What bodily quirks/mutations/oddities do you have?

Finally!

What does it sound like?

Sort of clappy…

Me too. Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Hypermobility. Same symptomolgy.

I was born with club feet. Had several corrective surgeries on each foot before I was 6 months old. I have severe neuropathy in my feet now, and am in constant pain.

I inherited my father’s knees. His kneecaps come out easily, and mine do too. I’ve had corrective surgery on my right knee, but it still hurts sometimes.

My quacks don’t echo.

I can tunnel my tongue in two perpendicular directions. Being able to barrel roll it isn’t uncommon, but I can tunnel it in the perpendicular direction and even make a wave with it. Apparently only about 1 in a thousand can do this. It does me no good or harm, just is. I can also, it is hard to describe, lift my right middle finger (while the others are on a flat surface) and hammer it down. I cannot do this with my remaining fingers (including the left middle finger) and, as I was surprised to discover, most people cannot do it at all.

Not me, but my sister had white dots in the center of her pupils. Looked freaky. We used to scare kids in the neighborhood by saying the dots were a sign that she was a devil.

Me too, but only side to side.

I have talon cusps on all my upper front teeth. It’s literally been a pain since they have all needed prophylactic fillings to prevent decay in between the tooth and the cusp. They are reportedly most often found in Native Americans, but I am almost fully of Northern European extraction.

My canine teeth are distinctly pointed. Not quite vampire-length, but it’s noticeable. For the longest time I would not smile with my mouth open. I have been known to use my teeth to open foil- or paper-sealed bottles or containers.

I had to get my “wisdom” teeth removed twice (I guess my jaw is too short). First operation took out 4, second took out 3. Got dry socket the first time. Ugh.

I have a mole to the side of my chin. It showed up in kindergarten. Has not changed shape or size, thank goodness.

According to a nurse, I have abnormally slim wrists. The rest of my body has not followed suit. So much for being “big-boned”!

I can pick stuff up with my feet. I think I learned that from watching my mom do it. :slight_smile:

My legs are completely hairless. I developed sparse leg hair in adolescence, but it thinned to nothing by my mid-twenties. I love it. No leg shaving for me!

I’m not picturing this, and I’m interested. Lift it flat and then cock it to hammer it down?

My aortic valve was once in a cow. And I’m very appreciative for the supreme sacrifice she made for my benefit.

Well there is at least two of us then though mine are more of the hazel spectrum.

Yeah, I’ve been wondering about this - can everyone do it? I can only pick up some shapes by curling my toes towards the ball of my feet. Is that unique?

I can move my ears and move either eyebrow. Sometimes my ears will move on their own in response to a sound.

I suffered from Osgood-Schlatter’s disease (sp?) as a teenager; it’s a condition in which the tendons in my knees couldn’t grow fast enough to keep up with the rest of my body.

I have early-onset arthritis in my lower back, at the age of 31.

I have a long, white, nearly imperceptible scar on the pinky toe of my right foot from when I walked barefoot down the stairs and slammed my foot into a floor fan on the landing. Hit it so hard my toenail eventually came off.

I had a third nipple until I had surgery in that area (it was where the surgeon needed to cut, so it’s gone now).

I have an extra cusp on each of my first and second upper molars. I don’t know about my third molars, aka wisdom teeth, because they never erupted and had to be extracted surgically.

I have a set of birthmarks the aggregate outline of which is the exact shape of the Playboy bunny head logo.

I’ve got a pig valve. I tell people it’s to keep off any Jewish cannibals I might run into. (Mind you, if I have a problem with cannibals, I won’t stop to ask if they’re Jewish. But if it comes up…)

I also had very deeply ingrown toenails on my big toes. (Form a half-circle with thumb and finger. Then bend the end joints in as far as they go. That’s the original end view.) While still a child I had them off and the sides of the root killed, so they’re much better now.

My birthmark looks like a chicken. It’s on the back of my arm. Bok bok!

I was born with, and still have, a little clump of extra cartilage near the top of my left ear. It makes my ear have a little bump on it. It’s certainly not pointy or anything, but it led to some of my 6th grade friends calling me Spock for a while.

The awesome part is, my oldest child was born with, and still has, a little missing cartilage in his left ear lobe. It makes his ear have a little notch in it, in nearly the same location that I have my bump. The little joke in our family ever since has been that I’ve been planning my whole life to steal a little extra ear lobe material at the expense of my child.

Almost forgot to add my other weird mutant thing, which, to keep with the dental theme, is that my baby teeth were ridiculously slow to come out. I didn’t lose my first one until I was 7 years 8 months old, and I still had most of my baby molars when I was 14, at which point my dentist decided it was time they come out. The adult teeth were fully formed, they just couldn’t come in because the others were in the way. Seven teeth extracted at once to make that happen.