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People like to feel special in some regard. When we're kids, it's about having the latest and most popular toy. When we're teenagers, we want to be popular or stand out from the crowd by being different from everyone else. Listening to and gatekeeping pretentious, obscure bands was my thing, personally, but there's no judgment among Pandas, right?
In a couple of threads online, people started sharing what makes them different from everybody else. The answers to the question "What are you in the 1% of?" varied: people covered everything from genetics, unique experiences, and, of course, some morbid stuff.
But what exclusive club do you belong to, dear Pandas? Don't forget to share with us in the comments and let us know what makes you special!
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#1
I had pancreatic cancer last year. Out of 10,000 patients they normally find 100 who have another form of this cancer who kill a little slower, like in 2 years instead of months.
I was one of the hundred. Out of those, normally 15 can have surgery. I was one of them.
Out of those 15, some die and some come back to basically normal life.
That's about a 0.07% chance in all.
I am still one of them. I should be dead by now. 🙂.
#2
Mine's pretty godawful. I have 2 uteruses.
Edit: lot of people asking why I put up with it till I was around 33. *I* *didn't* *know* . Because doctors don't listen to women complaining of menstrual issues, is why. The endless pain and bleeding? Suck it up, take 3 Advil not two (holla). Starting at age 12. Till I lucked into a rare empathetic gynecologist who, since I'd always known I was uninterested in parenting, offered me a minimally invasive (just removes the top of the uterus, the rest of me stayed there) hysterectomy to stop the pain and hemorrhaging. And in doing the surgery, he discovered what no other doctor had cared enough to find.
I love that guy!
N.B. in the States, it is rare and usually extraordinarily difficult for a young woman who has not borne children to get a voluntary hysterectomy. Criminal.
Fishpanda (fish/panda/it) 1 month ago (edited)
US needs better women's rights. A lot of surgeries that have to do with the uterus are refused for one stupid reason or another.
#3
I have a double gene mutation that makes me highly resistant or even immune to the HIV virus.
Fishpanda (fish/panda/it) 1 month ago
I've been reading a lot of books on HIV for an essay recently. This is an amazing trait to have.
#4
I fell off a 100 foot cliff and landed head first on rocks.
Broke my neck and back. Smashed up a lot of my body. Had to travel about a mile to find help immediately after the fall. Doctor said I caused more damage by trying to walk for help, but would have bled out if I stayed where I fell. 15 months later, I am power lifting and ran a half marathon. Should not be alive, much less be able to walk.
EDIT:
How: Camping on a mountain. Found a spot to lay down and observe the stars. Had to pee, stepped into woods, lost my footing. Geronimo.
Injuries: Head was scalped. Huge piece of flesh was just hanging off my head. Must have been a sight to the folks who's door I knocked on in the middle of the night for help. Neck was broken and had to wear an immobilizing neck brace for many months 24/7, as they were concerned surgery may cause more damage. Initially a had a loss of sensation in my hands. Multiple vertebrae were broken, one had broken into over a dozen pieces. The neurosurgeon figures at impact my body folded in half causing that one to essentially explode. I had to have spinal fusion and relearn how to walk after. Multiple ribs broken.
Recovery: At first I essentially lived in one of those geriatric chairs that lift you up to stand. I could barely get around with a walker. Sitting on the toilet was the most excruciating thing. At some point it turned into laxative use and stand in the shower. I couldn't bend or care for myself much in any way. Some of my friends think that being a Marine made me tough enough to survive this, but I credit an inherent stubbornness to never give up. I constantly pushed through the pain to get myself to the next level. From walker, to cane, to walking sticks. The neurosurgeon told me the best thing I could do for physical therapy was walk, so boy did I. At first I could barely make it to the end of the block and back, then a quarter mile, then on and on. Every hard effort day required a day or two of sitting in the chair and suffering through the pain. Got off meds the moment that I could stand to. 5 months after the accident I got on a treadmill and tried to run. The impacts were excruciating, but I kept coming back for more and more. At 10 months I was able to race in a 5K on memorial day in honor of a fallen veteran. I raced my heart out and was able to run it in less than 30 minutes. I immediately began half marathon training and at 14 months was able to finish at about 2 hours and 40 minutes. Started back to lifting serious weights at about 11 months and here I am in month 16 about to become a member of the 1000 pound club. (Bench press, deadlift, and squat all totaling 1000 pounds.) I still deal with pain regularly and I have a lot of discomfort that makes sleep challenging. I've still got a couple of months until the bones reached 100% of their healing potential.
It's been quite a journey. Never give up my friends!
#6
I’m one of only @200 deaf pilots in the world and one of only four (that are commonly known of) in the world with Commercial & Instrument training.
I’m also one of the only deaf people who hold both a pilots license and a commercial drivers license.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 month ago
So I just learned something new because of this post. I was under the impression that in order to hold a commercial driver's license CDL, one has to pass a hearing exam, but in 2013 a law was passed allowing deaf people to apply for a hearing waiver which includes other documents. This is awesome for all those in the non hearing community.
#7
Only 2% of pregnant women experience 2 miscarriages in a row. Only 1% of women experience 3 miscarriages is a row. I have had 5 miscarriages in a row and I fully hate any type of statistics now. Statistics used to make me feel safe. Now I just know how easy it is to be on the wrong side of them.
Edit: Thank you for sharing your support and your stories. I feel for so many of you that also make up the 1% (or less than 1% I guess). Sending all the love and healing your way if you’re in this same sucky boat as me.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 month ago
This is so awful. I know from experience how dismissive doctors can be of women who've just experienced a miscarriage. In general, as a male person, I feel like women got the sh*t end of the stick in most things in our society. I don't know why people as educated as doctors have to pile onto the trauma (speaking from personal experience of two miscarriages)
#8
Survival. I fell 25 feet out of a window when I was about 2 years old. I’ve also been hit by a car that was traveling over 50mph/80.4kmh. I’ve had two near drownings. I was also held hostage at gun point for over three hours. All if these things happened before my 14th birthday.
#9
Genetics. A red head with ab- blood and hazel eyes. I’m a walking recessive gene.
Sinclair13 1 month ago (edited)
I have blonde hair, ab- blood, and green eyes. My second toe is also longer than my first toe.
#10
I’ve been in 2 helicopter crashes and 1 plane crash. There is only a small group of people who have survived that many crashes. I’m also not a pilot.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
Don't take this the wrong way, but I am not getting on a flight with you.
#11
I suffer from a relatively harmless “phenomenon” called “Aphantasia”.
I am incapable of conjuring images inside my head. I “know” what object or thing I’m supposed to think about but all I see is nothing.
When I dream, I know what’s happening and what I’m supposed to see but it’s just a whole lot of nothingness. I guess you could say I’m “blind” in my mind.
Apparently around 1% of the population suffer from this weird condition.
Must be nice having a screen in your head that shows anything you can imagine :/.
"Disembodied voice" 1 month ago
I have aphantasia and no internal monologue, funny how these things work out sometimes.
ZuriLovesYou 1 month ago
I'm not gonna lie, that sounds terrible. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't see pictures in my head.
Nikole 1 month ago
Yeah, I can’t even imagine it. Picturing something in my head is so second nature.
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Jill Rhodry 1 month ago
I have acquired aphantasia and the first couple of years I was cognitively stupid - I had to learn a different way to think but even worse was how scary it was - it was like a void and I was in the middle of it, I would try to think but there was nothing to reach out to - I've now re-learnt how to think, there's still 'nothing' there but it's not a void any longer
AnnaB 1 month ago
I have it too. But I have the most vivid, detailed, goofy dreams every night. I've taken to writing them down as soon as I wake up. But if you asked me to close my eyes and imagine an apple...nothing but darkness.
Katie Everswick 1 month ago
I have it too, but I can see in my dreams. I can't believe you can't! I'm sorry :(
CanadianDimes 1 month ago
It’s two different parts of your brain that produce visual images in your imagination/memory and in your dreams. I have a former colleague who has aphantasia and she’s an academic librarian so she’s done a lot of research on this! I’ve learned so much from her
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XxAlexX (she/they/him/it) 1 month ago
My mom has that and was utterly shocked when she heard everyone in her family could see pictures in our heads
Ace 1 month ago
This is much more common that 1%. every time it comes up on BP there's a flurry of people saying "me too". It's often not noticed because we (yes, me too) always assumed that when people said they could 'envisage' something it never occurred to us that they meant they could actually bring up a picture in their head. I still struggle with the idea.
Bryn 1 month ago
People cope by thinking in words rather than pictures. Or they watch/listen to porn (audio erotica exists).
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Lowrider 56 1 month ago
I never knew people could see images in their head until I read it here on Bored Panda.
Bryn 1 month ago
I have discovered that it's one of the biggest reasons I don't like reading fantasy/science fiction. I love reading, especially historical fiction because those books have things I've tended to seen pictures of so that helps.
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Kalikima 1 month ago
I also have that, it's just recently from reading BP that I found out that other people actually see things in their minds when they 'picture' it, instead of just thinking about it like I do. It's probably why meditation has never worked for me. I do dream though, not always in pictures, sometimes in words. But despite not being able to picture things in my head, I'm still an avid reader, I just don't get much out of the descriptions of the environment they're set in.
Kenny Kulbiski 1 month ago
I have trouble believing this is that uncommon. Apparently I have it but when I asked friends and family if they could actually see images on demand well over half said no. I can see dreams although there are a few I would have preferred not to.
Stephanie Barr 1 month ago
I hear my dreams, what few I have. Doesn't stop me from being creative (Written 12 novels and literally hundreds of short stories).
Scott Rackley 1 month ago
That would render me useless at my job. I design tooling in 3D and it's a must to be able to visualize.
Pat Carter 1 month ago
i also have aphantasia, and i'm an artist. i can't paint things from my imagination, so i paint from photographs. it takes me a long time, though, because i have to keep looking at the photo, as i can't 'remember' what i see.
Alvia Vseobecna 1 month ago
I found out I had aphantasia when I was 35... amazing that people can see images in their head!!!! :D Always found weird that sherlock could ´walk´ in his mind palace in the series. Took it as a part of the show, not something that can be real.
Melissa Harris 1 month ago
The ability to mentally visualize falls on a spectrum of Aphantasia ( complete inability like the OP) to hyperphantasia. Most of us are somewhere in the middle.
Zaach 1 month ago
Same here but with the added disadvantage that I can not compare any of my senses to something i sensed before like I can't compare the taste of this food with a similar food I tasted before; I can't listen to a song for longer than a few bars before I zone out (hell, I have not heard "Wild Thing" all the way through); smells do not trigger any memories for me. Worst of all - if people are not immediately in front of me, I do not remember them until I see them again. I can not project into the future - I live in an eternal now. (I prefer instrumental music b/c I can't focus on the lyrics (mostly) since in college I was able to memorize the lyrics to "Help I'm A Rock" by Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 month ago
the screen in my head is 3D, and likes to play horror movies at times. (schizophrenia hallucinations lol)
Lesley Relph 1 month ago
I think it's far more common than that. Most folk when asked can't actually 'see' in their head.
~nope~ 1 month ago
Not really—I have aphantasia and I experience books as more like a feeling. Like when I read Harry Potter I feel warm and happy and nostalgic during the Christmas scenes etc. The only thing I can’t abide is descriptive language but that makes sense given that I can’t see anything lmao
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Darius S. (he/him) cis/grey 1 month ago
I'm getting to know more and more people with this. During therapy meditations they just count certain words because they can't imagine water lapping on their 'private island'.
Aerial (Any pronouns/Canadian/Jewish) 1 month ago
I'm an artist with aphantasia, and I think in a mix of words and concepts. It's funky.
Lori Beauchamp 1 month ago (edited)
Trust me, you are better off. Use this to your advantage. The stuff many dream is visually and graphically terrifying.
Slytherin4Lyf 1 month ago
I have it too, but i can see dreams. My dreams are often very short though.
Kira Okah 1 month ago (edited)
I can't form images in my mind, everything that I imagine and think in is pure words (images and words are processed in different areas of the brain). Full word descriptions of every intricate detail. I also have trouble processing information from images, which results in me having character dyslexia - I have trouble with character languages such as Chinese, and need to use Pinyin as a medium to understand the word. I am also an artist btw, it's like translating words to lines with muscle memory and references.
Brittania Kelli 1 month ago
What does it mean if I have aphantasia, am a cancer survivor, and have been held up at gunpoint?
Dnd Panda (she/they) 1 month ago
My dad has this which I think is why he doesn’t like D&D very much — he can’t imagine things in his head
Aerial (Any pronouns/Canadian/Jewish) 1 month ago
I have aphantaisa, I love D&D, and I'm a visual artist. Some people just don't like playing D&D and it has nothing to do with how they visualize or not!
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Tom Brincefield 1 month ago
Unless it was acquired aphantasia, you wouldn't know what you were missing. Most people with it don't even know that seeing images in the mind is even possible. So you wouldn't be bummed out.
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That’s crazy! My mind is so detailed sometimes, I forget if I was reading a book, or watching a show. Especially true when I read some of the Harry Potter books since I was picturing the characters as they appeared in the movies
#12
I can make my eyes shake (voluntary nystagmus) and I can wiggle my ears.
It was a lot more impressive when I was 7.
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 month ago
Hey, me too! My brothers as well! It was fun as a kid to tell others "hey, look at my eyes" ....then they vibrate back and forth like a paint mixer and freak people out! Lol!! I don't bother with it anymore.
#13
Cancer survivor. Think that’s 5%. I had it 3 f*****g times.
#14
Far less than 1% of people make their living creating crossword puzzles. I've also written five novels, three of which were published.
#15
According to my step counter, walking.
Not even kidding, I manage a warehouse and walk 10-15 miles a day at work. Apparently this is more than 99.3% of users.
Turns out the one thing I'm exceptional at is the one thing almost everyone can do. Yay.
#16
Not me but my dad.
He was born with a backwards heart and didn’t find out till his heart attack a few years ago and it actually saved his life.
His doctor later told him that after being a doctor for over 30 years he’d never seen someone with a backwards heart and that apparently 1% of people on the planet have it.
Stephanie Did It 1 month ago
Does that mean the heart is on the opposite side of the body than normal, or that the heart is in the usual place but facing towards his back?
#17
I’m naturally ambidextrous. Apparently that’s something only 1% of people naturally are. I can use both right and left hands ably for any task. For example, I often switch which hand I write with based on how I’m sitting.
(It’s worth noting _natural_ ambidexterity is not the same as _learned_ or _acquired_ ambidexterity. For example, left handed people often have to use things designed for right handed people but otherwise are left handed.).
#18
Typing in my PC.. I can type up to 170 WPM sometimes, and in the human benchmark site that's 1%.
#19
Surviving a crossbow to the head. Directly between the eyes. Only one other person has been documented in surviving a crossbow head impact, and they became brain dead. Not only did I survive, but I still have enough brain function to type this out and even go to work on a daily basis. I'm very blessed to be here, and I do my best to not take it for granted.
Edit: apparently more people have survived this than I originally knew, and that's kinda cool to know!!
Edit 2: holy crap I did not expect this to blow up so much!!! Thank you all so much for the kind words and awards!!! I'm not going to reply to everyone just because there's so many comments, but if you have a question feel free to ask and I'll do my best to respond!!
#20
Mirror writing:
writing the same exact thing with my left hand, except backwards and to the left, while I write it normally and with my right hand.
#21
I’m an American of North Korean descent
#22
My actual name. My last name is one of the rarest in the country and I am the only person with my name out of the entire population.
MrsFettesVette 1 month ago
This is also true for me! I actually didn't think it was that rare. If you have an unusual last name it's gotta be pretty common to be the only "you".
#24
So apparently my left eye is 32mm. The average size is 21-27mm. My eye doctor said it was neat.
#25
I am a super recogniser. Super recogniser is a term coined in 2009 by Harvard researchers for people with significantly better-than-average face recognition ability. I am not in 1 percent to be precise actually, it is around 2% but wanted to share anyways.
There is a free online test for you to check if you are one as well.
#26
If you make 40k a year and have no debt... Wealth, globally speaking.
#27
Eyesight. I have 20/10 vision, turns out only about 1% of people have better than normal 20/20 vision.
BrunoVI 1 month ago
My Dad was a big Ted Williams fan. The best hitting non-Yankee in baseball history, and it was largely due to having freakishly sharp vision. The guy could read the stitches on the ball coming at him (which would tell him which way the pitch was going to bend or not bend). Never topped many career milestones because he served as a bomber in WW2 for three years, and went right back and served another two in Korea.... he thought he owed it to his country to put his eyesight to the best service possible.
#28
I'm a totally in the 0.2% of something. People who have a rather nasty reaction to the blood thinner, Heparin. Lost half my toes because of how lucky I am.
#29
Grandmaster in league of legends (0.02%) 😎, this results in not having a social life or girlfriend so don’t recommend.
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 month ago
It's OK I don't have a social life or any romantic interest in anyone whatsoever anyway
#30
Degrees. I have a BA, MA, JD and two PhD's. If I'm not mistaken, less than 1% of the world has that many (and neither should I).
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
Did you hear about the man with 360 degrees? His education went full circle.
#31
I can stop my hiccups on command.
RaisedByCats 1 month ago
My husband can too and cannot fathom why other people can't control it ("you just tighten the muscle at the top of your stomach")
#32
Birth control. 99% effective right? I'm living proof of the 1% XD.
(It's cool though, my parents never acted like they didn't want me.).
#33
According to Amazon, I'm in the top 1% of kindle readers. They keep track of these things and within the last couple years started sharing the info with users as seasonal "Achievements."
At the end of the Spring season, they sent out emails with the final data: from April 1st to June 31st I read:
74 days
For a total
193 hours.
I don't really have a social life. As though that wasn't clear enough from the stats
#34
I’m of the .002% of people with osteopoikilosis. This freaked the s**t out of me because when I was diagnosed the first thing the doctor said was “wow I’ve never seen this in anything but textbooks before”...
RaisedByCats 1 month ago
Osteopoikilosis is a benign, autosomal dominant, sclerosing (hardening) dysplasia of bone characterized by the presence of numerous bone islands in the skeleton. (Wikipedia)
#35
I'm one of around 1% of people directly related to Swedens great king Gustav Vasa, still living. I'm one of 100k people.
#36
I have AB- bloodtype. Less than 1% of the worlds population have it.
LynzCatastrophe 1 month ago
Welcome the rare population! My sister and I have it. Nobody else in our family does.
#38
Hyperhidrosis. Excessively sweaty arm pits for no reason. I could be sitting there completely at ease and sweat rolls down my sides from my pits. I have found a product to fix the issue however I know no one else who has the same issue personally.
#39
Not as interesting or cool as others but im in the 1% of the population that has no immunity to Rubella even though ive been vaccinated for it several time. Apparently some peoples bodies dont take to some vaccinations. Fine with everything else like mumps measels etc its just the rubella.
Ive also got type 2 duanes symdrone in my right eye. Duanes being a uncommon eye condition anyway, right eye being least common to have it in an type 2 the least common of its type out of the 3 types. Won the duanes lottery with that one.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 month ago (edited)
So I recently had to make sure all my vaccinations were current since I'm back in college and I'm in the medical field and will be starting our internship for our clinical hours, so these are mandatory requirements for most hospitals. After getting blood drawn to prove that I've already had many of these vaccines required, which would show the antibodies. Well I somehow was no longer immune to the measles but the mumps and rubella part of the MMR vaccine both came back as reactive for those antibodies, meaning I was immune to them still. I did have to get another MMR vaccine though, anyway. So I'm fully immune once again but I'm a little curious now just how long I'll stay immune this time.
#40
I held a 2nd place world record for the Mushroom Gorge time trial in mariokart Wii for 15 minutes.
Edit: thanks for all the replies! Didn’t know this would touch the hearts of many!
#41
I am diagnosed with Visual snow syndrome. Basically seeing through static. It may not be rare as thought but I am one of very few people to be formally diagnosed.
EDIT:
1) no this isn’t normal and sorry to all the people who found out they had VVS through my stupid Reddit comment lol
2) lots of ppl asked how I was diagnosed- I was at an eye specialist for an unrelated reason and he asked if I had any other concerns. I described my sight to him and he said that’s probably VVS. He referred me to a neurologist and she diagnosed me.
3) I don’t remember not seeing flickering dots. I’ve never done psychedelics. I was unaware d***s could worsen or cause it. Thanks for the warnings though! Definitely won’t be doing psychedelics now haha.
penguino (they/them) 1 month ago
lol makes ur bedroom looks like an analog tv horror show at night
#42
Infertile people. The people who can’t have children after a year of trying, for whom no treatment works, have no diagnosis to explain why, and end up the 1% of the 1% and move on to surrogacy/gestational carrier.
YakFactory 1 month ago
It took me and my husband nine years of trying to have our first child. He died at 5 weeks, and it took another 4 years until our second child was born. No, we didn't try again!
#43
As a Lithuanian I belong to a nationality that makes up 0.03% of the world population.
WindySwede 1 month ago
With 8.2 billions today, it's not that difficult to be under 1% of something. Beeing a Swede is something like 0,1%..
#44
Everyone is born with a space in the base of your skull, I have an enlarged space. The Dr called it an Enlarged *Cisterna Magna*.
Having it isn’t what makes me part of the 1%, it’s the fact that it hasn’t caused me any trouble or neurological issues that puts me there. It was only found when I had an MRI for migraines.
Edit: totally got the wrong wording. I’m sorry for misleading anyone, that came on the back of flu meds and little sleep.
I have stress induced migraines and hormonal ones too. Nothing to do with the lack of brain function, that just makes me a little dull 😁.
#45
Being deaf.
Only 0.22% (roughly 600k people) across all age groups in the US are deaf. More than half are over the age of 65. I've been profoundly deaf since birth, so I'm in an even smaller percent than 0.22%. Lmao
[Source](https://www.gallaudet.edu/office-of-international-affairs/demographics/deaf-employment-reports/).
The Starsong Princess 1 month ago
There’s significantly fewer deaf and blind people now that children are vaccinated against measles.
#46
Distance runners. My marathon PR is faster than 99% of marathon finishers world wide. That said, the distance from my time to the world record is about the same as from the 70th percentile to me.
#47
According to the census, my town is 1% black. So that means it's just me.
Edit: Woodstock, CT POP: 8221 The racial makeup of the town was 97.2% White, 0.4% African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.000001% Pacific Islander, 0.4% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races.
Steve Sharpe 1 month ago
In a town with 8,221 people, one person is not one percent of the population... and I'm also curious about the Pacific Islander resident, because unless they're an amoeba something has gone spectacularly wrong!
#48
Technically this is 2% but I have curly blonde hair I don’t really have a trait that’s 1%.
tabitha donnelly 1 month ago
My sister has that? I don't think it's that rare. I have curly ginger hair and green eyes I don't know how rare that is.
#50
Fewer than 1% of Americans have completed a full marathon, I have completed 10.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
This statistic is getting smaller every year, ever since they renamed the marathon chocolate bar to snickers.
What do you think ?
WindySwede 1 month ago
Approximately 0,0000000121951219512195% according to Excel
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I've survived cpr outside of the hospital, also in the hospital but that's not as remarkable.
Sky Render 1 month ago
I've mentioned my biggest rarity before often, but... I was born with XX/XY chimerism, and also with a double genital tubercle. Both are very rare, but both simultaneously is so rare that there's no records of it ever happening. As an unusual side-effect of the chimerism, the two sets are different sexes, and both are fully functional. The doctors tried to seal away the female parts with a skin graft, likely believing that the parts would just "go away" somehow; they did not and that skin graft just gives me zero direct access to my female anatomy plus regular issues during periods.
Isaac Harvey 1 month ago
My name was misspelled on my first AAA insurance card as "IAFAC HARVEY."
ॐBoyGanesh 1 month ago
I’m a homosexual with heterochromia, have a form of synesthesia called “chromesthesia” and am fully ambidextrous. I’m one of the few Americans with duel citizenship and less than 1000 people worldwide have my specific job. None of these things enhance or highlight my flippant character or irreverent personality.
Justin Tyme 1 month ago
My me it is the combination of unusual events. I completed eight college degrees. I have been trapped in two malfunctioning elevators. I have been on five volcanoes while they were erupting. I have been bitten by two rattlesnakes, stuck in quicksand, struck by lightning, run over by a van, and had an anaphylactic allergic reaction to a bee sting. I have been in five car crashes, two motorcycle crashes, and one helicopter crash. I got shot once and stabbed twice. I have broken nine bones, one at a time. I have had 32 jobs.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 month ago
me too, though my all time rank out of all users is 125,... but i guess when you consider the site probably has thousands, is still a bit impressive xD
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T 1 month ago
It's more like 2-4% of the population, but I'm pretty sure I have lexical-gustatory (LG) synesthesia, which is a long way of saying I taste words.
CanadianDimes 1 month ago
Oh that’s really cool! What do your favourite words taste like?
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 month ago
My feet swear so badly I can't wear flip flops or any kind of rubber or plastic sandal without socks.
Auntriarch 1 month ago
I know it's just a typo, but it made me laugh to imagine your feet effing and blinding so much that you have to muffle the sound with socks....
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Anthorn 1 month ago
Ooo, this is where I shine. I have minor piebaldism (some white hair, blue eyes, vitiligo), I can wiggle my ears and my eyes, and I also have Stahl's! So I'm an elf! :)
Anthorn 1 month ago
Who the heck downvoted these...I'm not an elf, that was a joke...bc Stahl's gives you pointy ears...geez
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I have camptodactyly in both hands... meant to be less than one percent of the population. Affected more than just my little finger so that's also a bit more unusual.
Barry 1 month ago (edited)
I have voluntary pulsatile tinnitus. That means I can hear my blood rushing through in my ears, but only voluntarily, i.e. by flexing a muscle in my head in a way I can't possibly explain. It's not even a good party trick because I'm the only one that can hear it.
Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 month ago
I'm in the well under 1 percent of women/girls diagnosed with autism! Hopefully that'll change as female autism is underdiagnosed.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 month ago
ditto, though I never realised how few girls/women are actually diagnosed with autism, given a heck of a lot of (at least biologically) female people online say they are autistic or "neuro-divergent" as the new term apparently is.
Load More Replies... Dancing Armadillo 1 month ago
I am one of 1.2 % people of the world that have bear tracks in my eyes. Eye doctors get really excited when they see it. I don’t find it extremely exciting but I guess in the world of Optometry it is.. lol.
Lace Neil 1 month ago
I can lucid dream. I taught myself how from a book. I also have two coloured eyes; my eyes are blue with a golden ring around the iris.
Tempest 1 month ago (edited)
I have a rare heart disease. The disease is already rare (0.2% - 0.7% worldwide) but it has further subtypes and I have a less common one. So I just Googled the stats for the specific subtype and realised that it’s super rare. - “1 to 3 out of every 100,000 babies are born with the condition”. Was born with it but never had issues and it was only detected incidentally when I had to do a scan for a normal check-up in my early 20s. I’m mostly asymptomatic except for occasional palpitations & 1 episode of difficulty breathing at a very high altitude during the dead winter. I had the opportunity to get surgery at a leading hospital but opted out because I don’t want a midline chest scar at my age, lol. Being a med student I realised that even most doctors don’t know the condition (unless they’re in cardiology or cardiac surgery) cause it’s rarely studied about. I don’t really care much about it but I do love telling those closest to me that I have a broken heart 😆 (Scimitar syndrome is the name)
August 1 month ago
Did 9-12 grade work in reading in 5th grade, and was reading at a 5th grade level in kindergarten.(Really gifted in reading! I'm super happy about it!!! :D)
August 3 weeks ago
I also have double jointed thumbs, so thats another thing, although not that rare.
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Big Chungus 1 month ago
My parents are kind 1% people...My dad survived three out of hospital heart attacks, two being widow makers and my mom survived sudden cardiac death syndrome and is now the proud owner of a new heart
Kaeda 1 month ago (edited)
I have natural auburn hair and blue eyes. It is supposedly a rarity to have both. 🥳 I also have talocalcaneal coalition, which affects about 3% to 5% of the world population, but mine occurs in both feet, which is only half of that 3-5%. EDIT: Added "of the" before "population".
Pablo Ramos 1 month ago
The percentage of people in the world with my IQ or higher is about 1.3%
Marti J 1 month ago
I have a couple. 1) I have AB- blood type which is very rare and the workers at the blood bank get very excited when they see this. Yes, I do try to donate, but my iron is usually to low. 2) when I was 3 I stumbled across a large wasps nest that was in some tall grass. I couldn't move as I was in shock as hundreds of wasps started swarming and stinging me. My mom can running and grabbed me and ran to the car to get me to the hospital. She was stung multiple times on her arms. The closest hospital was almost an hour away. I was covered in wasp stingers and this would have been the first time I'd ever gotten stung. I did swell up, but I didn't go into anaphylactic shock. They kept me and had to scrape all the stingers off. I later in life actually developed a severe allergic reaction to bees and wasp' stings and I have to carry an epi-pen just in case I get stung again. Very thankful I didn't react that first time
Kombatbunni 1 month ago (edited)
I was one of only 40 adults in the world that were diagnosed in 2016, with an arterio-venous malformation that wasn’t in the brain or internally in the body but in my left hand. Apparently it’s not very common in adults and certainly not that common to occur in an extremity like mine was. It’s where the arteries and veins get tangled up somehow and can either cause delayed circulation or increased circulation (mine was increased) so I had to have it removed. I now have a skin graft and a scar that runs from the base of my left thumb, to 3/4 of the way up my forearm. Friend of mine calls it my shark bite 😁
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 month ago
Medically? I'm a bit of an anomaly! 😄 I've a rare capsicum allergy, as in highly allergic. I've had TB, Covid, diagnosed with Lupus... I'm now disabled. I've had more things happen to me than you could shake a stick at!!! And yet I'm still somehow surviving! Although... My life expectancy is now maybe 10yrs after numerous tests, blood tests, MRIs etc... There's something wrong with my body but they don't know what it is. Whether it's genetic or whatever... It was hard to deal with with that when I got the news, that and when I was told I'm never going to walk freely again because of spinal bruising... But? I'm the goddamn person who they also first told that I was going to possibly be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. I learnt to walk again, albeit with crutches and calipers but I bloody well did it. Don't ever tell me that I'll never achieve or accomplish something because I'll turn around and do it. Just... To... Pish... You... Off! Including living forever!!! 😁😜😁
V 1 month ago
I had to take a spacial awareness test as part of a job interview a few years back run by a third company. According to the company I was applying for a job at I scored in the top 1% of anyone who has taken that test. But if I have no hand/eye coordination so it's very much wasted on me, lol.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 month ago
Green Eyes makes me one of 2%. Ginger hair? (well, before it came back blonde from chemo) 1-2%... Schizophrenia? 1%, DID? 1-1.5% my surname? Porphyria? idk exactly but I hear its rare. e_e Fibromyalgia? 2-4% of the population... Peritoneal cancer? Fewer than 7 per 1 million people are diagnosed per year. and lastly i can think of... absense siezures, which normally effect kids at around 1-4 people per 100 thousand. Yet are much less common in adults like me. I'm rare af, but maybe not in a good way lmao
Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 month ago
0.2 percent! But we're mostly in the US (2 percent of American population) and Israel (majority of the Israeli population) so we might have a skewed view. Or we might worry about saying we're Jewish.
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Upstaged75 1 month ago
I'm in the top 1% on Bored Panda! :) (According to the stats at the top of my page) So I guess I'm really good at wasting time here when I should be doing other things?
Justin Tyme 1 month ago
It says that for everybody. Somehow all Bored Panda users are in the top one percent.
Load More Replies... CanadianDimes 1 month ago
I have music anhedonia, which about 5% of people have. The reward centres of my brain aren’t activated by music the way most people’s are. It’s a spectrum, not an either-or condition though I’m two standard deviations below the mean. You can take a great online test from the scientists who originally defined music anhedonia by googling it. Knowing this made my life so much better because I understood why music would made me tense and stressed. And before anyone offers me their sympathies - as far as I’m concerned, I’m not missing anything. I can’t love music, so I’ve not lost something I used to have. To me, it would be like mourning the fact that I don’t speak Spanish, even though I’ve never been able to speak Spanish.
Zoe's Mom 1 month ago
I have 7 different experiences that could have ended my life starting at 2 up until I was 27. I figure I'm here for a reason. I just hope when my time comes, it's an easy death. Don't we all?
Lyoness 1 month ago
Our son has an extremely rare chromosome disorder. There are 12 other known cases in the world, making him 1 in about 500,000,000. His Mum also has central heterochromia (rings of different colours around the iris in your eyes). There's a ring of gold around my iris, then a ring of green, then of blue. And the two conditions are not related. 😁
michael reid 1 month ago
I have an iq in the top 1% and I also have double y chromosome which is also about 1%
WindySwede 1 month ago
Approximately 0,0000000121951219512195% according to Excel
Load More Replies... "Disembodied voice" 1 month ago
I've survived cpr outside of the hospital, also in the hospital but that's not as remarkable.
Sky Render 1 month ago
I've mentioned my biggest rarity before often, but... I was born with XX/XY chimerism, and also with a double genital tubercle. Both are very rare, but both simultaneously is so rare that there's no records of it ever happening. As an unusual side-effect of the chimerism, the two sets are different sexes, and both are fully functional. The doctors tried to seal away the female parts with a skin graft, likely believing that the parts would just "go away" somehow; they did not and that skin graft just gives me zero direct access to my female anatomy plus regular issues during periods.
Isaac Harvey 1 month ago
My name was misspelled on my first AAA insurance card as "IAFAC HARVEY."
ॐBoyGanesh 1 month ago
I’m a homosexual with heterochromia, have a form of synesthesia called “chromesthesia” and am fully ambidextrous. I’m one of the few Americans with duel citizenship and less than 1000 people worldwide have my specific job. None of these things enhance or highlight my flippant character or irreverent personality.
Justin Tyme 1 month ago
My me it is the combination of unusual events. I completed eight college degrees. I have been trapped in two malfunctioning elevators. I have been on five volcanoes while they were erupting. I have been bitten by two rattlesnakes, stuck in quicksand, struck by lightning, run over by a van, and had an anaphylactic allergic reaction to a bee sting. I have been in five car crashes, two motorcycle crashes, and one helicopter crash. I got shot once and stabbed twice. I have broken nine bones, one at a time. I have had 32 jobs.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 month ago
me too, though my all time rank out of all users is 125,... but i guess when you consider the site probably has thousands, is still a bit impressive xD
Load More Replies... T 1 month ago
It's more like 2-4% of the population, but I'm pretty sure I have lexical-gustatory (LG) synesthesia, which is a long way of saying I taste words.
CanadianDimes 1 month ago
Oh that’s really cool! What do your favourite words taste like?
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 month ago
My feet swear so badly I can't wear flip flops or any kind of rubber or plastic sandal without socks.
Auntriarch 1 month ago
I know it's just a typo, but it made me laugh to imagine your feet effing and blinding so much that you have to muffle the sound with socks....
Load More Replies... Anthorn 1 month ago
Ooo, this is where I shine. I have minor piebaldism (some white hair, blue eyes, vitiligo), I can wiggle my ears and my eyes, and I also have Stahl's! So I'm an elf! :)
Anthorn 1 month ago
Who the heck downvoted these...I'm not an elf, that was a joke...bc Stahl's gives you pointy ears...geez
Load More Replies... Carrie de Luka 1 month ago
I have camptodactyly in both hands... meant to be less than one percent of the population. Affected more than just my little finger so that's also a bit more unusual.
Barry 1 month ago (edited)
I have voluntary pulsatile tinnitus. That means I can hear my blood rushing through in my ears, but only voluntarily, i.e. by flexing a muscle in my head in a way I can't possibly explain. It's not even a good party trick because I'm the only one that can hear it.
Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 month ago
I'm in the well under 1 percent of women/girls diagnosed with autism! Hopefully that'll change as female autism is underdiagnosed.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 month ago
ditto, though I never realised how few girls/women are actually diagnosed with autism, given a heck of a lot of (at least biologically) female people online say they are autistic or "neuro-divergent" as the new term apparently is.
Load More Replies... Dancing Armadillo 1 month ago
I am one of 1.2 % people of the world that have bear tracks in my eyes. Eye doctors get really excited when they see it. I don’t find it extremely exciting but I guess in the world of Optometry it is.. lol.
Lace Neil 1 month ago
I can lucid dream. I taught myself how from a book. I also have two coloured eyes; my eyes are blue with a golden ring around the iris.
Tempest 1 month ago (edited)
I have a rare heart disease. The disease is already rare (0.2% - 0.7% worldwide) but it has further subtypes and I have a less common one. So I just Googled the stats for the specific subtype and realised that it’s super rare. - “1 to 3 out of every 100,000 babies are born with the condition”. Was born with it but never had issues and it was only detected incidentally when I had to do a scan for a normal check-up in my early 20s. I’m mostly asymptomatic except for occasional palpitations & 1 episode of difficulty breathing at a very high altitude during the dead winter. I had the opportunity to get surgery at a leading hospital but opted out because I don’t want a midline chest scar at my age, lol. Being a med student I realised that even most doctors don’t know the condition (unless they’re in cardiology or cardiac surgery) cause it’s rarely studied about. I don’t really care much about it but I do love telling those closest to me that I have a broken heart 😆 (Scimitar syndrome is the name)
August 1 month ago
Did 9-12 grade work in reading in 5th grade, and was reading at a 5th grade level in kindergarten.(Really gifted in reading! I'm super happy about it!!! :D)
August 3 weeks ago
I also have double jointed thumbs, so thats another thing, although not that rare.
Load More Replies... Big Chungus 1 month ago
My parents are kind 1% people...My dad survived three out of hospital heart attacks, two being widow makers and my mom survived sudden cardiac death syndrome and is now the proud owner of a new heart
Kaeda 1 month ago (edited)
I have natural auburn hair and blue eyes. It is supposedly a rarity to have both. 🥳 I also have talocalcaneal coalition, which affects about 3% to 5% of the world population, but mine occurs in both feet, which is only half of that 3-5%. EDIT: Added "of the" before "population".
Pablo Ramos 1 month ago
The percentage of people in the world with my IQ or higher is about 1.3%
Marti J 1 month ago
I have a couple. 1) I have AB- blood type which is very rare and the workers at the blood bank get very excited when they see this. Yes, I do try to donate, but my iron is usually to low. 2) when I was 3 I stumbled across a large wasps nest that was in some tall grass. I couldn't move as I was in shock as hundreds of wasps started swarming and stinging me. My mom can running and grabbed me and ran to the car to get me to the hospital. She was stung multiple times on her arms. The closest hospital was almost an hour away. I was covered in wasp stingers and this would have been the first time I'd ever gotten stung. I did swell up, but I didn't go into anaphylactic shock. They kept me and had to scrape all the stingers off. I later in life actually developed a severe allergic reaction to bees and wasp' stings and I have to carry an epi-pen just in case I get stung again. Very thankful I didn't react that first time
Kombatbunni 1 month ago (edited)
I was one of only 40 adults in the world that were diagnosed in 2016, with an arterio-venous malformation that wasn’t in the brain or internally in the body but in my left hand. Apparently it’s not very common in adults and certainly not that common to occur in an extremity like mine was. It’s where the arteries and veins get tangled up somehow and can either cause delayed circulation or increased circulation (mine was increased) so I had to have it removed. I now have a skin graft and a scar that runs from the base of my left thumb, to 3/4 of the way up my forearm. Friend of mine calls it my shark bite 😁
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 month ago
Medically? I'm a bit of an anomaly! 😄 I've a rare capsicum allergy, as in highly allergic. I've had TB, Covid, diagnosed with Lupus... I'm now disabled. I've had more things happen to me than you could shake a stick at!!! And yet I'm still somehow surviving! Although... My life expectancy is now maybe 10yrs after numerous tests, blood tests, MRIs etc... There's something wrong with my body but they don't know what it is. Whether it's genetic or whatever... It was hard to deal with with that when I got the news, that and when I was told I'm never going to walk freely again because of spinal bruising... But? I'm the goddamn person who they also first told that I was going to possibly be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. I learnt to walk again, albeit with crutches and calipers but I bloody well did it. Don't ever tell me that I'll never achieve or accomplish something because I'll turn around and do it. Just... To... Pish... You... Off! Including living forever!!! 😁😜😁
V 1 month ago
I had to take a spacial awareness test as part of a job interview a few years back run by a third company. According to the company I was applying for a job at I scored in the top 1% of anyone who has taken that test. But if I have no hand/eye coordination so it's very much wasted on me, lol.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 month ago
Green Eyes makes me one of 2%. Ginger hair? (well, before it came back blonde from chemo) 1-2%... Schizophrenia? 1%, DID? 1-1.5% my surname? Porphyria? idk exactly but I hear its rare. e_e Fibromyalgia? 2-4% of the population... Peritoneal cancer? Fewer than 7 per 1 million people are diagnosed per year. and lastly i can think of... absense siezures, which normally effect kids at around 1-4 people per 100 thousand. Yet are much less common in adults like me. I'm rare af, but maybe not in a good way lmao
Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 month ago
0.2 percent! But we're mostly in the US (2 percent of American population) and Israel (majority of the Israeli population) so we might have a skewed view. Or we might worry about saying we're Jewish.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 1 month ago
I'm in the top 1% on Bored Panda! :) (According to the stats at the top of my page) So I guess I'm really good at wasting time here when I should be doing other things?
Justin Tyme 1 month ago
It says that for everybody. Somehow all Bored Panda users are in the top one percent.
Load More Replies... CanadianDimes 1 month ago
I have music anhedonia, which about 5% of people have. The reward centres of my brain aren’t activated by music the way most people’s are. It’s a spectrum, not an either-or condition though I’m two standard deviations below the mean. You can take a great online test from the scientists who originally defined music anhedonia by googling it. Knowing this made my life so much better because I understood why music would made me tense and stressed. And before anyone offers me their sympathies - as far as I’m concerned, I’m not missing anything. I can’t love music, so I’ve not lost something I used to have. To me, it would be like mourning the fact that I don’t speak Spanish, even though I’ve never been able to speak Spanish.
Zoe's Mom 1 month ago
I have 7 different experiences that could have ended my life starting at 2 up until I was 27. I figure I'm here for a reason. I just hope when my time comes, it's an easy death. Don't we all?
Lyoness 1 month ago
Our son has an extremely rare chromosome disorder. There are 12 other known cases in the world, making him 1 in about 500,000,000. His Mum also has central heterochromia (rings of different colours around the iris in your eyes). There's a ring of gold around my iris, then a ring of green, then of blue. And the two conditions are not related. 😁
michael reid 1 month ago
I have an iq in the top 1% and I also have double y chromosome which is also about 1%
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