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BeerTent

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I have a rather large, round and strange birth-mark on my right shoulder. Sometimes when people see it, they're like... "Uhhh... What the fuck happened to YOU?!"

"Dunno. But sometimes it randomly bleeds."

Other than that one quirk, and my coke-bottle glasses, I am largely unremarkable. A lot of people also say I'm damn hot without glasses, but I'm too much of a coward for Laser Eye Surgery.
 

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Despite being female, I have rather broad shoulders. Personally, I happen to like my shoulders, but apparently, the women's fashion industry disagrees, as I often find that men's clothing actually fits me better. For most women's clothing, a shirt with either fit my shoulders or the rest of my torso, but almost never both.

I also have moderate scoliosis. The last I checked, I have a 37-degree curve in my lower spine, which shifted the placement of my hips and created a muscle crunch on a fair portion of the right side of my body. It affects my gait, posture (especially the natural placement of my hips and shoulders), flexibility, and gave me more pronounced body curves, so I'm somewhat self-conscious about it. Most people don't notice my back though, so it isn't that extreme, I suppose.


Jolly Co-operator said:
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 actually have the same problem; I can't snap with my right (dominant) hand, but I have no issue snapping with my left. My left wrist is also significantly more flexible than my right at the moment, but I think that has more to do with the possibility of having a wrist injury (I'm a percussionist, and I've been having issues with it lately) than my default status.
 

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BeerTent said:
I have a rather large, round and strange birth-mark on my right shoulder. Sometimes when people see it, they're like... "Uhhh... What the fuck happened to YOU?!"

"Dunno. But sometimes it randomly bleeds."

Other than that one quirk, and my coke-bottle glasses, I am largely unremarkable. A lot of people also say I'm damn hot without glasses, but I'm too much of a coward for Laser Eye Surgery.
You could try lenses, I mean they're basically just pieces of glass that you'd be sticking into your eyes. Perfectly harmless.

OT: Not many quirks here,

I'm quite tall, just over two meters, but considering I'm Dutch that's not all that exceptional. I can't really gain weight either, regardless of how much I eat.

Also not all that good at noticing pain. Tend to occasionally get scratched with absolutely no idea of how, where and when it happened.
 

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BeerTent said:
Other than that one quirk, and my coke-bottle glasses, I am largely unremarkable. A lot of people also say I'm damn hot without glasses, but I'm too much of a coward for Laser Eye Surgery.
I actually was kinda the same way. My vision was still considered "useless nearsightedness" as my doctor called it, but I wasn't too far into the extremes in terms of prescription (I was around -4.50, if I recall correctly). However, my dad had Laser Eye Surgery and insisted that I get it for myself. To the point that I caved and got a consultation, and next thing I know, I had a surgery scheduled for six days later. I can't complain though, because I was on the fence about it anyways and my experience with it was generally positive. I was always very squeamish about the eyes, but the procedure I had was a newer form of surgery that was 100% a surface procedure, so it wasn't quite as intimidating. The anesthetic used for those surgeries tend to give people amnesia of the entire procedure too (I asked for a lower dose of anesthetic, so I was pretty much completely lucid and remember everything), so as long as you can tolerate the recovery, it isn't bad.
 

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I can partially dislocate the left side of my jaw, or something. If I move my jaw just right, the left side pops slightly out of position with a noticeable jerk.
 

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


I know there others out there that share my pain.

"Oh, how's that Asian guy you were with."

"He's not Asian."

"Are you sure?"
My friend is a part of that club, he looks somewhat like Genghis Khan if Genghis Khan came from just outside Glasgow (very pale, slightly overweight and in a Slayer shirt).

I have vitiligo- patches of skin where there are no pigment. It means that my right eyelashes are pure white, I have a streak of white hair and there are loads of parts of me that are really pale. I'm not entirely sure that's what it is though- I have a few patches of permanently tanned skin as well, although fewer. There's one big one on my hip that's extra tanned and has weirdly thick, dark body hair on it.

I'm also proportioned like a Hobbit. I'm a bit below average height, but I have massive (hairy) feet (size 10.5 on the right and 11 on the left) and massive hands.
 

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Due having broken my second-from-the-left toe on my left foot innumerable times, I can no longer move it, and my little toe on the same foot has the same problem but I don't know why, only that it happened after a day of sledging during a particularly cold winter. No frostbite or anything, but something's clearly up.
 

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Well... i recently found out that i do indeed have a huge head, no normal cap will fit, it just falls off, i was sad because they gave me one at work last week
I have very tiny hands, almost no handles feel good to me
I can move my little toes out to the side, never seen anyone do that
I also have something... odd on my adams apple, i can make loud clucking noises when i move my throat up and down
I alsoes have pretty scary teeth on one side, sharklike, like;
http://www.lowcountrygeologic.com/FossilSharkTeeth/Carcharoclesangustidens/tabid/53/fossil/1276/Default.aspx
 

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My teeth are unusually sharp, I can lick my own elbow by twisting it around, and I can twist my leg 180 degrees in totally the wrong direction, but only on the right hand side for those last two.
 

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Doclector said:
My teeth are unusually sharp
Have they ever been mistaken for "vampire teeth"? Because, my teeth have been called that by my dentist a "few" time... and he was being serious about it...
 

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FPLOON said:
Doclector said:
My teeth are unusually sharp
Have they ever been mistaken for "vampire teeth"? Because, my teeth have been called that by my dentist a "few" time... and he was being serious about it...
Not really, not so focused on the canines. The only ones that don't look freakishly sharp are my front teeth, and my wisdom teeth.
 

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I have serious bitchface, and my ears aren't symmetrical, but apart from those minor aesthetic imperfections, I do pretty well, to be honest.
 

Porygon-2000

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Huh. You know, I may be perfectly normal and regular. When it comes to my body anyway.

My head is another matter entirely.
 

Nickolai77

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The fingers on my right hand are thicker than the one's on my left...I have no idea why.

I also have a really dodgy immune system which means I have eczema, asthma (fortunately mild conditions) and a weird allergy to certain foods like some nuts. Brazil nuts will give me a very bad day, but I am fine with food cooked in peanut oil and eating almonds.

Physiologically though my body doesn't really have any abnormalities asides from the fingers on my right hand.
 

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I can wiggle my ears, not sure how odd that is because my brother can do it too. I can also make my entire scalp move, again not sure if everyone can do that, but it's very noticeable with me. I've had several people tell me it's very freaky.

Not too long ago I had half my face become paralyzed for a month, when I closed my eyes only my left one actually closed the right one just rolled back into my head. I didn't realize this until my sister asked me if I was doing it on purpose.

Oh & being a redhead kinda sucks. The ladies seem to love the hair, but these numerous skin problems can die in a fucking fire.
 

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Musette said:
BeerTent said:
Other than that one quirk, and my coke-bottle glasses, I am largely unremarkable. A lot of people also say I'm damn hot without glasses, but I'm too much of a coward for Laser Eye Surgery.
I actually was kinda the same way. My vision was still considered "useless nearsightedness" as my doctor called it, but I wasn't too far into the extremes in terms of prescription (I was around -4.50, if I recall correctly). However, my dad had Laser Eye Surgery and insisted that I get it for myself. To the point that I caved and got a consultation, and next thing I know, I had a surgery scheduled for six days later. I can't complain though, because I was on the fence about it anyways and my experience with it was generally positive. I was always very squeamish about the eyes, but the procedure I had was a newer form of surgery that was 100% a surface procedure, so it wasn't quite as intimidating. The anesthetic used for those surgeries tend to give people amnesia of the entire procedure too (I asked for a lower dose of anesthetic, so I was pretty much completely lucid and remember everything), so as long as you can tolerate the recovery, it isn't bad.
Oh, good god, I didn't even think about the anesthetic. Nope, Nope, Nope. They probably inject that shit straight into the eye.

I can handle losing an arm, or copious amounts of blood, gore, or what have you... But anything around the eyes? Nope. I can't handle it. I get squeamish, lost my apatite, and got visibly sick during that particular scene in Final Destination pertaining this topic. I'm not even sure if I can do the recovery, as every little thing I do is on electronics.

EDIT: I do however, do thank you for trying to convince me, but unless there's the option to knock my ass out cold throughout the procedure, I don't think I'm brave enough for it.
 

Musette

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BeerTent said:
Oh, good god, I didn't even think about the anesthetic. Nope, Nope, Nope. They probably inject that shit straight into the eye.

I can handle losing an arm, or copious amounts of blood, gore, or what have you... But anything around the eyes? Nope. I can't handle it. I get squeamish, lost my apatite, and got visibly sick during that particular scene in Final Destination pertaining this topic. I'm not even sure if I can do the recovery, as every little thing I do is on electronics.

EDIT: I do however, do thank you for trying to convince me, but unless there's the option to knock my ass out cold throughout the procedure, I don't think I'm brave enough for it.
Yeah, I can respect not wanting to go near that! (That image captures the first time someone ever tried to get me to put on contacts, actually.) I have a brother who won't even entertain the idea of getting an eye surgery, so I don't try to talk people into the surgery as much as I try to just inform, since my experience was not nearly as intimidating as most would expect.

There is anesthetic for the eyes, but they come in the form of eye drops instead of a syringe, fortunately. The anesthetic I was referring to came from an IV placed in the arm, which actually mellows you out a bit too, and I think most people don't tend to remember the procedure much at all because of it. Unfortunately, an eye surgery can't really be performed on someone unconscious (I think the doctors said that the eyes roll to the back of the head or something), so you probably won't have your ideal eye surgery anytime in the near future.

I guess for me, I was mostly scared of LASIK after watching a video of the procedure when I was 12 (it did more to terrify me than any horror media ever could), so LASEK wasn't quite as intimidating in comparison. One letter difference in the name is the difference between whether or not they cut into your eye or not; My experience with the surgery itself was basically "look at this blinking dot" with not much else to it.

The initial recovery was admittedly not that pleasant for me though. Pain and boredom should not mix, and you're told to avoid reading, video games, operating a computer, or really going outside much for the first few days. The one way they recommended to pass the time was TV, but that bothered my eyes too, so there was nothing to occupy my mind for the first two or three days. I also had to take a copious amount of eye drops; in fact, I had to take one particular eye drop, appropriately named FML (Fluorometholone), for 10 weeks afterwards.

Also, I have never seen Final Destination, but I'm still pretty squeamish about the eyes to this day, so I'll be sure to a avoid watching that scene.
 

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Well it was when I was a little kid I used to have this problem where my arm would just randomly pop out of socket (Or it would pop out if someone tugged at my arm a little too much) at the elbow leaving my lower arm completely useless. It never hurt, but it was freaky. According to my mom the doctor said that sort of thing was normal for children my age, one part of my arm was growing faster than the other so that is why it would happen. I was generally fine though, had to wear slings when it happened so my arm could ease itself back in... Save one time when I was taken to the hospital and they put it back in... Where I screamed bloody murder the whole time. DX

I also... Am a zombie. A long while ago in my first year of High School I got bit on the ankle by a bunch of fire ants. Blisters formed of course, being an idiot I decided to just pop them and use ointmint. I figured they would pop anyways and just wanted the discomfort over with. Turns out popping one of them caused an angry... Welt, I guess? Appropritately enough it looked like a burn. So that had to heal up for a good while... And then I also nicked it while shaving my legs. When it finally healed proper I was left with a little slightly dark spot on my ankle, if you press on it it sinks, like there isn't any flesh there. So thus... I am a zombie.

Oh yeah and I have kinda odd proportions, I have a slightly longer torso than most or my legs are shorter. So a lot of pants tend to be baggy at the ankle much to my frustration.
 

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Let see, I have so little body fat, that I cannot float. I can also grasp items with my toes, as a kid that's how I turned on my TV, and changed channels. Back then my TV actually had dials. If it's completely dark I can see perfectly without wearing my glasses. I have redundant ureters, it is the tube that connects the Kidneys to the bladder. Most people have one per Kidney, I have two for each Kidney. My sense of smell is so sensitive that I can pick up the smell of blood, even if it's only a few drops.