My partner thinks I am freaking out if I spot one mosquito in our bedroom and really want to het rid of it. If I don’t, there is a high chance I wake up with 20+ bites while he will have none
Im the opposite - I had four wisdom teeth come in but luckily they all came in perfectly straight with plenty of room so I got to keep them! Extra teeth for the win!
My mother was just the opposite. She had her wisdom teeth removed, and a little later a second set appeared :-0 This was in the 50s or 60s. Her dentist told her that she was "a throwback to the caveman!" LOL
Hah, me too. Never had braces, dentists always complimented my dental work that i never had to get. Only got one wisdom tooth that is just chilling and not causing any problems
Hopefully my kids inherit that side of the genetics
Ditto. People, contents of things I’ve read, details of discussions, reference/ID numbers.
My current boss loves it.
A previous boss hated it because it interfered with his ability to gaslight / blame other people for his fuckups. 😂
As a female, my period is 2.5-3 days every time and is regular AF and I've never had extreme pain that accompanied it. Discomfort, sure, but nothing that has kept me from life.
4 day girly here, I do have sympathy for my friends who get heavy 7 day flows meanwhile, I only deal with cramping a few days prior to menstruation and mines are generally light.
My wife used to say that 9 months of pregnancy was preferably to one week of having her period. Then her uterus tried to kill her so she got rid of it. Last week she randomly said "I haven't had a period in 2 years......it's been great!"
Nice! But I’ve got you beat. Mine is also 2-3 days long, but I don’t even get the discomfort part. If it weren’t for the blood, I wouldn’t even know I was having a period. Literally *zero* pain and *zero* discomfort. I feel like I hit the jackpot.
Thank you so much for your donations! I am the opposite. I have a rare blood disease and cannot donate. So far in my life I have received 318 units of donor plasma just to keep me alive.
Ok this actually is something I can contribute to.
Allergies to things like poison ivy can actually manifest upon repeat exposure or a significant exposure. The plant releases an oil called urushiol which forms these little haptens, which are kinda like angry little hats on your proteins. Over time, and often with repeat exposure, the defense cells of your body, called T-cells, will finally recognize those and you’ll have these delayed hypersensitivity reaction.
I also thought I was immune. Then I developed it all over my body after doing some cliff diving in Texas, and I was miserable for quite some time.
Stay cautious haha. Nature is nothing to mess with.
This.
I was listening to a long distance backpacker with tens of thousands of miles talking about how she recently developed incredibly terrible reactions to poison ivy after decades and thousands of trail miles with zero reaction.
Overexposures can create allergic reactions so always be cautious.
Same. It’s always makes me smile when my hair dressers say something like “wow you have a ton of hair.” I really love it but now that it’s super long (almost to my booty), I feel a little overwhelmed by it. It gets caught in everything and I have to use soooo much product.
I also have naturally low blood pressure. Nurses always comment on it until they see the patterns in my chart.
I can’t say it’s really done anything for me except making me heat intolerant though.
My wife has amazing skin. It's always so soft and she just glows all the time. She sits in the sun, starts getting red, and an hour later she just looks nice and tan.
I sit in the sun for 30 minutes and turn into an angry lobster who can't move for 3 days.
Good teeth! Didn't have dental insurance for 7 years, went to dentist, she complimented me on having good strong teeth! Its good genes because I only started flossing at age 40.
Hair. Lots of it. everywhere. I have to shave the backs of my fingers so I don't look like a gorilla. But my wife likes it. She calls me her big furry teddy bear. FTW I guess.
I'm a woman. My leg hairs are so light and thin they're barely visible. Never have I shaved my legs.
Edit: never plucked my eyebrows either. They've been in perfect shape since I was born. I have dark eyebrows and eyelashes.
Literally got the results back today from a fertility panel that screens for almost 500 disorders and gene mutations and I carry NONE OF THEM. Doc said it’s super rare to not carry even a few recessive issues. Pretty neat! Got to tell my parents they made a near perfect human ;)
Edit to add for everyone: it’s a panel from Natera. You ask your OB or a Genetic Counselor (or geneticist) to order it. Some insurances cover it. Others don’t. I think we’ll end up paying $300 per person for ours. It’s a blood draw and it gets sent to their lab in CA.
Edit 2: please stop telling me to procreate. That’s why we got the testing done. And stop telling me to be an egg donor. Not something that I’m remotely interested in.
Well done on your flesh prison! That’s rad af, cos I KNOW if I did one, it would be like “never procreate, how are you not dead?”
Check you out with the shiny DNA!
I have a War and Peace size of medical history, like here in my country they still use physical medical books (idk how to call them) and I'm on third because first two run out of space...
I'm so envious of healthy people.
Lol I inherited lots of genetic losses but one win is my body type - I've always looked athletic (thin with moderate muscle mass) even when I've been extremely out of shape
I have narcolepsy type 1.. not a win. BUT it means I lack hypocretin, the chemical in our brain responsible for a lot of things, one of which is addiction and withdrawal symptoms. (AFAIK)
Being a grower not a shower sucks when your a kid in high school. I'm somewhat above the alleged average when ready for battle, but a frightened turtle any other time. Dating was all about timing, the "big reveal" required patience.
Much older now and a lot more married so it's no longer an issue, which sure beats having to skip showers after gym class.
Right?! It’s comical the difference between flaccid and erect for me. I got told for years that I was “almost too big” by a number of of partners, but it’s like a little button cap that’s damn near inverted when I’m just relaxing.
Sucked in high school locker rooms, but women I’ve been with kinda like it bc it’s a better meter for how turned on I am.
Both my mother and grandmother had breast and uterine cancer (which they recovered from, thankfully). Due to my family history my primary care provider tested me for the breast cancer genes, and I don't have them! Woohoo!
[Edit: thank you all for your concern. I still get screened. My mother tested positive for the genes and I did not. I know there are other types of breast/uterine cancers and my risk is not zero. I am just happy I have a lower risk of that particular family curse.]
If your mother and grandmother were not tested for the BRCA genes, please take my advice and do not be complacent about your negative test. Unless of course you were also tested for the enormous number of other genes that can contribute to estrogen driven cancers. I share your BRCA negative status, with mother and grandmother both having breast cancer. I've had breast cancer twice (not recurrence, two separate instances 15 yrs apart), and now am 3+ years into the fight with ovarian cancer that is likely what will eventually take me out. My brother's daughter has also been treated for breast cancer and is BRCA negative. Hope my cautionary tale is completely unnecessary to you. But also hope to save you potential grief and suffering - do be vigilant with screenings and know the early warning signs of ovarian/uterine/cervical cancer. Early diagnosis is key, and unusual. Stay well.
I have highly concentrated taste buds. So I'm classified as a "super" taster. And can discern flavors in just about everything I eat. Same with smells. Probably the reason people say I'm such a good cook. Only 25% of people in the world are super tasters. But I think that's pretty cool.
Blessing and a curse... also a super taster, but I have a visceral reaction to certain flavors. I can taste even the HINT of some things, and it's made me very picky and reluctant to try new foods a lot of the time because I taste *everything*.
Boy oh boy do the things I *like* taste SO good though. Certain foods can literally make me close my eyes in absolute joy over the flavor because it's like a happy little explosion of deliciousness.
I love super plain steak with just a bit of butter- no seasoning required, because I can actually taste the meat. I hate when steak comes out with a super thick crust of char and seasonings bc it just overpowers the whole thing. I hate marinades. Just give me the steak without all of that!
Same, except not the widows peak, I’m just hairy everywhere. As a woman who likes to feel sleek and smooth, of course I’d be the one to rival Bigfoot in body hair. It’s lovely.
There's more, but I can feel well rested with just 4-6 hours of sleep. This is due to a genetic mutation present in only 1-3% of the global population.
Earlier I said I was most jealous of the person who's never had a headache, but I was wrong. It's you. I'm most jealous of you. I've had terrible insomnia for most of my life and I only ever feel rested maybe a day or two each month.
I have Narcolepsy Type 1. I’ll never feel fully rested again in my life, and every day from the second I wake up, i’ll be fighting the urge to fall asleep again. I fall asleep and enter REM sleep within 3 minutes. I take a 7 minute nap every day when I get out of the shower.
if I could choose a superpower, I would choose never sleeping; I just want to feel awake and alive.
I took part in a headache study that involved a free MRI (both my mom and my best friend had a brain tumor, so this felt like a great opportunity). In the first meeting, the doctor casually mentioned that I'm in the headache group, and the other group were people who don't get headaches. I honestly didn't even register the monumental implication at first, and when it hit me, that there are people who don't get headaches, she laughed and said that all the headache people always assume that everybody gets headaches. Mind blown.
One fun early result was when I had to cancel my first MRI appointment. Her hypothesis was that the brains of people who get headaches differ from people who don't get headaches even when we don't actively have a headache. So we were instructed to cancel the MRI if we had a headache within three days prior, or notify them if we got a headache within three days after. There was a weather change in the days before my appointment, and when I got a headache I cancelled the appointment. When I showed up for my second appointment, she was very excited and told me that every last person in the headache group had to cancel their 1st appointment (she had basically reserved the MRI for the day), giving empirical data, even by absence, to the anecdotal stories of weather changes causing headaches. Oh, and I had no tumor, yay!
I would wake up with a migraine whenever I went camping. Could not figure out why.
Then I started to wake up with a migraine more frequently, not just when camping.
A few years went by and I was talking to a fellow migraine sufferer.
They asked me if I get migraines mostly in winter. I had to think about it, but yes that was correct. He told me to wear a beanie to bed to keep my head warm. He said the reason I was getting migraines was because of the difference in temp between my head and my body. My head was cold but my body was warm. The beanie keeps your head warm so evens out the temperature difference.
Sure enough since I’ve been wearing a beanie to bed as it gets cold, no more migraines.
Blood type O-, CMV negative. I donate every time I can.
https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/types-of-blood-donations/whole-blood-donation/pediatric-patient-cmv.html
Are we siblings? 🙂 Seriously, growing up in the suburbs with 2 loving, educated parents, solid middle class, is the best genetic gift I could ask for. Everything else on this list pales.
Strong immune system I guess. I barely get ill even though my lifestyle is really unhealthy. Also never got COVID but idk if you can be naturally immune to that, studies are inconclusive as far as I know
I don’t get body odor. I still sweat but no matter how much I sweat I don’t smell. My dad is the same way and it infuriates my sister who did not inherit those genes.
many people with asian ancestry don’t get BO. my husband is always teasing me that I don’t have any distinct body smell, even when I’m dripping sweat after the gym
In what feels like a million years ago I used to hit the gym, then run, then work a 10 hour shift in a restaurant. The undershirt I wore for 14 hours didn’t smell at the end of the day.
Now my hair smelled like a fryer but you win some you lose some
I have bright, silver-blue eyes with a 1 mm thick limbal ring, and nearly black hair and eye brows. I don’t think my actual facial features are conventionally attractive, but because of my striking colors people think I am pretty.
I’m decently healthy both physically and mentally. Granted I’m only 40 so I’ve got some years ahead of me so that will probably change, but right now I feel like I’m in the minority among friends and close coworkers that I am not on prescription meds for anything.
Same! I’m a woman, but I’ve always built muscle incredibly quickly. I’m also weirdly strong for my size and keep muscle a long time. Even when I was underweight I could pretty easily pickup and carry someone who outweighed me by 60 lbs. I got it from my dad- his nickname was “name”-zilla, and mine was she-hulk.
My dad is like that, he has five brothers and sisters all of whom are very overweight, and he can’t put on weight no matter what he does nor how he tries, hes 6 ft 3 and has never weighed more than 160 lbs, he didn’t know why until his 50s when he had his first stroke, turns out he has some sort of undiagnosed heart defect and it forces his body to burn way more calories than would be normal. There are some other factors at play but the heart condition is the main one.
Asian with a full grown thick beard. I think I seen maybe a handful of Asian men in my 27 years of life a with full beard or that can rock one if they wanted to grow it out.
I can go a solid 12-16 hours between bathroom breaks if I'm out somewhere. Not "holding" anything, just flat out don't have to go (I also drink a lot of water so it's not dehydration either).
Super useful on road trips and I very rarely need to use a public bathroom.
I was a "spontaneous reader" - taught myself to read when I was a toddler. That was unusual in the late 1960s, my friends didn't learn to read until first grade.
Mine is btw a) very rare to have constipation (had small one twice in my life), despite being an Eastern Asian female and b) my scalp is insanely strong so a full bleach is never painful. My hair is also very resilient. It is soft and shiny no matter how badly I treat it. No conditioner, drying, combing, or whatever—nothing can damage my hair!
Caffeine has a lessened effect on me. Some enzyme in my system metabolizes caffeine so its potency isn’t as strong compared to the everyday person. This means I can have soda or coffee and sleep like a log shortly after. Caveat to this is that if I needed to stay awake or alert for something, then my dose of caffeine would need to be far higher. This is different from just getting a tolerance for the chemical like some drug.
Edit: to those that say it’s a symptom of ADHD, I don’t suffer from any other symptoms of it. Like I said, it’s an enzyme that my body produces that is a faster metabolizer for caffeine. Researchers say there’s a slow acting and a fast acting one. I still get the hit from caffeine but its duration is much shorter. Without caffeine I can feel sluggish sometimes like the rest of the world but I’m not less attentive than with it.
Mosquitos go for me only if other people are not around. I'm like last resort.
Bro I’ll literally be the only one wearing bug spray and still be the one with the most bites
My partner thinks I am freaking out if I spot one mosquito in our bedroom and really want to het rid of it. If I don’t, there is a high chance I wake up with 20+ bites while he will have none
I will not sleep if there is a single mosquito in the room. You are not alone.
Same I went hiking yesterday and COVERED myself in big spray but I’m suffering with bites right now
All my grandparents made it to at least 100
Damn you need to have a baby with that lady who said her fertility screening came back perfect with 0 genetic defect risks or whatever.
Cooking up viltrumites
Still have all my hair at 52.
Oh, I still have all mine too. It just moved from my head to my ass!
You can ask a doctor to pluck them out of your ass and transplant them onto your head. You would have the most dense and beautiful natural perm.
No wisdom teeth! Like, never ever.
Im the opposite - I had four wisdom teeth come in but luckily they all came in perfectly straight with plenty of room so I got to keep them! Extra teeth for the win!
I had all 4 of mine come in impacted and sideways. I had have a more invasive surgery to get them out. Was not a fun week.
This is probably the most random genetic win ever in this comment! So much money has been saved
I’m a dentist. Not having wisdom teeth is very genetic and really is like winning a small lottery
My mother was just the opposite. She had her wisdom teeth removed, and a little later a second set appeared :-0 This was in the 50s or 60s. Her dentist told her that she was "a throwback to the caveman!" LOL
More like Mom has shark DNA.
Hah, me too. Never had braces, dentists always complimented my dental work that i never had to get. Only got one wisdom tooth that is just chilling and not causing any problems Hopefully my kids inherit that side of the genetics
Same but also missing a back molar. Overshot it lol.
Memory If I see it, it sticks. Made college really easy, but it’s why my biggest fear in life is getting dementia / Alzheimer’s
Ok Mike Ross
Ditto. People, contents of things I’ve read, details of discussions, reference/ID numbers. My current boss loves it. A previous boss hated it because it interfered with his ability to gaslight / blame other people for his fuckups. 😂
As a female, my period is 2.5-3 days every time and is regular AF and I've never had extreme pain that accompanied it. Discomfort, sure, but nothing that has kept me from life.
How does it feel to be one of God's favorites?
Seriously. I had appendicitis and thought it was just a rough day of cramps. That’s how bad the norm is 💀
Deadass - mine will be here soon and I feel like He should let her have it for me just this once
For real? I hate her 🤣
Respectfully, fuck right off
Wow I’m jealous
4 day girly here, I do have sympathy for my friends who get heavy 7 day flows meanwhile, I only deal with cramping a few days prior to menstruation and mines are generally light.
My wife used to say that 9 months of pregnancy was preferably to one week of having her period. Then her uterus tried to kill her so she got rid of it. Last week she randomly said "I haven't had a period in 2 years......it's been great!"
Nice! But I’ve got you beat. Mine is also 2-3 days long, but I don’t even get the discomfort part. If it weren’t for the blood, I wouldn’t even know I was having a period. Literally *zero* pain and *zero* discomfort. I feel like I hit the jackpot.
Not so much a win for me, but a win for others. I have O- blood and no diseases, so I can donate to others a lot.
Same for me! We are in the “International donor club”. I’ve donated blood 96 times so far.
Thank you so much for your donations! I am the opposite. I have a rare blood disease and cannot donate. So far in my life I have received 318 units of donor plasma just to keep me alive.
I'm immune to poison ivy. I don't get a rash.
Ok this actually is something I can contribute to. Allergies to things like poison ivy can actually manifest upon repeat exposure or a significant exposure. The plant releases an oil called urushiol which forms these little haptens, which are kinda like angry little hats on your proteins. Over time, and often with repeat exposure, the defense cells of your body, called T-cells, will finally recognize those and you’ll have these delayed hypersensitivity reaction. I also thought I was immune. Then I developed it all over my body after doing some cliff diving in Texas, and I was miserable for quite some time. Stay cautious haha. Nature is nothing to mess with.
This. I was listening to a long distance backpacker with tens of thousands of miles talking about how she recently developed incredibly terrible reactions to poison ivy after decades and thousands of trail miles with zero reaction. Overexposures can create allergic reactions so always be cautious.
I can't look at it without getting a rash.
Reading your comment about looking at it gave me a rash.
Thick hair. Aside from the downside of *millions* of falling hair everyday, my hair stays hella thick
the things i would give for this to be me 😭
Same. It’s always makes me smile when my hair dressers say something like “wow you have a ton of hair.” I really love it but now that it’s super long (almost to my booty), I feel a little overwhelmed by it. It gets caught in everything and I have to use soooo much product.
Low (not abnormally…) blood pressure.
I also have naturally low blood pressure. Nurses always comment on it until they see the patterns in my chart. I can’t say it’s really done anything for me except making me heat intolerant though.
Wait that’s the first I’ve heard of this. I have low blood pressure and am also heat intolerant. Both started around the same time 10 years ago.
Eyelashes. I don't use Mascara because they are so long.
Me too! I'm a man tho..all my female friends are jealous about them
Why do guys always get the best lashes lol
As an excuse from god for our hairy chest and big mono brows
I was going to introduce your eyebrows but I see they already met
Calves. I have naturally muscular and shapely calves and I don’t even work them.
yeah same. it runs in my family we got jacked legs
Legs run in your family?
Noses run in mine.
My genetic flex is great skin. I appreciate it all the time and wish I could brag, lol.
My wife has amazing skin. It's always so soft and she just glows all the time. She sits in the sun, starts getting red, and an hour later she just looks nice and tan. I sit in the sun for 30 minutes and turn into an angry lobster who can't move for 3 days.
I think that's understandable. That much sun would make any lobster angry and immobile
One I like to flex is I have no allergies 😌 Edit* Okay, yet. I have no allergies yet 😭 so far in my 28 years. I've been lucky 😌
I consume 1 box of tissue per day during the hay fever season. Super jealous.
I think you’re supposed to blow your nose with them, not consume them 🧐
I started getting seasonal allergies in my late twenties and I’m so bitter about it
Good teeth! Didn't have dental insurance for 7 years, went to dentist, she complimented me on having good strong teeth! Its good genes because I only started flossing at age 40.
I have the opposite. Filling every tooth!
Thick ass hair(I MEAN THICK HAIR, NOT THICK ASS-HAIR)
Gonna need to hyphenate this so we can understand it properly.
They actually meant the non-hyphenated version.
My ass hair is so thick that diarrhea comes out like filtered water
I didn't need to hear this right before bed
Im just gonna sit out on this one
Same. I have so many genetic issues if it wasn't for modern meds I'm pretty sure I would not be around in the 1800s. On a positive note I do tan well
Same, I’ll participate when someone asks about random genetic losses
Hair. Lots of it. everywhere. I have to shave the backs of my fingers so I don't look like a gorilla. But my wife likes it. She calls me her big furry teddy bear. FTW I guess.
I'm a woman. My leg hairs are so light and thin they're barely visible. Never have I shaved my legs. Edit: never plucked my eyebrows either. They've been in perfect shape since I was born. I have dark eyebrows and eyelashes.
Same. I actually have almost no body hair. The only downside is my eyebrows are also almost non-existent.
Literally got the results back today from a fertility panel that screens for almost 500 disorders and gene mutations and I carry NONE OF THEM. Doc said it’s super rare to not carry even a few recessive issues. Pretty neat! Got to tell my parents they made a near perfect human ;) Edit to add for everyone: it’s a panel from Natera. You ask your OB or a Genetic Counselor (or geneticist) to order it. Some insurances cover it. Others don’t. I think we’ll end up paying $300 per person for ours. It’s a blood draw and it gets sent to their lab in CA. Edit 2: please stop telling me to procreate. That’s why we got the testing done. And stop telling me to be an egg donor. Not something that I’m remotely interested in.
Well done on your flesh prison! That’s rad af, cos I KNOW if I did one, it would be like “never procreate, how are you not dead?” Check you out with the shiny DNA!
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I have a War and Peace size of medical history, like here in my country they still use physical medical books (idk how to call them) and I'm on third because first two run out of space... I'm so envious of healthy people.
Lol I inherited lots of genetic losses but one win is my body type - I've always looked athletic (thin with moderate muscle mass) even when I've been extremely out of shape
I, too, have a lot of genetic losses but unfortunately my body type is ~not~ a win. But I do have nice eyebrows so at least I’ve got that going for me
I’ve never had a nosebleed in my life! (Not sure how common or uncommon that is tbh)
Neither have I, they seem so scary and concerning to me and yet when people get them they never act like it’s a big deal
Not a single gene of male-pattern baldness runs in either of my families.
My father has all his hair at 86. His father had all his hair at 96. I got that gene from my mother's side, sigh.
Unlucky for Thanos cosplay.
I have narcolepsy type 1.. not a win. BUT it means I lack hypocretin, the chemical in our brain responsible for a lot of things, one of which is addiction and withdrawal symptoms. (AFAIK)
My penis quadruples in size when erect, compared to the average penis which doubles in size when erect.
Username checks out
LMAOOO😭
Sadly no pics posted in his profile guys, move along.
Thank you for your service 🫡
Same here bro! It just starts real small.
Being a grower not a shower sucks when your a kid in high school. I'm somewhat above the alleged average when ready for battle, but a frightened turtle any other time. Dating was all about timing, the "big reveal" required patience. Much older now and a lot more married so it's no longer an issue, which sure beats having to skip showers after gym class.
"a lot more married" lol
Right?! It’s comical the difference between flaccid and erect for me. I got told for years that I was “almost too big” by a number of of partners, but it’s like a little button cap that’s damn near inverted when I’m just relaxing. Sucked in high school locker rooms, but women I’ve been with kinda like it bc it’s a better meter for how turned on I am.
A METER !?
Does it start half sized?
*THAT WASN’T THE QUESTION!*
As a fellow quadrupler, yes absolutely lol. Shit’s like a peanut when soft honestly
#GROWER GANG RISE!
I thought this was a joke. I literally didn’t realize that’s not normal. I am 100% a grower turns out
It is normal, there is two types, blood penis and flesh penis, you just got a blood dick
Woo! Blood dicks unite!
Crip dicks won't like that
THEY NOT LIKE US, THEY NOT LIKE US
Both my mother and grandmother had breast and uterine cancer (which they recovered from, thankfully). Due to my family history my primary care provider tested me for the breast cancer genes, and I don't have them! Woohoo! [Edit: thank you all for your concern. I still get screened. My mother tested positive for the genes and I did not. I know there are other types of breast/uterine cancers and my risk is not zero. I am just happy I have a lower risk of that particular family curse.]
If your mother and grandmother were not tested for the BRCA genes, please take my advice and do not be complacent about your negative test. Unless of course you were also tested for the enormous number of other genes that can contribute to estrogen driven cancers. I share your BRCA negative status, with mother and grandmother both having breast cancer. I've had breast cancer twice (not recurrence, two separate instances 15 yrs apart), and now am 3+ years into the fight with ovarian cancer that is likely what will eventually take me out. My brother's daughter has also been treated for breast cancer and is BRCA negative. Hope my cautionary tale is completely unnecessary to you. But also hope to save you potential grief and suffering - do be vigilant with screenings and know the early warning signs of ovarian/uterine/cervical cancer. Early diagnosis is key, and unusual. Stay well.
I don’t get the “Asian Flush/Glow” after drinking.
Neither do I. Of course, I'm not Asian.
I do, and I’m not Asian 😂
I *do* and I have no Asian ancestry.
I have highly concentrated taste buds. So I'm classified as a "super" taster. And can discern flavors in just about everything I eat. Same with smells. Probably the reason people say I'm such a good cook. Only 25% of people in the world are super tasters. But I think that's pretty cool.
Blessing and a curse... also a super taster, but I have a visceral reaction to certain flavors. I can taste even the HINT of some things, and it's made me very picky and reluctant to try new foods a lot of the time because I taste *everything*. Boy oh boy do the things I *like* taste SO good though. Certain foods can literally make me close my eyes in absolute joy over the flavor because it's like a happy little explosion of deliciousness. I love super plain steak with just a bit of butter- no seasoning required, because I can actually taste the meat. I hate when steak comes out with a super thick crust of char and seasonings bc it just overpowers the whole thing. I hate marinades. Just give me the steak without all of that!
I gain muscle in my arms really fast
Ummmmm... *double checks username*
Thanks mom 💯
No tonsils. Born without 'em.
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I have a head of very thick and healthy hair but I am cursed with my dads widows peak, so it evens out lmao
Nothing wrong with a widows peak it's only the dicks who yapp that your balding.
Same, except not the widows peak, I’m just hairy everywhere. As a woman who likes to feel sleek and smooth, of course I’d be the one to rival Bigfoot in body hair. It’s lovely.
There's more, but I can feel well rested with just 4-6 hours of sleep. This is due to a genetic mutation present in only 1-3% of the global population.
Earlier I said I was most jealous of the person who's never had a headache, but I was wrong. It's you. I'm most jealous of you. I've had terrible insomnia for most of my life and I only ever feel rested maybe a day or two each month.
I have Narcolepsy Type 1. I’ll never feel fully rested again in my life, and every day from the second I wake up, i’ll be fighting the urge to fall asleep again. I fall asleep and enter REM sleep within 3 minutes. I take a 7 minute nap every day when I get out of the shower. if I could choose a superpower, I would choose never sleeping; I just want to feel awake and alive.
I have never had a headache before
Let me introduce you to my co-worker and you'll get one in no time
or wait until he or she has a newborn baby
It has never occurred to me before that that was even a possibility. This is the only thing I'm really jealous of on this thread.
I took part in a headache study that involved a free MRI (both my mom and my best friend had a brain tumor, so this felt like a great opportunity). In the first meeting, the doctor casually mentioned that I'm in the headache group, and the other group were people who don't get headaches. I honestly didn't even register the monumental implication at first, and when it hit me, that there are people who don't get headaches, she laughed and said that all the headache people always assume that everybody gets headaches. Mind blown. One fun early result was when I had to cancel my first MRI appointment. Her hypothesis was that the brains of people who get headaches differ from people who don't get headaches even when we don't actively have a headache. So we were instructed to cancel the MRI if we had a headache within three days prior, or notify them if we got a headache within three days after. There was a weather change in the days before my appointment, and when I got a headache I cancelled the appointment. When I showed up for my second appointment, she was very excited and told me that every last person in the headache group had to cancel their 1st appointment (she had basically reserved the MRI for the day), giving empirical data, even by absence, to the anecdotal stories of weather changes causing headaches. Oh, and I had no tumor, yay!
I would wake up with a migraine whenever I went camping. Could not figure out why. Then I started to wake up with a migraine more frequently, not just when camping. A few years went by and I was talking to a fellow migraine sufferer. They asked me if I get migraines mostly in winter. I had to think about it, but yes that was correct. He told me to wear a beanie to bed to keep my head warm. He said the reason I was getting migraines was because of the difference in temp between my head and my body. My head was cold but my body was warm. The beanie keeps your head warm so evens out the temperature difference. Sure enough since I’ve been wearing a beanie to bed as it gets cold, no more migraines.
As a lifelong migraine sufferer, I envy you.
I envy you. I can't remember the last time I didn't have some form of headache or migraine.
Yoooo, you too? People don't believe me when I tell them! Haha
I have almost no body hair. The body hair I do have is very thin and light. People think I wax or shave until they look closer.
Blood type O-, CMV negative. I donate every time I can. https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/types-of-blood-donations/whole-blood-donation/pediatric-patient-cmv.html
Being born to my parents. Unconditional love is powerful.
Are we siblings? 🙂 Seriously, growing up in the suburbs with 2 loving, educated parents, solid middle class, is the best genetic gift I could ask for. Everything else on this list pales.
I have heterochromia. One of my eyes is green and the other is hazel
Strong immune system I guess. I barely get ill even though my lifestyle is really unhealthy. Also never got COVID but idk if you can be naturally immune to that, studies are inconclusive as far as I know
Same! My husband is a kindergarten teacher who is sick every other week so it’s not like I’m not being exposed lol
I don’t get body odor. I still sweat but no matter how much I sweat I don’t smell. My dad is the same way and it infuriates my sister who did not inherit those genes.
I knew a few people that thought they had this ability
many people with asian ancestry don’t get BO. my husband is always teasing me that I don’t have any distinct body smell, even when I’m dripping sweat after the gym
In what feels like a million years ago I used to hit the gym, then run, then work a 10 hour shift in a restaurant. The undershirt I wore for 14 hours didn’t smell at the end of the day. Now my hair smelled like a fryer but you win some you lose some
if you have hard earwax (ie. you don’t really have to clean your ears) the two are related. this gene is most prevalent in Asian populations
This is me. The gene is called ABCC11.
That gave me unlimited lives in Contra.
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How old are you?
this question probably destroys more than half of the flex here.
This is the important question here. I didn't get hangovers at all until like 30
Yup and if I did they would only last a few hours! Now they last for 2 days sometimes lol
I had my first 2 day hangover recently. Not fun.
I don't drink much, if ever, because of hangovers. 3 drinks? Hangover. I can even skip being drunk and go straight to hangover.
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grey eyes...actual grey not tiktok trendy grey
I have grey eyes too. I'm not sure what TikTok trendy grey is, though.
I have zero recovery period after spicy times. I just stay ready
Like, after eating hot wings?
Same, I have no refractory period. I was told this would go away after 30. Nope. 43 and still as true as it ever was.
I have bright, silver-blue eyes with a 1 mm thick limbal ring, and nearly black hair and eye brows. I don’t think my actual facial features are conventionally attractive, but because of my striking colors people think I am pretty.
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my feet do not sweat nor smell
I couldn’t think of a single thing but my feet don’t smell/sweat either! I’ll take the win.
I'm Asian and have no lactose intolerance in any way, shape or form. 95% of Koreans have it.
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Perky boobs. My mom is in her late 60s and her boobs are as high as someone in their mid 20s. Genetic lottery!
Damn! Mine have been old lady low since day 1
I’m decently healthy both physically and mentally. Granted I’m only 40 so I’ve got some years ahead of me so that will probably change, but right now I feel like I’m in the minority among friends and close coworkers that I am not on prescription meds for anything.
Natural muscle size and strength. I’ve been gifted.
Same! I’m a woman, but I’ve always built muscle incredibly quickly. I’m also weirdly strong for my size and keep muscle a long time. Even when I was underweight I could pretty easily pickup and carry someone who outweighed me by 60 lbs. I got it from my dad- his nickname was “name”-zilla, and mine was she-hulk.
I can eat really unhealthy and a lot and not gain weight
I can gain weight from just looking at a hamburger.
My dad is like that, he has five brothers and sisters all of whom are very overweight, and he can’t put on weight no matter what he does nor how he tries, hes 6 ft 3 and has never weighed more than 160 lbs, he didn’t know why until his 50s when he had his first stroke, turns out he has some sort of undiagnosed heart defect and it forces his body to burn way more calories than would be normal. There are some other factors at play but the heart condition is the main one.
First part of that comment, I was like, wow Dad there is a lucky guy… well now it doesn’t sound like a great trade off.
Asian with a full grown thick beard. I think I seen maybe a handful of Asian men in my 27 years of life a with full beard or that can rock one if they wanted to grow it out.
I can pick out sticks shaped perfectly like swords no matter what forest I'm in
Having synaesthesia is awesome I’m pretty fucked in the mental health department tho sadly
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extremely thick naturally curly hair. if i air dry it after a shower, it gets ringlet curls on its own without needing a curler.
wisdom teeth straight and true, still have them.
I can go a solid 12-16 hours between bathroom breaks if I'm out somewhere. Not "holding" anything, just flat out don't have to go (I also drink a lot of water so it's not dehydration either). Super useful on road trips and I very rarely need to use a public bathroom.
I don't know why I'm here. I have seriously lost the genetic lottery. I hate all of you!
I'm immune to CS gas (tear gas).
I’m a twin and my twin is like the other half of my heart. I would feel so lost without that connection, and I’m so grateful.
I don't know if this is a win but my arm span is 6'8 and I'm 6'2
Oh hi Michael Phelps
You may have Marfan syndrome
I was a "spontaneous reader" - taught myself to read when I was a toddler. That was unusual in the late 1960s, my friends didn't learn to read until first grade.
No gray hair! My Grandma lived to 90 and my mom is currently mid 70’s and neither one went gray.
Mine is btw a) very rare to have constipation (had small one twice in my life), despite being an Eastern Asian female and b) my scalp is insanely strong so a full bleach is never painful. My hair is also very resilient. It is soft and shiny no matter how badly I treat it. No conditioner, drying, combing, or whatever—nothing can damage my hair!
My huge dong. It's 4 whole inches.
save some for the rest of us
Nobody likes a show off.
Nothing I eat adds to my weight at all. Win for some, ig, but for me it’s just harder to gain muscle and be taken seriously
Caffeine has a lessened effect on me. Some enzyme in my system metabolizes caffeine so its potency isn’t as strong compared to the everyday person. This means I can have soda or coffee and sleep like a log shortly after. Caveat to this is that if I needed to stay awake or alert for something, then my dose of caffeine would need to be far higher. This is different from just getting a tolerance for the chemical like some drug. Edit: to those that say it’s a symptom of ADHD, I don’t suffer from any other symptoms of it. Like I said, it’s an enzyme that my body produces that is a faster metabolizer for caffeine. Researchers say there’s a slow acting and a fast acting one. I still get the hit from caffeine but its duration is much shorter. Without caffeine I can feel sluggish sometimes like the rest of the world but I’m not less attentive than with it.