Ask Lemmy

I have hypermobility, but a mild form that just lets me bend my fingers back without any of the major problems associated with it.

My hands and feet are slightly adhesive when they're any wetter than bone dry, so you can hear a faint peeling sound when I walk barefoot in the house, even a little bit on short carpet. Think peeling scotch tape and reduce it by 50%.

I can also control the muscles responsible for equalizing the pressure in my ears, and that allows me to put them under a slight vacuum to slightly dampen loud noises.

I also have long toes. Not to the extent of a chimp, but I have successfully signed my name with them before (though even lower quality than signing with my left hand).

I also cannot cry from cutting onions. This sounds awesome until you're cutting 3 bags of onions in one go and you learn that the tears dilute the sulfuric acid that forms. That was a painful evening.

When I have to shit really bad I can feel a pain in my forearm. Not like a painful pain but more like a tingling sensation in only my left forearm.

I can wiggle my little toes independently.

I can dislocate my joints at will. Thing with Ehlers-Danlos but it's a nice party trick

I have very curvy hair, like screws, on very specific parts of my body. One on each side, a bit above and right in front of my ears, beard curls below the edges of my mouth, chest hair curls between my nipples and two public hair curls right at the base of my shaft. Partners have found this very funny and fun to play with.

If I hold my pee for too long, I struggle to start peeing. It'll weakly dribble but some will come out, then about 5 minutes later I can piss normally. It's bullshit.

When laying in dark, any smallest sound makes a bright flash appear in my eyes, before I realize there was a sound. So I am always surprised when it happens, and fraction of a second later I realize there was a sound. So it's Synesthesia, but from Wish.