The bodily anomaly thread

I wear my wedding band on the ring finger on my left hand. My coworkers have declared me a freak because I can wear my wedding band on every finger of both hands, thumbs and pinkies included. Okay, it’s a little loose on my pinkies, but I could wear it without it slipping off.

Who’s weirder than that?

I was born with two complete sets of teeth. When I was a youngster, I endured several sessions of oral surgery to remove the extra teeth, which were crowding my mouth and deforming my jawline. It was no surprise to learn, when I was in my twenties, that I also had two sets of wisdom teeth, all eight of which had to come out.

Ow. Just one oral surgery would have me whimpering.

Pinkfreud, that’s so cool!

Let’s see…I’m double jointed in my arms, where I can clasp my arms together in front of me and roll them behind my head all the way to where they touch the bottom of my back (270 degrees, whereas most people can only do 45-180 degrees).

I also have an extra bone in my body. After going to the chiropractor one day for x-rays, he told me that the tail bone never fused with the bone above it as it does for most people.

I have crooked knees. I can turn both of my feet about 150 degrees behind me at the same time.

Maybe you’re a shark.

I was born with twelve toes, but the extra two were removed when I was a wee baby.

I have no frontal sinuses. As such, I will never know the joy of a sinus headache. I’ve tried to convince my fambly that the only conceivable explanation is that I am a more highly evolved form of life, and that during development my brain was growing at such an alarming rate that I simply could not sacrifice skull space for sinuses.

Suffice it to say that the people who live with me and know me best are dubious of such claims. :dubious:

Not sure if this qualifies as a bodily anomaly, but I can’t float. If I lay in a pool on my back, I’ll sink unless I frantically wade with arms and legs. My butt begins to sink because I can’t flatten my body against water, and the rest of my body follows.

The edges of my tongue are neatly scalloped. Apparently this may be a symptom of future thyroid issues, but since it’s the only symptom that’s shown up, I’m not ready to be concerned.

I saw my brother a couple of weeks ago, and noticed for the first time that his fingertips and nails are bizarrely shaped. When I looked it up online, I found that it’s called “clubbing” and it happens to people who have chronic low blood oxygen and people who have stuff like lung cancer and emphysema. I hope I scared my brother enough to get him to see a doctor. So, to anyone with weird fingernails, you may want to get 'em checked out.

One of my pinkies isn’t straight. The last segment points a little towards the ring finger and upward. I don’t remember ever injuring it or anything. It’s subtle.

Caaaandygram.

pinkfreud, you must have gotten my wisdom teeth – I don’t have any. Verified by x-rays. The dentist was kind of surprised. The news made me happy. I’ve also been asked if I’ve had my tonsils out (no), because even when I had a miserable sore throat PLUS an ear infection, the doctor at the health center couldn’t find 'em. I know they tend to atrophy after adolescence, but I’m still a young adult.

I’m tempted to go get someone to check me for an appendix, or absence thereof. I would be ecstatic to be 0 for 3 on “organs that typically cause nothing but trouble”.

I can fit my entire fist into my mouth. Does that count?

I can touch the tip of my tongue to my nose.

My mom is missing a joint in both of her pinkies.

My pupils are not in the center of my eyes/iris. They are offset to the inside. I’m not cross-eyed, looking straight (and seeing straight) my pupils aren’t centered. Kinda like this terribly coded example:

< ( o) > < (o ) >

I’m watching you.

My pinky toenails are almost nonexistant. It’s not worth polishing them as I end up getting polish everywhere in a vain attempt to polish them.

daHubby has no adenoids. Not one.

Yeah, but can you fit it in your…umm…nevermind. :stuck_out_tongue:

My pinkies are a little off-kilter. The last joint on both of them turns slightly in. I also have a patch of white hair on the right side of my beard, just below the level where I keep my sideburns trimmed to…when I don’t have a full beard, that is, which I do most of the time. I also have blond highlights in my eyebrows.

I was wondering if you had any speech impediments from this, but then you said:

And that answered my question. You talk as if you had a continually stuffed-up nose! :wink: