If it wasn’t already clear as day, bodies are weird. And that’s just on a regular day. Bodies can get weirder given the right (and the wrong) circumstances. And then you have to live with it.
Folks were recently sharing some of the things they have to live with and the online thread picked up speed really fast with folks answering the question what’s weird about your body?
#1
My body does not make it’s own antibodies. So once a week for the last 15 years, I’ve had to get an infusion of antibodies that are pulled from plasma donations.
If you donate plasma- thank you for keeping me alive!
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#2
My right ear has a little point at the top… like an elf. My son’s right ear has a notch, like it’s missing the extra I have… weird!
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#3
My proportions are all over the place.
I used to study art. In drawing class, we had to study human proportions using our hands in strange positions and our bodies in front of a mirror. I got a bad grade, was told that my proportions were wrong. I had to go show the teacher that, yes, my thighs are unusually long, my pinkies abnormally short etc.
My grade was changed.
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It’s hard to pinpoint what is normal in terms of bodies. The easiest way to explain it is that which is usual, typical and expected. But that’s based on statistics.
And since subjectivity is a thing, there can be a different normal for everyone depending on their condition, situation and experience.
#4
I have very high pain tolerance but can’t deal with tshirt tags scratching my neck
Autism is funny sometimes.
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#5
Energy drinks and coffee have very limited effect to the point where I feel sleepy while drinking them.
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#6
White freckles (im black).
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Following this definition, you’d think there has to be some sort of, say, average height, average weight and average anything else.
That holds true for situations in which, say, most folks have 5 fingers, but that one person has 6. But then you have something like weight, which has a norm, but it’s based on your height, as per the body mass index.
#7
Lost my lower legs, from about mid-tibia. Now I stomp around in carbon fiber and titanium, have great parking options, and I’m generally snake proof.
#8
I was born with a webbed hand. Had a bunch of surgeries to correct it but my hand is smaller than my normal hand and my co workers call me Tiny Paw.
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#9
I sneeze when I’m really hungry.
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But then again, does having six fingers affect your life in a significant way? Does that entail some sort of debilitating disease or condition? There might be social stigmas, sure, but that’s irrelevant in the grand scheme of things because you are beautiful and amazing and loved.
#10
My sweat is extra acidic. I can fully rust guitar strings in a week or 2, and have eaten holes on 2 laptops where I rest my hands, both happened within a year of use.
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#11
My fingerprints have almost faded away. I’m 56, and I can’t use those fingerprint readers for anything. It happened to my mom, and now my 31-year old daughters are going. It’s weird!
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#12
I know what human spinal fluid tastes like.
Last year, a sinus specialist discovered I had a 7mm hole in the wall between my left sinus cavity and my cranial cavity. No clue exactly how long it’s been there but I’ve had a “runny nose” as long as I can remember. It was spinal fluid. Very salty. Got it patched up and after some insane headaches while my cranial cavity regulated the pressure, I’m doing much better.
Edit: I’ve seen replies of people having the same symptoms. I highly encourage you to see a specialist because CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) leaks are how meningitis can happen. Tell your doctor that the liquid is clear and watery and has a very salty taste. Those are the hallmarks of CSF.
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For example, obesity is considered by many—professionals included—a chronic and often progressive health problem. At least in Canada, roughly 6 million people are considered obese—that’s 17% of the population—and that alone costs around 4% of the yearly healthcare budget. But while the risk is obvious, it is still just a risk, not a reality.
#13
I have 5 nipples. 3 on the right, 2 on the left. I call the unpaired one Lonely Tim. The others do not get names as they do not need them. They have eachother.
#14
I have 3 kidneys. 2 that tried to kill me and one that I received from an unknown hero.
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#15
I am biologically female. Was born female. Live in a female body.
I am ? male at the cellular level. My DNA is male. And I no longer have the blood type I was born with.
Edit: I had a stem cell transplant from a male donor. I have his blood type and DNA now.
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Some medical professionals have started finding people who, despite having a problem of obesity, show no health problems associated with it. You know, diabetes, high blood pressure, increased cholesterol and even certain types of cancer. This is what’s known as metabolically healthy obesity, a kind of obesity that doesn’t have associated health problems.
#16
I have extra pair of ribs, and both of my kidneys are on my right side.
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#17
I birthed a FULLY INTACT empty amniotic sack when I gave birth to my son. The doctor looked at me like I shape-shifted into an alien.
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#18
If I have an asthma attack in my sleep, I usually dream about it and wake up.
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So, again, what’s normal? Bringing subjectivity into the mix, for people who have physical abnormalities, these things might not necessarily be, or even feel, normal, but they would very likely not feel weirded out by it either.
In that sense, weird is the new normal and everyone has their own.
#19
If I have to pee really bad I get a sharp pain in my molars.
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#20
I have two uteruses! (uteri, that is).
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#21
I was getting custom moulded ear plugs made to block out the sound of our next door neighbour and his (at least) 3 different alarms that go off between 02:00 and 05:00.
I have always struggled with the normal foam earplugs, ever quite able to get them to fit properly or having much sound-deadening taking place when I did manage to get them crammed into my lugholes.
The audiologist who was taking the impressions of my ears commented that I have “unusually narrow ear canals”
Guess that explains the problems with other earplugs!
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And again, if some layers of society push an agenda where certain out-of-the-ordinaries are considered abnormal, there’s going to be a community or several that are accepting of it. So, the idea of normality is all over the place.
#22
My eyes have been misaligned since birth. I’ve had two surgeries (one immediately after birth, and one in high school) to try to correct it, but they are still misaligned by about 1 degree (possibly more now considering it’s been many years). This means I’ve never been able to use both of my eyes at once, so I do not have depth perception. People sometimes ask what it’s like not having depth perception, and my response is what’s it like TO have depth perception??
Until the second surgery I had to wear glasses, but afterwards my eyes were close enough that my brain could automatically choose which one to use based on the distance of whatever I was looking at. This is handy because one of my eyes is near-sighted and the other is far-sighted, so I get the advantages of both.
I’m also double jointed in the hips and can put my feet behind my head, and I walk duck-footed thanks to my weird feet.
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#23
Everytime I squat my knees crack very loudly.
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#24
I can literally stare anyone down without blinking for several minutes at a time. Freaks people out.
In a philosophical twist—or just a shower thought—if someone does admit that they have an abnormality, and shares it online, after being asked to, that alone kinda sorta feels normal at the same time. Even if they admit that this is a deviation from the norm, sharing how they’re cool with it, and others seeing that it’s weird, yet still feeling normal about it normalizes it. Does that make sense?
#25
I can wiggle my ears, my pupils, dilate my eyes on command, make my ear drums vibrate to help damper loud noises, but I can’t think in pictures and color.
#26
I can move a vein without touching it on my hand to make it look like a worm is moving.
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#27
My birthmark is on my inner a*s cheek and it looks like I missed a spot when wiping.
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One last thing: the idea of being abnormal doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It’s like having a super power sometimes. Yes, the body can go through genetic mutations that allow folks to be morbidly flexible, resistant to poison, shock proof or even immune to pain. That last one doesn’t mean you’re invincible, though, so don’t get any bright ideas.
#28
My body manifests suppressed emotions and stress as debilitating chronic pain.
It’ll be so bad I can’t sleep or think or do anything really, and the only thing that helps is for me to root around in my subconscious for whatever is bothering me emotionally and then cry about it. After I cry, the pain will disappear over the next hour or so, only for the cycle to start again anew the next day, since I’m always stressed or suppressing emotions.
#29
My vision is black and white like 1/3 of the time for no reason, doesn’t relate to being lightheaded or anything, just weird.
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#30
I have a little stump in my pinky that’s an extra finger. Doctor wrapped thread around it when I was born.
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So, what’s something weird that you got on your corporeal vessel in this plane of existence? Share your stories in the comment section below!
And if you’re looking for more content to go through, look no further.
#31
Since my foot injury in 2015 I can tell when the weather is going to change in it.
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#32
If I inhale through my nose super fast it does something to my ear canals such that it filters out a lot of low frequencies and a good bit of volume. I can basically turn it on/off at will. Comes in quite handy if I forget earplugs at a concert, or if I’m having trouble hearing people talk in a crowded room.
#33
I have a straight line of freckles from my shoulder, down my arm, to my middle finger.
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#34
Woke up paralysed from the chest down one day aged 27.
Spinal MS/Transverse Myelitis – no recovery, none expected but it’s so weird that even my neuro is like ”this phenotype is vanishingly rare in Europeans and whatever you’re doing seems to be working” when I ask him for any advice. Looking through local medical records (university access) I can’t pinpoint a single person with a case like mine in the last 100 years.
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#35
I have an [epicanthic fold](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicanthic_fold) but I’m neither Asian nor do I have Down syndrome.
Edit since people are asking about my heritage: Yes, I’m European. No, I did not take (make?) a DNA test. But at least according to my skin color, I’m not from Asian descent or any people that look similar. Neither is anyone in my heritage that I know.
Edit 2: I know this also appears among European people. It’s just not common.
#36
I don’t have a belly button.
#37
I look like a spider. My long appendages are in direct contrast to my short torso ? ?️.
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#38
My eyes are so dark brown that some people think they’re black, or that I just have two really big pupils.
#39
I have a birthmark in the shape of a t Rex.
#40
I don’t feel any effects of alcohol until I’ve eaten afterward. I’ve never tested the limits, but Ive had 4 shots and 3 beers with no change of how I feel, but as soon as I eat afterwards it hits me all at once and I am completely smoked even if it’s in the morning after.
#41
Ever since my earliest memory I have found the sensation of ANYTHING touching my neck & anywhere near my collar bone area absolutely unbearable. skin-crawling, want to peel out of my body, can’t hold still when i think about it unbearable. I can’t drive with windows down, I stretch my shirt collars out in my sleep, at the dentist i have to constantly be pulling that little bib that they put on you down away from my neck. I can’t even look at someone wearing a turtleneck or a choker or even a tight-ish necklace. It really actually gets in the way of me enjoying a lot of things and is really embarrassing lol. I have tried exposure therapy like wearing things with a somewhat snug fit around my neck or a somewhat tight necklace but I just can’t do it. It’s awful.
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#42
I have NF1 soooo I have tumors all over under my skin on my nerves ???.
#43
I was born with one breast a congenital abnormality, I had six kids and breastfeed them all, after having the kids I got saline breast implants and due to being born with a congenital abnormality the government payed a great deal of the costs of surgery, had my implants for 29 years now and love them and love the feeling of not covering up.
#44
I can push my shoulder blades up so that I look like a gargoyle.
#45
When my anxiety gets bad i don’t have panic attacks or anxiety attacks i just faint. it’s a blessing and a curse because my “anxiety attacks” last a max of 15 seconds but it’s literally impossible to hide. i’ve had to explain to multiple professors that it’s not a d**g overdose because that’s always everyone’s first thought.
#46
I wore super pointy shoes all through jr high and my pinky toes stopped growing. They are small and squished into the rest of my foot. Boring, I know.
#47
Went to the doctor one day and found out my left kidney is completely atrophied. It’s below the proper amount of function so they just consider me to have one kidney. Mom said it looks like a shriveled-up piece of burnt bacon on my scans.
Makes a little bit more sense why I sometimes pee blood. I just thought I might be the Kool-Aid man.
#48
• sneezing when i walk outside when it’s sunny ?
• my head is extremely tender. when someone hugs me and it tugs my hair even a little it hurts
• can open doors with a toes
• i can smell sickness and it grosses me out
• double jointed in arms and thumbs
EDIT: wanted to add i have dark brown eyes for the sneezing thing :).
#49
Coffee has put me to sleep since the first time I tried it when I was 12. Got diagnosed with ADHD 10 years later.
#50
I can’t picture things in my mind. It’s just a blackhole. Always thought it was a figure of speech. Thanks, Aphantasia.
#51
My legs are longer than my 6’4 fathers and I’m 5’8. So hard to find pants! I can also cross one eye any way I want while keeping one eye looking straight on.
#52
Not a joke: I only have one visible testicle. I have something called an ascended testicle iirc where one of my nuts never dropped I guess
I also have a condition called Visual snow where I basically see static in my vision in darker places.
#53
I’ve hiccuped every day since 2007
Edit: this got more traction than I imagined. They aren’t constant all day long, but they happen every day. I’ve gone to some doctors, they ask if I can eat and breathe fine, I say yes, and that’s about it. The only thing that has helped a little is acupuncture! I don’t hiccup QUITE as much. After this long, I don’t mind it all that much. It’s a good ice breaker when I meet people, and a great drinking game when out with friends ?.
#54
I often sneeze when I feel like I’m about to throw up and then the nausea immediately goes away!
#55
I can pop my thumbs out of their sockets and back. .
#56
When I’m really tired, my hands stop working. Dyspraxia is fun.
#57
I’ll try to sum this up ?
My biological father has Juvenile Type 1 Diabetes, so autoimmune. I was tested periodically growing up and was never diagnosed with either Type 1 or 2.
Flash forward to having my first child at 25. No gestational diabetes. Second child at 29. Gestational diabetes during my pregnancy. Follow up lab work showed I was back to normal.
Two years later, I rapidly developed severe PSOD. I need an emergency hysterectomy. Lab work shows I’m Type 2. I continued to be Type
2 until another year after that. I landed in the ER in DKA. The ER doctor came charging in my room demanding to know why I wasn’t taking my insulin. I had NO IDEA that i was Type 1. I had gone through a lot of trauma from right before my 2nd child’s birth until moving back home for support. That’s when I landed in the ER. My immune system and pancreas decided they were finished.
It is a major, major struggle.
#58
I have abnormally high arches on my feet. I knew they were high, but I had torn Achilles a couple years ago and every specialist who looked at my feet was like “holy s**t!”.
#59
I have only half a working heart.
#60
I can crack my toes as many times as I want, with no cooldown.
#61
Club thumb. Look it up. It’s the s**t that Meghan Fox has. F*****g irritates the living f**k out of me. .
#62
I can touch my nose with my tongue.
I can also fold my hands in half by folding my fingers into my palm at their main joints.
Edit: I do not have Ehlers Danlos syndrome. Thank you all for your concern. lol.
#63
I have a botched circumcision. I have 3 skin bridges. Didn’t know I had it till I was 14.
#64
Don’t know how weird it is, but vitiligo.
#65
Probably my head shape, having an oblong head is far from fun, I will snap if I hear a “Why the long face” joke one more time?.
#66
I can pick stuff up w my feet.