I have photophobia, "an abnormal intolerance to light". It's nothing you might notice though, it just means that my glasses are more expensive.
Body Quirks
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I only have peripheral vision in my left eye. No one really knows why, but probably because of some sort of nerve damage when I was still young. I can still see on my left side, but because I only have one eye with and actual fovea I have to depth perception or 3D vision. This have some nice side effects (apparently my brain is rewired to correct for the lack of stereoscopic vision and thus I am much better with optical illusions and to me looking at a game or movie on a screen looks like as if it was on the other side of a window, which kind of help immersion) and some not so nice (I am legally blind on my left eye so it restricts me in getting some licenses and I am pretty much barred from all the VR whatchamacallits that make most of you guys squee all over).
Also, if we are at that, I have no sense of smell. The proper term is anosmia, and I apparently suffer from it because my nasal passages are constantly inflamed because all year around (either because of the cold or because allergies). Because of that I cannot tell if I smell, if I should air my room, or even if food in the fridge is good or not.
But the worst part? Since this one is not completely permanent, sometimes my sense of smell temporarily returns, and it's a torture. It's like those tales when people who were deaf since birth (or at least for a long time) somehow regain their hearing and couldn't sleep for days because of the noises that wouldn't even register with normal people. -.-'
Oh, and I also have a my canines protruding from above my small molars, any our dentist couldn't do anything about them beside pulling them out because my teeth are so soft (a genetic trait that apparently comes from my mother's side of the family) that he couldn't attach braces to them in fear that they would break apart.
So yeah, my body is kind of a wreck...
Also, if we are at that, I have no sense of smell. The proper term is anosmia, and I apparently suffer from it because my nasal passages are constantly inflamed because all year around (either because of the cold or because allergies). Because of that I cannot tell if I smell, if I should air my room, or even if food in the fridge is good or not.
But the worst part? Since this one is not completely permanent, sometimes my sense of smell temporarily returns, and it's a torture. It's like those tales when people who were deaf since birth (or at least for a long time) somehow regain their hearing and couldn't sleep for days because of the noises that wouldn't even register with normal people. -.-'
Oh, and I also have a my canines protruding from above my small molars, any our dentist couldn't do anything about them beside pulling them out because my teeth are so soft (a genetic trait that apparently comes from my mother's side of the family) that he couldn't attach braces to them in fear that they would break apart.
So yeah, my body is kind of a wreck...
Perhaps not a "quirk" per say, but as a result of going from being overweight to quickly underweight, I currently have the remains of the ol' man-boobs... The most annoying part of which is that they only really exist around my nipples. Like, seriously, I have little breasts just around my nipples.
Not sure why, but on my left side it looks like I'm either missing a rib or it dips in a bit, as there's quite a noticeable asymmetrical nature to it.
I have a scar on my right palm that, when soaked in water for an extended period of time, will "open" tiny holes in my hand, sort of like Morbius in one of the old Spider-Man animated series (although nowhere near that severe and situated towards the lower portion of my hand).
There's definitely other things, but I just can't think of them right now.
Not sure why, but on my left side it looks like I'm either missing a rib or it dips in a bit, as there's quite a noticeable asymmetrical nature to it.
I have a scar on my right palm that, when soaked in water for an extended period of time, will "open" tiny holes in my hand, sort of like Morbius in one of the old Spider-Man animated series (although nowhere near that severe and situated towards the lower portion of my hand).
There's definitely other things, but I just can't think of them right now.
Dimples.
I don't know what is it about them, BUT I F***ING HATE THEM. To me they make my smiles look unavoidably sarcastic and smug and I just want to punch myself in the face because I assume I'm just some asshole looking for a fight irl.
My arms are very long, yet I can't stretch far enough to touch my toes. A conspiracy is what it is.
Most of my joints stretched out can make noisy snaps with very little movement.
My fingers, snap. Arm stretched, snap. Neck stretched, oh you bet it's gonna be a big snap!
Depending on which, it's either a loud/silent crack that can catch a silent crowd's attention. It freaks people out, I love it.
My high metabolism is (still) immensely high. I simply do not gain fat, and when I work out for a whole week, I most certainly WILL gain muscle.
And my eyebrow's hair fades away as they go away from the middle of my face. This one... I never get made fun of for some reason. I seem to be the only one in the universe aware of my half eyebrows.
I don't know what is it about them, BUT I F***ING HATE THEM. To me they make my smiles look unavoidably sarcastic and smug and I just want to punch myself in the face because I assume I'm just some asshole looking for a fight irl.
My arms are very long, yet I can't stretch far enough to touch my toes. A conspiracy is what it is.
Most of my joints stretched out can make noisy snaps with very little movement.
My fingers, snap. Arm stretched, snap. Neck stretched, oh you bet it's gonna be a big snap!
Depending on which, it's either a loud/silent crack that can catch a silent crowd's attention. It freaks people out, I love it.
My high metabolism is (still) immensely high. I simply do not gain fat, and when I work out for a whole week, I most certainly WILL gain muscle.
And my eyebrow's hair fades away as they go away from the middle of my face. This one... I never get made fun of for some reason. I seem to be the only one in the universe aware of my half eyebrows.
Early onset scoliosis caused by my left and right legs being different lengths. If I were to walk without an insole to balance them out, I'd be back where I started in a few years.
Toenails curve upwards. Great perk, means no ingrown nails.
Hartman hips, extra wide. Coupled with a chest the size of a combine harvester.
Hetereochromia iridis, green + brown.
Toenails curve upwards. Great perk, means no ingrown nails.
Hartman hips, extra wide. Coupled with a chest the size of a combine harvester.
Hetereochromia iridis, green + brown.
That, and they make you the centre of attention for way too many unwanted photographs.JagermanXcell said:
I also have a patch of skin without pigment in my lower groin area. I never really paid any attention to the hairs growing there, but I just checked and they are also completely white.T0ad 0f Truth said:When I was little I had (have) a patch of really pale skin without any pigment in my lower groin/bladder area. Birth mark in an odd place and all that.
Best part? Now that I'm a man with hairy bits I have a sizeable patch of white pubic hair. It used to make me self conscious even though no one could see it.
Now I just find it hilariously awkward.
Well, there's a slight one that only I notice, but I am right handed. Because of this it's normal that muscles on my right side are slightly bigger than the ones on my right side. This is mostly true with the exception of my triceps. The triceps on my left arm is enormous compared to the one on my right arm.
Then there's my joints of course. Pretty much all of the make cracking noises when I do anything. Gently lift my hands over my head? Crack! Gently move my feet? Crack! It also leads to living with constant pain, but I'm used to it so it doesn't really bother me that much except for on bad days when I am overwhelmed by it.
This is also coupled with uncontrollable muscle actions at times. My fingers might lock in place and cause my thumb to flex until it touches the palm of my hand and my jaw sometimes won't unless I really strain myself and then close quickly when I try to close it again. This is annoying when I want to eat, but this is kinda rare.
This might be incredibly common, but the muscles on my arms form discs that kinda look the same way as love handles. This is hardly visible and I don't spend a lot of time studying people flexing their muscles so it might be normal for what I know, but I think it looks weird.
Then there's my joints of course. Pretty much all of the make cracking noises when I do anything. Gently lift my hands over my head? Crack! Gently move my feet? Crack! It also leads to living with constant pain, but I'm used to it so it doesn't really bother me that much except for on bad days when I am overwhelmed by it.
This is also coupled with uncontrollable muscle actions at times. My fingers might lock in place and cause my thumb to flex until it touches the palm of my hand and my jaw sometimes won't unless I really strain myself and then close quickly when I try to close it again. This is annoying when I want to eat, but this is kinda rare.
This might be incredibly common, but the muscles on my arms form discs that kinda look the same way as love handles. This is hardly visible and I don't spend a lot of time studying people flexing their muscles so it might be normal for what I know, but I think it looks weird.
I have pretty flexible shoulders with the result that I can lick my own elbows. Aren't I talented.
My second smallest toes (fourth toes?) curl under my middle toes. My father and grandfather have the same thing. I refer to them as my "gimpy toes".
I also get a single hair growing out of the middle of one of my earlobes (I forget which one). Usually it'll get to about an inch long before I notice it and yank it out.
I also get a single hair growing out of the middle of one of my earlobes (I forget which one). Usually it'll get to about an inch long before I notice it and yank it out.
Mine's quirk is only being the best body in the world!
Not because of looks, it's about a B- in that department, but because:
1) I can eat pretty much whatever I want and not gain weight. With the way I've been eating since I moved to university I should be 300 pounds by now yet I barely gained one.
2) I had quite the growth spurt (not a bad thing in itself) so I got some stretch marks. How is that a good thing? Because they're on my hips and genuinly look like tiger stripes!
3) This is the big one for me. The ability to, apparently, survive anything. I will not go into detail to spare the more squimish amongst you but suffice to say the local emergency room crew probably still knows me by name even though I haven't been there for a few years now. I've had some very real shots at death, paralyzation, and other gruesome things several times by now and yet am still bouncing around with only a few hidden scars to show for it. A body that can do that, I'll gladly take any day. B- looks and all.
Not because of looks, it's about a B- in that department, but because:
1) I can eat pretty much whatever I want and not gain weight. With the way I've been eating since I moved to university I should be 300 pounds by now yet I barely gained one.
2) I had quite the growth spurt (not a bad thing in itself) so I got some stretch marks. How is that a good thing? Because they're on my hips and genuinly look like tiger stripes!
3) This is the big one for me. The ability to, apparently, survive anything. I will not go into detail to spare the more squimish amongst you but suffice to say the local emergency room crew probably still knows me by name even though I haven't been there for a few years now. I've had some very real shots at death, paralyzation, and other gruesome things several times by now and yet am still bouncing around with only a few hidden scars to show for it. A body that can do that, I'll gladly take any day. B- looks and all.
Well, ever since I lost weight I start to notice this aswell. Might be the reason why my back can ache from time to time, dunno. Although my shoulderblades still touch the wall when I try it. But then again my shoulderblades stick out like a sore thumb.Mr.Tea said:
I'm a man, but according to this, I'm 110-150% woman.
Seriously, my lower back is arched inward to a ridiculous degree.
The stomach thing checks out.
And my butt is rounded and sticks out enough that, with my back (butt) to a wall, no part of my back or shoulder blades touch the wall.
I've had very bad times trying to find well-fitting clothing because of this shit.
- (From my perspective atleast) I seem to have a large chest, but it might be body dismorphia peeping around the corner.
- Hypermobility in the fingers, I can bend them in unusual ways. Actually scared some people with it when I was younger.
- I cannot tan in the sun, instead I burn within less than 15 minutes.
- Do being colourblind and nightblind count?
- Extremely sensitive to heat aswell. Which means I can gett easily dizzy during days with high temperatures and sometimes just simply black out due to a combination of low blood pressure and a defect in my blood vessels
- Previous point also gives me the side-effect of havign muscle spasms. Luckily not 24/7 but when they occur I can't do my activities like I should.
Last one:
- I was light blond at birth but nowadays it looks rather dark blond, almost brown, gives a nice red-ish glow though, so I canot complain.
Edit: Oh I forgot the one that is actually kinda weird. No one I've asked about it knows what it is anyway. I sometimes get "pixilated" or "like static" vision with black and white squares that move like an old TV show or movie. Unusually if I'm very tired.
I'm secretly a poorly made robot sleeper agent maybe? I don't get it that very often now though.
I have nerve damage in one of my feet from steeping on a fishhock that only plays up when I do star jumps. There seems to be something unique about that motion.
I have some stretch marks on my hips though I've never gained or lost weight rapidly. From puberty? I don't know when I got them.
If I draw too long I get lazy eye (it's really really annoying). This doesn't happen with reading.
I've always been able to have my hands flat on the ground comfortably while standing though I don't work at this. Apparently that's unusual.
If I spend time in the sun I get one solid blonde streak at the front, on the left side of my hair. According to my grandmother its a thing on her side of the family and is the part of my hair that will go grey first.
That's all I can think of.
I'm secretly a poorly made robot sleeper agent maybe? I don't get it that very often now though.
I have nerve damage in one of my feet from steeping on a fishhock that only plays up when I do star jumps. There seems to be something unique about that motion.
I have some stretch marks on my hips though I've never gained or lost weight rapidly. From puberty? I don't know when I got them.
If I draw too long I get lazy eye (it's really really annoying). This doesn't happen with reading.
I've always been able to have my hands flat on the ground comfortably while standing though I don't work at this. Apparently that's unusual.
If I spend time in the sun I get one solid blonde streak at the front, on the left side of my hair. According to my grandmother its a thing on her side of the family and is the part of my hair that will go grey first.
That's all I can think of.
My arms are fairly short for someone my height and also very thin.
I have fairly tiny hands and short fingers for someone my size as well.
I have a really big... bone in my nose. Its the big bump where the nose meets the brow (can you tell that I got As in two college level human anatomy classes?). My friends all find it freakishly large when they touch it.
And my bones generally seem to be very strong. I've been hit by cars, beaten with bats/fists/boot covered feet, and have fallen out of windows from the second and third floors of houses and haven't broken or even significantly damaged a single bone that the doctors could find.
One of my canine teeth also grew in horizontally in my gum. But thats okay cuz I also had more teeth than usual and an extra tooth that was to the side of my baby canine moved over in its place.
I've lost a few teeth though so now I'm down to 34 including the horizontal canine tooth.
I have fairly tiny hands and short fingers for someone my size as well.
I have a really big... bone in my nose. Its the big bump where the nose meets the brow (can you tell that I got As in two college level human anatomy classes?). My friends all find it freakishly large when they touch it.
And my bones generally seem to be very strong. I've been hit by cars, beaten with bats/fists/boot covered feet, and have fallen out of windows from the second and third floors of houses and haven't broken or even significantly damaged a single bone that the doctors could find.
One of my canine teeth also grew in horizontally in my gum. But thats okay cuz I also had more teeth than usual and an extra tooth that was to the side of my baby canine moved over in its place.
I've lost a few teeth though so now I'm down to 34 including the horizontal canine tooth.
-My thumbs are both doublejointed.
-My left ankle is a different shape than it should be.
-My left leg is way shorter than my right leg.
-My left long toe never developed fully, so there's a gap between my left big toe and middle toe.
-My face is covered with moles.
-I have moles on my left palm.
-Every time I spend some time by the sea, I get a new mole. You can practically count how many times I've been just by looking at my face.
-I tan really well. I already have a darker complexion, so when I'm tanned, I'm really tanned. Someone once told me that if they didn't know my nationality, they'd think I was Mexican.
-My left ankle is a different shape than it should be.
-My left leg is way shorter than my right leg.
-My left long toe never developed fully, so there's a gap between my left big toe and middle toe.
-My face is covered with moles.
-I have moles on my left palm.
-Every time I spend some time by the sea, I get a new mole. You can practically count how many times I've been just by looking at my face.
-I tan really well. I already have a darker complexion, so when I'm tanned, I'm really tanned. Someone once told me that if they didn't know my nationality, they'd think I was Mexican.
My body is just so weird, I don't even know where to begin..
I'm extremely flexible in all of my joints. I can, for example, twist my hands around 360 degrees.
I can pull back my feet and place them on my stomach and hold them there without outside pressure.
I can press my fingers into my palms without leaving a gap. People can even squeeze them however hard they like, I wont feel it. Even my thumbs can be put flat into my ..uh.."thumb palm".
I can stand on my bent toes and even walk around.
My hair are all kinds of different colors all over my body.
My eyebrows are transparent, my beard/mustache is red, the hair on my head is ash blond, the hair on my chest is black mixed with transparent, my underarm hair is blond and red, etc.
I've got a patch of skin right below and to the side of my navel that's a slight but noticeably darker pigmentation.
When I was born, I had a birthmark that took up half of one of my ass-cheeks.
(its shrunken down to a more reasonable size now)
I can crack all of my joints, even the my hips and one side of my jaws.
My eyes are grey-green with a "gold-star" around the iris. and excellent night-vision.
You know those bird-scare noises some shops have to keep doves and crows away?
I can't even approach them, the noise is so loud and discomforting.
Oh, I'm also left-handed (but right-footed) and have dimples, and no sense of smell.
That's all I can think of for now..I'm sure I missed some things.
I'm extremely flexible in all of my joints. I can, for example, twist my hands around 360 degrees.
I can pull back my feet and place them on my stomach and hold them there without outside pressure.
I can press my fingers into my palms without leaving a gap. People can even squeeze them however hard they like, I wont feel it. Even my thumbs can be put flat into my ..uh.."thumb palm".
I can stand on my bent toes and even walk around.
My hair are all kinds of different colors all over my body.
My eyebrows are transparent, my beard/mustache is red, the hair on my head is ash blond, the hair on my chest is black mixed with transparent, my underarm hair is blond and red, etc.
I've got a patch of skin right below and to the side of my navel that's a slight but noticeably darker pigmentation.
When I was born, I had a birthmark that took up half of one of my ass-cheeks.
(its shrunken down to a more reasonable size now)
I can crack all of my joints, even the my hips and one side of my jaws.
My eyes are grey-green with a "gold-star" around the iris. and excellent night-vision.
You know those bird-scare noises some shops have to keep doves and crows away?
I can't even approach them, the noise is so loud and discomforting.
Oh, I'm also left-handed (but right-footed) and have dimples, and no sense of smell.
That's all I can think of for now..I'm sure I missed some things.
A lot of people find it hard to discern from which country I am from because my face is so generically European.
I've been suggested of being:
English(moreso because of my accent)
French
German
Polish
Russian
American(no joke)
This could be because of my ancestry(mum & dad Lithuanian, but great-grandad was German, and my great-grandmother was Prussian) and because I was often told by my family(normal and extended) that my face is like a frankenstein mash-up of different parts taken from different relatives(father's eyes, mother's nose, brother's chin, etc.) in a slightly joke-y fashion.
Also, whilst I am pretty tall, I don't look tall. In the sense, that if you saw me from a distance, I would appear normally proportioned.
I've been suggested of being:
English(moreso because of my accent)
French
German
Polish
Russian
American(no joke)
This could be because of my ancestry(mum & dad Lithuanian, but great-grandad was German, and my great-grandmother was Prussian) and because I was often told by my family(normal and extended) that my face is like a frankenstein mash-up of different parts taken from different relatives(father's eyes, mother's nose, brother's chin, etc.) in a slightly joke-y fashion.
Also, whilst I am pretty tall, I don't look tall. In the sense, that if you saw me from a distance, I would appear normally proportioned.
You actually look very Finnish. Though it's not that impossible to find some rather Asian-looking Finns.Daystar Clarion said:I belong to the very exclusive club of white people who kind of look like Asian people, but don't have any Asian relatives.
I know there others out there that share my pain.
OT: I wouldn't consider myself normal but simply "not quirky". I can crack my joints really well - even my chest (which isn't supposed to have joints?). Intensive machine dance and cycling years got me an impressive Jay Lo ass (if there was a male equivalent, I'd obviously use that expression), but now it has drooped a bit. That's about it.
