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“I Can Smell The Illness”: These 46 Weird Body Quirks Prove That The Human Body Is Fascinating
Probably in every elementary school classroom, there is a kid who shouts from time to time: "Look at what I can do with my tongue!" When we're kids, we're fascinated, thinking that rolling your tongue or shaping it in a weird way is some kind of magic.
By adulthood, we find out that it's just something people either inherit or train their tongue muscles to do. But whether they're explainable or not, they're still pretty neat. As a person who doesn't have these kinds of party tricks up my sleeve, I'm always fascinated by the weird things other people's bodies can do.
So, when we came across an online thread where someone asked people, "What is a little quirk about your body that you don't think other people have?" I was immediately intrigued. Care to find out too? Don't hesitate and scroll down!
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#1
I don’t produce any antibodies and rely on antibody infusions and general herd immunity to stay alive. Thank you to everyone who has ever donated plasma. F**k your RFK for doing everything you can to k**l me.
Al Padilla 2 months ago
Patients who can't make antibodies, unfortunately don't get protection from vaccines. They rely on herd immunity, which RFK et al. are trying to eliminate.
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Mari 2 months ago
Even if it was true that vaccines can cause autism, what is worse? People with autism or outbreaks of deadly diseases/infections??
Rob D 2 months ago (edited)
Time to stop treating political figures like they just appeared out of thin air. MAGAts put trump in office. MAGAts put RFK in power. MAGAts are truly enjoying watching 5 year olds crying for their deported mothers. If your family friends and neighbors voted Trump, they are vile and should be treated accordingly.
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#2
I’ve got super smell or something 🤷♀️I can diagnose people.
- low blood sugar (diabetes) smells like chemically cleaner rotted. High blood sugar and it smells like heated PLA filament. Slightly sweet.
- ear infections smell like Camembert cheese.
- strep throat smells like yeasty bread and coins held in a sweaty hand combined.
- pregnancy has this sweet musty smell to it. Like the mildest plum or nectarine. I’ve gotten in some very awkward situations when I asked when someone was due and they didn’t know they were pregnant yet.
- if someone has a cold, pneumonia, Gastrointestinal issues, infection or other ailment and I can ‘smell it’ it’s bacterial. If I can’t ‘smell the illness’ it’s viral. Which made Covid extra freaky!
- Had a 2nd grade girl in my class my first year of teaching who had seizures a few times a week, they were usually absence ones and she would recover fairly quickly. I could smell one coming with a 10-15 minute heads up from the other side of the classroom. She also occasionally had a different tonic seizure and would go temporarily blind for a few hours afterwards. Those I couldn’t smell coming.
jadeycakes:
I'm like this as well. It's annoying having such a strong sense of smell most of the time but it does come in handy sometimes! Last week I smelled natural gas one time just a tiny bit. No one else could smell it. An HVAC person came out to test it and sure enough there was a very small gas leak at the back of the furnace in the back of a closet facing a wall behind a door.
I've joked I could start a business where people call me to find leaks in their house or to confirm they're not going insane smelling something no one else can.
It's also hard balancing wanting to mention to someone that they smell different on a chemical level without being insulting. I can usually tell when someone I see often has started a new vitamin or medicine.
lenka 2 months ago (edited)
I can too. I can smell ear infections and gastro, as well as diabetes but I would describe the smells slightly differently. I can smell a viral infection up to 12 hours before someone has symptoms - even longer in my kids and husband because I know their 'normal' smell so well. I can also smell when someone starts a new diet or medicine. It was awful when I was pregnant - like every smell on steroids. Public places were truly awful and public transport was traumatic.
Maren Villadsen 2 months ago
You could earn a h-ell of alot of money working as a "nose" in the perfume industry. This is very rare
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I understand the benefit to hospitals but I could honestly not do it. Think of the strongest smelling blue cheese you know..... that's the base smell of a hospital. And then imagine intervals of different smells like rotton limes, stale wee, and metal shavings and you have yourself a hospital. It's truly awful.
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detective miller's hat 2 months ago
I can smell some health issues as well. One of my friends and pretty much her whole family all have kidney issues, and when we were kids, I couldn't spend time in her house because of the smell, but since no one else I knew could smell anything, I could never explain why.
Uncle Panda 2 months ago
Me too and it was a relief when nasal allergies shut down the extra sensitive nose in my 50s. What an extra sharp nose mostly smells is disgusting.
HeavyMetalHeart 2 months ago
I don’t have a great sense of smell but I can smell diabetes - I think that’s quite a distinctive one. I’ve read about a woman who can smell Parkinson’s years before symptoms develop and she’s being studied scientifically in the hopes of developing a new test.
Laserleader 2 months ago
After Covid I became super sensitive to very particular smells, like sour cream (a favorite food) smelled like low tide, vape pens using propane glycol I can smell like a sickly overpowering cherry (i know if anyone has vaped it in a 24 hour period), and underarm body odors are overpowering onions shoved up my nostril. My family cant smell any of this.
Tara L. 2 months ago (edited)
I can smell kidney disease & failure on people & animals. It smells the same for both btw. I first noticed it while working at a veterinary office, I was always right. Lol the vet started asking me to sniff pets he suspected had kidney problems. Then one day my grandmother started smelling the same & I bugged her until she went to get checked out & I was right again.
Jayne Turner 2 months ago
My mother had a very well developed sense of smell. In fact, she could smell if someone was going to die. And she was never wrong.
#3
I can vomit at any time just with the power of my mind.
When I was a kid, if I didn't get my way, regardless of where I was, I would just start vomiting.
One day my Grandma slapped the s**t out of me in a K-Mart and I never did it again.
smarmiebastard:
This talent has come in really handy twice. Once when I was three oysters in, and noticed a tiny red worm wriggling around in my fourth oyster. I freaked out cause I didn’t know if it was a really bad parasite and decided I needed to throw up all the oysters. Got them all out no problem while my boyfriend stuck his finger down his throat for half an hour and never managed to make himself vomit. He ended up with food poisoning, I didn’t.
The other time I had a bad migraine and asked to leave work early, but my boss wouldn’t let me. I felt like I was going to die but they just wouldn’t let me go home no matter how much I pleaded my case. Finally I just made myself throw up right in front of my boss (and a little on her shoes) and got sent home immediately.
Kim Shannon 2 months ago
Thank you, Grandpa. My stepdaughter used to have meltdowns when she didn't get her way, and she'd start gagging. She quit when I said, you barf it up, you clean it up.
Kate Jones 2 months ago
I can't necessarily vomit, but just thinking about the word 'nauseous' can make me nauseous. I never used to be this way. I went on a work trip where they took us fishing. The waves were so choppy that i had non-stop sea sickness for about 3 hours straight. I mean non-stop. I didn't know anyone could throw up that much. There was a whole bunch of us. We called it puke row. ever since, i still occasionally feel like i'm still on that boat. It's like motion sickness that developed from that single incident. I can't even think about throwing up without wanting to.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
I can easily induce vomiting by thinking of certain exes. It's stopping it that's problematic.
RamiRudolph 2 months ago
I can do that too, I just have to think about [insert thing you hate here].
Uncle Panda 2 months ago
You don't get seafood poisoning from a visible worm. It may have indicated a reason to be concerned but food poisoning is microscopic based.
Gracie Mae 1 month ago
Wish I'd had that power a few times--but when it came to my migraines & work told me I couldn't leave, had to tell them, yes I was! Two reasons being that it wasn't safe for me to work in that condition (someone could actually have been seriously injured/k****d), and when it comes to my health, there's no way in hell they can make me stay--ESPECIALLY when I'm vomiting! Documented health issue can't be a fire-able offense, especially with full disclosure at hiring.
#4
I have one arm, two uvulas, and an extra rib.
BigWoodsCatNappin:
What in the ikea human.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 months ago
OH dear! I read it as two "Vulvas". OOF! I'll see myself out.
#5
I have 5 nipples. Two regular, three additional. All lactate. I was quite the spectacle while pregnant/breast feeding 🙃.
Gadaffi Duck 2 months ago
I didn't until my 3rd n****e lactated after my 1st born. Oddly only happened with my 1st child too.
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Teutonic Disaster 2 months ago (edited)
OP could make some easy extra cash online with that... talent. 😏 Edit to ask the mums of BP: I've heard of leakage after feeding, but does the left n****e also start leaking when you feed from the right one (like in the pic above) and vice versa? I'm a dude with no kids (surprise) so I don't even have 2nd hand knowledge about all the quirks your bodies exhibit during/after pregnancy and OP's situation makes for a fun mental image.
#6
I made it to 30 years old before this was noticed and pointed out to me.
I was chugging water at dinner at my husband started laughing and was like "why are you doing that?"
Turns out when I swallow, one eyebrow rapidly twitches, very little twitches but completely uncontrollably.
Like my swallow reflex is hardwired to my eyebrow. It's now my party trick.
Nova Rook 2 months ago
I have voluntary nystagmus - basically I can make my eyes vibrate side to side. It takes a hint of concentration and I'm better at it when I have bright lighting. It barely qualifies as a party trick but I'm pretty sure I convinced a few grade school friends I was a secret alien.
The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago
Oh, my brother in law has involuntary nystagmus! I never had a name for it, so thanks :)
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Mother Lunatic 2 months ago
If I gulp something spectacularly fizzy, my left eye twitches with every swallow, but I'm the only one that notices it until I point it out.
Rachel Furn 1 month ago
My ex-husband told me I frown when I eat. I’ve never noticed or felt it. He says “Stop being angry at your food!” Lol
#7
My tail bone is way longer than normal, it hurts like hell to sit on the floor, I can’t do sit ups, if I sit on your lap you would feel it lol a few of my kids got it too. My mom also has it. Idk of anyone else, we just were meant to have tails I guess.
Julia Mckinney 2 months ago
I wonder if I have that too? I couldn't tell now, too much fat down there but when I was younger, I'd fallen on my backside on that exact spot a couple of different times and it hurt for so long. My parents always said I broke my tailbone both times (dad was an orthopedic surgeon so he would have known).
Maren Villadsen 2 months ago
I never heard of anyone else having this. I had to sit on a pillow in school. Can't sit on a hard a surface for more than a couple of minuts.
TheLuggage 2 months ago (edited)
You can have it amputated (coccygectomy) without any negative effect.
Michael Melfa 2 months ago
Is this a "tail" situation like Jason Alexander in Shallow Hal or no butt syndrome like Hank Hill?
#8
If i go from indoor light or the shade into direct sunlight I sneeze.
Moving on a sunny day is a fun time when I'm around.
Plentyofoomph 2 months ago
Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst -ACHOO syndrome
Mike Goslin 2 months ago
Me too! I didn't know that was a thing. When I was younger I sneezed twice when I hit sunlight, but as I got older it settled down to only one sneeze.
Bored Sailor 2 months ago
About the same for me, but not coming from inside just the way the sun hits my eyes at the moment.
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Upstaged75 2 months ago
Horses can get a condition called photic head shaking, which is basically like sneezing as a result of sunlight. Weirdly it can be helped by them wearing a net over their nose.
Kitsune Nocturne 2 months ago
It's called a Photic Sneeze - I get these, my boyfriend doesn't. I didn't know it wasn't something everyone did until one day I sneezed and said, "I got sunshine up my nose," and he said "... What?" 😂
NotAThreat (he/her) 2 months ago
i think i do the same thing? at least i used to do it a lot, i don't remember doing it recently? (Might because my current house has a lot of natural sunlight or maybe because its winter?? idk)
Philly Bob 2 months ago
I don't sneeze in sunlight, I sneeze like the devil after I eat! My Mom did too.
#9
I sneeze when I get turned on. No idea why. I could sneeze for a valid reason and my sweetie thinks I'm ready to go. I'm not gonna argue with her!
Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 months ago
me, too! but weirdly, it only happens when i first begin self-pleasuring. (it stops after a few minutes.) it never happens with a partner, tho.
#10
I have a birthmark on my pubic mound shaped like an arrow pointing down. It's not blobby or wonky, it's a perfect, symmetrical arrow. I have had to have the same conversation with nearly every sexual partner- no, it's not a tattoo, see it's brown like a birthmark; yes, it *does* look an arrow that points down; yes, I'm *sure* it's a birthmark; haha yes it's very funny yep.
The worst/best part is I lived in Kansas City for several years, and it's the same shape as the Chiefs logo so Kansas City dudes were even more extra about it.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
When it comes to female genitalia, guys need all the directions they can get. But you know about guys and directions.
#11
I have two uteruses -uteri if you will.
dumbmb:
My sister’s mom does too. She had two kids out of one, and two from the other. They eventually cauterized them because she kept alternating periods and bleeding all month.
Jaya 2 months ago
"We're from the same womb" - 'No we're not.' - "Huh? But you are my biological sister, we have the same mom and same dad, our mom gave birth to us" - 'Yep. Different womb though'
The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago
Agreed. And a period that never seems to end?! No thanks.
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Jawbreaker 2 months ago
I have it too. Also I have two vaginal openings. It’s never caused any problems though. Luckily :)
#12
I don’t think most people have as many bullet holes and knife scars as I do. I used to be self conscious about all the cigarette burns I have all over my body from my a*****e mother, (350-400 burns; I lost count) but now I have them covered with tattoos so I’m not as self conscious about it.
GalPalAl 2 months ago
I have heard a rumor somewhere that Dolly Parton has the same thing with covering scars but seems dubious. It does make perfect sense though considering I have known women who loved their skin stretching from being pregnant wanting to keep them prominent and having those tattooed
#13
I am colourblind in one eye and not the other.
Edit: mine is caused by MS. Optic neuritis due to MS. I went completely blind in that eye for several weeks and then when the vision came back first it was very close to my face only, then black and white, then I could only see blue but it was the most beautiful blue I'd ever seen.. Like any blue was glowing with a lighted backdrop, then I saw the rest of the colours except not the red and greens (i can only see true red and true greens) and my vision overall is pretty damaged. I fail all slides for red-green colourblind in that one eye at the optometrists. Orange and yellows are kind of sepia. I see a lot of sepia things in that eye.
My blues/purples are still a little bit extra pretty but only a little extra .. It's been years since it happened and it won't recover more now.
#14
I have brain fog and consistently forget most things in my short term memory. today i was making a bracelet, went into my kitchen, came back, and forgot about it because my cat stole it. whole conversations about important things are immediately gone.
At the same time I'm very good with numbers and fun facts. no, i don't remember us talking about plans today. yes, i do remember that dragonflies are one of the most efficient predators.
Mari 2 months ago (edited)
Can sometimes be caused by stress, perimenopause/menopause, post covid, pregnancy or certain diseases
Gadaffi Duck 2 months ago
I'm a lot like this. ADHD combined with fibromyalgia is a wild ride. Never a dull day haha
Zero Costa 2 months ago
I didn't know that was a combo that caused things... now I have something to look into!
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Lukas (he/him, it/its) 2 months ago
I f*****g hate the brain fog. I have five separate conditions that all f**k with memory: Autism, ADHD, depression, anxiety, and PTSD (yes, all clinically diagnosed, though I was diagnosed with PTSD when I was four and I disagree with it now). It's awful and has only gotten worse as I get older. I'm only 19 and it's scary how much "brain fog" I have.
Hime 2 months ago
I'm very much like this, but I found out it's due to a defense mechanism that I apparently learned from back in the day. Dare I say it... childhood trauma. I can't remember longer than approximately 5 seconds after whatever... conversation, reading a book, watching a show, a phone call, etc. So many things are very difficult for me because of this and those little SMS codes for verification are pure evil. I have learned that while listening or talking to someone if I doodle I will have better recall. Something happens that activates a certain part of the brain when drawing that allows my mind to better focus on the topic. It really helps. And dragonflies have a 98% success rate when hunting. They are gold star predators.
weatherwitch 2 months ago
Autism and ADHD can do this. But I'm the opposite with maths having dyscaulia 😔
Learner Panda 2 months ago
Me too. I can tell you the registration numbers of every vehicle my parents owned and also mine. Actual useful facts? No.
BrunoVI 2 months ago
I recently found out that part of my memory has an IQ 60 points less than my total IQ. You want to talk neurodivergent? I'm a genius and barely over r******d at the same time. 3 SDs above average and 1 SD below. Ever have a brilliant idea in the shower, but you can't put it together afterwards? That's my life. Anyone know a neuropsychologist anywhere in America looking for a bizarre challenge? Seriously.
#15
I'm literally hard headed. I have no frontal sinus, where they should be is just bone. Means I never get sinus headaches.
Igor914624 2 months ago
As someone that has had chronic sinusitis, including massive, debilitating headaches, be thankful. It sucks big time.
Julia Mckinney 2 months ago
Hey, me too! They've gotten better (slightly) over time. No headaches but lots of sniffling and/or running nose.
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#16
I have a red birthmark on my face that swells up about four weeks before I get a positive pregnancy test. It has a 100% accuracy rate with all four of my kids.
Marianne 2 months ago
Wait a sec, many pregnancy tests work when your period is only a couple of days late. Period normally starts about 14 days after ovulation. So 4 weeks earlier, fertilization cannot have taken place yet.
Firefly 2 months ago
But not everyone takes a pregnancy test right away. Especially if the have irregular periods
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my 'test' was not being able to stand the smell/taste of coffee--5x/100% accuracy rate
#17
I don't have a sense of smell! I have no memory of ever smelling anything, doesn't matter how strong the smell is: perfume, gasoline, rotten food, nothing.
I can taste sweet, sour, bitter, etc, just fine but I can't really tell what some spices taste like.
The main downsides have been not being able to tell if food is spoiled, sometimes it's easy to go by looks but theres been times where I've realized it's gone bad by tasting it or getting sick which is not fun, there's also a risk of not being able to smell gas leaks, I also get worried I stink!
On the flip side, I can't smell nasty stuff. Cleaning gross thinks is less difficult for sure lol
I do wish I could smell flowers, food, perfumes, the rain, coffee and all of those things but out of all our senses I think it's the easiest to live without.
Auntriarch 2 months ago
My mother in law was completely anosmic. She just used to do everything by numbers, food thrown out, laundry done. And after nearly blowing up the house when my husband was little, she never had anything gas fired again.
Yrral Spavit 2 months ago
I'm the complete opposite. Wish my sense of smell could be backed off a few notches some days. Thankfully the women/men who used to shower in perfume/cologne are a thing of the past.
Upstaged75 2 months ago
After a head injury my cousin lost all sense of taste on one side of his tongue.
Learner Panda 2 months ago
My daughter lost hers when an accident at school severed her nasal nerve.
#18
Periauricular sinus and a whole bunch of surgical scars. Plus the ability to hear dog whistles and super low bass/vibrations normally outside the range of human hearing.
I'll hear engines or bass playing in a car 3 blocks away when my husband can't hear a thing unless he goes outside and gets closer to it. It's actually pretty annoying bc the bass is physically painful when it's loud.
Igor914624 2 months ago
I have always been able to hear dog whistles. It's just super acute hearing. The Navy tried to recruit me to be a sonar tech. But I am claustrophobic. There is no way I am ever going to sea in a submarine.
Sandra Bartsch 2 months ago
So you mean to tell me that humans can’t usually hear dog whistles? I guess I‘m a weirdo then because I could always hear them and thought, everyone else would, too.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
I can hear noises higher than most people. The ability has lessened somewhat over time. But at 70 I can still hear higher frequencies than most people, just not as high as I could when younger.
HeavyMetalHeart 2 months ago
Same with sounds. Even though I’m past the age where most people can’t hear high pitched sounds, I still can. I’ll be driven mad by a distant alarm or something, while my husband is blissfully unaware!
Michelle C 2 months ago
Yup. I hear unbelievably well, too- one mile away or more even in the loudest possible conditions to do so at times.
#19
My kidneys are attached to each other. Found out in a scan. It’s called a horseshoe kidney apparently.
Paul White 2 months ago
yes pretty common but it's typically from medical procedures, if you have a kidney transplant they don't remove the unfunctioning one, they just add another.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
I know a guy who has only one kidney (born that way; didn’t donate one.)
#20
Not so much a quirk more so a pain in the a*s but I have a rare cold allergy (not raynauds) where if my body rapidly gets cold the affected area swells up and I develop hives everywhere
Passed out in a pool once because of this.
Firefly 2 months ago
My aunt hates the heat. She is the type to go all winter in the northern US in shorts. It really sucked for her when she developed an allergy to cold. As with the OP, she would get hives. They say after a couple of years most people out grow it. She did eventually, but it took her 5 years. She was so miserable.
Sian E 2 months ago
Cold Urticaria. I have had it since I was 17. I have to take an antihistamine every day.
Cece O 1 month ago
I also have cold urticaria, mine developed when i was out of school for a whole month with 99-degree fevers. Doctors still don't know why i ran fevers, but soon after i would go home every day after recess with an adult dose of B3nadryl and knocked out when my mom picked me up T_T had it for over 5 years
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AlithenewMC 2 months ago
My cousin is also allergic to the cold- but anaphylactic. We live in canada and she snowboards, so she's obviously found work arounds but still.. she's also allergic to gold and mold so we make fun of her for having only rhyming allergies
#21
I can't be a ninja, my ankles crack on every step.
Melanie Filmer 2 months ago
Myself and my 4 kids have EDS, we're all noisy/crackley when we move around
#22
Sometimes when I laugh or cry I completely lose motor function in my hands and they're essentially useless clubs for the next five minutes until i calm down. It's apparently a neurological thing associated with narcolepsy... but I'm not narcoleptic.
edit: d**n we're all learning a lot about ourselves huh 😭 this is called cataplexy so look it up if this happens to you!
Amanda Fondaumiere 2 months ago
Yeah cataplexy. Occasionally my hands let go of what Im holding, even if it’s a hot drink.
#23
I have chunks of metal that got embedded into my body which slowly work their way out over time. I got one to pop out of my hand last night.
BrunoVI 2 months ago
OK... I want this one for the medical books. I got in a car accident where the driver's side window crashed into me. I was showered with tiny bits of sharpened glass. My left arm and torso looked like I had chicken pox. Weeks later, a rash appeared on my other side. When I'd scratch at the "chicken pox," there would be tiny bits of sharp glass embedded in each one! I'm kinda terrified to think what they could do to internal organs!
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Nova Rook 2 months ago
I have a pebble in my foot. Stepped on rocks which cut my foot and pebble wedged in there. I knew it was in there and assumed my foot would push it out as it healed. That did not happen. It's been maybe 6 years now and the first three were sometimes painful, like having a pebble in your shoe. I bought some surgery gear and tried to carve it out myself - but it was in too deep so I just bled a lot. Now I can barely feel it.
Lisa Imbrogno 2 months ago
Those are called spicules. I had some shards of extracted wisdom teeth work their way out of my gums. My dentist explained what it was. It really hurt until he removed it.
TheLuggage 2 months ago
I've had a piece of glass stuck deep into a finger. I thought it would work its way out, but it never did. Instead a hard "capsule" formed around the glass that got so big I had to have it surgically removed after about three years.
#24
I have Grapheme Color Synesthesia. In other words, every letter and number in my head has a color associated with it. It has ever since I was old enough to remember letters and numbers.
I’m not the only person to have it - though it is somewhat rare - but the odds of two people having the same color/letter/number combos are practically impossible, so I am fairly confident that, at least, my specific synesthesia is entirely unique (as is each other person’s).
Annik Perrot 2 months ago
I see vowels and numbers in color, too. Always did. It helps a lot for spelling. If à word is not the right color, it's not written correctly.
SleepyVampire 2 months ago
This isn't right. I have synesthesia. It isn't an association. A LOT of people associate colors with things. With actual synesthesia, you would actually see those numbers in a color. I don't have that particular type, I see sounds and taste words, but it isn't anything at all like associating sounds with a color or tastes with a word. I say certain words and get an overwhelming taste in my mouth. I hear songs and see swirling colors.
Jackie Lulu 2 months ago
I did take a test and found that I do have a less dramatic form of synesthesia. Letters and numbers don't appear in color, but are associated with a color in my mind. I also see numbers, Letters, dates, etc arranged in specific ways in my mind. What's really annoying to me is that numbers have certain roles and specific relationships with each other.
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Loloroyoboat 2 months ago
This is rare? Both my kids and I have it and we thought it was the norm! I couldn't imagine NOT having it! Crazy!
SleepyVampire 2 months ago
no, what this is describing isn't rare, it's actually very very common, and it is NOT synesthesia. Almost everyone makes associations of colors, smells, etc. Ask someone what color their favorite song is, and they'll almost certainly have an answer. That isn't synesthesia. Actual synesthesia is a physical thing. Like if the number 7 is red to you, it would actually appear red every time you saw it, regardless of what color it was actually written in. This is something that sort of annoys me because I have synesthesia, and it is very distracting at times, and since the internet found out about it, everyone who has any kind of sensory association thinks they have it.
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Dorothy Reiser 2 months ago
I see numbers in colors. The colors never change, since childhood. I thought every one had this. Can't play Uno because the colors and numbers don't match.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
I have this, but only with numbers, not letters. 2 is pink. 8 is black. 7 is either purple or blue. The other numbers change somewhat, but they always have some colour.
Uncle Panda 2 months ago
Whatever you do, do not try to visualize the color of the word 'moist.'
Melanie Filmer 2 months ago
I like the word moist, makes me think of cake lol
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I found out during an X-ray for something unrelated that my esophagus is kinked because it's a little too long. And that it's in fact not normal to be in a lot of chest pain every time I eat and need to drink water to push the food through.
Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
I get this sometimes when I eat, not always. The doctor recommends taking a sip of water after every bite, and this has helped a bit.
Bored Sailor 2 months ago
I just recently had a swallow and speech study done and they used a live video x-ray to watch food and liquids go down my throat. Might be a good test to look into having done.
Load More Replies... GalPalAl 2 months ago
Have no diagnosis, but similarly. If I eat something very dry/low moisture, I have to drink water to get it down. Otherwise I get hiccups that don't go away. Yesterday I took some pills with not enough water and I could feel them descend slowly down with the pain right behind it.
Gadaffi Duck 2 months ago
I get this a lot because of G.E.R.D and a hiatus hernia due to the lower esophageal sphincter never growing. Sometimes drinking helps lush food down, sometimes the liquid just sits on top of the blockage so I have to try and hauk it up.
Foxglove🇮🇪 2 months ago
I have a large sliding hiatus hernia which is normally quiescent but every so often the associated reflux causes intense pain. Always right-sided, usually in my chest, but often up my neck, jaw and ear. If I don't get painkillers immediately it can be agony for 20 minutes.
#26
I had two v*ginas and have two uteruses. I’m being dead serious.
Jaya 2 months ago
Especially because 99% of people don't know it exists at all.
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Diana Hansen 2 months ago
So did my step sister. She got pregnant easily but could not keep them resulting in many miscarriages.
#27
I have to push air out from behind my eye or else I get a massive headache. Direct finger to eyelid contact, a little pressure and roll it across.
I also hear a weird rainstick-like sound in the back of my neck when I'm laying down or hungry.
Gadaffi Duck 2 months ago
Like a tube usually filled with a handful or so of grains, when you turn it upside down the grains pouring make it sound like rain.
Load More Replies... Svenne O'Lotta 2 months ago
Oh, maybe that's what Corey was referring to 😆
Load More Replies... Melanie Filmer 2 months ago
Yes a rain stick! That sounds so much better than my trying to describe it to my husband as "like running a stick along a xylophone"
Candy Toetenel 2 months ago
Oh i'm not alone? I somethimes get what i call "sparkling water" running up my neck towards my head. Nobody ever believes me when i say that
#28
My friends, and boyfriend calls me a “furnace” because I am constantly very hot. Not like normal hot, but they wince sometimes when I touch them with my hands because they’re just hot. I’ve noticed my hands turn kinda bright red when very hot. Is it a quirk? No it sucks. But do I stay fine in winter? Oh absolutely. Am I the female version of human torch? Perhaps
Edit: woah. Lots of you here. Let’s see. Uhhhh first off, seems like I might be safe from being turned into shroom zombies… for now. Secondly, there’s so many of you that are heaters. I feel less alone. Thirdly, someone asked about my Blood pressure I think, and well, it’s not great. Though, I’m on year three of doing surgeries. Someone also mentioned thyroid, and honestly I don’t know. I don’t know when the hot started, but I wish it would end. There’s lots of jokes when being a heater, but having someone wince at the touch of you most days does take a bit to my mental health. (Which I already do struggle with) so since there’s a lot of you here if there’s any advice you can give on how to fix me that would be nice. Almost 23yo, my fingies hurt when they get super hot, hurts to move my joints. And my overall body is a furnace. Okay that’s allllllll. Carry on, and thank you for those sharing about the other furnaces you have in your life. I know it’s cheesy, but I really did feel less alone.
detective miller's hat 2 months ago
I've developed severe heat intolerance over the last 6-ish years. If it's over 75F/24C, my body just starts shutting down--horrible joint inflammation, blinding headaches, nausea, brain fog to the point I feel like I'm falling-down-drunk, and eventually loss of consciousness and sudden drops in blood pressure. I feel too hot pretty much all of the time. I've been tested for everything, no doctor can figure out what the helŀ is wrong with me. Winter is my favourite thing in the world and I haven't had to wear a coat outside in like 4 years. If you see me in a coat, you best load up all the layers because that means it's probably 10F/-12C outside.
Upstaged75 2 months ago
Me too. It sucks. I was always the kid who was hot in my winter coat. It's embarrassing too, because you can't hide the fact that you're sweating. It's exacerbated by me being overweight and also a 50 year old woman. 😂 I claim that it's menopause, which people seem to accept without question. But I'm on meds for endometriosis, so there's really nothing going on with my hormones yet.
detective miller's hat 2 months ago
oh gods yes, the sweating. My clothes are very carefully chosen for how well they will hide the sweat.
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 2 months ago
Remember working on my car in the winter. Handed my wrench to my son "hey!, this is hot"
GalPalAl 2 months ago
Not e heater in the same way but my body's thermostat has always been set for hot. As a kid I used to get heat rash. As an adult, my whole life is a hot flash that follows with puddles of uncontrollable sweating. It takes a lot of liquid and a long time to recoup the liquids that drain my energy. And whenever I stand up from a sitting position on a chair with a nonporous surface, there is condensation on the seat. Friends at work constantly complain about being cold and it never affects me
Uncle Panda 2 months ago
My hands run hot. I've held snow melting competitions and my hands are always empty first.
Jennifer Smith 2 months ago
I run super hot too. AC on 60 until the temperature outside drops below 60 then I put a fan in the window to pull the cold outside air in.
Mickel Beckett 3 weeks ago
If you can, take a cold water bath, or shower, when you get to hot. But, with the shower, let it melt down to cold. and just bask in it, lady.
Gracie Mae 1 month ago
My husband used to tell me he could tell when I was having a hot flash if we were touching; my body temp apparently rose enough on the outside for him to feel it
Extinct Animal 2 months ago
Iv'e had a slightly overactive thyroid since i was a kid and my skin is ALWAYS hot. Difficult to gain and maintain weight and normally eat around 4000+ calories a day just to be average weight...All the calories just seem to get converted into body heat instead of getting stored properly in my body.
Maren Villadsen 2 months ago
Im a heater aswell. The Window in my bedroom is only closed when it is about - 8°C or below outside.
#29
I'm 29 and still have a baby tooth. One of the molars I had as a kid never fell out, so it's an adult canine on one side and a child's molar on the other.
Mike Goslin 2 months ago
I finally had my last baby tooth pulled and replaced when I was 55. It had several cavities over the years. My Dentist joked it contained the entire history of dentistry.
Cara George 1 month ago
I'm 48 and still have a baby tooth. I actually had two that stayed until adulthood. One has long since c*****d and had to be pulled but the other is still there. It's now shaved down and has a crown on it though.
TheElderNom 2 months ago
My upper wisdom teeth are as small as baby teeth. Cutest wisdom teeth my dentist has ever seen (his words).
Rianna Lewis 2 months ago
Me too.. I’m 35 and still have a baby tooth.. also with all of my other baby teeth they would take much longer to come out (only had one adult tooth that got impatient and tried to come through when the baby tooth was still there and had to be removed, I was 16 then) my dentist gave me a “technical” name for it but basically said it’s called an “immature mouth”..
Evelien Stijger Martens 2 months ago
My son had this with a couple, it just means there was no adult tooth growing underneath
#30
My second and third toes are conjoined 3/4 of the way up. Can’t move em independently, and yes I’m a good swimmer.
Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
I have this situation, too. I can move my big and little toes independently, but the others only move as a unit. On both feet.
Remi (He/Him) 2 months ago
You can move your other toes independently??? I mean big toe, yeah but the others go as a group.
KnightOwl86 2 months ago
I can move my toes on one foot, they spread out the same way your fingers do when you spread your palm. Also the two toes next to my big toes on both feet are webbed but none of the others are. Apparently my right foot has extra bones which is why I can spread my toes out so far.
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WorkAholic1 2 months ago
Wait. Toes are supposed to be able to move independently? My toes all move together. The big toe on each foot can move independently, but not the others.
#31
My butt crack is crooked because an extra vertebrae in my spine caused some scoliosis down there. I have zero pain, just a crooked a*s lol.
#32
Not me but an old friend, she once got hit in the nose a particular way and ever since, if she blows hard enough through her nose (blowing nose, laughing, etc.), her nose will whistle. Yes, her nose can f*****g whistle and when she’s laughing, it’s the funniest s**t ever and only makes the laughing worse.
Melanie Filmer 2 months ago
When I blow my nose air blows from my right eye tear duct, only my right 🤷🏻♀️
#33
When I was seven, I was in Eastern Washington down on the Snake River in a place called Hell's Canyon (it gets extremely hot in the summer). I had on my favorite green little kid's bikini, and was eating ice cream. A bit of the ice cream dropped onto my stomach, but being a kid, I didn't bother going down to the river to wash it off. I eventually fell asleep in the sun, and when I woke up, the ice cream had baked into my skin, staining it. I still have it; it looks a lot like a splotchy birthmark. To this day, whenever my mother sees it, she says "I wonder how you got that mark on your stomach; you weren't born with a birthmark." And, as always, I reply "It's my ice cream stain." Her reply never changes: "That's ridiculous, you can't get a stain from ice cream." (My mother is a very practical woman.) "Well, then" I say, "How else do you explain it?" She never has an answer, because not only does she know the story so well, but she is just as aware as I am of the seven prior years that I lived without that mark on my belly. I spilled ice cream on my stomach, fell asleep in the baking hot sun, and when I awoke, I had a stain that I could never wash off. It might sound silly, but I'm looking at the splotch right now, 44 years later.
werewolf-barmitzva:
When I was a teenager, every year we would volunteer at a music festival and work the whole day under the sun. I got very tan each year, and every time I would get these weird darker stains on my thighs that would maintain until the winter/spring. Some of my friends had it too, not all of them though. It took us like 5 years to understand where it was coming from - we were cutting limes all afternoon to prepare mojitos, some lime would spill on our thighs and literally burn onto our skins. I had a really big one that lasted a couple of years.
Sofia 2 months ago
I am wondering... skin cells get replaced periodically, ok? so if is something superficial it should go away in a matter of days. If it went deeper is possible but what the hell of icecream was it if even painters don't get tatooed touching paint?
BrunoVI 2 months ago
It's taken my [redacted] decades to shed the skin that turned orange from too much Vitamin A.
Load More Replies... Bored Sailor 2 months ago
I have two slightly light brown kind of circles I do not remember being born with but have had them for a very long time and the shade varies. One under my eye and one on my neck, when dating and the first time they get darker it gets me in trouble.
#34
I get ravenously hungry about three days before getting sick with a virus. Every single time.
Aileen Grist 2 months ago
You've a very smart body. It sounds like it feels the very beginning of the virus, knows that it will knock you for six and you'll probably lose your appetite and prepares for it.
LillieMean 2 months ago
I have the exact same thing. I don't usually drink juice, but before I get sick I even dream about drinking huge amounts of orange juice. Food doesn't seem to fill me up at all. It's handy because I have time to prepare and buy easy and quick meals and make sure I have something in my medicine cabinet to help with the flu.
Lilly Pomar 2 months ago
We know my husband is going down with a virus whenever he starts devouring everything sweet in the house. Otherwise he doesn't even like sweets.
MarieL 3 weeks ago
Eating sweets are the worst thing to eat when developing a virus. The virus craves sugar, that's what it feeds off. Next time he starts eating the sweets, stop the sugar immediately and substitute protein.
Load More Replies... HeavyMetalHeart 2 months ago
Having a cold coming on always makes me super hungry. I also crave certain foods - if I have a sudden desire for tomato soup, there’s a good chance I’m getting a cold.
#35
I have a bicornate (heart-shaped) uterus. Not as cute as it sounds. Was shocked I didn't know much earlier in life considering the 22 yrs of medical tests, procedures, and issues I've had that've involved lots of imaging and a laproscopic surgery.
highwaycrossingfrog 2 months ago (edited)
I have this too. Had no idea until I had to have a scan - apparently it quite often goes hand in hand with PCOS, but I don't have that, or any other symptoms. My uterus is also retroverted, i.e. tilted, which again has no symptoms for me but may explain why period cups don't work for me
Foxglove🇮🇪 2 months ago
Mine is retroverted too, tampons were always uncomfortable
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I had a growth on my right testicle. The Urologist assumed that it was cancer, and scheduled surgery. The pathology report came back, the tumor was not cancerous. It was deemed to be of Mullerin origin. That is a precursor to an ovary!!!!
#37
I don't really feel hunger unless my blood sugar is dropping real low, cus i get dizzy and hand shakes. Like I get the sensation but it doesn't bother me, eating is more of an annoying chore than something I actually enjoy. If I ever have a genie grant me 3 wishes the first would be to never need to eat again.
Lost Panda 2 months ago
I feel this. I can go the whole day without eating and not realize it until my legs are weak or hands are shaking
hannahbahngswife 2 months ago
I don't know what it is with me, but sometimes I get this major urge to just eat. It can last some days. I always need to be munching on something. Then suddenly, after a few days, I feel a "disgust" with food where I don't want to eat anymore and, as OP described, eating feels like a chore and I would love to never eat again. Then the want to eat comes back and it goes like that.
Upstaged75 2 months ago
I'm never hungry either. They think it's caused by scar tissue in my esophagus from surgery. The problem with this is that rather than eating based on hunger cues, I eat based on cravings. Otherwise I'd probably never eat. Yesterday the first time I ate something at all was 9pm. And yes, I'm fat. 😊
Nikki Sevven 2 months ago
I tend to eat relative to the type of chronic pain I'm experiencing. The daily body aches alone makes me eat normally. Stress flares make me eat everything in sight. Barometric pressure flares rob my appetite.
#38
I can withdraw my testicles into my body cavity at will, like an animal.
#39
I grow a winter coat. My body hair gets noticeably (to me) longer and thicker in the winter months.
Littlemiss 2 months ago
So does my husband's. He gets a winter coat and a summer coat of hair. His chest hair grows longer and thicker in winter and grows shorter and less dense in summer.
#40
I can only wink with my left eye, not my right one.
My parents joke it must have been from the lead paint in my crib.
Papa 2 months ago
My father could close his right eye and leave the left one open, but not the reverse. Because of that he had to learn to use a rifle or shotgun left-handed.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 months ago
i can do this, too! it takes more thought and conscious effort to close the right and not the left, but i can do it. closing just the left is MUCH easier.
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BarfyCat 2 months ago
My husband is the same. He could never figure out why he was such a bad shot, when his dad was a sharpshooter in the police force. Finally, the ROTC teacher at the school where he works noticed and pointed it out. Now that Husband knows this, he no longer wins the Let the Turkey Live award at his school's annual turkey shoot. Don't worry, no turkeys are harmed, only turkey-shaped paper targets.
Nathan Shipman 2 months ago
Same here. Which is odd, because I'm right dominant in just about every other part of my body.
Nikki Sevven 2 months ago
I can raise my left eyebrow like Spock, but not my right eyebrow. On the plus side, the face I make trying to raise my right eyebrow is hilarious.
#41
Central heterochromia in both eyes. I have a small blue ring around a large brown one.
Rita OBrien 3 weeks ago
My hetrochromia is really complex and my eyes have been described variously as having nebulae or sunflowers in or my favourite from a little girl as "multicoloured like a lizard's". One of them also has 'eye freckles'.
Melanie Filmer 2 months ago
I've always had blue eyes, since I turned 40 I've gotten green around my pupil
#42
I always know I’m about to sneeze because I get a wave of nausea ~15-30 seconds beforehand.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 2 months ago (edited)
I always get an itch on a certain part of my scalp, just before I start with a cold or become unwell. Helps tell the difference between my allergy sneezing and getting the lurgy sneezing.
Ellen Light 2 months ago
My husband and I both get the nausea before sneezing. It goes away immediately after sneezing.
#43
When I lean forward when doing yoga/Pilates type exercises, something (an internal organ?) gets caught under my ribs. I have asked other people but nobody knows what I'm talking about.
#44
I once got a naproxen subscription for sore hand joints, and developed a bunch of black spots on my hands after taking it. They literally fell out of my skin after a few days and the pain disappeared. Never found anyone else have black spots that fall out of the skin and doctor was stumped.
#45
Sometimes, when I rub my eye, the corner of my eye near my nose, gets a little air pocket in it. And it makes the squeaking sound when I rubbed my eye. It only happens a few times a year, but I've talked to my friends about it and nobody understands what it is.
HeavyMetalHeart 2 months ago
I’ve had that occasionally. I think it’s so normal that people don’t tend to notice it.
#46
I don't scar, no matter how bad it is. I have had severe burns, I have had surgeries, and I have had really bad cuts; not one scar. They all healed normally.
quentariel 2 months ago (edited)
I feel like my skin scars whenever it wants to. I work in kitchen and I'm quite clumsy in general, so i have quite an assortment of bad burns and other wounds, and only few of them have left faint marks. Yet one horsefly bite when I was pre-teen hasn't gone anywhere (and it didn't get infected or anything that would explain this). Same with some ridiculous clothes scafe mark on my waist left a huge mark.
Littlemiss 2 months ago
I never used to get bruises as a child, a really clumsy, badly absued child. Now I bruise easily.
#47
My collarbone on one side can just pop in and out from my sternum. Never injured it, but I can hyperextend my left arm if I pop it out. Helps a lot when I have an itch on a weird part of my back lmao. No pain with it either, just sometimes feels funky if it pops out when I don’t mean for it to.
Littlemiss 2 months ago
Hubby dislocates one rib if he moves the wrong way. You can feel it sticking out. He's always had it and it hurts a lot when it happens.
#48
After I had a c section I could feel and hear gas bubbles going up the back of my neck, almost like pop rocks.
Still happens about once a month.
Gaston Hernandez Marquez 1 month ago
This can be related to the full moon, search fot it, it is a class of oil going to your brain, if you dont eat bread or fermerting things or alcohol you can approvechate that
Rita OBrien 3 weeks ago
Mine too after 24 years, but the area above it is still numb.
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I kind of have three butt cheeks...
I fell off of a roof and landed on a metal ladder below, right on my back side. Somehow I didn't break anything, but the impact caused a weird internal scar tissue and haematoma that caused the scar to pull the skin in and leave what looks like two butt cheeks on one side.
#50
If I develop a fever, it is immediately followed with Rhabdomyolysis, which means 10+ days in the ER for me… every single time. Has happened 7 or 8 times now. This isn’t regular Rhabdo either, this is full on body aches and muscle seizing. Docs can’t figure it out. Same happens to my twin. If I don’t figure it out before old age, I am afraid it’ll take me out. My only saving grace has been youth… but at 40, that’s running out.
#51
I have a deviated septum so if I hum a certain note it buzzes like a kazoo 😁.
#52
Idk if this is a quirk, but sometimes ill have an itch under my skin, and when i scratch it, it either makes it worse or itll travel to another part of my body, and nobody knows what im talking about when i talk about it.
Foxglove🇮🇪 2 months ago
I get an itch right in the middle of my head, can't reach it via ears or throat. But antihistamines sort it out fast. Other times I have "itchy fits" where I'm itching and scratching everywhere, so annoying, but antihistamines do the trick again.
#53
I physically cannot vomit.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 months ago
my sister can't burp. so, when she gets gas or drinks a coke or something, she's miserable for several hours until it dissipates. :-(
Upstaged75 2 months ago
Neither my dad nor his 2 sisters are able to burp. It's hilarious when they try. My mom, my brother, and I are all experts at it though. 😂
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My birthmark is in the whites of my eyes.
#55
I recently learned that most people don’t have vision blackouts when they rub their nose too hard.
#56
If I'm somewhere dark and quiet, and then there's a noise, I'll see the noise as a flash of bright mottled light.
#57
For context, I'm 35F. My knees make a cracking sound constantly when I walk or bend them. It's been happening for as long as I can remember.
Also, I get random "shaky muscles". Like...it could be in my torso, or in my leg, or one of my fingers. But randomly, a section of muscle will "rumble" and then stop. It doesn't hurt either 🤷♀️🤷♀️.
setsuriseikou 2 months ago
Hey, I get those "shaky muscles" too! Feels slightly tickly sometimes
#58
My body temperature will not dip below 99.3 , is regularly around 100.5 and I don’t even start to feel ill until it reaches approximately 102.
BookFanatic 2 months ago
I'm opposite--my normal is about 96. Yes, I am cold all the time. Yes, I am looking forward to hot-flashes.
Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
My "normal" is 96. Once I was brought into the ER in winter and my temp was 95. The nurse thought her thermometer was broken, and tried 3 others with the same result. I warmed up after a bit. Once I hit 65 years or so, I now get 98 most of the time.
#59
A little black "freckle" near my bellybutton. i acquired it roughly 42 years ago whilst wrestling with my friend who had a pencil in his back pocket. The pencil stabbed me in the stomach and i've had this mark ever since.
KnightOwl86 2 months ago
I had one of these in my hand, a bully stabbed my hand with a pencil when I was 8, the tip broke off and got stuck. I lived with it in there for 20yrs until one day I developed a weird pimple right on top of it. After a few days of popping it and cleaning it, i noticed something black sticking out slightly. I squeezed it obsessively for the rest of the day until it finally popped out. It healed so well that there no sign of it ever being there.
#60
My lung gets pinched every so often, especially if i twist a weird way. then it hurts when i breathe until i take a big insanely painful breath in and un pinch it 😭 had this ever since i could remember.
Annik Perrot 2 months ago
Used to happen to me à lot when I was young. Not so much as an adult, and hardly ever now I'm getting on.
setsuriseikou 2 months ago
I get this rather often and my doc says it's called intercostal neuralgia.
Alison Key 2 months ago
Oh, I'm so glad I'm not alone - I get this! It hurts so much to breathe that I take tiny shallow breaths, and the only way to make it better is by taking that massive painful breath you talked about. I've always wondered what it was - pinched lung is a great way to describe it.
Al Padilla 2 months ago
Think of it as a charley-horse of the intercostal muscles. (Think spareribs) The deep breath stretches the muscles, just like stretching leg muscles for a charley-horse.
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#61
THIS IS MY TIME TO SHINE (there has never been a correct time and place for me to share this fun fact)
If I press inside of my belly button, I get like a twitch/zap like feeling in my v****a.
Also, back when I would get my eyebrows threaded, I felt pain from my belly button to my v****a. I would literally have to lowkey squeeze my abdomen in and basically do kegels while getting them threaded because the pain was overstimulating.
weatherwitch 2 months ago
I've had that too! Not anymore though as I have neuropathies so it's gone from permanent to rarely now. Most odd.
#62
I get tense, sore, on edge over the course of like an hour and then I have one giant shiver and it's like a whole body release. It's like the relaxation after an orgasm without the pleasure.
#63
I get instant hiccups if I eat deli ham straight from the packet (but not if it’s in a sandwich!).
AnnaB 2 months ago
Peanut butter is the only thing that cures my boyfriend's hiccups.
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#64
I cough every time I eat sorbet or ice cream.
Jenny Andersson 1 month ago
Do you have asthma? I get bronchial spasms when eating cold stuff, and cough due to asthma.
Rita OBrien 3 weeks ago
I have a coughing fit if I eat a pickled onion from the jar or drink apple cider venegar.
#65
I have one attached earlobe and one not attached.
#66
I can shake my eyeballs.
#67
If I lightly draw on my skin with the back of my fingernail, it will leave a white trail where I drew with my fingernail. It's not raised or itchy, just like the blood takes longer to fill back in. It's more prominent if I'm cold. I used to write messages on my legs and it would stay visible for 5-10 minutes before disappearing. I've always assumed it's poor circulation or something, but have never found an answer to why.
NotAThreat (he/her) 2 months ago (edited)
doesn't everyone's body do that? i might have read it wrong but if i scratch my hand lightly there is a white trail but only for a few seconds, possibly longer
BoredWolfe 2 months ago
Note how they said 5-10 minutes, not seconds? It’s called Dermatographia (literally skin writing).
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I can pop my hip joints out of their sockets on demand.
#69
I can smell human phermones. To a degree. I can tell if my wife is receptive from across the room. I think I can sometimes smell when a woman is ovulating but I would never ask her to confirm it so I can't be sure. It smells like a combination of BO and buttered popcorn. I am not making this up.
Nea 2 months ago
I am suddenly conscious that someone around me might be having this ability and can sense if am ovulating or receptive :(
Namea 1 month ago
It's just some dude lying online. There has never been a peer reviewed document of this occuring.
Load More Replies... Rita OBrien 3 weeks ago
I used to have a work colleague who could smell pregnancy and periods.
#70
I have a bone deformity that makes my ribs very prominent. it doesn’t cause problems (any more) but they’re always visible even if i put on weight.
Tbh i’m a bit insecure about it but i’ve been gradually working through it the past few years.
#72
If I lie on my back for 10 minutes or more, my whole right leg goes to sleep. It started after my c-section, so it's probably nerve damage, but it's just a weird thing that I don't think my insurance would care to address.
#73
Turns out it runs in my family, but absolutely massive bladders. I can p**s for 90 seconds if I'm drinking and had to go 45 minutes ago.
Nea 2 months ago
I am not sure if this is massive bladder or a small one. I have a very small bladder and it gets full very quickly and takes time (90 secs is not long for me) to empty.
Al Padilla 2 months ago
The simple answer can be obtained by measuring how much you void. Taking a long time can either be a big bladder, or a slowly-emptying one. Very different situations!
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I am incapable of spreading my toes apart. I can move them with my hands and they stay spread but I do not have the muscular ability to do so on their own.
#75
Occasionally if I tense my neck/spine I get a sensation up my back and head that makes my eyes roll and my body shiver like a mini seizure.
But I can’t do it on command, have to feel it available. And I can do it repeatedly a few times before it burns out.
Always wondered what it was.
#76
My pinky/little toes have toe nails but they grow vertical from the nail bed rather than horizontal over the tip of my toe. I’ve always been self conscious about it.
#77
Ever since I was a child, if I reach too far in a specific position, my neck freezes up and hurts like hell for a solid minute, and then it goes away.
#78
I can make my ear drums rumble. Also I have a very faint black dot on my right pointer finger, I’ve had it for as long as I remember.
Upstaged75 2 months ago
My grandfather could wiggle his ears. It was a great party trick. All the kids loved it.
highwaycrossingfrog 2 months ago
I think the eardrum thing is fairly common... Saw it in a thread on here before and lots of people had the same. I can do it, but only in my right ear, and only for a few seconds at a time
Rita OBrien 3 weeks ago
Fellow ear rumbler here too. I thought everyone could do it until recently. Most people don't know what I'm on about.
Ellen Meijer 1 month ago
I can do that too! Never realised it was uncommon until I asked my husband about it and he had no clue what I was talking about.
#79
Occasionally when I open my mouth, the saliva glands under my tongue squirt a bunch of saliva.
I haven't figured out what exact movement triggers it so I can't do it on purpose. Would be a neat trick though!
Upstaged75 2 months ago
Gleek! I had a childhood friend who could do it on demand. We called her Gleek too.
#80
I have surprising dexterity in my feet. The gap between my big toe and second toe is fairly large and it allows me to use the space to grab things like if my big toe was a thumb. Unless something was like a large, hard sphere, and if it was of a reasonable weight, I could most likely pick it up and/or carry it around with my feet.
To be fair, I spent most of my first few developmental years barefoot, so that might have something to do with it.
#82
I’m numb from the middle of my butt to the middle of the back of my thigh on my right leg. Husband was injecting some of my IVF meds in the wrong location in December and January and I still don’t have feeling back yet.
highwaycrossingfrog 2 months ago
I hit the wrong spot on my finger when taking a blood sample and it took a few years to get full sensation back in my finger tip
TheLuggage 2 months ago
May have hit the sciatic nerve, that can cause BIG problems. When injecting intragluteal, always stay in the upper outer quadrant of the muscle.
#84
I have a birthmark that turns purple when I'm cold and red when I'm normal temp. It goes from my shoulder to my back.
Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
I have a scar over my right eyebrow that is sometimes so faint you can't see it, other times red, sometimes raised and sometimes sunken. I have a lot of scars - I have sensitive skin and scar easily - but this is the only scar that changes like that.
#85
I have two ureters (the tubes connecting your kidney to your bladder). It was discovered when donating a kidney to my mom.
#86
I have a weird quirk where I can crack my thumb joints really loudly, like louder than most people can. It freaks some people out, but I find it kinda satisfying.
#87
I can touch my thums to my wrists/forearms, and I can stand up straight without bending my knees, and put my hands flat on the floor.
Aileen Grist 2 months ago
I used to be able to do that - also to bend my fingers over one another - starting with the index finger, and folding them all across, one on top of the other and all below the lowest joints. Not any longer though - arthritis.
#88
I don’t sneeze.
I had terrible anxiety as a kid and a fear of being perceived, so I somehow figured out how to suppress my sneeze and I have never been able to regain the ability. It’s just a sensation that builds up and then disappears.
#90
My one little toe does not touch the ground. I can step in water and I only leave four toe prints on dry concrete. If I push it down with my finger it springs right back up.
#91
Until I was 16, I was able to lift one eyebrow on its own.
Then, after reconstructive jaw surgery, I have been able to differentiate eyebrow muscles and can now lift BOTH eyebrows individually, though it takes some focus. I can do the Jim Carrey eyebrow thing, but at like, .5x speed.
Gretchen Esquilin 2 months ago
This has been my party trick for yrs!!! I was a kid & practiced & practiced until I got both brows to move independently. I used to make my kids laugh when they were little b/c I'd move them to the beat of any song they wanted to hear. LOL (My sister & I can also clap 1-handed. She can do both, I can only do one hand.)
Aileen Grist 2 months ago
I can only lift mine together not one at a time.
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Sometimes after I exercise, if I open my mouth a ticking noise comes out of my throat. Kind of like a weird clock. It’s not the same beat as my heartbeat either.
#93
My external body temperature can be either very cold or, after 2-3 minutes in the same conditions, become very hot. My ex liked this feature because during s*x I could suddenly become cold but at the same time sweat profusely.
OhnoI’vebeencensored 2 months ago
That does not sound like a desirable feature in a sexual partner
#94
I have 1 less tooth on my left side. No dentist ever told me until recently, not even when I got all 4 wisdom teeth pulled. It just never grew in but there’s not even a space for it and it’s not buried in my gums. It just doesn’t exist 🦷.
#95
I can touch my tongue to my nose, can you?
#96
When I was a kid I stuck my hands fully in water that had a plugged in blender in it—I essentially got electrocuted but lived to tell the tale! To this day I swear if I move my left foot in a certain way I feel an INSANE shock of electricity run through my entire body. Been happening for 20 years or so!
#97
Sometimes I just violently just shake and I guess it kinda looks like I'm seizing for a second or two.
ETA i could be sitting these and all of the sudden I'll kinda shoot upright and suck in air through my noise and my head shakes quickly. My mom used to say it was a spirit walking through me.
#98
I get tiny bubbles under the skin of my hands. Sometimes even up to the first knuckle of my 3rd and 4th fingers
Edit for clarity: they do not itch or hurt, they are not inflamed, spherical, roughly 0.5mm diameter, they look like air bubbles but are filled with clear fluid, sometimes I have them, sometimes I do not, the most I have is about 3 at a time but not clustered together or anything. Don't have any right now so I can't attempt a picture.
Al Padilla 2 months ago
Dyshidrotic Eczyma. See: https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/eczema/dyshidrotic-eczema
highwaycrossingfrog 2 months ago (edited)
Could be pompholyx eczema, which I get. It's associated with nickel allergy, which I also have. Every month or two I get little bumps on the sides of my fingers, occasionally palms. It's not in reaction to anything in particular. Sometimes they are a little itchy, as you might expect from eczema, but mostly I don't really feel them
#99
I can be tired or energetic at will, as in I can just choose.
#100
It’s not a little quirk per se but I get 3 day migraines. Never more, never less. Always 3 days, always on the right side of my head. I need a better quirk.
quentariel 2 months ago
I hope this person lives somewhere where they can access doctor and proper meds for migraine. My migraines last two days and that certainly feels like two days too much.
KLL 2 months ago
Mine are exclusively for 4 days, always on the left side. I fantasize about extracting my left eyeball because of it....been suffering 20 years....would be cool if I could get some kind of a referral for it but every doctor I see just keeps blaming it on my womanhood. Don't be born a girl!
Jude Corrigan 1 month ago
I had a rook piercing in my ear on the side that the migraine affected most. I have not had a migraine since. As soon as it had healed, I took out the earring and it has healed back up. You could try applying pressure to your ear, where the rook piercing would be, when you get a migraine to see if it would work.
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I can cross just 1 of my eyes.
quentariel 2 months ago
Me too. I can cross both of my eyes separately while the other stays still. But it starts to hurt soon if I do it more than once.
#102
8 decades of slot machines and burger kings have given me bingo-wings with enough surface area to fly me clear across the Atlantic.
weatherwitch 2 months ago
Bingo wings is a very common term in the UK. What country are you from? And do you have a term for bingo wings there too😊
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My nostrils are very obviously different sizes. I’m certain there are others like me, but I’ve yet to meet one!
Auntriarch 2 months ago
I'm going to have to start looking at people's nostrils now
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I have terrible spider and varicose veins all over my legs. They look like a f*****g roadmap. I'm 36.
#106
My left hand fingers are actually longer than my right hand ones
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BookFanatic 2 months ago
I can raise my left eyebrow independently of my right, but not vice versa. I inherited it from my dad and it drove my mom crazy when we'd arch an eyebrow at her and she couldn't do it.
Black Cats and Corgis 2 months ago
I'm the same with the same eyebrows. Every time I raise my left eyebrow, it cracks my mom up.
Load More Replies... LillieMean 2 months ago
I can make myself have a fever. I just focus on thinking that I want a fever. I used this sometimes when I wanted to be off from school and then I would just read and play video games at home and when my parents came home from work I would be "sick" in bed enjoying my day off. It must be a genetic thing because there were two people in my mother's immediate family who got fevers from laughing or crying a lot.
Philly Bob 2 months ago (edited)
I, like my dad, have a "normal" body temp of 99.7. It always looks as if we had a slight fever. I could use it to stay home from school or when I went and wanted to go home, the school nurse would take my temp and bingo! On the other hand, I don't get sick often and when I do, it doesn't last that long. BUT while I am legit sick, I"M SICK AS HELL for 2 days. I mean on my aśs sick.
Load More Replies... Kate Jones 2 months ago
I have a weird thing where at night if I'm sitting up in bed and talking, i can't stop yawning. it's not even really yawning, though. I just have this need to open my mouth like I'm yawning. and it's almost non-stop. I have to lay back down to stop it. It's not from being tired. It's only when i'm sitting up in that position. as soon as i lay down it stops. It's so annoying. I must be sitting on some kind of nerve in that position that is causing this. I also find that sometimes I yawn a lot in a very short period of time. in 5 minutes I'll yawn like 15 times then it stops. It's embarrassing if I'm in a work meeting or something.
Jon Lee 2 months ago
I have a form of neuropathy in my feet. When my feet become warm the soles become painful, then they are hot it can be agony. I was in my teens before I found out that other people don't suffer agonies wearing boots/shoes and walking any distance. My mother has the same think. We both wear sandals all year round. I'm in the UK.
Artful Penguin 2 months ago
Oh when I get sick my temperature goes down, not up. I run 97.8 normally so for me something like 96.5 is a "fever" if you will.
Artful Penguin 2 months ago
I always sneeze multiple times. Usually over 15. I don't yawn. I can cross my eyes separately. I can wiggle my ears. And when I org@sm it comes with an instant, excruciating headache that feels like my head will literally explode. Started about 7 years ago, docs have no answers. So, no s3x for me. :(
BookFanatic 2 months ago
I can raise my left eyebrow independently of my right, but not vice versa. I inherited it from my dad and it drove my mom crazy when we'd arch an eyebrow at her and she couldn't do it.
Black Cats and Corgis 2 months ago
I'm the same with the same eyebrows. Every time I raise my left eyebrow, it cracks my mom up.
Load More Replies... LillieMean 2 months ago
I can make myself have a fever. I just focus on thinking that I want a fever. I used this sometimes when I wanted to be off from school and then I would just read and play video games at home and when my parents came home from work I would be "sick" in bed enjoying my day off. It must be a genetic thing because there were two people in my mother's immediate family who got fevers from laughing or crying a lot.
Philly Bob 2 months ago (edited)
I, like my dad, have a "normal" body temp of 99.7. It always looks as if we had a slight fever. I could use it to stay home from school or when I went and wanted to go home, the school nurse would take my temp and bingo! On the other hand, I don't get sick often and when I do, it doesn't last that long. BUT while I am legit sick, I"M SICK AS HELL for 2 days. I mean on my aśs sick.
Load More Replies... Kate Jones 2 months ago
I have a weird thing where at night if I'm sitting up in bed and talking, i can't stop yawning. it's not even really yawning, though. I just have this need to open my mouth like I'm yawning. and it's almost non-stop. I have to lay back down to stop it. It's not from being tired. It's only when i'm sitting up in that position. as soon as i lay down it stops. It's so annoying. I must be sitting on some kind of nerve in that position that is causing this. I also find that sometimes I yawn a lot in a very short period of time. in 5 minutes I'll yawn like 15 times then it stops. It's embarrassing if I'm in a work meeting or something.
Jon Lee 2 months ago
I have a form of neuropathy in my feet. When my feet become warm the soles become painful, then they are hot it can be agony. I was in my teens before I found out that other people don't suffer agonies wearing boots/shoes and walking any distance. My mother has the same think. We both wear sandals all year round. I'm in the UK.
Artful Penguin 2 months ago
Oh when I get sick my temperature goes down, not up. I run 97.8 normally so for me something like 96.5 is a "fever" if you will.
Artful Penguin 2 months ago
I always sneeze multiple times. Usually over 15. I don't yawn. I can cross my eyes separately. I can wiggle my ears. And when I org@sm it comes with an instant, excruciating headache that feels like my head will literally explode. Started about 7 years ago, docs have no answers. So, no s3x for me. :(
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