Who else has a rare genetic disorder? hands?
- Thread starter knumpify
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Please do your research next time before saying something. It's obvious you didn't because restless leg syndrome is a real condition, passed genetically through families (I for instance got it from my mother). I'm not saying it's serious, in most cases it's not. But it has nothing to do with "people getting bored if they sit for too long." My restless leg can go off regardless of whether I'm bored or fascinated. Many people who have restless leg syndrome have an extremely hard time going to sleep, because their legs will not stop moving. When it starts going, it's impulsive, often I won't even notice it until someone points it out, and if I try to stop it it feels like I'm fighting with my own body. So, please, next time just stop for a second and ask yourself if what you're about to say is based on some sort of facts. Then, if it's not based on facts in any way, shape, or form, just don't say it. Hell, all you had to do was Google it. Or, I could do that for you, here's a link to a facts sheet from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.Phoenixlight said:
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/restless_legs/detail_restless_legs.htm
The one word going through my head whilst reading the OP was Vampire. 
OT: So far as I know I don't have any genetic diseases. Go me?
OT: So far as I know I don't have any genetic diseases. Go me?
I don't know how rare it is, but the way genetics has screwed me over is with severe Hypoglycemia. Which is low blood sugar. I eat too much sugar my body produces too much insulin, and my blood sugar drops. I eat too little, and my body produces too much insulin, and blood sugar drops, same goes for Caffeine, starches, and simple carbohydrates. Corn can kill me, so can everything at freaking Starbucks, STARBUCKS! Do you know how emasculating it is to know that you can be murdered by a freaking Soy Latte!? Damn you genetics!
Vertigo. I have patches of skin that are different colors.
And I'm a medical chimeara. 2 seperate sets of DNA.
And I'm a medical chimeara. 2 seperate sets of DNA.
Blepharitis - It only becomes inflamed every once in a while. But it causes a crusty rash to crop up around my top eyelashes, not all that noticeable, but people think its pink eye when they see it :/
Also I have Keratosis pilaris, which is just a little patch of red bumps that appear on my thighs and occasionally my upper arms.
I looked it up and apparently affects %50 - %80 of adolescents, so its pretty common, most people mistake it for acne when they see it or have it.
Also I have Keratosis pilaris, which is just a little patch of red bumps that appear on my thighs and occasionally my upper arms.
I looked it up and apparently affects %50 - %80 of adolescents, so its pretty common, most people mistake it for acne when they see it or have it.
I'm not sure if Eczema is genetic, but my mother's got it and I do as well. But her's is pretty severe and mine only appears in mild patches every couple of months or year. So I suppose I lucked out.
I'm sure of the precise cause but I have Chronic Tics Disorder, which randomly sends random muscles into spasms, and makes it virtually impossible for me to stay still too long.
OMG OP, the wiki article says 40% don't live beyond 20 years. I really hope your condition isn't severe enough for that.
OT: I have palmar hyperdyrosis. Moist palms whenever it gets hot or I get nervous, my family has shitty genes.
OT: I have palmar hyperdyrosis. Moist palms whenever it gets hot or I get nervous, my family has shitty genes.
I was born 7 weeks too early, and around my high school turned to have several minor things. But, apart from that I do not think I do... I can wind my pinky finger all the way around my wrist (I'm fairly thin) and weight 65Kg at 1.94 height so I might have that ... Small bones thingy... (Forgot the name)
But no, nothing rare. Only rare thing is that I have it all at the same time.
OP: =\ That must awful.
But no, nothing rare. Only rare thing is that I have it all at the same time.OP: =\ That must awful.
I have Qwerty-itis.
I randomly develop drool and keyboard shapes on my cheeks while working at a computer.
I randomly develop drool and keyboard shapes on my cheeks while working at a computer.
Macabre, curious maniac that I am...I had to google-Image that condition...I bet you're glad it's not an extreme case, huh? What does a lack of pigment do to your eyes, btw, I have no idea we even had/needed it thereknumpify said:
OT: Nothing rare. Need glasses, so did my Dad and Grandad...s'bout it
Your grammar certainly doesn't seem to be.wootsman said:
/Grammar Nazi
OT: I don't have anything unusual genetically, but I do have talipes, though it's never really stopped me doing anything, it just meant I had to to a lot of stretching excercises when I was little.
I'm a chronic liar, if that counts for anything.
Now somebody try to figure out if that statement is true or not.
Now somebody try to figure out if that statement is true or not.
Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst Syndrome, or photic sneeze reflex is what most doctors call it. When ever I there is a bright light I sneeze. Mine is actually much worse than normal because it can happen anytime there is a good sized increase in light. Also my eyes wont dilate properly until I do sneeze. Not a huge problem most of the time but a big nuisance if you walk outside flirting with a hot woman, and don't want to sneeze on her.
I'm disgraphic, although I've mostly beaten that, although I still have a hard time spelling certain words, and I swear I'm discaluliac, but my math teacher didn't buy it. I've graduated now, though, so that doesn't matter anymore! >=D
Aside from that, I've also got a couple birth defects - I lisp horribly, and I only have one thumb. My right thumb is missing a major muscle, so I can't bend it as far as I should be able to. So it's not a thumb so much as a semi-useful stick where I should have a thumb. Makes it stupidly hard to use a wiimote. I don't even bother trying anymore. -_-
Aside from that, I've also got a couple birth defects - I lisp horribly, and I only have one thumb. My right thumb is missing a major muscle, so I can't bend it as far as I should be able to. So it's not a thumb so much as a semi-useful stick where I should have a thumb. Makes it stupidly hard to use a wiimote. I don't even bother trying anymore. -_-
We've got hemochromatosis in the family, but nobody in a few generations has actually contracted it- I likely posses one half of the gene, however, as my father does, and his father does as well. Presumably, so does my sister.
Nothing else that's really a disorder, just a shocking perpsensity for psychological addiction.
Nothing else that's really a disorder, just a shocking perpsensity for psychological addiction.
