# What bodily quirks/mutations/oddities do you have? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104 "2014-02-11T23:54:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/141 "2014-02-19T18:20:24Z")
Let’s see: I’m hypermobile. I can’t play golf because swinging the club dislocates my shoulder. It took forever for me to be able to waterski because my ankles would just tip over. On the other hand, the splits, walkovers, and such like made me a good gymnast until I got too tall. My eyes are distinctly blue and yellow. Naturally, everybody calls me a green-eyed redhead but my eyes are not green. Also, my strong eye is opposite of my strong hand. Usually, your strong eye is on the same side as your strong hand. No biggie, just interesting. I have scoliosis, caused by having a left leg that is about 1 inch shorter than the right leg. My right foot is a half-size longer than the left but the left foot is wider. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/142 "2014-02-22T17:30:17Z")
I am almost completely deaf in my right ear. There’s never been an explanation for it of any kind. The bad part is that my left ear is fading and I can’t afford to get new hearing aids. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/143 "2014-02-23T06:46:05Z")
I can actually wiggle my ears. There are small muscles which attach at what would be the 2:00 o’clock position on the ear (pointing up and back). For some reason I developed the ability to voluntarily contract them. Can’t move them individually - it’s all or nothing. ---
**Author:** ![catnoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@catnoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catnoe)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/144 "2014-02-23T20:22:28Z")
My right arm is now longer than my left by about an inch, I tore something in my shoulder and upper back at work one day and rather than go to the doctor who would have made me stop working (only a month left in the season) I just iced it at home. It did hurt but there was no loss of mobility or strength. Took a little over a year to heal (another season of work). Ingrown toenail, big toe left foot when I was 7. Had it removed and it never grew back. Was self-conscious about it for a few years but got over it. Handy in a strange way. To this day when giving directions, go left or right, I look at my feet. At 50+ I can still easily touch the floor without bending my knees. Haven’t had a sprained ankle in forever despite the occasional rolling of the ankle, quit reflexes to counter the roll. Have been told that I fall in slow motion. Made sense of a sort. When I have fallen in the last 30 years I’ve noticed that everything seems to slow down in my mind as I adjust my body for impact that will be least injurious. But that is more mental than physical. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/145 "2014-02-23T20:42:21Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > \I can also arch my left eyebrow at will… I can do this too, but only my left eyebrow, never the right. :dubious: 😃 Both of my ring fingers are crooked and overlap my middle fingers when I hold my hands out flat. My older niece has the same thing going on. I apparently have strangely shaped sinuses, having been told so by both my regular dentist and the oral surgeon who removed my wisdom teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/146 "2014-02-24T01:03:26Z")
I can only arch my right…I wonder if we could line a bunch of us up, alternating left and right arched brows… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/147 "2014-02-24T01:38:01Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > I can do this too, but only my left eyebrow, never the right. :dubious: 😃 Me too, only with my right only. As a teenager, I suddenly had the urge to do it and discovered I could. No progress on the left on yet. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/148 "2014-02-24T02:50:40Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > I can only arch my right…I wonder if we could line a bunch of us up, alternating left and right arched brows… 🙂 I can cover one of the “right” spots. I seem to have lost most of whatever left-arching ability I had in the incident. ---
**Author:** ![JacksMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/839c29/32.png) [@JacksMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacksMom)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/149 "2014-02-24T04:48:44Z")
I didn’t know I had some of these anomalies until reading this thread, or that they were anomalies I should say. I have those talon cusps on my teeth. I can wiggle my earache and arch my left eyebrow (the right absolutely will not cooperate). I can pick up things with my feet. My pinkies are curved inward. I can hammer my middle finger (thank piano exercises as a kid) My eyes were blue until I turned 16, then over a periods of days turned a nice blue-green. I have astigmatism, but compensate for it even when my eyes are ‘paralyzed’ which fascinates my ophthalmologist to no end. I have an assortment of things related to Asperger’s, but none of them are visible traits, except maybe dyspraxia. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/150 "2014-02-24T06:17:00Z")
I can arch both eyebrows. I’ll stand in the middle, or pinch-hit wherever you need me. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/151 "2014-02-24T08:07:28Z")
I have a small third nipple under the left regular. I once saw a guy who had four: one extra above and below the left regular. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/152 "2014-02-24T13:47:03Z")
> [@Napier](#): > > . . . > I can consciously open my eustachian tubes whenever I want, and can hold them open for minutes if I choose. I can also swallow without opening them, though if I don’t try to keep them closed they do open when I swallow. It isn’t all that rare for people to be able to open them briefly at will, but I’ve never heard of anybody having this much control. Can’t do them one at a time, though. . . . Oh, I can hold mine open too! I don’t know if I could do it for literally minutes at at a time, but for at least a minute. Damn useful during plane trips! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/153 "2014-02-24T16:40:36Z")
I had eight (yes, eight) impacted wisdom teeth removed. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/154 "2014-02-24T17:20:13Z")
I have to sit to pee, because the doctor told me not to lift heavy objects. ---
**Author:** ![Rattle\_and\_Hum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Rattle\_and\_Hum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattle_and_Hum)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/155 "2014-02-24T20:48:00Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I have to sit to pee, because the doctor told me not to lift heavy objects. Hmm, I thought that you were a dude. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/156 "2014-02-24T21:13:33Z")
Just to continue the showering hijack: I had to shower nude in a common shower room after gym in high school in the early 1960s, and I’m a girl. Was my school the only one that made girls do this? Or am I the only woman in here old enough to have done this? Help! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/157 "2014-02-24T21:28:27Z")
> [@Rattle\_and\_Hum](#): > > Hmm, I thought that you were a dude. :smack: Wooooosh? He is a dude, and the “heavy object” reference was a common penis joke. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/158 "2014-02-25T02:30:04Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Wooooosh? > > He is a dude, and the “heavy object” reference was a common penis joke. Indeed. I’m very much a man. A man’s man. Feel my power! Did I mention that I can lick my eyebrows too? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/159 "2014-02-25T04:22:28Z")
kayT, that’s how it worked at my school as well. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2014, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/160 "2014-02-25T05:10:08Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Just to continue the showering hijack: I had to shower nude in a common shower room after gym in high school in the early 1960s, and I’m a girl. Was my school the only one that made girls do this? Or am I the only woman in here old enough to have done this? Help! My high school was built in the early 70s. The girls’ locker room had a few individual stalls which you were only allowed to use if you were menstruating. Otherwise, you used something we called “the car wash”, which was a long narrow passageway with shower nozzles on each side that you walked through. Weird. Don’t understand how they expected that to clean you. And at the end of it, the teacher would check off if you’d showered as required. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104.md?page=9)