
Damn I thought I was just ridiculously unfit. Also have restless leg syndrome, wonder if they're related.....
Inés Olabarria Smith 1 year ago
I’ve been suspecting to have restless leg syndrome myself.
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Eunice Bentley 1 year ago
I also have this delightful parlor trick, however now that I am in my 70's my feet and legs decide on their own when and where they will act up. Thank god for pickle juice. They don't act up at night anymore. It often makes a pedicure a torture because my foot will cramp when being massaged.
#40
I am 32 and thought that everyone has a torus palatinus. I recently asked my sister (who is a doctor) to look at the roof of my mouth as there was a sharp bony part on the lump in the roof of my mouth. I was astounded to find out that not only was the sharp bony part abnormal, but that the whole lump on the roof of my mouth is only shared by a small minority!
Amanda Bednorz 1 year ago
I thought everyone had deep cuts in their tongue (bc that's how you taste stuff) until I was like 15. Turns out I have "Geographic Tongue" & it's kinda rare & pretty cool
Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
It hurts like hell sometimes and can cause a bunch of issues
Load More Replies... Pandamonium Pandas Pandie 1 year ago
I have a bump too! Thought everyone did! But in my defence I'm not gonna be looking in everyone's mouth to check!
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Diane Tucker 1 year ago
I have extra bones *under* my tongue, on the inside of my lower jaw, that protrude and make dental x-rays more painful. Didn't know not everyone had them until l was an adult.
Anony Mouse 1 year ago
I found out about mine when I was 30. It never caused any problems, and my dentist never mentioned it.
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I can not for the life of me feel low/high temperatures as long as it is not pain.
i can put my hand on an (apparently) really hot radiator and don't feel anything, as long as i am not burning myself.
I realized i wasn't normal when I went to a mountain lake with some friends, and jumped in the "ice cold" water, and telling them it was fine.
Bay Bo 1 year ago
My hub used to complain I made my mocha too hot. One day after he complained about scalding his tongue, I laughed at him n kept drinking it, it was almost lukewarm to me
Pandamonium Pandas Pandie 1 year ago
dang! I could enjoy my teamuch more if I could do this! I always get burned.
Load More Replies... Surly Scot 1 year ago
I have it with heat (and have cold urticaria, so a whisp of chilly wind makes me feel like i'm in the arctic). I take boiling hot baths and don't feel the heat, if a cup of tea is not fresh scalding hot from the kettle I can't drink it because it feels lukewarm, I'll give myself a 2nd degree burn from the oven and not notice until the scab forms. Ex used to call me Khaleesi as a joke.
#42
I occasionally have vivid hallucinations; normally they're benign, but every so often I see thousands of ostriches around me. I never realized it was abnormal, until I climbed into the ostrich cage in a zoo because I thought they were all just hallucinations. After I hit one of the ostriches to try and prove it was a hallucination they told me I'm no longer allowed to return to that zoo.
Cyber Returns 1 year ago
After a 2 month stint in hospital with multiple infections including staph caused by the nurse not sterilizing the area for a canula, I keep hallucinating a tall dark shadowy figure with a wide brimmed Stetson style hat pulled low over his face. The colour drains from the world and he holds out a small wooden box made of a light coloured wood. When I'm about to take it, he disappears and everything returns to normal. Sometimes it's just a black smoky spider shaped thing scuttling around in the corner of my vision
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Has anyone figured out WHY you have that specific hallucination - an ostrich isn't that common in most countries?
#43
I have a thing called dermotographia where basically my skin swells whenever you scratch it. I used to think this was normal and just draw things on my thighs and they would swell into pictures. It wasn't until I was like 11 that i realized that other peoples' skin didn't swell up like that when they got scratches. Still pretty cool though cuz its like a non-permaneant notepad on my body since the swelling goes away after about 15 minutes.
Eileen Gormly 1 year ago
I used to be able to write a word up to six letters long on me before the first one would start to fade. Gone by .. hmm. mid-20s for me.
Maisie Rose 1 year ago
Yeah! I have that too! I play tic tac toe on my legs with my best friend sometimes
#44
I'm double jointed and I thought everyone had the same rage of motion. I hurt my friends hand in elementary school because she said she couldn't get her thumb to touch her wrists, and I was convinced she just didn't try hard enough.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
I had a similar incident with my cousin. we were squabbling and I bent her fingers back and couldn't understand why she was making such a big fuss about it. until my sister told me that not everyone's fingers bend back as far as mine
Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
Double jointed isn't a thing but you might have hypermobility issues
Susan Robinson 1 year ago
Not double jointed….that isn't a diagnosis. Hyper flexibility is just that. It can also be indicative of a disease process.
Karen Reeves 1 year ago
I used to be able to put my thumb down on my wrist when I was young. I remember having a thunb bending competition with my friends when I was about 11-12, I won! Can't nowadays, too much arthritis in the joints!
Kristy White 1 year ago
there's no such thing as "double" joints, and if you can get your thumb to touch you wrist, that's actually a sign of Ehlers Danlos syndrome, i know this, because my daughters just been diagnosed with it, and hat was one of the things the MSK consultant checked for
Alien-Gal-19 11 months ago
I'm only double jointed in my thumbs. They go back more than normal. They go like an upside-down L shape. I thought it was normal until I was 11. I thought my friends were weird.
#45
I got stung by fire coral for the first time. Same type of sting as a jellyfish. Well, it was just three little bumps that pussed a little, and was itchy. Took a few months to heal. I thought it was a completely normal reaction.
Fast forward 6 months, a dive buddy gets stung, and i was like oh dont worry, it'll just be annoying and pussy for a little bit. No worries. But for her, it was nothing worse than an ant bite.
Fast forward another 3 monts, i get stung again, this time a larger surface area. Turns into an oozy mess over the weekend.....turns out, im super allergic to Cnidarian stings.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My family is allergic to mosquito bites. They are 2-3x bigger than most people get. I haven't been bitten by one since my early teens though, because I take vitamin B every day. Didn't know that was why until a couple of years ago.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
* AI Overview Learn more No, there is no evidence that vitamin B prevents mosquito bites: Studies Studies dating back to the 1940s and more recent studies have shown no evidence that vitamin B protects against mosquito bites. *
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Not me but a cousin of me asked me if it was weird his third nipple was turning red.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
My significant other has one in his armpit and is terrified of being burnt as a witch/warlock.
tracy black 1 year ago
my dad has a 3rd nipple and i had one mom had it removed when i was born ( wish she hadnt though 0
Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 year ago
This is as good a place as any to post this. When I was in college, there was a gal who not only had a third nipple, it was more like a pubescent breast which was situated maybe five inches below one of her other regularly developed breasts. I had her in a bunch of exercises classes and she always wore a jog bra, so this third breast was always out and about for all to see. I never did sort out how I felt about that.
#47
My wife has no proprioception. Like, she can't do that thing where you close your eyes and touch the third toe on your left foot without having to think about where it is.
The afternoon she figured out that I could do this was really fun with me closing my eyes and her being amazed that I could just TOUCH MY NOSE without having to grope around for it.
Karen Reeves 1 year ago
Spatial awareness is a thing! I had a slight stroke about 14 years ago, and since then I knock into things constantly. Always got bruises on my arms and legs from bumping into things! Makes me super cautious when going up and own stairs though!
highwaycrossingfrog 10 months ago
There is a fascinating book by the neurologist Oliver Sacks in which he discussed case studies of people with brain damage or abnormalities which affects normal brain operation. Some of the differences discussed on this page feature in his tales, including a woman who lost her sense of proprioception, a person with synesthesia, and the title case, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, about a man who lost the ability to recognise faces. I highly recommend it, it's fascinating, insightful, and funny
Bookworm 1 year ago
Having trouble believing this one. Not knowing where your body is in space would probably cause some really obvious symptoms, like tripping all the time because you don't know where your feet are.
Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
My boyfriend has absolutely zero awareness of his bodyparts' location in a given space and constantly bump into things, put his elbow in my ribs when we are cuddling and stuff like that. he is autistic so it probably has something to do with that. I could see him having to look for his own nose every once in a while
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#48
I can move the toe next to my big toe on it's own. It just looks like a little worm head-banging.
Pandamonium Pandas Pandie 1 year ago
I think everyone can do that? not trying to sound judjy it is hard to set a tone in text. I'm actually genuinely curious now tho.
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#49
My facial tics.
Ever since I was a little nipper I've always scrunched my nose and flared my nostrils. My parents just said it was a habit.
It wasnt until I was just browsing wikipedia that I discovered I have torettes.
JP Doyle 1 year ago
Oh yeah, fellow Touretter here. The most annoying part of getting diagnosed is we can stop or symptoms completely for a very limited period. I hated going to the doctor and every time they tried to see my tics I unconsciously suppressed them.The irony is that when we got home the suppression wore off and my tics came back 10x worse. It wasn't until I was 17 and my Da saw a little one inch side bar in the newspaper that listed 10 symptoms and I had 9 of them that we had a clue about what was going on.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Tourette's, OCD and ADHD have a lot of overlapping symptoms, so it can take a while to get the right diagnosis even if you do recognise some of the symptoms. My brother was originally thought to have Tourette's when he was about 4, because he seemed to have some tics. When he saw the psychiatrist though they found these were compulsions rather than tics, so he was diagnosed with OCD. I thought this was interesting, but I didn't think much more about it until I was a teenager and reading a book by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki (in a chapter about swearing and Tourette's) that represented the three conditions as a Venn diagram.
Pandamonium Pandas Pandie 1 year ago
wait, I do that to...like every day. it like this feeling that you have to move ur nose to satisfy...anyone w/touretts can you tell me if this is normal or a symptom?
WhiteClawOfDeath 1 year ago
I just read 'facial tits' and the whole text was just bizarre up until 'tourettes'
#50
I didn't know what circumcision was or that I was circumcised till I was 18 when I came and used public showers in the UK.
Renée Parry 1 year ago
I had asked my first boyfriend if he was circumcised, he replied with you have seen it! That didn't answer my question.
WindySwede 1 year ago
This is why sex ed is important! Also to stop mutilating babies, no matter sex.
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Zedrapazia 1 year ago
It doesn't, it's a cosmetic fücking b******t. Go read a book or an online article and wash your díck properly when you shower instead of writing cràp on the internet!
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Littlemiss 1 year ago (edited)
Interesting post, each time I read these I discover how odd I really am.
A. HAM 1 year ago (edited)
Alright, here’s my oddity. And please, if you’re like me, let me know. I’M ALLERGIC TO MY OWN POOP! Every single time I poop, I have a full on allergy attack. Every. Single. Time. PS, it’s so sexy. Thick, clear mucus pouring out of both sides of my nose, itchy, watery eyes, the works. And, as soon as I’m done, it disappears as quickly as it came on. I’ve yet to meet another person this happens to, so let me know if you’re a freak like me. (Edited to add, it is not an allergy to something in the bathroom. This has happened for the last 40+ years, regardless of the bathroom I use.)
Leah Jay 1 year ago
https://www.marshallindependent.com/uncategorized/2020/07/defecation-rhinorrhea/ It's pretty common
Load More Replies... Ladedah 1 year ago (edited)
Dont know what kind of nonsense is going on with this article's commenting function. Three of my comments immediately disappeared and would not reappear until I tried to repost a second time... and then both comments show up at once 🙄
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
BP's been glitching all over the place ever since they introduced Premium.
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 1 year ago
Most of my oddities are hereditary. Like my head tremor. Everyone on my dad's side gets it when they're about 40. My oncology nurse was the first to spot it and was quite concerned until I explained--several times to several different people--that it wasn't a side effect of chemo and it wasn't Parkinson's.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
i liked seeing how many others had hypermobility. it was nice knowing im not the only person who can twist both my arms and legs around, or stand on one leg and bring the other foot past my hip, or bend only the first joint of each finger. nice to know its not just me who can freak out my classmates like that
glowworm2 1 year ago
I can lick my elbows. My elbows have hypermobility. I can twist my arm around and it looks weird. I can make my elbows meet at the front of my body. Used to be able to do it from the back too but not any more.
Load More Replies... Sadie Dingfelder (ɹǝplǝɟƃuᴉp ǝᴉpɐS) 1 year ago
I wrote a whole book about this : the new science of subjectivity! It’s called Do I Know You? Because it’s about how we are often mistaken about other people’s experiences, including the people closest to us!
Surly Scot 1 year ago
Keratosis Pilaris, Cold Urticaria, Latex Allergy, Latex-Fruit Allergy, Heterochromia, Hypoglycemia, Scoliosis, ADHD, oversized lungs, Asthma, Hypothyroidism, flat feet causing knock knees, allergic to all weed/tree/grass pollen in USA, allergic to chocolate (f*ck you universe), severe corn allergy......who do I talk to about getting a refund on this body? I'm a dissatisfied customer and need to leave a 1star review.
Mad McQueen 1 year ago
I taught myself to speed read in grade school. I would read ahead as we were doing paragraphs and get yelled at because I was way out of place. But sometimes when it was just before my turn I learned to back track an when it was my turn I would pronounce everything perfectly. It was basically taking common phrases and scanning sentences for key words then checking the words and breaking them down til I could say it in my head. Then moving on. Loved to read. I can still eat books in few days if given the time. lol.
Sue 1 year ago
I have no patience for videos, except movies. I don't want to listen to EVERY SINGLE WORD.
Load More Replies... highwaycrossingfrog 10 months ago
There is a fascinating book by the neurologist Oliver Sacks in which he discussed case studies of people he'd assessed with brain damage or abnormalities which affect normal brain operation. Some of the differences discussed on this page feature in his tales, including a woman who lost her sense of proprioception, a person with synesthesia, and the title case, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, about a man who lost the ability to recognise faces. I highly recommend it, it's fascinating, insightful, and funny
Littlemiss 1 year ago (edited)
Interesting post, each time I read these I discover how odd I really am.
A. HAM 1 year ago (edited)
Alright, here’s my oddity. And please, if you’re like me, let me know. I’M ALLERGIC TO MY OWN POOP! Every single time I poop, I have a full on allergy attack. Every. Single. Time. PS, it’s so sexy. Thick, clear mucus pouring out of both sides of my nose, itchy, watery eyes, the works. And, as soon as I’m done, it disappears as quickly as it came on. I’ve yet to meet another person this happens to, so let me know if you’re a freak like me. (Edited to add, it is not an allergy to something in the bathroom. This has happened for the last 40+ years, regardless of the bathroom I use.)
Leah Jay 1 year ago
https://www.marshallindependent.com/uncategorized/2020/07/defecation-rhinorrhea/ It's pretty common
Load More Replies... Ladedah 1 year ago (edited)
Dont know what kind of nonsense is going on with this article's commenting function. Three of my comments immediately disappeared and would not reappear until I tried to repost a second time... and then both comments show up at once 🙄
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
BP's been glitching all over the place ever since they introduced Premium.
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 1 year ago
Most of my oddities are hereditary. Like my head tremor. Everyone on my dad's side gets it when they're about 40. My oncology nurse was the first to spot it and was quite concerned until I explained--several times to several different people--that it wasn't a side effect of chemo and it wasn't Parkinson's.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
i liked seeing how many others had hypermobility. it was nice knowing im not the only person who can twist both my arms and legs around, or stand on one leg and bring the other foot past my hip, or bend only the first joint of each finger. nice to know its not just me who can freak out my classmates like that
glowworm2 1 year ago
I can lick my elbows. My elbows have hypermobility. I can twist my arm around and it looks weird. I can make my elbows meet at the front of my body. Used to be able to do it from the back too but not any more.
Load More Replies... Sadie Dingfelder (ɹǝplǝɟƃuᴉp ǝᴉpɐS) 1 year ago
I wrote a whole book about this : the new science of subjectivity! It’s called Do I Know You? Because it’s about how we are often mistaken about other people’s experiences, including the people closest to us!
Surly Scot 1 year ago
Keratosis Pilaris, Cold Urticaria, Latex Allergy, Latex-Fruit Allergy, Heterochromia, Hypoglycemia, Scoliosis, ADHD, oversized lungs, Asthma, Hypothyroidism, flat feet causing knock knees, allergic to all weed/tree/grass pollen in USA, allergic to chocolate (f*ck you universe), severe corn allergy......who do I talk to about getting a refund on this body? I'm a dissatisfied customer and need to leave a 1star review.
Mad McQueen 1 year ago
I taught myself to speed read in grade school. I would read ahead as we were doing paragraphs and get yelled at because I was way out of place. But sometimes when it was just before my turn I learned to back track an when it was my turn I would pronounce everything perfectly. It was basically taking common phrases and scanning sentences for key words then checking the words and breaking them down til I could say it in my head. Then moving on. Loved to read. I can still eat books in few days if given the time. lol.
Sue 1 year ago
I have no patience for videos, except movies. I don't want to listen to EVERY SINGLE WORD.
Load More Replies... highwaycrossingfrog 10 months ago
There is a fascinating book by the neurologist Oliver Sacks in which he discussed case studies of people he'd assessed with brain damage or abnormalities which affect normal brain operation. Some of the differences discussed on this page feature in his tales, including a woman who lost her sense of proprioception, a person with synesthesia, and the title case, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, about a man who lost the ability to recognise faces. I highly recommend it, it's fascinating, insightful, and funny
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