Weird, funny things your body does

[maycontainthunder]

Haha, this is how I know my boyfriend’s waking up even when he’s sleeping on the other side of the house. It’s like he has a herald that announces his arrival with a trumpet, only his bum is doing the trumpeting.

I have actually farted myself awake once.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

I am deadpan humorous/serious in a state of half sleep. One spring my spouse and I were in Orlando, when very early in the morning there were two loud booms. My spouse woke up in alarm, I heard them and in a monotone said it was just the space shuttle landing. Another time after a trip on the Salmon river where we slept out on the sand, we finally got to a nice clean bed. Unthinking, I tossed my river gear on the bed, only to hear the outcry from my spouse. We cleaned the bed as best we could. Later that night I was half woken by my spouse furiously trying to sweep sand grains from the sheets, and muttering WHY . . . IS . . . THERE . . . STILL . . . SAND . . . IN . . . THE . . . BED! I just replied, "because you can't go cold turkey." I didn't remember saying that.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

I have actually farted myself awake once.

I did once after a night of beer and tex mex food!

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

I fart. A lot.

Bbbbut, I thought that genteel ladies were supposed to get the vapors, not emit them.

 

[mysterionz]

anyone one of 5% in the world that has Gorlin’s sign? I do. I don’t have EDS though.

 

[Rodafina]

I have actually farted myself awake once.

I knew it. You are actually a sentient and very funny dog, @maycontainthunder. I was convinced you were a canine. Here is the proof.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

anyone one of 5% in the world that has Gorlin’s sign? I do. I don’t have EDS though.

My imagination goes wild . . . . Nevermind.

 

[Rodafina]

anyone one of 5% in the world that has Gorlin’s sign? I do. I don’t have EDS though.

My imagination goes wild . . . . Nevermind.

Google told me: The Gorlin sign is a medical term that indicates the ability to touch the tip of the nose or chin with the tongue. Approximately five percent of the general population can perform this act, whereas fifty percent of people with the inherited connective tissue disorder, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, can.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Google told me: The Gorlin sign is a medical term that indicates the ability to touch the tip of the nose or chin with the tongue. Approximately five percent of the general population can perform this act, whereas fifty percent of people with the inherited connective tissue disorder, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, can.

I realized that, and for the virtue of me, my mind immediately pictured the cherry stem tying scene in Twin Peaks.

 

[Bolletje]

I have actually farted myself awake once.

Is that where your username comes from?

 

[Rodafina]

I realized that, and for the virtue of me, my mind immediately pictured the cherry stem tying scene in Twin Peaks.

Audrey Horne didn’t have youtube, but we do!

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Audrey Horne didn’t have youtube, but we do!

Here is what I was thinking.

 

[Fino]

My eyes water when I torture people by trying to sing.

 

[Bolletje]

My eyes water when I torture people by trying to sing.

And they say people on the spectrum lack empathy

 

[dragonfire42]

Google told me: The Gorlin sign is a medical term that indicates the ability to touch the tip of the nose or chin with the tongue. Approximately five percent of the general population can perform this act, whereas fifty percent of people with the inherited connective tissue disorder, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, can.

I can do that. I can also reach one arm over my shoulder and the other up from the bottom of my back and lace my fingers together (in part because I have long fingers).

Most of my joints are like Rice Krispies (snap, crackle, pop), but I can’t crack my knuckles. I can pop my left thumb in and out of joint (and do so as a stim sometimes, it doesn’t hurt), but only the left.

But I don’t have any sort of connective tissue or hypermobility syndrome.

I can look in two different directions at the same time. I have congenital Brown’s syndrome, which means that my left eye will not move up much beyond halfway, but my right does. I used that as a starting point, it’s easiest to move my left eye around while keeping my right far enough up that its vision is blocked by my eyelid.

Touching the right place on my side (either one) causes a really weird sensation that makes me cringe away.

Instead of gagging when getting a throat swab, I instinctively reach up and try to pull the swab out. I have to actually sit on my hands to not do it.

And I could write a whole nother page on weird sleep things.

 

[Luca]

My eyes water when I torture people by trying to sing.

I initially just read this as "My eyes water when I torture people." Lol

 

[Luca]

Forgot to mention earlier that I poop almost as much as I fart. I'm great for the environment.

 

[AutistAcolyte]

ever since i was young, whenever someone taught me something new that i was interested in learning, i would do a little automatic laugh, and i was always kind of embarrassed by it, although i think ive stopped now (unless i just haven't learned anything in years!)

also, i was thinking about making a thread for this because i hardly even know how to describe it, but ive always been able to induce an odd sort of shiver in myself. i sort of focus all my energy and my whole body becomes sort of discomfortable, but not painfully so. i'm only able to sustain it for a few seconds. ive never told anyone about it, but ive always been able to do it.

 

[maycontainthunder]

Is that where your username comes from?

I have no idea what you are insinuating.

 

[Outdated]

but ive always been able to induce an odd sort of shiver in myself.

I can do this too, when outside in cold weather I can trigger a shiver that sends a surge of heat through my body, but I can only do that once an hour or so and it burns up a lot of sugar.

It was a great party trick when walking with your arm around a girl and she says "I'm cold".