35 Strange Behaviors People Thought Were Completely Normal, As Shared In This Viral Thread
Each and every one of us has a unique perspective. What we see through our very own pair of eyes, what we experience, is incomparable to anyone else’s day. And while that sounds very poetic and romantic, there’s still a huge overlap between how different people sense and experience the world. One of the beautiful things about being human is that we have so much more in common with each other than we think. You probably sense a big ‘but’ coming…
In some rare cases, however, what we believe is completely normal is, in fact, anything but. Internet users shared their most interesting tales about the strange things that their friends thought were something that happened to everybody, only for it to turn out to be the exact opposite.
From people thinking that the effects of lactose intolerance happened to everyone or sharing a toothbrush with their entire family to thinking that tigers were female lions, there’s a bit of serious and hilarious weirdness for everyone. And then there are the people who eat their cereal with orange juice who are in a league of their own! Check out the most peculiar stories below, Pandas! Do you have any similar tales that you’d like to share with the other readers? Drop by the comment section and tell us all about it.
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I'm in college and I'm lucky enough to be able to rent a house, but I do have housemates, one of which we will call Cade. Cade is 6'4", somewhat portly, kinda a quiet guy most of the time but a pretty sassy gay dude once you get past the first barrier.
Anyway, one day I came into the kitchen and I see him washing the dishes. Cool, no big deal, we don't have an automatic dishwasher and it was his turn. I'm about to leave when I see him pick something up off the counter, bite into it, then set it back down. I only stop to look because I notice oddly the thing is bright yellow, and usually people don't just eat bright yellow things.
Turns out Cade eats lemons. Like apples. With the peel still on. I confronted him about it and he thinks it's the funniest thing ever that I'm freaked out by it, so now once or twice a week I get a snapchat of him aggressively eating a lemon at me. I think we're gonna be friends for a long time.
My sister said to me once, “hey, what dream did you choose last night?” I was so confused. She explained that every night she goes into a dream room and picks what she wants to dream about. I got super jealous.
This one is about me. In my early 20’s I started having a lot of pain in my upper left jaw. My dentist said there was nothing wrong with my teeth and that I should go see a sinus specialist. Get to the ORL (ear nose and throat doctor) and they comment on how stuffed up I must be.
I’m slightly baffled, and say that I’m actually breathing much easier that day than usual. Aaand that was the day I found out that most people can breathe through their noses MOST of the time and not just on special occasions. Turns out I’m allergic to dust mites in a “how have you not had anaphylaxis and died” way, and had been experiencing an allergy attack for 23 straight years.
That doctors visit legitimately changed my life. I no longer had to choose between breathing and eating.
There will always be outliers and no two people’s life experiences will ever truly be the exact same. At the same time, it’s important to recognize that, barring powerful genetic quirks and extremely unorthodox upbringing, many of us have very similar needs and drives that are shaped as much by our biology as by the environments in which we were raised.
For example, writer Ariane Sherine, who has written about living a long and healthy life, previously told Bored Panda that there are fundamental things that contribute to it. Things like exercise, good food, altruism, and quality relationships.
“Close, fulfilling relationships with others are one of the most important things when it comes to happiness, whether romantic or platonic. Studies show that the more close friendships and relationships you have, the longer you live. Volunteering and helping others are also likely to make you happy,” she said.
So just a little background so this makes more sense, one time when I was little like about 8, I was laying in bed looking out my window at the moon and suddenly I saw two moons. It freaked me out so I went to my mom, asking her if this was bad and she said “no, that’s normal” and sent me back to bed. Well, fast forward to me at about 17, I went to eye doctor with my mom to get my prescription updated. To keep it short, I told the doctor I saw two sets of letters, and he looks at my eyes closer and tells me I have a lazy eye, and that it’s not normal. So my mom, who’s right there, goes “that’s not normal?! I thought everyone saw double!” And the doctor was just like “.....no”. Turns out my mom had the same eye situation, but it was never addressed so she just figured everyone had it. Oops.
Here's me!
I remember that, for a long time, I thought it was completely normal to not be able to get a full breath. I distinctly remember being 16 and asking my friends "you know that feeling when you actually get a full breath in your lungs and it feels AMAZING" and no one had any clue what I was talking about.
Turns out I had undiagnosed asthma for most of my life. Makes more sense now.
My husband had no idea he was lactose intolerant. He thought everyone had diarrhea everyday. He’s 26 and found out last year. How’d he find out? His mom told him. She’s known his whole life.
“There are other things that contribute to happiness and well-being including taking regular exercise, eating healthily, having enough money to feel comfortable, having job security, and enjoying experiences rather than possessions,” Ariane told Bored Panda.
“Self-care and taking time for yourself are also very important. But I'd say close relationships are probably the most essential things to happiness.”
My aunt put a fence around the pool to keep the ducks out. She didn't believe us when we told her they could just fly over it... Does this count?
My sister’s ex husband thought the moon was the sun but in “night mode” so it’s more dim.
The man was 43 years old.
This is when my sister realized this was the final straw and needs to get a divorce.
My ex and her entire family share a tooth brush she argued it like they were all sharing a hairbrush... glad that ended
Our biology more or less demands that we form tight-knit social bonds, be kind, and get enough movement. The vast majority of us are hardwired for this and it’s what makes us happy.
Psychology expert Suzanne Degges-White told Bored Panda earlier that our biology, as well as the culture we grow up with, shapes our attitude toward altruism, kindness, and being social.
"Many of us are raised to believe it is the 'right thing to do.' Basically, all spiritual belief systems have a version of the 'Golden Rule, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,'" she explained. "We also do good turns because we know that one day we may be in need of a little 'generosity from the universe,' so it's like putting 'money' into a karma account."
This was me until about two years ago.
I thought that Kiwis made everyone's mouth itchy. Like it was just part of the fruit experience. I also thought mangos were "hot" for everyone.
Well my wife informed me that I probably allergic to those fruit since mangos aren't supposed to burn your mouth and kiwis shouldn't make your mouth itch. I truly didn't believe her. Months later I'm choking on mango. I can't breath, my face is getting red. I couldn't even get the word put to tell her I couldn't breath. EpiPen and an ER visit later. I'm allergic to mangos and kiwis and a host of other tropical fruit.
No fruit should make your mouth burn(aside from the jalepeno and peppers). And no fruit should make your mouth itch or lips swell. Apparently that's called an allergy.
Oops
I’m pretty sure some people’s mouths get itchy from eating pineapple, something about enzymes?
One time my best friend and I were on a voice chat as it was getting pretty late. At one point he said that he should probably head to bed because he was starting to see gory and otherwise disturbing things. Apparently he has hypnagogic hallucinations every so often and just assumed that it was normal when to see stuff when you get tired
For those commenting, “It’s not normal?”, I’ve never had this or heard of anyone else having it as normal phenomena.
I had a sleepover with a friend in middle school one weekend. I went to shower and she gave me a towel. It had a weird smell to it, but I couldn’t find any other towels inside the bathroom, so I used it by patting myself barely and just air drying.
Turns out her whole family shares a towel to prevent having to use new ones every time. I told her how weird that was and she was shocked to find out that my family has THEIR own towels to use, but we put them in the wash every 2 or so uses.
I didn’t sleep over there again.
“Humans are wired so that when we do something kind for another, we feel good about ourselves and neurotransmitters like endorphins and oxytocin have been shown to get a boost when we do something good for another. It is through cooperation that society functions, so the survival of the human race depends on being willing to help others. Family values, spiritual beliefs, and biology all play a part in this motivation," she said.
"Many of us take pride in being of service to others as it is culturally valued and we want to hold significance in our worlds. So when we do good deeds, we show others our willingness to help those in distress/need; we live out faith-based encouragement to treat others the way we would like to be treated, we uphold family values, and our brains get a positive jolt of happiness when we help others.”
In other words, as diverse as our goals, ambitions, and life experiences might be, there are some fundamental things that simply do not change. Realizing this is kind of inspiring, don’t you think? We’re not so different after all… with a few peculiar exceptions that are found in this list, of course!
My roomate in college thought you washed clothes on every single cycle on the washing machine. Our machine had a delicate cycle, a cotton cycle, a solo rinse cycle, a permanent press cycle, etc.
He always complained about the washer taking forever.. its because he was washing his clothes 4-5 times every time he did laundry.
How to get super clean clothes. (Also how to wear out your clothes very quickly!)
Had a friend who I took shooting when we were like 20. He’s never shot before and when he was trying to aim he was tilting head strangely. When I questioned him about it, he said “well which eye do you see out of?!”
He had been blind in one eye his entire life and thought everyone was like that.
My friend can't recognize faces. I only figured it out for sure when he almost got into a strangers truck because he thought it was me because she had red hair. I've known him for like 6 years. He seemed surprised when I said that wasn't normal.
I helped my older cousin move into a new house as a teenager, we worked non-stop for over 12 hours. I was so f*****g exhausted that at one point I vomited in his front yard.
The next day he acted like I was faking being tired, to which I responded, "how the hell do you fake vomit?". He goes, "easy", and proceeds to instantly *projectile vomit at will!* I just looked on in horror and bewilderment. He acted like it was perfectly normal and assumed everyone could do it, he got offended when I told him it was bizarre as hell. The f**k.
Storytime:
Hubby learned to drive at 12yo. During the summer and holidays, he regularly drove his Grandad's truck into the fields to deliver everyone lunch and water. He also would drive the tractor to and from fields.
As a result, when I met him in his late 30s, he had a perfect driving record. His defensive driving was phenomenal. The only tickets he ever received were: driving without a seatbelt, and parking on the sidewalk. (The latter was right in front of our house and a b***hy neighbor called it in).
Fast forward 10 years. He goes to the eye doctor for the first time in 20 years. He needs glasses. The Night we pick up the glasses, he is driving towards a traffic light. As he rolls to a stop, he states: "WHOA, the traffic lights aren't star bursts anymore" Have they always looked like that????"
My friend thought that everyone was regularly taking worming tablets to stop getting worms. It wasn’t until she got married and told her husband she was going to go pick up their worming tablets that she found out it wasn’t normal.
My ex husband has reflux really bad. Once I saw him chewing something while we were out shopping and so I asked for a piece of what I thought was gum. NOPE.
It was food that we had eaten about an hour earlier.
He told me his food would always come back up all the time and he would just rechew it and swallow it back down. I was like WTF. NOOO.
Not kidding. My boyfriend of almost 8 years thought lions were boys and tigers were girl lions... kind of like bulls and cows
One time in my 20s at work a coworker and I started getting into an argument about what color Monday was (it's red) and didn't realize this was not normal until another co-worker walked by and asked us what the hell we were going on about synesthesia for.
In college, a bunch of friends and I were sitting around talking about things we did as a kid. One of the guys in the group said "didn't you hate when you got a cold and your mom would give you an enema?" He soon found out that he was the only one.
So this was actually me,but growing up my mom would always tell me to grab donuts from the Walmart bakery area and eat it while we walked around the store (we lived in the country so we only went to the store every two weeks). For a long time this proceeded until it was common practice and eventually I just did it without even telling her. Around early middle school a girl who has a crush on me sees me eating a donut in walmart and asks me if I just take those. I respond "of course", she proceeds to take one and eat it with me to prove she's as cool as me but I just don't understand.
I then relay to my mom how this silly girl had no idea walmart had free donuts.... And that's when she told me she had been paying for them for years. But I had not asked her permission for a long time so there is no telling how many donuts I unknowingly stole from Walmart.
It's not very often you get to find something strange out about yourself that you thought was perfectly normal.
I have a friend that thought it was normal to go 2 weeks + without a sip of water.
I had severe pancreas damage at one point with pretty amazing sugar levels. I have never known thirst like that. You could drink and within 30 seconds have no saliva, with your contacts falling out because your eyes are so dry. And let me tell you, if you’re truly thirsty, your only desire is water. It. Tasted. Soooooo. Good.
the people in this thread are all really worrying me. my biz partner is another one of you who doesn't drink water. She now gets horribly painful kidney stones ALL THE TIME. All I drink is water other than 1 iced coffee in the morning. Still water all day, bubbly at night. I drink no juice or soda, never drink iced tea. I won't drink empty calories and my body needs water. Juice gives me terrible heartburn at this point(I'm old) but it's not something I ever dank regularly as an adult. All that c**p is bad for you and water is good for you so I gave up soda when I was 23. Never missed that c**p and I am 61. I don't really do fast food either.
This summer I finally started to drink ENOUGH water. Before that I drank one cup of water a day (but I drank one-two cup of coffee, but that was all). I started to measure the intake. At first it was half liter . Then one liter. And so on, and I drank 3 liter water a day. And it took about two weeks with 3 liter water that my body told me it is good finally. My skin looked good, my tongue not was dry and ugly but pink, I went to pee every 4-5 hours and the pee was not dark but almost water-like (which says you drank enough) I haven't realize before that my body says me 'I am thirsty'. I was so so get used to it my mouth is dry all of the time, I was thirsty all of the time... We need to drink. Otherwise our body will get sick.
Load More Replies... Tons of people do now actually. The doctors here in oklahoma tell you "as long as it is a fluid, it doesn't matter what it is" which I find weird. I don't do water, I drink pedialyte.
Why? It seems expensive and unhealthy to never drink water, not to mention producing loads of waste in terms of bottles or cans. Does the tap water there not taste ok?
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Depends on the quality of your water, and also what else you are drinking - it's no FLUIDS that is a potential problem, rather than no water. Milk is 78% water, and even soda contains water.
No it’s the no water thing. Drinking milk has helped me when I had no water around at night. But then I choked on the mucus. Sodas sugar defeats it’s water content. You’re now thirstier than before (if we were in the desert it’s be more obvious lol)
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My ex-g/f NEVER drank water. She didn't like the taste. (lolwut) And she took medication for constant migraines. Gee, I wonder if there's a connection with not drinking water and headaches?
And UTIs, and cognitive decline. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/effects-of-hydration-status-on-cognitive-performance-and-mood/1210B6BE585E03C71A299C52B51B22F7#:~:text=Severe%20dehydration%20has%20been%20shown,particularly%20visual%20attention%20and%20mood.
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I used to wonder why my back hurt (in my 20s) until I started drinking more water. It helps with a lot.
I used to only drink water for years and then I started drinking soda when I got an early morning job. I got it for free and the caffeine helped a lot. I got super addicted and now I just drink soda. I know there's water in it but it's not like just drinking water. I go days, even well over a week without drinking actual water. It's so bad. I gotta stop with the soda but I just love it so much. But of course I know it's not normal.
Switch to a soda you don't really like. That way you feed your addiction, but eventually you will get sick of that soda, and actually want to drink something else. Basically like weening yourself off it. Just like going from tobacco smoking to vape, still feeding that addiction, but it's no where near as pleasurable, so the addiction starts to wane.
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I have overdone it a bit with diet coke and iced tea over the summer heatwaves. It made me feel a bit numb so I decided to ditch all soda and artificial sweeteners. I went through headache from hell for about 5 days. Not sure if it was caffeine withdrawal or sweetener withdrawal, but it was the worst headache ever day and night. I am sticking to water from now on, maybe green tea when it gets cold.
This seems to be the right thread for this but, I can only drink water if its ICE COLD, doesn't matter if its from a tap or a bottle or fresh from the Alps, its its above 5C it tastes like metal and is disgusting BUT put SOME ice in it and it suddenly becomes delicious!
I know someone who frowns on my habit of drinking loads of water then needing the loo more frequently than she does (duh!). She reckons she gets enough from a few cups of tea a day, or wine at weekends. It has been pointed out to her that this combination isn't doing her liver or kidneys any favours, but she won't change. And let's not go into how much your skin and hair really need water...
I consume a lot of water, so hearing stuff like this kind of freaks me out.
Soda, coffee, tea, etc is just not the same as plain water. I only drank coke zero (and ate tons of ice) and had no idea that I was pretty much dehydrated all the time. Started drinking lots of plain water and I feel so much better. I had been attributing my heart palpitations to anxiety but they went away once I started hydrating properly.
I can't go even an hour without a tumbler of water. Nights are borderline unbearable due to the dry throat and mouth while sleeping.
Holy hell! TIL that some people don’t drink water. I go through 4-6, 24oz glass bottles of water per day. More if it’s hot and I’m exercising. - I’m genuinely curious if not drinking it affects energy & stamina or if one has to rely on stimulants to keep going. No judgement, really curious. I woke at 6, exercised til 7, ran 5k and hadn’t sat down until 2. A full 8 hours. It’s now 9 & I’ve been on my feet & in constant motion for the past 7 hours. 15 hours since I woke, sat for under an hour and I still feel fresh & ready to go. It’s gonna take a full meal & hearty swim so I can wind down to sleep. I think I’d be beyond dehydrated & dead w/o water. I’m amazed that people just don’t. Good on them, I guess!
If you’re talking herbal tea. Totally fine. It’s infused water. IG it’s mixed with sugar, or caffeinated (sorry coffee only drinkers) you are killing yourself. Death: dehydration. Or every other painful ailment
I had cousins, aunt and uncle who thought it was normal to drink soda for every meal all the time. When I requested water, they thought I was so strange: "You like WATER??" 'You don't like pop? You can drink pop instead you know" "we dont really drink water," I was about 7-8 at the time and thought THEY were the weird ones, still do!
I forget to drink water for days at a time sometimes if nobody reminds me... I black out quite a bit. Just learned not too long ago that most people drink a full glass of water with every meal, it was kind of a shock!
Put up some notes around your home where you will see them, maybe? And/or fill up a reusable bottle every morning and keep it handy. It is terrible for your body to live that way. Look up the affects of dehydration. I linked to a couple articles and studies elsewhere in this thread.
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I can't go 2 hours without water! I love water. When we bought a new fridge a few years ago I insisted on one with a water and ice dispenser! I don't leave the house without water.
I drink about 2-3 Dasani water bottles full each day. It’s to prevent my migraines. Also I get dehydrated fast.
Why bottled? The world doesn’t need more plastic bottles. Also, Dasani is just municipal water (tap water).
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It really depends on lifestyle and diet. People that are not very physically active can live just fine absorbing the water found in foods and stay at a healthy hydration level. If the same person tries to up and run 5 miles or work out for an hour with no water then things will get bad. That whole 8 glasses of water a day is a myth. Hydration is dependent on lifestyle and diet. Too much water is just as bad as no water.
Most of this is not correct at all. Water is essential for the human body. The 8 glasses a day thing is nonsense, but there is little danger of someone having too much water unless they are drinking an extraordinary amount. It’s not difficult to find information on any of this. Having too much water is called “over hydration,” “water intoxication,” and “hyponatremia,” and it pretty much only happens to athletes. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/water/art-20044256
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i go fairly long periods without water. sh*t gets hard
I only drink bottled water because I cannot stand the tap water in my city.
Why not buy a filter pitcher instead of spending so much and using so much plastic?
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Water only makes me more thirsty and I have to constantly go to the bathroom
Used to drink tea, coffee,iced tea, diet coke, Crystal Lite. Got sick of all that stuff and now almost exclusively plain water.
My adult daughter and I drink water regularly.. My mother maybe once a year if that. My husband only when you force him.
Considering you can only live about 3 or 4 days without water... how did they come to this conclusion?
You get most of your water from food and other non water fluids such as milk, soda etc
Load More Replies...There was this guy I went to college with - when he was in the shower, if the urge hit him, he would just take a s**t in the shower instead of getting out to use the toilet. He did this the whole time he was a kid apparently, and it wasn’t till he got to college and had to share bathroom facilities that he found out other people showering in adjacent stalls weren’t cool with smelling s**t as he waffle-stomped a log down the drain.
I was talking to my husband on the phone and he told me to hang on, he had to put his clothes back on. He was at work. I asked what the hell he was doing and apparently he always takes all his clothes off to take a dump. Even at work. I knew he did it at home but he always would then get in the shower after so I figured it was just a preface to showering. He said he balances them over the stall door so they don’t get “poop particles” on them. I told him no one else does this. He didn’t notice because in the men’s room he’s used for the last 10 years there’s only one stall. I’m not sure why no colleague ever asked him why he’s hanging clothes over the stall door...
Tell me your mum was a germaphobe without telling me your mum was a germaphobe.
Until my early twenties, I thought lucid dreams were the norm. I cringe thinking of all the times I heard someone describe a bad dream and I said something along the lines of “Why didn’t you just change the dream?”
Growing up, I said this to several close family members, and NOT ONE told me that was weird.
I achieved it younger lost it older. When I talk to people younger I say...you should turn on the lights in the dream.
I have a friend who has lost an immense amount of weight, yet eats and drinks like c**p all the time. It had been revealed to me by him that, “he often feels so full sometimes, that he just makes himself puke to feel better.” This has been going on for quite a few years now. He’s straight up bulimic and thinks it’s just a neat little way to get rid of all the bad foods and drinks he gorges himself with. He’s gotten so good at making himself puke, it’s almost silent. No gagging sounds no messy puke splatter. Just a stream of chewed up food and beers. I’m quite sure that even his wife is oblivious to this.
My friend genuinely believed that 'Leprechaun' was just a term for indigenous Irish little people.
My friend didn’t know martinis weren’t normally served in giant water-sized glasses and thought she was getting ripped off when she ordered one at a bar. Her parents were alcoholics.
A family member thought that hallucinations were something everyone dealt with. They thought that monsters under the bed and other cultural tales of ghosts were real things which were further confirmed by their experience.
It this led to later diagnosis of schizophrenia once they couldn't cope well enough to deal with the symptoms and it became evident to family members.
My neighbours ate their Cornflakes with orange juice instead of milk. Their parents had conditioned them all to think this was normal and acceptable behavior.
A little late here, but my ex didn’t think you needed to wash cutting boards. I was doing his dishes and started to wash it and he got upset. I thought that was a common sense thing that someone in med school should know.
Me and my sister at a festival in line for the toilets.
Me: You wanna pee first? I can hold your beer.
Sister: Naw, thats fine. I will just place it in the beerholder.
Me: ...... you mean the urinal?
They carried a pizza box sideways under their arm.....
Wow! Im so glad it made other people as uneasy as it made me. It was a neighbor at a neighborhood pizza party that was kinda strange already. Everytime someone talks about him I'm like, "I knew he was strange since the pizza box incident."
I only did this once, to a frozen pizza because I thought all the ingredients were frozen in place as I walked home. It was just warm enough to slightly defrost on the way home, start to accordion itself and let all the toppings avalanche to one side. I repent of my pizza sin.
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Upvote for the use of the word rollercoaster 😉😉
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When I first started dating my husband I realized he had peculiar behavior. He was seeing a therapist for about 10 years that told him he had a shyness disorder. He was fine with me but had a hard time looking in the eyes of people he didn't know while talking to them. Especially if they were close to him. The first time I noticed it was 6 weeks after we met. After a while I ended with a list of things that were not the "norm". He was intelligent top of his profession but a bit different. Then the seizures started about 2 years after we married. After a bunch of misdiagnoses he finally had an MRI and found a brain tumor. The type of cancer he has comes with a list of recognizable behavior changes. Textbook my husband. I showed his friends the list and his mom and they just told me he had always been like that. The dr said he probably had the tumor his whole life. I cannot for the life of me figure out how they thought it was normal and why they didn't take him to the Dr.
Oh wow. Did the tumor get safely removed? How did he change afterwards?
Load More Replies... Doesn’t really belong here, but my weird talent is being able to suck the sides, but not the middle, of my stomach in. It kind of looks like I’m really thin, but there’s a can in the middle of my stomach.
Interesting article. About thirty of these items illustrate the axiom that "You don't know what you don't know."
I have one. You know someone until you get to know them. Finally figured that out after lots of bad relationships and trusting "friends" I shouldn't have trusted.
Load More Replies... A friend of mine came over when we were about 12 years old. We were gaming in my room. He went to the toilet and had a "big deal" to make. He didn't close the door, so my mother smelled it from the kitchen next door and got angry. He didn't know what's wrong, because his parents didn't tell him to close the door when going to the toilet. When his family (uncle/aunts etc.) visited them, they also didn't close the door when going to the toilet.
I thought everyone hears hight pitched sound in their ears when it's silent enough in the room. Turned out i just have tinnitus (learnt it at 24yo)
A bunch of these are just a sign that kids weren't paying attention during science class. Years later, you see them making opinions about vaccines and climate change.
My husband throws all his clothes in the washer. Whites. Darks. Super dirty bondo sawdust paint covered clothes. All his white underpants and socks and tees are gray. I've tried to tell him to sort and do smaller loads. Not 4 sweatshirts and 6 jeans and everything else. Also he loads all that at once into the dryer and only runs it 30 mins at a time. So it takes forever to dry. I do laundry one day a week. I've gotten to taking his stuff out of either machine. Doing mine and putting his back. I guess his mom just washed like that all the time. Gross. And he will wear stuff with holes. Shoes undies socks jeans. Look homeless and it's so embarrassing. And his pants even with a belt never stay up. Captain buttcrack. All the time. He doesn't even buy pants correctly. Too long inseam. Too loose waist.
I don’t quite understand wanting to marry someone or stay married to someone you think has a gross, embarrassing appearance and does things like ruin all his clothes for no apparent reason.
Load More Replies... Something embarrassing I didn't know: What a toothache feels like. I always had great teeth and didn't have my first cavity until I was in my forties. And since I arrogantly thought my teeth would last forever, I didn't get regular checkups. When I did start to develop pain, it wasn't what I thought a toothache should feel like. I thought it was just sensitivity because it wasn't consistent and often was related to eating something cold. What I didn't know is that when you have an infection, it kills the nerve and that's why the pain would go away on it's own. I paid a heavy price for neglecting my dental health because multiple infections ended up draining into my sinuses, causing chronic sinus infections. The chronic inflammation resulted in polyps blocking my sinuses, requiring surgery. All because I didn't know what a toothache was supposed to feel like and didn't get regular checkups.
I used to have a spot on my forehead, about the size of the head of a pin, but star shaped. It would scab over, sometimes bleed. I kept wondering "When is this stupid thing going to heal? It's taking forever!" Then, I was looking at some old photos and found a photo of me from three years earlier: and I had the spot. Turns out it was skin cancer. I named him Spot! He and I have since parted company, but I'm constantly on the lookout now for Spot Jr.
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2 out of 3 people notice their urine smells different after eating asparagus. 1 out of 3 has no idea theirs does as well.
Mine smells awful. My husband can't smell his but I do!!!
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From a post like this, i actually discovered that my sister and i both have form of narcolepsy. Until reading about it, i just assumed everyone lost control of their muscles and became semi paralyzed from laughing too hard 🤦🏼♀️
I hear sometimes "hear" electrical signals. Whenever I'm near an electronic that's plugged in, I can hear a sort-of... whining sound. Kinda like tinnitus. but. not...?
The refrigerator keeps me up at night the electric whir the making of ice the water needed to make the ice. I hear it all and it wakes me up from another room with the door closed. Don’t really notice during the day but at night it’s the worst. But if you pay attention you hear most everything the air coming through the vents when the heat or a/c is on, the house settling, all the stuff you don’t really pay attention to. The stove makes a little noise not much but you can hear it when it’s been left on.
Load More Replies... I thought it was normal to cry very easily when experiencing any kind of negative emotion. I guess I might have depression or something else that causes me to get stressed out very easily
Some people cry easily, some find it impossible to cry no matter how sad. It has nothing to do with being depressed or stressed easily and totally how your body responds to emotional stimuli. However, see someone and get help if you think you might be depressed, have anxiety, or if the free flowing tears are hindering your life. I've learned to partly manage, partly live with mine.
Load More Replies... I get angry at how inconsiderate people are, eg wheb driving. Only through therapy I realized that it's not normal to have at least 5 cars in front and at least 3 behind you in mind at all times. Now it perfectly makes sense how peolpe can "listen" to the same 15 songs on radio, while chatting and driving - as normal human brains just filter stuff out.
But I do this too! I kind of realize it's not normal, but there's nothing that we can do, right? Every single time I get in the car it's a heart attack from anger at other drivers.
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At 48 I still take baths, not showers. I didn't realize that normal adults eventually graduate to showers outside of childhood baths. I rarely shower, I feel cleaner and more relaxed after a bath and I cant seem to break the habit and switch to showers. One of few quirks that I have is that I have to bathe before I leave the house everyday.
That's not abnormal. It's just a preference.
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1) Stay in school, and 2) get to know people besides your own immediate family, so that you don’t have a totally insular life with no sense of what is and isn’t normal. Some of these posts, it seems people go even further into wild insularity and don’t even have conversations with their family members they share a home with!
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I can provoke goosebumps and just recently found out that this shouldn't be possible and that not many people can do it. Anyone else here?
I was always the kid being told to chew with my mouth shut, but I just couldn't do it. Meanwhile, we always knew that I had seasonal and pretty dander allergies, but it didn't seem that serious. Found out when I was 17-18 that I have severe allergies to basically everything in the air (dust, all pollen, anything scented, etc.) I had never been able to properly breathe through my nose. So I was a mouth breather, which is why I could never chew with my mouth closed. We also discovered that I have a poor sense of smell because of it, but if I breathe through my mouth, I can smell it. It's really hard to explain.
yes that's what BP does. But at least you can read it properly, Reddit is a dumpster fire.
Load More Replies... Upvote for the use of the word rollercoaster 😉😉
Load More Replies... When I first started dating my husband I realized he had peculiar behavior. He was seeing a therapist for about 10 years that told him he had a shyness disorder. He was fine with me but had a hard time looking in the eyes of people he didn't know while talking to them. Especially if they were close to him. The first time I noticed it was 6 weeks after we met. After a while I ended with a list of things that were not the "norm". He was intelligent top of his profession but a bit different. Then the seizures started about 2 years after we married. After a bunch of misdiagnoses he finally had an MRI and found a brain tumor. The type of cancer he has comes with a list of recognizable behavior changes. Textbook my husband. I showed his friends the list and his mom and they just told me he had always been like that. The dr said he probably had the tumor his whole life. I cannot for the life of me figure out how they thought it was normal and why they didn't take him to the Dr.
Oh wow. Did the tumor get safely removed? How did he change afterwards?
Load More Replies... Doesn’t really belong here, but my weird talent is being able to suck the sides, but not the middle, of my stomach in. It kind of looks like I’m really thin, but there’s a can in the middle of my stomach.
Interesting article. About thirty of these items illustrate the axiom that "You don't know what you don't know."
I have one. You know someone until you get to know them. Finally figured that out after lots of bad relationships and trusting "friends" I shouldn't have trusted.
Load More Replies... A friend of mine came over when we were about 12 years old. We were gaming in my room. He went to the toilet and had a "big deal" to make. He didn't close the door, so my mother smelled it from the kitchen next door and got angry. He didn't know what's wrong, because his parents didn't tell him to close the door when going to the toilet. When his family (uncle/aunts etc.) visited them, they also didn't close the door when going to the toilet.
I thought everyone hears hight pitched sound in their ears when it's silent enough in the room. Turned out i just have tinnitus (learnt it at 24yo)
A bunch of these are just a sign that kids weren't paying attention during science class. Years later, you see them making opinions about vaccines and climate change.
My husband throws all his clothes in the washer. Whites. Darks. Super dirty bondo sawdust paint covered clothes. All his white underpants and socks and tees are gray. I've tried to tell him to sort and do smaller loads. Not 4 sweatshirts and 6 jeans and everything else. Also he loads all that at once into the dryer and only runs it 30 mins at a time. So it takes forever to dry. I do laundry one day a week. I've gotten to taking his stuff out of either machine. Doing mine and putting his back. I guess his mom just washed like that all the time. Gross. And he will wear stuff with holes. Shoes undies socks jeans. Look homeless and it's so embarrassing. And his pants even with a belt never stay up. Captain buttcrack. All the time. He doesn't even buy pants correctly. Too long inseam. Too loose waist.
I don’t quite understand wanting to marry someone or stay married to someone you think has a gross, embarrassing appearance and does things like ruin all his clothes for no apparent reason.
Load More Replies... Something embarrassing I didn't know: What a toothache feels like. I always had great teeth and didn't have my first cavity until I was in my forties. And since I arrogantly thought my teeth would last forever, I didn't get regular checkups. When I did start to develop pain, it wasn't what I thought a toothache should feel like. I thought it was just sensitivity because it wasn't consistent and often was related to eating something cold. What I didn't know is that when you have an infection, it kills the nerve and that's why the pain would go away on it's own. I paid a heavy price for neglecting my dental health because multiple infections ended up draining into my sinuses, causing chronic sinus infections. The chronic inflammation resulted in polyps blocking my sinuses, requiring surgery. All because I didn't know what a toothache was supposed to feel like and didn't get regular checkups.
I used to have a spot on my forehead, about the size of the head of a pin, but star shaped. It would scab over, sometimes bleed. I kept wondering "When is this stupid thing going to heal? It's taking forever!" Then, I was looking at some old photos and found a photo of me from three years earlier: and I had the spot. Turns out it was skin cancer. I named him Spot! He and I have since parted company, but I'm constantly on the lookout now for Spot Jr.
Load More Replies... 2 out of 3 people notice their urine smells different after eating asparagus. 1 out of 3 has no idea theirs does as well.
Mine smells awful. My husband can't smell his but I do!!!
Load More Replies... From a post like this, i actually discovered that my sister and i both have form of narcolepsy. Until reading about it, i just assumed everyone lost control of their muscles and became semi paralyzed from laughing too hard 🤦🏼♀️
I hear sometimes "hear" electrical signals. Whenever I'm near an electronic that's plugged in, I can hear a sort-of... whining sound. Kinda like tinnitus. but. not...?
The refrigerator keeps me up at night the electric whir the making of ice the water needed to make the ice. I hear it all and it wakes me up from another room with the door closed. Don’t really notice during the day but at night it’s the worst. But if you pay attention you hear most everything the air coming through the vents when the heat or a/c is on, the house settling, all the stuff you don’t really pay attention to. The stove makes a little noise not much but you can hear it when it’s been left on.
Load More Replies... I thought it was normal to cry very easily when experiencing any kind of negative emotion. I guess I might have depression or something else that causes me to get stressed out very easily
Some people cry easily, some find it impossible to cry no matter how sad. It has nothing to do with being depressed or stressed easily and totally how your body responds to emotional stimuli. However, see someone and get help if you think you might be depressed, have anxiety, or if the free flowing tears are hindering your life. I've learned to partly manage, partly live with mine.
Load More Replies... I get angry at how inconsiderate people are, eg wheb driving. Only through therapy I realized that it's not normal to have at least 5 cars in front and at least 3 behind you in mind at all times. Now it perfectly makes sense how peolpe can "listen" to the same 15 songs on radio, while chatting and driving - as normal human brains just filter stuff out.
But I do this too! I kind of realize it's not normal, but there's nothing that we can do, right? Every single time I get in the car it's a heart attack from anger at other drivers.
Load More Replies... At 48 I still take baths, not showers. I didn't realize that normal adults eventually graduate to showers outside of childhood baths. I rarely shower, I feel cleaner and more relaxed after a bath and I cant seem to break the habit and switch to showers. One of few quirks that I have is that I have to bathe before I leave the house everyday.
That's not abnormal. It's just a preference.
Load More Replies... 1) Stay in school, and 2) get to know people besides your own immediate family, so that you don’t have a totally insular life with no sense of what is and isn’t normal. Some of these posts, it seems people go even further into wild insularity and don’t even have conversations with their family members they share a home with!
Load More Replies... I can provoke goosebumps and just recently found out that this shouldn't be possible and that not many people can do it. Anyone else here?
I was always the kid being told to chew with my mouth shut, but I just couldn't do it. Meanwhile, we always knew that I had seasonal and pretty dander allergies, but it didn't seem that serious. Found out when I was 17-18 that I have severe allergies to basically everything in the air (dust, all pollen, anything scented, etc.) I had never been able to properly breathe through my nose. So I was a mouth breather, which is why I could never chew with my mouth closed. We also discovered that I have a poor sense of smell because of it, but if I breathe through my mouth, I can smell it. It's really hard to explain.
yes that's what BP does. But at least you can read it properly, Reddit is a dumpster fire.
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