35 Things People Assumed Were Normal About Their Bodies Until Someone Pointed Out Otherwise

I found out recently that street lights and headlights aren't supposed to look like starbursts. I thought it was like that for everyone.

The school nurse at my 6-year old grandson's school recently called my daughter-in-law to tell her he hadn't done well with a vision test. When she had tested individual eyes she found out that his vision was much worse in his left eye, and told him that. He nonchalantly replied "Yes, that's the eye I can't see out of." He had never mentioned that to anyone. (He has glasses now.)

So my MIL understood exactly how bad her daughters eyesight was when the daughter, at about 4 years old, petted a fur hat and said: Nice kitty!

My friend had congenital far-sightedness. All kids had multiple vision tests provided by the government, but her condition was not picked up by another one of these as only short-sightesness was being tested.

This is the most wholesome way to realize you need glasses.

CONGRATS CANCER SURVIVOR!!! 🥳🥳

TIL that tongue cancer can cause pain above the ear.

I dealt with severe clinical depression for 9 years. It came on slowly enough that I didn't recognize that something was wrong until my first s*****e attempt. I thought it was just part of being a moody teenager. It messes with you so much. When my doctor was trying to regulate it with meds, I'd go in after being on a certain med for a few months and he'd ask if I felt normal and I'd have to tell him that I didn't remember what normal felt like. I could only tell him if I felt better or worse than the day before.

Apathy. I didn't know that was depression. I always said, "I'm not depressed, I don't feel sad/down, I just don't feel anything"

I figured out what was happening to me in high school... was a big help to a point, it took till I was in my 30's before anyone believed me and I was able to get the real help I needed...

Depression like this as a "Way of Life!"

When I was in fifth or sixth grade, I remember telling my mom one day that I felt like I wanted to cry but didn't know why. She said oh that's depression, like it was a normal everyday thing that everyone experienced. I was well into adulthood before I found out that many people don't get depressed like that. ...including my dad.

As someone with asthma, I definitely understand the feeling of not being able to breath to the fullest. If you can't breathe normally, get it checked out!

As an asthmatic I can sympathize.

How do people fall asleep in 20 minutes?!

This still confuses me. It always takes me a long time to fall asleep, and I'm always tired, and the doctor doesn't take me seriously enough to really discuss it.

And the really fun part of that is !! Depression can cause sleep disruption - and sleep disruption can cause depression! Sorting it out is a picnic.

How to stay asleep. That's my problem. I wake in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep. 😕

*sigh* sorry folks but y'all not gonna like what I'm going to say. If I don't fall asleep within 5 mins then I just read for a bit and I'll fall asleep with the light on and the book in my hand. When our kids were born, I'd usually do the night bottle feeds as I could go back to sleep within a few minutes of my head hitting the pillow.

Okay, that's scary.

I'm guessing Factor V Leiden

That appendix was being a troll.

When doctors can't immediately see the cause of pain they will disbelieve the patient. Medicinal science has learned absolutely nothing in this respect since ever..

I had a very similar experience. Had horrible stomach pain after lifting some stuff that felt like I'd torn a muscle in my stomach, went to the hospital and was told it wasn't my appendix and that there was nothing wrong with me. Pain went away a few days later. A couple years later moved states and pain came back. Went to the ER but the wait was hours and I felt embarrassed so I just went home and a couple of days later I was fine again. Fast forward a couple more years, pain is back after lifting heavy equipment again, I write it off as a pulled muscle and figure it will go away soon. That afternoon I'm walking to the bathroom and I collapse on the floor. Ended up at the hospital and they do a CT, turns out my appendix had ruptured. Had surgery that same night. It's insane that my appendix was bothering me on and off for six years, but because I was turned away from the first hospital it took it rupturing for me to feel confident enough to seek treatment again.

Boy, it's just no fun when you wind up in the textbook! Not me, my sister- horrendous.