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What's your mutation?

other than a permanent cold, i never seem to get badly ill. not since i was a kid, anyway.

it's like some kinda odd immune system thing...

If there's excessive dust, damp (mildew), or bacteria in your home then this could easily be responsible.

If not, try reducing your consumption of dairy products.
 
other than a permanent cold, i never seem to get badly ill. not since i was a kid, anyway.

it's like some kinda odd immune system thing...
Is it a cold or an allergy? Could it be psychosomatic, like Adelaide in Guys and Dolls?
 
I've got pectus extavatum. It's not quite as bizarre looking on me (IMO) as the example pic in the article, but still quite deep. It's unclear at this time what superpowers it confers.
 
I'm sensitive to electrical fields to the point to where if I wear a metal watch my wrist will start to feel like I have arthritis

I can be in an electric (or hybrid) car for 60 seconds and I feel car sick.

I can't click my fingers

I can't do head over heals, or handstands.

I can't read clock faces. At least quickly.
 
I have a strange hair that grows 10X the normal rate off my wrist.

I can't believe you said that. I have it too and in fact, on facebook am running a "name that hair" contest (yes, i am so easily amused). My arms are almost hairless except for this one bizarro hair. I have to cut it on a regular basis, although right now i'm kind of interested to see just how long it would grow if i didn't. (Again, easily amused.)

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I've got pectus extavatum. It's not quite as bizarre looking on me (IMO) as the example pic in the article, but still quite deep. It's unclear at this time what superpowers it confers.

My husband has this too, although also not as pronounced as the one in the photo.
 
:lol:

I have, in fact, used it to cradle bowls of soup when sitting in bed. The swell of my stomach coming off the indented sternum is the perfect shape to support one in the half-sitting, half-lying position I find myself in when leaning on a pile of pillows.
 
:lol:

I have, in fact, used it to cradle bowls of soup when sitting in bed. The swell of my stomach coming off the indented sternum is the perfect shape to support one in the half-sitting, half-lying position I find myself in when leaning on a pile of pillows.

I edited my remark about using the concavity as a cupholder as I thought it was insensitive. I'm glad you didn't take offence. :alienblush:
 
other than a permanent cold, i never seem to get badly ill. not since i was a kid, anyway.

it's like some kinda odd immune system thing...

If there's excessive dust, damp (mildew), or bacteria in your home then this could easily be responsible.

If not, try reducing your consumption of dairy products.

it's been suggested it's to do with dust from the air con at work to me.

other than a permanent cold, i never seem to get badly ill. not since i was a kid, anyway.

it's like some kinda odd immune system thing...
Is it a cold or an allergy? Could it be psychosomatic, like Adelaide in Guys and Dolls?

AFAIK, it's a cold. sniffles, sneezing. nearly all year 'round.
 
it's been suggested it's to do with dust from the air con at work to me.

Do others at work suffer similar symptoms? If not, then look for an environmental cause at your home.

And here's the solution...

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(god it's so difficult to type when you break a nail... I keep missing all the keys. That's a tooth cusp and a nail today. I'm coming apart at the seams. :( )
 
. . . (I'm also sensitive to sounds to the extent that they're recorded in my brain perfectly and can "play back". I record songs that way and play them back on long journeys to entertain myself. Like an internal iPod).
I’ve been able to do that since I was a child. Once I’ve heard a musical selection a few times, it’s engraved on my brain and I can play it back perfectly in my head -- especially if I’m in an environment with a neutral droning background noise like highway traffic or machinery.
I've also got that - can listen to music all day without being plugged into anything. Besides the whole "not having to carry a device around or worry about wires snagging or earbuds falling out" aspect, it's better than any iPod or Walkman because I can also make my own loops and mashups or invent new music on any model, all just by thinking it. :)

The downside is that I’m constantly plagued with earworms.
I get that sometimes, but it isn't too often and usually not an insurmountable problem. Usually.
 
. . . (I'm also sensitive to sounds to the extent that they're recorded in my brain perfectly and can "play back". I record songs that way and play them back on long journeys to entertain myself. Like an internal iPod).
I’ve been able to do that since I was a child. Once I’ve heard a musical selection a few times, it’s engraved on my brain and I can play it back perfectly in my head -- especially if I’m in an environment with a neutral droning background noise like highway traffic or machinery.
I've also got that - can listen to music all day without being plugged into anything. Besides the whole "not having to carry a device around or worry about wires snagging or earbuds falling out" aspect, it's better than any iPod or Walkman because I can also make my own loops and mashups or invent new music on any model, all just by thinking it. :)

The downside is that I’m constantly plagued with earworms.
I get that sometimes, but it isn't too often and usually not an insurmountable problem. Usually.
What irks me isn't getting music stuck in my head, but other sounds. Usually it's voices: I'll get a small bit of dialogue from a movie stuck in my head, or a fragment of a conversation I had or overheard. Sometimes it's as little as one word, but the voice and intonation are exactly as I heard them. The worst is when I can't place it -- the word or phrase will swim in my head for hours or days before I figure out where it's from, and sometimes it's from a movie or TV show I saw years before.
 
I’ve been able to do that since I was a child. Once I’ve heard a musical selection a few times, it’s engraved on my brain and I can play it back perfectly in my head -- especially if I’m in an environment with a neutral droning background noise like highway traffic or machinery.
I've also got that - can listen to music all day without being plugged into anything. Besides the whole "not having to carry a device around or worry about wires snagging or earbuds falling out" aspect, it's better than any iPod or Walkman because I can also make my own loops and mashups or invent new music on any model, all just by thinking it. :)

The downside is that I’m constantly plagued with earworms.
I get that sometimes, but it isn't too often and usually not an insurmountable problem. Usually.
What irks me isn't getting music stuck in my head, but other sounds. Usually it's voices: I'll get a small bit of dialogue from a movie stuck in my head, or a fragment of a conversation I had or overheard. Sometimes it's as little as one word, but the voice and intonation are exactly as I heard them. The worst is when I can't place it -- the word or phrase will swim in my head for hours or days before I figure out where it's from, and sometimes it's from a movie or TV show I saw years before.
Yeah, that happens to me quite a bit. Sometimes it'll take me several go-'rounds before I'm finally able to place it.
 
I was born with three kidneys. They had to remove the third one when I was a child because it was giving me problems. Not a nice experience. I hope that my mutation in the next life will be something cooler, like, I don't know... Magneto? :shifty:

Or maybe I am a prototype of things to come and we'll all be born with spare parts in the future. :D
 
My mutation is that I don't have any sweat glands on the palms of my hands or the soles of my feet.

One of my mutations makes me your polar opposite: my hands and feet sweat excessively. If I rest my hands on a smooth surface, I can leave puddles behind. Annoying and embarrassing!

So that begs the question, Asbo -- which one of us is Mr. Glass? :devil:



As for my kids, they don't seem to have inherited my hyperhidrosis, but they do experience synaesthesia (to a much higher degree than the tiny glimpse I have of it). They also both have the gene for tasting PTC, which they got from their dad. And oddly enough, they each have a visible non-functioning extra tear duct -- I have no idea where those came from!
 
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