The famous basketball coach Frank Layden is usually credited with the phrase 'you can't teach height,' which perfectly encapsulates the very concept of a so-called 'genetic win.' Indeed, there are countless things in the world that can be learned - but there are also things that we’re simply born with.
Some of us have a phenomenal memory, some can drink lots of booze without getting drunk, and some at the molecular level exude a smell that repels mosquitoes. Finally, some consider their peculiarity a disadvantage, while for others it’s an absolute 'genetic win.' So now please enjoy this selection of self-proclaimed ‘genetic wins’ from various folks in this online thread!
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As a female, my period is 2.5-3 days every time and is regular AF and I've never had extreme pain that accompanied it. Discomfort, sure, but nothing that has kept me from life.
...like in those ads where the blood is light blue and the women enjoy a day at the public pool, participate in some track and field championships, as well as trampoline jumping all day long? 🤔
Don't forget the random jingle that plays around them all day.
Load More Replies...As a woman with endometriosis I could only dream of such an easy time
Ditto. I never understood why my friends were taking pills and staying home.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, I had the same where I didn’t get cramps and never fully understood just how bad the pain could get for most people with periods—props to them honestly it sounds like hell
Load More Replies...I think I’ve written this before, but I was once slapped by a lady who had really bad debilitating cramps every month. I was asked about my period pains, and I said that I don’t have any. This lady was so frustrated she slapped me (and then immediately apologized), and I sort of understand.
Nah that's still s****y behavior. I'd have clocked the b***h right back
Load More Replies...Just you wait. I was just like you until I hit perimenopause in my mid-forties. Then I bled like a stuck pig for 5 days every month (bleeding through both an extra large tampon plus an extra large pad worn with it as backup every couple hours), and ending up having to take at least one day in bed every month until my periods stopped completely, which was a relief (definitely do not miss it). Mother Nature can seem kind sometimes, and I thought she was kind to me when it came to horrible periods, especially in comparison with some of the other girls in junior high and high school. At least until that TWO YEAR period of torture.
If I am eating healthy and taking iron supplement I never have any issues. I feel so lucky. The worst I get is a little extra tired and mild mood swings.
I was told I had low Fe and a great unexpected side-effect of taking an iron supplement has been that my periods are much less painful. Wish I’d known sooner as i’m nearly 46!
Load More Replies...I’m happy that this is what that person experiences and I hope a lot more women have it the same way. There is always one day a month where I can’t go to work. I’m immobile from the sheer pain of it all. Then the next day I’m fine. But there’s always one super unbearable day where I think I’m dying.
All my grandparents made it to at least 100.
I gave you an up vote. I wonder how many people will get that reference?
Load More Replies...The women in my mother's family have made it to 90+ for 4 generations now and things are looking good for my mom (she's 76, but is often mistaken for 60). The men on the other hand are lucky if they make 55 without serious medical intervention.
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My great grandma lived to be over a hundred and was still in her own home, drinking brandy.
Being born to my parents. Unconditional love is powerful.
If you find unconditional love - hang on to it and nuture it. It is not there for everyone...
Golden childhood, parents still alive heading for their 68th wedding anniversary, I keep thinking surely I'll have to pay for this much luck at some point...
Oh, me too. I had a blessed childhood and I try my hardest not to take it for granted.
The genome of each of us is absolutely unique (unless you have a twin sibling), and each of us has physical or mental characteristics that do make us special. The only question is how much these “superpowers” stand out against the general background of our lives, and how much they make our lives easier. We can agree, it would be weird, for example, to have excellent night vision - but at the same time go to bed at sunset and wake up at dawn all your life!
Not so much a win for me, but a win for others. I have 0- blood and no diseases, so I can donate to others a lot.
Universal donor but can only receive O- blood themselves. Blessing and a curse.
Actually people with type O- can safely receive O+ blood as long as they have not been exposed to Rh+ blood previously and so have not developed the antibody for Rh+ blood or they are a premenopausal biological female. Premenopausal females aren't given Rh+ blood because the development of Anti-D (the antibody to Rh+ blood) would put future pregnancies with Rh+ embryos at significant risk that could only be maintained with intrauterine transfusions. Rhogam has made it possible to prevent the development of Anti-D during pregnancy for many O- women. Unfortunately, one dose of Rhogam only covers the receipt of about 30mL of Rh+ blood in case of a fetal-maternal bleed so would be impractical after giving multiple pints of blood. It was quite common where I worked however that in emergencies a male trauma patient would be given O+ blood if there was not time to type and screen them because O- blood is always in short supply. I'm retired now but thanks for the chance to reminisce.
Load More Replies...My dad was like this. He managed to donate 49 pints - just one shy of his Gold award! Then he was diagnosed with severe Graves' disease and due to his treatment had to stop. After a few years he was able to resume donating here and there and has his award - I'm so proud of him. I've had my life saved by transfusions and cannot ever donate myself which is a bit gutting, but I'm super-thankful to everybody who does.
That's so awesome! I miss donating so much. I used to do platelets regularly since it was the most needed for my type (B+)
I can only donate using the machine for platelets, red blood cells, etc. When I try to donate whole blood it usually clots in the line going to the bag before it gets full. Apparently I have a high platelet count. (Minor wounds don't bleed long either.)
Load More Replies...My husband has O neg as well. His blood goes to newborn baby units. I used to give blood before I had a transfusion and he picked it up as I couldn't anymore.
I'm O neg and have a certain protein in my blood that helps premature babies. They put a special sticker on it and everything. I don't know if they're guilt tripping me into donating every time I can, but it's working.
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I don’t get body odor. I still sweat but no matter how much I sweat I don’t smell. My dad is the same way and it infuriates my sister who did not inherit those genes.
I got my fathers sweat genes - like a horse in full lather anytime it's above 75f
My middle daughter is like this. Dripping when it’s above 70f. She like to say she’s sweating like a ho in church
Load More Replies...My mom doesn't sweat, she "shines" and I got her genes. My brothers would go out and play hockey and sweat right through their winter coats. I would "shine" a little. It's pretty nice.🤣
Me too. Even in hot weather or having fever, I don't sweat.
Load More Replies...My husband rarely smells and neither does my son; if we miss deodorant for a day, my daughter and I smell to high heaven!
Ugh this is my husband he's so lucky...I a 35f had to buy men's deodorant for years until I found the clinical strength ones that work well even though expensive lol
Imma need you to tell me which men's deodorants have worked for you best? I can't afford the clinical strength ones right now...
Load More Replies...I have met far too many people who believe they have this condition. Maybe I'm one of them...?
My father is one of them, he can be running with sweat, or miss a shower and not smell. My mother on the other hand, has to wash twice a day and lay the deodorant on thick. I'm about halfway between them
Load More Replies...So I used to sweat almost constantly and anti-perspirants were not effective at all. Deodorant made the sweat smell less offensive but I was always very self-conscious about it. Since I've been taking medication for PCOS I sweat very little and when I do it's basically odourless. It's honestly made such a huge difference to my life. So if there is a woman in your life who has issues with excessive sweating and perhaps other symptoms of PCOS, let them know that there are now options available through their GP to manage the symptoms and, possibly, reverse the issue of PCOS altogether.
I have a fun fact about this one! Apparently, the vast majority of Koreans don't have body odor - or at least underarm odor - because of genetic mutations. Something like only 0.006% of the Korean population has the ABCC11 gene, which is the mother-flipper responsible for underarm odor.
Get depression, don't leave your bedroom for a week and I promise that you finally gonna get some body odor which could be easily used as a weapon, if you'd need one...🙋🏽
For me, not even then. It's all to do with skin flora. I must be a desert.
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Memory
If I see it, it sticks. Made college really easy, but it’s why my biggest fear in life is getting dementia / Alzheimer’s.
Can relate. School was a breeze for me and only my refusal to do homework ever got me in trouble (because I didn't see the point in it). I still have a stupidly sharp memory, much to my wife's annoyance.
Same with me. Drives my sister nuts that I can breeze through without even studying while she had to pound the books all day. The blessing of the eidetic memory. Seriously, I appalled my teachers. Once, my history teacher thought he'd convinced me to study for a test. When he gave it back with a great big smile and an A+, he was all 'see what happens when you study?' I just took the test back and said, 'I didn't study, I read the summary at the end of the chapter before the test.' I watched the smile slide off his face and something in his eyes died that day.
Load More Replies...I have a very good memory for all the wrong things. Names, important dates, my schedule - no f*****g use at all. A wall of text from a book I read fifteen years ago? The entire opening spiel from Count Duckula? Safely secured and accessible at the drop of a hat.
Same here. When I was you her I could remember absolutely everything. But now, if someone tells me a whole bunch of things they want me to do for them, they better also be giving me a handwritten list of those same things, because I promise I won’t remember them all. However, Alzheimer’s does not run in my family at all, so I chalk it up to a combination of age and being overloaded with everyone else’s damned nitpicky details all the time. Maybe if I start ramping it up and pretend like I’m “forgetting” even more of their stuff, they’ll all start keeping track of their own s**t for a change. None of them are children, btw, so it’s not an unreasonable expectation.
Load More Replies...Used to be like this. I could remember not only the fact, but the book it was in, the page and where on the page it was located. Pretty sure I have CTE now though. Can't really visualise anything anymore.
And here I remember exactly what I made, including the entire process from start to finish of cooking it and serving it up. Yeah, starting to think my memory might be a little excessively good compared to most...
Load More Replies...Me too. Dad said it multiple times:"She has a powerful and retentive memory."
My phone is I remember more inconsequential things and not the consequential things
By the way, we often “pay” for having any specific innate skills or abilities with the absence of other talents. We don’t need to go far to find an example - let's take me. I have a really excellent text memory - I remember large amounts of information without any problems, I remember facts I heard once a long time ago - but at the same time I have a terrible memory for faces.
In the old days, it was believed that to acquire special abilities, a person, voluntarily or not, “pays” with otherworldly forces - which is why many sorcerers or shamans in fairy tales or legends may not have a limb or grow old sharply after acquiring magical abilities. For example, the Scandinavian god Odin, as we know, gave his own eye in return for wisdom.
Mosquitos go for me only if other people are not around. I'm like last resort.
Lucky, I'm the first the go to. They will fight through any mosquito repellant to get to me...
Snap! My husband takes one for the team for us...he is a feast for mosquitoes. Interestingly.... we have five children -three are like me. Two are as attractive as him.
I'm the opposite. My friends used to call me the designated decoy!
In the same way I'm heavily Cherokee and I was told my blood is quite acidic in pH
I have always wondered about this. Is this genetic? Or is it because of lifestyle choices?
Certain blood types smell more sweet and are thus more attractive to mosquitos. Type O blood seems to be a mosquitoes' preferred blood type as compared to A, B and AB, but the only significant difference was when it was compared to Type A
Load More Replies...same. i can be standing by people and they will be getting eaten alive and i don't get a single bite. strangely enough, this is true in america, but when i was in barbados, they would bite me. now, i'm in mexico, and not a single bite so far. (do they even have mosquitoes here? cuz i haven't seen any or hear people talk about getting bitten. of course, i'm in mérida and it's 103-110 or so every day, so that might have something to do with it. LOL)
There's more, but I can feel well rested with just 4-6 hours of sleep. This is due to a genetic mutation present in only 1-3% of the global population.
I feel you. When I was in my twenties I could power through all night - now if I don't get nine hours I want to punch everyone, starting with myself
Load More Replies...I feel rested with 4 hours of sleep, even less, and don't feel tired during the day, working as usual, but I notice that my ability to retain new info is not the same. I practice Krav Maga, and learning/exercise new moves with 4-6 hours of sleep is much more difficult than with 8 hours.
I require 5.5 hours of sleep at night to be functional throughout the day. I have never considered this to be extraordinary in any wsy.
As someone who needs 9-12 to function well and not feel exhausted, I'm jealous!! I don't have enough time in the day to get the rest I need
Load More Replies...im can stay up all night im not tired the next day 25% precent of poupulation can do this
Same. Although clinical insomniac. 4-5 hrs is a blessing. I dont take sleeping pills. I've been awake for over 40hrs once,felt fine
Thick hair.
Aside from the downside of *millions* of falling hair everyday, my hair stays hella thick.
Same! I love my hair and when it's nice (which it rarely is because thick hair is a LOT to take care of) people compliment me on it all the time.
My hair is greying but still pretty thick, and my dad's bald as a coot. My wife teases me about grey hair, but I tell her that as long as it's still growing, it can come out pink for all I care.
This is likely because the balding gene, is inherited from the mother, not father.
Load More Replies...Thick hair is worth its trouble. Still had lots and lots and lots of hair postpartum, loved that. Only wash it every 8 days, so I don't mind the hours of styling bc it's rare lol.
I was lucky to inherit the thickness of my dad's hair and the curliness of mum's!
Same! It makes my head super hot, but I'm grateful to have a lot of it!
Very grateful for my super thick hair, I have some hair loss because of medication and I notice my hair is thinner but it doesn't really show.
My hair is thicker than my siblings'... even though I'm the one with cancer. And it looks styled even though I don't use any hair products other than shampoo.
Me too -- and it's wonderful in the winter. But not so good in summertime...
On the other hand, if you don’t have anything like that, don’t be upset either. Just think about it - the absence of any unpleasant features is already an advantage of sorts. For example, I already wrote that my wife and I both love cats very much, with one significant difference - my wife is allergic to them, and I am not. However, every time I see a cute kitty, I also have to make a difficult but predetermined choice... Well, okay, that wasn’t a successful example!
I'm immune to poison ivy. I don't get a rash.
My mom's changed. She wasn't allergic to oak, ivy, or sumac. One day in her 50s all of a sudden she's allergic. I inherited her resistance but mine hasn't changed yet.
Load More Replies...Several of my siblings are immune to Poison Oak. I might be...I've never had it so I should assume I am.😂
Me too. I didn't know this until I was 45 years old and pulling weeds and my husband said, "Watch out! That's poison ivy!" But I never got any reaction to it. I would trade it for being a mosquito feast though!
I think I might be immune to it too. If not, then I am just very lucky. As a kid wearing shorts and pretty much barefoot all summer long, I tromped through a lot of fields and woods that were thick with tangles of undergrowth, and never once got poison ivy even though my friends did from being in the same places I was.
my mom had a frind in school who got ppoison ivy so bad they had to be hospitalized. she wanted to get out of school (she was maybe 7 at the time) so she sat down in a poison ivy patch and rubbed her whole body in it including her face. never got an outbreak. i can be downwind of the stuff and its covering my body in no time.
I've never had poison ivy in my life. My mom and husband are both incredibly allergic to it and have had bad breakouts in the past 10 years. Both hate that I haven't ever had to deal with it.
Same. I thought being painted in pink Calamine Lotion looked so cool when I was younger. I rolled in the poison ivy & rubbed it on my arms & legs. Fortunately, I didn't get anything on me. Even as an adult in her mid 50's, I can work around the stuff in my yard & not develop a rash.
When I was younger, poison ivy seem nor to affect me. Now that I am older poison ivy will effect me but I won't break out in a rash. I just become real itchy.
I'm a woman. My leg hairs are so light and thin they're barely visible. Never have I shaved my legs.
Edit: never plucked my eyebrows either. They've been in perfect shape since I was born. I have dark eyebrows and eyelashes.
I get the leg hair, but my invisible leg hair is down to old age! On the minus side, my eyebrows and eyelashes are invisible as well!!
I was the opposite until menopause. Now I rarely have to shave my legs at all. But only my legs.
It seems that if you shave the hairs grow back 'blunted' so lock thicker. Shaving pubic hair is a no no for me- the follicles get infected and is sooooo painful.
I am the same. I shaved a few times in my 20s when I was super easily influenced, but I haven't shaved my legs in 20+ years. I had nice eyebrows before the 90s hit and I became a Christina-Aguilera-in-her-X-Tina-era fan. Bye bye eyebrows ... Downside of all that blonde hair: I am super pale, I don't tan at all.
I had almost no leg hair my all my adult life. I’d just pluck the odd one. After menopause the last few seem to have vanished altogether.
I have highly concentrated taste buds. So I'm classified as a "super" taster. And can discern flavors in just about everything I eat. Same with smells. Probably the reason people say I'm such a good cook. Only 25% of people in the world are super tasters. But I think that's pretty cool.
The downside of being a supertaster is that there are many foods that I just cannot abide. Anything bitter, basically, so a lot of veg are borderline, some fruits (e.g. grapefruit) and a lot of drinks. Oh, and goat's cheese, although that's not bitter and may be unrelated to the supertaster thing, idk.
Me, too. Slip some cumin into the stew? I know. Is there cardamum in my rice pudding? You betcha there is (and I wouldn't have it any other way.)
I'm a super smeller. My sense of smell is very acute. I cook by smelling when the food is done. I of course use a time, but I can usually tell when something is done like 30secs before the timer goes off w/o fail. It's also a curse as well. Any bad smells I'll pick up very quickly and those around me think I'm crazy until the smell finally hits them minutes later.
My mother has excellent sense of smell. She’s a super sniffer. Did not pass that on to me. I’ve lived half my life with a blocked nose which has its benefits when the dog 💨.
By the way, do you know what unique superpower you may also have? I’ll tell you: this special ability is to scroll the list to the end and write an interesting comment. Yes, that’s a superpower too! So let's check if you have this superpower! Why not, right?
Good teeth! Didn't have dental insurance for 7 years, went to dentist, she complimented me on having good strong teeth! Its good genes because I only started flossing at age 40.
You are very lucky. I have hit an age where my teeth are cracking. I don't recommend ot.
Mine are crooked (and always will be; my parents couldn't afford braces and it doesn't bother me), but despite bad dental hygiene as a child and young adult I didn't get my first cavity until I was in my 40's, and at 63 have only had two or three. I also still have all of my teeth except the two wisdom teeth on the right side.
I have very good teeth too. My dentist say I have very good teeth and the dental assistants also notice my teeth. I only need to brush and floss once a day. I don't know how much this helps but I also drink about 7 to 8 once of milk a day.
I went to the dentist last year after 20 years of not going. Somehow, no cavities and no issues. No idea how since I don't take care of my teeth! I go twice a year now because I figure that was luck and not to push it. I'm 49 yo.
Good genes and good perinatal habits. A friend of mine was a Thalidomide child - it killed his twin sister in the womb and he has incredibly fragile teeth. Not his mum's fault, of course, she didn't know.
I have great teeth genes as well. Mine came in straight but with gaps so I did braces but I have never had a cavity and if my dad is any indication they will last me the rest of my life.
Something I'm blessed with as well! Dentist hates that he can't drill and hammer on my teeth
I have insanely strong teeth as well. To the point that I only stopped chewing inch thick ice cubes in my teens because I'd blunted one of my canines. Not broken, blunted!
I guess mine are good too - never had cavities before, and only started flossing when I was 35 (will turn 36 this year)
One I like to flex is I have no allergies 😌
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Okay, yet. I have no allergies yet 😭 so far in my 28 years. I've been lucky 😌.
I have adult onset allergies. They started when I was about 35. They get worse over time.
OMG what in the actual fudge is up with that???? I hit 32 and went from 2 allergies to ALLLLLLL the blasted allergies
Load More Replies...Everyone is allergic to something. They just have to encounter it to find out. I used to think I had no allergies too. But I had an allergic reaction to a titanium support put in my foot after tendon surgery. Had to go back and have it removed. Luckily, it wasn’t vital to my recovery. But, had I not torn that tendon, and needed it replaced with a piece of tendon from my foot, I would never have known. Then once menopause hit, I found myself with a major sensitivity to wheat/gluten on top of everything else. Never had it before, in all of my many decades happily eating pasta, bread, and other delicious foods containing wheat. It’s like we get older and our bodies find new ways to betray us.
I'm about 1000 years old (or so it feels), I'm allergic to hard work and idiots but nothing actually medically.
yet...is the operative word. I had no allergies either; now I suffer greatly some days. It is keeps me from life suffering.
41 and don't have any either. Husband 39 and so far none of our kids do either. Very lucky.
I was never allergic to anything, then out of the blue, I developed an allergy to sulphites- used as a preservative. My face a tongue swelled before my eyes. Waiting for immunology input. I'm 60.
Literally got the results back today from a fertility panel that screens for almost 500 disorders and gene mutations and I carry NONE OF THEM. Doc said it’s super rare to not carry even a few recessive issues. Pretty neat! Got to tell my parents they made a near perfect human ;)
Edit to add for everyone: it’s a panel from Natera. You ask your OB or a Genetic Counselor (or geneticist) to order it. Some insurances cover it. Others don’t. I think we’ll end up paying $300 per person for ours. It’s a blood draw and it gets sent to their lab in CA.
Edit 2: please stop telling me to procreate. That’s why we got the testing done. And stop telling me to be an egg donor. Not something that I’m remotely interested in.
The edits are so funny. Like of course the internet told her to have kids and be an egg donor.🤣
People should ALWAYS do genetic screening with a private company. You CANNOT trust your medical insurance, ever. Especially if the GOP comes to power, they will allow insurance companies to consider pre-existing conditions, and that would include anything for which you have a genetic predisposition.
Wow, I can't imagine living in a place that causes people to be so paranoid about getting health tests done!
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Eyelashes. I don't use Mascara because they are so long. .
I wish. Eyebrows, head hair super lacking. But so is leg hair and underarm. Am I lucky or not lol? Also barely any grey @ 64.
We don't get grey hair in my family. But I think grey hair is beautiful. I love grey hair on men.
Load More Replies...My toddler girl has the thickest, longest, darkest lashes you can imagine. Oh, and her flawless complexion is also totally wasted on her 😭
My eyelashes are super long and thick, but you can’t really see them bc I’m blond. I’m so jealous of my little brother because his are the same, but he has dark hair.
I sound like an egotistical a$$ when I say it, but my lashes are naturally so long and thick that I've regularly been accused of wearing mascara when I wasn't. Even had an aesthetician try to wipe it off and was shocked when it turned out I was not, in fact, wearing any. Just genetics; I did nothing to earn it. But my babies sure do have beautiful long lashes. :)
I have naturally long lashes too... occasionally wear mascara though, not often though. Natural is better, all ways.
My lashes are extremely long as well, but also extremely pale so you can't see them without mascara, but if I wear mascara it smears on the inside of my glasses 🤷🏼♀️
My eyelashes are long and black, and like my eyes so nicely it looks like I have perfect eyeliner all the time
Both my mother and grandmother had breast and uterine cancer (which they recovered from, thankfully). Due to my family history my primary care provider tested me for the breast cancer genes, and I don't have them! Woohoo!
[Edit: thank you all for your concern. I still get screened. My mother tested positive for the genes and I did not. I know there are other types of breast/uterine cancers and my risk is not zero. I am just happy I have a lower risk of that particular family curse.].
My mum had breast cancer twice, 10 years apart - triple negative so genetic testing is of limited benefit.
My test was negative and I had no family history but I still got breast cancer
Me too, and then my sister. Hope your journey is going well.
Load More Replies...how do you get tested for that? what do the papers of the results look like? can you do it even when you're young? so what if you are positive? do they 'heal' you really?... (
Genetic markers is what they are looking for. If you are positive you are encouraged to have yearly screenings to catch potential cancer cells while they are in an early stage. There is currently no cure for cancer, and no preventative medicine to ensure you don't get it.
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Lol I inherited lots of genetic losses but one win is my body type - I've always looked athletic (thin with moderate muscle mass) even when I've been extremely out of shape.
I've got this. Got it from my dad. I just got back in the gym after 3 years without lifting and no one ever believed I didn't work out. Lol. Meanwhile my dad is 68 and still looks better than most 30 year Olds.
Yeah I have a fast metabolism and always looke lift even when I've eaten fattening foods and am age 43. I've been pretty much the same way since in my late teens. I also do labor for a job so that keeps me in shape.
No wisdom teeth! Like, never ever.
Great! I had too many with a small mouth! Had 8 teeth pulled before becoming a teenager :(
All four of my wisdom teeth came in perfectly. Never had to have them removed.
Same. I'm 42 and still have never had any dental surgery or meaningful problems.
I'm the opposite. All four came through when I was a teenager, completely straight, with zero pain.
Evolution you super being you! When will we evolve without our appendix? Mine are in an incinerator at a hospital. They were gangrenous .
My genetic flex is great skin. I appreciate it all the time and wish I could brag, lol.
I think I pretty great skin. I mean I don't get dryness or itchiness or any diseases and I heal pretty fast.
Same here. Never had a pimple and had great almost perfect skin until 40. As my hormones changes I became allergic to things and have Hashimotos disease so my arms are scared from hives but my face is still perfect and young at 51. I’ll take it.
I inherited my mother's great skin. Rarely wear makeup, rarely use moisturisers, creams, lotions or potions, and rarely get spots or other skin problems; we both look at least 10 years younger than our true age. My daughter, unfortunately for her, is another story completely!
About 75% of my skin has this. The other 25% is unfortunately the most visible skin (lower arms on the top side and front of my shins).
Grey eyes...actual grey not tiktok trendy grey.
Me neither and I'm curious what is "trendy grey" and actual grey eyes.
Load More Replies...My eyes are grey. Nine of my brothers have grey eyes, two have blue eyes, and one has brown. Neither of my parents have grey eyes.
good lawd, how many of y'all ARE there, GF??? LOL
Load More Replies...My kids have brown eyes- I have grey and their dad brown. 3 out of 4 of my grand children have blue. Apparently it's not as simple as 3 out of 4 will have brown(so I've read). Look at an iris close up, it looks really creepy! Your pupil is a hole!!!!!!
I’m a twin and my twin is like the other half of my heart. I would feel so lost without that connection, and I’m so grateful.
Mark Twain told an interviewer that he once had an identical twin. When they were taking a bath as infants, one of them drowned. His parents couldn't tell which one drowned, and Twain said he wasn't sure himself.
I have never had a headache before.
Get your blood pressure checked. I thought this was because of my back injury but apparently I have high blood pressure and that can cause it.
Load More Replies...Yup. I've walked into the ER crying like a baby. Thankfully they have gotten less frequent and less severe as I've gotten older.
Load More Replies...Sure wish I could say that but my father never had one in 78 years. I am plagued with chronic, severe migraines.
and she never remembered dreams (though she did dream).
Load More Replies...Wow! I have weekly migraines and headaches most days - and work on preventing them from becoming migraines :(
I remember my first psychology lesson in high school we learned all the definitions of 'normal'. I found out it is not medically normal to have a headache and my mind was blown! I almost aways had a headache.
Low (not abnormally…) blood pressure.
same - however they freak out when they take my resting pulse - 100 / 110
I can see why they freak out. Any ideas why (I assume you don't smoke)?
Load More Replies...Same here. Not a blessing as it makes me pass out at random times. Drinking loads of water helps.
I'm the same, feeling light headed and rushing for water to make me feel better.
Load More Replies...Same, 67 years old, 120/70-72, 68-72 pulse rate, and I'm a 50 years long heavy smoker
Same. Last time I gave blood it was below their threshold to take. So, the nurse had me walk briskly around the building a few times to raise it then it was all good.
Me too. Once a nurse gasped when she took my BP and said "I didn't mean to relax that much!"
Keep an eye on it- in Germany it's treated like high blood pressure is treated in the uk.
Not low and not high. Always where it should be, no matter how unwell or stressed I am. So I’m thankful for that.
Still have all my hair at 52.
My partner will be 61 this year, full head of think dark hair . Just a very few greys starting to come in now
I'll turn 60 in September and I still have a full head of hair and it's still mostly black, I've just entered the "salt and pepper" stage.
My son-in-law has this blessing and passed it on to my grandson. It's thick too. My son however is not so lucky so he's shaved it all off. Better than a comb over.
My dad is 74 and he has all is hair too. And it's just starting to turn gray.
I'm 52, still have all my hair, and no gray hairs at all. My brother, who is 2 years older than me, started going bald in his 30's, and what little hair he has left went gray a decade ago.
Strong immune system I guess. I barely get ill even though my lifestyle is really unhealthy. Also never got COVID but idk if you can be naturally immune to that, studies are inconclusive as far as I know.
Nor have I and I work in a restaurant touching peoples dirty plateware (lots of handwashing)
Load More Replies...I thought I was resistant to Covid but it finally hit me like a brick one day. Can't ever recall feeling so ill. My cat Jesse wouldn't leave my side until I recovered.
I'm not a sickly person, but I got Covid twice (according to the home tests). First time, it was like an irritating cold. Second time it was like being pinned under a collapsing bridge. Jesse sounds like a keeper, though!
Load More Replies...I got mono really bad about 15 years ago, like deathly ill. Then I contracted type 2 flu in Mexico (it is rare to catch in the US). But I haven’t been sick since, not even a cold. I chalk up the flu to just being in a foreign country exposed to something we rarely see in the US, hence zero immunity.
same, exep colds witch i get abnomally often and a really high body temp [not a disease, just true
I have zero recovery period after spicy times. I just stay ready.
This entry has -1 votes at the time of writing, is it because people don't like the post, or they're envious?
Depends on his/her age and gender. Every body is different, and every age is different too.
I need 8 hours of sleep, a bowl of Wheaties, Coffee and a vitamin pill to go round 2! LOL!
I’ve never had a nosebleed in my life! (Not sure how common or uncommon that is tbh).
Neither have I. Nor migraines or headaches. My old mum used to say "Where there's no sense, there's no feeling" which might have something to do with it. Lol.
I have never had a nose bleed before, but I used to suffer from severe, debilitating migraines since about 12/13 years old. I fortunately don't suffer from migraines as severe or as often anymore and hopefully it stays like that or better yet, nonexistent.
Load More Replies...I had chronic nosebleeds when I was a kid. Could not go faster than walking or I would start to bleed. Made it very hard to chase my siblings.
I never have either. Closest I came to it was having a cut right below my nose.
When I was a kid I'd picked my nose I got bleeds but never as a teenager to an adult at age 43 now.
I get spontaneous nosebleeds sometimes, it really grosses people out if I happen to be with them when it happens!
i had bad nose bleeds when i was a kid, i used to have to use hand towels over my nose because id go through a lot of toilet roll before it stopped, apparently according to my mom i had to have an operation in my nose and the drs cut too close near the blood vessels which made the area weaker
Calves. I have naturally muscular and shapely calves and I don’t even work them.
If OP is overweight, that could also be why. Fat people tend to have jacked calves from lugging our lard asses around.
Same with me. Pretty overweight, but I don't let it stop me from doing the things I want to do; so I still go hike up mountains and stuff. I'm living proof that 90% of your weight is your diet, because I'm fairly active (I can't run, but I walk and bike), and still weight 260 lbs because I have no sense of portion control.
Load More Replies...I had a friend at uni with calves like that. Unfortunately, lots of people laughed about it behind her back :(
I wish I had this. I could work calves constantly and they'd never match the rest of me.
My feet do not sweat nor smell.
My son's feet smelled so badly that if he tried on some shoes, we had to buy them. Later, I got him to put his feet in vinegar a few times and it went away.
Baking soda also does the trick. Funny how those two almost always do the same things, and yet can't get along! I bet one day they will realize how similar they are and will hook up!
Load More Replies...My husband has no body odor but his feet smell and it's not good.
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I can eat really unhealthy and a lot and not gain weight.
LOL, I worked with a guy who was like this. Could eat everything and anything and not gain an ounce. Another co-worker keep saying .... wait till that door slams shut .... and sure enough it did. 20 years later it all caught up with him!
Load More Replies...Just you wait... "When you're younger you can eat what you like, drink what you like, and still climb into your 26" waist trousers and zip them closed. Then you reach that age, 24-25, your muscles give up, they wave a little white flag, and without any warning at all, you're suddenly a fat bastard." Red Dwarf S3E4
I wouldn't call this a good thing. Even if you don't get fat, your health will suck. Your immune system will suck and you'll probably have a lot of health issues other than obesity. And if you're a guy it makes it way harder to put on any muscle or get stronger. So this can be both a blessing and a curse
It WILL catch up to you. If not in weight, then conditions like diabetes, heart disease, etc.
Gaining weight is not the only consequence of eating unhealthy food. Take care.
No tonsils. Born without 'em.
I wonder about myself here because I never had any tonsil problems ever. Maybe I've just been lucky for 42 years?
Tonsil problems are *generally* a childhood-to-adolescence thing. Like a lot of things in the human body, if they're OK for the first fifteen to eighteen years, they're probably going to fine until you're old.
Load More Replies...TF you were...maybe we're bored, but we're not brain-amputees, my dear...🙄
I’m decently healthy both physically and mentally. Granted I’m only 40 so I’ve got some years ahead of me so that will probably change, but right now I feel like I’m in the minority among friends and close coworkers that I am not on prescription meds for anything.
Mom was getting surgery in her 60's and Dr.'s office called because she hadn't filled out her prescriptions list - she wasn't taking any daily prescriptions; guess that is unusual for Americans in their 60s
Somewhere there is someone who thinks you need a therapist to help you deal with this.
I am in my 60's and don't take any prescription medication either. I do have some aches and pains but for me I consider fairly healthy for my age.
i'm almost 65 and my sister is almost 66 and neither one of us are on any medication of any kind. no chronic issues at all, thank cthulhu. we both also are basically the same weight we were in college (and she's had 2 children).
Natural muscle size and strength. I’ve been gifted.
My brother, haha. His bicep is the size of a dinner plate and he has never lifted.
My husband is actually your klischee dev/gamer nerd and broad-shouldered, really strong all without doing any sports, workouts (and pill popping, of course).
I don’t get the “Asian Flush/Glow” after drinking.
A lot of Asian people, I think more specifically people with Korean genes, are somewhat allergic to alcohol, resulting in red blotchy faces after drinking. Not exclusively an Asian thing. My mate gets it and he's white Irish.
Load More Replies...I won't test this theory, but I was ridiculously reckless in my 20s and 30s when it came to sex. I'm gay and had a huge chip on my shoulder. When I smartened up in my mid 30s, I went to my doctor and asked him to test me for every STD known to man. I was worried AF. I was convinced I was HIV+ because I knew what I had done. My results came back clean as a whistle. So I went to a local health clinic and again clean as a whistle. I went back to my doctor and told him there was no way I was HIV-. He told me there is a very small percentage of people who are immune to it and they don't know why. I won't test it though. Happily married and monogamous. I met one other guy who was told the same thing. I always wondered why they didn't test our blood for a possible vaccine.
I had an acquaintance who was HIV+ for 20 years (80's&90's, before effective treatment) and never had any symptoms. He said he'd probably had an entire body's worth of blood drawn over those years. Everybody wanted wanted to study his blood. We lost touch, not sure where he is now.
Load More Replies...I have a "photographic memory". Well, there's no such thing actually, but I have a really good memory. When I was a child at school I could remember answers by picturing the page the work was on. It's ironic that I have trouble with faces, but once I remember you, I will be able to tell you all sorts of things we did that you've forgotten. I've had kids I taught come up to me, and they had to tell me who they were, but once they did, I could tell them where they sat in my class, anything interesting they said or did ("You drew a cartoon of me teaching about the Titanic!" "You asked me what an ystervark was in English and I said an iron pig!") and even sometimes what their marks were. But I would not be able to pick them out of a lineup!
I also have a good memory but am terrible with faces. Huh.
Load More Replies...Hold on to it! At 44 I was tested as "having the eyes of a child." I sure grew up fast. :(
Load More Replies...I can't throw up any longer. Despite many occasions where I should have, that ability has evaded me for over 20 years now.
I only throw up some things like food poisoning and drinking too much but I don't drink too much anyway.
Load More Replies...A constitution like a horse. I very rarely get sick and when I do I can usually shrug it off after a day or two. When I got COVID my only symptoms were tiredness and a mild sore throat which went away after a day of bed rest (granted I was vaccinated but even so).
I won't test this theory, but I was ridiculously reckless in my 20s and 30s when it came to sex. I'm gay and had a huge chip on my shoulder. When I smartened up in my mid 30s, I went to my doctor and asked him to test me for every STD known to man. I was worried AF. I was convinced I was HIV+ because I knew what I had done. My results came back clean as a whistle. So I went to a local health clinic and again clean as a whistle. I went back to my doctor and told him there was no way I was HIV-. He told me there is a very small percentage of people who are immune to it and they don't know why. I won't test it though. Happily married and monogamous. I met one other guy who was told the same thing. I always wondered why they didn't test our blood for a possible vaccine.
I had an acquaintance who was HIV+ for 20 years (80's&90's, before effective treatment) and never had any symptoms. He said he'd probably had an entire body's worth of blood drawn over those years. Everybody wanted wanted to study his blood. We lost touch, not sure where he is now.
Load More Replies...I have a "photographic memory". Well, there's no such thing actually, but I have a really good memory. When I was a child at school I could remember answers by picturing the page the work was on. It's ironic that I have trouble with faces, but once I remember you, I will be able to tell you all sorts of things we did that you've forgotten. I've had kids I taught come up to me, and they had to tell me who they were, but once they did, I could tell them where they sat in my class, anything interesting they said or did ("You drew a cartoon of me teaching about the Titanic!" "You asked me what an ystervark was in English and I said an iron pig!") and even sometimes what their marks were. But I would not be able to pick them out of a lineup!
I also have a good memory but am terrible with faces. Huh.
Load More Replies...Hold on to it! At 44 I was tested as "having the eyes of a child." I sure grew up fast. :(
Load More Replies...I can't throw up any longer. Despite many occasions where I should have, that ability has evaded me for over 20 years now.
I only throw up some things like food poisoning and drinking too much but I don't drink too much anyway.
Load More Replies...A constitution like a horse. I very rarely get sick and when I do I can usually shrug it off after a day or two. When I got COVID my only symptoms were tiredness and a mild sore throat which went away after a day of bed rest (granted I was vaccinated but even so).
