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30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I figured I have to be in the top 1% of deaf guitar players worldwide. I heard completely fine for like 25 years and spent 19 years of that to practise guitar playing. Been legally deaf for 3 years now and still can play well (muscle memory). I kinda want to start a band called Deaf Metal or something.

TacticalGoatse , Flickr Report

Final score:

248points

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

Do it!

60points

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I drive a BMW and always use my turn signal, even pulling out of my driveway.

gnarlyweb , Pittou2 Report

Final score:

219points

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

You are sick.... we send help

52points

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population Not me but my husband. He has a brain tumor on the pituitary gland. Before treatment his body pumped out pregnancy hormones, so he was hormonal and moody AF for ages.

Just before it got really bad we managed to get pregnant. When our baby was born his chest had that let-down sensation new moms feel (a heavy weighted feeling in your boobs).

When our baby cried, HIS boobs started leaking breast milk same time MINE did. He actually had to pump milk out to ease the pain in his chest.

...He got the treatment he needed and he no longer can squirt breastmilk at me if I piss him off.

Edit: **thank you so much for the rewards! Absolutely touched!! ** ❤❤❤

It was officially diagnosed as Prolactinoma. I know it's not exactly 1% but still pretty rare.

On addition to medication to shrink the tumor I also had to give him hormone injections deeming him infertile for a few years. Male birth control. It broke his heart.

Light at the end of the tunnel we were able to get him off the injections and we're trying for baby #2 after 7 years. We were successful, briefly, but it didn't last. Crossing fingers for next time.

ParaPixie , Flickr Report

Final score:

179points

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Markus Holstein 3 years ago

"and he no longer can squirt breastmilk at me if I piss him off" - wait, what?!?

59points

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population Not sure if it's the 1% or not but know its very rare. Womb twisted itself back to front when I was pregnant, fetus should really not have been viable but she's now a very energetic and beautiful 20 month old. They were going to induce me early because the twist (that we didn't know about at this point) was causing me so much pain. Thankfully a nurse felt something was strange with my cervix cervix ordered another scan. Cut to emergency c section. Surgeon had no idea what he was looking at when he opened me up, consultant called in. Noone in the hospital had ever seen anything like it, they took photos, every nurse said they wanted to see them. We were lucky, the consultant said that afterwards she had done some research and only found a handful of records and the outcome of the surgery was not good. At least one of us shouldn't be here. If I had been induced I would have died in incredible pain, unable to deliver and baby would have probably died from stress. We are now a case study and have changed the way that hospital responds to pain in pregnancy.

shannonspeakstoomuch , Flickr Report

Final score:

162points

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MagicalUnicorn 3 years ago

so glad that all went well, grow healthy and strong!

44points

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I was born with a cardic rhythm disorder. Normal heartrate for a newborn is like 130 per minute, mine was like 30. I heard from my mother my case was so rare that several cardiologists from all over the country ditched their conferences to fly to the hospital I was in and to see how to fit a pacemaker into a newborn.

Kenalskii , Flickr Report

Final score:

155points

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*me* 3 years ago

Wow my moms a nurse she’d be really interested in this

25points

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I am in the 1% of musicians who actually made a living playing music.

Notice I did not say “a good living”.

Also didn’t say “good music”.

silver_sofa , Flickr Report

Final score:

149points

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_𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕔𝕠_𝕝𝕠𝕔𝕠_ 3 years ago

lol

29points

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I had a life threatening reaction to a common prescription drug. It literally caused huge patches of my skin to fall off and my internal organs to begin liquefying. This reaction is so rare that they don’t even have to list it as a potential side effect (six cases have occurred with over ten million people taking this drug). I don’t like to name the drug because the problem was with my body, not the medicine itself. I don’t want to scare people away from a lifesaving drug that isn’t to blame for what happened. I’m fully recovered now, by the way.

Darnitol1 , Flickr Report

Final score:

139points

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*me* 3 years ago

................what the crap did I just read

54points

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population Got my wisdom teeth pulled. One side grew back over a year from a fragment left. Dentist published an article about it and was so happy. I was not with another oral surgery.

Z_witha_ZED , Flickr Report

Final score:

133points

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Marcellus the Third 3 years ago

What on earth is a "Dental Spa"? You get a massage, sauna, and root canal? Relaxing "rainforest" sounds while they pull teeth?

29points

#10

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population when Spotify released listening statistics at the end of 2020, I was on the top .1% of weird Al yankovic listeners

pyreofashes , Flickr Report

Final score:

120points

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*me* 3 years ago

Well, he’s weird al you can’t resist him

32points

Pyanfars , Presidencia de la República Mexicana Follow Report

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30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I have small intestinal cancer. The type is the same as colon cancer. But where it's located is less than 1% of world wide diagnosis per year.But I've signed papers for 11 different oncologists to be able to access my records to see what works what doesn't etc. because they just don't get enough examples of it. Kind of hit or miss on procedures to work with, which treatments first, which type of chemo, etc. Ive also said that if it ever reaches a point where I'm terminal and common treatments just won't/don't work anymore, I'm willing to go all guinea pig.
Depending on exactly where it is, because of the veins coming off of your mesentaric artery to feed the small intestine, it usually isn't operable. So you are strictly on chemo and radiation. If the heavy levels don't do it, then you get to go on low dose chemo daily for however long it works. Then it eventually doesn't.Currently according to my last PET scan, the tumors have disappeared. They won't say remission, just that it seems to be "dormant" right now. I'll take it.

Final score:

112points

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Bettie-Jean Neal 3 years ago

Cancer is a b*tch. Best of luck!

42points

#12

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I have AB- blood, which is found in less than 1% of the population.

riekathewild , Flickr Report

Final score:

94points

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Jill Bussey 3 years ago

Ah, but if you needed it, you could still have mine!

17points

#13

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I have aphantasia. I can't form images in my mind. If I read a book, for instance, I wouldn't be able to tell you what the characters look like. My brain just doesn't work like that.

I found out at 30 that other people actually visualize things in their head. I always thought it was kinda like a figure of speech or something...

OddOperation5 , Flickr Report

Final score:

92points

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*me* 3 years ago

What? Like, how would that work? You can just see nothing up there?

21points

Aurel Chatterjee 3 years ago

kind of... look @ my comment (below yours)

4points

Debrina Blackmoon 3 years ago

That's quite sad. I can imagine the frustration.

2points

Rebecca Joan 3 years ago

Yes, I cannot visualize either. I think the same thing about you people who can. How does that work, how do you just see clear image in your mind.?

0points

Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago

I can't imagine reading a book without visualizing. It's just so bleh...

12points

julie son 3 years ago (edited)

Actually, it's not! I don't see images, either, but I respond with very strong feelings. I love books, and I appreciate good writing, and good descriptions. If, for example, the author describes a beautiful day at the beach I respond with the 'feel' of the beach: basking in the sun, the touch of a breeze caressing my skin, the way my feet feel so happy when I wiggle my toes in the water...And it's not separate, sequential feelings, it's an amazing amalgamations of all these sensations put together. It's the same way you 'see' the color of the light with your eyes closed in the sun: it's not a clear image, but it's golden, and warm, and you feel your soul breathing, and unfolding, and this slow spread of just... gentle happiness in every cell of your body! Not seeing images doesn't mean you are somehow deprived: we generally have a different way of processing information, that's all.

3points

Aurel Chatterjee 3 years ago

i have aphantasia too! I'm not sure how its like for you, but for me, i have to think of the words to describe it and then like write them down or something to "see it." Its weird, I was the same, I thought it was a figure of speech too heh.

9points

Llama_flower93 3 years ago

Another question, do you see when you dream?

2points

Llama_flower93 3 years ago

So if I said to imagine a red door, you'd just think of the words red door? So you probably don't see words in your head either I'm guessing. I'm super visual when it comes to memory so if I can't see it in my head I forget it.

1point

Ladyandthetramp 3 years ago

If they give really descriptive words could you imagine it. Like a purple circle about as big as a your hand with a black outline?

1point

Solidhog 3 years ago

I only found out about this a few weeks ago. Totally mind blowing! For those who don't understand I will try to explain better. If I asked you to imagine your mum standing there holding a cake you construct an image in your head. You make up the colour of the dress, the size and type of cake and can see your mums face. People with aphantasia just can't construct that image inside their head or see it. There is actually an artist who works for disney and has to use a mirror when drawing expressions because he can't see it in his head.

5points

Lindsey Turner 3 years ago

So I think I kind of have this. I've literally spent the last 10 minutes trying to figure it out. I always have had a vivid imagination but I think these things. I've just realised I don't see them. I've been trying to visualise a Ruby red apple and I can't see it

5points

AnnaB Premium 3 years ago

I'm 68 and just discovered that I have it too. I never knew that when people close their eyes and imagine an 'apple', that they can actually visualize an apple. I thought it was a figure of speech. All I see is black and have to use my brain to remember what an apple looks like from actually seeing one. I feel like I've missed out on a big part of life!

4points

Sleepyhead 3 years ago

Now I'm weirded out a bit, I don't see anything either. I feel like I can smell and taste different kinds of apples, but I don't see any.

1point

Xottel 3 years ago

Are there degrees to it? Because I definitely have a problem with picturing things in my head but I wouldn't deem it impossible.

4points

Lindsey Turner 3 years ago

Me too! There must be degrees

1point

Jode Mode 3 years ago

I... I'm so shocked and baffled by this... I can't imagine being, like, cranial picture blind. Do you folks enjoys reading books? Because for me - and I'm guessing so many - the beauty of reading is the visuals your brain creates via the words. (AND it suck that you found this out so late in life. Guess it's not something kids are tested for...) I'm so intrigued .

3points

Albino 3 years ago

Books are still fun. You must not forget, we never knew it could be different. I found out at 35/36 that this was not the way most people work.

4points

deathrose 3 years ago

I love reading books and I also play table top rpgs. I don't visualize things but I do understand them. Like I know Ron from Harry Potter is a red head without visualizing it. I can also correlate the factual data in my head to a visualization. I can recognize characters from books in fan art like Harry Dresden or any character I've read. One problem with recognizing through fanart is that the data in my head doesn't always match a person's visualization. Like if fanartist cuts Thomas Wraith's hair or gender bent a character it's likely that I won't recognize the character.

2points

julie son 3 years ago

See my reply to Bender. :)

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cookie panda 3 years ago

HOW DO YOU DREAM :000

3points

*me* 3 years ago

It’s spontaneous

1point

Dodo 3 years ago

Wait, did I write this? I didn't find out until I was about 30, always thought it was a figure of speech

2points

trash panda 3 years ago

wait how did you find that out?

2points

Dodo 3 years ago

For me, I was talking to a friend who has a really good imagination. We're total opposites in a lot of ways and I joked that that was another 'opposite' to add to the list. She was totally shocked that I can't see anything; I was totally shocked that people actually could.

4points

Chrissa Gordon 3 years ago

I just recently realized I have this, from either tt or here on BP and it have visual examples of the levels of a minds eye. It's just one of those things, you think it's normal until you learn what other ppl have.

2points

Alex Payasa 3 years ago

Me too, discovered it at 36!!

2points

Kai Scadden 3 years ago

Wait.how do dreams work

1point

Starfall 3 years ago

I don't see images either. I am so glad to know this is actually a thing and I'm not just weird!

0points

Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago

I have this too. I was about 34 when I listened to a podcast and discovered that other people can actually see images in their mind. Since then I've been training myself to do it, and sometimes I can visualize simple shapes, I even managed a detailed face once.

0points

Bron 3 years ago (edited)

My daughter has this. She has none of the internal senses - taste, sight, smell, sound or feeling

0points

F. S. Leinad 3 years ago

out of 7 people in my family, 4 have aphantasia.

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Sleepyhead 3 years ago

Okay, I'm curious. For people who can visualize, is it like you can actually see a picture of whatever you're imagining when you close your eyes? I mean, I have vivid dreams and stuff, but I don't see the red apple I'm trying to imagine.

0points

Jode Mode 3 years ago

I can't imagine NOT seeing a red apple in my head. You mentioned it and it's there. So you see it with your eyes, but your brain doesn't replicate it in your mind. (And I thought synesthesia was interesting!)

1point

Albino 3 years ago

I have this and suspect it also has something to do with my partial face blindness. I too only found out in my thirties.

0points

Venatrix324 3 years ago

I don’t either, literally just figured out people see things in their head

0points

Bora Zrinyi 3 years ago

My boyfriend told me he has this too. He doesn't see pictures in his head when he reads or when thinks about something.

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Cain Hargreaves 3 years ago

I can only imagine what this is like (lol). I'm always imagining things. The only thing is when I concentrate too hard and something in the scene I'm imagining starts glitching out--no, seriously. Something random, like a table or a door, will just start wiggling around and twisting itself and I cannot stop it for love nor money.

0points

#14

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I can spin on my ass really fast like probably around 20 full rotations in one go. I start standing up, then I put my left hand on the ground and I throw my right leg towards my left, finally I retract my legs and put my Hands on my knees and i go spinning like a motherf****** beyblade. I've been doing this since i was 3 or 4.

lilmheo , Flickr Report

Final score:

87points

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Miłka Chromińska 3 years ago

Dude, that's really cool :D You should go on America's Got Talent or something aha 😅

33points

#15

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I have an autoimmune disease that’s so rare nobody knows what it is. Genetic testing is currently underway to see if I have a recently discovered genetic defect that about ten people have been diagnosed with.

a-living-raccoon , Flickr Report

Final score:

86points

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*me* 3 years ago

Yay you get a disease named after you

26points

#16

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population Mario and Sonic at the Olympic games 2008 pole vault. When i was 8-11, i had the 2nd highest score in the world. That has most likely changed

Ajc2003 , Flickr Report

Final score:

85points

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Elizabeth Tunney 3 years ago

Holy moly macaroni!!! I’ve done something similar on a mobile game app. I was like top 5 in the world at 11. Nice job!

13points

#17

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I'm part of the 1 (to 2) percent with red hair.

(Except in my house where I'm part of the 80%. Me and my kids are redheads, my wife is a blonde.)

ZotDragon , Flickr Report

Final score:

85points

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that one Harry Potter girl 3 years ago

So you guys are the Weaselys then? except for the wife

25points

#18

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population I'm a test tube baby. That's like 0.001% of the population.

darthcactus2100 , Flickr Report

Final score:

84points

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cassiushumanmother 3 years ago

I have a cousin who is a test tube baby too. It's just a weird name to in vitro fertilisation babies.

19points

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#28

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population Type 1 diabetes.

It's a s*** club.

Sideburnt , Flickr Report

Final score:

64points

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

Type 2 here ....

11points

#29

Mauritians living in the uk. We often refer ourselves as Martians

supertazz12 Report

Final score:

59points

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Auntriarch 3 years ago

I would if I were a Mauritian

12points

#30

30 People In This Online Group Share Unexpected Features That Make Them 1% Of The Population At the end of Detroit: Become Human they tell you the percentage of people who got the same ending as you. Mine was 1%

contreasness , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

53points

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*me* 3 years ago

What?

19points

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After graduating Media and Photography in the United Kingdom, Irmante got drawn into the captivating world of travelling and spent most of the years on the road discovering cultures, learning languages and meeting the most fascinating people. If not writing articles for Bored Panda readers she can be found listening to jazz in Ethiopia, sipping flat whites in Australia or trekking Guatemalan jungles. Her likes include films by Wes Anderson, pseudoscientific practices and being obsessed with everything Mexico and Central America. Her friends mainly describe her as inquisitive, adventurous, and caring.

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𝖊𝖆 3 years ago

I saw one of these posts the other day on BP and realised I fitted one of them. Have two rows of eyelashes! Didn’t know it was uncommon before

7points

Zaza 3 years ago

I would have been a little jealous of you, but then I also read about the issues you can have with double lashes

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Destiny Kruse 3 years ago

I have oglidontia. It occurs in .2% of the population. It's a genetic defect that causes a person to have at least six less permanent teeth than average. I only have fourteen, yes fourteen, permanent teeth. My lower jaw is mostly baby teeth. I'm also missing a part of bone in my jaw, the part where they usually screw in implants. Between that surgery and implants they told my mom it would cost $100,000 to fix my teeth. At the time they planned to shave bone off my hip to implant in my jaw. It never happened and now it's too late. After the age of 27 bone doesn't grow back.

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Llama_flower93 3 years ago

I'm 27. Now I'm wondering if I need to take bone from some part of my body and put it on another and I've lost my chance. Can you tell it's 4:30am here?

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Sarah Luna 3 years ago

I'm more common...one of the 10%ers. I survived a grade 5 brain aneurysm and stroke. Next month will be the six year anniversary of The Day I Fell Down. :-)

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Huddo's sister 2 years ago

I was born with an optic nerve pit on my retina (hole letting brain fluid into my eye. It was picked up in the standard eye test you get when you start Primary School. I was examined by many doctors, including a whole group of about 20 med students. They decided to use the relatively new eye surgery technique using laser. I was the youngest ever child (6yrs old) to have laser eye surgery. They used it to seal the hole and encapsulate the fluid. As it was a new technology they found that the laser wasn't actually strong enough the first time they did it so had to repeat the procedure with a stronger laser. Apparently it was mentioned in a case study in a medical journal but I have been unable to find it.

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Huddo's sister 2 years ago

When I was in my mid 20s I found my vision deteriorating again, because of the fluid that was encapsulated in my eye. They decided to do a vitrectomy to scrape back the vitreous fluid and then cut into my retina to drain the brain fluid, then seal it again with the laser and let the vitreous fall back into place. Again this was a new technique and the surgeon needed to invent a new tool that would cut the microscopic hole in my eye.

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Matthew Waldman 3 years ago

You should fact check. AB blood type is 10%+ of the population,

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meowgie catster 3 years ago

Idk how rare this is but I have had 2 separate strains of influenza at the same time

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Biljana Malesevic 3 years ago

I have RLS, I don't think it's very rare but it's really annoying when your job requires 8 hours of sitting, when you travel long distances or when you try to sleep every night. It's sounds like a joke but it can make your life pretty miserable.

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John Topper 3 years ago

Following a vasectomy there is a small chance you will develop a hematoma, basically a pocket of blood under the skin from persistent bleeding. I couldn't find any statistics about developing two of them, but I can tell you that it sucks. Spent an entire week walking around like a sumo wrestler.

0points

Aroace tiger (any pronouns) 3 years ago

I'm asexual! 🌈💜🖤 Where my fellow aces at? We're 1%

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Heather W 3 years ago

Just want to say, I tell my daughter mutants run in the family. Just not in the fun way. They tried to get my mother to abort me because I didn't have a tailbone. They said it meant I had spinal bifida. I don't. I say I'm just more evolved and didn't need it. My daughter had brain cancer (ependymoma) that is usually in a part of the brain they can't operate on. She had it on the top of her brain, between the 2 hemispheres, where the St Jude doctors had never seen it. That was when she was almost 3, she's now 16 and cancer free. She was upset: she was hoping for super powers lol

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OhForSmegSake 3 years ago

We're mutants too! We have family members born with missing organs, extra organs, extra digits too. We blame the local- now shut down- uranium mine. I'm hoping the next generation has wings...

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Doctor Strange 3 years ago

I'm probably the only person in the world who is both a professional land surveyor and recognized Principle Investigator for archaeological digs (meaning I am recognized as being legally allowed to organize and oversee digs on protected land such as parks). I'm also probably the only person in the world who arranged an archaeological dig at a famous historical site in order to impress my girlfriend at the time, who ended up finding an artifact so rare only 1 other has ever been found. Its since been featured in articles around the world.

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Zaza 3 years ago

I thought not that rare on the first, but then you mentioned the historical site and also your gf finding an extremely rare artifact. Are you happy for her or maybe just a little bummed out that she oficially found it and you didn't?

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Axolotl King 3 years ago

My sis has raynauds disorder, idk how rare that is but yea. Also my mom was on birth control when she had me and my sis, which I think is pretty rare. (Btw we aren't twins or anything, the birth control just failed to work on two separate occasions)

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Luna Wesson 3 years ago

There are two types of Raynaud's; the primary type when it occurs on its own, and the secondary type. I have the secondary type, because I also have an autoimmune disease.

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Charl Marx 3 years ago

I have a rare inherited metabolic condition called Phenylketonuria. It occurs in approximately 6 people per 100,000 worldwide. We're a pretty small community in the UK and not many people have heard of it at all. I think it's perhaps better known in the States due to population size.

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Zaza 3 years ago

Also I just wanted to say something about the mental orgasm thing. I do think it's rare for anyone to achieve it just like that, but also anyone and everyone can learn to do this, sort of like how you can teach yourself to lucid dream. I wish I could explain exactly. Unfortunately I haven't studied the subject and I'm the worst explainer/teacher in the world, but I'm confident that everyone can do it, if you just know how. The World Wide Web is vast and wide, it will ubdoubtedly provide you with all the information you need

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𝖊𝖆 3 years ago

I saw one of these posts the other day on BP and realised I fitted one of them. Have two rows of eyelashes! Didn’t know it was uncommon before

7points

Zaza 3 years ago

I would have been a little jealous of you, but then I also read about the issues you can have with double lashes

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Destiny Kruse 3 years ago

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Llama_flower93 3 years ago

I'm 27. Now I'm wondering if I need to take bone from some part of my body and put it on another and I've lost my chance. Can you tell it's 4:30am here?

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Sarah Luna 3 years ago

I'm more common...one of the 10%ers. I survived a grade 5 brain aneurysm and stroke. Next month will be the six year anniversary of The Day I Fell Down. :-)

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Huddo's sister 2 years ago

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Huddo's sister 2 years ago

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Matthew Waldman 3 years ago

You should fact check. AB blood type is 10%+ of the population,

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meowgie catster 3 years ago

Idk how rare this is but I have had 2 separate strains of influenza at the same time

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Biljana Malesevic 3 years ago

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John Topper 3 years ago

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Aroace tiger (any pronouns) 3 years ago

I'm asexual! 🌈💜🖤 Where my fellow aces at? We're 1%

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Heather W 3 years ago

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OhForSmegSake 3 years ago

We're mutants too! We have family members born with missing organs, extra organs, extra digits too. We blame the local- now shut down- uranium mine. I'm hoping the next generation has wings...

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Doctor Strange 3 years ago

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Zaza 3 years ago

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Axolotl King 3 years ago

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Luna Wesson 3 years ago

There are two types of Raynaud's; the primary type when it occurs on its own, and the secondary type. I have the secondary type, because I also have an autoimmune disease.

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