Body Quirks

[Trude]

Early onset scoliosis caused by my left and right legs being different lengths. If I were to walk without an insole to balance them out, I'd be back where I started in a few years.
Toenails curve upwards. Great perk, means no ingrown nails.
Hartman hips, extra wide. Coupled with a chest the size of a combine harvester.
Hetereochromia iridis, green + brown.

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.

That, and they make you the centre of attention for way too many unwanted photographs.

 

[Rrido]

When I was little I had (have) a patch of really pale skin without any pigment in my lower groin/bladder area. Birth mark in an odd place and all that.

Best part? Now that I'm a man with hairy bits I have a sizeable patch of white pubic hair. It used to make me self conscious even though no one could see it.

Now I just find it hilariously awkward.

I also have a patch of skin without pigment in my lower groin area. I never really paid any attention to the hairs growing there, but I just checked and they are also completely white.

 

[Yopaz]

Well, there's a slight one that only I notice, but I am right handed. Because of this it's normal that muscles on my right side are slightly bigger than the ones on my right side. This is mostly true with the exception of my triceps. The triceps on my left arm is enormous compared to the one on my right arm.

Then there's my joints of course. Pretty much all of the make cracking noises when I do anything. Gently lift my hands over my head? Crack! Gently move my feet? Crack! It also leads to living with constant pain, but I'm used to it so it doesn't really bother me that much except for on bad days when I am overwhelmed by it.

This is also coupled with uncontrollable muscle actions at times. My fingers might lock in place and cause my thumb to flex until it touches the palm of my hand and my jaw sometimes won't unless I really strain myself and then close quickly when I try to close it again. This is annoying when I want to eat, but this is kinda rare.

This might be incredibly common, but the muscles on my arms form discs that kinda look the same way as love handles. This is hardly visible and I don't spend a lot of time studying people flexing their muscles so it might be normal for what I know, but I think it looks weird.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I have pretty flexible shoulders with the result that I can lick my own elbows. Aren't I talented.

 

[SmallHatLogan]

My second smallest toes (fourth toes?) curl under my middle toes. My father and grandfather have the same thing. I refer to them as my "gimpy toes".

I also get a single hair growing out of the middle of one of my earlobes (I forget which one). Usually it'll get to about an inch long before I notice it and yank it out.

 

[bliebblob]

Mine's quirk is only being the best body in the world!

Not because of looks, it's about a B- in that department, but because:

1) I can eat pretty much whatever I want and not gain weight. With the way I've been eating since I moved to university I should be 300 pounds by now yet I barely gained one.

2) I had quite the growth spurt (not a bad thing in itself) so I got some stretch marks. How is that a good thing? Because they're on my hips and genuinly look like tiger stripes!

3) This is the big one for me. The ability to, apparently, survive anything. I will not go into detail to spare the more squimish amongst you but suffice to say the local emergency room crew probably still knows me by name even though I haven't been there for a few years now. I've had some very real shots at death, paralyzation, and other gruesome things several times by now and yet am still bouncing around with only a few hidden scars to show for it. A body that can do that, I'll gladly take any day. B- looks and all.

 

[Poetic Nova]

I'm a man, but according to this, I'm 110-150% woman.

Seriously, my lower back is arched inward to a ridiculous degree.
The stomach thing checks out.
And my butt is rounded and sticks out enough that, with my back (butt) to a wall, no part of my back or shoulder blades touch the wall.

I've had very bad times trying to find well-fitting clothing because of this shit.

Well, ever since I lost weight I start to notice this aswell. Might be the reason why my back can ache from time to time, dunno. Although my shoulderblades still touch the wall when I try it. But then again my shoulderblades stick out like a sore thumb.

- (From my perspective atleast) I seem to have a large chest, but it might be body dismorphia peeping around the corner.
- Hypermobility in the fingers, I can bend them in unusual ways. Actually scared some people with it when I was younger.
- I cannot tan in the sun, instead I burn within less than 15 minutes.
- Do being colourblind and nightblind count?
- Extremely sensitive to heat aswell. Which means I can gett easily dizzy during days with high temperatures and sometimes just simply black out due to a combination of low blood pressure and a defect in my blood vessels
- Previous point also gives me the side-effect of havign muscle spasms. Luckily not 24/7 but when they occur I can't do my activities like I should.
Last one:
- I was light blond at birth but nowadays it looks rather dark blond, almost brown, gives a nice red-ish glow though, so I canot complain.

 

[DementedSheep]

Edit: Oh I forgot the one that is actually kinda weird. No one I've asked about it knows what it is anyway. I sometimes get "pixilated" or "like static" vision with black and white squares that move like an old TV show or movie. Unusually if I'm very tired.
I'm secretly a poorly made robot sleeper agent maybe? I don't get it that very often now though.

I have nerve damage in one of my feet from steeping on a fishhock that only plays up when I do star jumps. There seems to be something unique about that motion.

I have some stretch marks on my hips though I've never gained or lost weight rapidly. From puberty? I don't know when I got them.

If I draw too long I get lazy eye (it's really really annoying). This doesn't happen with reading.

I've always been able to have my hands flat on the ground comfortably while standing though I don't work at this. Apparently that's unusual.

If I spend time in the sun I get one solid blonde streak at the front, on the left side of my hair. According to my grandmother its a thing on her side of the family and is the part of my hair that will go grey first.

That's all I can think of.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

My arms are fairly short for someone my height and also very thin.
I have fairly tiny hands and short fingers for someone my size as well.
I have a really big... bone in my nose. Its the big bump where the nose meets the brow (can you tell that I got As in two college level human anatomy classes?). My friends all find it freakishly large when they touch it.

And my bones generally seem to be very strong. I've been hit by cars, beaten with bats/fists/boot covered feet, and have fallen out of windows from the second and third floors of houses and haven't broken or even significantly damaged a single bone that the doctors could find.

One of my canine teeth also grew in horizontally in my gum. But thats okay cuz I also had more teeth than usual and an extra tooth that was to the side of my baby canine moved over in its place.
I've lost a few teeth though so now I'm down to 34 including the horizontal canine tooth.

 

[SteveTR]

-My thumbs are both doublejointed.
-My left ankle is a different shape than it should be.
-My left leg is way shorter than my right leg.
-My left long toe never developed fully, so there's a gap between my left big toe and middle toe.
-My face is covered with moles.
-I have moles on my left palm.
-Every time I spend some time by the sea, I get a new mole. You can practically count how many times I've been just by looking at my face.
-I tan really well. I already have a darker complexion, so when I'm tanned, I'm really tanned. Someone once told me that if they didn't know my nationality, they'd think I was Mexican.

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

My body is just so weird, I don't even know where to begin..

I'm extremely flexible in all of my joints. I can, for example, twist my hands around 360 degrees.
I can pull back my feet and place them on my stomach and hold them there without outside pressure.
I can press my fingers into my palms without leaving a gap. People can even squeeze them however hard they like, I wont feel it. Even my thumbs can be put flat into my ..uh.."thumb palm".
I can stand on my bent toes and even walk around.

My hair are all kinds of different colors all over my body.
My eyebrows are transparent, my beard/mustache is red, the hair on my head is ash blond, the hair on my chest is black mixed with transparent, my underarm hair is blond and red, etc.

I've got a patch of skin right below and to the side of my navel that's a slight but noticeably darker pigmentation.
When I was born, I had a birthmark that took up half of one of my ass-cheeks.
(its shrunken down to a more reasonable size now)

I can crack all of my joints, even the my hips and one side of my jaws.

My eyes are grey-green with a "gold-star" around the iris. and excellent night-vision.

You know those bird-scare noises some shops have to keep doves and crows away?
I can't even approach them, the noise is so loud and discomforting.

Oh, I'm also left-handed (but right-footed) and have dimples, and no sense of smell.

That's all I can think of for now..I'm sure I missed some things.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

A lot of people find it hard to discern from which country I am from because my face is so generically European.

I've been suggested of being:
English(moreso because of my accent)
French
German
Polish
Russian
American(no joke)

This could be because of my ancestry(mum & dad Lithuanian, but great-grandad was German, and my great-grandmother was Prussian) and because I was often told by my family(normal and extended) that my face is like a frankenstein mash-up of different parts taken from different relatives(father's eyes, mother's nose, brother's chin, etc.) in a slightly joke-y fashion.

Also, whilst I am pretty tall, I don't look tall. In the sense, that if you saw me from a distance, I would appear normally proportioned.

 

[McElroy]

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

Spoiler

I know there others out there that share my pain.

You actually look very Finnish. Though it's not that impossible to find some rather Asian-looking Finns.

OT: I wouldn't consider myself normal but simply "not quirky". I can crack my joints really well - even my chest (which isn't supposed to have joints?). Intensive machine dance and cycling years got me an impressive Jay Lo ass (if there was a male equivalent, I'd obviously use that expression), but now it has drooped a bit. That's about it.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

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.

much shirt

many goddess

wow

 

[EHKOS]

I have chameleon eyes. There isn't a dominant lazy eye, they just take shifts, and I can switch to which one I want to use. I still get a visual feed from the other one, but I only focus out of one at a time.

My sense of smell is extremely weak, but of course it's fine whenever I walk into a public restroom.

My canines would not come out until the dentist just pulled them. Now one sticks out weird, but it's hardly noticeable because I let my wisdom teeth come in and it really messed up the bottom row.

Apparently Wikipedia doesn't have an entry for this, so maybe it's just taste, but I certainly feel like I have nyctophilia. Also high functioning autism that makes me very sensitive to things like having things in my ears, water, doctor light thing, etc. The only other thing it affects is social interaction, basically wrecked it, but meh.

I too have the thing where if I make a fist every joint in my fingers crackle.

My face is asymmetrical, but that's not a huge thing.

I have inverted nipples, although since I'm a guy it's not something that keeps me up at night, still weird though.

Mmm, probably shouldn't share the last one, let's leave it at unbelievable bad luck.

 

[Saulkar]

I have a distended abdominal wall (not the correct medical term). That means that even when I managed to get my fat levels below 10% my abdomen would extend well past my chest, giving me a gut with a six pack. As I got older and began to eat like a power lifter my fat levels rose above 15% but my abdomen is still extended the same distance proportionate to the rest of me.

Due to my sensory defensiveness I could never allow my pant-line to put pressure under my waist (muffin top) so I learned early on to constantly suck my gut in. Ten years later and I actually need to think to let my gut come out otherwise my abdomen is completely flat with no bulge and a healthy 2pack/parallel bars. The plus side is that it turns out that doing so sufficiently supplemented my normal abdominal workouts so that I can deadlift and squat more than a person my size normally does without a belt.

Oh, and if you did not notice already, I am sensory defensive to the Nth degree.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

I had chicken pox twice as a young'un and the second time they became infected. I've got round chicken-pox scars all over my body.

Honestly, I've grown to love them.

 

[Frankster]

I've got wider hips then usual for a guy to go along with naturally more muscly legs which makes me look out of proportion compared to the ideal inverse V shape an "ideal" guy should have.
Oh I'm also extremely flexible at my legs for w/e reason (usually stronger limbs are less flexible I thought, but this is another reason why I genuinely like my mighty legs).

I also seem to have prominent spine, once in a fight with a dude, one of his friends tried punching my back and in reflex I puffed out my back slightly and the guy hit the ridges of my spine and was howling in pain and holding his fist as if he had hit a brick wall. Oh my side I didn't feel anything for w/e reason, it must have hit my spine "just right".

 

[Nouw]

One eye has a double eyelid, the other doesn't. It was a strange day when I woke up to see that, let me tell you! It was surprising how much of an impact your eyes can have on your face; I covered each side and one looked significantly more cheerful than the other. 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.

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Welp, that's another. I've always wondered whether it was normal but at least now I can take comfort in that half the population shares this form.

 

[DanielBrown]

My fingers and toes are a bit crooked. The fingers hurt a lot as well, which will only increase as I get older... It's supposedly some genetic bullshit that runs in the family. My grandmother have it, but I can't remember the name.

Apart from that I can also make my eyes shake wildly and move my ears slightly!