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 sneeze when the temperature changes significantly. I have no idea why.
I have a few
A Dexa scan I had done revealed that I have an incredibly dense skeleton in the top 1% of the US national database. It sounds neat but it does absolutely nothing to stop all the soft tissue damage that sports accumulates.
A genetic test revealed I have the super taster gene, some things taste godly but mostly things people like taste bad to me. Coffee, beer, wine for instance are all repulsive.
I have no refractory period. I can pretty much have sex as long as I want and cum over and over again. Record for a single session was 19 with a kinky femdom I used to play with. Despite what all of those female rap songs tell you, there actually aren’t very many women that are ready for Mr all night when he shows up.
I heal incredibly fast, I had major surgery and I blew past all the normal milestones for recovery.
I have central heterochromia in both eyes which I’m told is attractive
I also likely have the genes for FNSS (familial natural short sleep) which basically just means that I am genetically predisposed to only require 4 to 5 hours Sleep a night to feel completely refreshed.
Geez, look at mister perfect over here. /s
Actually though, does your dense skeleton give you a resistance to broken bones?
I do a few tough sports like MMA, bouldering, snowboarding etc and thus have never experienced any bone break, but I’ve had bad tendon injuries.
im not kidding when i drink milk, my stool ends up with blood. I thought I was lactose intolerant but I do need to check.
So far with lactose free milk im okay! so i can still eat cereal :)
Lactose intolerance should just cause indigestion, not bloody stool. Definitely check with your doctor.
I can smell moulds that nobody else can smell; at least for several more weeks until the moulds get mouldy enough.
It’s basically the most pointless superpower. I can smell the cereal in the cupboard and tell my wife that it’s gone bad, but she won’t smell it so she’ll eat it and then nothing bad happens except possibly to her gut microflora
Odd, same here. Can’t smell other stuff that well but mold I pick up on right away.
I have something similar (but days, not weeks) and was always the designated tester in my family but half the time they eat the food anyway.
I recently learned about some people being able to smell ants. I wonder if you can smell them as well
Sadly no, I’m not one of those cool Ant People
My nose is specially sensitive to stuff like deodorants and synthetic perfumes, formaldehyde and other paint smells, the stuff from Odonil™, WD 40 etc. I feel like, if I wanted to train myself to detect non-lethal doses of HCN, I might manage it.
If you smell almonds, you are in business.
My neck clicks whenever I turn to the right.
Usually if something clicks reliably, you should see a doctor about it. Once, or after getting up not an issue, but every time might be bad
I’ve brought it up before but every time I mention it’s been like that for over a decade, they all lose interest
I can bend my toes back and make some touch the top of my feet.
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
I have that with my thumb. A very useful QOL mutation when it comes to pushing on things
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 scoop a spit bubble up off the bottom of my mouth with my tongue, fold my tongue around it, and blow the bubble out of my mouth, and it floats to the ground.
When I have to shit really bad I can feel a pain in my forearm. Not like a painful pain but more like a tingling sensation in only my left forearm.
How strange! When I have to pee really badly, I feel it in my teeth. Is that weird or normal?! My past partners have never had this uncomfortable tingling sensation from it. I always clench my jaw and wiggle to try and ease the feeling. Obviously also go pee.
I can hear the muscles in my eyes when I look from side to side.
This happened to me when I took antidepressants for the first time, as well as being incredibly sensitive to sound, to the point where I could hear electricity.
Not being hyperbolic at all. To test this my partner and I tested a bunch of devices, she flicked either a dummy-switch, or one powering an appliance, and with my back turned, I could tell her if it was on, off, or she hit a dummy switch.
Ultimately I couldn’t stand being on antidepressants, I felt like my IQ dropped 10 points.
I always thought hearing electricity is normal, up until I realized most people can’t do that. Never been on antidepressants or anything, that’s my normal state of consciousness.
Surprise surprise, I’m extremely sensitive to all kinds of noise.
Every time I’ve gotten a hearing test I get praise from the ear person.
“Your hearing is exceptional!!”
I know it is. Do you have any idea how often I change out the charging blocks in my room?
Yeah same problem. Worst were CRT monitors or old tube-TVs, they made a constant sound quite like a tinnitus.
And all that, for what? So that we can hear someone from like 1 foot further away? Perhaps in the apocalypse we’ll be like dowsers for electricity?
Hearing: a little bit of super. No power.
I can hear the 60hz hum in the US but the 50hz EU grid is silent to me.
Some appliances are louder than others. Curious to hear what appliances you can hear
I’m able to hear the AC hum from motors and any inductive heating elements.
When it’s completely silent in the room, I can hear the transformer in my phone charger make a variable squealing sound
She turned on a vacuum
I don’t mean the hum of any moving parts, I mean the stand-by electricity flowing through them.
Phone charger, kettle, laptop, TV, stove, fan (without the fan actually moving).
Being dumb does seem to be the key to happiness
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
How does “fuck you” look like ?
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
I need this info too
me either!
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.
(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.
What’s the coolest-looking sound?
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”
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
Not quite. See my other replies
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)?
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.
I can relate. Here’s something you can see though.
I can pop, or reverse pop my ears at will. Where most people talk about chewing gum to pop their ears on a plane I can push out and suck them in to change the pressure at will. It’s useful to help regulate how much noise gets in (in a small way) too.
What do you mean by pop ? Ro you hear a champagne bottlw “pop !” instead of the regular crackling noise ?
it’s like when go from a high down, your ears pop
Oh, ok
I can pop outwards by closing my mouth and nose and then putting pressure on my mouth walls with the air.
Reverse, I can manage only down to equal pressure, by simply drinking back my saliva.Same, there is a muscle in there that most people can’t voluntarily control.
But we can!Also, I’ve never heard anyone else mention the part about “reversing” their ears! Seems I’m not the only one!
Same. It’s a very useful trick for scuba diving.
Hey me too
I can do this too!
I can pop my right peck on command. I can pop my left peck only if I concentrate as hard as possible.
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
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
- If I blow my nose too hard when I’m sick I get pink eye
- I sneeze when I walk outside on a sunny day
I sneeze when I walk outside on a sunny day
Ah, the Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst. AKA ACHOO Syndrome
I thought this happened for everyone? Like, if you have to sneeze, looking at a bright light, everyone I know tries that to make them sneeze. I thought it was normal.
I tried staring at a lightbulb, no effect. Never heard of this before. Maybe your local population shares some weird gene.
lol, that backronym is a bit of a stretch. Saying “I have a photic sneeze reflex” explains what I have. Saying “I have Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst” makes me sound I’m having a stroke and saying “I have ACHOO” makes me sound stupid 😅
I have that too, but it requires a much higher intensity than just going out in the sun.
i.e. I need to have slept for a while in the dark and then come out and stare at the Sun to get the ACHOO.Also, I once looked straight at a solar eclipse (don’t tell my mother :P) for a few seconds and my eyes were still better than most other people for many years.
