Ask Lemmy

I can pop my ankles almost non stop since around 2 years ago for some reason (no pain or anything), lol

I can bend my toes back and make some touch the top of my feet.

Not myself, but my wife. We live in the country side with two cats, and they have a cat flap, 24/7 access. My wife can smell a dead mouse nearly from the second it's dead. She complained last week about it smelling like death in our hallway, and we couldn't find the source. It took two days for me to smell it, and then it was gone a few days later. We think it died in the ceiling, so couldn't do much about it. But her smell for death is crazy!

Imagine in your head a scene on the ocean near a dock with a sailboat. The wind is light and there are small waves lapping against the shore, rocking the boat.

Well, I mostly can’t do that. Not much of a minds eye. If I really focus I can do it but there isn’t any detail, and my mind doesn’t fill in background.

Can crack/pop most joints.

Can wiggle both ears individually or together.

I can cause my vision to go blurry on purpose - no idea if other people can?

I can hear some electronic devices that are plugged in, can also hear when certain portable devices have finished charging, so basically I have pretty good hearing.

I can pop my arms out of my shoulder joints, without using my hands, and back in again. Completely painless, but can sometimes do it by accident if I'm leaning against a doorframe etc, or pushing/pulling against something, so I have to be careful.

I can turn my face red by tensing my jaw.

I can turn my eyelids inside out.

I can forcibly go cross-eyed.

The back top of my skull is completely flat. If I shaved my hair off it would look like a chunk is missing haha. This also means there are dents in the middle top either side of my skull as well, almost like it has creased inwards. Was layed on my back too much as a child.

I have a seemingly hidden source of strength, I am very slim and not particularly muscular, but am stronger than some friends who are bigger and more muscular than me. I also find it difficult to add any visible muscle mass. Maybe I have dense muscle?

I can clap each of my hands individually. What's the sound of one hand clapping? Lemme show you twice at once! Also, it's not elegant, but me flailing about in a controlled manner.

I can wiggle my ears.

I can pop pretty much every joint. Some hurt more than others. The crapshoot ones are my hip joints. Usually hurts then massive relief.

If I yawn the wrong way (usually when turning my head), my hyoid bone shifts and gets stuck. I have to move it back in place by hand, carefully. That was a scary discovery.

I have had permanent tinnitus since about April of 2023. (Kill me)

If I'm congested and I blow my nose, snot can come out of my right eye's tear duct.

I have dysgraphia. I fucking hate writing by hand. It's painful, it shoots up my arm, and my handwriting is always terrible. I regularly make mistakes. I stopped using cursive entirely about 20 years ago, and now only use capital print letters (with a larger first letter for each word). Example: https://ibb.co/YPPDKFq

I can feel when lights are turned on or shine at me. Taking photos with a flash for example feels like a hot wave to me. I think that is a side effect of my ASD, the poor stimulus filtering to be exact

Also I can hear most electric devices because of that. Charging them for example has a loud high frequency noise. Not just cheap chargers, almost all electronic devices

I get a searing pain up the side of my face if I yawn incorrectly

• I don't get fevers. My immune system is above average, I don't have any diseases which affect my immune system, and nobody's sure why I don't get fevers.

• I have hyperphantasia, so when I imagine things, they look as real as real life, or like I'm watching a movie scene.

• I also have hyperthymia, which means I'm in a near continual state of mild mania (and I enjoy it!)