I can snap my right baby toe, by lifting it up and over the other toes and then snapping it down. It sounds like snapping fingers. I discovered it as a kid, reading some book (sci fi or perhaps ninja warriors) where a character was exploring moving single muscles or something like that, so I tried it … one thing led to another and I discovered this little trick. I suppose it’s a good thing I started with my toes, or perhaps this post would be very different.
I’ve never heard of anyone else being able to do this, but then … why would I?
I failed to develop two permanent lower molars. I also had a branchial cleft cyst that appeared in my neck in my early 20s. “Branchial cleft cysts are remnants of embryonic development and result from a failure of obliteration of one of the branchial clefts, which in fish develop into gills.” Yet I never learned to swim.
I didn’t know until the dentist told me that I have fairly prominent mandibular tori. Might be related to my previous habit of jaw clenching.
I also apparently have a rib that is shorter than usual. My pinky finger is much shorter in relation to my other fingers - makes typing a little difficult.
Damn, I’m realizing that apparently I’m a bit of a freak. I posted two oddities upthread, but I completely forgot two more.
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[li]Around the age of 12, I had a SECOND set of adult teeth begin to develop and replace my first set of adult teeth. To this day, every time I go to the dentist, he always remarks on my odd placement of teeth. My orthodontist was never able to get all of them exactly into the right spot. My teeth are straight, just oddly sorted.[/li][li]I have webbed toes on both feet. The two toes next to the big toe are joined up to just past the first knuckle by skin, on both feet. These are not my toes, but they look like this.[/li][/ul]
I’m double jointed on my fingers and toes, and have a hitchhiker’s thumb. I also stutter, which might count as it’s a combination of a physical and psychological trait.
ETA: Forgot one other thing - my thumbs have different shapes. One is long and thin, the other short and stubby.
On my upper left arm near the shoulder is a mutant hair with no pigment that doesn’t stop growing. I’ve seen it up to 8 inches at least. It’s thin and nearly impossible to see except in low sunlight. I usually notice it when it curls out enough to get trapped in clothing, then I snip it. Don’t have one like it on the right arm.
Not only did we have mandatory showers after gym class, but also nude swimming every day for 6 weeks every semester. And yes, I do remember the one guy who wasn’t circumcised.
I’m missing some knee ligaments but that’s due to accident and misdiagnosis rather than birth. I’ll have to get that fixed sometime.
I have unusually colored eyes. They look green to me in the mirror, dark green on the outside getting lighter towards the pupil with some flecks of light brown. But others tell me they look blue, green or grey depending on what I am wearing.
If you’re referring to the Factor V Leiden mutation and/or prothrombin mutations, and if you were tested for them sometime between 2002 and 2008, there’s a nonzero chance that I was the one that performed the test that diagnosed you.
As for me, it’s not really a superpower or anything, but my pancreas just up and died for no good reason a couple of years ago.
I still have dents just above both ears where the forceps were used to pull me out. One is now a slight dip; the other is a shallow crater. If I brush my hair back, you can see it.
Huh. According to that article I must have central heterochromia because my eyes look just like the one in the picture. I’ve assumed the goldish rings around my pupils was related to the fact that my eyes change color.
Like Filbert, I can move my little toes on their own.
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.
My ear heights are pretty different. I have to bend glasses pretty far to get the lenses centered in front of my eyes and have both ear pieces on my ears.
