Whether we like our family tree or not, it’s something we belong to and there’s nothing we can do about it. Although every family has its strengths and weaknesses, some people feel like they were not that lucky in the gene lottery.
“Which shitty genetics did you inherit?” someone posed a bold question on Ask Reddit, and many people took it as an opportunity to confess some of the traits they’re neither happy nor proud about.
From baldness and anxiety to poor eyesight and acne, many of these genetic traits will hit very close to home, but remember that whatever it is, we’re all beautiful in our own way.
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Likely Alzheimer's.
Both gamma's had it, my mom has it and I'm in my early fifties and starting to feel the beginning of decline.
Frankly, I'm scared s***less.
I think we all worry to some extent, my aunt and uncle were both diagnosed in the same year. Remember to remain both mentally and physically active and socially interactive. A lot of new research points to the gut and dietary issues. My Dad kept a daily journal, learnt a new language, walked an hour every day and swam all in his last 5 years. He enjoyed those last years even though he knew he had a terminal illness.His philosophy was he knew it was coming but he was determined to fill each day. A new hobby, learn something new, keep active, engage with people and embrace life. Wishing you good health and a positive future
A very rare recessive progressive genetic disorder. I'm a carrier. My wife also is a carrier. Incidence of being a carrier is over 1 in 1,000,000. Unfortunately for our kids, they have a 1/2 chance of being carriers, 1/4 chance that they won't, and 1/4 chance that they'll inherit the double recessive gene and manifest the disorder. 2 out of our 4 kids have manifested the disorder and their life expectancy is 10-12 years.
Life sucker punches everyone.
And this, folks, is one of the instances where adoption is an infinitely kinder option to become a parent than having biological children.
it's recessive, they maybe didn't know they had it.
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Oh really, people, stop hurting these parents. They have enough heartache already.
Agreed. This is where benefit of the doubt should be given.
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It's obvious they didn't know until one of the kids got sick. And probably it was a difficult diagnosis to set since it's so rare.
Is nobody reading the original posts before passing such a hard judgement on people? It was my first though as well: Why did they have four children? But then I clicked on the poster's name and they explain they didn't know before the second child with the disorder was already born. Symptoms don't always show early in life and if it's such a rare disorder it would also take some time to get a diagnosis.
People seem to absolutely itch to pass hard judgment on others.
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This is why I am firmly of the opinion that genetic testing and assisted reproduction should be standard covered healthcare. Genetic testing would mean they would have known they were carriers before they had children. So, instead of playing roulette they would have harvested eggs from mom, sperm from dad, tested resulting fertilized ova and kept only the 25% that did not carry any copies of the lethal recessive. And voila, in one generation this family no longer has this tragic time bomb in their gene pool.
Unless they only discovered the genetic disorder after the birth of their 4th child (which I doubt very much), having 4 kids is beyond irresponsible... And no, life didn't sucker punch the parents, the parents sucker punched their own kids... FOUR children, for fücks sake!!! How selfish some people can be is unbelievable.
it's recessive, they might not have known they had it until their kids started showing symptoms.
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to people saying that they could have adopted or had less kids, here's a possible scenario: neither one knew that they carried this gene. they have child #1 and #2, and neither showed symptoms because they are either carriers or not, but do not have the double recessive gene. child #3 was born, and by the time the disorder manifested, child #4 had been born or conceived. by this (and this is not the only possibility, obviously), the parents are in no way at fault.
This happened in my first husband's family: his eldest sister became ill and started reverting to babyhood when my just after his second sister was born, but a genetic cause was not suspected until the same thing happened to the younger girl, by which time my ex MIL was already pregnant again. It was a rare form of genetic leukodystrophy for which both parents quite unknowingly carried the recessive gêne, although this was not understood until years later. My ex was lucky enough not to inherit even one copy, but they obviously didn't risk having any further children.
My family (well, my mum, sister and I) have an appointment booked with a genetic counsellor, because I had two brothers with a mitochondrial degenerative neuromuscular disorder. One died at 14 and the other at 10. When the eldest was born, my parents were told there was a 1 in 4 chance of each subsequent child having it. 2 in 5 of us did. Not much known about it at the time, and it was before the human genome project was completed, but biopsies were taken when they died and submitted to the databank(?).
This is one of the reasons you used to have to get a blood test before being issued a marriage license.
Wow. It surely does. I am hoping they come up with something for all these diseases that need to be studied snd cured or treated.
Just like me being colour blind. Both my parents had the recessive gene. I'm the only one of 4 kids who is colour blind.
I would not get any children, if I knew I had such a deadly genetic disorder with a good chance the kid would have it.
They didn't know. They found out when the first affected kid was diagnosed. But then, the second affected kid had already been born, but had no symptoms yet. They did not have more children after they knew.
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The standard generic test may not check for a disease that's 1 in a million to be a carrier
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Have you thought that maybe they found out when one of their kids started ro get sick? 🤔
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Teeth. I brush using an electric toothbrush for 2 minutes twice a day using prescription toothpaste, I floss twice a day, I've had braces and I floss under the permanent retainers once a day, I wear my night retainer every night and clean it every morning, have a dedicated tongue brusher and scraper that I use as needed, I go to the dentist twice a year and get fluoride treatments, I don't drink soda or eat excessive sugar, and I still have cavities.
I had to get a root canal that ended up failing (missed by the guy who did the root canal and 3 separate dentists) and when the cap eventually rotted off I had to get an implant which got infected, then got infected again, then was deemed chronically infected and had to be removed.
Now my wisdom teeth are acting up and need to be removed.
I am so f*****g sick of putting in so much time, energy, and money to be *below par* with most of the rest of the world
I'm only 33
All the pain comes on top. I can relate so well to this. I also had too many teeth on one side, and one less on the other which made my braces-time (5 years) even more painful (and also is the root of my chronic headaches now). The last root-canal-treatment meant one appointment per one to two weeks for half a year (!), two antibiotics and one infection also affected my sinuses. Luckily I have a great dentist and live in a country where public health covers the costs (except for fillings). Still it sucks.
My parents met in their 20s, bonded over how they both have shitty circulation and everyone in their families has shitty circulation, and were like ‘I know, let’s breed!’.
Went as you’d expect.
Hair on every inch of my body except for the top of my head
Short, acne, small tits, crooked teeth and underdeveloped/too far back jaw (they got mostly fixed with braces), thin hair, mental illness, scoliosis, tiny toes (what the f**k is up with that, I get too many comments about my baby feet)
Can't think of anything else atm
It's like I won the reverse genetic bingo. If this was medieval times I would definitely be the repulsive town witch
Wdit: oh right, forgot IBS
I had really thin hair all my life.I started taking an OTC hair and nail pills. They are from appliednutrition. They are with biotin, silica, collagen. They say three times the biotin. My hair is thicker and stronger. I have to take them daily. The stores now seem to just have the gummies which I don't care for. My son is 19 and takes a medication for his liver disease which caused him to lose his hair on top. He has new hairs coming in. He likes the gummies. Amazon is where I get them from now. I hope this will help you. I too have IBS-C
Lynch Syndrome. I am on my third round of (different each time) cancer.
excessive sweating
Idk if my sweating is excessive, or just a result of general heat intolerance. if the temperature goes up past 75F/24C, I start losing the ability to function. Summer is a nightmare.
Half of my face has my moms bone structure, the other half my dad. Come on, evolution, I thought this was all about symmetry.
OH and they both have addictive personalities which makes substance abuse almost instinctive. Luckily I was a pothead instead of an alcoholic or pill popper. We’re all doing better now LMAO!
No male in my family line has ever lived over 53 years old. I went through our family graveyard to verify this is true back to the 1860’s.
My family do not like me mentioning it. I am 38 now and have fully accepted my genetic fate.
My wife says it not a big deal but I always tell her she would be freaking out if she started to lose her hair too. Hair means just as much to men as it does to women. Confidence killer.
alopecia universalis diagnosed at age 3... took me until 25 to get to grips with it, when i ritually burned my wig in our backyard (which I had been wearing since about 13)
Two of my sons have muscular dystrophy. That's about as shitty as it gets.
My grandma's large chest. Have a lot of back pain now and everything hurts. Getting a bit of them removed in a few years👍
My mom had a large cupsize and it was the bane of her existence for a good 40 years. After reduction, she felt so much better, I hope the same for you OP!
I'm slowly going blind from RP. Thanks mom. My spinal discs are deflating and pinching off my nerves, Thanks dad.
It's alcoholics all the way down
I used to think that this wasn't real until I experienced it as well, my grandfather is an alcoholic (clean 30 years) and I became one as well (clean 1 year 8 months)
Being unusually hairy, oily, and large framed for a woman. It's a thing with my family, none of the women in it are exactly the picture of traditional feminine beauty. I have to wear guys sizes in shoes because my feet are too wide for most women's shoes.
Don't let it make you self-conscious. Two of the most elegant and fashionable women I know have large frames (broad shouldered, barrel chested), and I don't think I ever saw either of them wear a skirt. One woman wears mens suits often and looks fantastic. Just wear the kind of clothes that look good on you.
Female pattern baldness from my father’s side of the family and white hair from my mother’s side.
I don’t mind white hair in theory, but thinning white hair is nearly invisible.
My back went out in my 20s, and wasn't getting better. After a while I couldn't stand up straight, and had to get it scanned. The found the channel in my spine that the nerve goes through is 1/4 the size of most people's, so the very minor disc slip I'd had became a major problem. They wound up having to carve that channel (dunno what it's called, sorry) wider. Instant relief, but I now have a pretty weak back that's prone to going out. I recover with rest, now, thank goodness, whereas before I wouldn't.
Anyway, that's probably my worst thing, genetically speaking. Bad spine.
Me, too. Every day is a c**p shoot, every movement a gamble. It is exhausting, mentally and physically.
A bad spine (scoliosis, stenosis, & spondyolisthesis) and arthritis in other joints. Luckily, I’m not as bad off as previous generations of women in my family.
Just a few generations ago, short life expectancy didn't see these long term breakdowns.
Mother has a full head of thick hair
Father had thinning hair and a receding hairline
Guess whose genes this guy got
From the extensive research I did on balding, it comes from the morhsr
dark circles under my eyes
same. hereditary AND bc it's hard for me to fall asleep.
A very rare case of keratosis pilaris (it covers my whole body not just the limbs, apparently it's super rare)
Acne that forgot to leave with the rest of puberty is also not fun. I have the scars AND I have the angry zits that like to crop up along my bra line. At least at this point, my face is taking the least of it and I don't have deep pockmarks or scarring there. But I don't wear plunging necklines because my chest is a mixture of new and old scars.
im adopted, but me and my twin both have godawful eyesight
I have twin friends and one is autistic, legally blind, ADHD, anxiety. His sister has ADHD and anxiety/depression. They got the short sticks but the male twin got the shorter one. AND THEY'RE BOTH SHORT!
My big a*s forehead.
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I unfortunately inherited my mother's terrible knees. In our case, the lateral ligaments of the patella are too long, which means that my kneecap can pop out if I make the wrong movements. Sometimes it only moves a millimetre, which is already unpleasant, but in the worst case it jumps out completely and hangs on the side of my leg. Then I can't move my leg (actually my whole body hip down) until it's back in. That's pain you don't want to have. This happend once and I was in so much pain they had to call an ambulance. They had to drug me and straighten my leg to make it pop back in.
When I was a child, I could easily dislocate many of my joints and then push the bone back into place. It usually caused little or no pain. Sometimes I did it on purpose just to creep out other kids. This situation diminished quite a bit as I got older. One of the bones in my left wrist still occasionally dislocates as does my left shoulder. Unfortunately, it is now extremely painful when this happens and difficult to put the bone back in place. I also have osteoarthritis now.
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At 50 I've had 4 total joint replacements. And other orthopedic surgeries. Much of my problem is genetic predisposition to soft tissue degeneration. That's likely a result of my fathers exposure to agent orange. Add to that my being conceived and born on the air force base where the first nuclear bomb was tested and the potential for a pain filled life is severely compounded. I take more pills every day then I care to think about. But ya know what? I'm happy. Other then joint pain... in EVERY joint.... I'm remarkably healthy. And I'm lucky to have the means to treat my issues. Life could be so much worse. Perspective is everything.
My little brother died from ewwing sarcoma at age 20. We didn't share the same dad, but his father was a war vet and was exposed to agent orange and it caused a genetic defect in my brother causing one of the more rare cancers. It was pretty bad in the end. He was in huge amounts of pain but would hide it. I'm sorry your experiencing effects from agent orange. You have a great outlook on life!
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Evolution: As long as you live long enough to breed, it stays in the gene pool. *sigh*
If I have posed in my family photo, you would think that I'm just a stranger from the street. In my maternal family line, they all have Barbie like faces, beautiful hair, small cute noses, blue eyes. From paternal line - huge noses, classic eastern european gray hair, dark skin, very stocky build. Both sides have (what it seems) genetic weigh issues of weighting either too much, or too little. Me? Almost black hair, green eyes, huge nose, ultra ultra white thin skin that doesn't tan and ultra black thick long eyebrows that made me look mad all the time. I also was born with cellulite and because of the thin skin, I had my first stretch marks at the age of 5. Because of this, I grew up from my both sides from the family referred as "different" (and treated so), bullying from family members was also quite a thing. Hated my genes for the bigger part of my life. Oh, and also inherited endometriosis, that does not respond to the treatments in a way it should.
What’s “classic Eastern European grey hair”? Grey hair exists literally everywhere. Or are you saying people in Eastern Europe are born with grey hair?!
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Oh my. After reading all this I feel a lot better about my personal issues. We are not alone with our inherited issues or insecurities. Stay strong. Love you self, and be kind to others.
Mental illness. Everyone on my mum's side of the family has some form of mental illness or another. From depression and anxiety to addiction and schizophrenia we've got a whole raft of them. Whilst I feel my own particular brand of mental illness has ruined my life (depression and anxiety which meant I couldn't work for a very long time, make friends or have what most would consider a 'normal' life), it's mild compared to others in my family. My sister has anxiety, my mum is Bipolar, my Aunt absolutely refuses to go to her GP about her mental illness so we're not too sure what she suffers with by even as a kid my dad used to call her 'Loopy Lou'. My sister and I (and my Aunt's kids) have all decided not to have children as we don't want to pass this hell on to them.
This post is mostly "boo hoo, I have something inconvenient" followed by "I have a legit genetic disorder that means I suffer and die"
I have health issues that inhibit me from working, doing my hobbies or seeing friends, and still I have it better than a lot of people. I think sometimes we can all find things to be thankful for if we stop to think about it. I'd love to just have cosmetic downsides, whereas someone with a deteriorating or terminal condition would love to be in my position. It's all about perspective.
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Evolution doesn't work the way cartoons say it does. It not "all coming together". It's all falling apart.
Ain’t genetics just great folks? Some of us copped a poor roll of the dice but we do the best we can..right? Right?
Hmmm, ADHD, i dbout most people that claim to have it as I keep hearing people get "diagnosed" in their 20s and 9 times outa 10 its a youtube video self diagnosis, I was actually diagnosed in the 5th grade and put on ridalin, rittilin? Speed but for kids. I'm also extremely antisocial yet I crave interaction, 14 therapy sessions at the age of 12, I maybe said about 4 words total. Need some of those hair seeds aswell. I have 0 balance and spacial awreness, often dropping things on my toes then hit my head picking it up. Can't look up without falling over either, glasses and I don't know if it was tourettes because I grew outa it but I useto rapidly shake my head about once every minute like clockwork. Enough of that tho, I'm also 183cm(6') and freakishly strong(according to others) mainly because I don't work out and am pretty much a skeleton yet I "move people around like paper" plus my skeleton is insanely durable. So it's not all bad.
In my family we have a big bouquet of diseases that can be passed down (it's kinda like a lottery at this point). I consider myself very lucky that I don't have most of them (yet). That is one of the reasons I chose not to have children. I see in this post a few people that are upset that their parents chose to have kids even though they knew what they will pass on. Surprisingly, when I tell people about my choice and reason, they keep telling me that "such things" shouldn't stop me.
My big feet, long legs, and maybe my too much testosterone... I look like I was put together with spare parts
I inherited my dad’s back and knees. That means I will probably need full knee replacement by the time I am 50. He is doing okay with it, so I will as well. I am only 37 and have arthritis in my lower back from my job!
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I mentioned that my eyesight is going but hilariously enough, that isn't the one that upsets me the most. It's the back problems. Turns out a teenager that complains about a sore spine doesn't get much sympathy from parents with their own back problems and was often told that kids can't get back pain. I'm 35 now, it's not a severe case of scoliosis for surgery to be a mandatory, just optional. But guess how many issues can branch off from scoliosis? I can't even walk properly, my right leg barely works. I don't have much expectations for my life expectancy. I also cone from a long line of alcoholics on both sides, depression, anxiety, bad knees. The only one I managed to be spared was asthma. Though I was exposed to second hand smoke for much of my childhood so.....
My inheritance is easy to get fat, early gray hair, dandruff (is that even possible?) bad eyesight, probably diabetes, liver disease and alzheimer in the future too (paternal great-grandma, grandma, dad and uncle had them). All in my father's side of the family.
I got terrible eyesight from my parents. My father had -10 and -13, and my mother has -5 in both eyes. I have -5 and -8. I never stood a chance.
i am really short ( 5ft) and i can't gain weight no matter how much i eat ( im currently 39kg) and I have a small face & high voice, as well as hitting puberty late ( i got my period at nearly 16) so im not as physically developed as my friends, so all of these together make me look 12yo even tho im 17 and im so insecure. I have the worst genetics ever. Also i have quite bad eyesight ( -4.5), a terrible memory, astigmatism, severe anemia, social anxiety, misophonia.
No male in my father's line has lived past 53. I'm a 71 year-old male. Any time now.
Ehlers danlos ( daily catastrophic dislocations) pots (heart rate has temper tantrums) mcad ( I can get allergic to anything at any Minute) crps
My dad gave me his absolutely TERRIBLE eyesight, had to wear glasses since I was 4 (without a special thinning thing they would be 2lbs). He was also heavily addicted to alcohol, so guess who’s also likely to get addicted… woo…
I inherited my parents awful teeth but my brother didn’t I also got all the back problems aswell
I have a fair few things that others might call minor, and usually theyre only bad enough to call annoying, but together make my life a living hell. Stuff like a small (?) number of possible undiagnosed mental problems, bad joints, the threat (family history) of scoliosis and/or cancer, a fair amount of trauma, coupled all together with long covid. and i just keep discovering more problems i thought were normal (mentally and physically). There is a /long/ family history of mental problems and i refuse to burden another kid with what i went through. This s**t ends with me
Corneal degenerative disease, will need corneal transplant one day soon. Uterus cancer, eat like a bird and carry weight like a bloated chicken. Can't tolerate alcohol, 2 sips of light wine and my white skin turns cherry red, my lips and gumscgo numb and I fall in a deep sleeping heap.
I'm having to wait and see as I've no idea about my biological father side of the family
This list is so strange to me. As an often debilitatingly-disabled ambulatory wheelchair-user with a f*cky spine, tons of chronic pain, regular migraines that can last for weeks, significant hip problems, severe ear pain problems causing hearing loss, and endo, it would never have occurred to me to say acne scars, excessive sweat, or poor circulation, all of which I also have. People's ideas of the worst of themselves can vary so greatly. Not trying to make this a p*ssing contest--suggesting one person's suffering is invalid because another person's suffering may be worse only serves to hurt everyone--just genuinely fascinated by how things that are a footnote in some people's lives can be so crushing in others' lives.
I inherited my grandfathers benign essential tremor, that gets worse as you get older, and i get random twitches when I stress. During finals I looked like I was possessed because of my neck twitching to the side constantly
I don't mind it at all, but I started going grey in my early twenties - just like my mother, and her mother before us. By this point I've got quite the salt 'n' pepper look going on.
I unfortunately inherited my mother's terrible knees. In our case, the lateral ligaments of the patella are too long, which means that my kneecap can pop out if I make the wrong movements. Sometimes it only moves a millimetre, which is already unpleasant, but in the worst case it jumps out completely and hangs on the side of my leg. Then I can't move my leg (actually my whole body hip down) until it's back in. That's pain you don't want to have. This happend once and I was in so much pain they had to call an ambulance. They had to drug me and straighten my leg to make it pop back in.
When I was a child, I could easily dislocate many of my joints and then push the bone back into place. It usually caused little or no pain. Sometimes I did it on purpose just to creep out other kids. This situation diminished quite a bit as I got older. One of the bones in my left wrist still occasionally dislocates as does my left shoulder. Unfortunately, it is now extremely painful when this happens and difficult to put the bone back in place. I also have osteoarthritis now.
I'm wealthy today because Dr Benjamin helped me win lottery, he's a specialist he can help you too, contact him today drbenjaminlottospell711@gmail.com
Load More Replies... At 50 I've had 4 total joint replacements. And other orthopedic surgeries. Much of my problem is genetic predisposition to soft tissue degeneration. That's likely a result of my fathers exposure to agent orange. Add to that my being conceived and born on the air force base where the first nuclear bomb was tested and the potential for a pain filled life is severely compounded. I take more pills every day then I care to think about. But ya know what? I'm happy. Other then joint pain... in EVERY joint.... I'm remarkably healthy. And I'm lucky to have the means to treat my issues. Life could be so much worse. Perspective is everything.
My little brother died from ewwing sarcoma at age 20. We didn't share the same dad, but his father was a war vet and was exposed to agent orange and it caused a genetic defect in my brother causing one of the more rare cancers. It was pretty bad in the end. He was in huge amounts of pain but would hide it. I'm sorry your experiencing effects from agent orange. You have a great outlook on life!
Load More Replies... Evolution: As long as you live long enough to breed, it stays in the gene pool. *sigh*
If I have posed in my family photo, you would think that I'm just a stranger from the street. In my maternal family line, they all have Barbie like faces, beautiful hair, small cute noses, blue eyes. From paternal line - huge noses, classic eastern european gray hair, dark skin, very stocky build. Both sides have (what it seems) genetic weigh issues of weighting either too much, or too little. Me? Almost black hair, green eyes, huge nose, ultra ultra white thin skin that doesn't tan and ultra black thick long eyebrows that made me look mad all the time. I also was born with cellulite and because of the thin skin, I had my first stretch marks at the age of 5. Because of this, I grew up from my both sides from the family referred as "different" (and treated so), bullying from family members was also quite a thing. Hated my genes for the bigger part of my life. Oh, and also inherited endometriosis, that does not respond to the treatments in a way it should.
What’s “classic Eastern European grey hair”? Grey hair exists literally everywhere. Or are you saying people in Eastern Europe are born with grey hair?!
Load More Replies... Oh my. After reading all this I feel a lot better about my personal issues. We are not alone with our inherited issues or insecurities. Stay strong. Love you self, and be kind to others.
Mental illness. Everyone on my mum's side of the family has some form of mental illness or another. From depression and anxiety to addiction and schizophrenia we've got a whole raft of them. Whilst I feel my own particular brand of mental illness has ruined my life (depression and anxiety which meant I couldn't work for a very long time, make friends or have what most would consider a 'normal' life), it's mild compared to others in my family. My sister has anxiety, my mum is Bipolar, my Aunt absolutely refuses to go to her GP about her mental illness so we're not too sure what she suffers with by even as a kid my dad used to call her 'Loopy Lou'. My sister and I (and my Aunt's kids) have all decided not to have children as we don't want to pass this hell on to them.
This post is mostly "boo hoo, I have something inconvenient" followed by "I have a legit genetic disorder that means I suffer and die"
I have health issues that inhibit me from working, doing my hobbies or seeing friends, and still I have it better than a lot of people. I think sometimes we can all find things to be thankful for if we stop to think about it. I'd love to just have cosmetic downsides, whereas someone with a deteriorating or terminal condition would love to be in my position. It's all about perspective.
Load More Replies... Evolution doesn't work the way cartoons say it does. It not "all coming together". It's all falling apart.
Ain’t genetics just great folks? Some of us copped a poor roll of the dice but we do the best we can..right? Right?
Hmmm, ADHD, i dbout most people that claim to have it as I keep hearing people get "diagnosed" in their 20s and 9 times outa 10 its a youtube video self diagnosis, I was actually diagnosed in the 5th grade and put on ridalin, rittilin? Speed but for kids. I'm also extremely antisocial yet I crave interaction, 14 therapy sessions at the age of 12, I maybe said about 4 words total. Need some of those hair seeds aswell. I have 0 balance and spacial awreness, often dropping things on my toes then hit my head picking it up. Can't look up without falling over either, glasses and I don't know if it was tourettes because I grew outa it but I useto rapidly shake my head about once every minute like clockwork. Enough of that tho, I'm also 183cm(6') and freakishly strong(according to others) mainly because I don't work out and am pretty much a skeleton yet I "move people around like paper" plus my skeleton is insanely durable. So it's not all bad.
In my family we have a big bouquet of diseases that can be passed down (it's kinda like a lottery at this point). I consider myself very lucky that I don't have most of them (yet). That is one of the reasons I chose not to have children. I see in this post a few people that are upset that their parents chose to have kids even though they knew what they will pass on. Surprisingly, when I tell people about my choice and reason, they keep telling me that "such things" shouldn't stop me.
My big feet, long legs, and maybe my too much testosterone... I look like I was put together with spare parts
I inherited my dad’s back and knees. That means I will probably need full knee replacement by the time I am 50. He is doing okay with it, so I will as well. I am only 37 and have arthritis in my lower back from my job!
I'm wealthy today because Dr Benjamin helped me win lottery, he's a specialist he can help you too, contact him today drbenjaminlottospell711 @ gmail. com
I mentioned that my eyesight is going but hilariously enough, that isn't the one that upsets me the most. It's the back problems. Turns out a teenager that complains about a sore spine doesn't get much sympathy from parents with their own back problems and was often told that kids can't get back pain. I'm 35 now, it's not a severe case of scoliosis for surgery to be a mandatory, just optional. But guess how many issues can branch off from scoliosis? I can't even walk properly, my right leg barely works. I don't have much expectations for my life expectancy. I also cone from a long line of alcoholics on both sides, depression, anxiety, bad knees. The only one I managed to be spared was asthma. Though I was exposed to second hand smoke for much of my childhood so.....
My inheritance is easy to get fat, early gray hair, dandruff (is that even possible?) bad eyesight, probably diabetes, liver disease and alzheimer in the future too (paternal great-grandma, grandma, dad and uncle had them). All in my father's side of the family.
I got terrible eyesight from my parents. My father had -10 and -13, and my mother has -5 in both eyes. I have -5 and -8. I never stood a chance.
i am really short ( 5ft) and i can't gain weight no matter how much i eat ( im currently 39kg) and I have a small face & high voice, as well as hitting puberty late ( i got my period at nearly 16) so im not as physically developed as my friends, so all of these together make me look 12yo even tho im 17 and im so insecure. I have the worst genetics ever. Also i have quite bad eyesight ( -4.5), a terrible memory, astigmatism, severe anemia, social anxiety, misophonia.
No male in my father's line has lived past 53. I'm a 71 year-old male. Any time now.
Ehlers danlos ( daily catastrophic dislocations) pots (heart rate has temper tantrums) mcad ( I can get allergic to anything at any Minute) crps
My dad gave me his absolutely TERRIBLE eyesight, had to wear glasses since I was 4 (without a special thinning thing they would be 2lbs). He was also heavily addicted to alcohol, so guess who’s also likely to get addicted… woo…
I inherited my parents awful teeth but my brother didn’t I also got all the back problems aswell
I have a fair few things that others might call minor, and usually theyre only bad enough to call annoying, but together make my life a living hell. Stuff like a small (?) number of possible undiagnosed mental problems, bad joints, the threat (family history) of scoliosis and/or cancer, a fair amount of trauma, coupled all together with long covid. and i just keep discovering more problems i thought were normal (mentally and physically). There is a /long/ family history of mental problems and i refuse to burden another kid with what i went through. This s**t ends with me
Corneal degenerative disease, will need corneal transplant one day soon. Uterus cancer, eat like a bird and carry weight like a bloated chicken. Can't tolerate alcohol, 2 sips of light wine and my white skin turns cherry red, my lips and gumscgo numb and I fall in a deep sleeping heap.
I'm having to wait and see as I've no idea about my biological father side of the family
This list is so strange to me. As an often debilitatingly-disabled ambulatory wheelchair-user with a f*cky spine, tons of chronic pain, regular migraines that can last for weeks, significant hip problems, severe ear pain problems causing hearing loss, and endo, it would never have occurred to me to say acne scars, excessive sweat, or poor circulation, all of which I also have. People's ideas of the worst of themselves can vary so greatly. Not trying to make this a p*ssing contest--suggesting one person's suffering is invalid because another person's suffering may be worse only serves to hurt everyone--just genuinely fascinated by how things that are a footnote in some people's lives can be so crushing in others' lives.
I inherited my grandfathers benign essential tremor, that gets worse as you get older, and i get random twitches when I stress. During finals I looked like I was possessed because of my neck twitching to the side constantly
I don't mind it at all, but I started going grey in my early twenties - just like my mother, and her mother before us. By this point I've got quite the salt 'n' pepper look going on.
