We often hear that each person is unique, and to some extent, that’s true. We all possess traits that are individual to us, like the iris of an eye (even our own two irises don’t match each other), the print of a lip, the way we walk, or even our voice.
But some appear to be more special than others, putting them in the 0.1% of the human population who have conditions like inverted internal organs or speaking backwards.
Out of their own curiosity, a person online started a discussion about this and encouraged more people to share their stories of the unique features they possess. Scroll below to marvel at the most unexpected ones, and who knows, maybe you’ll find out you also belong to the special 0.1%.
While you're at it, make sure to check out a conversation with Jackaboya07, who took this topic to Reddit in the first place.
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I have exploded 3 times (IED, old soviet landmine, and a rocket strike on my gun truck). I don't think theres a lot of people who can say that who still possess all of their limbs.
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This one makes me think of a man who was struck by lightning seven times.
I can speak backwards. Say a sentence and I will say it backwards immediately. If you record me and play it back in reverse, you can hear your original sentence pretty well.
Bored Panda reached out to Jackaboya07, the person who started the discussion in the first place, and kindly agreed to talk more about it with us.
Naturally, we wanted to find out what sparked his curiosity about such a topic. He told us that he came up with this post because he ran out of skills to learn and was looking for new ideas that could set him apart from 99.9% of people in the world.
"I posted it to get ideas, find out what other people were up to, and give them a chance to share their hobbies, skills, and life experiences that made them unique."
Saved a kitten with CPR.
did the same with a tiny dwarf hamster, he got hit with a shot {my bro hated that it was going to him and threw it} and i used my pinky to press on his lil chest, since i was learning to be a vet i knew hoe to work its lil body, and it came back, He lived another 3 years
I've spent more time climbing trees than 99.9% of humans. I'm an arborist and tree trimmer, who has been climbing since 1981, and plan to retire in 3 years or so. Everyone else who was doing it when I started is either retired or has younger people do all the climbing, but I refuse to let the kids have all the fun!
Cool - I'll let my Dad know. He's been an arborist for almost as long :)
People diagnosed with clinically-definite MS who have a disability score of zero.
Most people diagnosed with MS have at least some disability. For many it's low, but not zero, because the medication reduces the effects of the illness. For some, the medication does very little and they can be profoundly disabled.
I was diagnosed and started medication in 2008. Since then my disability score has been checked every 6 months by my neurologist, and has always been exactly zero. I'm just one of the very lucky ones who responds very well to the medication.
He, too, has rare abilities that not a lot of people can master, like solving the Rubik's cube in under 16 seconds. "Another reason for this post was to find people who shared talents with me, as I’ve always had a big interest in learning useless skills, to the point where my friends accuse me of having too much free time.
A few of these involve the Rubik’s cube, which I’m able to solve in under 16 seconds, or one-handed in 40, or even my biggest achievement so far, possibly in my life, learning to solve a fully scrambled Rubik's cube blindfolded, something very few people have ever been able to do.
I also learned simpler skills like basic card tricks, shuffles/flourishes, and how to juggle, all of which can be learned in only a few hours if you put your mind to it. I think my main point from this was that it’s not that hard to be in the 0.1% of people if you just find something that sets you apart."
I'm in the top 0.17% of the world's population just for having natural red hair with blue eyes, if that counts.
I have a condition called situs inversus where all of my internal organs are on the inverse side of the typical layout, so my heart and stomach are on my right, liver and gallbladder on my left, etc.
The occurrence is 1 in 10,000 so that actually puts me in the 0.01% range.
Edit: updated to accurate percentile
Discovered Identical Twin, separated at birth, raised in another country (me) in our late 30s.
The redditor further explains that this online platform can be a great place for people to talk about their unique life experiences and even find those who share rare medical conditions.
"I think posts like these are why Reddit is such a popular platform since a comment that took me 30 seconds to type up gave so many people a chance to talk about not only skills they’ve learned that not many people can do but their life experiences, their stories, their medical anomalies, etc.
People sometimes don’t realize how much they stand out in this world until someone opens their eyes to it. At one point, I saw a comment about how someone felt nobody knew what it was like to have their medical condition (a severe allergy of sorts), but someone went out and found a whole subreddit dedicated to people like that user."
I used to be the youngest person alive
That’s amazing, I bet if they keep at it they might one day be the oldest person alive!
I have incurable histamine intolerance. I have to be on a very restrictive diet, I am on all kinds of histamine blockers and STILL get histamine reactions that make me have to check out of life for at least half a day with no notice. It is so rare, there is no actual treatment plan for it so its a try-it-and-see approach.
I had 7 wisdom teeth and all were taken out at one time
I guess it depends how they do it? I had 4 removed, 2 at a time, because my dentist doesn’t do local anaesthetic on both sides of the mouth simultaneously. I can still hear the cracking bones in my head, so gross.
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After you access and remove the regular wisdom teeth typically the extra teeth are right there in the same wound so it's really not that much harder of a procedure than a normal wisdom tooth removal. Source: I work in oral surgery and just so happen to have 6 wisdom teeth.
Sounds familiar! I had 8 and had them taken out in 2 different sittings...
I did as well! Double impactions on all of them. They had to shatter four to get them out.
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I still have four wisdom teeth and they are very functional. (I'm told I have a long jaw)
I haven't taken mine out, either. Too scared. The dentists told me they were growing in slanted. When they broke in they straightened out enough to function and ended up closing some of the gaps in my other teeth.The next dentist I went to didn't pressure me to get them taken out and said if they're not bothering me then there's no reason. My X-ray showed there's no concern about my teeth. Some people say it can cause problems later but never specify what those problems are. I got a water flosser that allows me to get to my wisdom teeth, now, so Not that never flossed back there before, but it's hella easier with the water flosser.
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I only had 3 but they grew weird and were hook shaped at the root. My dentist was at one point a dentist for the United States Marine corps and didn't understand pain. I had to beg to be put to sleep because I knew the extraction was going to be brutal. I woke up with bruises on my chest and a mouth full of blood. His assistant told me later that the bruises were from him leveraging the teeth out. Fun fact- if you swallow allot of blood it makes you throw up.My girlfriend at the time was whining about driving my to and from the dentist that day so I accidentally repaid her by spewing blood all over her dash and floorboard. She didn't speak to me afterwards.
I had all of my wisdom teeth pulled out on 3 separate occasions. I had two pulled out at first, then a few years later, I had one pulled out. Then I had my last one pulled out a few years ago.
Dentist told me she'd send me to hospital to have my impacted wisdom teeth removed. No one came near me in recovery. I think that my body was defending me from the violence of the removal.
Not wisdom teeth, but had 9 reg teeth extractions in one sitting and no pain meds 🤬
Ouch . I only had 4 removed at a time and the doctor broke my jaw while removing my last 2... It was terrible and I was in terrible pain
Where are all these wisdom teeth coming from? Are you a different species? I only know people who have or had 4 wisdom teeth...plus, I had 4 root canals done at the same time with no freezing....so....I win!!!
My dad had his wisdom teeth taken out when he was around 19 or 20. When he was around 60, he started getting really painful headaches and while he does get migraines, this headache wasn’t that. So this goes on for a while and he had a dentist appointment coming up. He goes, mentions the headache offhand and goes through the routine appointment, including updated X-rays. Upon reviewing the X-rays, the dentist was dumbfounded. My dad had a whole new set of wisdom teeth growing in impacted. That’s what was causing his headaches. He had them removed and the headaches went away.
I had seven wisdom teeth too. They did mine in two visits though. Didn't use the gas just the numbing shots.
I had 5....you beat me! All out at same time...l was put under, of course. No problems.
I had 3, 2 out then the 3rd, 4th never showed. Brother had 2 sets of 4. (He was so deserving of the pain)
I had 6 taken out at once. My brother had 4 taken out once, then 4 taken out again years later. Our family also has a history or extra fingers and toes. I refer to us all as spare parts.
I only ever had two, still have baby teeth too because never had anything to push them out
My son had 6. The dentist was overjoyed when he found them. However, I only have 3.
My sister had her wisdom teeth taken out twice. But then again, my Aunt's tonsils grew back and she had them taken out twice.
I on the other hand never grew wisdom teeth. Not impacted or unruptured, literally never grew. But...I actually had minor difficulties due to having too much room lol
I'm in the same boat. I've had braces twice already because my teeth keep shifting due to having too much room. Planning on getting braces again next year! I even have a lateral retainer in the back of my teeth and my they are still slowly shifting. It's affecting my gums.
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Not a píśşîņĝ contest, but I had 8 wisdom teeth. So little wisdom though 🥴
I don't have any at all. Not that they've been removed, or that they never erupted. They just don't exist.
He signed off by saying, "Despite 0.1% of all people looking like a low bar, it’s actually still 8 million total people, more than twice my country’s population, and everyone assumed that was me just underestimating the sheer amount of people in the world, but I had a reason for it.
I wanted to find more than just people at the very top of their field for everything. I wanted to find people who wanted a chance to talk about their lives even if they were only mediocre in their field."
Losing people due to death. I'm 44 years old, and I tried to make a list of all the people I've lost about 4 years ago when my 2 month old nephew passed away. I wrote down 168 people before I stopped making the list because it was making me so sad, and I still occasionally remember people I didn't add to it. (just typing this makes me weep.)
Not photographic memory but almost perfect Total recall from things that happened even 30-50yrs ago..I have hyperthymesia.
I knew someone who had something like this - it drove her insane, it was like permanent, never-ending déjà vu.
I'm top 75 in the world at Guitar Hero. We have an online ranking system for scores now and I always finish at least in the top 100-50
I suffer from a combination of illnesses that make me severely disabled in a certain way. I have been invited to several studies and doctors from several european countries. I have tested medication that's not on the market for over ten years. My disability doesn't have a name yet but will probably get named after one of my doctors who has known me for over half my life.
It started as a mental illness with psychosomatic seizures, during each seizure a part of my brain tissue disconnects and and sometimes dies (sorry for the terrible explanation, I am neither a doctor nor a native speaker).
Long story short, my doctors have found out about like twelve other people having a similar combination of symptoms, yet it was not properly documented or researched before. That kinda makes me a 0.1% of the population - sadly not on top!
I hope you don't suffer too much, and that the doctors find some way of helping.
I am one of few with adults something called Harlequin syndrome. It’s harmless, literally does nothing beyond making half my face get red and the other half not red. So when I’m really hot and sweaty one side of my face will look like a tomato and the other half will look as if I hadn’t been hit at all. Completely normal.
There’s only like 1000 people in the U.S who have it. I could only find stats for the U.S so I don’t know the worldwide numbers but it’s pretty rare. Maybe not 0.1% but close.
(Note: I mention adults because it’s common in babies for the first like week of their life, but it usually goes away.)
I’ve met the same actor 3 times at 3 different points of my life despite not working in the film industry so I gotta think I’m in the .1% of that occurrence.
Edit: it was Leo DiCaprio
Getting pregnant on birth control. Two times two different pills
3 times , in 3 years , all different types of bc. 1st baby , standard pill . 2nd baby , the kind that goes in the arm... 3rd baby , the shot. I had my tubes tied after the 3rd lol.
The amount of data I crunched for the SETI at Home project. 5 quintillion floating point operations. Sadly, no evidence of a signal from intelligence from space. I was in the top 99.97%.
fun answer: bo burnham’s listeners on spotify (0.05%)
Neat answer: height! I’m a very tall woman (6’)
I'm in my 70's and was 6' tall (far more unusual in those days) I'm now shrinking and just over 5'11" - 182 cms.
My claim to fame: I am the only person on Earth that has or has ever had my given and surname.
While I do have a middle name, it is unnecessary.
How do i know? My dad's last name was common and of Polish origins. His parents emigrated to America from Poland. My dad was born about 10 years later in 1910. Both his parents died, 2-days apart, due to the 1918 pandemic. Dad was taken in by several foster homes and when he turned 14 he applied for a work permit. According to the County Clerk, dad did not exist. But, my dad knew his birthdate, he knew the doctor who delivered him and the clerk put 2 and 2 together and found a birth record with a scribbled name. The County Clerk then wrote what he believed the scribble said and that became his surname but it was unlike any other name. So, all of his children were born with the made up surname. At my age, mid-70's, I know every one of the 93 people who now share that made up surname and not a one of them has the same given name as me.
On my birth certificate I have the number 8 in my name in place of a letter. Pretty sure that's fairly rare, if not unique. And yes, it is on all subsequent official documentation like passport & Drivers licence. But everything else in daily life I replace it with the letter, like my bank account, work place, bills, etc
I was the top 0.1% percentile for math in my country back when i was in school. Not world sadly
I had the highest maths score ever recorded in my school's history. Had me thinking I was gonna be the next Einstein. When I transferred to another school, I found out I was barely passing average and my last school was just shite at teaching maths..
Number of books read. I am 37 and have read 7240 since 2001 (2766 of those are picture books though).I am in the top 30 for my home country on goodreads. Since I am a professional librarian with few social skills, this makes sense.
I’ve never sat down and counted all the books I’ve read, but when we moved I had to move all 1,127 of them. I haven’t even read all of my own books yet, but I was oddly proud that well over half the boxes of our belongings were books 😂
I can type 180 wpm @ 99,% accuracy
170 @ 100% accuracy
At least i used to when i actually was the ultimate computer nerd.
I'm sure i could still hit 155 to 160 even now though.
Haven't seen anyone who could type faster even online.
I have an old a*s fb post from hitting like 175 @ 99%, on typingtest think I was ranked #1 out of 1.2mil i can't remember
If people end up reading this I'll end up linking it for proof lol
I'm guessing capitalization and punctuation are 2 of the reasons it's not 100%.
Math, specifically fast mental math. I have gotten second and fifth out of over 10k people
I am one of like 5-10 people that are on regular call for golf architectural history.
That combined with my knowledge of how to build and evaluate golf architecture in the field probably puts me into the .1%
I don't wanna downplay it, this is an achievement of its own - but it *is* pretty niche, lol.
I used to be one of the best tetris player for a short time
1 minute bullet chess.
And probably top 200 in the world over 50 years old, I am around 2500 on lichess.
veritas2011 on lichess
Having encounters with different kinds of 'rare' marine life as a diver
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Gosh, I'm the only person in the world who has never shaved their face, we must be twins!
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If this shows twice, I apologize. I dare say I am the only person who this happened to : my pet crow removed a contact lens from my eye. ( his thinking: "that does not belong there, let me help you"). He did this without causing any damage to lens or eye. Getting the lens back from him was hell, crows like to play "keepaway".
One of my relatives is the second person on earth who made a company fully sustainable
In what area am I in the top 0.1%? Well, there's wasted potential, obviously.
I have experienced two rattlesnake bites - one on the left hand and one on the left leg. I had a very minimal reaction both times and did not seek medical treatment. I am also immune to poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.
I have nothing except maybe, I’m one of very few people outside of research and science to have helped a dying fly give birth. That was interesting
I am an expert on 2 research studies as I'm the only one that is studying (or have studied) them in the world. I don't expect it to stay this way though, researchers gotta research.
How do you know you're the only researcher on 2 subjects ? Research that...
Load More Replies... This is very morbid but, I believe I might be one of a handful of people who have seen both Space Shuttle disasters, (Challenger and Columbia), in person. I was in elementary school in Brevard County, FL when Challenger happened, and I was living in North Central, Texas when Columbia happened.
After years of illness my husband finally met a foreign Dr that managed to diagnose him. It's a rare genetic illness and my husband is the only one in our country that has it. Talking to the Dr I half joked and asked if he could diagnose me too. He asked for my symptoms and I was diagnosed with a rare genetic illness, and I'm the only one in the country that has it. The risk of us passing it on to our children was 50/50 meaning they risked having both genetic conditions. None of them have either of it. Still, our kids have decided to not have kids of their own. I fully understand why.
I'm the only person to have fully admitted to my crime, and to the fact I deserved to be in prison. Even the other people who admitted to being guilty would blame their lawyer, the person who turned them in, or anyone else. Nope. I did it. I deserved what I got.
I apologise, Shyla, that email address that you got is one I only use for on here and other places I don't want to be bothered with, and I periodically just scroll through and delete mails, and I deleted yours by accident, and by the time I realised it was too late. My bad. If you were just telling me to foamyob, fine, if not, please try again.
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As someone with: Autism, Schizophrenia, DID, Green eyes, Red hair, Fibromyalgia, Porphyria, speaking more than 2 languages... I think I'm pretty unlucky enough (thanks to the health issues lol) to be in the top 0.01% of something
Mine's really boring but I have a condition called Klippel-Feil syndrome which affects about 1 in 40,000 people. There are a few other criteria for diagnosis, but basically, I was born with my top two vertebrae fused. It's pretty mild in my case and I only got diagnosed because it finally occurred to me that needing to crack my neck 1-3 times a day to avoid crippling headaches probably isn't normal.
Does it impact your ability to turn your head or to tilt it forward or backward? I used to teach human osteology and had never heard of this before and find it interesting from a functional anatomy perspective. I’m glad it doesn’t affect you more than needing to crack your neck and hope I’m reading right that you typically don’t get crippling headaches!
Load More Replies... My parents have #1 blue eyes and #2 brown eyes and I have green eyes (<0,15%). I also have a different rhesus type from my mother's (yes I'm their natural child). My baby also has an odd phenotype (blonde and blue eyed). Amazing genetics.
2x as a teenager I was inappropriately oogled by men who later murdered or attempted to murder another woman who looked eerily like me. The first worked at a car wash and we just stopped going there but he is still in prison for murdering my dear friend. (Rest in Peace, JenJen.) The second was kicked out of school for the semester (it became a huge deal, the campus police had to do a sexual harassment seminar because of how they treated me and all acted like I was a vain drama queen) and when he came back he attempted to strangle a young woman on campus, in broad daylight, behind a building. People thought it was a feral cat fight and went to break it up. She was almost dead. All 3 of us had similar build, hair, complexion and eye color. I did not know these men in any tangible way so I must assume it is a coincidence and I, too, looked like their A REAL fetish girl. So yeah. Dodged a couple very creepy bullets.
I have a vertebral border shift so instead of having 12 thoracic vertebrae and 5 lumbar I have 11 and 6. Although it’s rare, it’s not shockingly rare and about 10 years ago, I excavated an archaeological skeleton with exactly the same condition. I’ve seen X-rays of my own spine but it was super cool to see a vertebral column that looked like mine!
not me but my Ex-wife, had a specific kind of neural tumor (Nerve Cancer) during her youth, it has a long complicated name, something like Trans-ulnar Hyperfocal carcinomic Neuropathy - at the time (late 1990s) she was one of 7 documented cases Globally so around 1 in a Billion (0.000000001%). She had it removed and had to have the nerves to her hand fully "rewired" and had nearly a decade of Physiotherapy to regain use of the hand to an acceptable level.
I am in the top 1% of trivia players in the world. I have qualified for Jeopardy! Sadly, they have never called. They put 1000 people into the contestant pool each year, but they only use 400/year. I've won well over $30,000 playing bar trivia over the last 26 years. (l won four tournaments at $4,400 each)
What do people know of cross-dominance/mixed handedness? Basically, some tasks are done only right-handedly, some left-handedly, and some ambidexturally. It's apparently the rarest manifestation of hand dominance, less than 1%, and I have it. Confuses a lot of people when I use a pen in the left hand and a computer mouse in the right, or fork right handed but chopsticks left handed.
I think a lot of left handed people do some things better with their right. True ambidextrous- you do everything with both hands equally well is super rare.
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I had lemierre's syndrome AND toxic shock syndrome at the same time.
When I was in school, I was in the top 0.1% of readers across the board on a national level. I think I was officially ranked in the top 200 students in the US in terms of reading comprehension and vocabulary starting when I was 11. My senior year of high school I broke top 30. I actually had to get a government "pardon" for my tests because improving this score was the only way to pass onto the next grade with full marks. Hard to do when your reading skills rival a dude with a doctorate in literary arts.
I can't think of anything at the moment I'm in the top 0.01% for, but in middle school I was in the top 1% for an international writing exam, so I might have been in the top 0.01% for my country maybe?
I daresay that this is an uncommon event : I had my pet crow remove a contact lens from my eye ( "that does not belong there, let me help you out with this") and he did this without causing any damage to my eye or the lens, they are THAT precise with their beak. Of course I had a hell of a time getting the lens back from him ( crows like to play "keepaway")
I was fluently talking in 4 different languages by the time I was five, but then I forgot French. I'm re-learning it now in school tho. And also this isn't rare but I have freakishly long fingers and toes (My middle finger is about an inch longer than my palm)
Everyone in Switzerland does minimum 3. I think 4 is not that rare in many parts of Europe.
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I'm in the top 0.05% of most listened to for my favorite band.
im most definitely the fan (together with my BF) that saw the most John Fogerty shows :-D Yes, its a small scene, and yeah, we know. The only person who saw him more is his wife who is alway sidestage. And, as he once said "only I have seen myself more than you did" LOL !!
I have red hair (or I used to before I got old and it went mostly gray!), simian crease in both hands, and the last lumbar in my spine is fused to my pelvic bone (spina bifida occulta, I think). Quite a rare combo.
Petting and having full conversations with other peoples’ dogs without ever acknowledging the owner
I tend to talk to myself but now I work at a cat rescue so I just talk to the cats all day instead 😆🥰
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I can write Senryu on-demand about any subject damn near instantly. So rapidly, that my friends accuse me of having some weird, secret, on-line Haiku generator.
I mean, did you graduate high school and get the diploma instead of a GED? Or no graduation from high school and got a PhD? I'd love to hear the story if its the second one cause one doesn't get an undergrad degree without the completion of high school (diploma) or GED.
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Gosh, I'm the only person in the world who has never shaved their face, we must be twins!
Load More Replies... If this shows twice, I apologize. I dare say I am the only person who this happened to : my pet crow removed a contact lens from my eye. ( his thinking: "that does not belong there, let me help you"). He did this without causing any damage to lens or eye. Getting the lens back from him was hell, crows like to play "keepaway".
One of my relatives is the second person on earth who made a company fully sustainable
In what area am I in the top 0.1%? Well, there's wasted potential, obviously.
I have experienced two rattlesnake bites - one on the left hand and one on the left leg. I had a very minimal reaction both times and did not seek medical treatment. I am also immune to poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.
I have nothing except maybe, I’m one of very few people outside of research and science to have helped a dying fly give birth. That was interesting
I am an expert on 2 research studies as I'm the only one that is studying (or have studied) them in the world. I don't expect it to stay this way though, researchers gotta research.
How do you know you're the only researcher on 2 subjects ? Research that...
Load More Replies... This is very morbid but, I believe I might be one of a handful of people who have seen both Space Shuttle disasters, (Challenger and Columbia), in person. I was in elementary school in Brevard County, FL when Challenger happened, and I was living in North Central, Texas when Columbia happened.
After years of illness my husband finally met a foreign Dr that managed to diagnose him. It's a rare genetic illness and my husband is the only one in our country that has it. Talking to the Dr I half joked and asked if he could diagnose me too. He asked for my symptoms and I was diagnosed with a rare genetic illness, and I'm the only one in the country that has it. The risk of us passing it on to our children was 50/50 meaning they risked having both genetic conditions. None of them have either of it. Still, our kids have decided to not have kids of their own. I fully understand why.
I'm the only person to have fully admitted to my crime, and to the fact I deserved to be in prison. Even the other people who admitted to being guilty would blame their lawyer, the person who turned them in, or anyone else. Nope. I did it. I deserved what I got.
I apologise, Shyla, that email address that you got is one I only use for on here and other places I don't want to be bothered with, and I periodically just scroll through and delete mails, and I deleted yours by accident, and by the time I realised it was too late. My bad. If you were just telling me to foamyob, fine, if not, please try again.
Load More Replies... As someone with: Autism, Schizophrenia, DID, Green eyes, Red hair, Fibromyalgia, Porphyria, speaking more than 2 languages... I think I'm pretty unlucky enough (thanks to the health issues lol) to be in the top 0.01% of something
Mine's really boring but I have a condition called Klippel-Feil syndrome which affects about 1 in 40,000 people. There are a few other criteria for diagnosis, but basically, I was born with my top two vertebrae fused. It's pretty mild in my case and I only got diagnosed because it finally occurred to me that needing to crack my neck 1-3 times a day to avoid crippling headaches probably isn't normal.
Does it impact your ability to turn your head or to tilt it forward or backward? I used to teach human osteology and had never heard of this before and find it interesting from a functional anatomy perspective. I’m glad it doesn’t affect you more than needing to crack your neck and hope I’m reading right that you typically don’t get crippling headaches!
Load More Replies... My parents have #1 blue eyes and #2 brown eyes and I have green eyes (<0,15%). I also have a different rhesus type from my mother's (yes I'm their natural child). My baby also has an odd phenotype (blonde and blue eyed). Amazing genetics.
2x as a teenager I was inappropriately oogled by men who later murdered or attempted to murder another woman who looked eerily like me. The first worked at a car wash and we just stopped going there but he is still in prison for murdering my dear friend. (Rest in Peace, JenJen.) The second was kicked out of school for the semester (it became a huge deal, the campus police had to do a sexual harassment seminar because of how they treated me and all acted like I was a vain drama queen) and when he came back he attempted to strangle a young woman on campus, in broad daylight, behind a building. People thought it was a feral cat fight and went to break it up. She was almost dead. All 3 of us had similar build, hair, complexion and eye color. I did not know these men in any tangible way so I must assume it is a coincidence and I, too, looked like their A REAL fetish girl. So yeah. Dodged a couple very creepy bullets.
I have a vertebral border shift so instead of having 12 thoracic vertebrae and 5 lumbar I have 11 and 6. Although it’s rare, it’s not shockingly rare and about 10 years ago, I excavated an archaeological skeleton with exactly the same condition. I’ve seen X-rays of my own spine but it was super cool to see a vertebral column that looked like mine!
not me but my Ex-wife, had a specific kind of neural tumor (Nerve Cancer) during her youth, it has a long complicated name, something like Trans-ulnar Hyperfocal carcinomic Neuropathy - at the time (late 1990s) she was one of 7 documented cases Globally so around 1 in a Billion (0.000000001%). She had it removed and had to have the nerves to her hand fully "rewired" and had nearly a decade of Physiotherapy to regain use of the hand to an acceptable level.
I am in the top 1% of trivia players in the world. I have qualified for Jeopardy! Sadly, they have never called. They put 1000 people into the contestant pool each year, but they only use 400/year. I've won well over $30,000 playing bar trivia over the last 26 years. (l won four tournaments at $4,400 each)
What do people know of cross-dominance/mixed handedness? Basically, some tasks are done only right-handedly, some left-handedly, and some ambidexturally. It's apparently the rarest manifestation of hand dominance, less than 1%, and I have it. Confuses a lot of people when I use a pen in the left hand and a computer mouse in the right, or fork right handed but chopsticks left handed.
I think a lot of left handed people do some things better with their right. True ambidextrous- you do everything with both hands equally well is super rare.
Load More Replies... I had lemierre's syndrome AND toxic shock syndrome at the same time.
When I was in school, I was in the top 0.1% of readers across the board on a national level. I think I was officially ranked in the top 200 students in the US in terms of reading comprehension and vocabulary starting when I was 11. My senior year of high school I broke top 30. I actually had to get a government "pardon" for my tests because improving this score was the only way to pass onto the next grade with full marks. Hard to do when your reading skills rival a dude with a doctorate in literary arts.
I can't think of anything at the moment I'm in the top 0.01% for, but in middle school I was in the top 1% for an international writing exam, so I might have been in the top 0.01% for my country maybe?
I daresay that this is an uncommon event : I had my pet crow remove a contact lens from my eye ( "that does not belong there, let me help you out with this") and he did this without causing any damage to my eye or the lens, they are THAT precise with their beak. Of course I had a hell of a time getting the lens back from him ( crows like to play "keepaway")
I was fluently talking in 4 different languages by the time I was five, but then I forgot French. I'm re-learning it now in school tho. And also this isn't rare but I have freakishly long fingers and toes (My middle finger is about an inch longer than my palm)
Everyone in Switzerland does minimum 3. I think 4 is not that rare in many parts of Europe.
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im most definitely the fan (together with my BF) that saw the most John Fogerty shows :-D Yes, its a small scene, and yeah, we know. The only person who saw him more is his wife who is alway sidestage. And, as he once said "only I have seen myself more than you did" LOL !!
I have red hair (or I used to before I got old and it went mostly gray!), simian crease in both hands, and the last lumbar in my spine is fused to my pelvic bone (spina bifida occulta, I think). Quite a rare combo.
Petting and having full conversations with other peoples’ dogs without ever acknowledging the owner
I tend to talk to myself but now I work at a cat rescue so I just talk to the cats all day instead 😆🥰
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I can write Senryu on-demand about any subject damn near instantly. So rapidly, that my friends accuse me of having some weird, secret, on-line Haiku generator.
I mean, did you graduate high school and get the diploma instead of a GED? Or no graduation from high school and got a PhD? I'd love to hear the story if its the second one cause one doesn't get an undergrad degree without the completion of high school (diploma) or GED.
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