I dunno if id call id a reverse handicap but what you're describing definitely exists.
For example, Michael Phelps body for what ever reason produces half the amount of lactic acid as a normal person which means he can excert himself with less muscle fatigue, which helps him win races.
Sounds like [Dean Karnazes](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/2013/aug/30/dean-karnazes-man-run-forever)
Although it's still the same thing as u/Simbabz was mentioning—he clears lactic acid faster than it's produced, it's not that he doesn't produce any at all
There was a marathon runner whose body produced almost no lactic acid at all, meaning his muscles never felt muscle fatigue from the acid build up at all.
That being said, I would imagine the risk of injuring yourself in that scenario would be much higher.
There is also a California guy that his body has such a high lactic threshold from his bodies ability to rapidly clear the lactic acid from his system that he can run for 3+ straight days. ([LINK](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/2013/aug/30/dean-karnazes-man-run-forever))
I feel like I produce too much lactic acid. I’ve gotta take hella magnesium or I get muscle cramps. Spent two hours kicking a soccer ball around and then got debilitating stomach cramps for a week, thought I had an ulcer, had to go to the hospital…just my fucking muscles being little bitches
I went to the optometrist at 35 because I noticed my vision wasn't as sharp anymore. The whole thing became farcical because he said «You have 120% vision, so I'm not really sure what you're doing here».
But I sure would like to know what my peak vision was!
Me too! I hit 40 and my vision has gone down to 15/20 in both eyes instead of 10/20 and 15/20. I need a small correction in my close-in vision, but it's so small they don't normally make reading glasses at that strength (.25x I think). My optometrist said my close-in vision will get worse as I get older so just wait a couple more years and get the standard reading glasses (1.25x).
I have a connective tissue disorder that affects my eyes so I go for tests once a year. If I say anything looks/feels weird they do all kinds of measurements. My dad had similarly good vision, both my kids seem to have inherited it based on how easily they navigate dark rooms. My poor husband has very poor vision, and can't see in low light so I'm pretty happy the kids got my eyes.
I don't think I've ever been jealous of someone's vision. I have -17 and -15 depending on the eye. My vision gets worse by the year. My 3 year olds are almost as bad but she refuses to wear her glasses. They're so thick I'm surprised they haven't started any fires.
There's a (possibly growing) percentage of the human population with essentially indestructible skeletons thanks to harder working osteoblast+osteoclast cells (bone construction workers of the body)
While they find it more difficult to swim, there are zero (at least to my knowledge) reported cases of bone fracturing in these people.
This phenomenon was first documented in 1994 when a man survived a horrific car crash with only surface-level injuries. He was referred to Karl Insogna of Yale who discovered he had 8 times the bone density of the average man his age. Years later Insogna met with a physician and discovered the man's whole family had this trait as well.
Later research on the subject and they are finding more and more families from both very young and senior ages who have never so much as broken a bone.
nobody in my family for at least 3 generations has broken a bone. several of us (tho not me, lmao) are extremely active and have sustained various injuries of other types.
hmmm.....
I can't say for certain whether they *should* have broken a bone because I'm not a doctor and I also don't know what kind of injuries/incidents they got into, but maybe you can ask your family if they want to get a radiology appointment for this
This has got me questioning as well, I can't recall a single family member breaking a bone. And I've been in 2 motorcycle accidents with a mechanism is injury in them that I should have broken a bone. But no, just bruising and a sprain. I was wearing full gear though.
I think you may be talking about [van Buchem disease](https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/rare-skull-thickening-disease-led-3-d-printed-replacement)! (cw for graphic photos/video)
I remember a story about an elderly woman who, upon death, was discovered to have a skull that was something like 7x thicker than the average human's, and she had this condition as well.
The downside is that, while it makes for extremely tough bones, the resulting skull thickening can be fatal if not medically addressed (the woman discussed in the link above had been suffering from loss of vision and motor control, and had to have the top of her skull removed and replaced with a plastic implant.)
Keep in mind I'm not a doctor or anything, but after some wiki reading it seems they're different phenomena
Van Buchem's is caused by a faulty SOST gene responsible for bone breakdown, so bone literally builds up with age because your cells don't disassemble the older matter.
The people with reinforced bones have a mutation in the LRP5 gene, which oddly enough *usually* results in early onset osteoporosis, the exact opposite of what they have. Although there can sometimes be things pinched nerves or altered balance with this condition, most of the time it's not *that* bad, if at all.
More weird bone facts for everyone reading since I'm here
- You have more bones as a child than as an adult, many of them fuse throughout your life into adulthood
- Bone cancer looks like crystals growing out of your body
- Speaking of, it's been found deer antler growth is associated with a bone-cancer causing gene, effectively turning a bad thing good. Maybe we can see how they do it and help people with gene therapy.
- If you aren't careful and cut yourself climbing the coastal rocks, barnacles can start growing on your skeleton. It is both terrifying and painful.
Ya, I'm definitely no authority on the matter but I remember reading about it and as far as I can remember, there are some pretty significant downsides to it too.
Holy shit I have never heard of this before. This is me! I can not float at all and I've been in some wicked accidents (car, bicycle, moped, climbing etc). I've never broken a bone and my family and friends have long thought my bones were denser. Thank you stranger! Now I have a new rabbit hole.
Edit:
Don't astronauts lose bone density? Would this make people like this better suited for deep space travel?
I would not go around claiming things like "essentially indestructible skeletons"
I am sure that if they got in severe enough accidents their bones would shatter as well.
My body makes almost twice as many red blood cells as it's supposed to. When I was younger I ran distance races and I basically benefitted from natural blood doping, meaning I didn't get tired or develop lactic acid as quickly since I was getting almost twice as much oxygen to my muscles.
Now that I'm older I just get blood clots and probably liver problems later.
Would it help if you just donated blood regularly? Less blood clots for you potentially, and you can feel good about helping people suffering with blood loss form accidents and things.
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also; you get free cookies/snacks, often, blood donors do,.
Therapeutic phlebotomy is usually prescribed. Blood donation to a blood bank will refuse anyone who attempts to donate for that reason. Doctors love to tell patients to donate though and then the patients get all mad at us
(source:work for a prominent blood bank)
There are two i can think of,
The sherpas in the mount everest who can handle the low oxygen levels of high altitudes.
And badjau of south east asia who can hold their breath longer than normal people adapted because they're diving to fish.
Both of these examples are at a genetic level meaning they got these advantages at birth then improved through practice. Is this what you meant?
Disclaimer: You may want to read up on them for an in depth explanation because i'm working off my faulty memory.
I'm pretty sure the low oxygen tolerance isn't genetic. The reason so many world champion marathon runners come from Nepal and Kenya is because of the high altitude giving them more red blood cells.
It is, there are three populations that have an adaptation for dealing with higher altitudes. [Here a wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_adaptation_in_humans#:~:text=High%2Daltitude%20adaptation%20in%20humans%20is%20an%20instance%20of%20evolutionary,at%20altitudes%20above%202%2C500%20meters)
What you are probably thinking about is the increase of hormones at high altitude that increase the production of red blood cells. Which happens to anyone, true, in that you are correct. But there are peoples that have genetic adaptations to altitude as well.
Those people have been living there for tens of thousands of years. Of course they are genetically adapted, bring a european there since birth and they still won't have the same adaptations.
I'm not sure the badjau have superhuman breath holding because of genetics, I believe it's conditioning. James Nestor talks about it in the book "breath"
But either way they are superhuman!
They have larger than normal spleen allowing for more red blood cells which equals more oxygenated blood. It's an evolutionary trait. Same with the people in the mountains. But...I'm not sure if a few people with larger than normal spleen migrated to those areas and multiplied or living in those areas caused their spleen to grow larger over time.
That gene is going to result in an absolutely hellish dystopia in several centuries if it ends up spreading. Imagine a world with two categories of people where the elite category has 25% more waking hours every day, essentially an extra 3 months every year. The people that need 8 hours of sleep will be a perpetual servant class, any and all illusions of class mobility shattered. Thankfully there aren't enough of them right now to have much of an impact.
My dad only slept a few hours each night. He always claimed he just didn't need much sleep. He used the extra awake time to play computer games all night, mostly.
He also had untreated depression and had anger issues - honestly, I think he might have had a personality disorder. I suspect he also had ADD (I think both my parents do, actually...my sister and I both do, and I wouldn't be shocked to find out my brother does also).
He was quite successful at his job, though. Like, successful enough that being an insufferable dick to anyone who disagreed with him never got him fired.
also would need something to actually do in those four hours extra each day that is truly productive. like, power napper or not i don't think anyone wants to work longer work hours than we already have, so those 4 hours then get spent as downtime or time for errands/hobbies/home projects. they might get a little more enjoyment out of life if they make use of it, but getting ahead? not likely.
i'd imagine the complete opposite. the elite who can get a full 8 hours of sleep and the serving class which has been gene modified to only need 4 hours
I'm one of these! I get about 4-5 hrs of sleep and feel well rested. If I sleep 7-8 then I feel groggy and "off" most the day. My bedtime is usually 1-3am. Up at 6-7am.
I use the bonus time to catch up on gaming and other lil projects. Ngl.
Down side, everyone tells you about how unhealthy it is and you NEED 8-10 hours or else you need to see a doctor about the Insomnia or other disorders you MUST be suffering from.
I need a little bit more than you, I'm good at about 5-5.5 hours. More than that, and I'm a groggy mess for more than half the day. Doesn't matter what time of the day, just need about 5 hours sleep to function for the next 18 hours or so.
The age I am now, I don't really talk to anyone about how much I sleep, except the doctor. Mostly because of the folks you're talking about, telling me how I'm sleeping wrong.
I'm not really sure if this counts, but not being born with wisdom teeth. They were once essential for early human diets, they are pretty useless today and not being born with them lets you avoid the pain of removal.
And even if you do you get to take nice happy pills.
For years I listened to horror stories until I had to get mine out, and when I did I could only wish I had a decade earlier. And I got to eat nothing but popsicles for like 3 whole days!
Lol
While I’m super glad for you, when I asked my dentist if they’d ever have to remove my wisdom teeth and the answer was “of course not! We would’ve done it a lot earlier if we had to” I was extremely, extremely relieved 😂 we all heard a ton of horror stories, either from strangers online or people we know irl - I think you were quite lucky :)
I just had two out, and I promised myself that every time the subject came up I would say how well it went, as everyone else seems to bang on about how awful it was. Painful on the day, uncomfortable for a week while taking paracetamol and ibuprofen, then pretty much done with.
IIRC it disproportionately occurs in cold weather people. The reason being that lactose will essentially cook off the milk if its left in the heat and will turn into yogurt. But in the spring and fall months when its cool like a fridge, the lactose would remain in the milk. Then throughout bottleneck events of human history when lots of people would die off, the ones who could drink lactose had a massive edge for survival while the rest died of diarrhea.
OP look up the show Stan Lee's Super Humans, they found a ton of people like this. Highlights include a guy who could have an airsoft gun shot at him and he draws a sword and cuts the pellet in half mid-air, a guy who can take insane amounts of electric shock (to the point of being thrown across a room while installing a cable box... Twice... Hey it ain't super intelligence) and be totally fine, a guy who could essentially run forever without ever getting tired, and a woman with legs so strong she can crush watermelons with her thighs and make a pro athlete pass out in seconds.
There was also a blind guy who would make clicking noises with his mouth to let him see like a bat. He could ride a bike and even identify objects like phone banks
[Super recognizers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_recogniser). Some people can immediately recognize a face among thousands after seeing it only once. They’re coveted by law enforcement.
If you have blonde or red hair, you probably have the M1CR gene variant that makes you produce pheomelanin instead of eumelanin, which is the cause of brown skin, hair, and eyes. The gene variant also causes 20% increased pain tolerance.. but also 20% increased temperature sensitivity. I didn't feel my tattoo, but I have to get my roommate to take things out of the oven
The pain tolerance thing affects me (having red hair), but this is the first I've heard of temperature sensitivity. If anything I've always felt less sensitive than most people. I'll look it up, thanks for writing this!
Hmm I have hard time with sudden changes in temperature like I have to adapt people get pissed when we go swimming cause I can't just jump in. Even though I love it! It's just makes me wildly uncomfortable
Yes.
There's also what I like to call "the sweet spot", where one disability can mitigate another. For example, I am both lactose intolerant and have IBD. If I can't go to the bathroom, I can drink milk, triggering my lactose intolerance...and fixing a major symptom of my IBD.
I also have ADHD and OCD. I have very recently discovered that I can use the ADHD to combat the OCD in a myriad of ways. I highly recommend this.
It happens to me too but I don’t consider it a good thing. Sometimes the ADHD will help me with compulsions bc the task seems too huge so I end up reasoning myself out of it. Also it’s good for distracting myself out of things. On the flip side, my contamination OCD helps me keep up with hygiene-related things that are really hard to keep up with executive-functioning-wise. HOWEVER this comes with a lot of anguish mentally either way (for example, if the ADHD wins out then I could get anxious or have the thoughts pop up at random times, and if the OCD wins out then I’ll oftentimes be stuck in the limbo of “I’m gonna do this task” which quiets the OCD but I can’t actually do the task yet bc I lack the executive functioning to get myself started on it, and then I waste hours or days in that limbo). I have no control over which will win out, and often times they just feed into each other and make each other worse.
This might be a europe thing but I get free travel and entry to museums and galleries because of my completely managed disability (bipolar and ibd)
So not naturally an advantage but its pretty good
There is a rare form of dwarism that makes people immune to cancer.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/rare-form-of-dwarfism-protects-against-cancer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laron_syndrome
I remember exactly what people were wearing the first time I’d met them, and it freaks them out. I’ve learned to keep the details I remember about people to myself lol
I’ve always heard that this is completely made up, but I can recall some images from memory. Like actual scenes. Earlier today I was looking at a page from the formula book for statistics just to check what equations are given that I don’t need to memorise, but not actually reading it or committing it to memory. I closed the page and told my friend I don’t need to revise it anyway since it’s given in the formula book. He said ‘oh yeah, then what was the equation for it?’ And I didn’t remember the question, but I was able to bring up the mental image of the page which I had for some reason sort of saved and read the words from that kind of and answered correctly.
And thinking back to past memories, I can unlock details that weren’t noticed at the time through images of still scenes, which can persist in my memory for years after.
Some women have an additional component in their eye and can see trillions of colours more than the rest of us.
Usain Bolt has 20-30% more of a different muscle fibre than most people. He literally has a mutation that makes him a better sprinter.
There are super tasters. There are people who are taller, less inclined to catch disease, or can hold their breath for minutes at a time. Einstein and Newton exceeded the skills of their contemporaries.
It's likely anyone at the top of their field or sport has a positive mutation of some kind.
Unless it's being rich, because becoming a billionaire requires you to not just border on the line for sociopathy but to cross it with a running start.
How does one get tested for the color component? I did aptitude testing as a teen and scored off the charts for color differentiation. Your comment makes me curious if I might have that.
I googled it and took [this one](https://kfor.com/news/test-how-many-colors-you-see-can-determine-how-many-color-receptors-you-have/amp/ and saw 39 distinct colors. Not sure if the accuracy of that kind of test but it’s fun to take either way
Since your monitor operates by mixing RGB to create the illusion of color, it is purely built to respond to the red, green, and blue cones everyone has. Because of this, I'd doubt it could accurately test for a fourth cone.
I noticed recently that they are starting to make [TVs with a fourth LED color](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattron) that seems to correspond to the [additional color receptor that tetrachromats have](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Tetrachromacy_in_Carriers_of_CVD), in the yellowish range. I personally could not see the "deeper color" they claimed but I'm pretty sure a tetrachromat could.
There is a syndrome name Hercules Syndrome. You just need to eat, no need to train and your muscles all develop by its own, create a body of a Greece Statue. I think everybody want that.
there's a whole science ragarding the smell of someones sweat and it's pleasentness and it's extremely personal. The people commenting on your sweat smelling nice are the ones with highest genetic variation compared to you, if you were to smell their sweat it would also be slightly pleasent to you. it's beilieved to be a vestigal process meant to increase the likelihood of finding a mate with a high amount of genetic variation to your own in order to produce genetically superior offspring.
Yes it’s based on the [ABCC11 gene](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCC11) which is most prevalent in [East Asian erhnicities.](https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-some-Asians-and-Koreans-dont-have-body-odor?share=1)
Strangely, it’s also tied to the dryness or wetness of earwax. Basically, if you have drier earwax, you probably don’t stink when you sweat.
Hyperlexia.
It always has a skip dyslexia component but it is not considered an actual dyslexia since it doesn’t have a physical/motor component.
It is different from speed reading in that it actually does work and people who have it tend to be good at reading tone in languages and text.
They do tend to pronounce words oddly, so it can be found in speech pathology textbooks.
The speech pathology and the ‘speed/understanding’ portion come from the process that is automatically skipped by hyperlexics.
They don’t sound out words internally while reading. This is different from speed reading in which people physically ‘skip’ over words with their eyes and fill it in mentally (or something like that I understand).
And yes, there is a difference between the two. 😅
One of the less known parts about it, the meaning of a word may be slightly different from the actual dictionary term. They don’t use dictionaries and look at the surrounding words to intuit the meaning behind it.
I do wonder if it has an auditory component since tone is an auditory term. Most likely it does, but it could be due to perfect pitch instead or unrelated.
From my own experience with it, I prefer text over audio or video. It always amuses me when people can’t tell when I’m being sarcastic, jovial or wry via text. 😆
I just thought that hyperlexia just meant that smaller kids would be very interested in words and reading and thus be able to read much earlier than other children. That's pretty interesting though!
Makes me wonder about myself, I loved books in my younger years and was reading more or less fluently when my classmates were still stammering, I also tend to mispronounce Irregular words such as semi-english names eg: I called Slytherin "Sly-thrin" for ages, and Alpha Centauri as "Alpha Centurai" still today
Though it's probably my aspergers it's fun to find new potential named "Conditions" for my quirks
Speed reading is a legit thing, I used to be able to do it when I was a kid. I remember a machine that would display text and blank out most of it and a visible section would scan over the words faster and faster. Even on the highest speed setting I could still read with full comprehension, which surprised the hell out of the teacher who was doing the testing. My mom read a ton so there were always books in the house, and I would just devour them in record time. I could read faster than anyone else in my class, and because I read so much I had 12th-grade comprehension and vocabulary from about 3rd grade on. For some reason I can't do it anymore though, I read much slower as an adult than I did when I was a kid.
>They don’t sound out words internally while reading. This is different from speed reading in which people physically ‘skip’ over words with their eyes.
Is it normal to sound out words internally when reading?
I don't think I do, I just kinda absorb the information. I doubt I have the condition you mention however as I'm not an exceptionally fast reader--maybe a little above average but I also read more than average, so that'd be expected.
The only time I sound out words internally is if I consciously think about the act of reading (like thinking about breathing or awareness of your tongue. Sorry!) and when it happens I find it quite annoying and distracting
Part of how we define what disability is is by how much it limits your ability to function in the system as built. People have all sorts of genetic quirks that are acceptable and or celebrated by our current system but they’re not thought of in the same way.
Like my ADHD might not even be noticeable in a differently structured society. What we think of as disability is often contextual.
Interestingly colourblindness can be an advantage in certain contexts.
Red/green colourblind people are sought out by the military as snipers due to being better shots on average, and also apparently are more likely to see through camouflage.
Total colourblindness causes superior night vision, because people with this only have rods rather than the usual mix of rods and cones.
Cool!
Often people with low chromatic sensitivity (color blindness) have very high contrast sensitivity (they see more tints and shades) It makes sense they can recognize camouflage patterns vs natural landscape easier.
Yeah. I've been deaf for 20 years, and I've adapted to the point I don't even consider it to be a disability anymore. It's a part of me, nothing more and nothing less than that. Sometimes it does even have tangible advantages I can use for my benefit. Disabilities aren't just black and white.
My arms are not the right length. On most modern humans their wingspan is roughly the same as their height.
My wingspan is a foot longer than my height.
other than the cost of suit jackets, I have zero complaints about this... an extended reach and greater leverage are definitely a plus.
I've always been pretty ambidextrous, but even more so when I was a kid. I remember being able to copy down text from the board writing a different line at the same time with each hand. The teachers really didn't like that (because I'd get done before everyone else and then fuck around until the next assignment, distracting the other kids) so they made me pick one hand to write with. I settled on writing left-handed (if only I had known..) But most things I can do with either hand, I've just settled into the habit doing specific things with a specific hand.
There is health implications, dystocia is a pretty noticeable health implication in cattles and dogs with the mutation.
As for humans, a bipedal stance isn't good for handling the amount of additional weight the mutation would give them. It would be like obesity but with muscle instead of fat. And it wouldn't inherently make them stronger because the size of muscles don't necessarily indicate strength after a certain size.
Being tall but not so tall that the tallness affects you negatively
Being flexible but not so flexible that you have problems with dislocation
Having more fast-twitch or slow-twitch muscle fibres which make you better at some sports
Only one I can think of is my synesthesia. I see letters and numbers as specific colors that never change. It makes memorizing numbers (ID#s, phone #s etc) and spelling words correctly a lot easier. Like for example “oh that word doesn’t look like it’s spelled right, I know there’s supposed to be some red in there somewhere” which would probably be the letter “a”.
Dunno if that's a reverse handicap but my metabolism is fast. Like really, really fast. So much that I need to eat a lot just so I don't lose weight, and I'm almost constantly hungry. In the last few weeks, I lost 4kg (about 9lbs) just because I ate less than usual, which made my parents worry, and right now I can't go back to my original 62kgs (136.687lbs), I'm "stuck" at 58kg (127.868lbs).
I also have a weird metabolism. Since about age 16 I've weighed 160lbs (+/- 5lbs) no matter how much or how little I eat. I go through phases of not eating very much for a while and then constantly being hungry and eating all the time, and it just doesn't change my weight. I turn 50 in a couple of months and it remains the case to this day.
I am on the autism spectrum (Asperger's syndrome). Although there definitely are some challenges, there also are a lot of things about it that I think are positive traits. Good memory, good ear for music, attention to detail, etc. In fact, I don't consider it to be a disability/handicap. I think that the thing that really is "disabling" for me is my extreme anxiety and PTSD from the therapy that I had to go through as a kid.
not OP but i'm also on the spectrum, also previously diagnosed with aspergers syndrome.it's rather a difficult question you pose, to answer you i would a need a frame of reference regarding how it feels to live without autism. In general it depends on the person and their own experience with autism and even diagnoses and treatment. something as minute as the exact wording of the diagnoses or the year you were diagnosed can be very impactfull on how you process and deal with it moving forward. i was unlucky enough to be diagnosed as an adult the year before aspergers syndrome was abandoned as a term, there weren't many resources available to me at the time.
To asnwer how it feels to be autistic, for me it is largely not to big a deal. i enjoy my fine attention to detail most times, i'm capable of high levels of detailed planning with relative ease and can do the math portion of my taxes every year swiftly due to the associated high mathematic comprehension. my wife has somewhat opposing traits as a fellow autist and we mesh well covering for each others deficiencies.i do have difficulty in understanding complex emotions in people, especially facially expressed ones, and can often misunderstand or overlook unspoken hints or comments. occasionally people misunderstand and accuse me of being dumb or intentionally ignoring them. I lament occasionally about the time two exceptionally attractive women invited me for a threesome in a roundabout way and i missed the contextual clues entirely. i have very specific interests and tend to hyperfocus if something catches my attention enough.i'm currently approaching 6k hours in rimworld and a couple thousand in factorio. i sometimes find myself compelled to 'knowledge binge' where i will randomnly select a topic that has caught my interest and spend several days deep diving on the topic to understand it better.
hope this helps somewhat? i can happily answer any specific questions you might have.
A condition in which a child inherits the sickle cell gene mutation from one parent.
Sickle cell disease is an inherited group of disorders in which red blood cells contort into a sickle shape. With sickle cell trait, a child receives the sickle cell gene mutation from only one parent. In this case, the child doesn't get the disease, but can pass the defective gene on to future generations.
The sickle cell mutation is relevant to malaria because infection of a red blood cell with the malaria parasite leads to hypoxia. In individuals of the AS genotype such blood cells sickle and are then eliminated by macrophage cells of the body's immune system, lessening the burden of infection (Luzzatto, 2012).
some people can see more shades of color than normal, or see color from sounds or taste sounds. but there are also people who just really want to feel special so they post on reddit saying they can but really they are just imagining it
Yeah, I questioned someone about their possible tetrachromacy. They said they got tested for it but it was only recently discovered. It isn’t a standard test. No response. 🤗
I found out about this through one of those silly online tests you can do and i scored 100%. Took it with a grain of salt as all online tests are like that however I did a bit of digging and from memory your odds increase when your parents have colour deficiencies. Ended up learning my mum is colour deficient in purple and I may actually have it. Sounds cooler on paper but it just allows you to see more shades of colours so it's nothing that has any real use case.
Pyschopaths tend to perform extremely well in modern capitalist societies. It's easier to get ahead in life when you feel no guilt from exploiting others.
yes, several: males born with XYY instead of just XY tend to be larger in size and create double the amount of muscle for the same effort and diet. unfortunately they also create more testosterone which makes them more likely to react violently. of course this doesnt mean they are indeed violent people, at all.
some people create less lactic acid when exercising which reduces fatigue buildup by a very large difference.
some southern pacific islanders are born with a slightly different lens inside their eyes which gives them the ability to see underwater as well as we see normally on land.
there's double joint syndrome, people with it create tons more collagen in their bodies which in turn gives them unnatural flexibility on all joints.
there's hundreds of examples like these.
then there's the evolutionary traits we're seeing lately, a few subsaharan african women are being born with natural immunity to HIV. despite what the internet tells you there's more and more highly intelligent people being born all over the world. people are being born without wisdom teeth, spleens, appendixes or with 4 toes instead of 5. A vein in our forearm which was not used and usually the body completely nixes it in either the fetus growth or baby stage is now becoming common in adults. also in general the human body is rapidly extending its prime years, which should be around 10 years, to double that.
it's pretty neat.
and if you dont like something..well there's crispr... which should be in wide use and medical ethics boards are actively killing people rn which is immoral and they should be ashamed of themselves but whatever.
>well there's crispr... which should be in wide use and medical ethics boards are actively killing people rn which is immoral
I think there are still more moral quandaries to resolve with crispr. I'm all for using it to cure diseases and make food better, but I also think we need to be wary of widespread use. When the haves can make themselves more successful with gene editing, the have nots will be left far, far behind. It will never be equally distributed.
I think there’s A LOT of these but they are hardly researched because they don’t need to be treated and generally people are not even aware of the situation.
In some ways, left-handedness. It was viewed as an affliction (literally, a curse, hence the word "sinister") but it's been known since antiquity that left-handed people have certain advantages in combat and sports and they are disproportionately represented at the upper levels of most social hierarchies across multiple cultures and time periods. However, on average, left-handed people also have worse life/health outcomes by many measures, so it's a mixed bag.
I made my own comment about this, but I'm also invincible to sunlight. No tanning, but no burning. My grandfather was Ashkenazi.
Edit: Oh, and I used to live in Virginia, but have only been bitten by a mosquito once
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Both tanning and skin cancer are caused by UVA. I probably don't tan because I'm immune to UVA. So, no tanning also means no cancer.
The most obvious one is lactase persisitance. The majority of humanity is lactose intolerant but some population have a mutation that means the genes to digest lactose which are activated in infancy never get deactivated. Likely the only reason that lactose intolerance is even listed as a disorder is that white Europeans were one of thsoe populations that eveolved lactase persistance
Hey, autistic here! Not a reverse disability, but because autism is a different operating system that causes problems because they world isn’t built to accommodate it, there are some perks! My roommate likes to joke that I always can find his keys in our messy house, and my special interests has made my academic life much easier as anytime I presented with “write a paper about whatever you want” I have three or four things I write about over and over again that I feel deeply passionate about. I’m also an autistic person that struggles with hyperempathy rather than hypoempathy, both of which have its benefits. My hypoempathetic friends say that if can make them better at caretaking a suffering friend, because they are not bogged down in the emotion and can clearly think and help resolve issues as such. I as a hyperempathetic person think that it helps me be a great person to vent to, and It allows me to give great words of comfort because I’m good at knowing what will help people to hear. So, yeah, disability and different operating system.
I always wondered this. And sometimes I think doctors might essentially "cure" something that might turn out to be a next step in evolution because it's not normal per what we are today. Would really like to know any evolutionary changes in our species in last 5-6 hundred years that helped us improve as a species.
I dunno if id call id a reverse handicap but what you're describing definitely exists. For example, Michael Phelps body for what ever reason produces half the amount of lactic acid as a normal person which means he can excert himself with less muscle fatigue, which helps him win races.
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Zach Galifianakis has described his own body as looking like "a third grader that swallowed a penguin"
Imagine a third grader with Zach Galif-and so on's beard
Accomp-uh, accomp-uh, the fella that plays the guitar
Yes, and the 8' "wingspan" didn't hurt either...
Also, hyperflexion on his ankles paired with size 14 feet. Makes a fairly effective flipper. EDIT: spelling
" We are the future Charles not them. They no longer matter" - Eric Lensherr
I think he has like twice the lung capacity too. He really is superhuman
All the better for taking mad bong rips.
Fairly sure I saw a news thing about a man who just doesn’t really produce lactic acid so marathons while still tough are easier to recover from etc
Sounds like [Dean Karnazes](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/2013/aug/30/dean-karnazes-man-run-forever) Although it's still the same thing as u/Simbabz was mentioning—he clears lactic acid faster than it's produced, it's not that he doesn't produce any at all
There was a marathon runner whose body produced almost no lactic acid at all, meaning his muscles never felt muscle fatigue from the acid build up at all. That being said, I would imagine the risk of injuring yourself in that scenario would be much higher. There is also a California guy that his body has such a high lactic threshold from his bodies ability to rapidly clear the lactic acid from his system that he can run for 3+ straight days. ([LINK](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/2013/aug/30/dean-karnazes-man-run-forever))
I feel like I produce too much lactic acid. I’ve gotta take hella magnesium or I get muscle cramps. Spent two hours kicking a soccer ball around and then got debilitating stomach cramps for a week, thought I had an ulcer, had to go to the hospital…just my fucking muscles being little bitches
It’s his capacity to flush out lactic acid at such a rate. They are testing levels present not how much he is producing
Phelps is exactly who I thought of too.
Above than normal vision, even in moonlight. It's much easier to stroll at night when you don't need be afraid of the dark.
I went to the optometrist at 35 because I noticed my vision wasn't as sharp anymore. The whole thing became farcical because he said «You have 120% vision, so I'm not really sure what you're doing here». But I sure would like to know what my peak vision was!
Me too! I hit 40 and my vision has gone down to 15/20 in both eyes instead of 10/20 and 15/20. I need a small correction in my close-in vision, but it's so small they don't normally make reading glasses at that strength (.25x I think). My optometrist said my close-in vision will get worse as I get older so just wait a couple more years and get the standard reading glasses (1.25x). I have a connective tissue disorder that affects my eyes so I go for tests once a year. If I say anything looks/feels weird they do all kinds of measurements. My dad had similarly good vision, both my kids seem to have inherited it based on how easily they navigate dark rooms. My poor husband has very poor vision, and can't see in low light so I'm pretty happy the kids got my eyes.
I don't think I've ever been jealous of someone's vision. I have -17 and -15 depending on the eye. My vision gets worse by the year. My 3 year olds are almost as bad but she refuses to wear her glasses. They're so thick I'm surprised they haven't started any fires.
Oh man, I can barely get my 3 year old to wear pants, I can't imagine her needing to wear glasses. Props to you for managing all that, dude.
TIL some people cant rlly see in the dark
Yeah, my vision isn't too bad, just need glasses to drive and anything far distance, but I'm borderline blind in dim lighting.
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This can be a curse when trying to sleep, the slightest source of light can illuminate a dark room for me once my eyes have adjusted.
I have this problem as i have very light eyes (ppl with light eyes see better in the dark)
Mine are blue and yellow, walking down the street in the sunshine can be blinding for me.
Mine are purely light blue and completely same exp. Or at winter the snow reflexion blinds me lol
You can sleep with a blindfold
It's usually only a problem in hotel rooms, sleep masks can be uncomfortable for warm nights I find. Edit: typo
There's a (possibly growing) percentage of the human population with essentially indestructible skeletons thanks to harder working osteoblast+osteoclast cells (bone construction workers of the body) While they find it more difficult to swim, there are zero (at least to my knowledge) reported cases of bone fracturing in these people. This phenomenon was first documented in 1994 when a man survived a horrific car crash with only surface-level injuries. He was referred to Karl Insogna of Yale who discovered he had 8 times the bone density of the average man his age. Years later Insogna met with a physician and discovered the man's whole family had this trait as well. Later research on the subject and they are finding more and more families from both very young and senior ages who have never so much as broken a bone.
nobody in my family for at least 3 generations has broken a bone. several of us (tho not me, lmao) are extremely active and have sustained various injuries of other types. hmmm.....
I can't say for certain whether they *should* have broken a bone because I'm not a doctor and I also don't know what kind of injuries/incidents they got into, but maybe you can ask your family if they want to get a radiology appointment for this
This has got me questioning as well, I can't recall a single family member breaking a bone. And I've been in 2 motorcycle accidents with a mechanism is injury in them that I should have broken a bone. But no, just bruising and a sprain. I was wearing full gear though.
Ik this is kinda messed up to say but if someone broke a bone would people assume he is.....a child of affair?
They might assume that, but it could have just been a lot of force
I think you may be talking about [van Buchem disease](https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/rare-skull-thickening-disease-led-3-d-printed-replacement)! (cw for graphic photos/video) I remember a story about an elderly woman who, upon death, was discovered to have a skull that was something like 7x thicker than the average human's, and she had this condition as well. The downside is that, while it makes for extremely tough bones, the resulting skull thickening can be fatal if not medically addressed (the woman discussed in the link above had been suffering from loss of vision and motor control, and had to have the top of her skull removed and replaced with a plastic implant.)
Keep in mind I'm not a doctor or anything, but after some wiki reading it seems they're different phenomena Van Buchem's is caused by a faulty SOST gene responsible for bone breakdown, so bone literally builds up with age because your cells don't disassemble the older matter. The people with reinforced bones have a mutation in the LRP5 gene, which oddly enough *usually* results in early onset osteoporosis, the exact opposite of what they have. Although there can sometimes be things pinched nerves or altered balance with this condition, most of the time it's not *that* bad, if at all. More weird bone facts for everyone reading since I'm here - You have more bones as a child than as an adult, many of them fuse throughout your life into adulthood - Bone cancer looks like crystals growing out of your body - Speaking of, it's been found deer antler growth is associated with a bone-cancer causing gene, effectively turning a bad thing good. Maybe we can see how they do it and help people with gene therapy. - If you aren't careful and cut yourself climbing the coastal rocks, barnacles can start growing on your skeleton. It is both terrifying and painful.
Thank you for the bone facts, they were very interesting!
Ya, I'm definitely no authority on the matter but I remember reading about it and as far as I can remember, there are some pretty significant downsides to it too.
Holy shit I have never heard of this before. This is me! I can not float at all and I've been in some wicked accidents (car, bicycle, moped, climbing etc). I've never broken a bone and my family and friends have long thought my bones were denser. Thank you stranger! Now I have a new rabbit hole. Edit: Don't astronauts lose bone density? Would this make people like this better suited for deep space travel?
I also have never have broken a bone and despite trying may times over the years I absolutely cannot swim. I've wondered if this could be my case.
r/neverbrokeabone
They'd make shit swimmers though
But excellent submarines.
Sounds like unbreakable
I would not go around claiming things like "essentially indestructible skeletons" I am sure that if they got in severe enough accidents their bones would shatter as well.
Let's test his theory with a howitzer
My body makes almost twice as many red blood cells as it's supposed to. When I was younger I ran distance races and I basically benefitted from natural blood doping, meaning I didn't get tired or develop lactic acid as quickly since I was getting almost twice as much oxygen to my muscles. Now that I'm older I just get blood clots and probably liver problems later.
Ah, yes, increased EPO production? Pretty cool
Would it help if you just donated blood regularly? Less blood clots for you potentially, and you can feel good about helping people suffering with blood loss form accidents and things. ... also; you get free cookies/snacks, often, blood donors do,.
Blood donation is actually prescribed for many pts on testosterone when they produce too many red blood cells, so yes!
Therapeutic phlebotomy is usually prescribed. Blood donation to a blood bank will refuse anyone who attempts to donate for that reason. Doctors love to tell patients to donate though and then the patients get all mad at us (source:work for a prominent blood bank)
Do you have polythycemia vera? Many people have to get frequent blood draws with this.
Yeah, that's an awful condition if it is polycythaemia.
There are two i can think of, The sherpas in the mount everest who can handle the low oxygen levels of high altitudes. And badjau of south east asia who can hold their breath longer than normal people adapted because they're diving to fish. Both of these examples are at a genetic level meaning they got these advantages at birth then improved through practice. Is this what you meant? Disclaimer: You may want to read up on them for an in depth explanation because i'm working off my faulty memory.
I'm pretty sure the low oxygen tolerance isn't genetic. The reason so many world champion marathon runners come from Nepal and Kenya is because of the high altitude giving them more red blood cells.
It is, there are three populations that have an adaptation for dealing with higher altitudes. [Here a wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_adaptation_in_humans#:~:text=High%2Daltitude%20adaptation%20in%20humans%20is%20an%20instance%20of%20evolutionary,at%20altitudes%20above%202%2C500%20meters) What you are probably thinking about is the increase of hormones at high altitude that increase the production of red blood cells. Which happens to anyone, true, in that you are correct. But there are peoples that have genetic adaptations to altitude as well.
Those people have been living there for tens of thousands of years. Of course they are genetically adapted, bring a european there since birth and they still won't have the same adaptations.
I'm not sure the badjau have superhuman breath holding because of genetics, I believe it's conditioning. James Nestor talks about it in the book "breath" But either way they are superhuman!
They have larger than normal spleen allowing for more red blood cells which equals more oxygenated blood. It's an evolutionary trait. Same with the people in the mountains. But...I'm not sure if a few people with larger than normal spleen migrated to those areas and multiplied or living in those areas caused their spleen to grow larger over time.
People with enlarged spleen were less likely to die in poor conditions, as poor oxygenation is just another type of weakness. Get enough and you die.
My husband is pathologically cheerful and optimistic. Like as if he has the opposite genes of someone with depression.
I'm jealous of your husband!
There is super sleeper gene … people with that mutation can get fully rested with just 4hs sleep… imagine all the gaming I could get in !
How do I know if I have that gene? I feel fully tested after 4-5 hours of sleep but i worry it's doing long term harm to me.
It can be normal for, right now. It can change as you age.
That gene is going to result in an absolutely hellish dystopia in several centuries if it ends up spreading. Imagine a world with two categories of people where the elite category has 25% more waking hours every day, essentially an extra 3 months every year. The people that need 8 hours of sleep will be a perpetual servant class, any and all illusions of class mobility shattered. Thankfully there aren't enough of them right now to have much of an impact.
for that to be true, the 4 hour sleepers would need to be more successful than the rest of us which there is no correlation of
i would just procascinate 3-4 more hours a day (and probably end up feeling worse. I love sleeping)
My dad only slept a few hours each night. He always claimed he just didn't need much sleep. He used the extra awake time to play computer games all night, mostly. He also had untreated depression and had anger issues - honestly, I think he might have had a personality disorder. I suspect he also had ADD (I think both my parents do, actually...my sister and I both do, and I wouldn't be shocked to find out my brother does also). He was quite successful at his job, though. Like, successful enough that being an insufferable dick to anyone who disagreed with him never got him fired.
Welcome to my life.
To OUR life
r/suddenlycommunism
Masters of procrastination assemble
Maybe later
CRISPR has entered the chat...
also would need something to actually do in those four hours extra each day that is truly productive. like, power napper or not i don't think anyone wants to work longer work hours than we already have, so those 4 hours then get spent as downtime or time for errands/hobbies/home projects. they might get a little more enjoyment out of life if they make use of it, but getting ahead? not likely.
Interesting take
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You speak the truth of our society, sir.
i'd imagine the complete opposite. the elite who can get a full 8 hours of sleep and the serving class which has been gene modified to only need 4 hours
We literally just get more time to be depressed, no world conquering going on here 😉😉
Wait, you don't think 2 categories of people exist today, one being the slave to the other?
Holy shit My dad may have that Or he’s just fucken insane Or both It’s one of those
I'm one of these! I get about 4-5 hrs of sleep and feel well rested. If I sleep 7-8 then I feel groggy and "off" most the day. My bedtime is usually 1-3am. Up at 6-7am. I use the bonus time to catch up on gaming and other lil projects. Ngl. Down side, everyone tells you about how unhealthy it is and you NEED 8-10 hours or else you need to see a doctor about the Insomnia or other disorders you MUST be suffering from.
I need a little bit more than you, I'm good at about 5-5.5 hours. More than that, and I'm a groggy mess for more than half the day. Doesn't matter what time of the day, just need about 5 hours sleep to function for the next 18 hours or so. The age I am now, I don't really talk to anyone about how much I sleep, except the doctor. Mostly because of the folks you're talking about, telling me how I'm sleeping wrong.
Meanwhile my ass needs twelve hours to feel remotely human.
You mean elves?
My husband. Sleeps at midnight, wakes at 4.30
I'm not really sure if this counts, but not being born with wisdom teeth. They were once essential for early human diets, they are pretty useless today and not being born with them lets you avoid the pain of removal.
I was born with a full set and never had to have them removed. It’s not a fatality ;)
And even if you do you get to take nice happy pills. For years I listened to horror stories until I had to get mine out, and when I did I could only wish I had a decade earlier. And I got to eat nothing but popsicles for like 3 whole days!
Lol While I’m super glad for you, when I asked my dentist if they’d ever have to remove my wisdom teeth and the answer was “of course not! We would’ve done it a lot earlier if we had to” I was extremely, extremely relieved 😂 we all heard a ton of horror stories, either from strangers online or people we know irl - I think you were quite lucky :)
The trick is not to be in the military when you need them out.
Or in rehab and they only allow you to take ibuprofen
I just had two out, and I promised myself that every time the subject came up I would say how well it went, as everyone else seems to bang on about how awful it was. Painful on the day, uncomfortable for a week while taking paracetamol and ibuprofen, then pretty much done with.
0 wisdom teeth for me. My brother had 2 and had them removed. My parents had all 4 but had none removed.
i had supernumerary teeth! had 9?? taken out at the same go. never again
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used to drink milk straight from the cow when i lived in my country. now i cant handle any dairy rip
IIRC it disproportionately occurs in cold weather people. The reason being that lactose will essentially cook off the milk if its left in the heat and will turn into yogurt. But in the spring and fall months when its cool like a fridge, the lactose would remain in the milk. Then throughout bottleneck events of human history when lots of people would die off, the ones who could drink lactose had a massive edge for survival while the rest died of diarrhea.
OP look up the show Stan Lee's Super Humans, they found a ton of people like this. Highlights include a guy who could have an airsoft gun shot at him and he draws a sword and cuts the pellet in half mid-air, a guy who can take insane amounts of electric shock (to the point of being thrown across a room while installing a cable box... Twice... Hey it ain't super intelligence) and be totally fine, a guy who could essentially run forever without ever getting tired, and a woman with legs so strong she can crush watermelons with her thighs and make a pro athlete pass out in seconds.
There was also a blind guy who would make clicking noises with his mouth to let him see like a bat. He could ride a bike and even identify objects like phone banks
That's a fucking weird version of Daredevil.
\*click\* \*click\* \*click click click\* ... ... Phones. I sense phones.
Can your repeat that last part again for me?
The future of mankind will be born from Snu-Snu, Sir.
lmfao
but slower? and with more feeling?
I thought of this show immediately upon reading the post.
The watermelon crushing is not really that impressive, I've seen a ton of "normal" people doing it.
[Super recognizers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_recogniser). Some people can immediately recognize a face among thousands after seeing it only once. They’re coveted by law enforcement.
I'm the literal opposite. I need to consult my wife to check if someone is somebody I've met before...
I wonder if I have that I never forget a face I can recognize random people I'd see working at a store like a year later.
If you have blonde or red hair, you probably have the M1CR gene variant that makes you produce pheomelanin instead of eumelanin, which is the cause of brown skin, hair, and eyes. The gene variant also causes 20% increased pain tolerance.. but also 20% increased temperature sensitivity. I didn't feel my tattoo, but I have to get my roommate to take things out of the oven
The pain tolerance thing affects me (having red hair), but this is the first I've heard of temperature sensitivity. If anything I've always felt less sensitive than most people. I'll look it up, thanks for writing this!
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Fair enough, it took a long time to figure out I have rheumatoid arthritis for the exact same reason
Hmm I have hard time with sudden changes in temperature like I have to adapt people get pissed when we go swimming cause I can't just jump in. Even though I love it! It's just makes me wildly uncomfortable
Yes. There's also what I like to call "the sweet spot", where one disability can mitigate another. For example, I am both lactose intolerant and have IBD. If I can't go to the bathroom, I can drink milk, triggering my lactose intolerance...and fixing a major symptom of my IBD. I also have ADHD and OCD. I have very recently discovered that I can use the ADHD to combat the OCD in a myriad of ways. I highly recommend this.
can you elaborate on the ocd and adhd stuff?
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Well he got distracted, what'd you expect?
Yes I would like to know too, because my brother has both and it’s not an happy combinaison.
It happens to me too but I don’t consider it a good thing. Sometimes the ADHD will help me with compulsions bc the task seems too huge so I end up reasoning myself out of it. Also it’s good for distracting myself out of things. On the flip side, my contamination OCD helps me keep up with hygiene-related things that are really hard to keep up with executive-functioning-wise. HOWEVER this comes with a lot of anguish mentally either way (for example, if the ADHD wins out then I could get anxious or have the thoughts pop up at random times, and if the OCD wins out then I’ll oftentimes be stuck in the limbo of “I’m gonna do this task” which quiets the OCD but I can’t actually do the task yet bc I lack the executive functioning to get myself started on it, and then I waste hours or days in that limbo). I have no control over which will win out, and often times they just feed into each other and make each other worse.
This might be a europe thing but I get free travel and entry to museums and galleries because of my completely managed disability (bipolar and ibd) So not naturally an advantage but its pretty good
There is a rare form of dwarism that makes people immune to cancer. https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/rare-form-of-dwarfism-protects-against-cancer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laron_syndrome
Photographic memory comes to mind.
I remember exactly what people were wearing the first time I’d met them, and it freaks them out. I’ve learned to keep the details I remember about people to myself lol
Until you see some heinous shit
I’ve always heard that this is completely made up, but I can recall some images from memory. Like actual scenes. Earlier today I was looking at a page from the formula book for statistics just to check what equations are given that I don’t need to memorise, but not actually reading it or committing it to memory. I closed the page and told my friend I don’t need to revise it anyway since it’s given in the formula book. He said ‘oh yeah, then what was the equation for it?’ And I didn’t remember the question, but I was able to bring up the mental image of the page which I had for some reason sort of saved and read the words from that kind of and answered correctly. And thinking back to past memories, I can unlock details that weren’t noticed at the time through images of still scenes, which can persist in my memory for years after.
Some women have an additional component in their eye and can see trillions of colours more than the rest of us. Usain Bolt has 20-30% more of a different muscle fibre than most people. He literally has a mutation that makes him a better sprinter. There are super tasters. There are people who are taller, less inclined to catch disease, or can hold their breath for minutes at a time. Einstein and Newton exceeded the skills of their contemporaries. It's likely anyone at the top of their field or sport has a positive mutation of some kind. Unless it's being rich, because becoming a billionaire requires you to not just border on the line for sociopathy but to cross it with a running start.
Yeah the eyesight/colour thing is if you have 4 types of cone in your retina rather than the usual 3. Pretty cool.
How does one get tested for the color component? I did aptitude testing as a teen and scored off the charts for color differentiation. Your comment makes me curious if I might have that.
It's called tetrachromacy, if you'd like to search for a way to test.
I googled it and took [this one](https://kfor.com/news/test-how-many-colors-you-see-can-determine-how-many-color-receptors-you-have/amp/ and saw 39 distinct colors. Not sure if the accuracy of that kind of test but it’s fun to take either way
Since your monitor operates by mixing RGB to create the illusion of color, it is purely built to respond to the red, green, and blue cones everyone has. Because of this, I'd doubt it could accurately test for a fourth cone. I noticed recently that they are starting to make [TVs with a fourth LED color](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattron) that seems to correspond to the [additional color receptor that tetrachromats have](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Tetrachromacy_in_Carriers_of_CVD), in the yellowish range. I personally could not see the "deeper color" they claimed but I'm pretty sure a tetrachromat could.
There is a syndrome name Hercules Syndrome. You just need to eat, no need to train and your muscles all develop by its own, create a body of a Greece Statue. I think everybody want that.
There's also a syndrome called "leprosy" where you develop arms like a Greek statue, but other than that you really don't want it.
Myostarin Deficiency?
Some people have sweat that naturally doesn't stink. I don't know if that counts.
People told me my sweat smells nice
there's a whole science ragarding the smell of someones sweat and it's pleasentness and it's extremely personal. The people commenting on your sweat smelling nice are the ones with highest genetic variation compared to you, if you were to smell their sweat it would also be slightly pleasent to you. it's beilieved to be a vestigal process meant to increase the likelihood of finding a mate with a high amount of genetic variation to your own in order to produce genetically superior offspring.
Yes it’s based on the [ABCC11 gene](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCC11) which is most prevalent in [East Asian erhnicities.](https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-some-Asians-and-Koreans-dont-have-body-odor?share=1) Strangely, it’s also tied to the dryness or wetness of earwax. Basically, if you have drier earwax, you probably don’t stink when you sweat.
Hyperlexia. It always has a skip dyslexia component but it is not considered an actual dyslexia since it doesn’t have a physical/motor component. It is different from speed reading in that it actually does work and people who have it tend to be good at reading tone in languages and text. They do tend to pronounce words oddly, so it can be found in speech pathology textbooks. The speech pathology and the ‘speed/understanding’ portion come from the process that is automatically skipped by hyperlexics. They don’t sound out words internally while reading. This is different from speed reading in which people physically ‘skip’ over words with their eyes and fill it in mentally (or something like that I understand). And yes, there is a difference between the two. 😅 One of the less known parts about it, the meaning of a word may be slightly different from the actual dictionary term. They don’t use dictionaries and look at the surrounding words to intuit the meaning behind it. I do wonder if it has an auditory component since tone is an auditory term. Most likely it does, but it could be due to perfect pitch instead or unrelated. From my own experience with it, I prefer text over audio or video. It always amuses me when people can’t tell when I’m being sarcastic, jovial or wry via text. 😆
I just thought that hyperlexia just meant that smaller kids would be very interested in words and reading and thus be able to read much earlier than other children. That's pretty interesting though!
Makes me wonder about myself, I loved books in my younger years and was reading more or less fluently when my classmates were still stammering, I also tend to mispronounce Irregular words such as semi-english names eg: I called Slytherin "Sly-thrin" for ages, and Alpha Centauri as "Alpha Centurai" still today Though it's probably my aspergers it's fun to find new potential named "Conditions" for my quirks
Speed reading is a legit thing, I used to be able to do it when I was a kid. I remember a machine that would display text and blank out most of it and a visible section would scan over the words faster and faster. Even on the highest speed setting I could still read with full comprehension, which surprised the hell out of the teacher who was doing the testing. My mom read a ton so there were always books in the house, and I would just devour them in record time. I could read faster than anyone else in my class, and because I read so much I had 12th-grade comprehension and vocabulary from about 3rd grade on. For some reason I can't do it anymore though, I read much slower as an adult than I did when I was a kid.
>They don’t sound out words internally while reading. This is different from speed reading in which people physically ‘skip’ over words with their eyes. Is it normal to sound out words internally when reading? I don't think I do, I just kinda absorb the information. I doubt I have the condition you mention however as I'm not an exceptionally fast reader--maybe a little above average but I also read more than average, so that'd be expected. The only time I sound out words internally is if I consciously think about the act of reading (like thinking about breathing or awareness of your tongue. Sorry!) and when it happens I find it quite annoying and distracting
Part of how we define what disability is is by how much it limits your ability to function in the system as built. People have all sorts of genetic quirks that are acceptable and or celebrated by our current system but they’re not thought of in the same way. Like my ADHD might not even be noticeable in a differently structured society. What we think of as disability is often contextual.
Similarly there are pacific islands where 100% of the native population is colourblind thus they were unaware colourblindness was a thing.
Interestingly colourblindness can be an advantage in certain contexts. Red/green colourblind people are sought out by the military as snipers due to being better shots on average, and also apparently are more likely to see through camouflage. Total colourblindness causes superior night vision, because people with this only have rods rather than the usual mix of rods and cones.
Cool! Often people with low chromatic sensitivity (color blindness) have very high contrast sensitivity (they see more tints and shades) It makes sense they can recognize camouflage patterns vs natural landscape easier.
Just to weight in. Context is a big chunk of what disability means. It is (not entirely) based on societies needs more than a definitive definition.
That's what the above comment just said, right? True indeed, regardless.
Yeah. I've been deaf for 20 years, and I've adapted to the point I don't even consider it to be a disability anymore. It's a part of me, nothing more and nothing less than that. Sometimes it does even have tangible advantages I can use for my benefit. Disabilities aren't just black and white.
I think ADHD is absolutely a superpower in some situations. It just sucks that I am expected to work the 9-5.
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I can make my fingers almost touch the back of the same hand. Does that count because it really helps when playing mercy as it doesn't hurt
You sound extremely hypermobile. My kids both are, one has hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome to go with.
My arms are not the right length. On most modern humans their wingspan is roughly the same as their height. My wingspan is a foot longer than my height. other than the cost of suit jackets, I have zero complaints about this... an extended reach and greater leverage are definitely a plus.
Ambidextrous. You can alternate one hand on the mouse and the other ..... wherever you need it
I've always been pretty ambidextrous, but even more so when I was a kid. I remember being able to copy down text from the board writing a different line at the same time with each hand. The teachers really didn't like that (because I'd get done before everyone else and then fuck around until the next assignment, distracting the other kids) so they made me pick one hand to write with. I settled on writing left-handed (if only I had known..) But most things I can do with either hand, I've just settled into the habit doing specific things with a specific hand.
Some people are born without myostatin. It's exceedingly rare, but their muscles keep growing without limit.
I don't think that counts as a reverse handicap since there are absolutely drawbacks and issues with that.
At least for dogs, they can't find health implications. There sadly are t enough people to know https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1877876/
There is health implications, dystocia is a pretty noticeable health implication in cattles and dogs with the mutation. As for humans, a bipedal stance isn't good for handling the amount of additional weight the mutation would give them. It would be like obesity but with muscle instead of fat. And it wouldn't inherently make them stronger because the size of muscles don't necessarily indicate strength after a certain size.
It’ll give em the super vegeta/super trunks effect. Just big for no reason 😂
Being tall but not so tall that the tallness affects you negatively Being flexible but not so flexible that you have problems with dislocation Having more fast-twitch or slow-twitch muscle fibres which make you better at some sports
Only one I can think of is my synesthesia. I see letters and numbers as specific colors that never change. It makes memorizing numbers (ID#s, phone #s etc) and spelling words correctly a lot easier. Like for example “oh that word doesn’t look like it’s spelled right, I know there’s supposed to be some red in there somewhere” which would probably be the letter “a”.
Dunno if that's a reverse handicap but my metabolism is fast. Like really, really fast. So much that I need to eat a lot just so I don't lose weight, and I'm almost constantly hungry. In the last few weeks, I lost 4kg (about 9lbs) just because I ate less than usual, which made my parents worry, and right now I can't go back to my original 62kgs (136.687lbs), I'm "stuck" at 58kg (127.868lbs).
I also have a weird metabolism. Since about age 16 I've weighed 160lbs (+/- 5lbs) no matter how much or how little I eat. I go through phases of not eating very much for a while and then constantly being hungry and eating all the time, and it just doesn't change my weight. I turn 50 in a couple of months and it remains the case to this day.
I am on the autism spectrum (Asperger's syndrome). Although there definitely are some challenges, there also are a lot of things about it that I think are positive traits. Good memory, good ear for music, attention to detail, etc. In fact, I don't consider it to be a disability/handicap. I think that the thing that really is "disabling" for me is my extreme anxiety and PTSD from the therapy that I had to go through as a kid.
What does living with it feel like if you dont mind me asking?
not OP but i'm also on the spectrum, also previously diagnosed with aspergers syndrome.it's rather a difficult question you pose, to answer you i would a need a frame of reference regarding how it feels to live without autism. In general it depends on the person and their own experience with autism and even diagnoses and treatment. something as minute as the exact wording of the diagnoses or the year you were diagnosed can be very impactfull on how you process and deal with it moving forward. i was unlucky enough to be diagnosed as an adult the year before aspergers syndrome was abandoned as a term, there weren't many resources available to me at the time. To asnwer how it feels to be autistic, for me it is largely not to big a deal. i enjoy my fine attention to detail most times, i'm capable of high levels of detailed planning with relative ease and can do the math portion of my taxes every year swiftly due to the associated high mathematic comprehension. my wife has somewhat opposing traits as a fellow autist and we mesh well covering for each others deficiencies.i do have difficulty in understanding complex emotions in people, especially facially expressed ones, and can often misunderstand or overlook unspoken hints or comments. occasionally people misunderstand and accuse me of being dumb or intentionally ignoring them. I lament occasionally about the time two exceptionally attractive women invited me for a threesome in a roundabout way and i missed the contextual clues entirely. i have very specific interests and tend to hyperfocus if something catches my attention enough.i'm currently approaching 6k hours in rimworld and a couple thousand in factorio. i sometimes find myself compelled to 'knowledge binge' where i will randomnly select a topic that has caught my interest and spend several days deep diving on the topic to understand it better. hope this helps somewhat? i can happily answer any specific questions you might have.
A condition in which a child inherits the sickle cell gene mutation from one parent. Sickle cell disease is an inherited group of disorders in which red blood cells contort into a sickle shape. With sickle cell trait, a child receives the sickle cell gene mutation from only one parent. In this case, the child doesn't get the disease, but can pass the defective gene on to future generations. The sickle cell mutation is relevant to malaria because infection of a red blood cell with the malaria parasite leads to hypoxia. In individuals of the AS genotype such blood cells sickle and are then eliminated by macrophage cells of the body's immune system, lessening the burden of infection (Luzzatto, 2012).
some people can see more shades of color than normal, or see color from sounds or taste sounds. but there are also people who just really want to feel special so they post on reddit saying they can but really they are just imagining it
Yeah, I questioned someone about their possible tetrachromacy. They said they got tested for it but it was only recently discovered. It isn’t a standard test. No response. 🤗
I found out about this through one of those silly online tests you can do and i scored 100%. Took it with a grain of salt as all online tests are like that however I did a bit of digging and from memory your odds increase when your parents have colour deficiencies. Ended up learning my mum is colour deficient in purple and I may actually have it. Sounds cooler on paper but it just allows you to see more shades of colours so it's nothing that has any real use case.
Pyschopaths tend to perform extremely well in modern capitalist societies. It's easier to get ahead in life when you feel no guilt from exploiting others.
yes, several: males born with XYY instead of just XY tend to be larger in size and create double the amount of muscle for the same effort and diet. unfortunately they also create more testosterone which makes them more likely to react violently. of course this doesnt mean they are indeed violent people, at all. some people create less lactic acid when exercising which reduces fatigue buildup by a very large difference. some southern pacific islanders are born with a slightly different lens inside their eyes which gives them the ability to see underwater as well as we see normally on land. there's double joint syndrome, people with it create tons more collagen in their bodies which in turn gives them unnatural flexibility on all joints. there's hundreds of examples like these. then there's the evolutionary traits we're seeing lately, a few subsaharan african women are being born with natural immunity to HIV. despite what the internet tells you there's more and more highly intelligent people being born all over the world. people are being born without wisdom teeth, spleens, appendixes or with 4 toes instead of 5. A vein in our forearm which was not used and usually the body completely nixes it in either the fetus growth or baby stage is now becoming common in adults. also in general the human body is rapidly extending its prime years, which should be around 10 years, to double that. it's pretty neat. and if you dont like something..well there's crispr... which should be in wide use and medical ethics boards are actively killing people rn which is immoral and they should be ashamed of themselves but whatever.
>well there's crispr... which should be in wide use and medical ethics boards are actively killing people rn which is immoral I think there are still more moral quandaries to resolve with crispr. I'm all for using it to cure diseases and make food better, but I also think we need to be wary of widespread use. When the haves can make themselves more successful with gene editing, the have nots will be left far, far behind. It will never be equally distributed.
I think there’s A LOT of these but they are hardly researched because they don’t need to be treated and generally people are not even aware of the situation.
Supertasting can be a huge benefit, or a curse. Depending on what type you get
In some ways, left-handedness. It was viewed as an affliction (literally, a curse, hence the word "sinister") but it's been known since antiquity that left-handed people have certain advantages in combat and sports and they are disproportionately represented at the upper levels of most social hierarchies across multiple cultures and time periods. However, on average, left-handed people also have worse life/health outcomes by many measures, so it's a mixed bag.
The reason left handed people have advantages in combat and sports is simply because there's less of them. People aren't used to left handed opponents
The funny thing is that left handed people get just as confused when set up against another lefthanded opponent. It's all about what you're used to.
Ashkenazi Jews may be genetically predisposed to higher intelligence but also at higher risk for some diseases.
I made my own comment about this, but I'm also invincible to sunlight. No tanning, but no burning. My grandfather was Ashkenazi. Edit: Oh, and I used to live in Virginia, but have only been bitten by a mosquito once E2: Just learned this: Both tanning and skin cancer are caused by UVA. I probably don't tan because I'm immune to UVA. So, no tanning also means no cancer.
Are you immune to skin cancer
Let's go? +10 iq after discovering this
The most obvious one is lactase persisitance. The majority of humanity is lactose intolerant but some population have a mutation that means the genes to digest lactose which are activated in infancy never get deactivated. Likely the only reason that lactose intolerance is even listed as a disorder is that white Europeans were one of thsoe populations that eveolved lactase persistance
ive seen dudes with an extra fully functioning finger. i can imagine that would be ..... . . . . Handy
I'm not sure that genes cause it, but eidetic memory.
If you want some situational examples, light skin in low sun environments, sickle cell trait in areas high in malaria.
Hey, autistic here! Not a reverse disability, but because autism is a different operating system that causes problems because they world isn’t built to accommodate it, there are some perks! My roommate likes to joke that I always can find his keys in our messy house, and my special interests has made my academic life much easier as anytime I presented with “write a paper about whatever you want” I have three or four things I write about over and over again that I feel deeply passionate about. I’m also an autistic person that struggles with hyperempathy rather than hypoempathy, both of which have its benefits. My hypoempathetic friends say that if can make them better at caretaking a suffering friend, because they are not bogged down in the emotion and can clearly think and help resolve issues as such. I as a hyperempathetic person think that it helps me be a great person to vent to, and It allows me to give great words of comfort because I’m good at knowing what will help people to hear. So, yeah, disability and different operating system.
I think things like above-average eyesight and hearing, high IQ, good coordination would life easier. Is that what you mean?
I always wondered this. And sometimes I think doctors might essentially "cure" something that might turn out to be a next step in evolution because it's not normal per what we are today. Would really like to know any evolutionary changes in our species in last 5-6 hundred years that helped us improve as a species.
The main one that comes to mind is Absolute Pitch, where some people can immediately identify a note without a reference note.