Body Quirks

[Eamar]

My knees crack. Like, REALLY crack. If I crouch down quickly, people on the other side of the room with rush over and ask if I'm ok, as it really sounds like I must have damaged something and be in a lot of pain (it's actually completely painless though). My parents thought it was just something that would stop when I finished growing, but it never did.

Also my calves are asymmetrical. It looks like one calf connects to my knee much lower down than the other one, though as far as I can tell it's just an optical illusion created by the muscles being very different shapes for some reason.

 

[Frission]

I beat all of you! Fear me, because I'm ...

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left handed!

I also have alot of beauty marks I guess? I mean there isn't a set standard for "normal" bodies apart from the bare minimum.

 

[Caiphus]

kind of sticky-outy

I'm afraid that's not the correct medical term.

fucking mahoosive

There we go. That's better.

OT:
I have weird thumbs. They're sort of hitchhiker's thumbs, but I can barely raise them if I keep them straight.

Pic:

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That's as far as I can raise my left thumb.
Also that picture makes my hands look gigantic. They're actually regular sized.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Hmmm, weirdest thing about this mortal coil I inhabit is probably how I've always been able to do that Butterfly stretch without any difficulties. Aside from that, I'm hopelessly normal. I WANT DOUBLE JOINTS DAGNIT

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

I have a big hairy brown birth mark on my shoulder blade. It's hideous. Like, most people have birthmarks, but mine is like as wide as my palm. I hate taking my shirt off in front of people because of this.

I have very long legs compared to my torso, but that's not too unusual.

I have several scars on my head from a dog bite when I was 2, but I don't know if that counts since I wasn't born with it.

Oh, also, it turns out I have this weird bald patch on my face. I recently grew out my beard longer than I ever have before, but it looks wonky because of this dime-sized spot on my jaw that just grows no hair. It's bizarre and aggravating, because I want a good manly beard but I don't think I will ever have a proper one.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

I can only snap my fingers with my left hand, although I'm right-handed. That's some X-Men level weirdness, isn't it?

 

[DaWaffledude]

I can move my right big toe independently of the others, but not my left.

 

[Sheen Lantern]

One of my collarbones sticks out farther than the other. That's about it.

I WANT DOUBLE JOINTS DAGNIT

Oh, yes. It's absolutely lovely to have tons of double joints and preternatural flexibility. I especially love the arthritis at age 16 and having to pop my kneecaps back into place after any sort of physical activity.

Trust me, you're better off without.

 

[lacktheknack]

I have thighs that are the size of some people's torsos. ;_____;

My face naturally falls into a sort of "murder everything" scowl on occasion, which has been known to scare aquaintences and make kids cry.

I can only snap my fingers with my left hand, although I'm right-handed. That's some X-Men level weirdness, isn't it?

I just tried this, and it worked exactly the same way.

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

 

[JimB]

Alongside the shin of my right leg are two...inflatable spots. I've taken them to doctors and no one has any idea what's up. If I hunker down, these two spots swell up into domes about the size of ping pong balls cut in half, and they're very hollow, offering no resistance when you use your finger to poke deep dimples into them. It's like I have two air pockets installed in my leg. Weird as hell.

 

[JimB]

I belong to the very exclusive club of white people who kind of look like Asian people.

I...guess.

That's a fucking amazing shirt, though.

 

[JimB]

Dammit, double post. My bad. Sorry.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

All of the joints in my fingers crack whenever I close my hand into a fist, my second toes are significantly longer than my large toes, and all developments to do with my teeth happen years later than they should. I also have horrible hip flexibility but that doesn't really count.

 

[FPLOON]

I... honestly don't know what my real voice sounds like anymore...

Other than that... uh... I can twist either one of my legs a full 90 degrees...

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

One of my knee joints starts doing a deep click if I get up and start moving sometimes. It's like it's trying and failing to change gear.
I have a small burn mark on my right hand I've had since I was 3 from sticking my hand in a bonfire. Atleast that's how I remember it. No one else in my family remembers the event or how I got this mark.
A few people used and still think I look A-

I belong to the very exclusive club of white people who kind of look like Asian people, but don't have any Asian relatives.

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I'M NOT ALONE!

 

[Ieyke]

Let's see...
I work out basically never, but I'm a a fairly hulking muscley viking thing "just because", I guess.
Fairly tall at 6'1".
My entire skeleton seems to be unusually thick and sturdy.
Never broken a single bone, despite getting launched from cars onto the road, falling from stupid heights, and hurting myself/almost dying in all manner of different ways.
I have a form of heterochromia where my eyes are blue with gold rims around the pupils.
I have Royal Toe/Greek Toe, which is real handy for using my feet kinda like hands and seemingly being the source of my amazing balance, but apparently it's the reason I put weight on the wrong part of my feet when running or walking.
I have loads of scars all over my hands and wrists, simply because I use them like wrecking balls and don't worry about hurting them.
Also have several other random scars here and there.
I have an extra vertebrae in my back.
I'm capable of a whole list of "1 in 10000 people can _____" type stuff. Thumbs that bend backwards, stupid tongue tricks, able to outright stand on my hands if I bend over with my legs straight, etc etc.
I had bright blonde hair when I was born, but now it's brown.....and my beard is redish...
I can bend just the last joint on every finger simultaneously.
I can pop almost every joint in my body without applying outside force, and many of them in alternate ways WITH outside force.
I have almost no sense of smell.
I can hum and whistle at the same time.
My left knee is kinda fucked up, as opposed to the years it spent very fucked up after I lost a fight with a fence and gravity.
Asumming studies have produced accurate statistics, my junk is quite large...but looks completely ordinary on my huge frame.
I have a powerful "death grip" that has stumped and annoyed master martial artists trying to use me as an example for training in how to disarm someone. Something I suspect might be a byproduct of just how I grip my steering wheel when I drive.
I'm balding pretty solidly, and I'm only 27 :/ Naturally the rest of my body has no such problem.
I don't sun burn. I flash fry. 5 minutes in the sun can leave me red.
I have great dark vision.
According to my friend, who makes/fits glasses for people as her job, everyone's face is slightly asymmetrical/lopsided in some noticeable way...except mine. She says that's super weird. Fine by me.

That's all I can think of...

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I have photophobia, "an abnormal intolerance to light". It's nothing you might notice though, it just means that my glasses are more expensive.

 

[GabeZhul]

I only have peripheral vision in my left eye. No one really knows why, but probably because of some sort of nerve damage when I was still young. I can still see on my left side, but because I only have one eye with and actual fovea I have to depth perception or 3D vision. This have some nice side effects (apparently my brain is rewired to correct for the lack of stereoscopic vision and thus I am much better with optical illusions and to me looking at a game or movie on a screen looks like as if it was on the other side of a window, which kind of help immersion) and some not so nice (I am legally blind on my left eye so it restricts me in getting some licenses and I am pretty much barred from all the VR whatchamacallits that make most of you guys squee all over).

Also, if we are at that, I have no sense of smell. The proper term is anosmia, and I apparently suffer from it because my nasal passages are constantly inflamed because all year around (either because of the cold or because allergies). Because of that I cannot tell if I smell, if I should air my room, or even if food in the fridge is good or not.
But the worst part? Since this one is not completely permanent, sometimes my sense of smell temporarily returns, and it's a torture. It's like those tales when people who were deaf since birth (or at least for a long time) somehow regain their hearing and couldn't sleep for days because of the noises that wouldn't even register with normal people. -.-'

Oh, and I also have a my canines protruding from above my small molars, any our dentist couldn't do anything about them beside pulling them out because my teeth are so soft (a genetic trait that apparently comes from my mother's side of the family) that he couldn't attach braces to them in fear that they would break apart.

So yeah, my body is kind of a wreck...

 

[Aarun]

Perhaps not a "quirk" per say, but as a result of going from being overweight to quickly underweight, I currently have the remains of the ol' man-boobs... The most annoying part of which is that they only really exist around my nipples. Like, seriously, I have little breasts just around my nipples.

Not sure why, but on my left side it looks like I'm either missing a rib or it dips in a bit, as there's quite a noticeable asymmetrical nature to it.

I have a scar on my right palm that, when soaked in water for an extended period of time, will "open" tiny holes in my hand, sort of like Morbius in one of the old Spider-Man animated series (although nowhere near that severe and situated towards the lower portion of my hand).

There's definitely other things, but I just can't think of them right now.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Dimples.
I don't know what is it about them, BUT I F***ING HATE THEM. To me they make my smiles look unavoidably sarcastic and smug and I just want to punch myself in the face because I assume I'm just some asshole looking for a fight irl.

My arms are very long, yet I can't stretch far enough to touch my toes. A conspiracy is what it is.

Most of my joints stretched out can make noisy snaps with very little movement.
My fingers, snap. Arm stretched, snap. Neck stretched, oh you bet it's gonna be a big snap!
Depending on which, it's either a loud/silent crack that can catch a silent crowd's attention. It freaks people out, I love it.

My high metabolism is (still) immensely high. I simply do not gain fat, and when I work out for a whole week, I most certainly WILL gain muscle.

And my eyebrow's hair fades away as they go away from the middle of my face. This one... I never get made fun of for some reason. I seem to be the only one in the universe aware of my half eyebrows.