Ask Lemmy

I can pop, or reverse pop my ears at will. Where most people talk about chewing gum to pop their ears on a plane I can push out and suck them in to change the pressure at will. It's useful to help regulate how much noise gets in (in a small way) too.

I can smell moulds that nobody else can smell; at least for several more weeks until the moulds get mouldy enough.

It's basically the most pointless superpower. I can smell the cereal in the cupboard and tell my wife that it's gone bad, but she won't smell it so she'll eat it and then nothing bad happens except possibly to her gut microflora

I have weirdly thick skin on and especially under my feet, so I can walk barefoot on ice and snow and not feel cold.

im not kidding when i drink milk, my stool ends up with blood. I thought I was lactose intolerant but I do need to check.

So far with lactose free milk im okay! so i can still eat cereal :)

• I have a forked tongue
• I once hammered the back of my sinuses hard enough to draw blood
• I can make my shoulder blade pop out
• I can keep my eyes open for 5-10 minutes

I can pop my ankles almost non stop since around 2 years ago for some reason (no pain or anything), lol

i can bend my fingers the other way quite far, it always freaks people out a little when i do that

my feet get hot very easily, to the point where in the summer the only "shoes" i can wear is flip flops or sandals, anything more and i feel like they're on fire in minutes

I have super crooked pinkies, can perpetually pop my ankle, and can retract my testicles back in my body?? Idk if other people can do that last one but all my buds in hs promised they couldn't

I can make the Vulcan "live long and prosper" sign, but only with my left hand.

I can clap each of my hands individually. What's the sound of one hand clapping? Lemme show you twice at once! Also, it's not elegant, but me flailing about in a controlled manner.

I can wiggle my ears.

I can pop pretty much every joint. Some hurt more than others. The crapshoot ones are my hip joints. Usually hurts then massive relief.

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.

I have had permanent tinnitus since about April of 2023. (Kill me)

If I'm congested and I blow my nose, snot can come out of my right eye's tear duct.

I have dysgraphia. I fucking hate writing by hand. It's painful, it shoots up my arm, and my handwriting is always terrible. I regularly make mistakes. I stopped using cursive entirely about 20 years ago, and now only use capital print letters (with a larger first letter for each word). Example: https://ibb.co/YPPDKFq

I can pop my neck at will thanks to a childhood judo injury. Thanks sensei!

I also have ridiculously sensitive hearing where I constantly pick up background noise, like a radio with its gain set too high. It's hard to hear people talk over the noise of a common house fan in the room.

I can feel when lights are turned on or shine at me. Taking photos with a flash for example feels like a hot wave to me. I think that is a side effect of my ASD, the poor stimulus filtering to be exact

Also I can hear most electric devices because of that. Charging them for example has a loud high frequency noise. Not just cheap chargers, almost all electronic devices

I absolutely loathe shoes and boots because it causes my feet to overheat and then my whole body feels uncomfortable. I am a dedicated sandal wearing unless there's literally snow outside.

One of my teeth is sort of in the middle of my mouth - I had an issue with it not coming in straight so an ortho pulled it down through the roof of my mouth and it was never really worth it to pull it into place. It's fun to fidget with with my tongue.

Can crack/pop most joints.

Can wiggle both ears individually or together.

I can cause my vision to go blurry on purpose - no idea if other people can?

I can hear some electronic devices that are plugged in, can also hear when certain portable devices have finished charging, so basically I have pretty good hearing.

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.

I can turn my face red by tensing my jaw.

I can turn my eyelids inside out.

I can forcibly go cross-eyed.

The back top of my skull is completely flat. If I shaved my hair off it would look like a chunk is missing haha. This also means there are dents in the middle top either side of my skull as well, almost like it has creased inwards. Was layed on my back too much as a child.

I have a seemingly hidden source of strength, I am very slim and not particularly muscular, but am stronger than some friends who are bigger and more muscular than me. I also find it difficult to add any visible muscle mass. Maybe I have dense muscle?