“My Feet Look More Like Paws Than Human Feet”: 35 People Confess What Body Anomalies They Have
InterviewEverybody is unique, and every body is special! From the shape of our belly buttons to the birth marks and freckles that adorn our skin, none of us are exactly the same. But some lucky individuals have particularly unique characteristics that deserve to be celebrated!
That’s why one curious Reddit user recently invited others to share the most unusual qualities about their own bodies, and they certainly did not disappoint. Below, you’ll find some of the cutest and most fascinating quirks people can boast about their bodies, as well as a conversation with Dr. Shahina Braganza, so enjoy scrolling through and remember to upvote the replies that you find most amazing!
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My heart is bionic at this point. I’ve had 4 open heart surgeries, aorta and mitral valves are now titanium. It makes a ticking noise like a clock. I’m only 30. Hopefully I live longer
I had a mate with mechanical heart valves. And yup, you could hear him ticking! Thing is, it wasn't a steady tick like a clock, it speeds up and slows down as hearts tend to do so often it didn't tick exactly when you expected it to.
Me too! I've had my mitral valve replaced too and it's so loud that people notice it.
My son has heart disease from birth. He is 12 now and doing great.. I am scared, every single day I'm scared I wont..... Be able to safe him
From a second-degree involvement, I can tell you that at some point you will no longer perceive the ticking noise.
You might get problems on an airplane, especially if you have a beard or look 'muslim' --- "Bomb! I hear it ticking!".
When I was born, none of my organs were in the places they should be.
Had 5 surgeries after birth to get everything moved around, and put to right places.
Luckily, no issues since.
My son was born with CDH (congenital diagraphamic hernia). Most of his organs (colon, stomach, liver, spleen) were in his chest cavity. Only his kidneys, half of his pancreas and bladder were in his abdomen. His lungs were very underdeveloped (because the other organs took up most of the space in the thorax) and his heart pressed against the very right side of the thorax. Luckily he survived and is a happy toddler now.
Ah now the OP makes sense. I was thinking what does it matter where they are as long as they're working properly. But after reading this I can understand. Glad your son is doing well now.
Load More Replies...I have a uterus that looks like a heart with a deep v. I wonder which side of my uterus my two children incubated.
i cant throwup at all i had surgery when i was baby i dont know what the doctors did but i was 10 weeks early and 3 lbs and 9 oz and almost wasn't born
Load More Replies...This happened to one of my cousins. She even had one of her organs (I think it was part of a kidney? don't remember) growing outside of her body.
My hair started losing its color when I was 10 years old. I used to be brunette. My hair has been completely silver and white since my 20s.
My mother was completely gray by 19 and white by 30. She had several aunts with the same thing. My sister went gray in her 20s and was white at 40 but not as pronounced as my mother.
My sister started turning gray at 15. People thought she frosted it. Its been a beautiful silver for at least 30 years.
No worries if youre a girl you look like an elf i youre a boy you look like draco malfoy
I think it would be stunning and literally attractive to others.
Load More Replies...We're all human beings, but there are infinite possibilities to how we can look. With over 8 billion of us on the planet, we're bound to share some traits, but we can't all have 10 toes or hearts that function properly without a little extra help. And there's nothing wrong with these unique quirks we might have. In fact, they should be celebrated! For example, I have unusually small nostrils, so if I inhale through them extremely hard, I can suck both of them in until they fully close up. My elbows and a few of my fingers are double jointed. I have a several quite visible birthmarks, one of which was fire-engine red when I was born but has since stretched out into tiny red splotches on my chest.
To learn more about how this fascinating conversation about the unique qualities of our bodies got started, we reached out to Reddit user MissingYouB, who posed the question, "What's unusual about your body?" They told Bored Panda that they had recently spoken with a friend who was depressed about a deformity that they have and decided to ask others if they have something unusual about their body to prove that none of us should be insecure about these traits. "You need to love your body no matter what," they added.
I was born with 1 Kidney. But my 1 Kidney is the size of 2 combined. So I have 1 super kidney.
how did you even find that out?
Load More Replies...My hubs has the same anatomy. He didn't know until he had a scan for shoulder problems.
Time to sell your kidney on the black market. Or on Ebay
If she only has 1? I could see if she had 3, but . . . .
Load More Replies...Whoa! I was born with a duplex kidney on one side, meaning it's like 2 combined.
In my 60s and I don't have gray hair. It's mousy brown, so when people insist I dyed it, I tell them I wouldn't pay money for such a dull color.
i'm a redhead and what i've heard we don't go gray at all. we maybe fade a little but no gray
We just go straight to white... it's not exactly miraculous lol
Load More Replies...Why anyone would feel the need to colour over their grey is beyond me. I LOVE mine. It’s not a slinky salon-grey either, it’s real, grizzly grey. People be different, I suppose, but I sure hope there aren’t too many people who slab colour all over their heads because they think they don’t look good enough without it. I get that feeling sometimes but I hope that it isn’t true. I hope people only slab colour all over their heads because they want that specific colour.
My grandma died at 90, with no gray hair. My mom is 77 with no gray hair. My sisters are 55 and 57, and you guessed it: no gray hair, so I always just assumed we don't get gray hair. Until one day my daughter was braiding my hair and made me aware I have a tiny patch of all white hair. Everyone else has brown hair, whereas mine is (dirty-) blonde, so I don't know if that's why mine isn't acting like theirs.
I'm almost 50 and haven't even gotten a single gray hair yet. And according to my GYN I'm as fertile as a 20 year old. :0 I totally thought I was starting menopause, but apparently not.
I’m a ginger, I’m 59, 20 years ago I had a life threatening illness, I nearly died, 2 weeks in a coma a month in hospital, when I got home 1. ALL my skin peeled off, in thick flakes & 2. Most of my hair fell out. My hair is no longer As red as it was, some of the hair grew back White & the rest grew back but much thinner, but I don’t have any grey hairs. I might be grey by the time I’m 70. Thing is I want grey hair but I refuse to dye it. Except for a few laugh lines around my eyes & mouth, I don’t have any wrinkles & I have some gnarly scars from the meningococcal Septicaemia except for my face, didn’t get any lesions on my face at all but I did get one inside my eye. I’ve been told that red heads don’t go grey their hair just gets lighter & lighter as they age
My oldest sister was almost 50 before she got her first grey. I'm almost 40 and no greys yet, I'm hoping we got the same genes.
I'm 76 and my hair is still dark brown. I'm enjoying it, though, and let it grow past shoulder length. I figure, if you've still got it, flaunt it. :)
I'm 71 and not entirely grey yet. Though I might wake up one day and have snowy white hair, lol
I’m 60 and I have maybe a couple of percent grey hair compared to the rest. But I’ve had a LOT of hair loss since coming through menopause which sucks. Big time. 😬
When i was born my umbilical cord was inside out and it was the first time the hospital i was born at had ever seen anything like it. So they asked my mum if it could be sent to a nearby university to be shown to students in order to show them what the inside of one looks like in real life. I am going to that exact university next year and will be on a quest to take back my umbilical cord. (Provided its not been thrown away idk how long they last)
I’m way more curious if you ended up with an innie or an outie as a result of this.
I think that's generally a result of how close they cut the cord and/or not they used... That said I was an outie when I was like 4-5 and now am an innie.
Load More Replies...Another fake story. The umbilical cord cannot be "inside out" and have the fetus survive past the pint when it starts transferring nutrients to the fetus from the yolk sac. It is a tube of tissue with an artery and two veins inside, embedded in jelly. There is no "inside out" any more than an arm can be "inside out".
Well... I knew a kid who rode a swing all the way around upside down and he turned inside out! It's true. He went to a different school but it definitely happened!
Load More Replies...We also wanted to gain some insight on this topic from an expert on the human body, so we reached out to Dr. Shahina Braganza, a senior Emergency Medicine doctor working in the public health service in Queensland, Australia. Dr. Braganza was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda about how common it is to have an unusual quirk in or on our bodies.
"I’m pretty sure that most people would have a unique trait or quality - or perhaps a combination of them," she shared. "When you think about how a human is conceived at a genetic level, how the embryo develops, and then how humans develop after birth and throughout their life, it is highly likely that that each person has at least one unique feature, small or large."
Whooo. This is a big one.
1. Abnormal bone density. I sink in fresh water(fun playing Terminator though). Been hit by cars 6 times in my life and all Ive ever gotten was bruises; every vehicle has needed body work.
2. I require at *minimum* twice the recommended dosage for a lot of medications. Not fun when cost is factored in or the potential for damage. My liver is that of a demigod.
3. Abnormal temperature response. I act like a stroke victim(according to my wife) at temps above 85, but I can sit in a snow drift in a t shirt and shorts and the snow drift melts before I get bothered. I can bare-hand dry ice for short periods without issue.
4. My eyes are too large for my head. The only reason I need glasses is because my eyes kept growing waaaay longer than they should have, since my skull had decided early on it was going to quality for membership in Neverbrokeabone
5. I somehow outgrew cilantro tasting like soap. 20 yrs of that, then all of a sudden 'Naw my troll, you get to enjoy it again'
6. If you pop my right foot's pinky toe, my entire leg twitches. Full 'pull back shaking and twitching like I grabbed a 220v line.' Every damn time.
If you've been hit by cars six times, bone density is probably not your biggest problem.
Load More Replies...Yeah, hit by 6 cars, my eyebrow rose skeptically. Dry ice, and I rolled my eyes and snorted. Total bullcrap.
Load More Replies...I have the same issue with hot temperatures. Once it gets above 75F, I can barely function. I actually have a vest full of fancy ice packs that stay frozen for up to 8 hours and I need to wear it if I have to be outside for more than 2 minutes in the heat. However, I do not need a jacket until the temperature drops below freezing, and I'm rarely cold enough for a heavy coat. MS is fun.
I wear shorts and flip flops 365 days/year in Denver. But I survived 12 years in Phoenix, too.
Load More Replies...7. I never look before crossing the street. Eyes are too big to move left or right.
Eyes sound like Graves disease... this whole description sounds like something metabolic, and there will be an Achilles heel at some point.
Def sounds like over active thyroid! Graves Dz. The heat, the needing more meds, the bulging eyes. Could be dangerous. Heart attack.
Load More Replies...Hopefully I will never accidentally run you over, because the money for a new car is non-existent right now.
I’m 21 and going through menopause! I hit puberty at the age of two, had a lot of hormonal issues growing up but my mother was resistant to getting me help so I’m the same height and weight I was in 5th grade some 11 years ago. I can also type with my toes and do simple origami with my feet like a ninja star or paper airplane which is a fun party trick.
I can't even imagine going through that at 2! If mum wouldn't admit it was a problem they probably didn't get puberty blockers.
Forgive me if I’m being dense, but does that mean you can’t have children at all, even through surrogacy? I have no clue how menopause works except for hot flashes
Menopause means no more eggs, she could get pregnant with an egg donor if she wanted to.
Load More Replies...We also asked Dr. Braganza if she has ever come across any particularly fascinating traits in her practice. "I'm surprised every shift!" she told Bored Panda. "I work in an emergency department so, typically, we are seeing people for an urgent issue, and they may have an interesting bodily trait that may or may not be related to that issue. We may see people with hyper-mobile joints, for example a thumb that can touch the middle of the same forearm. We sometimes see people with extra digits on their hands or feet."
"At times, we X-ray or scan someone and will find something unexpected with their internal organs eg. dextrocardia where the heart is inside the right side of the thorax instead of the left, or situs inversus where all the organs in the thorax and abdomen at on the ‘wrong’ side," Dr. Braganza continued. "I once had a patient with left-sided lower abdominal pain - which made us think, 'Well, that’s definitely not appendicitis', but then they had a CT scan and their appendix was in fact on the left side!"
I have a third boob. Never even knew it was there til my milk came in after giving birth, and suddenly there was this giant baseball-sized lump under my armpit. When I saw my lactation consultant, she said it's a rare thing that can happen to some people. It has a teeny tiny nipple and even had milk coming out of it. I had to ice it for a week so it would stop producing milk.
Before anyone asks - no, I don't have any pictures of it. I was super sleep deprived and recovering from a traumatic labor, so the last thing on my mind was taking a picture of my new accessory boob. I wish I had, though.
Mammary glands do extend into arm pits... not surprising, but the pain I'm sure was awful!
Supernumary nipples again, are quite common. DermnetNZ *Extra nipples are fairly common. They are generally unrelated to other conditions or syndromes. The extra nipples usually occur in a line below the normal nipples.* My husband has one in his armpit.
In college I knew a girl who had a third breast. It was a abt 3-4 inches below one of her other breast. It was about training bra size. The kicker was she wore shorts and a jog bra to exercise in. Her third breast was just out. It wasn’t obscene but it definitely was a nude breast. I was never quite sure what to think of it being out.
I have three nipples and my brother has four like tiny baby nipple thank GOD MY MILK DISNT COME INTO THIRD BOOBY WHEN I HAD TWINS. The doctor said it may happen and I was not okay with that.
When I was born, the doctor said he "had never seen a baby with this much nose hair". At 46 it is still my superpower.
When I was born, the doctor told my parents, "First, the good news. Your son will never have a problem finding a parking space during his life."
I had a friend who actually had to get his nose waxed because he couldn't breath due to so much nose hair.
Our pediatrician said this about my son's ear hair. Said he was going to be very hairy when he grows up.
And when it comes to whether or not we should be concerned about these quirks we may have, Dr. Braganza says, "It’s very variable. Of course different doesn’t mean abnormal or that there is cause for concern. It could just be a normal variant in that person."
"As a general guide, if there is an unusual trait, if it is causing pain, discomfort or an inability to function as usual, then it should be assessed by a health professional," she added.
When I was a kid I had such severe allergies to everything that even my medical allert bracelets made me break out in hives and being in the same room at peanuts would send me into anaphylaxis. I outgrew all of my allergies.
I hope I outgrow it! I have this but not anaphylactic. I get SEVERE hives whenever I’m too cold, too hot, eat corn, have painkillers, put chemicals on my skin such as chlorine, scratch my skin, and many more.
My daughter has/had all those symptoms & we tried allergists, reg. dr's, etc. She went to a rheumatologist & turns out she has lupus. Not saying that's your diagnosis, but I would def explore autoimmune disorders & get some testing done!
Load More Replies...I had severe dairy allergy diagnosed at 16. Religiously avoided all dairy until about 23. Retested and that allergy was gone
I used to babysit a boy that was the same. Grew out of it at 10.
Load More Replies...I never used to have any allergies, until I got poisoned by a medication at around the age of 20.
I somehow did the opposite. I developed allergies into my 20's, and they just get more severe each year 😪
I could eat or do anything as a kid, but once I reached my late teens/early 20's my list of allergies grew. I can't eat all my favorite fruits and veggies. All I can seem to eat is carbs. I can't work it off either. Knees are garbage.
Load More Replies...A lot of people in the comments think that a small reaction from soaps or detergents means an allergy. Stop diagnosing yourself and just get tested. It has to do with hystamine levels. Perfume is agressive on almost everyone. Sensitivity and allergies arent the same thing and knowing which is which might make a difference
I'm the opposite. I grew up without any allergies, but sometime in my late teens I started feeling pain when eating a fruit that, not only had I been eating it my entire life, but my grandparents actual grew in their yard so I ate TONS growing up... nowadays if I eat more than 1, I start feeling like I've gargled acid and stripped a layer of skin off my mouth. (It is 'oral allergy syndrome', not a true allergy, I do not experience anaphylaxis, just pain.)
Got mild allergies all my life but they keep changing. Was allergic to soap for all my childhood (still sensitive to harsh detergents), ditto to bug bites (even a mosquito or ant bite gives me a fever & a big hive). The severity of skin allergies has gotten milder, but they all remain. In my old age (I'm 64), ammonia gives me an asthma attack (I don't suffer from it otherwise) & I get a rash from the glue in bandages (not latex, the adhesive). It's good to know allergies change, I just wish I were less "delicate".
Two of my toes on each foot are webbed halfway. The index(?) and middle toe, each side. Nothing else.
I can’t swim any faster which I personally think is *b******t*.
Then, if you were faster before, you'll have to find a way to "re-web" them.
Load More Replies...'cant swim any faster' than what? You without the webbing? Obviously that can't be measured so you'd be comparing yourself to an average person of your age except you won't have done that bc it would be meaningless. That statement is asinine and not thought through properly. It is quite possible that you DO swim faster than a theoretical you without the webbing so be happy at your speed. Even if you don't win races, it may just be bc you aren't that skilled so you need webbing on ALL toes to make up for your (for example:) lesser arm strength or breathing 🫁 action. Webbing between fingers would be far more beneficial. 🏊🏼♂️
I just now posted a response, but forgot to mention other traits that I've inherited. I have my mother's hands, fingers and nails. All are very different from most people, but normal in my family. As an example, my sister and I both have no toenail on our little toes. Very odd. I also have thumbs that automatically curve backwards when I hold my hands straight. My fingernails and toenails are curled down at the sides rather than flat, exactly like my Mom's were. I think the worst thing I inherited from both Mom & Dad are the bunions on both feet. But unlike them, I've had my bunions repaired. I recall having pain in those bunions back as far as I can remember into early childhood. I coped with it as a child by sleeping on my stomach and letting my feet dangle over the end of the mattress. I was a teenager when pointy-toed shoes were popular, and you seriously couldn't buy anything else, so I grew up with constant ingrown toenails!
I have a similar thing with my toes. I've researched it and studied everything I can find about the subject and the conclusion seems to be that it's a "congenital anomaly". This means you inherited that genetic trait from your parents, who carried those genes, whether they had the webbing themselves or not. It's not uncommon, especially in my family. It could have come from one parent or both. You should take a good look at your parents' feet. You might find lots of similarities.
There can even be benefits to having a unique trait. "If you’re super lucky, you may have qualities that increase your resistance to infection or that help you to heal rapidly," Dr. Braganza noted. "If nothing else, you have an ice-breaker for starting a conversation."
"I think society has become much better at recognizing the value of diversity in people, and we are now better at celebrating that which makes each of us unique," she added.
If you'd like to learn more about Dr. Braganza and hear her thoughts on her blog, you can visit her website right here!
I can taste when I'm sick and I can smell when others are too.
Omg I can smell sickness too!.. or more so, I think it's the immune response that I'm smelling. I know this sounds crazy, but my bf received a covid booster 2 months ago, and I said "you smell like my kids when they're getting sick".... almost like the smell of tin, if I try to describe it. Our cat layed on his chest purring that night. Our cat will usually sleep next to us, but when we're sick, he sleeps on our necks or chests... I think he smells the same thing, just probably way more acutely... I'm all about vaccines btw! This isn't a dig on that! I have 2 school aged kids that catch everything, and I swear I can smell it! It was just a shock to smell it on someone else, so I'm thinking it's a person's immune response rather than the illness that I smell.
I wish there was something to compare it to but in my mind when I smell it I picture thick yellow like mucous in my head.
Load More Replies...Yeah I thought I was a freak for a long time because I can also smell when people are sick. One of my friends, her entire family has kidney problems and I can't go in their house because of the smell. No one else smells it. :/
I can smell infection, and feel it if in my own body. Is this not normal?
There are helper dogs that can do this so that job is covered. Maybe apply in Africa to foreign aid places to sniff out Ebola or Yellow & Dengue Fever- fun diseases like that. All the helper sniffer dogs have died so I'm sure they'd welcome you! No, no. Don't worry that breathing in all the infected air of these people will kill you. I'm sure you'll be just fine. 🤒 Or, you could stay home and sniff out Covid so people don't have to wait 10 days to know if they're contagious. Where were you when we were trying to 'flatten the curve'?? 🤧😅
I have a rare condition in which my large intestine is smashed over to one side of my torso and my small intestines are smashed over to the other side. The only reason we discovered it is that one day, they decided to physically switch places causing extreme pain.
They have switched places a total of four times in my life. It's really painful and kinda gross hearing your goopy bits flop around inside of you.
do yourself a favor and never google videos of intestinal surgery where they hang them on a rack and they doot around by themselves.
Wait how do they just....switch places?! What horribleness is this? What is this even called?!
I think that's why they say the digestive system has its own brain (it's really just neurons)
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My sweat is extra acidic. I can fully rust guitar strings in a week or 2, and have eaten holes on 2 laptops where I rest my hands, both happened within a year of use
Super villain power 101. Not saying your a villain you seem like a nice person
How could any of that give any impression of if they are nice or not?
Load More Replies...I can't imagine having to deal with the guitar strings. They aren't the cheapest things in the world so restringing every two weeks would be very expensive
Maybe this person is a pro player. They replace strings (rather their guitar tech does) every few shows. It's an expected expense and usually covered by a string/guitar sponsor. 🤷🏻♂️
Load More Replies...Devices with touch screens do not respond normally to my fingers. I can't use a smartphone, the light touch buttons on my new kitchen stove vent I have to press a dozen tomes to get it the turn on. Digital pianos and synthesizers with touch screens go to bizarre pages when I touch them.
I have something similar. I can’t wear metal watches because my sweat corrodes them.
I almost was hit by lightning now I have to replace the batteries every year
Load More Replies...That can't be true in all cases...My Dad drank HUGE glasses of liquids all day.
Load More Replies...My Dad had that, too. His metal watches would get pinholes all through them, and his steering wheel in his car would slowly erode away.
I used to be able to spit stomach acid .. would do it as a party trick could melt through the tops of aluminum cans ... they put me on strong antacids due to besides soda cans it also eats up the esophagus... so I guess I still could if I quit taking antacids
I knew a lady who would burn all the letters off her keyboard in a month. I suspected it was a pH issue, but didn't want to ask.
My big toes are almost twice the size of normal big toes. They’re so wide that I can stand only on my big toes without it hurting. I’m told my feet look more like paws than human feet.
edit: no I'm not posting feet pics
Perhaps an illustration would be sufficient.
Load More Replies...It is extremely important that you do not publish panoramic photos of your problem toes. However, you should do your best to avoid Quentin Tarantino ever finding out about it. It's not easy to shake him off, and once he's taken up residence in the form of a foot and nail fungus, the only way to get rid of him is by undergoing surgery.
Thanks. If you're female I'd normally want feet pics but in your case: Eeewww!! 😅🫣
Isn't it called brachidactilia? My sister has it on the toes and the thumbs.
Hey, you should post. This stock photo show some normal-to-lovely ones, so now the audience wants the principal star.
Me too! My second toes (middle toe? Idk) are as long as my mum's pointer finger or as long as my pinky but I have long fingers
Every spring and autumn, my palm sheds its upper skin. There is no exposed lower layers, I just literally regenerate and dispose of my palm skin like a snake. Doesnt hurt, doesnt bleed. It just happens.
Me too! Not quite as clockwork, but was once or twice a year for a long time. It peels so completely it's like I painted my skin with school glue to peel it off My dad has this happen on his feet occasionally and gets freaked out enough to go to the doctor, where they just shrug and say it looks harmless.
I literally do this and now I have so many questions because I thought it was just seasonal dry skin. But mine is insane, just whole sheets of skin come off like a sunburn (but painless)
Wow! Another human like me! I did that for decades. Doesn't happen quite as badly now as when I was younger.
I am biologically and male presenting, but I've got huge tits. Like stage 4 gynecomastia. I've had them basically my entire life, and they've never been affected by my changes in weight. Doctors have confirmed they are legitimately breast tissue.
I always hated them, made highschool a living hell. But now I'm a grown adult, I identify as non-binary so I no longer feel bad about not having a "masculine" chest.
I consider getting rid of them every so often but I legitimately wouldn't know what life would be like without them and I feel I'd look inproportionate without them.
Agreed. Those guys dealing with breast cancer call it something (ANYTHING) else to avoid laughter & derision bc that's what some guys do. ('all sexes'? You meant 'both sexes' I'm hoping. Don't buy into this nonsense. You've offered good advice. If you're medical then you know.)
Load More Replies...Probably not the case for you as you have seen a dr, however my son never grew after 8th grade (5' 10) but developed feminine breasts. He was overweight so we thought that was related. Made high school a living hell as he played football. By 11th grade I was really worried as never seemed to go through puberty. By senior year I had his dr check for hormones. He had Zero Testosterone! Turns out he has a pituitary tumor (above your nose and front of brain) called prolactinoma that shuts down growth hormones and T. More common than people realize. I now try tell parents to have their sons checked if I see it as I so wish someone would have told me. As you can imagine it is not always well received but I try to be as tactful as possible. Wish I could afford breast surgery for him. He is grown now and doing well but still has the tumor.
Thank you for sharing your son's story and raising awareness on a possible cause to this issue. A pituitary tumor sounds very serious!
Load More Replies...I too have "breasts" and not a chest. I was/am so embarrassed by them I have considered everything from self removal to suicide. I cannot afford to have the surgery to remove them and at my age (53) I am doomed to be the freak at the beach for the rest of my life. My youth was spent hiding my body more than enjoying life. I wouldn't remove my shirt for sex until I was married for 5 years. I know I'm a freak of nature and try to live with it but I still hate myself and my body. Sometimes I dream of being in an accident where I slide on my front side until I'm "normal" chested by the road rashes. Then I would be flat chested and have an explanation for the scars.... I'm NOT looking for recognition or sympathy. I know 99.9% of people laugh and make fun of me when I do get the courage to go topless and 99% of everyone reading this would do the same even though they may not admit it out loud. I'm done with my rant now. We deformed hate ourselves more than you could imagine....
just a f.y.i. -According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), men account for 40% of breast reduction surgeries
Thank you! Regardless of how you identify yourself, I adore the idea that you accept your body & realize you'd feel wrong if it's changed. Most of us have "imperfections", small or large, & spend a lifetime rejecting our own bodies because of them. It's so refreshing to find someone who realizes a body is just a body, beautiful & perfect as it is. There's no such thing as "normal".
Okay so real question here. Could they " stand in" in tv shows where you can show a male topless but not a femal? Woman takes of shirt, director calls for "boob stuntman" and det a quick shot
Depends how hairy his chest is. But on a more serious note, I'm a little surprised the parents didn't actually look at surgery when the OP was younger. Although maybe the did but decided it was risky or too expensive, or something.
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I have a lot of extra things....extra toe, and a few extra teeth, there's one growing on the roof of my mouth rn, its like I'm a deformed vampire lol
My family is pretty sure I was supposed to be a twin. When my mom was at work one day while pregnant with me she started bleeding. So they went to the doctor fearing I’d been lost, but I was still there. So we think I had a twin but absorbed them in the womb 💀
Load More Replies...I had extra teeth too. Also one in the roof of my mouth 🤷♀️ pretty cool, kinda miss it 😉
Eeewww! Fgs get it removed. It's part of a parasitic twin. It's a curse and only after the extra bits are removed will you stop having nightmares and malevolent hallucinations. Your life and sanity is in danger. All the horror films say so! 😅😱
2 out of 3 of my kids had one supernumerary tooth each but that’s about it.
I am a woman with a beard that can rival most 15 yr olds
My 30yo son has been saving his beard since he was a teen and my mom still has a greater beard than him. Genetics are strange.
Does he save it in a box or maybe a jar? Or is this a Jesus style saving of the beard?
Load More Replies...Hope you shave really well 🪒 otherwise you'll be thought of as some kinda binary confused 'woman' and hetero won't touch you. Neither will gay women (if that's your thing) so simplify your life and get shaving, lady! 😅
My chin hair can get pretty competitive with teenage kid. Just wish I could overpluck and they never come back like some peoples eyebrows
The heart inside of me isn’t mine. And that I was on life support that caused nerve damage in my leg so I don’t get goose bumps on my left thigh.
that would be pretty annoying to have the previous owner asking it back...
Load More Replies...My super power is that I don’t get hangovers
I'm 39 and I don't get them either. I have also been known to put away a skinful on more than a few occasions. It's a gift that I def don't question.
Load More Replies...No hangover, both a blessing and a curse. Haven't had a drink in close to 12 years.
I am 47. I have never had a hangover. It's a foreign concept. My wife and friends do not appreciate me very much after a night out. I'm fine, they are not.
Between 3 and 23% of the population is reportedly hangover resistant. This article is pretty fascinating and goes over all the reasons for the suffering. The science behind hangovers — and what to do when you get one | https://ideas.ted.com/the-science-behind-hangovers-and-what-to-do-when-you-get-one-david-nutt/#:~:text=By%20harming%20the%20blood%20vessels,and%20learning%20and%20memory%20deficits.
Not necessarily a good thing. Hangovers are your body trying to tell you something.
When I was a baby I got a vaccine in my a*s cheek and it got infected. It was left alone so long that it got infected all the way down my muscle on everything the needle touched. They had to cut it out and for a couple of years I didnt have an a*s cheek, then my a*s grew in alright and now it just looks like I have a dimple. It's by my hip so it doesn't look weird and everyone that's seen it has said it adds character lol but to me it's just a crater on my a*s and theres no muscle there and if I touch the middle it still hurts
Where TF were her parents that they waited so long to get treatment? Dang.
I slipped off a ladder in our work shed & landed on my husband's power drill. That was five years ago and I STILL have a dent in my left a*s cheek.
My stomach is 1/10 the size it should be. I’m a cheap date because I can get drunk off nothing and it’s nearly impossible for me to overdrink.
Which is why I always ask the restaurant, cafe, etc. to give me a small portion or a child’s portion. Don’t look at me in horror or as if I’ve just farted in your face. Of course I’ll pay the full price - just give me a SMALL portion if what you would normally serve. OK?
I have a to go box sent with my meal. I automatically half my meal and take the rest home...even desert. Nice lunch the next day.
I was born with no wisdom teeth.
That person sure is lucky! I had all four wisdom teeth and every single one grew the wrong way and had to be surgically removed. And that's not a walk in the park, I can tell you...
Load More Replies...This is actually happening more and more often because we no longer have a use for wisdom teeth. They were originally to replace other teeth that had fallen out, but since we take much better care of our teeth now we've started to stop using them.
Came to say the same thing. I was born with only the two lower wisdom teeth.
Load More Replies...This relates to a topic that interests me, modern human evolution. On our evolutionary road to becoming humans, our big brains crowded our skulls and narrowed our jaws, making it difficult for the third row of molars to emerge from the gums. And after we began cooking our food and developed agriculture thousands of years ago, our diet became softer. This switch to soft grains and starches required less strenuous chewing than our past hunter-gatherer diet. This meant our jaw muscles didn't grow as strong as they used to, keeping the wisdom teeth beneath the gums increasing the risk of painful and deadly infection. A few thousand years ago, a mutation popped up that prevented wisdom teeth from growing at all. Now one in four people are missing at least one wisdom tooth. The people who are most likely to be missing at least one wisdom tooth are the Inuit of the northernmost regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska.
I've read the reason why we have crooked teeth is precisely because of the transition to soft food, especially as kids. Without the need to chew harder things, this lack of muscle development or stimuli or whatever it is, is what makes the teeth sink inward
Load More Replies...I was born with room to actually fit wisdom teeth, hence no need to have them removed.
my four wisdom teeth came out with enough space and everything (my head hurt like hell in the process though). So I was like yay, I don't need them removed, then when I got braces, the first thing the doctor did was removing the wisdom teeth.
Load More Replies...I’m only got one. The I asked dentist and she said 4 is average. She’s had someone in with 9
I only had one too. It finally came down and started to grow crooked so I had to get it pulled. That was when I learned that my "superpower" is apparently strong roots on my teeth. The dentist basically had to kneel on my chest to get enough leverage to pull the tooth. And I was awake the whole time for it. Worst power ever.
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I have two uvulas (those hangy ball things in the back of your throat).
Quoth Osmosis Jones: 'What the heck is a uvula?' 'It's that little dangly thing that hangs down in Frank's...' 'Boxer shorts! Okay, here we go!' 'Not *that* little dangly thing! The one in his *throat*!' 'I knew that. I know that.'
Home! My kids love that movie. It's one of the best movies ever made!
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I sweat on the left side of my head when I even think about spicy foods. The worst part is I love spicy food.
Like my fathers nose :-D - did start dripping from sweat when he ate spicy food, just the nose. My brother inherited this.
DUDE AT THE GYM JUST THING ABOUT SPICE AND PRETEND THAT YOUVE BEEN WORKING OUTi
Sweating on just one side of your head is a symptom Horner's Syndrome. I don't know about the spicy food connection, though.
I can vibrate my eyeballs
This isn’t really related but I have 2 voices. No, literally. I have to scream (like reeeeeally high pitched) and then I can talk, sing and sigh with 2 voices at 2 different pitches!
Load More Replies...I can! Let me specify for you guys, you kind of just look back and forth really fast. Like seriously fast
My husband can do this. It gives me anxiety when I see him jiggling his eyeballs. I say his marbles are coming loose again.
i had a friend in elementary school who could do that. still think about him sometimes.
My torso is longer than it should be in comparison to my legs. Like, my legs stopped growing before my upper body did or something.
I'm the other way around. I've a 37" inside leg measurement, getting jeans, jogging bottoms etc is both a nightmare and expensive.
37" jeez I thought m boyfriends 34" inseam was long he usually has to settle for a 32" ankle swinger lol
Load More Replies...I'm the same way. Mild case of polio as a child. I'm 5-9 with an arm span of 6'-8". (For men, height and arm span usually are a close match.) Did get the size 13 feet to go with the height I was supposed to have.
I call it Secombe syndrome. Sir Harry Secombe was taller sitting down than standing up. As am I. 5ft 7 standing, same height as my 6ft 3 friend seated. No headroom in 99% of cars, most motorbikes too tall for my short legs. I buy dresses to wear as tops
My youngest is 6'8" and his jeans are only a 32" inseam. My oldest is 6'7" and his jeans have a 38" inseam.
Hubby is the same. He's 6 feet tall and I'm about 5'5"; I have longer legs than him!
I have pectus excavatum and was born with a 3rd ear on my cheek.
The 3rd ear was removed with plastic surgery when I was a child but now I have a patch on my cheek that can't grow facial hair.
Everyone has a Body type, or somatotype, refers to the idea that there are three generalized body compositions that people are predetermined to have. The concept was theorized by Dr. W.H. Sheldon back in the early 1940s, naming the three somatotypes endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph and/or some degree of sorts
My kid had pectus excavatum surgery. Grew 1.5 inches during surgery from the correction.
I have one ear that's a carbon copy of my father's (left ear), and the other my mother's. Thus, one is slightly longer and significantly harder(cartilage).
Is that why one of my eyes is shaped like my mothers, and the other is shaped like my dads?
Load More Replies...ME, TOO! My Dad had detached lobes (my L), and Mom had attached (my R). My ear piercer was pretty freaked out.
My BIL has that...My neice had to do a school assignment on family genetics, her teacher did not believe her, so she took photos
I have parts of me that are different and match one each of my parents - got mom's upper teeth and dad's lower, got mom's right foot with bunion etc and dad's left w/no problems. Got mom's big boobs, and the butt from dad's side (mom had no butt at all).
My science teacher has a friend whose hair is half-and half- one side super curly and the other stick straight, from what our science teacher said.
I have microtia type 2 in both ears which makes them look like elf/orc ears. Also deaf in my left ear thanks to this.
Funny thing is, until I was like 15 years old, I did not know that I was deaf in one ear. Which was surprising to me but the doc said it is because you are so used to hearing from one ear that you do not feel the difference until a point. I just thought my left ear was obstructed with something.
Same here! I was 15 when I found out I was deaf in my left ear and diagnosed with Ménière’s disease at the same time (it’s what caused my deafness)
I didn’t know it caused deafness! I always wished I had elf ears, thank you for sharing the other side
My friends husband and 2 kids have the elf ear too though their hearing is fine. The funny part is the kids look absolutely nothing like their dad at all except for those ears 😂
I’m almost dead in my left ear. I’ve had people talking to me on my left side and I’ve not heard a single word. They really have to shout to get my attention!
Small hole at the base of my spine just before my a*s hole
To clarify I’m not talking about the actual a*****e it’s self I’m talking about a small hole a inch above it
It’s not a cyst I was born with it
3-8% of the population has this and its called a sacral dimple (edit: spelling)
I have one too. Totally innocent in my case, just an anatomical variation.
Load More Replies...I have what is decidedly not a small hole about 2 inches above my a**s on my backside. As in, it's big enough to comfortably fit a US penny. I don't know how deep it is because there's a skin graft over it that's been getting stretchier over time, but currently it's possible to push about an inch and a half into it without any resistance besides the skin around it reaching tension limit. The weird thing is, the bones above and below it respond to exactly the same stimulus (ie. if one is hurting the other is too without fail).
Probably spina bifida. My schoolfriend had a hole there about the size of her little fingertip
I have a large facial scar, literally just like Scar from the Lion King. My hair and beard just make it worse. Sucks meeting new people, especially kids.
Thanks. I have one from birthmark removal as a child. I wouldn’t like to not have it and I’ve never tried to hide it. A few times I’ve lied about how I got it though. I once told another girl who asked me about it when we were 15 that I’d cut myself shaving 😂
Load More Replies...I am a woman with a facial scar and am missing part of my earlobe. I caught a ricochet bullet with my face. Wish I knew what the scar says about me.
I got three from left eye to bottom chin. Due to being hit by car. It usually scare the heck of people. I still don't mind it.
A century ago, you could explain it as a dueling scar. Saber duels were still common in some countries.
Get a patch and have fun on Sept 19 - aka "National Talk Like A Pirate Day"
Fun Fact: almost everyone in my (close) family has a scar, my dad got his from falling on a windowsill as kid, my brother got punched in the face in a bar, my sister got chickenpox scars and I fell on bed frame
That’s a tasteful collodion job. In the picture, I mean. A bit sloppy perhaps, and with no underwork of scar colouration it’s a bit too obvious, but with some practice whoever put it there will be able to present something fairly real looking. They got one of the most important parts; don’t overdo it.
I agree. I love men with scars… it shows what they’ve been through
I have the gigachad chin, like, it's VERY square
How does it feel to be living my dream???? Lol I’m a gal but I’d love to have one of those
I can kind of imitate one. I think I'm good at it, but other people have mixed feelings about it, like some people think it's good and some people don't
I'm a medical mystery in that I got a Salmonella infection in a cyst on my spleen and to this day no one knows how it possibly got there.
There’s a German tennis player, Sabine Lisicki, and she is also allergic to grass. It’s also her best surface to play on!
Load More Replies...My bf thought that the staph infection I got in my cervix was from my iud trying to perforate the wall of my uterus. His line of thinking was injury=infection and it was adorable.
Around march time last year I ended up in hospital with an infection (presumably in my head thanks to the killer headaches) that may have been sepsis or meningitis, but no one had any idea how I ended up with it. But luckily I got to hospital otherwise I could have died ._.
I can dislocate my shoulder at will
Pretty sure any physical therapist would recommend you not do this. I say this bc i was like 'hey you wanna see a silly trick i can do with my elbow' to my PT and she was like '...please do not do that. that is bad for you.' XD hypermobility just seems like silly party tricks when ur a kid! XD
Yup, I can do both of mine. I used to get people to put their ear on it, then drop it out so they could experience the weird squelch/crunch it makes. And it doesn't hurt at all, just relax them a certain way, and out they drop. Actually typing this line with them out!
I sneeze when really hungry.
oh my gosh that's exactly what i was going to say lol
Load More Replies...I throw up in the morning if I don’t eat dinner before going to bed. It’s not fun, I will wake up at like 4am and be super shaky
When I sneeze I always sneeze three times. Three sneezes and that’s it. Every time. Once in a blue moon I’ll have a sneezing fit, but then it’s always back to three sneezes.
I get severely nauseous before I sneeze, really fun when trapped in cars or public spaces when I can't run to a trash can just in case
My mom sneezes--I've counted as many as ten--every time she eats.
I also sneeze when I'm hungry! I get nauseated then sneeze twice in quick succession, then the nausea is gone. Weird and completely predictable.
I was born with a double genital tubercle, one developed male and one developed female. As a result, I have some very interesting doubled reproductive anatomy which has different forms due to the differing development.
my dad had a tumor on his heart discovered by accident. of course, he had open surgery to remove it and it was sent off to pathology. he is now an oncological curiosity at the hospital because was discovered that the inside of the tumor was a type of aggressive cancer but the tumor that surrounded it had a very thick membrane around it which kept it contained. also, open surgery was on monday; he was released on wednesday because incision had completely healed-another curiosity. this is an 80 yr old man who has had a couple of normally life threatening illnesses/accidents which had zero affect on him. the joke in the family is that it will be something stupid that will take him out like a banana peel. he says it's because, as a farm boy, he ate dirt.
I can turn both my arms a full 360 degrees by just holding out my arm and turning my hand, and I can bend my thumb to touch my arm. Also, my legs don't feel cold. They get goosebumps, but it never feels like they change temperatures.
I found out on Monday that I have very stripey retinas. My Opthalmologist showed me the images after my eye tests. They are called pigment striations and he said they are very unusual for someone of caucasian heritage, especially given that I don't even have dark eyes. My eyes are Hazel in colour. :D
I had a huge birthmark on my back that looked like a bruise it faded and know it is smaller, I was really hairy as a kid, I cant smell but I still taste, had a huge bump on my head when I was born, I can write with my toes, and I have the same exact crooked tooth as my mom.
i can whistle with my throat, and i also have a bump on the side of my feet. like, normal foot, then a big bony bump, then back to normal. my mom has it too.
I had a hole in my eye which had cervical fluid leaking in it, I have a spur above my knee and had an ovarian cyst that twisted the ovary that I didn't know about until it was10x10cms big,
My knuckles on both of my hands are double jointed since I was a kid. Now it's to a point where they lock up from time to time. Then there's my husband who had a full beard and mustache in the 7th grade and was often mistaken for school faculty...but had the added benefit of allowing him to pretend to be his friends "Uncle" and get them into R-rated movies. I didn't find out until my husband admitted seeing Alien in the theater. Knowing his mother would never take him to such a movie, the secret was out.
My oldest kid was born without a tailbone. He likes to joke that it makes him more evolved that us. (But I've seen him crouched on the floor shoveling shredded cheese in his face like Golem with a fish.)
I was born with a double genital tubercle, one developed male and one developed female. As a result, I have some very interesting doubled reproductive anatomy which has different forms due to the differing development.
my dad had a tumor on his heart discovered by accident. of course, he had open surgery to remove it and it was sent off to pathology. he is now an oncological curiosity at the hospital because was discovered that the inside of the tumor was a type of aggressive cancer but the tumor that surrounded it had a very thick membrane around it which kept it contained. also, open surgery was on monday; he was released on wednesday because incision had completely healed-another curiosity. this is an 80 yr old man who has had a couple of normally life threatening illnesses/accidents which had zero affect on him. the joke in the family is that it will be something stupid that will take him out like a banana peel. he says it's because, as a farm boy, he ate dirt.
I can turn both my arms a full 360 degrees by just holding out my arm and turning my hand, and I can bend my thumb to touch my arm. Also, my legs don't feel cold. They get goosebumps, but it never feels like they change temperatures.
I found out on Monday that I have very stripey retinas. My Opthalmologist showed me the images after my eye tests. They are called pigment striations and he said they are very unusual for someone of caucasian heritage, especially given that I don't even have dark eyes. My eyes are Hazel in colour. :D
I had a huge birthmark on my back that looked like a bruise it faded and know it is smaller, I was really hairy as a kid, I cant smell but I still taste, had a huge bump on my head when I was born, I can write with my toes, and I have the same exact crooked tooth as my mom.
i can whistle with my throat, and i also have a bump on the side of my feet. like, normal foot, then a big bony bump, then back to normal. my mom has it too.
I had a hole in my eye which had cervical fluid leaking in it, I have a spur above my knee and had an ovarian cyst that twisted the ovary that I didn't know about until it was10x10cms big,
My knuckles on both of my hands are double jointed since I was a kid. Now it's to a point where they lock up from time to time. Then there's my husband who had a full beard and mustache in the 7th grade and was often mistaken for school faculty...but had the added benefit of allowing him to pretend to be his friends "Uncle" and get them into R-rated movies. I didn't find out until my husband admitted seeing Alien in the theater. Knowing his mother would never take him to such a movie, the secret was out.
My oldest kid was born without a tailbone. He likes to joke that it makes him more evolved that us. (But I've seen him crouched on the floor shoveling shredded cheese in his face like Golem with a fish.)
