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Go on, ya freaks. What's wrong with you?

Me:

- When I was younger, I had a condition known as "Central Audio Processing Disorder." I don't know exactly what it did, but apparently it meant that I couldn't process things I heard for shit. Either that or I just didn't listen.

- I had way too many teeth as a kid. I was a fuggin' shark.

- I busted my ear drum! THEY GROW BACK! Thank jeebus. Sadly, thanks to further reinforcement surgery, it's actually better than my other ear.

-- My hearing is actually pretty terrible in general. People constantly hear things I can't. But, I am immune to mosquito tones (http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/) - I can't hear a single one of these. My friends say they're excruciating.). Also, my right ear can't hear crickets. So if crickets are bothering me, I can just plug that ear and my world is silent.

Eh, 'sall I can think of right now.

I have the ability to gain weight just by smelling food, does that count?

Also,

I have no medical abnormalities. Zilch. Rien. Nothing whatsoever.

Never broken anything, either. I'm a pretty boring guy.

I can voluntarily control the acoustic reflex in the middle ear:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_reflex


At any point I can reduce the sound coming at me by about 20 decibels or so. I got it lab tested and I'm able to hold it for a minute or so before it needs a quick rest　（ａ　ｓｅｃｏｎｄ　ｏｒ　ｓｏ）． It's pretty useful for when ambulances come blaring down the street and other...stuff...I guess.

- Generalized Anxiety, brought out by tramatic events in my life. Repeatedly.

- I have a set of webbed toes. My second and third toes on my left foot are joined together by a thick flap of skin and muscle, making them look conjoined.

- Until I had it surgically removed, I had an extra wisdom tooth.

I was dianosed with dyslexia when I was younger, and had tinnitus throughout my life. My vision has also been decreasing, although not too rapidly. Since I've bested the last two, I'm going in for laser eye surgery to correct my vision;it's the last affliction I have in my life to get past.

i have an extensible body part.

unbelievable, i know

My knees bend backwards like 20-30 degrees.

I have GERD.

And social anxiety. Wooo! Go freaks!

I have a Photic sneeze reflex It wasn't until a few years ago that I realized the not everyone does.

Mine isn't terrible uncommon, I sneeze when I walk out into bright sunshine. 18-35% of people experience this odd genetic trait.

For the longest time I was under the impression that it was something that happened to most people, but I was quite wrong.

Photic sneeze reflex

Kovac said:

Mine isn't terrible uncommon, I sneeze when I walk out into bright sunshine. 18-35% of people experience this odd genetic trait.

For the longest time I was under the impression that it was something that happened to most people, but I was quite wrong.

Photic sneeze reflex

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Holy crap. I do that too. My friend at work starts a count down everyday when we step outside for lunch. It amuses her greatly.

Great...chalk another one on the list

My ear canals are complete shit and I need to have them flushed regularly or go deaf from wax build-uo.

Right now I have about six (I usually have only one at a time every couple of months) swollen tastebuds on my tongue. It feels like my tongue has pimples, but at least they go away after three days.

I think it was that spicy chex mix I ate yesterday.....

Had hearing problems all my life and then the whole bleeding every couple of weeks thing too.

...blech.

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...but none of that stuff is abnormal so I guess I didn't contribute anything worthwhile to the thread. Boy, do I have a knack for that or what!

Ulcerative colitis. Gives me plenty of time to read. No one ever wants to borrow my books.

That and, like Frankie, massive amounts of ear wax.

I'm allergic to olives. I can eat food with olive oil BUT if I eat actual olive I start to bloat overnight which is weird. It is not fatal just scary looking.

Chibibar said:

I'm allergic to olives. I can eat food with olive oil BUT if I eat actual olive I start to bloat overnight which is weird. It is not fatal just scary looking.

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Not to make light of what I am sure is an inconvenient and annoying condition, but I just see you eating an olive and turning into some pimento studded hulk.

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I'm allergic to olives. I can eat food with olive oil BUT if I eat actual olive I start to bloat overnight which is weird. It is not fatal just scary looking.

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Not to make light of what I am sure is an inconvenient and annoying condition, but I just see you eating an olive and turning into some pimento studded hulk.[/QUOTE]

LOL.... Yea. My wife finds it funny, then I have to go see my doc to get some shots

I have mild OCD. I check locks & lights repeatedly, I have to touch things with both hands b/c if I don't it "feels" bad, & I try to do everything in even numbers. Like, I have to eat 4 crackers, but I have to leave an even amount in the bag too. I'll avoid things if I don't think it will even out somehow. I do this weird thing were I to rub or scratch my hands, each one 5 times, alternately, for a total of 10. But it's never been so bad were it's debilitating & most people don't seem to notice. Except for the hand thing, that's gotten some weird looks.

It was worse when I was younger though. I would have to touch things a certain amount of times or I thought something bad would happen & would panic. And I used to patrol the house making sure all the toilet seats were down, the brushes were faced w/bristles down & all the bathroom doors were shut.

Also, I'm so awesome the doctors don't know what to do

AshburnerX said:

- I have a set of webbed toes. My second and third toes on my left foot are joined together by a thick flap of skin and muscle, making them look conjoined.

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Awesome! Mutant powers, activate!

lafftaff said:

I try to do everything in even numbers.

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I sort of do that. I eat grapes, raisins, mints etc in twos, one on each side of my mouth. If I end up with only one, like one grape left in the bowl, I'll bite it in half first. This results in painful teeth when I have one mint left.

I have sleep apnea. I literally quit breathing for about 15 seconds a couple of times an hour while sleeping. I have to sleep wearing a constant pressure air pump. I sleep pretty well now, in the past before diagnosis I'd wake up feeling more tired than when I went to bed.

Early this morning a thunderstorm rolled through, and knocked out the power. Then I was trying to breathe through a one inch hose, and a shut off pump. !!!

I was born with a significant astigmatism in both my eyes. Imagine wearing coke-bottle glasses for most of your youth. I switched over to contacts, and I've needed special order ones that can overcome the large astigmatism.

I also have a protruding sternum, which basically means that the bones in my chest stick out a bit. I was born with an abnormally large heart, and the rib cage had to make room for it, so it pushed outward. Doesn't really cause a problem, though, which is nice.

Fit as a fiddle. Healthy as a horse. Strong...like bull.

Though my brother and I are convinced that our family has superhuman strength. We were always wiry, but we could hold off groups twice our size. Once, when we were kids, our sister got a full sized car (like a crown vic or something) and we kept her from leaving by picking the rear up off the ground. Just two skinny kids. I joke that it's a feral mutation or the result of someone sleeping with wolves, because we all have really pointy canines, too.

I only had 2 wisdom teeth, both of which were pretty easily extracted.

I'm the only person I've ever known to have cat scratch fever. A huge lump grew in my armpit over the course of a day or two. My doctor didn't have any idea what it was, but wanted it out immediately. I still have a nice scar from getting several lymph nodes removed and it took several weeks for the lab to identify the cause as cat scratch fever. Yep, it's real.

Oh yeah, for a couple months afterward, a lymph vessel or something in my arm was super tight, so I could barely move my arm backwards or extend it all the way. When I did extend it, the thing would visibly pop out at my uh... elbow pit (wtf is that called, anyway?).

I have:
http://www.endocrineweb.com/hypo1.html

Also for 2years I was a diagnosed insomniac so I was given:
http://www.drugs.com/ambien.html

According to some forumites, I suffer from:
http://www.deviantcrimes.com/sociopathy.htm

As others have said I also have Photic sneeze reflex.


I am not sure when but sometime when I was little my ear drum popped due to a ear infection I never realized until I was at the doctors one time and he mentioned there was some scarring

Prehensile penis.

I have a hyperactive Vagus nerve (family trait). During periods of stress or anxiety, it basically drops my heart-rate and my blood pressure dramatically. While there's no cure, a shot of adrenalin from being punched, slapped, cursed at or laughing can turn things around very fast. Part of why I do martial arts is to find ways to get adrenalin pumping when I need it.

I've also had LASIK eye surgery which has corrected my mild astigmatism and my terrible eye sight to about 20/15 which amazes the optometrists.

Wahad said:

I have no medical abnormalities. Zilch. Rien. Nothing whatsoever.

Never broken anything, either. I'm a pretty boring guy.

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Do you get followed around by a Samuel L Jackson look-a-like?

Kovac said:

Mine isn't terrible uncommon, I sneeze when I walk out into bright sunshine. 18-35% of people experience this odd genetic trait.

For the longest time I was under the impression that it was something that happened to most people, but I was quite wrong.

Photic sneeze reflex

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I have that as well, though it extends into the rest of the allergic reactions (wheezing, watering eyes).

I am bored at work, so I figured why not let people learn about the WoW fanboy.

When I was growing up I was suffering from Dyslexia. My parents sent me to a specialist out of the city to improve my reading ability. It was during that time I actually learned how to speed read, and wrote my first "book" at the age of 5, a childrens book about a sea monster that I think is still sitting in my old elementry school library. While I don't suffer from it nearly as much anymore, I still find myself getting "reversed" a lot with a few words and I have to double check myself.

I have a weird habit of my mind falling out of sync with my hands or mouth. I will accidently type words I had no intention to write in my mind. You might catch me now and then putting in a words that does not belong in a sentence, like "When I was going home I front that taking the expressway was a bat faster", but "front" was supposed to be "found" and "bat" was supposed to be "bit". I even do this while I talk and I can sometimes really confuse people.

I have a photographic memory. Something I read or watch I can remember and play back in my head. As a downside though, my audio memory is piss-poor, don't expect me to remember anything you say to me in an hour, it will fly out my head. The only strange exception to this rule is music, but I think that is due to repetition. I watched the Munsters so much as a kid that I can hum the whole theme song without missing a beat. My wife hates it when I sing the Thundercats theme in the shower.

As for more physical complications. I have a genetic skin condition that means when under high stress, patches of my skin become ultra sensative. Just having my shirt hang on that area of my body will bring either dull or intense pain. I had a few cases so bad that I had to leave work early just to go home and take off my shirt. Thankfully, such outbreaks are rare, since I am a pretty mellow guy. Only reason I know it is genetic is because my Mom told me she suffers the same thing. Other then those two things, I am a pretty healthy guy.

Here is my weirdest problem though...

I have what I call "Digital OCD", mostly because I am not an OCD person out of my virtual space, but I am HORRIBLE on my computer. All my music must be listed in the right folder in the right drive, all my icons must be properly organized by usage and use, I must always put the icons over a black background and never over a graphical wallpaper (I always use wallpapers of a lower resolution for that reason). Even with WoW, I can't stand not having my characters listed in perfect order by race. I literally made my characters with the intention of orcs > undead > tauren > troll > blood elf, and when they added DKs I made mine a blood elf just because I had to keep the blood elves together at the bottom. The only reason I am allowing my tauren druid to be converted to a troll druid is because she is right next to my troll shaman on my character list. Don't even get me started on my guild bank. I am a guy that does laundry and then just throws all my shirts on the floor in the closet, yet I can't live without my gems being color coded from epic > rare > common. I still don't understand how that works.

I have a form of delayed echolalia that used to cause me to mumble things when I was a kid. TV shows, movie dialogs, even previous conversations that I had. I wouldn't say them out loud, but I'd think about them, and my mouth would go through the movements of speaking them. This also caused me to often repeat things I had just said, albeit silently the second time around. I learned to cope with this by simply keeping my mouth shut whenever I wasn't talking. I've never been diagnosed with anything to attribute the echolalia to, though I have had doctors tell me that I may have an extremely mild form of Asperger's. Too mild to consider actually having the condition.

I also have Ankylosing Spondylitis, a genetic disorder/autoimmune disease that causes an inflammation of all the joints (think arthritis) as well as a gradual fusing of the spinal column. It's hereditary (thanks Dad), but I have the good fortune of being told that I'll never have it as badly as my father. His spine is completely fused, and there isn't doctor that's ever looked at his x-ray and wondered how the hell he's still walking.

Let's see now...

I only had three wisdom teeth instead of the regular four. Apparently that's a family trait, since my sister had the same number. Unfortunately, the three wisdom teeth gave me plenty of trouble, as they somehow managed to get my jaw locked from the right side so that I would have to crack the jaw back in its right place.

My father suffers from sleep apnea. And as a fat guy who snores, it is possible I might one day suffer from it as well...

I tested positive for HLAB-27; a genetic defect that basically means that in some of my joints I have the wrong kind of tissue. When I was younger, they suspected it was juvenile rheumatism, and it hurt me like hell: my left shoulder was sensitive to stress, draft - even certain kinds of foods - and would start aching so terribly I could not move my arm without crying out in pain. I have a standing prescription for pain medication, but even though they helped when I was younger and the pains have since lessened (only appearing 2-3 times a year, while when I was a teenager they could happen almost daily), I am quite the expert at cataloguing pains on my shoulder and other joints:
- "Morning pains", might be due to draft or having slept on that shoulder. Don't really hinder my movements, and will disappear within an hour or two.
- "Mid-pains", likely brought on by physical or mental stress. The shoulder feels swollen and sensitive to touch. Limited mobility. Usually disappears with one pop of a painkiller.
- "Serious pains", complete and utter inability to move my upper body without searing pains radiating from my left shoulder. Shoulder is swollen, and the whole arm is practically useless, even slight movement causing pain. Usually demands a short diet of painkillers.

Luckily, I've not had serious pains in years now; mostly I just get morning or mid-pains.

Dave said:

Prehensile penis.

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You poor bastard. Tsk tsk.


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does that mean you can anally penetrate yourself?

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Prehensile penis.

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You poor bastard. Tsk tsk.


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does that mean you can anally penetrate yourself?[/QUOTE]

A few years ago I had an accident and lost my penis. The doctor transplanted an elephant's trunk.

The women love it but it always shoves peanuts up my ass.

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Prehensile penis.

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You poor bastard. Tsk tsk.


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does that mean you can anally penetrate yourself?[/quote]

A few years ago I had an accident and lost my penis. The doctor transplanted an elephant's trunk.

The women love it but it always shoves peanuts up my ass.


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:humph:

Nothing abnormal health-wise. Except my eyes slowly and permanently changed color when I was a teenager from a deep brown to a dark green hazel.

To quote a song,

He says
Yeah you should
Wish you could
But the arms you got don't extend that good

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For some reason they always stay bent, it's not really annoying unless brought up (or for reaching things far from me while trapped).

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Prehensile penis.

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You poor bastard. Tsk tsk.


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does that mean you can anally penetrate yourself?[/quote]

A few years ago I had an accident and lost my penis. The doctor transplanted an elephant's trunk.

The women love it but it always shoves peanuts up my ass.


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You should have told the full version, it'd have gotten a real laugh, even from the man-hater crowd.

I also have a Photic Sneeze Reflex, although I didn't know that that was what it was called, or that it wasn't normal until just now.

I also had this thing on my lower back a while ago, which was ... I don't really know what it was, actually. It was essentially a mutant pimple under my skin. Pressure would build up and it became excruciatingly painful. I ended up going to the emergency room after not being able to sit down for three days. They cut it open, drained it out, and I'm supposed to be fine now, although sometimes I get a light pain there which means it's probably not gone. I'm always afraid it will come back as hardcore as it was before.

I've only ever met one other person with it, and he spent a month in the hospital this summer because of it. His kept coming back over and over for three years, so he had surgery to take care of it. There's only a 20% success rate, and they won't know if it's gone for good or not until he goes ten years without a problem.

It's the most annoying problem in the world, it can be quite painful, and the worst thing is that it's not badass enough to impress people with.

EDIT: I want to call it a polynomial cyst, but I'm not certain that's what it's actually called.

EDIT2: Aah. It's called a Pilonidal Cyst. I found it on Wikipedia, but I'm not linking it because it's disgusting. You can look it up yourself if you care, but be warned: when I talk about it being on my lower back, I really mean 'in my asscrack'

Aside from the happy horseshit y'all know about, I have a tumor sticking out of my side. it's just a lipoma but it sticks out of my side. It's not visible but it's perfectly palpable and hurts sometimes and I fucking hate it. Surgery's an option but with my other issues I've decided against that.

Both of my elbows bend backwards at roughly 30-40 degrees. I also have hyper-flexible shoulders, wrists and fingers. I can also do the splits, if that counts.

My jiu-jitsu partners hate me.

I'm also a bit overweight.

If bein' awesome is a medical condition then I got a terminal case!


Also, shitty lungs as a kid due to thinking it would be a great idea to be born with water in them. That lead to many years or asthma inhalers and other things like that.

nerve damage in my right hand. i dont have much control over my ring or pinky fingers. basically this just means that i can't do the live long and prosper sign/throw the horns with that hand, so it's not like a hard to live with condition or anything.

Regular allergies to cat, dog, pollen, etc. Used to be less common when I was younger, but now it seems a lot of people have them.

I have a calcium deposit (basically a hunk of bone) under my skin. Probably going to get it taken care of in November. I've given it six years to go away on its own, but it's getting to be knifing time.

I have Amblyopia or: 'Lazy Eye' and PDD-NOS, which is was diagnosed as a mild form of autism.

Not much else.

I didn't include my asthma, allergies, or eczema because they are pretty common problems. But yeah, I deal with all 3 of them. Didn't have problems with asthma until I was in my mid-twenties. Allergies have been a problem since I was a little kid. Eczema started when I was a few weeks old.

I moved back to Mn from San Fran in 2001. Never had allergies before. Moved here? ALLERGIES FROM HELL. Thankfully with Zyrtec they are all good. Not good enough that I can have a kitty though... :tear:

On my fourth birthday, I was diagnosed with Leukemia. Was treated for that for about three years.

When I was 25, I was hit with Guillain-Barré Syndrome. It took about 4 months before all the numbness went away and I could walk completely normal again.

The rest of my problems are due to me being a lazy fat-ass.

Cheesy1 said:

On my fourth birthday, I was diagnosed with Leukemia. Was treated for that for about three years.

When I was 25, I was hit with Guillain-Barré Syndrome. It took about 4 months before all the numbness went away and I could walk completely normal again.

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A House favorite! It's in the Diseases That Must Be Mentioned Once Per Episode rotation (which I kind of think is supposed to be a backdoor way of increasing awareness, but that's just a theory). It's up there with amyloidosis and sarcoidosis.

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On my fourth birthday, I was diagnosed with Leukemia. Was treated for that for about three years.

When I was 25, I was hit with Guillain-Barré Syndrome. It took about 4 months before all the numbness went away and I could walk completely normal again.

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A House favorite! It's in the Diseases That Must Be Mentioned Once Per Episode rotation (which I kind of think is supposed to be a backdoor way of increasing awareness, but that's just a theory). It's up there with amyloidosis and sarcoidosis.[/QUOTE]

You missed one.

Give it time. In another 15 years or so I should be getting my next random disease.

escushion said:

I have a calcium deposit (basically a hunk of bone) under my skin. Probably going to get it taken care of in November. I've given it six years to go away on its own, but it's getting to be knifing time.

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Hmm... How big of a hunk are we talking about here? I'm just wondering, because such things might have possibilities when crafted into decorative ornaments.

Think how cool it would be if you could point at some knickknack and say "Yeah, that thing came outta me".

Damn this thread, every time I see it bumped to the top I become acutely aware of this bump on my side. Which for purely psychosomatic reasons is now hurting like hell.

Espy said:

I moved back to Mn from San Fran in 2001. Never had allergies before. Moved here? ALLERGIES FROM HELL. Thankfully with Zyrtec they are all good. Not good enough that I can have a kitty though... :tear:

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Like you in reverse...
Back when I was living in NJ, I was allergic to strawberries. If I ate a few of them, my nose (the skin on the outside, not the inside) would tickle and itch like crazy. Moved to San Diego and suddenly I can eat strawberries without a problem.

I was born without wisdom teeth. I'm not just saying that cause I'm 24 and haven't gotten one tiny protrusion from back there, I've had x-rays taken. Nothing.

I am an evolved species. My DNA decided wisdom teeth were a stupid thing and just eliminated them.

You can call me Homo Sapiens Sapiens Sapiens.

Also, been dealing with sinusitis all my life, which means I wake up every morning ready to throw the world's biggest loogie. Every. Morning. It also means I have the weakest sense of smell ever.

Does chronic insomnia count?

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Oh yeah!

When I was like 15 I noticed that if I pressed my right ear lobe I could fill this hard round..thing inside. Completely non-visible, but very apparent to the touch.

Then a few months later I noticed it had grown. And then a bit more a few months after that. So I was finally taken to a doctor who decided it was a benign cyst but wanted it off anyway, so he cut my earlobe, extracted it, and gave me 3 stitches.

Now sometimes people notice the scar and ask if I had an earring. ¬¬

ADD, Aspergers, and a lazy eye.

Also, I eat pizza, McDonald's, Chinese food, or something else ungodly high in cholesterol and fat almost every day and have the cholesterol levels of a healthy person half my age, along with being slightly underweight.

I learned lately that I've apparently got Gilbert's Syndrome, which really means nothing other than I have a high bilirubin count which only showed up because I had blood-work done. I've got allergies, nothing horrible, at least not like my older brother, who sneezes like a goddamn moose. I can also jiggle my kneecaps and make them do a merry dance.

Would a third nipple count?

meyoumeyou said:

Would a third nipple count?

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Yes.

It would go "One, two, three...oh shit, I'm on the wrong chest."

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Would a third nipple count?

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zing! I give you the all clear to repost that win button for yourself.

I'm a minor medical mystery, actually.

For several months I was having pain in my butt, quite literally, like a pinched nerve at the back of my pelvis. Made sitting down for long periods painful, which was a problem as I had a job that involved driving for 2-4 hours at a time then.

I went through a battery of tests, x-rays, and finally a CAT scan till they finally saw -something-. It was too fuzzy to make out, so I had to have a second CAT scan with contrast (was a lot less unpleasent than I thought it would be) and sent to a pelvic specialist to analyze the images.

Turns out, after much fear of cancer, that I simply have several abnormal cysts attached to my coccyx, also know as the tail-bone, which is actually several vestigial vertebrae that are fused together, a pass-over from when humans used to have tails. So odd was it that they actually had to come up with names for the individual bones since they don't have scientific names in order to describe it since there's several of them in different locations.

Seems when I sit on them they pinch the nerves and slowly cause pain over time, so I had to re-learn how to sit to avoid this and/or use heavy padding.

It's possible to remove them, but that area is so packed full of nerves that it'd be a very risky procedure and very, very costly, so I'm just living with it for now.

-My biggest one is that I have synesthesia; possibly two forms of it, actually. Words have a physical texture and sensation to me: the word 'shatter', for example, has a cold, hard feel that disintegrates at the 't'. The sensations never change, and--while certain words will drive me up a wall as a result--it's actually pretty useful since it helps me spell and remember words.

The other potential form is with sound, specifically music. I have a nearly eidetic memory for music due to it; such as, when I'm playing a drum beat, I'll remember exactly how it should go due to...I'm trying to think of a better way to put it, but it's a half-visualized cue. I'm not sure if it counts, though.

-I'm about 5'10", but my wingspan from fingertip to fingertip is almost 6'1".

-I have an eidetic memory for anything non-scholarly. As a result, I rule at Jeopardy.

-My left ear is pointy (like almost elf-pointy), but my right ear folds over on itself due to me having laid on it in the womb.

-Although I heal from cuts and such at a normal rate, I heal broken bones at an accelerated rate. I once knocked both bones off my ankle's growth pad (i.e. dislocated my foot from my leg), split the big one up the middle for an inch, and cracked the other one in half, and was able to walk on it with no pain after three weeks. The doctor was amazed.

-Near-superhuman resistance to morphine. The doctor gave me the standard dose for my weight (during the aforementioned broken leg, because they had to set the bone), which was eventually upped to more than twice the normal dose when I retained perfect clarity and was able to recite the Gettysburg address perfectly from memory.

Enresshou said:

-My biggest one is that I have synesthesia; possibly two forms of it, actually. Words have a physical texture and sensation to me: the word 'shatter', for example, has a cold, hard feel that disintegrates at the 't'. The sensations never change, and--while certain words will drive me up a wall as a result--it's actually pretty useful since it helps me spell and remember words.

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I don't know if this counts, but I react that way to certain textures or sounds. It's very annoying.

Calleja said:

Oh yeah!

When I was like 15 I noticed that if I pressed my right ear lobe I could fill this hard round..thing inside. Completely non-visible, but very apparent to the touch.

Then a few months later I noticed it had grown. And then a bit more a few months after that. So I was finally taken to a doctor who decided it was a benign cyst but wanted it off anyway, so he cut my earlobe, extracted it, and gave me 3 stitches.

Now sometimes people notice the scar and ask if I had an earring. ¬¬

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Similarly (but much less interestingly) I have a freckle on my ear that makes people ask the same question.

Almost forgot about my hyper metabolism (self-diagnosed). I eat and drink just about whatever I want, when I want, and I've been around 153 lbs. +/- 5 for the last 6+ years (now age 23). I exercise on occasion, but not enough to keep this kind of metabolism going.

As a kind of side-effect of this hyper metabolism, my body gives off a lot of heat. This is good for cuddling situations :slywink:

I have an innate ability to see patterns. I see patterns in a lot of different places without thinking about it.

Also, I've noticed that I produce more mucus than the average person.

I have a rash on the right side of my body only. It's from my shoulder all the way to my fingers and with a patch or two on mah boobeh.

WTF am I allergic to this late in life?!??!

When I was a child, I was hospitalized for intense asthma. I was in for about 3-4 months and they put me on a stimulant that gave me symptoms of ADHD. After I had grown out of it, I was back to normal.

I also have abnormal hearing. I can hear everything just fine, but low volumes get me. Around the pitches of human voices, my hearing takes a drop but not too sharply. Basically I have to ask people to repeat themselves.

My mother suffers from extreme anxieties that only affect her in her sleep when he guard is down. Its like having panic attacks in her sleep. I have the same thing, only not nearly as bad. I've had maybe 4 panic attacks where I wake up crying and shaking. Only one while I was awake.

I also suffer from couchinitis. Its a medical condition thats a side effect of marijuana use. Basically, it makes it hard to get out of bed or off the couch.

Ross said:

Almost forgot about my hyper metabolism (self-diagnosed). I eat and drink just about whatever I want, when I want, and I've been around 153 lbs. +/- 5 for the last 6+ years (now age 23). I exercise on occasion, but not enough to keep this kind of metabolism going.

As a kind of side-effect of this hyper metabolism, my body gives off a lot of heat. This is good for cuddling situations :slywink:

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I envy you.

My metabolism is terrible, thanks to a slow thyroid, and yet I still act as a portable space heater. Makes it difficult to sleep as I overheat myself.

Nothing at all, except a left ankle that pops when I go up and down stairs because of a past injury, I'm assuming... since it never happened before then.

I had silicone splints in my nose for a month once. My nose used to whistle because of a hole in my septum.

I'm clinically over-awesome.