My sister got a Bluetooth headset and it reminded me that i cant use those because my ears heat up in less than 10 seconds after putting them on, in fact as i am typing this my ears are kinda of uncomfortably hot. Dust also cause my ears to heat, it usually the cause but it can also happen randomly as well as when i leave the PC monitor running when i sleep(same room).
there is some other stuff i thought to mention but i think it would be better for a post after discovering your body(e.g my cousin though all ppl can only see through one eye until recently because he himself can only see through one eye and that’s how he found out he has only one functioning eye)
Also feel free to talk about NSFW stuff and is this post hard to read(sentence structure wise)? Cause i never know if ppl have hard time reading my post, and at the moment i find it hard to read myself
I can pop my ankles almost non stop since around 2 years ago for some reason (no pain or anything), lol
I can do this as well. Every single girlfriend I have had in my life absolutely hated it. I don’t even notice myself doing it sometimes.
It’s kinda “addictive”, so hard to resist the urge. Hopefully it has no negative health effects (there was that study about one who popped their knukles and found out it wasnt damaging, hopefully they are correct)
I have also read that exact same study lol. If it turns out it’s deadly I guess I’ll see you in the afterlife soon haha
I can do that too. Bonus since I sprained one at 16, I’ll just be randomly walking along when something in my ankle makes an audible pop and dislocates for just long enough for me to stumble and take another step.
I had a wrist sprain a few years back and got an X-ray. They told me my ulna was about a millimeter longer than it probably should be. I’m wondering if that’s the case for most of my joints and that’s why I creak like gammy’s favorite rocking chair
Ugh ouch
I dont know if I sprained mine, I remember picking up running for a few weeks (cuz I thought doing only weights wasnt the best idea) and I remember my ankles feeling sore after running. I expected it to be normal though, cuz I don’t tend to run a lot (though I walk a lot). 🤷
Haven’t done an xray yet, might do one day
I can do it, but only with my left ankle! It’s almost like I’m sliding the tendon across the bone? making a really loud “popping” sound, over and over. I’ve been able to do it for as long as I can remember and it’s never hurt. Never met anyone else who could do it!
I can pop my ears whenever I want, like someone else mentioned. Handy on flights, but I haven’t been able to teach my kids how. If I forget to blink for a bit and then blink involuntarily when my eyes itch, my jaw snaps shut also involuntarily, causing my teeth to snap together. I can roll my tongue, which is apparently a genetic thing. I can hear high frequency sounds, like bats, and rodent repellents. It can be painfully loud when noone else around me can hear them, so they have a degree of disbelief if I mention it.
If I leave my stomach empty for too long, I can feel (and hear!) gas bubbles (?) coming up in my throat lining.
That’s kind of crazy what happens with your ears with the pc monitor and all! Can you use over-ears headphones?
I can use earphones that go into your ear but not headsets that cover the whole of my ear. back in school some of our buses had alot of dust in the seats, like my sisters bus.When ever i had to ride with her, it triggered my ears even if there is no visible dust in the air
I can make the Vulcan “live long and prosper” sign, but only with my left hand.
I have a rare condition called EBS (sometimes called butterfly skin). I am lucky enough to have a non life threatening form so it is usually only a problem when I walk/exercise in above 20°C temperatures. And I usually get benefits (I rarely have to queue for things)
How does it help with queueing? Like people will universally allow you to go upfront?
Probably can skip queues, as a way to accommodate those with medical conditions.
Most businesses give me a pass to let me skip queueing if I give them enough notice
I can bend my toes back and make some touch the top of my feet.
I have that with my thumb. A very useful QOL mutation when it comes to pushing on things
Awesome! I have only seen people do it with their fingers.
I can do the same with my fingers but not all the way back
Same. Honestly, I’m fine with the limit since the more extreme versions of hypermobility tend to also come with big downsides
Can crack/pop most joints.
Can wiggle both ears individually or together.
I can cause my vision to go blurry on purpose - no idea if other people can?
I can hear some electronic devices that are plugged in, can also hear when certain portable devices have finished charging, so basically I have pretty good hearing.
I can pop my arms out of my shoulder joints, without using my hands, and back in again. Completely painless, but can sometimes do it by accident if I’m leaning against a doorframe etc, or pushing/pulling against something, so I have to be careful.
I can turn my face red by tensing my jaw.
I can turn my eyelids inside out.
I can forcibly go cross-eyed.
The back top of my skull is completely flat. If I shaved my hair off it would look like a chunk is missing haha. This also means there are dents in the middle top either side of my skull as well, almost like it has creased inwards. Was layed on my back too much as a child.
I have a seemingly hidden source of strength, I am very slim and not particularly muscular, but am stronger than some friends who are bigger and more muscular than me. I also find it difficult to add any visible muscle mass. Maybe I have dense muscle?
Yes, I can focus and unfocus my eyes at will, I too, to razor sharp vision or so blurry that I can’t even make out features on anyone’s face. (Without going cross eyed, which I can also do with any eye at a time).
It’s a good superpower, as I have glasses that I can wear if I want to which are roughly +3.5, but I rarely bother, because I’ll just use my eye muscles to see perfectly well,so I never freak out when I lose my glasses or whatever. I
It’s really handy for zoning tf out, too. Which is mostly a blessing, but sometimes a curse, especially as I have the inattentive ADHD where I just go blank faced and stare into the blurry distance whilst totally disappearing inwards.
I can pop my arms out of my shoulder joints, without using my hands, and back in again. Completely painless, but can sometimes do it by accident if I’m leaning against a doorframe etc, or pushing/pulling against something, so I have to be careful.
Have you been diagnosed with any hypermobility disorders? You might want to look into some and check with a doctor, because some of them have pretty nasty side effects since they lead to most connective tissue degenerating, even inside your heart
I can cross my eyes no problem but can’t make them look in opposite directions outward.
And not particularly strong, but “stronger than I look” according to every guy I have playfully wrestled. I don’t know if I am strong or other women hold back, though. I never do because I understand guys who look my size have an advantage of like 100% more strength, even if I want to lose I try to win!
I can go cross-eyed in both directions, though I have eye problems related to that anyway, so I don’t have to try particularly hard as a result.
I definitely wouldn’t say I am “strong”, just stronger than what most people expect. I have had some people who were surprised when I beat bigger people in arm wrestles etc. Don’t hold back, try to win every time ;D.
I think the eye stuff are normal just take a bit of practice. If you have good control of your focus you can see “3D”. Try merging the two circles here. Once you get it there’s a bunch of interesting things you can do
Thanks, very cool.
Imagine in your head a scene on the ocean near a dock with a sailboat. The wind is light and there are small waves lapping against the shore, rocking the boat.
Well, I mostly can’t do that. Not much of a minds eye. If I really focus I can do it but there isn’t any detail, and my mind doesn’t fill in background.
I can fold my ears in on themselves and they will stay that way until I smile.
Basically my ears are just super soft because I was always playing with them as a kid so the cartridge never really hardened up like it did for most other people.
As I have gotten older and played with my ears less they don’t stay folded as long but I can still do it.
I can feel when lights are turned on or shine at me. Taking photos with a flash for example feels like a hot wave to me. I think that is a side effect of my ASD, the poor stimulus filtering to be exact
Also I can hear most electric devices because of that. Charging them for example has a loud high frequency noise. Not just cheap chargers, almost all electronic devices
How old are you? For younger people they can hear charging devices but that fades with time. You might not always have this as I lost it a few years ago.
I‘m already 35, I think that’s past the age where my youth gives me superpowers
Im 50 you might not have it forever.
Well, light degrades into heat. I feel it too, for the high powered ones. I have my bicycle headlights and can feel the heat wherever they hit me.
Oh you can hear the expensive ones too? Nice. Not sure about your case, but for me, it is low enough to be useful but not distracting.
That reminds me that sometimes I can feel people behind me from their body heat, even while outside. My main assumption is that I’m feeling the infrared that’s emitted
Not myself, but my wife. We live in the country side with two cats, and they have a cat flap, 24/7 access. My wife can smell a dead mouse nearly from the second it’s dead. She complained last week about it smelling like death in our hallway, and we couldn’t find the source. It took two days for me to smell it, and then it was gone a few days later. We think it died in the ceiling, so couldn’t do much about it. But her smell for death is crazy!
I can clap each of my hands individually. What’s the sound of one hand clapping? Lemme show you twice at once! Also, it’s not elegant, but me flailing about in a controlled manner.
I can wiggle my ears.
I can pop pretty much every joint. Some hurt more than others. The crapshoot ones are my hip joints. Usually hurts then massive relief.
If I yawn the wrong way (usually when turning my head), my hyoid bone shifts and gets stuck. I have to move it back in place by hand, carefully. That was a scary discovery.
I have had permanent tinnitus since about April of 2023. (Kill me)
If I’m congested and I blow my nose, snot can come out of my right eye’s tear duct.
I have dysgraphia. I fucking hate writing by hand. It’s painful, it shoots up my arm, and my handwriting is always terrible. I regularly make mistakes. I stopped using cursive entirely about 20 years ago, and now only use capital print letters (with a larger first letter for each word). Example: https://ibb.co/YPPDKFq
I can clap each of my hands individually.
In other words, snap using 3 or 4 fingers at a time, without relying on the thumb to coil the muscles. That seems doable with a bit of prctc. Let me know if you meant something else.
If I yawn the wrong way (usually when turning my head), my hyoid bone shifts and gets stuck. I have to move it back in place by hand, carefully.
I just tried the same thing. Felt a pull on one of my joints the wrong way. Not going to try turning my head any further and will be careful not to turn my head while yawning from now. Yes, that was scary.
I have dysgraphia.
Due to how I learnt to write when I started using a pen, any long term writing causes my thumb movement muscles to cramp up, making me have to stop writing.
I also seem to have something related to dysgraphia, but it’s much milder than as depicted in the image in the Wikipedia article. So, the glyph metrics don’t match. I still use cursive though, just because I’m used to it. It’s also much milder than your example, though I do tend to have times when characters get switched or entangled.I can close my 4 fingers fast enough to make a muted, but definitely audible, clap sound.
If I lock my wrist back about 90°, I can flail my fingers about, whereby they synchronously slap my palm, making a clap sound.
I can do these actions with each hand individually.
That’s a fun new way to do it.
I was relying on being able to accelerate my fingers fast enough, normally, to make the sound and realised that in that case, leaving out the index finger and only using the other 3 fingers made it easier.But flailing around the arm makes it possible to clap faster, making a more natural sounding clap. So nice
Do you have EDS?
If I yawn the wrong way (usually when turning my head), my hyoid bone shifts and gets stuck. I have to move it back in place by hand, carefully. That was a scary discovery.
Oh shit that happens to me too and I’ve never known what it was, thank you
Synesthesia. I can see sound. Really neat, actually.
Not so neat is my aparent genetic resistance to pain meds and anesthetics. Caused some “fun” in a hospital stay
Aphantasia here. Can’t see or remember shit. It sucks.
Only benefits are speed reading and a boost to abstract/scientific thinking. But episodic memories and visualisation sound more fun.
Also resistant to everything. Connective tissue disorder? (EDS)?
I can relate. Here’s something you can see though.
Aphantasia here too, do you have an inner monologue? I don’t, to the dismay of every therapist and partner I’ve ever had.
“What are you thinking?”
“There are not words for this.”
Nope just multiple streams of unsymbolic thinking usually. When thinking of something specific or planning how to say something I’ll consciously subvocalise, but there’s no volume/pitch/tone. Having your subconscious talk to you all day sounds exhausting.
(Irish ancestry here: Letting them know that you’ve got redheaded relatives is the secret cheatcode to let you stay unconscious during surgery. There’s a whole protocol about it.)
OMG. I had a terrible dental experience because of this.
yup. My dad is irish. And although I’m not a redhead, I later learned that I have the gene and it’s one of the factors in this problem.
Too bad I only learned about this fact after I woke up a couple times during surgery and later when they put me into an induced coma and I pulled out my tubes.
TIL that painkillers don’t work on redheads.
I also have a super high alcohol tolerance (and I rarely drink), which I think is also an effect of it.
Weed only has an effect for me if I use a lot of it
Wow, I did not know that. Thanks a bunch.
How does “fuck you” look like ?
I need this info too
funnily enough, as soon as my brain can parse it as language, my synesthesia doesn’t trigger anymore. It really is just for sounds and music.
If I listen to a language that I can’t understand, my synesthesia triggers. It’s a fun example of how the brain processes the information
if told “fuck you” in say, Norwegian, what does it look like? (if you speak Norwegian, then substitute it for something you don’t speak :P)
also, does “fuck you” look the same in all unknown languages?
It really depends on the sound, not the actual content.
It’s quite hard to describe, but for me sounds have a certain color and shape. “Visible” in the location they are coming from.
I also don’t quite see it as the real world around me, more of an “inner eye” overlay.
The color and shape (and often texture) depends on the instrument and tone. There’s an older 360° video on youtube that comes somewhat close to what I experience
That’s really cool
Unless you have tinnitus, then it’s probably hell
Does red hair run in your family by any chance? People with red hair in their family (myself included, I have auburn-ish hair) need 20% more anesthetics.
yup. See my other reply
Same. I inform doctors that I am resistant to sedation. They nod, not believing me. I go under. I wake up 4 hours early, everyone goes insane. One time they failed to put me out right away. Fortunately they managed to put me out before they cut into me. My last memories before waking are hearing “oh shit, he’s awake”. Another time they used “an adult dose and a child dose” which… doesn’t sound right. But I remember waking with a half dozen people trying to rouse me.
when the surgery team came visiting me afterwards, the anesthesiologist said they used “the elephant’s dose”
Same here on the resistance to pain meds. I had a such a terrible experience with surgery. Once I woke up I was in such agony but I was also tripping hard from the dilaudid and left over anesthesia that I was unable to communicate effectively. Once a doctor finally listened to me many hours later, they gave me a cocktail of other stuff that finally eased the pain. I also really struggle with dental work.
Not so neat is my aparent genetic resistance to pain meds and anesthetics. Caused some “fun” in a hospital stay
Are you a redhead? Apparently that’s a fairly common trait for them
When I eat a few dill pickles, my scalp tingles. It’s mostly a pleasant sensation.
