I thought it was normal to be able to read but not actually listen to yourself reading so no information would be absorbed. I'd read pages of books only to go back and read them again because the first time, I wasn't "listening" (Btw this is a real thing people with adhd struggle with)
I cant even read aloud. I can say every word but will make no sense to me. I still dont get how ppl can read and talk at the same time!!! I used to think i just needed practice. Like with doing maths in my head. Cant do it. Because if i need to remember a number for later its overwritten by the new number. If its 10 or less i can clasp my fingers for remembering the first number. Ppl still tell me its all abt practice. I can do maths if i can write it down. Reading aloud and doing maths in my head is like when my mom knits and watches tv at the same time. Its also impossible.
I seem to be the only oddball who never paid attention to the leaves when I got glasses. I never noticed until weeks later when my mom asked me about seeing leaves and even then I couldn’t identify if I could see individual leaves before glasses or not. The thing I noticed was that I could read road signs finally
For me it wasn't leaves, but the stone tiles (terrazzo) used in our house (similar to these images.app.goo.gl/6Bu2nLnCn21mmChD6) always just looked like a light brown/beige to me. I had to put my nose against the tiles to see the different spots in HD. Then, when I first got glasses I was surprised how perfectly fine I can see the tiles' pattern when standing up 😅
Alie The Artist I never once noticed a difference in the leaves on trees because the glasses are mostly so my blind eye can provide somewhat better peripheral vision
The first thing I did on my first day of school with glasses was point at the trees outside and ask my friend, who doesn't wear glasses, "you could always see those leaves?? Just like that??"
I thought PTSD was a normal thing people around you just have, like how depression can just come along with nothing but chemical imbalances, even if your life is fine. Until I went into foster care and had been in the healthiest environment I’ve ever been in. I didn’t realize that being a 12 year old diagnosed with PTSD would’ve been considered heartbreaking to a healthy person. I eventually realized what PTSD actually was, and how it wasn’t normal for children to be scarred for life. Also, suicidal thoughts, or attempts. Both parents, my older sister and I, all have attempted suicide multiple times, but hearing my 50 year old foster mom say she’s never even considered it, really fucked me up. I was 14/15 when she told me this, I’m 20 now and I’m still surprised, just with how normalized being damaged is in my family and that she lived a life that she’s never wanted to end. I wish I had that.
I also used to think suicidal thoughts were normal up until I was in university. To this day it baffles me that most people can go their whole lives without contemplating suicide on a nearly daily basis.
Litrally the same thing happened with me I went into foster care and met other people and even worse I thought they had food 3 times a day I thought I was lucky to just have it once in a while, being scared for my life I can relate to aswell, madness.
It probably is normal. And I honestly think everyone SHOULD do it because it may help you prepare better for some conversations (especially the hard things like job interviews) and just thinking things through in general. But there will of course always be conversation you werent fully prepared for, you cant predict everything so you need a bit of spontanety too
I do that too, but instead of preparing for something I just do it for fun. I also imagine a whole scene along with it. Sometimes action and other times random shit like jumping or just studying.
When I was little I used to describe numbers to people by their "colors", like I would say: "I memorized the number 3754 because it is green, brown, yellow and red, like a tree with flowers". Everyone just kind of ignored what i said because they assumed it was just my imagination. I only learned about synesthesia as an adult. Then I understood people don't see color in numbers.
I have grapheme colour synaesthesia too! I also have Ordinal Linguistic Personification, Chromesthesia (and perfect pitch which is associated with it) and Misophonia.
I never understood that most people don't have one specific interest they love learning about and need to learn everything about it until they're experts. Turns out I'm just autistic
3:02 what? nobody else does that? i do this literally every day. it doesn't matter WHO i'm going to talk to i always do it if I know i'm going to see them
Ok so just found out i have tinnitus, didnt know everyone didnt hear that high pitched ringing when it was silent either so rip i guess Edit: huh 1k likes thank you youtube gods
It is normal, as long as you're not in pain. When I first practiced astral projection, that sound would become very loud before I would pop out of my body, so maybe the sound could be related to more than we know.
@@franciscariveramartinez I used to do that as a kid but then my dad thought me to fold the piece of paper up because i was using up too much toilet paper. My life changed a lot . That was when i was 3-5, im 12 now.
@@franciscariveramartinez why lmao who has time to gently fold the paper when you can just crumple it a little bit. I don't make a round compact ball just a crumpled up piece of toilet paper
I TRIED TO EXPLAIN THE SUN SNEEZING ONE TO MY FAMILY AND THEY ALL THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY?!! Like I thought that everyone just sneezes when they look at the sun or a bright light? Or like if u can’t get a sneeze out just look up at a light source??
That also happens to me... when I was five I claimed I was “allergic to the sun” because I would constantly sneeze when confronted with a bright light, or the sun, and my parents made fun of me for that lol
@@ajferner1591 Hahaha it's just to make me feel better about how I am the 1% of the 1% where I literally sneeze if I think about having sex. No joke LOL I've never admitted this until just right now. It's like a super power hahaha
The Hopper I’m an extrovert with no signs of anxiety, though I always have simulated conversations. I have high functioning autism, though, so that may explain it...
@Esteb5n Caballero None of that is correct. Aphantasia means someone can't visualize something as an image in their head, that doesn't mean they don't have ideas or can't think, and it really has nothing to do with the simulated convos, which is just scripting.
I don't sit or stand when wiping, but somewhat of a hybrid. Kind of hunched over like. And as an introvert, I have a constant stream of simulated convos. Both of alternate past convos, and likely future convos.
The Age of Z Crouch? No idea how people who wipe when sitting get there hand down there. Do you shuffle forward on the seat or do you do the really unhygienic thing of wiping back to front? Perhaps bidet users have a point!
@@ianmoseley9910 I was confused as well when I first heard people wipe sitting down. There simply isn't the necessary clearance without sliding forward or lifting up unless your reach from the front and wipe back to front. Then there is poop on your balls or cooch. Baffles me to say the least....
I thought that everybody just listened to the lyrics of a song and naturally dissected them. How do you listen to a song without listening to the words?? I’m so confused..
Alexandra the Great I feel like it’s like listening to instrumental music. You’re listening to the song, but most people probably aren’t like, “ooo, that’s a nice V7-I cadence” or “wow, I can’t believe she sang an E above the staff”. Or even simpler, when you’re in a conversation and you can hear the person talking, but you don’t process anything and you kind of zone out
I rarely listen to the actual words in songs, they are more like another instrument to me. Often I can repeat the words (mostly chorus) of a song I’ve been listening to for years without any comprehension of the message of those words. When my partner pointed out this was weird, I tried listening to the actual words of the songs and understand the meaning. Spoiled a lot of 80s rock songs for me. My way is so much better.
I don't lol, usually because I can't really make out the song lyrics and they sound like half gibberish and half a mix of different languages that I know. I also get distracted by the lyrics when trying to know what they mean, so normally I would prefer instrumental music. However, I also play drums and figuring out the drum beats/pattern is easier to do for me than to know what the lyric is saying which makes me even more easily distracted by songs lol
The way you can listen to instrumental music and enjoy it without lyrics? Yeah we just apply that mindset to music with lyrics too. Some people just want music as background noise. It could literally be giberish, or a made up language with no innate meaning behind the syllables. It's still soothing as rhythms and tones.
I thought it was normal to readjust the pressure in you're ears, you know, the pressure you get from changing altitudes? Nope. Apparently everyone else just suffers after getting off an airplane. It's a loud clicking noise and it's not painful.
... How would I even explain how I re adjust my ears manually? I kinda... Click bones in my ears and exhale through my nose at the same time. I'm not sure how many people do that, it's not a subject that comes up much.
if im alone im literally having solo conversations out loud, akward times when someone hears me. got drunk once and my best friend heard me talking to myself whilr pissing... next day i didnt remember anything and when they brought it up as a way of saying i how drunk i was, ma heart was like "shiiiit..." and kept my mouth shut.
I chew food equally in my mouth. Recently discovered that people have dominate sides of their mouth when chewing food; often the same as their hand. Guess it makes sense since I am sort of Ambidextrous; I write with my right and do everything else like pick up things and throw with my left. I usually will split the food in half, chew a certain amount on one side then switch, or eat one bite with one side and the next with the other. When I was younger and lost teeth I would refuse to eat anything until the tooth grew back and I could eat on both sides again. So half my childhood I survived off of yogurt and smoothies.
I have a broken tooth on one side of the mouth. If I eat with that side I could hurt my gums and het lots of food stuck there. So I eat with the other side. I think it's just convenient tho not a side preference.
I couldn’t imagine having a broken tooth and having to eat on one side only. The thought makes me stressed. I’ve tired eating on only one side and it’s actually uncomfortable. I’m actually curious though, do you brush your teeth more on that side since you use it more? It’s actually less convenient then you’d think. I’m so particular about it having to be equal, that I consciously have to make sure I don’t use one side more then the other. And in the case that it does happen, I must get more food even if I’m full.
I think I do this too, but tbh I'm not sure. I think I do it when I just want to feel the taste on the other side lol. Ig I'll try to be observant about it and see if I switch a lot or have a dominant side.
I switch on a regular basis. I'll have my right side phases and my left side phases. During those "phases" it'll feel kinda awkward to chew on the other side. At the moment I'm in a left side phase, which I may or may not have found out by eating something specifically for this comment. I'm somewhat ambidextrous too. Regarding most things I'm solidly right-handed, like writing, using my phone, brushing my teeth, but there are some (oddly specific) things I just naturally do with my left hand, i.e. lacing my shoes, peeling stuff like eggs, oranges or shrimps, opening and closing bottles, playing cards etc.
Last year, psych teacher explained to the class that you occasionally hear ringing in a quiet room because your brain does some sort of check to ensure that you can still hear
I had open heart surgery as a child, so I’m used to looking down and seeing a scar that goes all the way down my chest so it fucks me up to see other people’s chests that are perfectly fine and in one piece
Having scars from surgery is better than having scars from being clumsy and unlucky in my opinion. I've hurt myself too many times just from being clumsy so a vast majority of scars I have are from that
I'll never forget the laughs of my elementary school's classmates and teacher when I asked how did squirrels get married. Found out, animals are quite the fornicators.
When I close my eyes tightly or flex my jaw the right way, I hear a whooshing sound in my ears. It’s like the sound an airplane makes when it’s flying.
@@aaaah540 haha… wow, I definitelly can't do that. I was trying to squint and sqeeze whatever muscles I could and I found I can make myself hear my pulse inside the ears, but faintly. No wooshing. I wonder if the squinting you do causes you do hear your blood circulation loudly?
I always though that when you close your eyes a little while looking at a single strong light , everyone will see these weird long lines coming through the light source. apparently its astigmatism and when i found out i my day was ruined and i had a well damn good day
That's exactly how I keep myself from being disappointed. I set my expectations really low so that way when the outcome is most likely better than my expectations, it doesn't feel bad.
1:58 lol that was my reaction too when i was at the doctor getting my eyes checked for the first time. my mind was like, “woah! everything’s so clear!” also, how is it not normal to fold the toilet paper before wiping?
9:18 I didn’t know that was classified as synesthesia. I figured everyone had a visual representation of weeks, months, and years in their head. I wouldn’t be able to keep track of anything without it
Mine's not visual, but conceptual. The week is circular with Sunday on top, the year bigger with July on top. I don't visualize an actual circle, but I think of things in the future as being on a certain slope. I may need to find a representation for decades, as the current representation makes me bad at really long term planning.
Synethesia is basically any crossover of the senses (its basically weird messed up brain shit) so basically any abstract types of things (time, numbers, letters ect.) that you can see or smells/sights you can hear, music that you can taste. basically anything of that nature is synethesia - I have a very low level numbers/letters/words colour form, but honestly I'd love to be able to some of the things that others have like see music and have objects for people :)
galfisk it upsets me that your week is a circle and july is on top. Weeks go from left to right and the year goes clockwise in a square with winter on top and summer at the bottom.
When I listen to music I can close my eyes and see a whole music video unravel. I can also remember sounds after years, and recall songs from when I was a toddler that haven't been listened to in ages. Weird?
No it is the same for me, at least I think so. I can remember I lot of things most people just don’t remember, especially dreams! And when I’m listening to music I can imagine the motion and flow of the music, or whatever was happening while the music was playing. And I still remember dreams and experiences I had when I was very little.
This sounds familiar. I can't do the music video thing. But, I can remember songs extremely vividly, down to each instruments part. I also remember conversations to the word for years afterwards. Sometimes I forget this isn't normal and carry on a previously interrupted conversation that everyone else has forgotten.
That apparently not everyone is asked "are you having suicidal thoughts, or thoughts of harming yourself?" Becuase they just started asking me that when i was 11 so i thought it was a puberty thing or something
When I first got my glasses I remember being so stoked I could see each individual piece of carpet. Like each little like... strand? My step dad just shook his head at me.
I thought that when people complain about their joints clicking they moved out of their sockets and then back in like mine did when they cracked. No just no apparently. It turns out I had Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and bones are not supposed to do that.
So... How can one tell if they have Ehlers danlos syndrome? My shoulders used to pop out all the time as a kid and after a bit I could, and still can just move a muscle and pop them out on command. Without even having to use my other hand or any leverage. Can even stick my finger in the socket which is a neat party trick I don't do anymore. Was told by some doctor as a kid I got "stretchy ligaments" and sent me to physio to strengthen my shoulder. Didn't do anything really though.
For the longest time I thought everyone could switch which eye they were looking out of and only used on eye at a time. Turns out it was an actual condition and all the adults in my life just thought i was lying for the longest time. Kids dont lie about that kind of stuff yall!! Edit: all of you guys who can switch which eye ur looking out of? Next time u get an eye app mention it to ur optometrist. Its not just a normal lazy eye thing it generally means u have monocular vision of some kind and this can affect depth perception. Best way to tell is if 3D movies dont look any different from normal movies!
AceTrack actually, yes kids do lie about the weirdest stuff so it isnt impossible to lie about but the adults in your life should have atleast tried to consider it
Polaraix not really man? When it comes to medical stuff, things that their bodies do and so forth, kids really dont lie. Maybe a kid will lie that something hurts to get attention, but it its something really out of the park? Unless their parents are doctors there’s no way that they couldve even heard about it much less understood that lying about it could do something
AceTrack I get what you’re thinking but ive heard the same kind if lies from children, not the exact same but very close alot of (smaller) children lie about what they can do or what they have done, I have heard it myself so yes kids do lie about medical stuff even if it seems outrageous
AceTrack omg is this abnormal?? I can do this!! Not too surprising tho, I have all sorts of eye problems and had astigmatism surgery once- but it legitimately never crossed my mind that this particular thing might be weird Edit: as to the other replies here, I personally lied about anything and everything as a child- but there are some people out there who rarely lie, so I’ll go ahead and say it depends on the kid.
I don't know if it's Synesthesia, but I usually imagine years in a straight timeline divided into sections. I have a section for the 1990s, a section for the mid 1990s to the early 2000s, a section for the late 2000s to now. It's like scrolling sideways on a screen with a bunch of years listed, but in my head.
My whole life lol. At the age of 19 I was diagnosed with Autism/Aspergers 🙃 All this time I thought everyone went through the same thing as me but they just didn’t say anything.
Hahathatisfunny Bro anxiety is part of being on the spectrum and since I was 3-5 my mum said she could tell I had anxiety. Everyone assumed I would be having a tantrum when it was actually a meltdown. Getting punished for something out of your control really messes you up. My mum would force me to make eye contact because she believed it was a sign of dishonesty (remember she didn’t know I had autism). When in school I would miss out on so much of what the teacher was saying to me because I was too focused on making eye contact. I can hear lights humming and can see them flicker (fluorescent lights, common in office, shops and drs). Sound and visuals are my biggest things that set off a panic/overload/meltdown. It’s generally gotten worse as I grew up. I can’t really tell you what it’s like because I have no idea what it’s like to have a normal wired brain. I can’t imagine what it’s like (part of being autistic), I can only imagine/assume based on my own experiences. Everyone are like aliens to me lol. Some things y’all say and do is confusing. How you can say something mean with a smile on your face is confusing. I’ve had many incidents where someone would be smiling/laughing while being nasty and I thought they were saying something nice to me and I would smile along with them. I much prefer animals (also common with Autism, they said that people with Autism thrive around animals and we generally have a better connection with them for whatever reason). We do feel empathy but we just struggle with cognitive empathy, meaning we struggle to show you the correct way we care and what to do, can be overwhelming. I would cry when other kids cried in school, and I believe I would still do that now lol. We are constantly wearing a mask and when we’re at home/at our safe play, that’s when we’ll have a meltdown because it takes a lot of energy from us. We have to trust you a lot to let you see our “weirdness”, as neuros put it. We get used as an insult, we get stared at for wearing headphones to try and function, and people get insulted and mad at us because we don’t want to be touched. Most of us are scared of authorities because many have killed us/harmed us. We are given a card to hand to medics/police that tells them/confirms we have Autism because otherwise they’ll think we’re crazy or guilty.
Erik Walker Im the most “blunt” person people know (honest) because I say what I’m thinking and how things are but with no bad intentions and not realising it could hurt someone (and if it did and someone says it upsets them, I’ll feel awful and apologies). Growing up I thought everyone was like that but nope, they said the things they said knowing it can hurt someone and that’s just... How. I’m glad I’m autistic to be honest.
RagingThunder Snowflakes is a term people use when they say something offensive and someone rightfully calls them out on it, it’s their response because they’re too fucked up to realise they’re the ones in the wrong not the person calling em out; but ok.
The whole whistle thing is actually a language and dates back 1000 years. its a dying language but the government is keeping it around in case it eventually comes in handy. its actually very interesting and cool to learn about. because if how loud you can whistle you can communicate with someone from 7km away. hey i mean if dogs can do it of course humans can make a language out of it
When I was a kid, I used to do it on purpose as a kind of sound effect. I'd add thunder or explosion rumbles to my imaginary play. Ear rumbling is great!
Yeah me too :( I'm now at bed and can't stop hearing that ring, it's like ten times higher since I read it was not normal, oh god I think I might not be able to sleep
@@comedicsociopathy It's very easy to miss. Kinda like how you can't taste your tooth fillings after a day or two. They don't actually lose their taste, your brain just learns to ignore it. Or how you can't smell your own body odor. Although, ringing is also a sign of hearing damage and I've been to a lot of raves and concerts.
Can everyone make their vision go blurry on command? i thought everyone could until i was talking to one of my friends and she said she doesn't/cant do that 🤔 but i have 20/20 vision
Sometimes I’ll sit there for like 3 hours coming up with a bunch of conversations or scenarios, but then I’ll end up eventually genuinely upsetting myself, or getting angry over something I’ve imagined lol
For 3:00 I plan out my conversations for the entire day, I'll think about topics to bring up and jokes to tell and simulate how to follow up to something. Im not introverted at all but I just find it easier to talk when you know what you're talking about.
I just realized that I've been rumbling my ears as long as I can remember. Did not know there was a name for it, nor did it ever occur to me to think about or question if others can/can't do it. Too bad it's not a cool party trick (if you could even prove you're doing it).
@Jesse k no quite the contrary. Everyone was super open with it and that gave me the impression that it wasn't only normal but also nothing out of the ordinary.
Omg I always imagined a year in a circle shape with January near the left and January, February and August took up the most space on the circumference. I did explain where each month was to someone once and I know they didn't have it but I didn't know it was synaesthesia. Also the one about 'wearing my wristwatch on my dominant hand' 'That's your problem. You're supposed to wear it on your wrist, not your hand, you silly goose' said in an unintentionally deadpan robotic voice made me crack up even when replaying it.
@@californyea2992 I also do it with weeks and numbers. They're not in a circle though. Numbers go left to right up to 100 and then straight off in front to further away.
I imagine my year in a circle and my week in a line with all days having a weird shape and their own colours. Numbers go frim left to right in a slight upward angle and they all have colours. Negative numbers, however, are all blue. I only realised a few years ago this is not how everyone sees things.
The glasses thing was exactly like what happened with me! I was 17 when I first got glasses, and was shocked how detailed everything was! Also the high pitch ringing in my ears are kind of comforting for me.
Every time I'm sick I get this smell in my nose, and almost every time it's a different smell, and the smell always gives me some weird image in my head or an emotional feeling until I'm not sick anymore.
The fake conversations are pretty common, I have them always, when I want to practice how a joke would be for example, I imagine the setting, how to bring it up and how people would react based on things I know about them, well I least I hope it's normal xdddd
A big one that I noticed around five or so years ago when doing a Centrelink Disability forms(Australian Social Welfare), is my issue with focusing on sound (I also have tinnitus which sucks) all of my life, I was wondering how everyone could talk(and understand) in crowded areas (School halls, nightclubs and social events) for me, it is simply noise, too much noise to make sense I think I just assumed that people were closer to each other or they were lip reading or they were just talking pointless shit to fill time.
You probably have auditory processing problems. Your brain has trouble tuning out background noise and focusing on one sound at once. I have a big problem with this too, it's fairly common but often confused with hearing impairment. The easiest way to tell the difference is to have a hearing test - if your test results are within the average range, then auditory processing is your problem. The unfortunate thing is that there's really no way to fix it. You just have to learn how to compensate.
guitarluva90 I just either keep the water running from the tub faucet until it heats up before switching to the shower head, or direct the shower head away from me/walk out of its stream until it warms up.
@The nobody shit isn't fucking funny What are you talking about? Showers use less water than baths. Though, I guess it depends on how long you're in there. If you take 30 min showers, you'll probably break even with a bath.
Yup me too. Each day has a different colour and sometimes even symbol. Each number has a different colour. For examble, sunday is yellow and its symbol is a gate(for some reason) and its shining. Monday is a blue 2,Tuesday is a Green 3,Wednesday is dark green w abd Thursday is an orange 5, Friday has no number or colour but Saturday is a purple 7. Trippy as fuck
I see the year in a very specific oval shape around my head with a color pattern going from light blue starting January all frosty like (cause winter I suppose) to yellow for summer, orange for fall (October/start of November) and a very dark blue for the end of the year. So writing that down it seems like my years look like a day looping going from. Morning to night from January to December is very hard to explain but its very clear in my head and I didn't know that kind of thing was a form of synesthesia until today. Im about to turn 22 dang.
When I was a kid I thought everyone’s parents slept in different bedrooms. When I got older I realized how strange that is especially since my parents were never together & never hugged or kissed and more acted like roommatesZ
My parents got divorced when I was very little, I thought it was normal to switch between my mom and dad’s house until I made friends in school and realized it’s usually not the case.
I can rumble my ears, blur my vision, and rapidly shake my eyes back and forth at will. Not a single one of these is common apparently. This surprised me but also I sorta expected so.
When I was a child (maybe 10 or so) a PE teacher told us to put our arms out straight and kept yelling at me because mine weren't straight. I kept saying they were. A classmate eventually pointed out that my elbow was going backwards, and that there was a bump on the inside of my elbow. I was just like "You guys don't get bumps when you put your arms out straight?" Turns out I have been able to bend my elbow backwards slightly since birth, that actually putting my arm out straight feels slightly bent to me, 'straight' is backwards, and the bump is actually my joint. (It's hard to describe.) TL;DR - I can bend my elbow backwards slightly and didn't realise, it creates a bump on my inner elbow which is the joint, thought everyone got a bump when they put their arms out straight.
OrangeKotoni I have that too. When I was little, I was in ballet classes and when we had to put our arms straight every girl had their beautiful arms perfectly straight and I didn’t. I started thinking I was very ugly, so I became very insecure
I was 22 when I realized not every family had a poop knife. My family poops big. Maybe it's genetic, maybe it's our diet, but everyone births giant logs of crap. If anyone has laid a mega-poop, you know that sometimes it won't flush. It lays across the hole in the bottom of the bowl and the vortex of draining water merely gives it a spin as it mocks you. Growing up, this was a common enough occurrence that our family had a poop knife. It was an old rusty kitchen knife that hung on a nail in the laundry room, only to be used for that purpose. It was normal to walk through the hallway and have someone call out "hey, can you get me the poop knife"? I thought it was standard kit. You have your plunger, your toilet brush, and your poop knife. Fast forward to 22. It's been a day or two between poops and I'm over at my friend's house. My friend was the local dealer and always had 'guests' over, because you can't buy weed without sitting on your ass and sampling it for an hour. I excuse myself and lay a gigantic turd. I look down and see that it's a sideways one, so I crack the door and call out for my friend. He arrives and I ask him for his poop knife. "My what?" Your poop knife, I say. I need to use it. Please. "Wtf is a poop knife?" Obviously he has one, but maybe he calls it by a more delicate name. A fecal cleaver? A Dung divider? A guano glaive? I explain what it is I want and why I want it. He starts giggling. Then laughing. Then lots of people start laughing. It turns out, the music stopped and everyone heard my pleas through the door. It also turns out that none of them had poop knives, it was just my fucked up family with their fucked up bowels. FML. I told this to my wife last night, who was amused and horrified at the same time. It turns out that she did not know what a poop knife was and had been using the old rusty knife hanging in the utility closet as a basic utility knife. Thankfully she didn't cook with it, but used it to open Amazon boxes. She will be getting her own utility knife now. [Edit: Common question - Why was this not in the bathroom instead of the laundry room? Answer. We only had one poop knife, and the laundry room was central to all three bathrooms. I have no idea why we didn't have three poop knives. All I know is that we didn't. We had the one. Possibly because my father was notoriously cheap about the weirdest things. So yes, we shared our poop knife.]
When I was growing up my family would always dip our grilled cheese in applesauce, which is delicious btw. It was only when I was about 10 and was talking about it with my best friend that I realized it was something that no one else does.
Allie Ruff I like this! Growing up, we put grape jelly on top of our grilled cheeses. I knew it was not common but thought at least some other people did it. As an adult I’ve only met 1 other person who does this! But I’ve introduced the idea to many many people ! 😋
Grandparent photo room was adorable. My grandparents didnt have a photo room, but a photo "hallway" just for grandkids and a little sitting room with a couch, tv, walk-in spare closet and walls full of their kids photos. I have the most photos in the grand kid hallway and I feel very proud of that accomplishment. R.i.p grandma, thanks for the favouritism
I have something called Aphantasia, which basically means my brain can't simulate senses. I personally can only simulate sound (that is, if I concentrate really hard on a sound I've heard recently, I can hear it again in my head, but it will sound wrong. I don't know how to describe the wrongness, though. But if I try to imagine, say, an apple, I can't form a picture of it in my mind, at all, or on a very rare occasion, I will see a very smudgy, faint outline). For most of my life I thought people were just exaggerating their imaginations, and really they could imagine things about as well as I can. Then, I found a RUclips video talking about it, and watched for some reason, and suddenly, like a smack in the face, it was revealed to me that I was not normal. Edit: fixed a typo
Wow, I've never heard of that. Do you think that's been a hindrance to you in some way? When I study, the most effective thing I do is to imagine and recall the things I've studied without any aid.
@@essennagerry I don't know any other way, so as far as I know it hasn't been a hindrance to me at all, but, like I said, I don't really know what it would be like to not have aphantasia, so I don't have any frame of reference. I think my study skills have evolved around my lack of ability to visualize or imagine anything to do with what I'm studying, so I definitely seem to be an auditory or kinesthetic learner, which might be at least somewhat connected. I really don't know.
I have the same but for some reason my subconscious learning style has developed to be visual. Somehow. The memories are there, I just can't consciously recreate a visual scene. I also have seizures in my temporal lobe so I've always wondered if it was related. I love that you also use the apple as an example! Like, I *know* the shape and colour of an apple, but I remember it without "seeing" it. I think it's been quite a hindrance to anything creative I want to do. I've always been good at writing but I can't come up with plots very easily because it takes me hours of conscious, straining effort to follow the idea.
I just listened to this while eating a sandwich and almost died trying to LOL and swallow at the same time. It should come with some kind of warning like "This is actually funny, be careful"
I always thought these two things where normal until just recently, but apparently most people can’t blur their vision on command, and that it’s not normal for your eyes to violently shake from side to side on occasion. It feels weird knowing that it isn’t normal.
2:02 every time i get new glasses (every time my eyes seem to get worse) i go for a week looking at random thing (grass, gravel, roads, trees) and kinda bugging every like "HOLY CRAP MOM, GRASSS. ITS FRICKING GRASS MOM. I CAN SEE GGGGRRRRAAAASSSSSSSS"
I feel like all introverts have a fake conversation in their head with someone they're going to meet. At least I do... someone else say they do...
Yes
@Esteb5n Caballero i dont have an imagination and no visual memory but i still simulate conversations in my head
I can't tell stories for shit so I have to practice. Even then, I still tell them poorly. I'm introvert too
yep
I do!
I've had simulated conversations that got so intense I've hurt my own feelings. Finding out most other people didn't do that was a trip.
Just found out from your comment that it isn't normal
FYIris I’ve done this
I do that too
I'll sometimes do it to the point where I get angry or start crying... whoops Lol
JGirDesu
Me too..
I thought it was normal to be able to read but not actually listen to yourself reading so no information would be absorbed. I'd read pages of books only to go back and read them again because the first time, I wasn't "listening"
(Btw this is a real thing people with adhd struggle with)
I do this sometimes. If I'm thinking about something else or tired.
I cant even read aloud. I can say every word but will make no sense to me. I still dont get how ppl can read and talk at the same time!!! I used to think i just needed practice. Like with doing maths in my head. Cant do it. Because if i need to remember a number for later its overwritten by the new number. If its 10 or less i can clasp my fingers for remembering the first number. Ppl still tell me its all abt practice. I can do maths if i can write it down. Reading aloud and doing maths in my head is like when my mom knits and watches tv at the same time. Its also impossible.
i do that 🤔
Wait this confirms even more that i prob have ADD
@@jessboo173 dont take my word for gospel so if you really think you have it, please get diagnosed
Literally everyone I’ve ever talked to who got glasses at some point said something about noticing leaves on trees.
I seem to be the only oddball who never paid attention to the leaves when I got glasses. I never noticed until weeks later when my mom asked me about seeing leaves and even then I couldn’t identify if I could see individual leaves before glasses or not. The thing I noticed was that I could read road signs finally
For me it wasn't leaves, but the stone tiles (terrazzo) used in our house (similar to these images.app.goo.gl/6Bu2nLnCn21mmChD6) always just looked like a light brown/beige to me. I had to put my nose against the tiles to see the different spots in HD. Then, when I first got glasses I was surprised how perfectly fine I can see the tiles' pattern when standing up 😅
I literally yelled "WHOA TREES HAVE LEAVES"
Alie The Artist I never once noticed a difference in the leaves on trees because the glasses are mostly so my blind eye can provide somewhat better peripheral vision
The first thing I did on my first day of school with glasses was point at the trees outside and ask my friend, who doesn't wear glasses, "you could always see those leaves?? Just like that??"
I thought PTSD was a normal thing people around you just have, like how depression can just come along with nothing but chemical imbalances, even if your life is fine.
Until I went into foster care and had been in the healthiest environment I’ve ever been in. I didn’t realize that being a 12 year old diagnosed with PTSD would’ve been considered heartbreaking to a healthy person.
I eventually realized what PTSD actually was, and how it wasn’t normal for children to be scarred for life.
Also, suicidal thoughts, or attempts. Both parents, my older sister and I, all have attempted suicide multiple times, but hearing my 50 year old foster mom say she’s never even considered it, really fucked me up. I was 14/15 when she told me this, I’m 20 now and I’m still surprised, just with how normalized being damaged is in my family and that she lived a life that she’s never wanted to end. I wish I had that.
I thought everyone had suicidal thoughts until I was 14 and I talked abt of with people and they were very concerned
Wow! How are you doing now?
Sometimes I think that there's even more beauty and credit to you and your life for being capable of taking care of despite those suicidal thoughts.
I also used to think suicidal thoughts were normal up until I was in university. To this day it baffles me that most people can go their whole lives without contemplating suicide on a nearly daily basis.
Litrally the same thing happened with me I went into foster care and met other people and even worse I thought they had food 3 times a day I thought I was lucky to just have it once in a while, being scared for my life I can relate to aswell, madness.
pretty sure the simulated convos with people is normal??
Yea I thought so
Nope it actually isn't. This weird thing was the reason why the NPC meme just killed people. It hit too close to home.
Me too I'm questioning my reality
But... it IS?!
It probably is normal. And I honestly think everyone SHOULD do it because it may help you prepare better for some conversations (especially the hard things like job interviews) and just thinking things through in general. But there will of course always be conversation you werent fully prepared for, you cant predict everything so you need a bit of spontanety too
The simulated conversations thing I thought was common 😥
I too think it's common. I can't imagine my life without it
Me too
For me it's common. I do it all the time.
Whenever you're ready love
I do that too, but instead of preparing for something I just do it for fun. I also imagine a whole scene along with it. Sometimes action and other times random shit like jumping or just studying.
I imagine dances in my head when I hear music. My dance teacher just told me last night that that majority of people don’t do that
I do that to.
I always do that, just for fun. As a dance student, your's are probably better choreographed than mine 😂
I do something similar but I imagine music videos
I do that too
Doesn't everyone do that? I mean if I don't know a dance I don't make one. But if a song has choreo I always imagine the choreo while listening.
When I was little I used to describe numbers to people by their "colors", like I would say: "I memorized the number 3754 because it is green, brown, yellow and red, like a tree with flowers". Everyone just kind of ignored what i said because they assumed it was just my imagination.
I only learned about synesthesia as an adult. Then I understood people don't see color in numbers.
Synesthesia is so cool! You're blessed to have that ability.
Same! I thought it was completely normal until I mentioned it to my mum and sister and they said they didn’t do that
I have grapheme colour synaesthesia too! I also have Ordinal Linguistic Personification, Chromesthesia (and perfect pitch which is associated with it) and Misophonia.
I learn three days ago about synesthesia. I guess representation can be quite useful.
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i do too it gives me hell at concerts cus i can all see words if that makes sense
I never understood that most people don't have one specific interest they love learning about and need to learn everything about it until they're experts. Turns out I'm just autistic
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what? nobody else does that? i do this literally every day. it doesn't matter WHO i'm going to talk to i always do it if I know i'm going to see them
What's the point? You don't know what the other person will say.
Warren Cotton it’s fun, it keeps you busy
I always do that too lol
A lot of people do it. It’s normal. Especially in the shower.
Really depends on the other person. I will decide on waht topics NOT to address with some people.
The conversation one: the people that said thats borderlind schizophrenic are what are called NPC. They have no internal monologue.
@Esteb5n Caballero never known the name before. Thank. I have something to read about.
@Esteb5n Caballero I simulate conversations too but I have aphantasia tho
@@marihi2387 aphantasia is inability to imagine visual things, not sound. Or am I wrong? Can you 'hear' things in your mind?
@@iridium9512 yes
Jimmy P Wait they don’t go about their life like reading a story?!!
Ok so just found out i have tinnitus, didnt know everyone didnt hear that high pitched ringing when it was silent either so rip i guess
Edit: huh 1k likes thank you youtube gods
Cro Serb thats not tinnitus bro everyone actually has that.
Oh crap I get that too...
Cro Serb wait ur not supposed to hear that
It is normal, as long as you're not in pain. When I first practiced astral projection, that sound would become very loud before I would pop out of my body, so maybe the sound could be related to more than we know.
@@Satan666Official I can't believe I'm siding with Lucifer, but they're right
Everybody who doesn’t fold the toilet paper is officially insane
;-;
I just make a ball wipe and throw it in the toilet lol
@@coraliemorin7095 even weirder
@@franciscariveramartinez I used to do that as a kid but then my dad thought me to fold the piece of paper up because i was using up too much toilet paper. My life changed a lot . That was when i was 3-5, im 12 now.
@@franciscariveramartinez why lmao who has time to gently fold the paper when you can just crumple it a little bit. I don't make a round compact ball just a crumpled up piece of toilet paper
I TRIED TO EXPLAIN THE SUN SNEEZING ONE TO MY FAMILY AND THEY ALL THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY?!! Like I thought that everyone just sneezes when they look at the sun or a bright light? Or like if u can’t get a sneeze out just look up at a light source??
Nope, just you, buddy
That also happens to me... when I was five I claimed I was “allergic to the sun” because I would constantly sneeze when confronted with a bright light, or the sun, and my parents made fun of me for that lol
@@leomalernee7270 No, don't make him feel better. It's only him Lol
JGirDesu aw why do I have to be alone? 😭
@@ajferner1591 Hahaha it's just to make me feel better about how I am the 1% of the 1% where I literally sneeze if I think about having sex. No joke LOL I've never admitted this until just right now. It's like a super power hahaha
The simulated conversation is something I relate to because of severe anxiety
The Hopper I’m an extrovert with no signs of anxiety, though I always have simulated conversations. I have high functioning autism, though, so that may explain it...
Drake` Turcotte I’m no expert but possibly?
Simulated conversations sounds like a form of scripting, which a lot of autistic people do.
@Esteb5n Caballero None of that is correct. Aphantasia means someone can't visualize something as an image in their head, that doesn't mean they don't have ideas or can't think, and it really has nothing to do with the simulated convos, which is just scripting.
I dont have anxiety (in general, not saying Im never afraid) but I still do the conversation thing
I don't sit or stand when wiping, but somewhat of a hybrid. Kind of hunched over like. And as an introvert, I have a constant stream of simulated convos. Both of alternate past convos, and likely future convos.
Game of Life I’m a 15 year old extrovert, and I always do simulated convos. They’re mostly of people I would like to see for once.
The Age of Z Crouch?
No idea how people who wipe when sitting get there hand down there. Do you shuffle forward on the seat or do you do the really unhygienic thing of wiping back to front?
Perhaps bidet users have a point!
@@ianmoseley9910 I was confused as well when I first heard people wipe sitting down. There simply isn't the necessary clearance without sliding forward or lifting up unless your reach from the front and wipe back to front. Then there is poop on your balls or cooch. Baffles me to say the least....
Sometimes I find myself coming up with alternate past convos even when I know they went perfectly well.
Ian moseley I sometimes sit, sometimes stand. I’m really small though, so I have no problem with clearance.
I thought that everybody just listened to the lyrics of a song and naturally dissected them. How do you listen to a song without listening to the words?? I’m so confused..
Alexandra the Great I feel like it’s like listening to instrumental music. You’re listening to the song, but most people probably aren’t like, “ooo, that’s a nice V7-I cadence” or “wow, I can’t believe she sang an E above the staff”. Or even simpler, when you’re in a conversation and you can hear the person talking, but you don’t process anything and you kind of zone out
If it’s a song in your language you’ll probably listen to the words
I rarely listen to the actual words in songs, they are more like another instrument to me. Often I can repeat the words (mostly chorus) of a song I’ve been listening to for years without any comprehension of the message of those words. When my partner pointed out this was weird, I tried listening to the actual words of the songs and understand the meaning. Spoiled a lot of 80s rock songs for me. My way is so much better.
I don't lol, usually because I can't really make out the song lyrics and they sound like half gibberish and half a mix of different languages that I know. I also get distracted by the lyrics when trying to know what they mean, so normally I would prefer instrumental music. However, I also play drums and figuring out the drum beats/pattern is easier to do for me than to know what the lyric is saying which makes me even more easily distracted by songs lol
The way you can listen to instrumental music and enjoy it without lyrics?
Yeah we just apply that mindset to music with lyrics too.
Some people just want music as background noise. It could literally be giberish, or a made up language with no innate meaning behind the syllables. It's still soothing as rhythms and tones.
the first time i wore my glasses i looked at my parents snd went “wow you guys have more wrinkles than i thought”
2:45 As a female, I had no idea guys don't usually wipe after peeing. 😮
@James Rogers my mom uses up the whole toilet roll in 3 bathroom trips, so there's a lot of coverage in there I guess.
It made me feel sick hearing they don't
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@@elijahproto
Whoa that's a lot even with thin tp
Most don't even wash their hands
I thought it was normal to readjust the pressure in you're ears, you know, the pressure you get from changing altitudes? Nope. Apparently everyone else just suffers after getting off an airplane. It's a loud clicking noise and it's not painful.
I think most people swallow to equalize the pressure.
I yawn to 'pop' my ears :)
... How would I even explain how I re adjust my ears manually? I kinda... Click bones in my ears and exhale through my nose at the same time. I'm not sure how many people do that, it's not a subject that comes up much.
Same :)
I do that but somehow I’ve discovered how to do it a less painful way than blowing out of your block nose.
if im alone im literally having solo conversations out loud, akward times when someone hears me. got drunk once and my best friend heard me talking to myself whilr pissing... next day i didnt remember anything and when they brought it up as a way of saying i how drunk i was, ma heart was like "shiiiit..." and kept my mouth shut.
OCD, I didn’t realise most people don’t have intrusive thoughts and compulsions.
Queen you should definitely talk to a doctor.
Oof
I chew food equally in my mouth. Recently discovered that people have dominate sides of their mouth when chewing food; often the same as their hand. Guess it makes sense since I am sort of Ambidextrous; I write with my right and do everything else like pick up things and throw with my left.
I usually will split the food in half, chew a certain amount on one side then switch, or eat one bite with one side and the next with the other. When I was younger and lost teeth I would refuse to eat anything until the tooth grew back and I could eat on both sides again. So half my childhood I survived off of yogurt and smoothies.
I have a broken tooth on one side of the mouth. If I eat with that side I could hurt my gums and het lots of food stuck there. So I eat with the other side. I think it's just convenient tho not a side preference.
I couldn’t imagine having a broken tooth and having to eat on one side only. The thought makes me stressed. I’ve tired eating on only one side and it’s actually uncomfortable. I’m actually curious though, do you brush your teeth more on that side since you use it more?
It’s actually less convenient then you’d think. I’m so particular about it having to be equal, that I consciously have to make sure I don’t use one side more then the other. And in the case that it does happen, I must get more food even if I’m full.
I switch sides... One month left, one month right... Ok it's not like it's a specific time frame, just random xD
I think I do this too, but tbh I'm not sure. I think I do it when I just want to feel the taste on the other side lol. Ig I'll try to be observant about it and see if I switch a lot or have a dominant side.
I switch on a regular basis. I'll have my right side phases and my left side phases. During those "phases" it'll feel kinda awkward to chew on the other side. At the moment I'm in a left side phase, which I may or may not have found out by eating something specifically for this comment.
I'm somewhat ambidextrous too. Regarding most things I'm solidly right-handed, like writing, using my phone, brushing my teeth, but there are some (oddly specific) things I just naturally do with my left hand, i.e. lacing my shoes, peeling stuff like eggs, oranges or shrimps, opening and closing bottles, playing cards etc.
Wait people don’t hear ringing in their ears when it’s quiet
No, for example I don't, only when I was in a loud place for some time
That's Tinnitus
Everyone hears ringing in their ears, but with people with tinnitus(?) it is much much much louder
Last year, psych teacher explained to the class that you occasionally hear ringing in a quiet room because your brain does some sort of check to ensure that you can still hear
Thanks everyone for clarifying me
I had open heart surgery as a child, so I’m used to looking down and seeing a scar that goes all the way down my chest so it fucks me up to see other people’s chests that are perfectly fine and in one piece
Honestly dude, youre strong tho, good shit for going through what you need to live. GG mate
Are you buff? I think it could look pretty badass on muscularly built people. GOOGLE KRATOS from the new GOW. It looks great on him
I had surgery about... 15-20?! On my stomach(how tf do u write that?) So i kinda relate to that...😂 my chest us a mess lmao
Having scars from surgery is better than having scars from being clumsy and unlucky in my opinion. I've hurt myself too many times just from being clumsy so a vast majority of scars I have are from that
I've had open heart surgery too. I'm 23 now and still not used to it.
I'll never forget the laughs of my elementary school's classmates and teacher when I asked how did squirrels get married. Found out, animals are quite the fornicators.
That's adorable. Well, first they go to a squirrel minister...
Me, forgets about the ears ringing when it’s silent.
People in the comment section: *mentions it*
Me: OH CRAP IVE BEEN HEARING IT THIS WHOLE TIME
OTHER PEOPLE CAN DO THAT RUMBLING THING WITH THEIR EARS?????
Is it that whooshing noise you get when you squint the right way?
Amanda Hauer Yep!
Wait what the heck even is that… do you make a noise appear between your ears or what? And how?
When I close my eyes tightly or flex my jaw the right way, I hear a whooshing sound in my ears. It’s like the sound an airplane makes when it’s flying.
@@aaaah540 haha… wow, I definitelly can't do that. I was trying to squint and sqeeze whatever muscles I could and I found I can make myself hear my pulse inside the ears, but faintly. No wooshing. I wonder if the squinting you do causes you do hear your blood circulation loudly?
I always though that when you close your eyes a little while looking at a single strong light , everyone will see these weird long lines coming through the light source.
apparently its astigmatism and when i found out i my day was ruined and i had a well damn good day
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Fuck..
IceBear Pl sounds like it could be you’re eyelashes
Wait other people don’t see that? I’m scared now. Like low key. I already have glasses and I don’t wanna be told I have another eye issue
My life is being ruined through this video and all the comments, i thought it was normal 😩 although i was diagnosed with astigmatism too
I see that too...
Catastrophizing everything. I live by "always assume the worst, that way when it doesn't happen, it's a good outcome"
I handle loss very well 🙃
@@horrificpleasantry9474 Ecclesiastes is a treasure.
PESSIMIST GANG 🖐🖐
I remember pretending sadness at funerals ":D
That's exactly how I keep myself from being disappointed. I set my expectations really low so that way when the outcome is most likely better than my expectations, it doesn't feel bad.
When I was little I thought it was normal that the tv talked to me. Then I was diagnosed with schizophrenia 0_0
The tv would answer too it was weird
Yoo wtf? Age 16 and Ben 10 is helping for finals
What did the TV say to you?
Cassie McDermott they’re heeeeeerreee
Depends schizophrenia develop later on in life like in your mid twenties?
oh god lol. i hope ur ok.
My asscheeks fall asleep if I sit down for more than an hour at a time without getting up
Me: Needs glasses
Optometrist: Its bEcAusE Of ThAt dAmn phOnE
1:58 lol that was my reaction too when i was at the doctor getting my eyes checked for the first time. my mind was like, “woah! everything’s so clear!”
also, how is it not normal to fold the toilet paper before wiping?
9:18 I didn’t know that was classified as synesthesia. I figured everyone had a visual representation of weeks, months, and years in their head. I wouldn’t be able to keep track of anything without it
Wtf that just absolutely blew my mind... I thought everyone had that time visual thing
Mine's not visual, but conceptual. The week is circular with Sunday on top, the year bigger with July on top. I don't visualize an actual circle, but I think of things in the future as being on a certain slope.
I may need to find a representation for decades, as the current representation makes me bad at really long term planning.
Synethesia is basically any crossover of the senses (its basically weird messed up brain shit) so basically any abstract types of things (time, numbers, letters ect.) that you can see or smells/sights you can hear, music that you can taste. basically anything of that nature is synethesia - I have a very low level numbers/letters/words colour form, but honestly I'd love to be able to some of the things that others have like see music and have objects for people :)
galfisk it upsets me that your week is a circle and july is on top. Weeks go from left to right and the year goes clockwise in a square with winter on top and summer at the bottom.
@@iStrong113 Wait what...? You don't have an inner year graph??? :o
When I listen to music I can close my eyes and see a whole music video unravel. I can also remember sounds after years, and recall songs from when I was a toddler that haven't been listened to in ages. Weird?
No it is the same for me, at least I think so. I can remember I lot of things most people just don’t remember, especially dreams! And when I’m listening to music I can imagine the motion and flow of the music, or whatever was happening while the music was playing. And I still remember dreams and experiences I had when I was very little.
Anneliese Kuhnhenn That's exactly what happens to me! I thought I just had a good imagination. I have extremely bizarre and realistic dreams
Anneliese Kuhnhenn same
Same, I also hear the smallest similarities between songs and I'll at first be like "wait did I listen to this before", do you also have that?
This sounds familiar. I can't do the music video thing. But, I can remember songs extremely vividly, down to each instruments part. I also remember conversations to the word for years afterwards. Sometimes I forget this isn't normal and carry on a previously interrupted conversation that everyone else has forgotten.
“Can you taste?”
“Farts?”
I just snort laughed bruhhhh 😂😂😂
Me too!!😂😂 Xx
That apparently not everyone is asked "are you having suicidal thoughts, or thoughts of harming yourself?"
Becuase they just started asking me that when i was 11 so i thought it was a puberty thing or something
Not if its constanty happening go to a doctor
@@salamilid4125 its not actually happening they just keep asking me as if I told them I did have those type of thoughts
1:33 it’s always the leaves that people notice when they first get glasses.
HaileyDavis3 for me it was grass. I’m pretty sure most people don’t notice, for the first while, that their eyesight is failing. It’s so gradual.
For me it was faces. I didn't know you were supposed to know what someone's face looked like unless you were at kissing-close range.
For me it was the road. It was like switching from 480p to 4k. I kept taking my glasses on and off, because of how cool it was.
I noticed I had hair on my arms/legs that could actually be seen lol
When I first got my glasses I remember being so stoked I could see each individual piece of carpet. Like each little like... strand? My step dad just shook his head at me.
I thought that when people complain about their joints clicking they moved out of their sockets and then back in like mine did when they cracked. No just no apparently. It turns out I had Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and bones are not supposed to do that.
Yeah, took me until age 30 to be diagnosed 😅
So... How can one tell if they have Ehlers danlos syndrome? My shoulders used to pop out all the time as a kid and after a bit I could, and still can just move a muscle and pop them out on command. Without even having to use my other hand or any leverage. Can even stick my finger in the socket which is a neat party trick I don't do anymore. Was told by some doctor as a kid I got "stretchy ligaments" and sent me to physio to strengthen my shoulder. Didn't do anything really though.
@@paytah1 ask a geneticist for a diagnosis
For the longest time I thought everyone could switch which eye they were looking out of and only used on eye at a time. Turns out it was an actual condition and all the adults in my life just thought i was lying for the longest time. Kids dont lie about that kind of stuff yall!!
Edit: all of you guys who can switch which eye ur looking out of? Next time u get an eye app mention it to ur optometrist. Its not just a normal lazy eye thing it generally means u have monocular vision of some kind and this can affect depth perception. Best way to tell is if 3D movies dont look any different from normal movies!
AceTrack actually, yes kids do lie about the weirdest stuff so it isnt impossible to lie about but the adults in your life should have atleast tried to consider it
Polaraix not really man? When it comes to medical stuff, things that their bodies do and so forth, kids really dont lie. Maybe a kid will lie that something hurts to get attention, but it its something really out of the park? Unless their parents are doctors there’s no way that they couldve even heard about it much less understood that lying about it could do something
AceTrack I get what you’re thinking but ive heard the same kind if lies from children, not the exact same but very close alot of (smaller) children lie about what they can do or what they have done, I have heard it myself so yes kids do lie about medical stuff even if it seems outrageous
i’m assuming your optic nerves don’t connect before reaching your brain !!
AceTrack omg is this abnormal?? I can do this!! Not too surprising tho, I have all sorts of eye problems and had astigmatism surgery once- but it legitimately never crossed my mind that this particular thing might be weird
Edit: as to the other replies here, I personally lied about anything and everything as a child- but there are some people out there who rarely lie, so I’ll go ahead and say it depends on the kid.
As someone with Asperger’s, literally everything.
Nick Winz hahaha yes. Adhd and asd.... a lot of these resonated with me.
One of my closest friends has Asperger's. I feel more comfortable with people who have it, it's absolutely fascinating! :)
Sameeeee
Yes
@@Satan666Official We're fascinating? Cool, at least somebody appreciates us lol
I don't know if it's Synesthesia, but I usually imagine years in a straight timeline divided into sections. I have a section for the 1990s, a section for the mid 1990s to the early 2000s, a section for the late 2000s to now.
It's like scrolling sideways on a screen with a bunch of years listed, but in my head.
Cratian Government same, and the early years of a decade are green, the mids are like red and lates are blue
My whole life lol. At the age of 19 I was diagnosed with Autism/Aspergers 🙃 All this time I thought everyone went through the same thing as me but they just didn’t say anything.
What’s it like
Same
Hahathatisfunny Bro anxiety is part of being on the spectrum and since I was 3-5 my mum said she could tell I had anxiety. Everyone assumed I would be having a tantrum when it was actually a meltdown. Getting punished for something out of your control really messes you up. My mum would force me to make eye contact because she believed it was a sign of dishonesty (remember she didn’t know I had autism). When in school I would miss out on so much of what the teacher was saying to me because I was too focused on making eye contact. I can hear lights humming and can see them flicker (fluorescent lights, common in office, shops and drs). Sound and visuals are my biggest things that set off a panic/overload/meltdown. It’s generally gotten worse as I grew up. I can’t really tell you what it’s like because I have no idea what it’s like to have a normal wired brain. I can’t imagine what it’s like (part of being autistic), I can only imagine/assume based on my own experiences. Everyone are like aliens to me lol. Some things y’all say and do is confusing. How you can say something mean with a smile on your face is confusing. I’ve had many incidents where someone would be smiling/laughing while being nasty and I thought they were saying something nice to me and I would smile along with them. I much prefer animals (also common with Autism, they said that people with Autism thrive around animals and we generally have a better connection with them for whatever reason). We do feel empathy but we just struggle with cognitive empathy, meaning we struggle to show you the correct way we care and what to do, can be overwhelming. I would cry when other kids cried in school, and I believe I would still do that now lol. We are constantly wearing a mask and when we’re at home/at our safe play, that’s when we’ll have a meltdown because it takes a lot of energy from us. We have to trust you a lot to let you see our “weirdness”, as neuros put it. We get used as an insult, we get stared at for wearing headphones to try and function, and people get insulted and mad at us because we don’t want to be touched. Most of us are scared of authorities because many have killed us/harmed us. We are given a card to hand to medics/police that tells them/confirms we have Autism because otherwise they’ll think we’re crazy or guilty.
Erik Walker Im the most “blunt” person people know (honest) because I say what I’m thinking and how things are but with no bad intentions and not realising it could hurt someone (and if it did and someone says it upsets them, I’ll feel awful and apologies). Growing up I thought everyone was like that but nope, they said the things they said knowing it can hurt someone and that’s just... How. I’m glad I’m autistic to be honest.
RagingThunder Snowflakes is a term people use when they say something offensive and someone rightfully calls them out on it, it’s their response because they’re too fucked up to realise they’re the ones in the wrong not the person calling em out; but ok.
The whole whistle thing is actually a language and dates back 1000 years. its a dying language but the government is keeping it around in case it eventually comes in handy. its actually very interesting and cool to learn about. because if how loud you can whistle you can communicate with someone from 7km away. hey i mean if dogs can do it of course humans can make a language out of it
Macky Day yup I believe it’s from one of Spain’s islands
wait- ear rumbling isn't normal??
I thought everyone could do that!
huh?
I can't imagine not being able to do that!
Same tho!
Wait
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*It isn't normal!!?*
@@CrazyGreenFluff it's where you have a rumbling noise in ur ears, usually when yawning
When I was a kid, I used to do it on purpose as a kind of sound effect. I'd add thunder or explosion rumbles to my imaginary play. Ear rumbling is great!
Ooh just realised I can do that
Wait not everyone hears high pitched ringing in silence!? I’m genuinely baffled by this holy crap
Yeah me too :( I'm now at bed and can't stop hearing that ring, it's like ten times higher since I read it was not normal, oh god I think I might not be able to sleep
Faint ringing is normal. Total silence would drive humans crazy. There's a veritasium video about it.
@@gileee I don't hear any ringing and I'm good.
@@comedicsociopathy It's very easy to miss. Kinda like how you can't taste your tooth fillings after a day or two. They don't actually lose their taste, your brain just learns to ignore it. Or how you can't smell your own body odor.
Although, ringing is also a sign of hearing damage and I've been to a lot of raves and concerts.
me too what-
When I was a kid, I thought very old people were buried alive bc they were not useful anymore
Just figured out I have tinnitus and ear rubbling superpowers and I’m just depressed and still on the toliet
Can everyone make their vision go blurry on command? i thought everyone could until i was talking to one of my friends and she said she doesn't/cant do that 🤔 but i have 20/20 vision
I can do it too! You’re not alone!
YESSSS FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE
I can do that
ScarletTrash126 I can
It's normal,, someone once explained it to me,, but I forgot why it happens. Basically everyone with working eyes can do that.
I have anxiety, and I religiously simulate conversations in my head XD I was actually doing so for the last hour before watching this video
Sometimes I’ll sit there for like 3 hours coming up with a bunch of conversations or scenarios, but then I’ll end up eventually genuinely upsetting myself, or getting angry over something I’ve imagined lol
Yea same
For 3:00
I plan out my conversations for the entire day, I'll think about topics to bring up and jokes to tell and simulate how to follow up to something. Im not introverted at all but I just find it easier to talk when you know what you're talking about.
I just realized that I've been rumbling my ears as long as I can remember. Did not know there was a name for it, nor did it ever occur to me to think about or question if others can/can't do it. Too bad it's not a cool party trick (if you could even prove you're doing it).
Until I was 12 I thought everyone had a gay aunt.
Epic
@Jesse k no quite the contrary. Everyone was super open with it and that gave me the impression that it wasn't only normal but also nothing out of the ordinary.
Omg I always imagined a year in a circle shape with January near the left and January, February and August took up the most space on the circumference. I did explain where each month was to someone once and I know they didn't have it but I didn't know it was synaesthesia.
Also the one about 'wearing my wristwatch on my dominant hand'
'That's your problem. You're supposed to wear it on your wrist, not your hand, you silly goose' said in an unintentionally deadpan robotic voice made me crack up even when replaying it.
I thought I was the only one who imagined a year in a circle shape
I thought everyone imagined their years!!? I do it with weeks and numbers too
@@californyea2992 I also do it with weeks and numbers. They're not in a circle though. Numbers go left to right up to 100 and then straight off in front to further away.
I imagine my year in a circle and my week in a line with all days having a weird shape and their own colours. Numbers go frim left to right in a slight upward angle and they all have colours. Negative numbers, however, are all blue. I only realised a few years ago this is not how everyone sees things.
The glasses thing was exactly like what happened with me!
I was 17 when I first got glasses, and was shocked how detailed everything was!
Also the high pitch ringing in my ears are kind of comforting for me.
Every time I'm sick I get this smell in my nose, and almost every time it's a different smell, and the smell always gives me some weird image in my head or an emotional feeling until I'm not sick anymore.
I can rumble my ears too...
Can everyone not do that???
I’m literally always talking to myself just about the future and how it ideally looks like.
The fake conversations are pretty common, I have them always, when I want to practice how a joke would be for example, I imagine the setting, how to bring it up and how people would react based on things I know about them, well I least I hope it's normal xdddd
A big one that I noticed around five or so years ago when doing a Centrelink Disability forms(Australian Social Welfare), is my issue with focusing on sound (I also have tinnitus which sucks)
all of my life, I was wondering how everyone could talk(and understand) in crowded areas (School halls, nightclubs and social events)
for me, it is simply noise, too much noise to make sense
I think I just assumed that people were closer to each other or they were lip reading or they were just talking pointless shit to fill time.
You probably have auditory processing problems. Your brain has trouble tuning out background noise and focusing on one sound at once. I have a big problem with this too, it's fairly common but often confused with hearing impairment. The easiest way to tell the difference is to have a hearing test - if your test results are within the average range, then auditory processing is your problem. The unfortunate thing is that there's really no way to fix it. You just have to learn how to compensate.
Plucking my eyebrows makes me sneeze and suddenly getting hit by really cold weather can make me gag
@@gircakes that makes sense, I thought it was normal but my friends all told me it was weird. The cold weather gagging is definitely odd though
I've lost arguments with myself.
7:57 What kind of psychopath gets into a hot shower before the water has warmed up?
guitarluva90 I just either keep the water running from the tub faucet until it heats up before switching to the shower head, or direct the shower head away from me/walk out of its stream until it warms up.
But it's a waste of water if you just leave it to warm up
@The nobody shit isn't fucking funny ...Are there actually people who don't use a shower when they have one?
@The nobody shit isn't fucking funny What are you talking about? Showers use less water than baths. Though, I guess it depends on how long you're in there. If you take 30 min showers, you'll probably break even with a bath.
Me: How do you see time?
Me: *thinks a bit*
Me: Oh wait I do that too.
Also numbers and letters and words appear in different colors in my brain.
same. Numbers have a color for me, but words and letters don't. if you don't mind me to ask, what color is 2? For me, is red.
Yup me too. Each day has a different colour and sometimes even symbol. Each number has a different colour. For examble, sunday is yellow and its symbol is a gate(for some reason) and its shining. Monday is a blue 2,Tuesday is a Green 3,Wednesday is dark green w abd Thursday is an orange 5, Friday has no number or colour but Saturday is a purple 7. Trippy as fuck
@@Me-rd7po bruh 2 is blue for me, damn😂
@@Me-rd7po 2 is light grayish-blue. Sometimes my mom randomly asks me what color a certain letter or number is. i don't really mind.
I see the year in a very specific oval shape around my head with a color pattern going from light blue starting January all frosty like (cause winter I suppose) to yellow for summer, orange for fall (October/start of November) and a very dark blue for the end of the year. So writing that down it seems like my years look like a day looping going from. Morning to night from January to December is very hard to explain but its very clear in my head and I didn't know that kind of thing was a form of synesthesia until today. Im about to turn 22 dang.
When I was a kid I thought everyone’s parents slept in different bedrooms. When I got older I realized how strange that is especially since my parents were never together & never hugged or kissed and more acted like roommatesZ
Same :(
My parents got divorced when I was very little, I thought it was normal to switch between my mom and dad’s house until I made friends in school and realized it’s usually not the case.
Same
Anneliese Kuhnhenn same
and they were roommatezss
I can rumble my ears, blur my vision, and rapidly shake my eyes back and forth at will. Not a single one of these is common apparently. This surprised me but also I sorta expected so.
When I was a child (maybe 10 or so) a PE teacher told us to put our arms out straight and kept yelling at me because mine weren't straight. I kept saying they were. A classmate eventually pointed out that my elbow was going backwards, and that there was a bump on the inside of my elbow. I was just like "You guys don't get bumps when you put your arms out straight?"
Turns out I have been able to bend my elbow backwards slightly since birth, that actually putting my arm out straight feels slightly bent to me, 'straight' is backwards, and the bump is actually my joint. (It's hard to describe.)
TL;DR - I can bend my elbow backwards slightly and didn't realise, it creates a bump on my inner elbow which is the joint, thought everyone got a bump when they put their arms out straight.
I have that too.
By any chance, are you hypermobile?
OrangeKotoni I have that too. When I was little, I was in ballet classes and when we had to put our arms straight every girl had their beautiful arms perfectly straight and I didn’t. I started thinking I was very ugly, so I became very insecure
I thought everyone could do the lil' ear rumbles :(
I do them when I'm stressed, they calm me down
I just can do it, I don't do it for a reason. It's like math we learn in school, we never use it.
I do ear rumbles while I play my clarinet. Its a habit
what the hell is an ear rumble?
3:40 that’s just an anxiety thing, nothing to be worried about!
I’m tired I have high functioning autism, and no signs of anxiety. I of course have simulated conversations, though.
Esteb5n Caballero no.
When growing up, I thought every girl secretly dreamed to be boys. A few years later, here I am, a trans man :’)
I assumed it was normal to occasionally have a shooting pain in your ovaries when sneezing, coughing, or stretching.
Turns out I have cysts.
I imagine celebrities bullying me all the time to the point where I'm crying or angry.
With the ear rumbling thing I would always hold my hand out and do it to pretend I'm activating the force
I was 22 when I realized not every family had a poop knife.
My family poops big. Maybe it's genetic, maybe it's our diet, but everyone births giant logs of crap. If anyone has laid a mega-poop, you know that sometimes it won't flush. It lays across the hole in the bottom of the bowl and the vortex of draining water merely gives it a spin as it mocks you.
Growing up, this was a common enough occurrence that our family had a poop knife. It was an old rusty kitchen knife that hung on a nail in the laundry room, only to be used for that purpose. It was normal to walk through the hallway and have someone call out "hey, can you get me the poop knife"?
I thought it was standard kit. You have your plunger, your toilet brush, and your poop knife.
Fast forward to 22. It's been a day or two between poops and I'm over at my friend's house. My friend was the local dealer and always had 'guests' over, because you can't buy weed without sitting on your ass and sampling it for an hour. I excuse myself and lay a gigantic turd. I look down and see that it's a sideways one, so I crack the door and call out for my friend. He arrives and I ask him for his poop knife.
"My what?"
Your poop knife, I say. I need to use it. Please.
"Wtf is a poop knife?"
Obviously he has one, but maybe he calls it by a more delicate name. A fecal cleaver? A Dung divider? A guano glaive? I explain what it is I want and why I want it.
He starts giggling. Then laughing. Then lots of people start laughing. It turns out, the music stopped and everyone heard my pleas through the door. It also turns out that none of them had poop knives, it was just my fucked up family with their fucked up bowels. FML.
I told this to my wife last night, who was amused and horrified at the same time. It turns out that she did not know what a poop knife was and had been using the old rusty knife hanging in the utility closet as a basic utility knife. Thankfully she didn't cook with it, but used it to open Amazon boxes.
She will be getting her own utility knife now.
[Edit: Common question - Why was this not in the bathroom instead of the laundry room? Answer. We only had one poop knife, and the laundry room was central to all three bathrooms. I have no idea why we didn't have three poop knives. All I know is that we didn't. We had the one. Possibly because my father was notoriously cheap about the weirdest things. So yes, we shared our poop knife.]
I have no words....
I LOVE WAKING UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND GETTING TO LAY DOWN FOR A FEW MORE HOURS
OMG the one with the ringing! That’s literally why I’m addicted to music. I just hate silence - since it’s never real silence for me!
Same. Silence is deafening for me because of the ringing.
1:35 BRO... The comment about the individual leafs was my same exact reaction when I got glasses!!
When I was growing up my family would always dip our grilled cheese in applesauce, which is delicious btw. It was only when I was about 10 and was talking about it with my best friend that I realized it was something that no one else does.
That actually sounds really good, that should become a normal thing.
Allie Ruff I like this! Growing up, we put grape jelly on top of our grilled cheeses. I knew it was not common but thought at least some other people did it. As an adult I’ve only met 1 other person who does this! But I’ve introduced the idea to many many people ! 😋
3:04 I do that!! I’ve always done that my whole life lol, didn’t think it was that weird, yikes
Yo hold up, i thought everyone ear rumbled
Me too :(
Sorry I just gotta ask but
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, DO YOUR EARS RUBBLE LIKE A CONTROLLER OR???
First time I got glasses I felt like I was shrunk because the ground looked closer.
Visual snow- always having shimmering particles in your vision.
This made me realize the ringing in my ears isn’t normal
Chloe Roberts
Me too...
wait ur not supposed to hear a tinggggggggggggg sound in ur ear all the time?
It's normal, just very faint. There's a veritasium video on how complete silence makes people go crazy.
3:02 I literally do that when I'm trying to go to sleep XDDD LMAO I ALSO THOUGHT THAT WAS NORMAL?!
This happens to me when I run out of things to think about in bed. Happens once a week, or something.
LittleYayToast XD I do that too when I’m trying to sleep
I found out that not everyone has a mental breakdown when the get shocked, like static electricity. Turns out I just have Hermephobia
People that crumple, stand to wipe, and put the toilet paper "under" on the roll are savages.
Todd Gaak how tf would you wipe without standing lol
Elise V. While sitting
Grandparent photo room was adorable. My grandparents didnt have a photo room, but a photo "hallway" just for grandkids and a little sitting room with a couch, tv, walk-in spare closet and walls full of their kids photos.
I have the most photos in the grand kid hallway and I feel very proud of that accomplishment. R.i.p grandma, thanks for the favouritism
11:12 weird position? Nah people, stop wearing jeans so tight they cut of the circulation to your body parts, wear things that fit god dammit...
When I first got my glasses I almost cried realizing how much detrioated my vision and can see clearly
I have something called Aphantasia, which basically means my brain can't simulate senses. I personally can only simulate sound (that is, if I concentrate really hard on a sound I've heard recently, I can hear it again in my head, but it will sound wrong. I don't know how to describe the wrongness, though. But if I try to imagine, say, an apple, I can't form a picture of it in my mind, at all, or on a very rare occasion, I will see a very smudgy, faint outline). For most of my life I thought people were just exaggerating their imaginations, and really they could imagine things about as well as I can. Then, I found a RUclips video talking about it, and watched for some reason, and suddenly, like a smack in the face, it was revealed to me that I was not normal.
Edit: fixed a typo
Wow, I've never heard of that. Do you think that's been a hindrance to you in some way? When I study, the most effective thing I do is to imagine and recall the things I've studied without any aid.
@@essennagerry I don't know any other way, so as far as I know it hasn't been a hindrance to me at all, but, like I said, I don't really know what it would be like to not have aphantasia, so I don't have any frame of reference. I think my study skills have evolved around my lack of ability to visualize or imagine anything to do with what I'm studying, so I definitely seem to be an auditory or kinesthetic learner, which might be at least somewhat connected. I really don't know.
I have the same but for some reason my subconscious learning style has developed to be visual. Somehow. The memories are there, I just can't consciously recreate a visual scene. I also have seizures in my temporal lobe so I've always wondered if it was related. I love that you also use the apple as an example! Like, I *know* the shape and colour of an apple, but I remember it without "seeing" it. I think it's been quite a hindrance to anything creative I want to do. I've always been good at writing but I can't come up with plots very easily because it takes me hours of conscious, straining effort to follow the idea.
Wow I've never heard of that. I thought everyone could 'feel' things from far away
That interesting.
I just listened to this while eating a sandwich and almost died trying to LOL and swallow at the same time. It should come with some kind of warning like "This is actually funny, be careful"
I always thought these two things where normal until just recently, but apparently most people can’t blur their vision on command, and that it’s not normal for your eyes to violently shake from side to side on occasion. It feels weird knowing that it isn’t normal.
Having different colour values in each eye. Found out how much my colour vision was skewed after cataract surgery in one eye.
2:02 every time i get new glasses (every time my eyes seem to get worse) i go for a week looking at random thing (grass, gravel, roads, trees) and kinda bugging every like "HOLY CRAP MOM, GRASSS. ITS FRICKING GRASS MOM. I CAN SEE GGGGRRRRAAAASSSSSSSS"
Sounds like you smoked too much of it too
After talking to literally anyone I used to re enact the whole conversation in front of the mirror to see if I made weird facial expressions
ME TOO 😳
Canadian Soul same
The simulated conversation thing is an anxiety thing. Nothing to be concerned about.
i like to take showers in the dark, always at nightime, sometimes with cold water. anyone else do this?
Cold water? No, in the dark? Definitely. There's something therapeutic about it, and it helps me think.
I have synesthesia and I thought everyone could see music.
Hairy Pothead I see colors and stuff moving around when I listen to music. Does that happen to you too? I don’t know how it’s supposed to work