# What are your little body mutations? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205 "2011-06-12T08:02:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/41 "2011-06-13T01:17:34Z")
And with that I must point out that I lack four molars. I had three baby molars (one fell victim to a Baby Ruth when I was 11) until I was 16 and got braces; my orthodontist yanked them and reorganized the whole shebang. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/42 "2011-06-13T01:30:15Z")
I \*used to \* have a third nipple. It got bitten off during sex. Nothing else worth noting. Heh, that’s almost a haiku about my lost third nipple. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/43 "2011-06-13T01:48:14Z")
I was missing two lower permanent molars. I also had a branchial cleft remnant in my neck which grew a huge cyst when I was young. I don’t really understand it except it’s something like a gill remnant and it’s an embryological screw up. Maybe I’m part fish. ---
**Author:** ![Lor213](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@Lor213](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lor213)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/44 "2011-06-13T01:54:53Z")
> [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > Many in my family have what my cousin calls “Barney Rubble Feet.” Our second toes are shorter than our big toes. Frankly I think this is more appealing than having a longer second toe, but it does make narrow women’s shoe uncomfortable. Mine are like that too! No one in my family seems to have it though so i’ve always been the “freak” of my family. I do agree it makes some shoes uncomfy, especially heels. My left little toe is also on sideways which makes that nail a bit hard to paint if i want to. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/45 "2011-06-13T02:11:41Z")
> [@Time\_Like\_Tears](#): > > My entire left side is bigger than my right. > > [ul][li]Left shoe - 9, right shoe - 8[_]palms flat, my left hand is 1.5 inches longer than my right[_]left breast a full cup size (or more) larger than the right[_]left ear’s sticky-outtyness is about 2 cm farther[_]left eyeball is larger and has the pronounced astigmatism[/li] > [/ul] You’re like a Batman villain. That’s kind of cool, if odd. I don’t think I have anything freaky about me. I am ordinary and boring, average and unattractive. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/46 "2011-06-13T02:14:21Z")
I have crooked ring fingers on both hands. There’s a pretty noticable overlap onto my middle fingers. I can make them not overlap but then there’s a big gap between ring and middle fingers. My Gran and older niece have the same thing. Don’t know about the younger one yet, she’s still hopefully three months away from being born. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/47 "2011-06-13T02:57:14Z")
> [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > Many in my family have what my cousin calls “Barney Rubble Feet.” Our second toes are shorter than our big toes. Frankly I think this is more appealing than having a longer second toe, but it does make narrow women’s shoe uncomfortable. Isn’t that the way they’re supposed to be? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone with a second toe as long as the big toe. On the other hand, I’ll admit to not making that an object of study, either. > [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > Also, I have the TINIEST pinky toenails on a human I’ve ever seen. Hmmm. You could cover one of mine with an unpopped popcorn kernel. How close am I? As for me, I have small-for-my-height hands and feet. I know a nine-year-old with feet as big as mine, and her 8-year-old sister’s hands are very nearly as big. I also have “aplastic” upper sinuses, which basically means I have no upper sinuses. Sadly, this does NOT mean I don’t get sinus infections. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/48 "2011-06-13T03:28:46Z")
I have superskin that replenishes itself about 10 times as fast as it should. Unfortunately, it ain’t pretty. \>.\< And yeah, I don’t think I even HAVe pinky toenails. When cut, it’s like it’s just a little nail bed or something. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/49 "2011-06-13T03:58:18Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > And with that I must point out that I lack four molars. I had three baby molars (one fell victim to a Baby Ruth when I was 11) until I was 16 and got braces; my orthodontist yanked them and reorganized the whole shebang. Very similar to my case…three of my four “first bicuspids” never came in as adult teeth (only the upper right hand one did). As it turns out, the baby teeth which those teeth should have replaced were actually larger than the adult teeth, causing much crowding and crookedness. I had to have all four of them extracted, and then wore braces for two years to pull the remaining molars “one space forward” (and straighten out all the crookedness). ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/50 "2011-06-13T06:15:52Z")
My left pupil is oddly shaped and sits higher in my eye than the right after a bout of iritis. For a while it actually looked square, I kind of liked it that way 'cause it freaked people out. I have tiny, skinny pinky toenails, also. I have to be careful cutting them because I could almost rip the whole thing off as they are very tough. I still have two baby teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/51 "2011-06-13T06:35:32Z")
> [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > Many in my family have what my cousin calls “Barney Rubble Feet.” Our second toes are shorter than our big toes. Got the opposite: extreme [Morton’s toe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%27s_toe). ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/52 "2011-06-13T06:38:01Z")
I have remarkably short thumbs. So short that gloves and mittens do not fit properly. I can really only wear those “magic” stretchy knit gloves in order to not have 1/2 - 3/4 inch of extra fabric flopping at the top of my thumbs. > [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > Also, I have the TINIEST pinky toenails on a human I’ve ever seen. > [@Morgyn](#): > > Hmmm. You could cover one of mine with an unpopped popcorn kernel. How close am I? Mine are even smaller than that. One half of a kernel would suffice for mine. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/53 "2011-06-13T07:25:10Z")
I have a mild case of Morton’s toe, which my twin brother used to make fun of. Jerk. My wisdom teeth never came in, I don’t know if that counts. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/54 "2011-06-13T07:59:20Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Got the opposite: extreme [Morton’s toe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%27s_toe). That’s what I came to say. 🙂 My father and his father both have it, too. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/55 "2011-06-13T08:06:12Z")
I’m short a rib on one side. Not a very visible thing I admit. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/56 "2011-06-13T08:19:22Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Thins thread _defines_ MPSIMS. Moving it thither, from IMHO. Huh; I thought this counted as a poll. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/57 "2011-06-13T08:32:07Z")
When I straighten my arm, my elbow bends inward. I never thought this was a weird thing until several of my friends noticed and freaked out. One of my canines never appeared until I was almost 13. By that time the rest of my teeth had all grown in, so it didn’t have any room to come out normally. It ended up coming out behind my other teeth. As a result I have a small gap between my incisor and molar and somewhat crooked teeth. (This has made it impossible to fix my slight overbite - one dentist said I’d have to have major surgery to realign my teeth before I could get braces to fix the overbite.) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/58 "2011-06-13T08:57:22Z")
> [@Pixiesnix](#): > > I have a mild case of Morton’s toe, which my twin brother used to make fun of. Jerk. Oh, this brings back memories. My sister’s bio teacher in high school used Morton’s toe and cleft chins as examples of what benign mutations were, how they happened, heredity and so forth. You know, sciency bio stuff. What did my sister bring home, knowledge-wise ? That I was a degenerate mutant. Wouldn’t let go of it for months. And I totally bought it, too :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/59 "2011-06-13T09:14:06Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I’m flat-footed, I sneeze whenever I look at a light, and I have one weird arm hair that grows long and wild. Are you me? 🙂 I’ve got all those, plus my index finger top joints lock so I can point round corners (without bending the other joints) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205/60 "2011-06-13T09:59:42Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Isn’t that the way they’re supposed to be? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone with a second toe as long as the big toe. On the other hand, I’ll admit to not making that an object of study, either. How common that is varies by different populations. In sculpture art and art history when the big toe is the longest it’s known as “the Egyptian foot” and when the second toe is longest it’s known as “the Greek foot”. That’s in addition to “Morton’s toe” for the Greek foot. Dr. Morton implied that it was a defect and in extreme cases it can be a problem, particularly in regards to getting shoes to fit, but really it’s a natural and normal variation in the human foot in most cases. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-little-body-mutations/585205.md?page=4)