People Shared Their Rare And Cool Body Features, And These 25 Responses Stood Out

Reddit has always been a hub for sharing life experiences, asking bold questions, and revealing secrets people might not discuss elsewhere. One particularly intriguing thread on the popular subreddit r/AskReddit posed a thought-provoking question: “What’s something medically cool or unique about your body?”

#1

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I have beaded hair. Everyone’s hair is coated in a layer of protein, but in my hair that protein is constricted in certain places, making each stand look like it’s covered in little beads. You don’t notice it when you look at me, but if you’re really examining my hair closely you will. Hairdressers often comment on it and will call other hairdressers over to look at it because it’s rare.

#2

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I’ve posted before on askreddit :

I have JME: Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy and my seizures are synced up with my period. Yupp. So growing up it took us like 2 years to figure out why my period symptoms were so bad and included bed wetting whenever I started my period. Turns out it wasn’t bed wetting, it was grand mal seizures in my deep sleep. But only the 1st and 2nd day of my period.

Ah the wonders of the human body.

#3

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I once managed to break my jaw in such a unique way that I became a case study at the local medical university. I fell off my bike and landed square on my chin. Instead of breaking somewhere in the middle, my jaw broke at the hinges. As a kid it was awesome though. Lots of ice cream and pudding for a month or so. Even though I was wearing a helmet I almost died.

Edit: I’m glad this has turned into a giant talk on safety. Saying the helmet did me no good is not an invitation to try and see what happens without one. Also, to clarify I was riding a bicycle, nothing motorized.

#4

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My sweat is corrosive. I can rot the back off a cheap watch in 4 months. My watch and jewelry are titanium. Two of my three children are likewise afflicted, but not as bad as me.

#5

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I used to donate plasma and was told I have some sort of super measles immunity. Apparently, this is usually only found in people who had measles as a child. They tested my plasma a bunch of times, and then asked for my consent to turn it into medication for people whose immune systems are too compromised for a traditional measles vaccine. It made me feel like a mini super hero.

*Edit: I just returned to Reddit and saw this! Wow, thank you guys for all of your kind words. That means the world to me. And thank you random stranger for the gold!

#6

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I have little calcified spots all over the inside of my lungs from when I had chicken pox as a kid. They’re harmless, but they show up on x-rays and most doctors don’t have a clue what they are. The pulmonary specialist that diagnosed them asked if she could keep the x-ray films to show med students because it was so rare.

#7

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If I clench my buttcheeks hard enough, I can crack my lower back.

Edit: I like to think I made 1000’s of people clinch their Cheeks today.

Thanks for the gold whoever you are.

#8

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I have a twin sister and we are mirror twins (I’m right handed, she’s left handed, etc). We both have scoliosis and hers curves to the left while mine curves to the right.

#9

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Hearing loss. I was diagnosed when I was 4. Turns out aids cost a lot more than glasses. My current ones actually have a Bluetooth connection to my phone so I can listen to music while it’s in my pocket.

Edit: 8 hours later and exactly 4000 upvotes. Finally my disability does some good.

#10

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I had 6 wisdom teeth. I joked to my dentist about how wise I must be, and he said “you’re just really unevolved.”

#11

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I have a bifid uvula. Which means my uvula, the hangy thing at the back of your throat, isn’t completely formed and is split in two ends instead of one. Basically it looks like I have throat balls.

#12

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I can dislocate my left shoulder at will. I don’t though because when I was a child the Orthopaedic Consultant said that it was bad for the joint and I shouldn’t do it even if the Queen asked me to. So far this eventuality has never arisen.

#13

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Apparently, I was born with extra tendons in my knees. Found this out when I had surgery on my knee. Watched the surgery video with my doctor.

Me: what’s that?
Doctor: oh, a tendon.
* video shows him snipping it and sucking it up *
Me: um… What?
Doctor: it was an extra one, you didn’t need it.

Edit: d**n, who would think my weird body would cause my top rated comment?

#14

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I dont have depth perception.

This means I see the world kind of like a TV screen. Everything is in 2D. Its kinda hard to explain because Ive never seen normally and I dont even know how you regular people see the world.

Its not super debilitating. I can drive if I leave a huge following distance between my car and the car in front of me. Under good conditions, I can even catch things thrown at me although Ive never been good enough to do things like actually play basketball. I can still kinda gauge distance the same way you would in a video game I guess, just not super quickly.

The most annoying thing though is sometimes Ill be reaching for a door handle for a car or my house and Ill just jam my hand super hard into the door. Ive even broken super thin doors just because I missed the handle.

Edit: 3D movies just give me migranes. Cograts to that one guy, but it does not work for me.

#15

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In the womb my 13th and 7th chromosomes switched places. Doctors say I should’ve had Down syndrome, but I ended up just being your run-of-the-mill awkward boy. Take that, DNA.

#16

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I have pectoral aplasia, or Poland Syndrome as some may know it. This means I was born without a pectoral muscle on the right side of my chest. A quick google image search should give you a good idea of what it looks like.

Tried surgery that took tissue from elsewhere and put it in my chest but the minimal gains were not worth more, painful surgeries and recovery times. I’m happy to be as Nature intended and the right person will come to me!

#17

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/r/earrumblersassemble I am an ear rumbler.

To clarify, when a regular person yawns they can probably hear a rumble. I can use the muscles in my ear to make that rumbling sound on command without flexing any other muscles.

#18

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I have leaky blood vessels in my legs. The tiny drops of blood that leak out kind of make it look like I have a mild sunburn on my legs. It’s called Shamberg’s disease. Sometimes I like to tell people that I have a “rare, incurable disease.” They automatically think it’s something tragic, but nope! It’s just leaky blood vessels!

#19

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I have no large intestine! Got it taken out about 4 years ago because it was being a d**k.

#20

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Had 3 sets of front teeth.

#21

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I have Nocturnal Epilepsy.

I will be on the onset of sleep when my brain decides to go all out and convulse.

#22

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A small sliver of my iris runs across my pupil! My doctor said it was the only time he had seen it and that it’s so smalll that it doesn’t affect my vision.

#23

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I had several organ transplants so none of my organs are in the correct spot, I also don’t have a gallbladder because they just didn’t put it back while operating near it.

#24

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I’m 31 and on my third pacemaker. First one was placed in 2003 when I was 18. I’ve got a cool scar, and you can feel the battery under my skin. Also, I travel a lot, so I have to carry this handy card with me so TSA/foreign equivalent won’t make me go through the metal detectors.

EDIT:

Thank you for all the questions and comments, you guys are all awesome.

#25

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I can breath out of my ear. Tried this my putting my entire head underwater other than the ear, while it’s not a lot of oxygen, it’s enough to make me live I guess.

I had holes in them as a baby and had tubes put in there, which didn’t work apparently.

It’s not really an issue, so eh, just a mutant power I guess.