I don’t sunburn if I’ve tanned a little beforehand (though I don’t tan very dark). I got a little bit of a tan before taking a trip to Arizona, and was able to go around in the sun at the Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater without sunscreen, no problem.
Something about my body chemistry tends to make makeup change color, which is one reason why I almost never wear it. Lipstick turns blue on me (this is more extreme with orange colors than with pinks) and foundation tends to turn more brownish.
Benadryl doesn’t reliably make me sleepy, and benzodiazepines (such as Valium) don’t seem to do much for me.
I don’t think I’m allergic to poison ivy (a few years ago, a doctor told me I’m probably not). I’m 32, and have never had a poison ivy rash. I don’t do a lot of gardening or walking in woods, but if I see someone walking a dog, I will ask if I can pet it (my undergrad advisor once got a really nasty case of poison ivy from petting dogs).
I have the curved little fingers. I also have curved little toes, but I’m not sure if that’s genetic or from wearing too-pointed shoes when I was younger.
I found out years ago that I wasn’t allergic to poison ivy. I was working as an exterior painter, and we had to paint this guy’s garage that was overgrown on one side. Me and this other guy spent most of the day clearing a small jungle away from this garage. The next day, the other guy called in sick saying he was covered from head to toe in poison ivy rashes, didn’t see him for a week. My boss even had a little on one arm from when he came over to talk to us. I had nothing.
That reminded me of another minor one of mine - I’m a perfume killer. I neutralize most perfumes I put on. My favourite perfume is one of these - I load myself up more than normal for a perfume I don’t kill, and in half an hour, nothing.
I have what my family jokingly calls a drunk Klingon ear. My left ear has, I guess you could say, a tab about 1/3" long that sticks out near the top of my ear.
My right ring finger will not go straight. It bows out at the top knuckle, in at the middle knuckle. I can also bend all my fingers backwards over each other.
And for a great party trick, courtesy of ACL reconstruction, I have a ‘dead zone’ just under my left kneecap where they removed the tendon (to replace the ACL). “Go ahead, whack it. Doesn’t hurt” Pretty lame, yeah?
At 39, I’ve had one tiny cavity, and my sisters (aged 35 and 25) have never had any. So I guess we’re a super-enamel family. My wife’s dental anomaly is a total lack of wisdom teeth – born without the ability to grow 'em, apparently; they never even hinted at coming in.
My other mutation: I have several eyebrow hairs that just Won’t. Stop. Growing. Every once in awhile my wife gets sick of watching them veer wildly from my face, and kindly trims them for me.
At 39, I’ve had one tiny cavity, and my sisters (aged 35 and 25) have never had any. So I guess we’re a super-enamel family. My wife’s dental anomaly is a total lack of wisdom teeth – born without the ability to grow 'em, apparently; they never even hinted at coming in.
My other mutation: I have several eyebrow hairs that just Won’t. Stop. Growing. Every once in awhile my wife gets sick of watching them veer wildly from my face, and kindly trims them for me.
I wear a MedicAlert bracelet that says that I’m “sensitive to morphine”, but this isn’t exactly true. It might be more accurate to say that I’m insensitive to morphine. Or at least to its pain relieving effects.
The only effect morphine has on me is to make me throw up over and over, every time I move. If it actually made my pain go away, or sent me to a Happy Place™, I might not mind much, but no. Just the vomiting. I discovered this after waking up for some complex knee surgery.
Oddly, other opiates don’t have this problem. Hydrocodone does its job – and a good thing, too, given that I relied on Vicodin for about a year until my back surgery, and then switched to Norco for the first week of recovery.
I have another case of super-enamel, I think thanks to my paternal grandfather’s line. Whereas he had his original teeth to the day he died, my mother’s family were all in full dentures by the time they were like 30. So I think I kind of dodged a genetic bullet there.
My better weirdness is the complete opposite of the OP. My hands, feet, and face just. don’t. sweat.
It’s great when playing sports or rock climbing. Most rock climbers carry chalk bags to keep their hands dry, while I climb without it and end up with chalky hands at the end of the day instead.
The drawback is, I can’t deal with heat well at all.
I was immune to poison ivy, up until 2 years ago. Now I am ultra-sensitive to it. Apparently it has something to do with numbers of exposures and I must have pushed it one too many times. It came in mighty handy when hunting morels in the spring.
Actually, now that I think about it, I became allergic to morels about the same time. weird.
