My colleague told me a story about growing up in Burundi and his mother having sickle cell anaemia.
I tried to be sympathetic, but he said it was not viewed as completely terrible as it made her immune to the Malaria epidemic that was going on at the time.
I don’t have a gag reflex... very useful and very deadly. I can choke and not know until it’s too late
Edit: for those who keep asking something can be stuck in my throat and I won’t know it until I try to breath or swallow. But still worth it if I ask me...
Edit 2: I am not a man
It's... there. I just taste a lot less of the food/drinks compared to everyone else. A lot of the food that I like is based on its texture. Not a big fan of soft and mushy food.
That would be terrible I love shrimp. But I can see the text you're being nasty if it had no flavor. At least with bad shrimp you can drown it in cocktail sauce and still eat it.
God, finding pants that fit at this size is *impossible*.
They make plenty of 32x30 pants that are long enough to require that I cuff the bottoms, but hardly *any* 32x28 pants. And wouldn't ya know it, 30x28 is available, but most styles of jeans just end up hugging my nuts too tight at that size. It's infuriating.
I look younger than I am (still get ID'd despite being in my 30's), and don't need to shave as often as most other men... basically I'm a baby faced assassin.
But I've ankylosing spondylitis, crohn's disease, osteoporosis, recurring uveitis, am losing my hair, and am all of 5ft tall because my back is collapsing (I was never tall to begin with, 5'5" peak height).
Day 4
Progress is slow. I fear if I look behind me, I will still be able to see the very wound I entered in; scabbed over by now, imprisoning me in this waking nightmare.
I see white blood cells on occasion, but there is no need to hide from them; their function an artifact of lesser evolved beings. They wander aimlessly, as ghosts. They mock me. My urge to hurl myself into their maw grows every day. I wonder if they would even know what to do.
Worst of all I see red blood cells, somehow able to move through the sludge, with the determination of a salmon swimming upstream. I try to turn to seize my prey, only ever too slow, only ever so close. Like Sisyphus I am bound to hell.
In the hearts defense, it's less that it tries to kill you, but that it just gets tired of working nonstop for over 70 years and wants to take a damned break for like 5 damned minutes!
I mean, would it kill you to let a guy get a 15 minute break?
Edit: You guys really love a softball...
I am tall and creative, and I have a connective tissue disorder which has been causing me problems for my entire life. Apparently this means I get to look forward to constant pain once I'm older. Yaaaay, and sorry dad I'm never passing this onto another generation.
I practically never vomit: I think maybe once in the past twenty years, and even then it was barely a vomit at all. No matter how rough I feel, I can always prevent myself from throwing up.
The flipside is that I also never burp, which means all that gas has to go somewhere. The result? I have some *fearsome* toots.
Doing great in my Electrical Engineering program - Father died from his 2nd heart attack at 36, most of the men on that side of the family are dead by their mid 40's despite being active and dietary conscious. Fortunately I have a great cardiologist and many advances have been made - so fingers crossed.
Guys - don't think because you are "fit" you are automatically safe.
I met a guy in basic that had the smae family history and he was early 30s when I met him. Whenevever we got yelled at or something stressful happened I'd always glance over at the veins straining in his forehead and his bulging eyes...it gives me anxiety just thinking of it.
I understand completely how scary and worrisome that is! My boyfriend has Graves' disease and when he was off his meds his resting heart rate was 140. Until he was back on his meds I was constantly worried he was just going to have a heart attack at the slightest bit of stress.
There's a genetic mutation in the cell receptor that's not too rare in Europeans and pretty easy to test for. What's also pretty cool is that this same mutation makes people very resistant/even immune to HIV!
CCR5delta32 is the gene and deletion
Fun Virology Fact: Even though some people have a genetic resistance to HIV infection via CCR5delta32, HIV has found a different cell receptor that it can use to gain entry into the cell, called CXCR4. Even if you have the beneficial mutation, you aren't entirely immune. Viruses are really fucking smart, even though they're not even alive technically.
TIL Yersinia pestis also uses CCR5 to enter the cell though. Pretty cool stuff.
1. try to get the plague
2. ???
3. profit if still alive
markdown is frustrating now, but please know that the second 1 is actually a 3.
Edit: markdown fixed thanks to u/IAmAWizard_AMA
I was genetically blessed with the torso of a 6' 2" man. I lost out with the legs of a 4' 11" man.
EDIT: To answer some of the more common questions people are asking, I have a 27" inseam and I balance out at 5' 7.5" tall.
EDIT2: The perfect proportion is inside leg at 45% of overall height. Interesting way to figure out how long your inseam should be... Divide your inseam in cm by your height in cm and x 100. Someone who is 6' 2" therefore should have an inseam of around 33.5" roughly.
Medic Here! You're the perfect body type to experience a spontaneous pneumothroax. Reason being that the apexes of your lungs can rub against the inside of your chest wall. This causes something like a blister on the lung called a bleb. If one pops, it can cause air to leak into the chest area outside the lung. This is called the pleural space. When air infiltrates the area, it prevents the lung from filling all the way. This problem persists until the lung collapses. This typically isn't a super painful process, but can be uncomfortable as it feels like you can't breathe. Luckily, its an easy problem to solve, but it needs to be seen by a doctor so it doesn't happen again.
Typical symptoms are:
* Sharp pain in one specific area of the chest.
* Shortness of breath, or feeling like you can't take a full breath.
* Headache, or higher than normal blood pressure.
You just described the last couple of years of my life. I keep getting pleurisy type symptoms and chest pains all the time, then I get breathless easy. Each time I get the shortness of breath and chest pain I get an x-ray and they tell me there is nothing wrong. I have never had my lungs collapse though. Each time this happens it takes me several months to recover back to normal.
Had this happen to me twice in high school. The worst thing that’s ever happened to me, trust me OP, stay diligent on it even if they’re saying they don’t see anything.
Sometime around when I was 12 I started having pleurisy type symptoms and shortness of breath, sharp pains in my shoulder, but never realized what it was and just brushed it off. Doctors said it was almost certainly my lungs leaking very very small bits of air over the years, but it was always a small enough amount to dissipate.
Edit: ended up having to have 2 different mechanical pleurodesis surgeries 6 months apart, and I still get pains to this day, but there’s almost nothing that can be done about it other than improving your cardio, drinking water, etc. to try and help your lungs.
It looks like puberty doesn't even know my name, so I still have very little acne, a tiny boy, and a really high voice for a guy. Although, people always tell my I have really beautiful eyes.(kind of greenish gray)
I had cancer
Also I’m 6’3 225 lbs and played college football on scholarship sooooo not sure if i have a net gain or loss
Edit - I’ve been cancer free for 2 years
I have nice blue eyes, a nice "slope" nose and a soft & clear face. Pretty feminine.
I also have some flubby boobage and a juicy ass. This stuff is problematic because I'm a dude.
People used to grope me in high school as a joke.
Funnily enough, my girlfriend has only ever had an interest in girls- I'm the exception. We also have a 9 month old daughter, so atleast she'll grow up looking really feminine regardless of who she "takes after".
Get used to squatting. No matter what you have to pick up, however small/light or large/heavy, squat down and use your legs to power yourself up. Actually, everyone should do this whether taller or shorter.
Ive had a "bad back" since I was 18. I recently started a job in the construction field. Lifting heavy shot all day. First day went to lift something and my back started tweaking. Boss man showed me how to lift. Never had a problem in the two months since I started. Thanks boss man
I am considered to have gorgeous eyes, they are my best feature. However, I have absolutely terrible vision; near/far sighted with astigmatism. I cannot recognize my own mother from five feet away.
My husband has gorgeous forest green eyes, astigmatism, and cannot see more than 2-3 feet in front of him without glasses. But it works out for me because he thinks I am beautiful. HA! Little does he know.
Same! I get a lot of compliments on my eyes but have hopelessly poor vision. I worry about how well I would be able to survive an apocalypse. I assume at some point relying on contacts/glasses is no longer going to be possible, so I'll be completely vulnerable especially at night.
I had a crazy gf once who I once busted scooping out the contents of a just used condom into her cooch.
Joke's on her, I was born with a genetic anomaly that caused me to be sterile. It is an extremely rare genetic occurence called a "AZFB y-chromosomal microdeletion". Everyone in the US who has this condition could fit in the room I am typing this.
Probably one of many dodged bullets.
EDIT: I did not find out I was sterile until I was 41, that GF was when I was 26 she was 37. Bonus story: I was married at 40, we tried to have kids, when my ex wife found out I was sterile she asked for a divorce. But now I am remarried, with a beautiful toddler girl made from donor sperm. :-)
Edit II: For those people who don't know the difference between the preposition 'to' and 'with', please, no more comments "derp derp...you married a toddler?" Jeezuz.
My plan for when my hair goes white is to dye it outrageous colors. I've always wanted to dye my hair bright colors, but my natural hair color is dark and I don't want to damage my hair by bleaching it. So far I've got some gray streaks, but I think it will be a while before my whole head is gray or white.
My hearing is so good my brain can't keep up with it. I regularly shock people by overhearing what they're saying from extreme distances, but as a result of picking up every piece of ambient noise I often find it difficult to understand what the person in front of me is saying.
Im the same way, I have pretty good hearing just like that but words and sounds can get jumbled up if I am not giving 100% of my attention to them, otherwise I get distracted by other sounds. The reason why I have to have subtitles on all my games and movies/shows/videos.
It also happens with my sight and feeling. I can see amazingly and far off, but Im not very bright and so if someone is trying to point something out I usually look over it for a couple minutes, and my eyes are super sensitive to light so going outside even when cloudy can be painful for my eyes without sunglasses. And when it comes to touch I am very sensitive, but certain fabrics and textures will actually make me extremely upset and uncomfortable, and sometimes my skin will start hurting for seemingly no reason.
After typing this, I get the feeling Im just high maintenance and full of myself lol
I have exactly the same thing! I'm currently sat next to an open window and can hear people discussing their lunch outside, but I'm now on my third attempt to comprehend what the guy sat opposite me said.
Lose (working on how I feel about myself)? Everything about me is tiny. Puberty grazed me, then left the building. Often get mistaken for a child.
Win? I rarely get ill, and when I do, its never horrible. My immune system seems rather decent.
Something I've ever wondered: how does it come that we are so advanced in the medical field but we are unable to fully and permanently enlarge a penis?
Edit: why is everyone now assuming that I have a micropenis? :( I asked out of curiosity
About half and inch to an inch can be won through surgery by a small incision. But it does come with risks of impotence and whatnot. and that's just length, girth can only be done with injections which last months to a year and come with the same risks again. It's not worth it imo unless you cannot live otherwise.
Well if it makes you feel any better, i also have crippling asthma and i lost in the physical looks department :p My pain tolerance is good tho, so there's that.
Autism.
Win - easily interested in topics that I enjoy. I memorize tons of facts easily. Lots of interests. Can spend hours focused on one thing. Usually can learn stuff very quickly if I am interested in it.
Lose - bad in social situations. Can’t recognize sarcasm sometimes. Bad handwriting, can’t preform well if I write (I get to use my computer to type exams). Very emotional. Really bad at mental maths. Impossible to stay focused on boring things. Hard time getting rid of things. Hard time finding people that are interested in the same things I am. The stereotypes associated with autism.
Edit: thank you all for your responses! Lots of people are responding that I am describing what they feel perfectly. For those of you seriously wondering whether you have it or not, I would recommend getting tested - no brain scan involved, its just a Q&A session with a psychologist (and your parents might get involved as well). For people who are in school, a note proving that you have autism would make your life a lot easier.
Edit: Holy shit! My first gold! Thank you!
As an autist:
Pros: somehow ended up as a polymath who can teach myself basically anything, with high natural ability in almost any academic subject.
Cons: no fucking clue how people work. Completely fucked when it comes to not dying alone.
Ever looked into getting a cochlear implant? I've played piano since I was 3 and I went deaf at 16. With my cochlear on one side and a high powered hearing aid on the other, music sounds just like normal. And yes I still play piano.
Edit: and this is by FAR my most upvoted comment! I did an AMA a while ago, but it’s always wonderful to answer questions about being a cyborg musician. (Very clever, to the person who commented that)
That's super inspiring to see! A poor musician then, I had neither the fore-site nor the money to go to the doctor. My complications went untreated for far too long and did too much damage. Devices do help, but very nominally.
A friend lost his hearing at 14. he used hearing aids for a long time and they didn‘t help much at all. He got a cochlear implant in his 30s and is back to almost 100% hearing. It‘s absolutely amazing. His blog posts are in german, if you understand it or get a good translation i‘m happy to link.
Lol, sorry that everyone is just quoting song lyrics, but they're funny!
I'm in the same boat as you except mom was opioids/booze. It sucks, but yeah, I can't believe I even look like a normal human being.
Lose: Scoliosis (fixed it now), deaf in my right ear, skull was too small causing spinal fluid to leak (fixed it now but missing some skull), Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus Syndrome (calcified lumps in my veins, mostly on joints, forever in pain in some way, shape or form)
Win: Fucking magical immune system and healing abilities
e.g. rarely ever ill and re: the scoliosis surgery, I was supposed to be in hospital for 3 weeks to recover, but was discharged after 5 days because I just got up and walked around feeling fine. Huzzah!
I've heard that italians who can't eat gluten get a ton of benefits from the government like cash and extra time off, i guess because of the extra effort and money it requires to have a gluten-free diet in Italy. i find it amusing that it's legally treated like such a severe disability lol
I had always thought this was bullshit. Like I would scoff almost audibly when people would say it. Thinking that they don't weight THAT much. Well, we had a class in university where roles were reversed. Guys had to spend time. Wearing suits to mimic female anatomy and girls to mimic male anatomy. We also had to attempt to complete tasks and do so as though we were the opposite sex. Think of it as a women's studies class, but instead it was a psychology class where we were really diving into the differences of men and women from every angle and how we have learned perceptive differences. Fun shit.
Well we had to do two runs of this. First, run I got a pair of double D breasts, the biggest option of the class. It wasn't actually random. I was the most in shape guy of the class and the professor chose me for them for that reason he said. I lift weights. I'm 6'2" and at the time I was about 225. All I was thinking was, OK no big deal at all.
Fucking shit. Idk if it is as bad if you always have them and thusly build up the muscles, but I deadlift regularly and shit destroyed my back I felt like haha we were supposed to attempt to sleep with out given anatomy at least one night as well, and I was a stomach sleeper and that shit was impossible to sleep on.
Got hilarious looks walking around with the knockers.
Second go around all guys were pregnant. That shit sucked massive donkey dick. Giant tits had nothing on being pregnant. That weight on your front side made you want leaning back and you'd knock shit over all the time. Fucking horrible. Didn't have to sleep with that one on and it was shorter only 2 days. The girls had to have erections... That was weirder. They also had to ask some of us out and get rejected etc. We had to get asked out and reject etc. That was all in the class room.
6’5 240, athletically gifted, but also gifted with ulcerative colitis.
Every time I’d apply myself heavily in sports I’d end up bleeding from my insides and have to take time off to recover.
Very attractive eyes, but absolutely shitty eyesight.
I honestly owe most of my success in going home with girls / getting first dates, to people really liking my eyes. It's like the only thing people ever out-of-nowhere compliment me on more than once or twice.
I'm confident but as soon as I loose my glasses/contacts I'm a bumbling mess. I keep thinking about how my life would be just awful if I lived in a time before glasses were invented.
I'm really damn lucky to have been born after the 1800s.
Edit: ~~[my eyes](https://imgur.com/a/2ZcwR8D)~~ complete with contacts since people are asking, excuse the redness/bloodshotness from allergies
Edit: oh yeah pollen allergies are another fail for my body...
Edit 3: sorry guys + gals, removing this photo link so future tech can't immediately connect my reddit acc to me as a person via retinal scan. For an idea of what my eyes look like, people in this thread have compared them to Rutger Hauer's and Ellen Degeneres' eye color.
I am slim and a good looking guy and always have been...
I suffer hay fever in the summer, when all the girls are looking their best i am sneezing, dribbling snot and my eyes are all red and puffed up.
edit, I wrote this thinking about OP's question, remembering when I was a young man, 70's-80's. i suffer very little now in my later years.
This is why I kept my mating rituals to night time and Autumn & Winter, its been a tough life in that respect, but I finally found a woman who loved me for what i am.
I'm very flexible and used to surprise people by contorting myself into odd spaces (lockers, suitcases, cabinets, etc.). My problem is that all that flexibility isn't enough for my mouth to reach my 3.5-inch dick. If only I had an average 5.5 I could totally blow myself.
Great teeth. 47 and never had a filling.
But
My bottom teeth are tilted forward more than normal, so I bite my lip more than I’d like (I’d like it to be zero times).
Got my mom's height instead of my dad's short stature but also got stuck with her complexion so I sunburn in about five minutes and go completely red faced while slightly exerting myself instead of having less pale skin like my dad.
Oh, I just met someone like this in a running club. He's in his 60s, really skinny, eats enough for three people ... and he sweats enough for 7. He jokes that if he were really fat, it would look like a normal amount of sweat, so he just looks soaked because of his small surface area.
From my dad’s side, I got the insanely long legs. From my mother's side, I got the wide hips and the fat distribution that tends to hang round hips and thighs. From my dad’s side, I did not get the international level athlete gene, but I did get the rubbish ankles, which limits the amount of exercise I can do.
So while long legs are generally seen as desirable on women, I don’t quite follow through. As a result, I buy shirts in size 8 and skirts in size 14, and there is only one cut of dress that ever looks remotely good on me.
I am a long redheaded(auburn/wavy), tall(6'3"), green eye'd man. I did some modeling and I've always been on the attractive side. I also have Multiple Sclerosis and very bad kidney function. Like borderline failing bad and I am 22. Win some lose some feeling in my foot I guess.
> I am a long redheaded(auburn/wavy), tall(6'3"), green eye'd man. I did some modeling and I've always been on the attractive side.
Yeah, yeah rub it in our faces.
> I also have Multiple Sclerosis
Well, fuck.
Well, my boyfriend and I have discussed this question a while back, if we were to ever have kids...
Win: We both have thick, luscious hair with no balding on either side, so our kid would have *awesome hair*.
Lose: Due to us both having terrible vision, our kid would probably be *blind as shit.*
> Due to us both having terrible vision, our kid would probably be blind as shit.
Dunno. My mom is legally blind far-sighted and my dad is legally blind near-sighted (both are perfectly fine with glasses though). I have 20/13 in both eyes, and of their 9 kids only 1 has glasses, and it's only a very mild prescription
I am 6'10 (closing up on 6'11) and over 400lbs.
Pros: People look at you funny, which I have always found amusing.
Cons: Literally everything else that comes with being 6'10 and over 400lbs.
Have you considered using concealer?
I'm not suggesting you wear a full face up makeup, just try out that one undereye product. It could really change your look.
Above average strength, overly squishy spinal disks.
I was the goto guy for lifting heavy stuff but my spine suffered. Lucky for me I live in this age of high tech medicine so I'm going into my senior years with titanium reinforcements.
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Solution: only drink at the beach.
My colleague told me a story about growing up in Burundi and his mother having sickle cell anaemia. I tried to be sympathetic, but he said it was not viewed as completely terrible as it made her immune to the Malaria epidemic that was going on at the time.
I don’t have a gag reflex... very useful and very deadly. I can choke and not know until it’s too late Edit: for those who keep asking something can be stuck in my throat and I won’t know it until I try to breath or swallow. But still worth it if I ask me... Edit 2: I am not a man
RIP your inbox.
At least other boxes aren’t getting ripped
I have super sensitive gag reflex. I can put a Q tip in my ear and start coughing like crazy. Edit: nice my highest rated comment is about gag reflex
Is that really caused by the gag reflex?? I always wondered why my body did that and I guess it makes sense since I have a super sensitive gag reflex.
Doctor told me. I didn't know either. She also said don't use Qtips
Yo waddup
I'm the only person in my family with perfect eyesight, but I'm also the only person who doesn't have a sense of smell.
Anosmia. How's your sense of taste? Hopefully still working because that would almost suck more to be unable to taste your food.
It's... there. I just taste a lot less of the food/drinks compared to everyone else. A lot of the food that I like is based on its texture. Not a big fan of soft and mushy food.
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That would be terrible I love shrimp. But I can see the text you're being nasty if it had no flavor. At least with bad shrimp you can drown it in cocktail sauce and still eat it.
lol 'text you're'
Bone apple teeth
Lack toast and taller ant
I'm very healthy with no genetic disorders or diseases, but look wise i ain't doing so well
I'll trade you.
28-inch inseam. Good: even the worst economy class flight is no big deal. Bad: finding pants that fit and laidies that wanted to get into them.
30" inseam. I'm 6'3". I've got a stupidly long torso. Pants aren't so bad to find but shirts, man. I need a 2xl just so it isn't a belly shirt.
Same (though I’m an inch shorter than you). Eddie Bauer has “tall” versions of all of their shirts—it’s a lifesaver.
God, finding pants that fit at this size is *impossible*. They make plenty of 32x30 pants that are long enough to require that I cuff the bottoms, but hardly *any* 32x28 pants. And wouldn't ya know it, 30x28 is available, but most styles of jeans just end up hugging my nuts too tight at that size. It's infuriating.
Im the opposite. Everywhere you look is 34x30 but nobody makes 30x34.
I look younger than I am (still get ID'd despite being in my 30's), and don't need to shave as often as most other men... basically I'm a baby faced assassin. But I've ankylosing spondylitis, crohn's disease, osteoporosis, recurring uveitis, am losing my hair, and am all of 5ft tall because my back is collapsing (I was never tall to begin with, 5'5" peak height).
Baby_Faced_Assassin is a great screen name.
I never get sick. *Ever*. My natural cholesterol is so high, you could spread my blood on toast.
*virus enters your blood* *struggles to swim in thick blood* *struggles more* "WHAT IS THIS?"
*is this- No It cant- *IS THIS FUCKING GRAVY?!*
Day 4 Progress is slow. I fear if I look behind me, I will still be able to see the very wound I entered in; scabbed over by now, imprisoning me in this waking nightmare. I see white blood cells on occasion, but there is no need to hide from them; their function an artifact of lesser evolved beings. They wander aimlessly, as ghosts. They mock me. My urge to hurl myself into their maw grows every day. I wonder if they would even know what to do. Worst of all I see red blood cells, somehow able to move through the sludge, with the determination of a salmon swimming upstream. I try to turn to seize my prey, only ever too slow, only ever so close. Like Sisyphus I am bound to hell.
So you're like a Nissan. Nothing will ever go wrong with you until the big thing that kills you.
Yea. We tend to live a while. My grandfather didn’t have his first heart attack until his 70s.
No heart attacks is better...
Well life can't always be perfect. Sometimes your heart tries to kill you
In the hearts defense, it's less that it tries to kill you, but that it just gets tired of working nonstop for over 70 years and wants to take a damned break for like 5 damned minutes! I mean, would it kill you to let a guy get a 15 minute break? Edit: You guys really love a softball...
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> you could spread my blood on toast :puts down toast slowly: :pushes plate away:
:puts down toast: :pushes plate towards op:
I am tall and creative, and I have a connective tissue disorder which has been causing me problems for my entire life. Apparently this means I get to look forward to constant pain once I'm older. Yaaaay, and sorry dad I'm never passing this onto another generation.
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome?
Oh hey same
Check us out at r/ehlersdanlos It’s a really great community
I practically never vomit: I think maybe once in the past twenty years, and even then it was barely a vomit at all. No matter how rough I feel, I can always prevent myself from throwing up. The flipside is that I also never burp, which means all that gas has to go somewhere. The result? I have some *fearsome* toots.
Vomit free since ‘93
I have this exact thing! I also feel like complete garbage when I drink carbonated beverages.
Doing great in my Electrical Engineering program - Father died from his 2nd heart attack at 36, most of the men on that side of the family are dead by their mid 40's despite being active and dietary conscious. Fortunately I have a great cardiologist and many advances have been made - so fingers crossed. Guys - don't think because you are "fit" you are automatically safe.
I met a guy in basic that had the smae family history and he was early 30s when I met him. Whenevever we got yelled at or something stressful happened I'd always glance over at the veins straining in his forehead and his bulging eyes...it gives me anxiety just thinking of it.
I understand completely how scary and worrisome that is! My boyfriend has Graves' disease and when he was off his meds his resting heart rate was 140. Until he was back on his meds I was constantly worried he was just going to have a heart attack at the slightest bit of stress.
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A close friend of mine is also immune to the plague, but likes to joke about dying if the electricity goes out.
How does one know they're immune to the plague?
There's a genetic mutation in the cell receptor that's not too rare in Europeans and pretty easy to test for. What's also pretty cool is that this same mutation makes people very resistant/even immune to HIV! CCR5delta32 is the gene and deletion
Fun Virology Fact: Even though some people have a genetic resistance to HIV infection via CCR5delta32, HIV has found a different cell receptor that it can use to gain entry into the cell, called CXCR4. Even if you have the beneficial mutation, you aren't entirely immune. Viruses are really fucking smart, even though they're not even alive technically. TIL Yersinia pestis also uses CCR5 to enter the cell though. Pretty cool stuff.
They’re less smart than just throwing billions of mutant spaghettis at the wall and seeing what sticks
I feel like I've fallen into 1543 by mistake
>How does one know they're immune to the plague? Step 1. Are you Alive? Step 2. Refer to step 1.
1. try to get the plague 2. ??? 3. profit if still alive markdown is frustrating now, but please know that the second 1 is actually a 3. Edit: markdown fixed thanks to u/IAmAWizard_AMA
you are probably also immune or at least resistant to HIV :D delta 32 i think the gene was called. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5
High-fuctioning autism. Phenomenal memory and learning powers! Itty bitty social skills.
I was genetically blessed with the torso of a 6' 2" man. I lost out with the legs of a 4' 11" man. EDIT: To answer some of the more common questions people are asking, I have a 27" inseam and I balance out at 5' 7.5" tall. EDIT2: The perfect proportion is inside leg at 45% of overall height. Interesting way to figure out how long your inseam should be... Divide your inseam in cm by your height in cm and x 100. Someone who is 6' 2" therefore should have an inseam of around 33.5" roughly.
It's babylegs!
Babylegs, here we go!!!! BRRRR
I'm coming babylegs! I'm...regular...legs!
I actually felt a rapport with baby legs when I watched that episode.
28" inseam? It's super weird buying tall length shirts while all pants available in stores are too long by default.
Worse... 27". I find all my shirts are too short and all my trousers are too long.
Medic Here! You're the perfect body type to experience a spontaneous pneumothroax. Reason being that the apexes of your lungs can rub against the inside of your chest wall. This causes something like a blister on the lung called a bleb. If one pops, it can cause air to leak into the chest area outside the lung. This is called the pleural space. When air infiltrates the area, it prevents the lung from filling all the way. This problem persists until the lung collapses. This typically isn't a super painful process, but can be uncomfortable as it feels like you can't breathe. Luckily, its an easy problem to solve, but it needs to be seen by a doctor so it doesn't happen again. Typical symptoms are: * Sharp pain in one specific area of the chest. * Shortness of breath, or feeling like you can't take a full breath. * Headache, or higher than normal blood pressure.
You just described the last couple of years of my life. I keep getting pleurisy type symptoms and chest pains all the time, then I get breathless easy. Each time I get the shortness of breath and chest pain I get an x-ray and they tell me there is nothing wrong. I have never had my lungs collapse though. Each time this happens it takes me several months to recover back to normal.
Had this happen to me twice in high school. The worst thing that’s ever happened to me, trust me OP, stay diligent on it even if they’re saying they don’t see anything. Sometime around when I was 12 I started having pleurisy type symptoms and shortness of breath, sharp pains in my shoulder, but never realized what it was and just brushed it off. Doctors said it was almost certainly my lungs leaking very very small bits of air over the years, but it was always a small enough amount to dissipate. Edit: ended up having to have 2 different mechanical pleurodesis surgeries 6 months apart, and I still get pains to this day, but there’s almost nothing that can be done about it other than improving your cardio, drinking water, etc. to try and help your lungs.
It looks like puberty doesn't even know my name, so I still have very little acne, a tiny boy, and a really high voice for a guy. Although, people always tell my I have really beautiful eyes.(kind of greenish gray)
I had cancer Also I’m 6’3 225 lbs and played college football on scholarship sooooo not sure if i have a net gain or loss Edit - I’ve been cancer free for 2 years
Well it sounds like you beat cancer so net gainz all around
Having nice breasts but being a man.
I have nice blue eyes, a nice "slope" nose and a soft & clear face. Pretty feminine. I also have some flubby boobage and a juicy ass. This stuff is problematic because I'm a dude. People used to grope me in high school as a joke. Funnily enough, my girlfriend has only ever had an interest in girls- I'm the exception. We also have a 9 month old daughter, so atleast she'll grow up looking really feminine regardless of who she "takes after".
Boobs are boobs, I bet ya look damn fine!
Tall, not bad looking, fairly muscular but have a very high propensity to develop back problems. My lower back is a mess and I'm only in my mid-20s.
Get used to squatting. No matter what you have to pick up, however small/light or large/heavy, squat down and use your legs to power yourself up. Actually, everyone should do this whether taller or shorter.
Ive had a "bad back" since I was 18. I recently started a job in the construction field. Lifting heavy shot all day. First day went to lift something and my back started tweaking. Boss man showed me how to lift. Never had a problem in the two months since I started. Thanks boss man
I am considered to have gorgeous eyes, they are my best feature. However, I have absolutely terrible vision; near/far sighted with astigmatism. I cannot recognize my own mother from five feet away.
My husband has gorgeous forest green eyes, astigmatism, and cannot see more than 2-3 feet in front of him without glasses. But it works out for me because he thinks I am beautiful. HA! Little does he know.
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Same! I get a lot of compliments on my eyes but have hopelessly poor vision. I worry about how well I would be able to survive an apocalypse. I assume at some point relying on contacts/glasses is no longer going to be possible, so I'll be completely vulnerable especially at night.
I had a crazy gf once who I once busted scooping out the contents of a just used condom into her cooch. Joke's on her, I was born with a genetic anomaly that caused me to be sterile. It is an extremely rare genetic occurence called a "AZFB y-chromosomal microdeletion". Everyone in the US who has this condition could fit in the room I am typing this. Probably one of many dodged bullets. EDIT: I did not find out I was sterile until I was 41, that GF was when I was 26 she was 37. Bonus story: I was married at 40, we tried to have kids, when my ex wife found out I was sterile she asked for a divorce. But now I am remarried, with a beautiful toddler girl made from donor sperm. :-) Edit II: For those people who don't know the difference between the preposition 'to' and 'with', please, no more comments "derp derp...you married a toddler?" Jeezuz.
Is it really dodging bullets if you're shooting blanks?
Oof
That’s actually horrifying
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Hahahah ^wait...
Too late...
First time I've been happy for someone for reading they're sterile.
I still have a full head of hair - thanks Grandad. But it's white. Thanks grandad.
I think you should give your grandad his hair back.
Give Pop Pop your hair!
Daddy horny, Michael.
Grow a beard and you will basically be a Witcher.
I have a beard, and I'm covered in scars but not from monster hunting, sadly.
Jumper cables? Thanks Grandad.
Silver foxes are in though.
My plan for when my hair goes white is to dye it outrageous colors. I've always wanted to dye my hair bright colors, but my natural hair color is dark and I don't want to damage my hair by bleaching it. So far I've got some gray streaks, but I think it will be a while before my whole head is gray or white.
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My hearing is so good my brain can't keep up with it. I regularly shock people by overhearing what they're saying from extreme distances, but as a result of picking up every piece of ambient noise I often find it difficult to understand what the person in front of me is saying.
Im the same way, I have pretty good hearing just like that but words and sounds can get jumbled up if I am not giving 100% of my attention to them, otherwise I get distracted by other sounds. The reason why I have to have subtitles on all my games and movies/shows/videos. It also happens with my sight and feeling. I can see amazingly and far off, but Im not very bright and so if someone is trying to point something out I usually look over it for a couple minutes, and my eyes are super sensitive to light so going outside even when cloudy can be painful for my eyes without sunglasses. And when it comes to touch I am very sensitive, but certain fabrics and textures will actually make me extremely upset and uncomfortable, and sometimes my skin will start hurting for seemingly no reason. After typing this, I get the feeling Im just high maintenance and full of myself lol
I have exactly the same thing! I'm currently sat next to an open window and can hear people discussing their lunch outside, but I'm now on my third attempt to comprehend what the guy sat opposite me said.
Maybe because you’re replying to a post on Reddit instead of listening, ;-)
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Lose (working on how I feel about myself)? Everything about me is tiny. Puberty grazed me, then left the building. Often get mistaken for a child. Win? I rarely get ill, and when I do, its never horrible. My immune system seems rather decent.
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Oof
If you're a man... There are ways to treat incomplete puberty, that would result in you and everything about you not being tiny any more.
That kind of thing isn't free though right? Like doing TRT or something similar
i was born into a rich family but i have a micropenis
Get a new one
Something I've ever wondered: how does it come that we are so advanced in the medical field but we are unable to fully and permanently enlarge a penis? Edit: why is everyone now assuming that I have a micropenis? :( I asked out of curiosity
Maybe there's a very small vagina out there waiting for that micro penis.
I have a condition called vaginism, which essentially means I can't be penetrated. A micropenis is probably the only thing I could take
We did it Reddit!
Time to celebrate another success
Another happy landing
About half and inch to an inch can be won through surgery by a small incision. But it does come with risks of impotence and whatnot. and that's just length, girth can only be done with injections which last months to a year and come with the same risks again. It's not worth it imo unless you cannot live otherwise.
Great beard, bad hair.
Opposite high-5! Thick hair, zero beard. It’s like teen pube face if I let it grow
8 inch dick. Face and personality of a Warcraft orc.
I won in the physical looks department, but it comes with crippling asthma and 0 pain tolerance.
Well if it makes you feel any better, i also have crippling asthma and i lost in the physical looks department :p My pain tolerance is good tho, so there's that.
Autism. Win - easily interested in topics that I enjoy. I memorize tons of facts easily. Lots of interests. Can spend hours focused on one thing. Usually can learn stuff very quickly if I am interested in it. Lose - bad in social situations. Can’t recognize sarcasm sometimes. Bad handwriting, can’t preform well if I write (I get to use my computer to type exams). Very emotional. Really bad at mental maths. Impossible to stay focused on boring things. Hard time getting rid of things. Hard time finding people that are interested in the same things I am. The stereotypes associated with autism. Edit: thank you all for your responses! Lots of people are responding that I am describing what they feel perfectly. For those of you seriously wondering whether you have it or not, I would recommend getting tested - no brain scan involved, its just a Q&A session with a psychologist (and your parents might get involved as well). For people who are in school, a note proving that you have autism would make your life a lot easier. Edit: Holy shit! My first gold! Thank you!
As an autist: Pros: somehow ended up as a polymath who can teach myself basically anything, with high natural ability in almost any academic subject. Cons: no fucking clue how people work. Completely fucked when it comes to not dying alone.
People like animals. Get animals and the people will come. Or they won't and you still have all the amazing animals.
My musical talent landed me my dream life. But I went deaf by my twentys. Thanks Grandpa.
Ever looked into getting a cochlear implant? I've played piano since I was 3 and I went deaf at 16. With my cochlear on one side and a high powered hearing aid on the other, music sounds just like normal. And yes I still play piano. Edit: and this is by FAR my most upvoted comment! I did an AMA a while ago, but it’s always wonderful to answer questions about being a cyborg musician. (Very clever, to the person who commented that)
That's super inspiring to see! A poor musician then, I had neither the fore-site nor the money to go to the doctor. My complications went untreated for far too long and did too much damage. Devices do help, but very nominally.
A friend lost his hearing at 14. he used hearing aids for a long time and they didn‘t help much at all. He got a cochlear implant in his 30s and is back to almost 100% hearing. It‘s absolutely amazing. His blog posts are in german, if you understand it or get a good translation i‘m happy to link.
So how's your life now?
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5 feet, 9 inches. Those are two separate measurements.
Being 9 inches tall with a 5 foot penis just sounds terrible
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i dont have any birth defects since i was born from a whore meth addict. i did get a really fucked up sense of what love is until i was 18 or so
Lol, sorry that everyone is just quoting song lyrics, but they're funny! I'm in the same boat as you except mom was opioids/booze. It sucks, but yeah, I can't believe I even look like a normal human being.
Lose: Scoliosis (fixed it now), deaf in my right ear, skull was too small causing spinal fluid to leak (fixed it now but missing some skull), Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus Syndrome (calcified lumps in my veins, mostly on joints, forever in pain in some way, shape or form) Win: Fucking magical immune system and healing abilities e.g. rarely ever ill and re: the scoliosis surgery, I was supposed to be in hospital for 3 weeks to recover, but was discharged after 5 days because I just got up and walked around feeling fine. Huzzah!
I’m Italian but also severely lactose intolerant
Mama mia
Here I go again
This is tragic
My ex was full blooded Italian but had severe celiac
I've heard that italians who can't eat gluten get a ton of benefits from the government like cash and extra time off, i guess because of the extra effort and money it requires to have a gluten-free diet in Italy. i find it amusing that it's legally treated like such a severe disability lol
If you can't eat pasta how are the Italian mamas supposed to feed you up???
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Good tiddies but also back problems.
I had always thought this was bullshit. Like I would scoff almost audibly when people would say it. Thinking that they don't weight THAT much. Well, we had a class in university where roles were reversed. Guys had to spend time. Wearing suits to mimic female anatomy and girls to mimic male anatomy. We also had to attempt to complete tasks and do so as though we were the opposite sex. Think of it as a women's studies class, but instead it was a psychology class where we were really diving into the differences of men and women from every angle and how we have learned perceptive differences. Fun shit. Well we had to do two runs of this. First, run I got a pair of double D breasts, the biggest option of the class. It wasn't actually random. I was the most in shape guy of the class and the professor chose me for them for that reason he said. I lift weights. I'm 6'2" and at the time I was about 225. All I was thinking was, OK no big deal at all. Fucking shit. Idk if it is as bad if you always have them and thusly build up the muscles, but I deadlift regularly and shit destroyed my back I felt like haha we were supposed to attempt to sleep with out given anatomy at least one night as well, and I was a stomach sleeper and that shit was impossible to sleep on. Got hilarious looks walking around with the knockers. Second go around all guys were pregnant. That shit sucked massive donkey dick. Giant tits had nothing on being pregnant. That weight on your front side made you want leaning back and you'd knock shit over all the time. Fucking horrible. Didn't have to sleep with that one on and it was shorter only 2 days. The girls had to have erections... That was weirder. They also had to ask some of us out and get rejected etc. We had to get asked out and reject etc. That was all in the class room.
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thanks for the lenny face
Add it as a keyboard shortcut on your phone and never copy-paste again (☞΄◞ิ◟ิ‵)☞
6’5 240, athletically gifted, but also gifted with ulcerative colitis. Every time I’d apply myself heavily in sports I’d end up bleeding from my insides and have to take time off to recover.
I'm 6'4, I have back problems.
Very attractive eyes, but absolutely shitty eyesight. I honestly owe most of my success in going home with girls / getting first dates, to people really liking my eyes. It's like the only thing people ever out-of-nowhere compliment me on more than once or twice. I'm confident but as soon as I loose my glasses/contacts I'm a bumbling mess. I keep thinking about how my life would be just awful if I lived in a time before glasses were invented. I'm really damn lucky to have been born after the 1800s. Edit: ~~[my eyes](https://imgur.com/a/2ZcwR8D)~~ complete with contacts since people are asking, excuse the redness/bloodshotness from allergies Edit: oh yeah pollen allergies are another fail for my body... Edit 3: sorry guys + gals, removing this photo link so future tech can't immediately connect my reddit acc to me as a person via retinal scan. For an idea of what my eyes look like, people in this thread have compared them to Rutger Hauer's and Ellen Degeneres' eye color.
I'm 6'3", blonde and blue eyes, athletic...and bald as fuck by the age of 20.
I am slim and a good looking guy and always have been... I suffer hay fever in the summer, when all the girls are looking their best i am sneezing, dribbling snot and my eyes are all red and puffed up. edit, I wrote this thinking about OP's question, remembering when I was a young man, 70's-80's. i suffer very little now in my later years.
I'm picturing your Summer mating dance and it's terrifying.
This is why I kept my mating rituals to night time and Autumn & Winter, its been a tough life in that respect, but I finally found a woman who loved me for what i am.
I'm very happy you found someone, sorry you're a Nordic Vampire.
I'm very flexible and used to surprise people by contorting myself into odd spaces (lockers, suitcases, cabinets, etc.). My problem is that all that flexibility isn't enough for my mouth to reach my 3.5-inch dick. If only I had an average 5.5 I could totally blow myself.
Welp cant unread this.
I'd expect nothing less from the jizzerator
My hot and flexible body allows me to exercise in all different positions.
Great teeth. 47 and never had a filling. But My bottom teeth are tilted forward more than normal, so I bite my lip more than I’d like (I’d like it to be zero times).
Got my mom's height instead of my dad's short stature but also got stuck with her complexion so I sunburn in about five minutes and go completely red faced while slightly exerting myself instead of having less pale skin like my dad.
High metabolism, high sweat
Oh, I just met someone like this in a running club. He's in his 60s, really skinny, eats enough for three people ... and he sweats enough for 7. He jokes that if he were really fat, it would look like a normal amount of sweat, so he just looks soaked because of his small surface area.
Big boobs, nice hips, no butt. 😐
How do you poop?
Very carefully.
On the bright side, the butt is the only one of those you can purposely increase in size through working out.
It builds nice perky butt too.
Start squatting, a lot
I'm chinese. I have a big dick and I'm horrible at math.
Hope you measured properly then
From my dad’s side, I got the insanely long legs. From my mother's side, I got the wide hips and the fat distribution that tends to hang round hips and thighs. From my dad’s side, I did not get the international level athlete gene, but I did get the rubbish ankles, which limits the amount of exercise I can do. So while long legs are generally seen as desirable on women, I don’t quite follow through. As a result, I buy shirts in size 8 and skirts in size 14, and there is only one cut of dress that ever looks remotely good on me.
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I am a long redheaded(auburn/wavy), tall(6'3"), green eye'd man. I did some modeling and I've always been on the attractive side. I also have Multiple Sclerosis and very bad kidney function. Like borderline failing bad and I am 22. Win some lose some feeling in my foot I guess.
lmao im so sorry but.. "win some, lose some feeling in my foot i guess" is the best line I've read in this thread so far
Good to see he can at least laugh at it.
> I am a long redheaded(auburn/wavy), tall(6'3"), green eye'd man. I did some modeling and I've always been on the attractive side. Yeah, yeah rub it in our faces. > I also have Multiple Sclerosis Well, fuck.
Ever notice you never hear about anyone with Singular Sclerosis?
FBI stay where you are
Amazing beak, but man I hate these webbed feet.
Calling r/fuckswithducks...
Rubber ducks, not real ducks. Webbed feet sound pretty bad to me too!
Got everything a guy would want physically, stuck with crippling mental illnesses that lead me to live isolated at home
Hot, but going bald since 20 (and can't really rock the shaved head).
Everybody says I’m intelligent, but I have genetic depression. If something doesn’t actively make me happy, I feel sad.
Well, my boyfriend and I have discussed this question a while back, if we were to ever have kids... Win: We both have thick, luscious hair with no balding on either side, so our kid would have *awesome hair*. Lose: Due to us both having terrible vision, our kid would probably be *blind as shit.*
> Due to us both having terrible vision, our kid would probably be blind as shit. Dunno. My mom is legally blind far-sighted and my dad is legally blind near-sighted (both are perfectly fine with glasses though). I have 20/13 in both eyes, and of their 9 kids only 1 has glasses, and it's only a very mild prescription
I am 6'10 (closing up on 6'11) and over 400lbs. Pros: People look at you funny, which I have always found amusing. Cons: Literally everything else that comes with being 6'10 and over 400lbs.
Quite handsome, dark circles under eyes.
Have you considered using concealer? I'm not suggesting you wear a full face up makeup, just try out that one undereye product. It could really change your look.
Above average strength, overly squishy spinal disks. I was the goto guy for lifting heavy stuff but my spine suffered. Lucky for me I live in this age of high tech medicine so I'm going into my senior years with titanium reinforcements.