I have a little indentation on the upper rim of my ear that almost looks like a miniature person took a bite out of it. I’ve read that it’s associated with some kind of genetic disorder, but I don’t remember which one.
There’s a little bump directly under my actual nipple that I think is probably the beginnings of a third nipple.
My left elbow has a little extra range of motion so that it actually bends backward when I “straighten” it all the way. Not sure if this is congenital or damage from an old monkey-bar accident.
I got my first and only gray hair when I was 8.
My pupils are somewhat off-center. It’s a hereditary quirk that made my mother do an extended double take like Hokkaido Brit did. She found it while doing the new-baby inspection on, not me, but my much younger sister. Panic ensued. The eye doctor was called. He reassured my mother that the trait was harmless–or else she’d have known already that she had it too. :eek:
I have a miswired vagus nerve. The puking function is hooked up so it activates the fainting function. Scared the hell out of my friends back when we were discovering alcohol.
I generate enough body heat to be perfectly comfortable riding my bike in gym shorts in the middle of a Boston winter.
I have always been able to do this as well, to much more of an extreme than most people I’ve ever seen (belly dancers etc). I did it to freak people out as a kid. I can make it look like an alien is trying to escape.
I won’t ask, but will share: It took 5 separate. somewhat lengthy attempts to get mine to finally give way. 20 years later, my sister called to tell me that my niece apparantly had something similar and I think the doctor kind of snipped it away. The doc said it was a hereditary thing, not that uncommon. Sure was annoying to me! (And my niece, apparantly. )
Same here, and it was only this year that I finally met someone else who can do this.
Other things… I’ve got a slight case of Morton’s Toe, my second toe is only a bit longer than the big toe. Picking up stuff with my feet is natural for me, I can even open doors if my hands are full.
Since I was a kid I’ve had tiny red dots on my hands and wrists, especially around the fingers. They aren’t in reaction to anything and they don’t itch or bother me at all, they’ve just always been there. Quickly I can count about nine of them.
I have a tiny bit of fingernail (2 mm in width) that is growing under the nail of my right middle finger. It wouldn’t be noteworthy except that it seems to be connected directly to a nerve and hurts insanely it is comes in contact with anything.
I’m ridiculously hairy, and all the hair-producing genes switched on at once when puberty hit at age 13. Hairy back, butt, chest, legs, feet, hands, beard growing up to my eye sockets… Not hypertrichosis or anything, just the extreme end of normal. The only hair-free parts are nose, forehead, soles, about half of the top of the foot, and (miraculously) my palms.
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My friend’s daughter had what is called labial adhesions. She was born closed down there. They treated it with estrogen cream, but my friend suspects that when it comes time for her to become sexually active, she may have issues with having a smaller than usual opening. When the kid was in diapers, the hole would close up without constant application of the cream, but since she has been out of diapers, it appears to be staying open. In talking to the pediatrician, they said that by the time puberty starts, the estrogen she is producing should help keep everything open. She has already explained to her kid that she has three holes and the one that is used to make babies isn’t as big as other girls, so she has a cream to use to help the problem, but her daughter is not old enough to have the “use lubricants liberally when having sex” talk. I can see how it would uncomfortable. Thankfully, my friend will have a lot of time to think about how to have the talk and will hopefully be able to have the doctor help her out.
OMG I can do that too!
I have a dimple in my left eyebrow that makes the eyebrow hair grow every which way, so I have to tweeze it so it doesn’t grow straight up and then fill it in with an eyebrow pencil.
I can bend the the pinky, ring and middle fingers of my left hand down until they touch the inside of my left arm–they touch about an inch below my wrist crease. Can only touch the pinky and ring fingers of my right hand to the inside of my right arm. I’ve never met anyone else who can do this–it’s one of those things that people think they can do until they try it and fail.
My other weird thing is perhaps neurological–I’ve never felt any bee or yellow jacket sting in my life. They itch afterward, but I don’t experience the sting as painful at all and usually don’t even know I’ve been stung. Luckily I’m not allergic to them.
I can make my right eyelid partially close and “shiver.” My wife hates it, says it makes me look insane.
I’ve been able to do this as long as I can remember, as easily as moving any other voluntary muscle in my body. On the left side, however, my mind can’t even seem to locate the muscles that would do it. I don’t have any other eye/eyelid abilities or inabilities, just the one.
I can make my right eyelid partially close and “shiver.” My wife hates it, says it makes me look insane.
I’ve been able to do this as long as I can remember, as easily as moving any other voluntary muscle in my body. On the left side, however, my mind can’t even seem to locate the muscles that would do it. I don’t have any other eye/eyelid abilities or inabilities, just the one.
Oh, and one unprovable one. I’ve got an intermittent itch that I can’t scratch on the arch of my right foot. There’s a spot that occasionally itches, but scratching provides no relief. I feel the itch, I feel my finger scratching the area, but the itch doesn’t “feel” the scratching. Kind of like whiteout on a computer screen or something.