Thread: Post your weird defects.

I've never heard of the teeth one before, that's strange.

I'm not sure if this is a defect or not, but I can make myself faint in ~6 seconds at any time.

How on earth do you make yourself faint??

I have a phobia of looking up at tall things. So looking up at a tall building or an aircraft flying overhead makes me feel dizzy and ill. I don't have the faintest clue how it originates but it's been present all my life, and doesn't seem to be as bad with natural objects like trees.

@dutchraptor: I get that too, but not as intensely as you do. It's mainly when I have to pee really bad.

@Dianeva: How?

Uh... well there's my face thing which I've mentioned here before, where if a dog licks my face or a cat rubs its whiskers across my cheeks I get double vision matching the level of severe drunkenness and everything becomes really bright and I get giggly. At least since I was 5 years old. It's also happened a few times from smoking weed or other herbs and getting a really harsh hit, I think it's some kind of tickle reflex.

When someone whispers to me, my butt tingles. It has to be soft, breathy whispers, and it only seems to work in person.

Originally Posted by Caenis

When someone whispers to me, my butt tingles. It has to be soft, breathy whispers, and it only seems to work in person.

ASSMR? (That's funny if you actually get what I'm talking about. (I hope.))

Originally Posted by CompanyPicnic

I have a phobia of looking up at tall things. So looking up at a tall building or an aircraft flying overhead makes me feel dizzy and ill. I don't have the faintest clue how it originates but it's been present all my life, and doesn't seem to be as bad with natural objects like trees.

lol, it's like a reverse fear of heights.

Originally Posted by CompanyPicnic

How on earth do you make yourself faint??

It's hard to explain and I doubt it's good for me. It involves clenching muscles somewhere in my chest and head at the same time. I feel it in the back of my head, the front of my throat, and around what seems like the diaphragm of my lungs. I'm not sure what's happening but I've done it about 6 times in my life. I've come close since, but am afraid to do it because it must involve cutting oxygen from my brain and putting pressure on it. I'm afraid I'd get a stroke or something.
I've tried looking the phenomenon up online and haven't come across anyone who can do the same thing, in the same way. The closest is just holding one's breath until they faint, but this is obviously different because it works in a few seconds.

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

Uh... well there's my face thing which I've mentioned here before, where if a dog licks my face or a cat rubs its whiskers across my cheeks I get double vision matching the level of severe drunkenness and everything becomes really bright and I get giggly. At least since I was 5 years old. It's also happened a few times from smoking weed or other herbs and getting a really harsh hit, I think it's some kind of tickle reflex.

I remember you mentioning that before, and wondering what it would be like if a human did it.

This reminds me of something else. I occasionally experience a sort of dizziness along with my vision shaking rapidly back and forth, as uncontrollable as when the room spins while drunk. The cause is always masochistic, when I feel like I'm saying something to someone that will affect them and I get a feeling of power. Or something like that, it's hard to explain though. For example, if I'm writing an e-mail to someone, telling them something negative I've thought about them for a long time, and imagining how they'll react to it. It's a feeling of power and daring. It doesn't happen often though, maybe once every couple months.

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

ASSMR? (That's funny if you actually get what I'm talking about. (I hope.))

Not quite. I know what ASMR is, and I do get that when I listen to whisper videos or in certain situations--like when I visit the optometrist or get my hair cut. But most of the times, the tingling only happens at my butt. I assume it's related to ASMR, but...the placement is unusual. I've heard of other people having butt tingles, but never from whispering. Most people get that sensation when they're scared, like on a roller coaster.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

It's hard to explain and I doubt it's good for me. It involves clenching muscles somewhere in my chest and head at the same time. I feel it in the back of my head, the front of my throat, and around what seems like the diaphragm of my lungs. I'm not sure what's happening but I've done it about 6 times in my life. I've come close since, but am afraid to do it because it must involve cutting oxygen from my brain and putting pressure on it. I'm afraid I'd get a stroke or something.
I've tried looking the phenomenon up online and haven't come across anyone who can do the same thing, in the same way. The closest is just holding one's breath until they faint, but this is obviously different because it works in a few seconds.

That sounds very interesting... and yes, probably not that good for you. Oddly, I've always wanted to faint. Never have. I'm somewhat jealous.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

I remember you mentioning that before, and wondering what it would be like if a human did it.

This reminds me of something else. I occasionally experience a sort of dizziness along with my vision shaking rapidly back and forth, as uncontrollable as when the room spins while drunk. The cause is always masochistic, when I feel like I'm saying something to someone that will affect them and I get a feeling of power. Or something like that, it's hard to explain though. For example, if I'm writing an e-mail to someone, telling them something negative I've thought about them for a long time, and imagining how they'll react to it. It's a feeling of power and daring. It doesn't happen often though, maybe once every couple months.

A question that still keeps me up at night.

So in other words... you're literally drunk with power?

Originally Posted by Caenis

Not quite. I know what ASMR is, and I do get that when I listen to whisper videos or in certain situations--like when I visit the optometrist or get my hair cut. But most of the times, the tingling only happens at my butt. I assume it's related to ASMR, but...the placement is unusual. I've heard of other people having butt tingles, but never from whispering. Most people get that sensation when they're scared, like on a roller coaster.

That's too funny. I usually get them in my arms and legs myself, rather than mainly coming down from the head and neck, like most people apparently get. I can't say I've ever had butt tingles, at least that I remember....

Originally Posted by Dianeva

It's hard to explain and I doubt it's good for me. It involves clenching muscles somewhere in my chest and head at the same time. I feel it in the back of my head, the front of my throat, and around what seems like the diaphragm of my lungs. I'm not sure what's happening but I've done it about 6 times in my life. I've come close since, but am afraid to do it because it must involve cutting oxygen from my brain and putting pressure on it. I'm afraid I'd get a stroke or something.
I've tried looking the phenomenon up online and haven't come across anyone who can do the same thing, in the same way. The closest is just holding one's breath until they faint, but this is obviously different because it works in a few seconds.

Hello brain damage.

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

That's too funny. I usually get them in my arms and legs myself, rather than mainly coming down from the head and neck, like most people apparently get. I can't say I've ever had butt tingles, at least that I remember....

The fact that you experience tingles in places other than your head/neck encourages me! Maybe other people experience ASMR in odd places too. I now have hope that someday, I might meet someone like myself.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

This reminds me of something else. I occasionally experience a sort of dizziness along with my vision shaking rapidly back and forth, as uncontrollable as when the room spins while drunk. The cause is always masochistic, when I feel like I'm saying something to someone that will affect them and I get a feeling of power. Or something like that, it's hard to explain though. For example, if I'm writing an e-mail to someone, telling them something negative I've thought about them for a long time, and imagining how they'll react to it. It's a feeling of power and daring. It doesn't happen often though, maybe once every couple months.

Something similar happens to me too. My vision remains stable, but I become extremely dizzy for a moment. I don't imagine how the other party will react, I just revel in the feeling of expressing my anger. I find it exhilarating. You're right, it's that power and risk that I enjoy.

Originally Posted by Caenis

The fact that you experience tingles in places other than your head/neck encourages me! Maybe other people experience ASMR in odd places too. I now have hope that someday, I might meet someone like myself.

Haha, well good luck! I'm sure other people do, everyone's different. I would like to experience the head tingles one day myself, but what I get is nice, too.

Originally Posted by Caenis

Originally Posted by Dianeva

This reminds me of something else. I occasionally experience a sort of dizziness along with my vision shaking rapidly back and forth, as uncontrollable as when the room spins while drunk. The cause is always masochistic, when I feel like I'm saying something to someone that will affect them and I get a feeling of power. Or something like that, it's hard to explain though. For example, if I'm writing an e-mail to someone, telling them something negative I've thought about them for a long time, and imagining how they'll react to it. It's a feeling of power and daring. It doesn't happen often though, maybe once every couple months.

Something similar happens to me too. My vision remains stable, but I become extremely dizzy for a moment. I don't imagine how the other party will react, I just revel in the feeling of expressing my anger. I find it exhilarating. You're right, it's that power and risk that I enjoy.

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it a bit more, I guess I do have something similar. But it's not a reaction to expressing anger or telling someone off like you two, I occasionally get it if I tell someone something that makes me really anxious or worried thinking about how they're going to react to what I've told them. My vision doesn't move, but I do get the dizziness, a few times I've even felt close to puking from it. Since it's about anxiety for me it's not at all pleasant.

Not really a defect per se, but a few years ago I suffered a sever laceration to my right bicep, basically maiming me for the rest of my life. My maximum threshold is about 30-40lbs with a curl, but other than that it's perfectly functional thanks to a good surgeon. I should have filed a law suit with my physical therapist after hearing that *pop* the first day though...

I can control the muscles of my big and small thighs on both legs. My friends didn't believe me at first, they thought I was moving my feet to move them.

Kidney disease.

when i contract my index finger the ligament in my wrist moves up and down 10cm (2.5 inches). I can also bend my fingers back at a 45 degree angle on their own.

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

I can also bend my fingers back at a 45 degree angle on their own.

lol so can I, and with the help of my other hand I can bend them about 95 degrees.

Aww.. faint talk... i never fainted yet, but i feel like i want to try it... just not sure how o.o

As for "defects"... Not sure if i have any interesting ones... but i'll think about them later. One less interesting that i can never forget is that i can't read on a moving vehicle and i can't sit facing backwards on any moving vehicle. If i do either, i'll feel so sick in 2 minutes that i feel like i could puke... and it only goes away once i get out of that vehicle... not a good feeling, especially in a crowded bus... I always fear that once it'll happen...

The two main things which keep me occupied in a long journey by car, reading and looking backwards or to the side seeing the landscape morph past me lol.

I naturally have one brown and one blue eye. I also have really weird bendy thumbs.

I am arachnophobic.

I can also do this weird thing with my legs that appearantly no one else can do. I can sit cross legged but both of my feet are on top of the opposite legs knee. I can do this really easily and naturally and i thought everyone else could do it too <_<. I actually never sit cross legged, I always sit with one leg on top of one other knee, or in a completely different position, but never cross legged.

EDIT: I can do it all the way up to my stomach actually.

I know a girl who can do that, she's a gymnast and can bend quite unnaturally so that could explain it.

My hands shake like hell even when I am not nervous or anything- it's very annoying, I'd call it a defect.

There is definitely something a bit messed up in my brain. My mom claims it is stealth dyslexia.

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

I know a girl who can do that, she's a gymnast and can bend quite unnaturally so that could explain it.

Yeah but I could do it ever since I was 4, and I am not flexible

They shake insanely bad or just like your cold, cause I just watched a documentary partially about how many people have the same problem but dont really suffer from anything. What is stealth dislexia??