Doper freak show

[flamingbananas]

@Saturnine

When I sit down cross legged, I can bend down far enough to rest my head on the ground (without any effort to keep it there).

I can do that! I didn’t know it was special.

@catsix

I still get the random hives for no reason at all.

I get that too.

@quiltguy154

I’ve got noisy eyeballs. When I rub my eyes you can clearly hear watery, squishy sounds. Must be over-active lacrimal glands. My mom could do it too.

I have that too.

@SHAKES

I can make one eye look straight while the other one looks off to the side

I HAD that, but my parents got it fixed when I was a youngin. It’s called a “wandering eye” My parents fixed it for “cosmetic reasons” but it gives my eye muscle pain, since my eye still wants to move away.
Finally, my own. I can pop my shoulder blades out about 5 or 6 inches. I just really move my shoulder up, and it tilts or something, so my blades poke out. I can turn on light switches with it, its pretty cool.
Oh I also have a large head. It is a total pain for getting sunglasses, I have broken like 3 pairs trying them on. sigh
Oh, and calm kiwi what’s up with your 3 kidneys? Where is it, and are you healthier because of it? That is really interesting!

[monica]

@Saturnine

Hmm, I don’t think I have many weird traits, or at least ones that are very interesting, but lets see…

When I sit down cross legged, I can bend down far enough to rest my head on the ground (without any effort to keep it there). I think it was because I was born with hip dysplasia (I think that’s the term). My legs would come out of their hip sockets pretty easily when I was a baby (still do actually), so I’m thinking maybe the muscles and ligaments got stretched.

I can do that, when I’m not wearing really tight pants. My legs also occasionally tend to stick out of the hip sockets, and sometimes stay that way for a bit (ow ow ow ow ow!).

[Mangetout]

I can voluntarily open my eustachian tubes (the passage between ear and throat that goes ‘pop’ when you change altitude) - I can make it ‘pop’ at will.

Most of my adult molars that should have come up on the lower right actually came up on the lower left (well, that is to say that I have one adult premolar on the right and that is all that ever came up, whereas the dentist had to remove a number of them on the opposite side, as they were crowding each other out). I still have one of my milk teeth.

When standing or walking normally (normally for me), my feet point apart at about 40 degrees (each) from directly ahead. With some effort, I can walk with my feet pointing directly ahead, but it is not at all comfortable.

[lee]

@Loopydude

I have this one weird hair in my stubble if I let it grow out, but only sometimes. It’s like the mutant monster hair from hell. It’s got the diameter of at least ten individual beard hairs, is jet black, and can be removed easily by tugging with my fingers, unlike most of my beard hairs, which require considerable force and tweezers to pull out.

If it grows back, I’ll show you. It’s pretty damn freaky. I must be deformed.

My husband has three of these. I think they are neat!

[raz]

originally posted by Happy Lendervedder
My right ear is inside-out. Not as freakish as it sounds; instead of being concave, it’s convex.

Holy crap, I thought I was the only one! That’s bizarre. My right ear has been like that since I was born. My mom told me that the doctor said it was because I always laid on that side of my head when I was in the womb, but I think that sounds kind of fishy. No one ever notices it unless I show them. I call it my gimp ear.

originally posted by interface2x
I’m pigeon-toed, meaning that my leg bones point slightly inward rather than straight. Most people, when they bend their knees so their feet come toward their body, have their legs go straight against each other. Mine bend slightly off to one side and it looks really weird when I do that.

I’m kind of pigeon-toed too. Most of the time when I’m standing, my toes point to the inside, towards each other. When I walk it’s kind of noticible. Usually I try to correct myself when I’m walking by keeping my feet straight or pointed out a bit.

[flamingbananas]

Oh oh, I forgot something. 3 of my adult teeth grew in backwards. Like the part that was supposed to face my tounge, faced my cheek. Braces for 3 years fixed it though.

[Loopus]

You know that one place in the middle of your back that you can’t reach, and when you get an itch there is drives you crazy? Well, I can reach it (but only with my left arm).

[Wonko_The_Sane]

I’m double-jointed, so I was always confused when people mentioned the part of their back they couldn’t reach, but it was a bonus when bullies in school would twist my arm behind my back- at least once they were grossed out by how far it moved.

I can move my foot to the side of my ribcage (on the same side as the foot).

I’m synesthetic, so smells have corresponding shapes/colors that I see in my “mind’s eye”, and sounds have the same thing. It doesn’t work in reverse though- go figure.

[flamingbananas]

@Loopus

You know that one place in the middle of your back that you can’t reach, and when you get an itch there is drives you crazy? Well, I can reach it (but only with my left arm).

I can do that too! Only with both arms!

God. I feel like such a freak now.

[matt_mcl]

1. My eyes point in different directions. Always have done since a strabismus that developed when I was 1. Also, my left eye is bigger than my right eye, and kind of droopy.

2. I have a unibrow. When I was 16, some lesbians held me down and forcibly plucked it. It was a traumatic experience.

3. One of my baby teeth did not fall out, and had to be removed. The adult tooth took my entire cegep career to grow back in. My mom and brother had the same.

4. Scotland and Korea are fighting it out for control of my hair, which cannot decide whether it wants to be straight and black or curly and red, and so does both at the same time, with disastrous consequences.

Hamish is convinced nobody notices any of these things. I personally think that even if they don’t, they can tell that something looks odd about me, even if they’re not quite sure what.

Also:

5. My left armpit sweats at least twice as more than my right.

[Saturnine]

@flamingbananas

I can do that! I didn’t know it was special.

I didn’t either, but everyone seems to freak out or be impressed when I do it.

[Beauty_Personified]

@Smeghead

I’m fat.

For some reason, that struck me really funny. That said, if you’re not North American, then that’s somewhat strange. If you are North American, however, you’re just part of the general populace.

@ratty

I have very prominent epicanthal folds. (Little webby skin flaps where my nose meets my eyes.) Everyone on my mother’s side of the family has them. This means people are always asking me if 1) I’m Asian, or 2) have Down’s Syndrome. (Neither.)

Wow! I have those. They’re not very prominent, but it does help explain in more detail why I believe I have Asian ancestry. (I’m adopted. Interestingly, only one other person besides myself has broached the topic of my somewhat Asian features. And that other person happened to be Asian themselves.)

@Beauty Personified

Ah, a polyorchid. If I’m not mistaken, most polyorchids are sterile. I’m sorry if that’s the case with you. Actually, maybe I shouldn’t have brought that up…

@MrFantsyPants

You are mistaken, or at least that’s what my daughter tells me. (btw, she doesn’t have ANY testicles, so I guess it’s not genetic!)

I’m glad that wasn’t the case for you, but I did say “most”, not “all”. Of course, I might still be mistaken in that regard. I’ve done a cursory online search on the subject, but haven’t found anything more than definitions.

But I do have something else to add to the thread…

My pores don’t always open when they should - i.e. when I’m doing something physically strenuous. So, the sweat ends up trapped under my skin, leading to an annoying itch. Of course, when you sweat so little compared to others during sports, this can lead to accusations or insinuations of not playing “hard enough”.

Also, this thread reminds me of a line from the movie Kill Bill, Volume 2. One character calls another character useless, and compares them to having an asshole on their elbow. When I first heard that line, I said, “Why would that be useless? That could be rather useful, if you ask me.”

But, now that I think about it, it would be pretty useless if it was just the anus itself on the elbow, and nothing else. You’d have to have the entire “poop factory” installed in your arm for it to be useful, IMO.

Anyhoo…

[Vision_of_Love]

@Loopus

You know that one place in the middle of your back that you can’t reach, and when you get an itch there is drives you crazy? Well, I can reach it (but only with my left arm).

That’s freakish? I can touch every part of my back, with both hands. I have to use a little effort, but still… I thought at least 75% of people can do that? :dubious:

[Ruby]

@Loopydude

I have this one weird hair in my stubble if I let it grow out, but only sometimes. It’s like the mutant monster hair from hell. It’s got the diameter of at least ten individual beard hairs, is jet black, and can be removed easily by tugging with my fingers, unlike most of my beard hairs, which require considerable force and tweezers to pull out.

If it grows back, I’ll show you. It’s pretty damn freaky. I must be deformed.

Mr. Ruby has one of those. I asked the dermatologist about it several years ago and he told me what it was but I’ll be damned if I can remember. It was something like a “clumped hair”… The mind is the second thing to go.

When I was born, I had a “club foot”. As an infant, I had a cast on my leg from my knee to my toes which forced the bones to grow in the proper position.

[mrunlucky]

When I was about 12 I had to go to the podiatrist because a new set of big toe toenails were growing in underneath my regular, apparently then obsolete, toenails. She had to remove the topmost nails so the new ones could grow in and take their place.

[Loopus]

@Vision of Love

That’s freakish? I can touch every part of my back, with both hands. I have to use a little effort, but still… I thought at least 75% of people can do that? :dubious:

Well, it’s obviously not “freakish” compared to many other things in this thread, but I was under the impression that it was at least slightly unusual (especially since I can do it with only one arm).

[LeeshaJoy]

@Happy Lendervedder

My right ear is inside-out. Not as freakish as it sounds; instead of being concave, it’s convex. My dad blames it on all the agent orange he was exposed to in Viet Nam. Says his testes are shooing out mutants.

I was about to ask if you were the guy in my choir group, when I realized that it’s his left ear that’s odd.

As for myself…I have a little notch in the top of my left ear. It looks like somebody took a bite out of it. I’m pretty sure it’s congenital, as I don’t remember ever having any ear-related injuries.

That’s about it. Jeez, I feel so ordinary.

[MrFantsyPants]

@Already in Use

BTW, MrFantsyPants, do you care to tell us how these testicles of yours are arranged? Are they just like normal men’s, but a row of three instead of two? Is one higher or further front or back than the others? Are they all of normal size? Inquiring minds want to know.

Small, medium and large. Two on one side, the big on on the other.

[calm_kiwi]

@flamingbananas

Oh, and calm kiwi what’s up with your 3 kidneys? Where is it, and are you healthier because of it? That is really interesting!

Oh good lawd the internet makes you confess everything! Two on one side one on the other. They were discovered after an x-ray thing because was…(yes I am blushing as I type this) a late bed wetter. Kidneys were discovered yet found not guilty.

I can also do the legs-crossed-head-to-floor thing and several other very flexible things. Yet I have never been able to touch my toes. Why yes! My body is odd.

[Silver_Serpentine]

Hmm, let’s see . . .

My jaws lock up when I open then in a certain way. When brushing my teeth, I have to shift my jaw repetedly to be able to reach the ones in the back.

I almost don’t sweat. Underarms and scalp are the only places I sweat when I get hot. So, I turn a fun shade of red. No wonder I didn’t take up sports.

I, too, have squeeky eyes. I thought it just meant I was rubbing too hard.

I can put my feet behind my head. Er.

I can crack my first two little toes with my big toe. I thought it was normal until Cody said, “How did you do that? I can’t do that, and I have long monkey toes.” Is this normal?

I pulled a muscle over my sternum when I was young. Not really freaky, but it still hurts if I move wrong.

I can twist my feet up near my face to paint my nails.

Eczema. Eczema sucls.

My Sisiter:

Allergic to all metals other than gold, silver, and stainless steel. Rashes abound!

Ribcage doesn’t match. One side is round and smooth, and the other is square-ish.

Cody:

Has a pretty substantial dent in his sternum. No accident caused this.

Sadly, we’re not freak-show quality. But the great-great grandpa who had pine needles migrate through his stomach (crawling around in pine needles on his stomach) and come out his back years later might qualify. If it’s a true story and not a family legend.