Body Quirks

[Phasmal]

I can put my thumb behind my knuckle. Grosses everyone out at work.

Oh I can also bend the top joint of my fingers independently of the rest of it, which apparently most people cannot do. I didn't realise this until I was bout 14 and messing around with a finger puppet and made it nod and scarred a friend for life.

I don't get why people are grossed out by double-jointedness. It doesn't hurt me to do it, so why is it freaky?

Also my ankles occasionally `NOPE` out from under me, usually when I am on the stairs. And everyone in my family has a dodgy knee.

... I'm broken.

 

[Darren716]

Well I'm pretty damn tall (6' 4") and I have a webbing in between my left hand's ring finger and middle finger that goes up to the knuckle on each finger, it's been there since I was born and it always has grown proportionate to my body. It's really unnoticeable though, hell I forget about it most of the time unless I have to do some sort of unique fact about you thing for a class or something.

Not my hand but pretty much the same thing

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[Bestival]

I've had 2 ribs cut out on my right side. Which is unusual enough, sure, but it also causes my abdominal muscle to sometimes shift and pop under my sternum when I bend down in certain ways. Which hurts. Happens more often when I've trained my abs a bit.

I can also put my feet backwards while standing. Which is a great trick to preform when drunk, for other drunks.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

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.

Oh wow, that is weird. Has anyone tried poking them with a needle? As bad of an idea as that might be, I couldn't help but want to try that.

OT: I have a disorder called Acrocyanosis, it's a disorder where blood pools in my extremities causing discoloration. It happens in both my hands and feet, but it's most obvious in my hands, particularly when it gets cold. Normally they're a deep red color, but when it gets cold it gets very blue around the veins, and colors like orange and pink are thrown in there as well. Also, if you put any pressure on the skin that section turns completely white and pale for several seconds.

Right now it's too warm for it to be noticeable, but I'll give a picture of what it normally looks like:

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And here's what it looks like when some pressure's put on a spot:

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I also have an unusual dent in my sternum, not really big, but it's clear that something's not right

 

[Tiger King]

I inherited my dads hair, it's really thick and I cant do much with it but the chances of me going bald are very very slim.

not much of quirk but I do have a funny tale to tell.

roll back about 8 years.....
I was in a pub with a friend and these this girl was commenting on how she liked my nickname and hair, saying how thick it was.
the girl goes off for a smoke when this guy squares up to me and says.
"back off she's mine"
I reply with
"sorry mate we was just talking, is she your girlfriend?"
to which he replied
"no, but she is coming home with me tonight"

so yeah...weirdo....!

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I can put my thumb behind my knuckle. Grosses everyone out at work.

Oh I can also bend the top joint of my fingers independently of the rest of it, which apparently most people cannot do. I didn't realise this until I was bout 14 and messing around with a finger puppet and made it nod and scarred a friend for life.

I don't get why people are grossed out by double-jointedness. It doesn't hurt me to do it, so why is it freaky?

Also my ankles occasionally `NOPE` out from under me, usually when I am on the stairs. And everyone in my family has a dodgy knee.

... I'm broken.

My right ankle gives out on me all the time, if it doesn't give me shooting pain. Which means my left ankle has tendonitis because of my right ankle, so I can't wear heels ever.

Sometimes I don't know which leg to limp on. :/

OT: My knees crack every time I bend down to the ground.

They've always been like that even as a kid, and I've gotten pretty used to it. When people hear it they always comment on how gross it sounds, and they think I hurt something. Nope, it's just the way they want to behave.

 

[Alcom1]

I have a single hair on the underside of my forearm that's white and grows about as long as my palm (fingers and all).

I have the same thing except it's on the back of my left shoulder.

Besides that, I have visible pieces of my eyebrows missing, my right thumb is half an inch shorter than the left.

 

[Fdzzaigl]

I have ginger hair which is also extremely thick and curly (most gingers have rather thin hair). In addition to that my brows, lashes, everything are also very noticeably ginger. Which gives me an unusual appearance that most people comment on. Adding to all of that, my hair (especially facial hair) grows back unbelievably fast.

Other than that, I actually don't get sunburn as fast as most blondes: I do get a tan and have fairly little freckles.

Lastly, I am naturally build in a fairly muscular and bulky way and have little trouble maintaining that.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Descending from a long line of The Oirish and Germans, I have almost no pigmentation in my body. To the point where I'm not white.. more like "kind of red". I have never tanned in my life. Unlike what you'd get if you asked a tourist or a foreigner, Scotland gets pretty damn hot in the summer, sort of like a cold day in Spain, and if you stay out for long enough you can work up a pretty good tan.

Not for me. Five minutes, I burn, and I spend a week itching, crying and drinking Pepsi on a couch, afraid to move in case I burn myself more.

My knees also crack a lot, I think I have a weirdly large head, and people who've known me for years, can usually only say "average... I guess?" or "blegh" when being asked about my appearance, coming up with literally nothing. I get weird rashes when I'm around that moss that grows when there's fresh air, and I'm left handed. I also have a natural aversion to repetetive or loud sounds, and I'm pretty sure I have oddly wide hips for a man. I also have letharger's, which means the tendons in my ankle and back of the foot haven't developed properly, and I've seen the treatments they do that for that. Ok with the dodgy ankle, thank you.

Wow. I'd only ever noticed these things from time to time, but now that I've actually listed them, it reminds me how shitty I am.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

I'm a lummox.
I'm only about 5,11 but I'm barrel chested and broad shouldered with big ol' hands and feet.

I don't walk as much as I lumber. Combined with what friends assure me is a severe case of "Resting grouch face." I've come to accept that most folks assume I've just come down the beanstalk in search of fresh bones for me bread.

 

[Nouw]

I also have really long fingernails and I don't mean the white tips, I mean the actual pink nail. My fingertips are my nails, except for my thumbs, and if you were to cut them any further it'd be taking off the actual finger. Finger-modelling is therefore my back-up career.

You don't happen to be African or have some African blood in you(maybe a family secret has just been revealed!)?
I remember a thread on this site where a black guy complained about having issues playing with console controllers because his nails were connected to the tip of his fingers. Apparently black people have generally slimmer and longer fingers, where the nails go all the way up. Genetic advantage for digging or something!
Haven't exactly spent my life studying hands, but I checked some pictures after his statement and it seemed to be correct.

Hmmm nope I'm full Korean. That's really interesting though, never heard of that explanation before. Might have to do some digging into the family line now haha.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

One of my legs is a bit shorter than the other, and I tend to walk kind of funny because of it.

My nose is crooked as if it'd been broken in the past, but it hasn't; it also has a thin line-shaped "trench" across it.

My left ring finger curves slightly to the right.

I also have a natural cowlick.

 

[FPLOON]

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

Is that... unusual? I can go past 90, and I'm not what you'd call flexible. I can form a >180 degree angle with my feet while keeping my knees together. I honestly have no idea if this is unusual or not.

Wait... THAT'S ">180 degrees"?

I admit I have NO IDEA how to judge my leg twisting by degrees, since it's not something I think about when I do it... All I know is that there's always one foot facing the complete opposite direction than the other whenever I do decide to twist one of my legs...

Then again, I usually don't think of the stuff my body can do that others can't do, let alone what my body looks like in comparison to an "average body", as "quirks" per se... otherwise, I would be saying that I can [legit] snap my fingers using any one combination of thumb and finger on each hand... (or how my butt has very "feminine" curves, according to the one person who caught me [naturally] tweaking in my living room...)

 

[RedDeadFred]

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Wow
Such shirt
very want
much covet

...Sorry

OT: My calf muscles are gigantic in comparison to the rest of my muscles. I'm assuming it's because being in a marching band for several years. They won't shrink. It's really annoying for skiing since most ski boots aren't designed with freakish calves in mind.

 

[Rattja]

My body is surprisingly durable, which is odd considering I am not exactly taking good care of it.
I've gone on a 4 hour hike in the mountains after 3 days with next to no food without even stopping to rest.
I can't remember last time I was sick and never broken anything. Also any wounds I get seem to heal rather rapidly.

Other than that, I can click/crack just about any joint in my body, even my jaw.

Most of the time I walk on my toes, my heels normaly only touch the ground when I am standing still and need the extra stability.

I've also a major case of restless legs, which tends to happen when I get excited.

Oh and I can't arm wrestle, as my arm just locks up and refuses to go down in that angle. If where you begin is 90* I can get it down to 45* and then it stops.

 

[syaoran728]

The end of my urethra has a slight upward tilt. Basically if I aim directly forward I get a small upward arc rather than it going straight down.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

-7.5 in eye sight QQ

I am developing a bald spot at the tender age of 26. Fucking genetics. Thanks dad!

Started that nonsense at 21 or 22.
Some bullshit...

C'est la vie.

20 for me

 

[Mau95]

I'm missing a few wisdom teeth. Oh, and I have Crohn's disease.