I have central heterochromia. My eyes have literal rings of color – brown in the center, the amber, then blue/grey on the edge. All my optometrists comment on it.
My ears are foldable. I’ve never met anyone else who can do it and they tend to say it hurts if they try.
First of all I can fold just about any part of my outer ear and touch it to my ear canal opening and when my ears are cold, that feels good for some reason.
But it gets better. I can fold my ears backwards to make a point out of the top and then curl that point down into my ear canal and my tragus will hold it in place. The result is that I can walk around looking like I have gross mutant ears. It can hold for up to a minute if I don’t move my jaw.
I have an insane immune system. In 30 years I have actually been sick 3 times (mildly, twice with strep throat as a kid and once with food poisoning as an adult). I never got covid, I ate two jars of the ecoli Peter Pan peanut butter and was fine, never had the flu shot and never had the flu. I also don’t get hangovers. Never had a sick day and never missed a day of school. No allergies.
I’d take this over pretty much any other genetic gift
whenever i get just a bit warm or hot my entire body starts a rash. I get hundreds of red dots everywhere. They disappear after ~2 hours of not being warmer.
It never stopped me from anything, saunas, hot vacation etc. I’m a bit embarassed, but I don’t let that get in my way of achieving things!
Fingerprint. I was getting a security clearance and being fingerprinted (ink and paper) the person taking my prints looked at the paper, grabbed my hand and looked at my print (on one finger) and kind of harrumphed.
I asked what was up and he told me never to commit crimes without gloves because he would be able to pick my prints out of a entire cabinet of files in about 30 seconds if not just seeing the print and remembering me.
I am nearly 60 and still have 20/15 distance vision. My optometrist was shocked and jealous. My natural vision was better than he could get even with glasses or contacts.
Have no issues with it. Due to my family history of brittle bones, I was sent to bone density measurements after having my first kid. The radiologist then noticed the extra vertebrae and was super happy in the way only a very enthusiastic “geek” would get at their interest. I recall he said it was a mutation that less than 5% had (warning: my memory is a very bad source).
I don’t know how rare this is, but I’ve been almost the exact same size since I was a teenager. I’m 51(F) and still have jeans from high school I wear occasionally.
……I also had a baseball sized brain tumor at 21, that’s probably more rare honestly.
I can make my ears rumble (make a thundering sound that only I can hear). I heard not a lot of people can but they haven’t tested a bunch of people so it could be not so rare.
I have the largest and most intricate sinus cavity known to medical science. I was in the emergency room for an extremely painful cyclical migraine, and they did a head ct and mri scan, and I’m just laying in the room afterwards, when a doctor and nurse come in and ask me if its okay if some people come into my room and look at my charts.
A bunch of doctors from all the floors of the whole hospital crowd into my room and look at my sinus cavity images, just in awe and excitedly talking with eachother about how amazing it is… that they’ve never seen anything like it
Looks like moose antlers and a complex cave system covering much of my face and extending past my forehead.
I have incredibly.. diverse(?) Boobs. Size wise. My left is pretty big, and my right is pretty small. To the point where if I wear a shirt or something, my chest can actually be seen slanting, starting off big on the left then slanting and getting smaller as it goes right.
I’ve seen doctors for it, and had tests run. Completely normal. It’s irritating as hell, but not exactly common ig so it belongs here. Wish I knew someone else had something similar but I’ve never seen anything like it around.
I have to bind to try and keep them symmetrical, because I’d need way too much padding to make the smaller one near the size of the larger one.
I have Situs Inversus. A rare genetic condition in which the organs in your chest and abdomen are positioned in a mirror image of normal human anatomy. Catherine O’Hara and Enrique Iglesias have this.
I have a connective tissue disorder and so in at least 8 places in my body, (that we know about,) my own body is kinking or compressing various arteries, veins and part of my digestive system. My styloids, (bones in your neck/ jaw area,) have been growing and shouldn’t be, so they compress my jugulars when I turn my head. I’ve had 2 surgeries so far to treat 2 of these compressions, but need many more surgeries to hopefully fix the rest.
There’s also a decent chance my stomach and other organs sink pretty far down into my pelvis when I’m upright, causing a ton of health issues.
I also have “leaky” blood vessels and a broken lymphatic system so lots of fluid from my bloodstream leaks into surrounding tissue and causes low blood volume which drops my blood pressure quite low. Really, this body is a total lemon and I’d like a refund!
I have a higher bone density than the average male my age.
Doctors have commented on my bones looking particularly dense on x-rays. I also have taken several injuries that I was told should have broken a bone, and I walked away with bruises.
When being weighed at my annual physically most doctors comment that I weigh in more than they would have guessed.
On my own digging I found there is a generic quirk that can cause increased bone density. It is more likely to be found in those of northern European decent. A good chunk of my ancestors on both sides of my family came from that part of the world.
Fortunately I don’t seem to have most of the side effects, such as pinched nerves. Just slightly more durable.
My pinky fingers stop at my first knuckle they are effectively mini pinkies (they also hurt to bend and are useless) but weirdly adorable and creepy looking
I was born with a common condition hEDS that eventually allowed me to turn my head nearly all the way around like an owl. I had to have surgery to have my skull secured to my spine as it was essentially starting to detach.
I was the first person in my country to have a particular technique to reconstruct my thumb joint and it’s still a rare fix only a few people have. Apparently they use it elsewhere in the body, but not on thumbs. I have ehlers danlos, so the normal use of my own tendon would not have fixed the issue. My surgeon found a Dr in the US who had done a couple of surgeries with this other technique and I was the guinea pig for my surgeon. Me and my bionic thumb thank him endlessly for going above and beyond.
I have spina bifida myelomengocele and hydrocephalus so my body can’t naturally get rid of spinal fluid in my brain so I need an implanted device (shunt) to regulate the drainage of brain fluid in my head.
I have a calcified salivary duct under my tongue. I don’t notice it unless I press really hard under my tongue. On X-rays it shows up as a random floating bone.
I’m color blind but it’s different in each eye. Normally it isn’t an issue but some colors make my brain sizzle, almost like a strobe effect changing from one color to another. I close one eye and it’s a greenish brown, close the other it’s an orange red. Both eyes open and I get dizzy and want to vomit. Only causes this problem when two different colors that are each seen differently with each eye are on the same thing (often children’s books with bright colors).
My mom is an alcoholic and drank while pregnant with me. I found out I have a rare birth defect related to her drinking and was born with only 1 functioning ovary. The left side of my reproductive organs are mutated and fused to my uterus. I ended up having identical twin girls completely unplanned, and have lived a completely normal life otherwise.
I have a neurological condition where when my system gets stressed wires cross and i start throwing up every 15 minutes for days on end or until i take an extreme sedative to knock me out – aka basically have to shut my brain off and turn it back on again a la broken computer …
Not sure about rare. But I was born with Imperforate Anus. Basically I was born without a butthole. Had a colostomy bag as a kid. It has since been corrected. I joke and say that I was born not giving a shit and that the doctors didn’t like that so they ripped me a new one and technically I have a man-made asshole.
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Not to brag but I’m the world record holder for the smallest penis
I have natural strawberry blonde hair. 1-2% of the population.
I can see more UV light than most people (because I don’t have my eyes natural lens)
No it’s probably not healthy for my retinas.
Extra cusp on one of my molars. Supposed to be an evolutionary advancement according to my dentists.
I have an extra set of incisors perpendicular to the normal ones in the top row of my teeth.
My man boobs are spectacular
Green eyes
I can touch my nose with my tongue.
Happy wife, happy life I guess
I had some super rare whack ass heart condition, was the oldest person the hospital had done the surgery on. Lucky, mad trauma. 2/10 wouldnt do again.
I have central heterochromia. My eyes have literal rings of color – brown in the center, the amber, then blue/grey on the edge. All my optometrists comment on it.
Preauricular pits in both ears
Cross-dominance in my hands and feet
I could have a successful sideshow act with my lady beard. Thanks PCOS
I have poliosis. A huge chunk of the hair at my forehead & temple is pure white
I have a blue and a green eye.
My sixth toe. Whole new meaning to toe jam when I put my extra wides on
My ears are foldable. I’ve never met anyone else who can do it and they tend to say it hurts if they try.
First of all I can fold just about any part of my outer ear and touch it to my ear canal opening and when my ears are cold, that feels good for some reason.
But it gets better. I can fold my ears backwards to make a point out of the top and then curl that point down into my ear canal and my tragus will hold it in place. The result is that I can walk around looking like I have gross mutant ears. It can hold for up to a minute if I don’t move my jaw.
Never had wisdom teeth. DDS told me it’s evolutionary.
I have a white streak in my hair and eyebrows due to Piebaldism.
Not to brag but I grow tumors all over my body.
No wisdom teeth.
i can touch any spot on my back
I have an insane immune system. In 30 years I have actually been sick 3 times (mildly, twice with strep throat as a kid and once with food poisoning as an adult). I never got covid, I ate two jars of the ecoli Peter Pan peanut butter and was fine, never had the flu shot and never had the flu. I also don’t get hangovers. Never had a sick day and never missed a day of school. No allergies.
I’d take this over pretty much any other genetic gift
I had 6 wisdom teeth removed. Apparently thats pretty uncommon.
My eyes, according to some.
I have central heterochromia eyes. Around my pupil it’s gold, green iris and a blue border.
gray eyes
Genetics… when there’s been less than 50 recorded cases of what i have ever… i would guess that counts as rare lol.
The result is deformed limbs & mobility that is horrendous
whenever i get just a bit warm or hot my entire body starts a rash. I get hundreds of red dots everywhere. They disappear after ~2 hours of not being warmer.
It never stopped me from anything, saunas, hot vacation etc. I’m a bit embarassed, but I don’t let that get in my way of achieving things!
Three nipples! I don’t know that it’s that rare, though.
Fingerprint. I was getting a security clearance and being fingerprinted (ink and paper) the person taking my prints looked at the paper, grabbed my hand and looked at my print (on one finger) and kind of harrumphed.
I asked what was up and he told me never to commit crimes without gloves because he would be able to pick my prints out of a entire cabinet of files in about 30 seconds if not just seeing the print and remembering me.
I looked and I see what he meant.
My liver is exceptionally hard-working
Just went to the eye doctors and they told me I had unusually long eyelashes for a man. So, uh, thanks?
I can lick my elbow. I don’t know how rare it actually is, but I always read when I was younger that it was impossible.
I was born without a gall bladder.
I was born without an appendix (.0009%), my eyes are green (2% of the population), and I am a woman over six feet tall (1%).
(Edit to add: I’m naturally blonde (also 2%) & have O- blood (7%)
I’m just a weirdo 😁
I had four extra teeth. 6 wisdoms and two extra incisors
I am nearly 60 and still have 20/15 distance vision. My optometrist was shocked and jealous. My natural vision was better than he could get even with glasses or contacts.
I have Achenbach syndrome. Less than 100 people worldwide.
I have some weird enzyme in my saliva that basically prevents cavities and other dental stuff
Never had a cavity or teeth problems in my life
I’m bottom like 2% by height in my country (Nepal). If compared against adults in the US, that’s bottom 0.009%
I have one extra lumbar vertebrae.
Have no issues with it. Due to my family history of brittle bones, I was sent to bone density measurements after having my first kid. The radiologist then noticed the extra vertebrae and was super happy in the way only a very enthusiastic “geek” would get at their interest. I recall he said it was a mutation that less than 5% had (warning: my memory is a very bad source).
X-ray technician said I have exceptionally long lungs, which might explain why I could swim nearly two pool lengths underwater.
I don’t know how rare this is, but I’ve been almost the exact same size since I was a teenager. I’m 51(F) and still have jeans from high school I wear occasionally.
……I also had a baseball sized brain tumor at 21, that’s probably more rare honestly.
I naturally carry a higher count of white blood cells than most people, allowing me to fight off infections and sickness easier
I can make my ears rumble (make a thundering sound that only I can hear). I heard not a lot of people can but they haven’t tested a bunch of people so it could be not so rare.
Found out recently that I am missing 2 arteries in my brain. One is rarer than the other. So double whammy.
Voluntary control of the tensor tympani muscle. r/earrumblersassemble
I have an insanely good sense of smell. Both a gift and a curse.
I’m a natural blonde at 41. Most blonde hair turns darker once people are into their 20s, but I still have mine! And I’m not Scandinavian.
I have the largest and most intricate sinus cavity known to medical science. I was in the emergency room for an extremely painful cyclical migraine, and they did a head ct and mri scan, and I’m just laying in the room afterwards, when a doctor and nurse come in and ask me if its okay if some people come into my room and look at my charts.
A bunch of doctors from all the floors of the whole hospital crowd into my room and look at my sinus cavity images, just in awe and excitedly talking with eachother about how amazing it is… that they’ve never seen anything like it
Looks like moose antlers and a complex cave system covering much of my face and extending past my forehead.
I have one attached and one free earlobe.
I was born without an asshole
I’m a man with 3 nipples,
My bonus nip is 1/3 the size, a little lower and has its own hair halo swirly going on. Wife named him TNF (Third Nipple Fred)..
Not really rare, but I have vitiligo
I have 3 ureters (the tube from your kidneys to your bladder)-most people have 2. I got an extra!
My former podiatrist told me that I have ‘structurally fascinating feet’. I said ‘Weird right?’, and her reply was ‘we don’t use the word Weird here’.
I have weird feet. Wide with high arch.
I have incredibly.. diverse(?) Boobs. Size wise. My left is pretty big, and my right is pretty small. To the point where if I wear a shirt or something, my chest can actually be seen slanting, starting off big on the left then slanting and getting smaller as it goes right.
I’ve seen doctors for it, and had tests run. Completely normal. It’s irritating as hell, but not exactly common ig so it belongs here. Wish I knew someone else had something similar but I’ve never seen anything like it around.
I have to bind to try and keep them symmetrical, because I’d need way too much padding to make the smaller one near the size of the larger one.
3 nipples. 2 normal sized and one apprentice.
I have Situs Inversus. A rare genetic condition in which the organs in your chest and abdomen are positioned in a mirror image of normal human anatomy. Catherine O’Hara and Enrique Iglesias have this.
I have extra “webbing” between my toes.
No I can’t swim faster
I have a connective tissue disorder and so in at least 8 places in my body, (that we know about,) my own body is kinking or compressing various arteries, veins and part of my digestive system. My styloids, (bones in your neck/ jaw area,) have been growing and shouldn’t be, so they compress my jugulars when I turn my head. I’ve had 2 surgeries so far to treat 2 of these compressions, but need many more surgeries to hopefully fix the rest.
There’s also a decent chance my stomach and other organs sink pretty far down into my pelvis when I’m upright, causing a ton of health issues.
I also have “leaky” blood vessels and a broken lymphatic system so lots of fluid from my bloodstream leaks into surrounding tissue and causes low blood volume which drops my blood pressure quite low. Really, this body is a total lemon and I’d like a refund!
I have a higher bone density than the average male my age.
Doctors have commented on my bones looking particularly dense on x-rays. I also have taken several injuries that I was told should have broken a bone, and I walked away with bruises.
When being weighed at my annual physically most doctors comment that I weigh in more than they would have guessed.
On my own digging I found there is a generic quirk that can cause increased bone density. It is more likely to be found in those of northern European decent. A good chunk of my ancestors on both sides of my family came from that part of the world.
Fortunately I don’t seem to have most of the side effects, such as pinched nerves. Just slightly more durable.
A few of my toes on each foot are webbed
60M with a full head of dark hair. Does that count for anything?
My pinky fingers stop at my first knuckle they are effectively mini pinkies (they also hurt to bend and are useless) but weirdly adorable and creepy looking
I was born with a common condition hEDS that eventually allowed me to turn my head nearly all the way around like an owl. I had to have surgery to have my skull secured to my spine as it was essentially starting to detach.
I had a 10cm teratoma with hair, jaw bone plate and about 10 teeth enveloping one of my ovaries.
I was the first person in my country to have a particular technique to reconstruct my thumb joint and it’s still a rare fix only a few people have. Apparently they use it elsewhere in the body, but not on thumbs. I have ehlers danlos, so the normal use of my own tendon would not have fixed the issue. My surgeon found a Dr in the US who had done a couple of surgeries with this other technique and I was the guinea pig for my surgeon. Me and my bionic thumb thank him endlessly for going above and beyond.
I have spina bifida myelomengocele and hydrocephalus so my body can’t naturally get rid of spinal fluid in my brain so I need an implanted device (shunt) to regulate the drainage of brain fluid in my head.
I have a calcified salivary duct under my tongue. I don’t notice it unless I press really hard under my tongue. On X-rays it shows up as a random floating bone.
I’m color blind but it’s different in each eye. Normally it isn’t an issue but some colors make my brain sizzle, almost like a strobe effect changing from one color to another. I close one eye and it’s a greenish brown, close the other it’s an orange red. Both eyes open and I get dizzy and want to vomit. Only causes this problem when two different colors that are each seen differently with each eye are on the same thing (often children’s books with bright colors).
I have double rows of eyelashes.
I have wisdom teeth that grew in and fit my mouth perfectly. Never need them to be removed unless my dental hygiene is nonexistent.
My mom is an alcoholic and drank while pregnant with me. I found out I have a rare birth defect related to her drinking and was born with only 1 functioning ovary. The left side of my reproductive organs are mutated and fused to my uterus. I ended up having identical twin girls completely unplanned, and have lived a completely normal life otherwise.
I was only born with one thumb, and that thumb started growing another out of it.
I have Marfan‘s which makes me 6‘5 tall as a female in my 20s.
I was born with a malformed stomach. According to my gastroenterologist, it’s shaped like a banana.
I rarely feel hungry and can only eat small meals, or I get nauseous.
Not a feature of my body but more so my heritage. Half Russian, Half Ugandan. Never met a single person the same mix😭
I have an extra sex chromosome- XXY, aka Klinefelters Syndrome.
I have aphantasia. My brain doesn’t create mental images or no minds eye as they call it.
I have a neurological condition where when my system gets stressed wires cross and i start throwing up every 15 minutes for days on end or until i take an extreme sedative to knock me out – aka basically have to shut my brain off and turn it back on again a la broken computer …
Not sure about rare. But I was born with Imperforate Anus. Basically I was born without a butthole. Had a colostomy bag as a kid. It has since been corrected. I joke and say that I was born not giving a shit and that the doctors didn’t like that so they ripped me a new one and technically I have a man-made asshole.