(Irish ancestry here: Letting them know that you've got redheaded relatives is the secret cheatcode to let you stay unconscious during surgery. There's a whole protocol about it.)

Does red hair run in your family by any chance? People with red hair in their family (myself included, I have auburn-ish hair) need 20% more anesthetics.

Same. I inform doctors that I am resistant to sedation. They nod, not believing me. I go under. I wake up 4 hours early, everyone goes insane. One time they failed to put me out right away. Fortunately they managed to put me out before they cut into me. My last memories before waking are hearing "oh shit, he's awake". Another time they used "an adult dose and a child dose" which... doesn't sound right. But I remember waking with a half dozen people trying to rouse me.

Aphantasia here. Can’t see or remember shit. It sucks.

Only benefits are speed reading and a boost to abstract/scientific thinking. But episodic memories and visualisation sound more fun.

Also resistant to everything. Connective tissue disorder? (EDS)?

How does “fuck you” look like ?

Not so neat is my aparent genetic resistance to pain meds and anesthetics. Caused some "fun" in a hospital stay

Are you a redhead? Apparently that's a fairly common trait for them

Same here on the resistance to pain meds. I had a such a terrible experience with surgery. Once I woke up I was in such agony but I was also tripping hard from the dilaudid and left over anesthesia that I was unable to communicate effectively. Once a doctor finally listened to me many hours later, they gave me a cocktail of other stuff that finally eased the pain. I also really struggle with dental work.

What's the coolest-looking sound?

You must be a woman. As far as I can tell, that only happens in women.

Here's me with my red-green deficiency already jealous of standard colour vision

Nice! You should read the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks if you like Fantasy novels.

https://www.goodreads.com/...

I am weirdly envious. That sounds so cool!

I'm apparently one of the only men in the world who have something akin to that, it's similar but not as strong from what I've been told. Never once met another man with a better colour sense than me.

could you elaborate on what you mean by "more colours"? like infra red or ultraviolet? or do you mean your eyes have an extra colour cone that gives you more precise information about colours so that it's easier for you to tell them apart?

What does the color addon look like?

You can't just post this and leave out the other name for this:

Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst

Or: ACHOO

I have something similar. Honeymoon rhinitus. People have picked up the perception that, if I sound like I have a cold when I talk to them, I really like them.

I've definitely got some variant of the photic sneeze. If I'm in a small sneezing fit, and I want to continue to dislodge the whatever, I look for the brightest area and wait. Takes less than 5 seconds.

I have that too and also thought it normal for the longest time. My wife calls it that I ”get sun in my nose”.

I’m in the crazy sneezing corner at work.

• My coworker has allergies, with fits of many sneezes.
• At the same time every day when the sun comes in, I get hit with three rapid sneezes - loud too. It’s always a surprise so I don’t have time to figure out how to sneeze quietly. You could set a clock by it

Stop peeing on your toes

Same, but more intense. It can affect the whole of the bottom of my feet sometimes, and I've never been able to consistently replicate it so I've no idea what triggers it either.

Ha! This happens to me as well! I do have a funny slight extra detail though. I can't really visualise images in my minds eye (almost aphantasia), but when I'm closing my eyes to go to sleep, and a sudden noise happens, I see a flash of white like you, but also usually some random af detailed image flash in my minds eye. It's so weird, always different, always amusing, and the closest I get to visualising. It could be anything, like a old woman in a cowboy hat riding a horse or whatever. Also, I have slight grapheme-colour synesthesia, so it's interesting that you called it wish synesthesia! I wonder if it plays some role!

I can tell when there are electronics turned on around me even if they aren't intended to make noise, because they all seem to give off this kind of almost imperceptible high pitch whine. Not enough to be bothersome, but just enough to know something probably has current running through it.

Same here. But that's basically just good hearing.

Yeah, the electronic device sound is coil whine, mostly produced by power transformers, but a few other things too. Some do it loudly enough or low pitch enough for everyone to hear, others are quiet enough or high pitch enough that only people like us can hear them.

I kinda want a video

My sisters can do 1 and 3, and like i said in my other comment, it makes my skin crawl

I can tell when there are electronics turned on around me even if they aren't intended to make noise, because they all seem to give off this kind of almost imperceptible high pitch whine.

I can also hear the noise that some batteries make when they get charged.

Same, there is a muscle in there that most people can't voluntarily control.
But we can!

Also, I've never heard anyone else mention the part about "reversing" their ears! Seems I'm not the only one!

Hey me too

Same. It’s a very useful trick for scuba diving.

I can pop outwards by closing my mouth and nose and then putting pressure on my mouth walls with the air.
Reverse, I can manage only down to equal pressure, by simply drinking back my saliva.

What do you mean by pop ? Ro you hear a champagne bottlw “pop !” instead of the regular crackling noise ?

I can do this too!

I recently learned about some people being able to smell ants. I wonder if you can smell them as well

Odd, same here. Can’t smell other stuff that well but mold I pick up on right away.

My nose is specially sensitive to stuff like deodorants and synthetic perfumes, formaldehyde and other paint smells, the stuff from Odonil™, WD 40 etc. I feel like, if I wanted to train myself to detect non-lethal doses of HCN, I might manage it.

I have something similar (but days, not weeks) and was always the designated tester in my family but half the time they eat the food anyway.

I can relate to that.

My doctor once told me it makes us immune to horror movies.

Lol I skipped past the first paragraph after reading the first few words, as it's just a bunch of words to me, and then realised reading the next paragraph that exactly that was your point. Yes I definitely relate to you 😂

Aphantasia. I have it, too.

Have the same problem with aphantasia but full on, I can't imagine feeling, hearing or any of my senses In my head. I know something is hot because I remember it hurt but I can't seem to like create it in my mind.

Although tbh it's kinda fun to interupt someone when they say "ok imagine that..." And I'm like "no". (Usually in jest with someone I trust)

Damn I'm jealous, true northerner

Guessing you're a male? Similar issue here too. Gets worse as you get older I've found.

How does it help with queueing? Like people will universally allow you to go upfront?

Hammered the back of your sinuses? Come again

the fourth one, both my sisters can do that? makes me squeamish

You could make a killing in the Japanese porn industry

I can burp on command tho i think that ones command

I can do this as well. Every single girlfriend I have had in my life absolutely hated it. I don't even notice myself doing it sometimes.

I can do that too. Bonus since I sprained one at 16, I'll just be randomly walking along when something in my ankle makes an audible pop and dislocates for just long enough for me to stumble and take another step.

I had a wrist sprain a few years back and got an X-ray. They told me my ulna was about a millimeter longer than it probably should be. I'm wondering if that's the case for most of my joints and that's why I creak like gammy's favorite rocking chair

I can do it, but only with my left ankle! It's almost like I'm sliding the tendon across the bone? making a really loud "popping" sound, over and over. I've been able to do it for as long as I can remember and it's never hurt. Never met anyone else who could do it!

This happened to me when I took antidepressants for the first time, as well as being incredibly sensitive to sound, to the point where I could hear electricity.

Not being hyperbolic at all. To test this my partner and I tested a bunch of devices, she flicked either a dummy-switch, or one powering an appliance, and with my back turned, I could tell her if it was on, off, or she hit a dummy switch.

Ultimately I couldn't stand being on antidepressants, I felt like my IQ dropped 10 points.

We need more information here because that doesn't seem possible. Is it something like your voice is so deep that cheap microphones don't capture it or what?

I assume you dont mean poor quality ones. is your voice really deep or really high pitched to you or other ppl around you

How strange! When I have to pee really badly, I feel it in my teeth. Is that weird or normal?! My past partners have never had this uncomfortable tingling sensation from it. I always clench my jaw and wiggle to try and ease the feeling. Obviously also go pee.

If I yawn the wrong way (usually when turning my head), my hyoid bone shifts and gets stuck. I have to move it back in place by hand, carefully. That was a scary discovery.

Oh shit that happens to me too and I've never known what it was, thank you

Do you have EDS?

I can clap each of my hands individually.

In other words, snap using 3 or 4 fingers at a time, without relying on the thumb to coil the muscles. That seems doable with a bit of prctc. Let me know if you meant something else.

If I yawn the wrong way (usually when turning my head), my hyoid bone shifts and gets stuck. I have to move it back in place by hand, carefully.

I just tried the same thing. Felt a pull on one of my joints the wrong way. Not going to try turning my head any further and will be careful not to turn my head while yawning from now. Yes, that was scary.

I have dysgraphia.

Due to how I learnt to write when I started using a pen, any long term writing causes my thumb movement muscles to cramp up, making me have to stop writing.
I also seem to have something related to dysgraphia, but it's much milder than as depicted in the image in the Wikipedia article. So, the glyph metrics don't match. I still use cursive though, just because I'm used to it. It's also much milder than your example, though I do tend to have times when characters get switched or entangled.

I had two of those as a kid. They put little chains around them and pulled them down into place.

For the teeth i have something similar. My last baby tooth was just removed last year even tho i am +18, turns out my adult tooth was growing below it all this time and now its behind my row of teeths and i can't stop rubbing it with my tongue and its damn sharp that its driving me insane

I am gonna remove it too but unfortunately we dont have the money for that now

You share the tooth thing with Tom Cruise! Random thing I learned the other week.

I can also slide my balls up inside, sometimes it happens by itself too. Can feel them under my pubes

How old are you? For younger people they can hear charging devices but that fades with time. You might not always have this as I lost it a few years ago.

That reminds me that sometimes I can feel people behind me from their body heat, even while outside. My main assumption is that I'm feeling the infrared that's emitted

Well, light degrades into heat. I feel it too, for the high powered ones. I have my bicycle headlights and can feel the heat wherever they hit me.

Oh you can hear the expensive ones too? Nice. Not sure about your case, but for me, it is low enough to be useful but not distracting. You can let a bit more of your ear wax build up, which should help reduce it a bit.

Wanna trade with me for a while? I have feet that are chronically cold and sweat like they are hot. I bought battery powered socks.

I think the eye stuff are normal just take a bit of practice. If you have good control of your focus you can see "3D". Try merging the two circles here. Once you get it there's a bunch of interesting things you can do

I can cross my eyes no problem but can't make them look in opposite directions outward.

And not particularly strong, but "stronger than I look" according to every guy I have playfully wrestled. I don't know if I am strong or other women hold back, though. I never do because I understand guys who look my size have an advantage of like 100% more strength, even if I want to lose I try to win!

I can pop my arms out of my shoulder joints, without using my hands, and back in again. Completely painless, but can sometimes do it by accident if I'm leaning against a doorframe etc, or pushing/pulling against something, so I have to be careful.

Have you been diagnosed with any hypermobility disorders? You might want to look into some and check with a doctor, because some of them have pretty nasty side effects since they lead to most connective tissue degenerating, even inside your heart

Yes, I can focus and unfocus my eyes at will, I too, to razor sharp vision or so blurry that I can't even make out features on anyone's face. (Without going cross eyed, which I can also do with any eye at a time).

It's a good superpower, as I have glasses that I can wear if I want to which are roughly +3.5, but I rarely bother, because I'll just use my eye muscles to see perfectly well,so I never freak out when I lose my glasses or whatever. I

It's really handy for zoning tf out, too. Which is mostly a blessing, but sometimes a curse, especially as I have the inattentive ADHD where I just go blank faced and stare into the blurry distance whilst totally disappearing inwards.

Hey! Me too. I thought I was the only one. Happens when I yawn sometimes too.

Me too! If I'm scratching or picking at my skin, sometimes I feel it somewhere else, so I figured it's normal and just nerve signals being connected somehow, but never spoken about it.

How is not getting fevers the sign of a strong immune system? Fevers are how bodies kill off infections.

I have that with my thumb. A very useful QOL mutation when it comes to pushing on things

Awesome! I have only seen people do it with their fingers.

so its visible to other ppl too for u. Can other ppl feel ur ear being hot? Do you have dust allergies or allergies in general?

I can use earphones that go into your ear but not headsets that cover the whole of my ear. back in school some of our buses had alot of dust in the seats, like my sisters bus.When ever i had to ride with her, it triggered my ears even if there is no visible dust in the air

Geez, look at mister perfect over here. /s

Actually though, does your dense skeleton give you a resistance to broken bones?

Usually if something clicks reliably, you should see a doctor about it. Once, or after getting up not an issue, but every time might be bad

Chilly does the same thing for me, but it is never pleasant. Now that i think about it its more like an inch under my scalp than a tingles

Also chilly makes me produce thicker and more saliva for almost 24hrs that i have to spit in a bin regularly

I sneeze when I walk outside on a sunny day

Ah, the Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst. AKA ACHOO Syndrome

Lactose intolerance should just cause indigestion, not bloody stool. Definitely check with your doctor.

Similar, its like muscle crap when i yawn too much so i cant shut my jaw for a few seconds

Any other weird quirks you wanna share? Maybe something to do with your anus?

sometimes, i get leg cramps in the middle of sleep and have to stay awake to keep my leg at an angle so it doesnt hurt too much

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk

Could be that

You reminded me that when I was a kid I had a similar weird scale thing happen often, but it was incredibly difficult to describe. It was very unsettling and I never really told anyone. I felt like words in my head were unusually big or everything in my head was really intense and urgent, especially my inner voice. It's like it was shouting at me, but not as simple as just volume. It's something that's seemingly impossible to explain. It was like everything was expanding or growing or like I was thinking louder, or just ... Bigger. I used to get really freaked out by it. Then sometimes it would be the same but in reverse where everything confusingly was small, quiet, and felt almost delicate. Yeah. I dunno.