I have a sixth toenail on the outside edge of my pinky toe on both feet, which grows separately from the main nail and isn’t connected to it in any way. I’ve had them as long as I could remember and always assumed they must have happened because I’d injured my toes somehow as a toddler, before I thought to Google it and found out it’s genetic.
I also have some sort of lump on the back of my right ear. It’s been there at least since I was six years old, because that’s when I first recall noticing it. I can’t see it - it feels like an insect bite to the touch, but it’s never changed in size. I tried to cut it off once when I was a teenager and it grew back.
Lastly, I have a large-ish, freckle-colored concave scar at the base of my neck. According to my mother, it exists because when she was zipping up my pajamas as a baby my skin got caught in the zipper and she didn’t realize until some time later that that was why I wouldn’t stop crying.
Same here. I will occasionally detect something, but it has to be really strong (like if I opened a bottle of ammonia). For the most part, I’m glad I don’t have to deal with it, since smelling people seem to spend a lot of time complaining about farts, perfume, wet dogs, burnt popcorn, etc.
I’m “double-jointed” in all my fingers. I can make my 8 fingers bend at a 90-degree angle at the top joint, and I can pop out both my thumbs.
I can move my little toes without moving any other muscles in my feet.
I refuse to allow my 12yo to use our toilet. Total annihilation when she’s done - I don’t know how any child could produce something inside them that smells like that and yet still remain healthy. :eek:
I’m the opposite - I didn’t realize I had a super-smeller (and super-taster) until I met my husband. I thought I was normal and he had an impaired sense of smell and taste, but apparently he’s the normal one.
The thumb thing is just an oddity, the the Osgood Schlatters protrusion is not only very visible, but it causes severe pain from Patellar Tendonitis in that knee.
I have a portwine stain birthmark on my entire right arm from fingertip to shoulder. It really bugs me, I tried to get it removed years ago with a special laser ( really painful!) but it just didn’t work during treatments, then my insurance decided it wasn’t going to cover more treatments, so I guess it’s here for life. I’ll admit, I’m almost 50 and still very self conscious of it in the summer. I try to buy tops with the 3/4 sleeve.
What really is amazing is how rude and mean adults can be about it… Once you here “ugh, gross, what’s that on your arm?” so many times, you realize some people never learn manners !
I also have really blue eyes that people always seemed to be fascinated with, but like someone else said, half my family have them. Unfortunately, a lot of us also got the whole dark underneath circles that aren’t the result of lack of sleep. Thank goodness I’m a woman and can wear makeup on special occasions that tone the dark grooves down to about half. Sigh…
But I’ve had worse problems so I try to make myself find 10 things to be greatful for each day. It really does help my sense of well being
I have a cafe-au-lait mark splashed across the back of my right hand, going up the wrist. I have whatever gene it is that gives people lots of moles… I mean, I have at least a hundred, easily more. A minor tailbone malformation runs in my family that gives us cysts on our tailbones… I learned early not to sit back on mine, and it has only gotten minorly inflamed so far. I also get benign cysts under my skin, especially on my scalp. Lastly, doctors tell me I have a retroverted uterus.
I have a tiny hole in the roof of my mouth, sometimes. It only opens up sometimes (especially when I am swimming for some reason), but when it does I can suck a small amount of air through from my nose - i.e. having my mouth shut doesn’t create an airtight seal when sucking. It feels weird.
My mum has the same thing, so I assume it’s genetic.
Also, in the past 5 or 10 years I have developed a load of little raised red dots, like moles only red, mostly over my chest and trunk. I gather they’re called cherry angiomas, and are harmless, but I wish they’d bugger off.
Is it right behind your front teeth? I have something of the sort. It’s very tiny and doesn’t open often. No significant amount of air comes through–just enough to tickle and make a faint squeaky noise.
I have a tendon/ligament in my knee that sort of jumps its track when I bend my knee past 90 degrees. It abruptly jumps from one side of the bone to the other. One can feel it easily from the outside with their fingers, but it feels so unnatural and squicky that I even avoid feeling it myself.
I can continuously crack my sternum where the ribs meet, sounds like bubble wrap.
I have a cafe-au-lait birthmark on the right side of my chest just below the breast, a hard lump of tissue about the size of a June pea in the top curve of my right ear, and my left foot is a measurable half-inch longer than my right.
Not directly behind my teeth but it is towards the front of my palate. I can’t recall exactly where as it is not open at the moment. It only opens up occasionally. Sounds similar to yours - just a tiny amount of air but enough to feel odd.
I was born with a 4 knuckles on my left hand. The pinky and ring finger share a knuckle. I can’t move them independently from each other, but can move both independent of the other fingers. There is a small web of skin between them that makes wearing a ring uncomfortable, ergo, I wear my wedding band on my right hand.
