# Describe YOUR mutation! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789 "2007-07-06T23:46:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/61 "2007-07-07T16:24:53Z")
My coworkers will appreciate the name “squickle,” since they refer to it as “that thing” right now. The bad thing about a name for it, though, is that it doesn’t quite convey the sheer horror of the noise. “Hey, I have to warn you, I’ve been squickling a lot today, so don’t freak out.” “Oh, that sounds so cute!” **HHHUUURRRRRGGGGGHHHHHKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!** “What the hell? Are you okay?” “Yeah, just a squickle.” ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/62 "2007-07-07T16:29:30Z")
Lesse here. I’ve got webbed toes (second and third togather 3/4 of the way joined), One pointy ear and one round one, a Simeon Crease on my palm (which is an extra palm line that completely transverses the palm), Tiny Teeny Pinky Toes tm, and i’m mostly double jointed. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/63 "2007-07-07T16:35:33Z")
[QUOTE=Student Driver] Let’s see. I’ve got that renegade hair thing too-- I have a nearly invisible white hair on my left shoulder that can get 4 or 5 inches long. In other hair weirdness, I get odd mutant facial whiskers occasion that resemble thick slivers of wood, eyebrow hairs that can grow several inches if they’re not trimmed, and when I shave, I have to remember to get the tip of my nose and directly underneath each eye. **My whole family has a bizarre, uncontrollable hiccup-like thing. We get some kind of muscle spasm and deeply inhale with a constricted throat, causing a prolonged LOUD strangled squeal/gasp that goes for a few seconds.** Unlike hiccups, they occur singly, but they can occur several times a day. Always embarrassing on dates, at restaurants, when giving presentations. We never have figured out what it is, exactly, and don’t have a cute family name for it. [/QUOTE] I’ve got that. Not always, but I’d say the majority of my hiccups manifest themselves in the long, drawn-out squeal. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/64 "2007-07-07T17:46:38Z")
I occasionally have a diaphragmatic spasm that I call a “hicburp”. Which needs no explanation. ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/65 "2007-07-07T17:59:01Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] I occasionally have a diaphragmatic spasm that I call a “hicburp”. Which needs no explanation. [/QUOTE] I get these, but they always trigger a cough as well, making a noise that is guaranteed to make others laugh at my pain. My super power has got to be my third testicle. I guess my superhero name would be “The Juggler” ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/66 "2007-07-07T19:10:42Z")
[QUOTE=Student Driver] My coworkers will appreciate the name “squickle,” since they refer to it as “that thing” right now. The bad thing about a name for it, though, is that it doesn’t quite convey the sheer horror of the noise. [/QUOTE] Well, I was originally thinking of “squickup” (squeal/hiccup), but then modified it a bit to make it sound slightly less vomitous. If it’s a genuinely gruesome effect, though, you might consider that as an alternative. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/67 "2007-07-07T19:24:27Z")
My chest kinda dips in the middle, i thought this was a pretty useless superpower until i saw an episode of americas funniest home videos where some kid with the same condition was eating cereal out of his chest while laying down watching TV. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/68 "2007-07-07T20:06:49Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] I’m interested in knowing how he found out how much his skeleton weighs. Can you find out from doing a BMI calculation and the calipers on the arm thing? Or is he parrotting something his mom told him when the other kids made fun of him? [/QUOTE] It’s not an easy calculation. It uses BMI, bone density studies and measurements. It’s not done routinely, TMK. I’m not even sure how it’s done. The most accurate way to to remove all the flesh and weigh the bones, 😃 but, that’s rather inconvenient with live people. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/69 "2007-07-07T20:09:29Z")
I have a fairly small [mandibular tori](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_mandibularis) on only the left side of my mouth. I’m boring. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/70 "2007-07-07T20:33:36Z")
I was born with club feet. My first three months of life my feet were in casts. Then, at bout 13, it became clear that my LEFT rib cage was not convex, but concave. At first it impeded my lungs, but I eventually got used to it. I can swim a mile in 30 minutes, so I don’t think it’s a serious problem. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/71 "2007-07-07T20:34:55Z")
I have fangs. All of my teeth are straight except for my canines, top and bottom, which are a bit in front of the teeth next to them and just slightly over-sized. It lends to leaving behind very…unusual bitemarks. Since my mother thought I’d grow out of it, I never got braces when I was younger and now it seems sort of silly to spend all that money on fixing something that doesn’t bug me, so I’ll likely have my fangs as long as I have my teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/72 "2007-07-07T21:01:39Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] I have a fairly small [mandibular tori](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_mandibularis) on only the left side of my mouth. I’m boring. [/QUOTE] They get big; they’re slow growing. My dad just had one removed. They whack it with a hammer and chisel. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/73 "2007-07-07T21:02:47Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] It’s not an easy calculation. It uses BMI, bone density studies and measurements. It’s not done routinely, TMK. I’m not even sure how it’s done. The most accurate way to to remove all the flesh and weigh the bones, 😃 **but, that’s rather inconvenient with live people**. [/QUOTE] Don’t I know it! Why, just last week I had my flesh removed, and it took four hours to get it back on. And it was backwards! ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/74 "2007-07-07T21:03:47Z")
I can control electronics with my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/75 "2007-07-07T21:21:50Z")
_FREAKS!!!_ 😛 Just kidding! I’m a freak too! I am double jointed in all of my fingers, have monkey toes, and super enamel. I’ve never had a cavity in 35 years. I also don’t have any reflexes, and this is my true freak mutation: When I was little, my Mom took me to the doctor for a checkup. It’s the first one I can remember and it was with a doctor that we hadn’t been to before. He goes through his battery of tests and then asked me to cross my leg over my knee. He then whacks my knee with the rubber hammer. He got a very puzzled look on his face and whacked it again. Then he asked me to cross my other leg over. Repeat process. Apparently when you get your knee whacked with the hammer your leg is supposed to jerk with a reflexive action. Mine don’t. Neither do my sister’s. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/76 "2007-07-07T21:54:53Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] I’m messed up from the neck up. Neck: Hypothyroidism Head: [Torus palatinus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_palatinus) with maxillary prognathism (a significant overbite.) Also, my lower jaw has some troubles. When I yawn, I creek like a haunted house door! [/QUOTE] An addition to the neck list: I don’t have any tonsils. Never had surgery, never had any more sore throats than usual, they’re just gone somehow or never developed. I like to think that aliens took them, but then I wonder why they left my appendix in. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/77 "2007-07-07T22:26:24Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] I also lie outside the ABO blood groups. [/QUOTE] Ooh, ooh! Please elaborate! Are you A2? Have clinically significant antibody? Or even… Bombay? :eek: (That’s a big deal for guys like me.) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/78 "2007-07-07T22:41:01Z")
[QUOTE=Sofaspud] I possess the mutant ability of Acid Sweat. [/QUOTE] My best friend in high school had a similar ability to this, but maybe not as severe as yours. However, he would absolutely annihilate guitar strings with his sick mutant hand sweat; he had to replace his bass strings as often as I had to replace my guitar strings - no fun at $20 a set. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/79 "2007-07-07T22:53:34Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] I have a fairly small [mandibular tori](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_mandibularis) on only the left side of my mouth. I’m boring. [/QUOTE] Shoot - forgot about those. This thread is really making me feel like a freak on all levels. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![AndLuna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@AndLuna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndLuna)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789/80 "2007-07-07T23:22:21Z")
[QUOTE=DigitalC] My chest kinda dips in the middle, i thought this was a pretty useless superpower until i saw an episode of americas funniest home videos where some kid with the same condition was eating cereal out of his chest while laying down watching TV. [/QUOTE] I have one of those too! … and now I totally want to try that. I don’t think I have any interesting mutant superpowers, though, unless you count freakishly fast-growing hair - seriously, I cannot keep a hairstyle looking nice for more than a week before it’s noticeably grown out. What’s even more irritating is that it applies to _all_ my body hair, not just the stuff on my head - it’s kind of annoying to have to shave my legs more or less CONSTANTLY if I don’t want to look like a gorilla in a dress… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-mutation/410789.md?page=5)