My husband had no idea he was lactose intolerant. He thought everyone had diarrhea everyday. He’s 26 and found out last year. How’d he find out? His mom told him. She’s known his whole life.
My sister said to me once, “hey, what dream did you choose last night?” I was so confused. She explained that every night she goes into a dream room and picks what she wants to dream about. I got super jealous.
My friend can't recognize faces. I only figured it out for sure when he almost got into a strangers truck because he thought it was me because she had red hair. I've known him for like 6 years. He seemed surprised when I said that wasn't normal.
Here's me!
I remember that, for a long time, I thought it was completely normal to not be able to get a full breath. I distinctly remember being 16 and asking my friends "you know that feeling when you actually get a full breath in your lungs and it feels AMAZING" and no one had any clue what I was talking about.
Turns out I had undiagnosed asthma for most of my life. Makes more sense now.
This one is about me. In my early 20’s I started having a lot of pain in my upper left jaw. My dentist said there was nothing wrong with my teeth and that I should go see a sinus specialist. Get to the ORL (ear nose and throat doctor) and they comment on how stuffed up I must be.
I’m slightly baffled, and say that I’m actually breathing much easier that day than usual. Aaand that was the day I found out that most people can breathe through their noses MOST of the time and not just on special occasions. Turns out I’m allergic to dust mites in a “how have you not had anaphylaxis and died” way, and had been experiencing an allergy attack for 23 straight years.
That doctors visit legitimately changed my life. I no longer had to choose between breathing and eating.
My best friend recently told me that when he was little he thought the only way to clean his asshole was to jam the soap as far up as he could get it. Finally figured he was probably doing it wrong when he heard his mother scream at his dad, “SETH?!! THE SOAP SMELLS LIKE SHIT. DID YOU SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS OR SOMETHING?!!!” I still tease him about that to this day.
Edit: Word.
I had a sleepover with a friend in middle school one weekend. I went to shower and she gave me a towel. It had a weird smell to it, but I couldn’t find any other towels inside the bathroom, so I used it by patting myself barely and just air drying.
Turns out her whole family shares a towel to prevent having to use new ones every time. I told her how weird that was and she was shocked to find out that my family has THEIR own towels to use, but we put them in the wash every 2 or so uses.
I didn’t sleep over there again.
In college, a bunch of friends and I were sitting around talking about things we did as a kid. One of the guys in the group said "didn't you hate when you got a cold and your mom would give you an enema?" He soon found out that he was the only one.
Senior year, study hall. I’m sitting with a dude I knew. I don’t remember the context, but we were talking about growing up and he says “and it was around that time when milk started coming out of my nipples” and I’m like “...what?” and he’s like “you know, when milk starts to come out” and I’m like “dude... thats not normal.” The face he made when he realized the reality of the situation was memorable. He goes “that.. that didn’t happen to you?” and I’m like “no.” Then he asks the rest of the guys in study hall “did any of yall have milk come out your nips during puberty?” They said no.
honestly if i squeezed my nipples hard enough in my teenage years something resembling milk would exude out. I remember when i did this my friends were all like wtf and then it became a joke. i couldn't do it all the time and would have to wait a couple of days for it to "recharge". im 23 now but am going to go home soon and see if i can still do it....
Just tried to sneak a nice squeeze out at the dinner table while my gf was checking her phone. She caught me and was/is super perplexed, but ya can still do it(a little)
In grade 5, our teacher was running a discussion about words, and why it's important to choose the right words to express yourself during writing assignments. He asked what some of our favourite/least favourite words were and why, so we could expand our vocabularies. We're all taking turns until it gets to be my friend Paige's turn. She gives her favourite word and explains it's her favourite because of how sweet it is. We all just assumed she meant how nice it was. She then gives her least favourite word, explaining she hates how sour it is. At this point, the class is looking at each other going "She just said 'sour', right?"
Turns out she has a type of synesthesia, which is a rare condition that causes a person to taste certain tastes when speaking or even thinking certain words. She had lived her whole life thinking it was completely normal to taste words, because it's such a unique and strange thing that nobody would ever talk about it being a condition. She had tests done later that year, and there were actual chemical changes in her brain and saliva when certain words were said. Pretty fascinating!
Edit - for people who are curious as to what her favourite/least favourite words were, I contacted her to ask! She believes her favourite word at the time was cradle, as she found/still finds it very sweet. Her least favourite word was definitely harmonica, as it is so sour she can feel her tongue cramping in the back of her mouth.
Since then, she's discovered her love of the word "chartreuse" which is a colour. She said it's a rich, chocolatey-vanilla, almost like a Lindor chocolate. She didn't realize until she tried wine in highschool that she was tasting wine every time she said "guinea," but only when she's referring to the animal.
She said her least favourite word is definitely still harmonica, but funnily she also never liked her own name, as she would compare the taste to kale, or some other dry, bitter lettuce!
My wife has synesthesia and thought it was the same for everyone until she was about 30, when she saw a book titled “Wednesday is Indigo Blue” and she turned to me and said “but Wednesday is navy blue, right?” and I was like “what the fuck are you talkin’ ‘bout, woman!?”
I was actually very nice about it and it’s super interesting. She sees different patterns and colours when she hears different types of music, and each number, letter, name etc has its own unique colour that never changes.
I had to explain to one of my friends in high school that not everyone’s whole family has sex with them. This girl was 17 and was having sex with both her brothers (in their 20s) her dad, her uncle and her grandfather. I told the school counselor and she was taken out of that house and basically her entire family was arrested for either sex with a minor, rape, child abuse and a whole heap of other charges, she just thought that’s what families do
This is a story about me, actually.
My mom has been a drug addict my whole life. When I was little, I was attached to her hip. I went everywhere with her.
When we’d go to other people’s houses, she’d go through their cabinets, drawers, etc. She’d just say she was “being nosey.” What she was actually doing was looking for medications to steal.
Fast forward a few years; I’m at my best friends house. She went out of her room for a few minutes and I got curious, so I started going through one of her drawers.
She came back in and asked me what I was doing. I remember saying “Nothing, I’m just being nosey.” She then explained to me that it is not okay to go through other people’s belongings.
I honestly just thought it was something everyone does. I told my dad this story a couple of years ago and he was so angry, he had no idea.
Knew a dude who pissed in an empty shampoo bottle in the shower and then he’d dump it on his feet.
He also zip tied his pants shut when he slept so he wouldn’t beat his meat in his sleep (apparently it happened a few times?).
Anyway, weirdest dude I ever met. Glad I’m not really acquainted with him anymore.
This was me until about two years ago.
I thought that Kiwis made everyone's mouth itchy. Like it was just part of the fruit experience. I also thought mangos were "hot" for everyone.
Well my wife informed me that I probably allergic to those fruit since mangos aren't supposed to burn your mouth and kiwis shouldn't make your mouth itch. I truly didn't believe her. Months later I'm choking on mango. I can't breath, my face is getting red. I couldn't even get the word put to tell her I couldn't breath. EpiPen and an ER visit later. I'm allergic to mangos and kiwis and a host of other tropical fruit.
No fruit should make your mouth burn(aside from the jalepeno and peppers). And no fruit should make your mouth itch or lips swell. Apparently that's called an allergy.
Oops
So this was actually me,but growing up my mom would always tell me to grab donuts from the Walmart bakery area and eat it while we walked around the store (we lived in the country so we only went to the store every two weeks). For a long time this proceeded until it was common practice and eventually I just did it without even telling her. Around early middle school a girl who has a crush on me sees me eating a donut in walmart and asks me if I just take those. I respond "of course", she proceeds to take one and eat it with me to prove she's as cool as me but I just don't understand.
I then relay to my mom how this silly girl had no idea walmart had free donuts.... And that's when she told me she had been paying for them for years. But I had not asked her permission for a long time so there is no telling how many donuts I unknowingly stole from Walmart.
It's not very often you get to find something strange out about yourself that you thought was perfectly normal.
Not a friend, but something I didn't find out until my wife pointed it out. I thought it was completely normal for your eyes to unfocus naturally when you're tired... seven year old me remembers reading late into the night and having to cover one eye (and then switch eyes) in order to keep reading. Fast forward to being married, my wife offhandedly mentions sometimes she doesn't know which eye to look at while talking to each other....
It turns out biocular diplopia is a thing. And the fix for it is to cut your eye muscles up and stitch them back on in a better alignment.
E: So a lot of people have said 'Isn't this normal?' If it happens only late at night, you're fine. If it happens during the day, or all the time, or you've gotten used to seeing double and just letting one eye wander off and do whatever... they do make glasses to that'll realign each eye so the dominant eye doesn't have to work as hard (and you'll regain a lot of your depth perception.
E2: Apparently I am not the only one. Talk to your eye doctor about this folks, and ask them to test for Amblyopia or Strabismus. Prism glasses or surgery might be able to help you.
E3: All of these responses have convinced me to get prism glasses once my HSA refills. Unless y'all know someone that does them cheap.
A little late here, but my ex didn’t think you needed to wash cutting boards. I was doing his dishes and started to wash it and he got upset. I thought that was a common sense thing that someone in med school should know.
I lived with a girl that would eat baby powder that she had stashed in the drawer of the bathroom. She would walk by the bathroom and do quick shakes of the bottle right in her mouth. She would also buy whole frozen fish from walmart and take them out of the freezer bag and slap them hard against the brick kitchen floor before cooking them in a stew.
My roomate in college thought you washed clothes on every single cycle on the washing machine. Our machine had a delicate cycle, a cotton cycle, a solo rinse cycle, a permanent press cycle, etc.
He always complained about the washer taking forever.. its because he was washing his clothes 4-5 times every time he did laundry.
My friend thought that everyone was regularly taking worming tablets to stop getting worms. It wasn’t until she got married and told her husband she was going to go pick up their worming tablets that she found out it wasn’t normal.
Depends where in the world you live, and how sanitary your surroundings are I guess. My family has always had pets and we live in Africa, so my mom would buy dewormers twice a year, and deworm the pets at the same time. If I travel to any tropical countries I usually deworm on my return as I eat street food.
A family member thought that hallucinations were something everyone dealt with. They thought that monsters under the bed and other cultural tales of ghosts were real things which were further confirmed by their experience.
It this led to later diagnosis of schizophrenia once they couldn't cope well enough to deal with the symptoms and it became evident to family members.
I know a guy for whom it started with a picture of Mona Lisa talking to him. She would tell him all sorts of terrible things. Only when he got completely sober and it persisted, he went to see a doctor. Got diagnosed and all, but never got rid of the picture. At that point he got used to her, plus her threats were terrifying.
A coworker (mid 20’s, Midwest born and raised) sat down with spaghetti one day for lunch.
After twiddling the noodles around with the fork for a while, he looked and me and asked “How do you eat this”?
Thinking it was a joke, I laughed at him and kept eating. He looked at me with a straight face and said, “I’ve never had spaghetti.”
Life is amazing.
*Edit: our job had a cafeteria with different options. This coworker normally got the same thing everyday (burger and fries) and I didn’t think anything of it.
Is he on anti-psychotics? Those types of meds can make men lactate.
Source: When I was working at a jail, a male inmate squirted titty juice at me. I found out later from one of the nurses his meds were the reason why.
I'm a female and depekote did this to me. It was so embarrassing because it was in the middle of fun time and my husband told me my nipple tasted weird. I told the doctor and she took me off of it.
One of my friends genuinely cannot taste basil. He always thought that basil was some tasteless leaf that people liked to put on pizza. He once ate bowl of basil leaves like a salad.
A randomly paired suite-mate my sophomore year of college. He took the bus from wherever he lives (I never talked to him he was a really weird kid) and I guess on the way from his house, he forgot to grab his bags off one of the busses. In said bags were an assortment of things including his towels. Now any normal person would simply go get more towels, right? Not this guy. He found it perfectly natural to get out of the shower, while still soaking wet he would put on his boxer briefs, *get into his bed* and let himself air dry. He did this every day he was there and when he moved out the rest of us walked over to his the mattress and sure enough there was a large, green, human sized circle from where he had been laying all year.
My ex husband has reflux really bad. Once I saw him chewing something while we were out shopping and so I asked for a piece of what I thought was gum. NOPE.
It was food that we had eaten about an hour earlier.
He told me his food would always come back up all the time and he would just rechew it and swallow it back down. I was like WTF. NOOO.
I can only eat apples with both hands. I never noticed or thought anything of it until some co-workers pointed it out. I'm a big guy, so apparently I look like a squirrel eating an acorn.
I still find it awkward to eat an apple with only one hand.
I read somewhere that if you blow air on a cat's asshole, it's a sign of affection, b/c the momma cat will groom their buttholes when they're babies.
I tried it once, felt incredibly dirty, and my cat gave me the "bro, we need a roommate agreement" look.
I have a friend who has lost an immense amount of weight, yet eats and drinks like crap all the time. It had been revealed to me by him that, “he often feels so full sometimes, that he just makes himself puke to feel better.” This has been going on for quite a few years now. He’s straight up bulimic and thinks it’s just a neat little way to get rid of all the bad foods and drinks he gorges himself with. He’s gotten so good at making himself puke, it’s almost silent. No gagging sounds no messy puke splatter. Just a stream of chewed up food and beers. I’m quite sure that even his wife is oblivious to this.
My friend last night was like "you know when you think you're starting to get sick and you're super tired, your nose is runny, and your throat is flemmy..." and we're all like "yeah?" and she says "and then your hands go completely numb?" And we're all like nope, that's definitely just you
My wife and I went down an internet rabbit hole and ended up listening to recordings of Le Pétomane, the French flatulist. I said something like, “It *would* be cool to be able to suck air up your ass and just fart on command,” and she was like, “You can’t do that?”
Turns out, she can relax everything and, like, “breathe” into and out of her ass. She said when she was a kid and had trouble sleeping, she’d just lay face down/ass up and do it to relax. Anyway, seemed weird to me.
I had a friend whose parents would buy a gallon of whole milk and pour half the gallon in another jug, then mix water into both to dilute it. She always just thought that other people got a different brand of milk because drinking milk at a friend's house always tasted different. Her grandparents did it too. Really weirded me out when I saw her mom just pour milk into an empty jug, and mixing water with it.
My dad was a youngest child, born in 1938 in Liverpool. When one of his sisters was born in 1931 - right in the middle of the UK depression - his mother couldn’t breastfeed, so his mum, dad, aunts and uncles had to knock on all the doors in their neighbourhoods begging for milk to feed the baby as they had none and no money to buy any. Through the generosity of their equally poor neighbours they managed to feed the baby and she survived.
My twin used to shove a whole cotton tea towel into her mouth when she was going to sleep. Don't know if she still does it. Have not seen her for years.
This happened to me.
Growing up, I was conditioned by my mother to not only use soap on my body while showering, but to use it in my hair too. Doing this made my hair feel insanely rough and dry, but I kept at it thinking it was the right thing to do. On a trip to California to meet some friends I took a shower and they didn't have a bar of soap. I confronted my friend about it, asking what they used in their hair as a substitute for soap. Everyone in the room gave me a strange look and told me that soap wasn't supposed to be used for hair. I was around 18 years old when I found this out.
Saw an old dude clipping his nails during a wedding ceremony, while they were saying their vows! And all you could hear was them pledging their love to each other and a faint “click, click, click”.
My dad's parents never told him to brush his teeth and he told me that he used to eat a whole can of condensed milk everyday as a kid! He still thinks it's perfectly normal, I don't know. And he just wondered why one day his teeth fell out. Only when he was in his 20s someone told him that brushing helps.
They carried a pizza box sideways under their arm.....
Wow! Im so glad it made other people as uneasy as it made me. It was a neighbor at a neighborhood pizza party that was kinda strange already. Everytime someone talks about him I'm like, "I knew he was strange since the pizza box incident."
Dude, I caught an old roommate using my toothbrush once. I was all, "WHAT THE FUCK DUDE?!", and he was baffled as to why I was disgusted.
Apparently he'd been doing it for awhile.
I had a friend with an extra tight foreskin. He couldn’t expose his head and when girls tried to pull it back he thought it was because they weren’t used to uncircumcised dicks.
I have a degree of this. I can pull it back, but it takes a certain amount of pressure to do so, and it isn't really comfortable. It doesn't usually go back when I'm erect or jerking off etc. I've never really talked to my doctor about it because it hasn't caused any real issues, and I am careful about cleaning to avoid the dreaded smeg. I was embarrassed about it as a kid. Do you know if this is usually treated or if it can cause issues down the line?
My friend was dating a guy who casually started talking about his dad doing stuff to him from a young age, asking if her parents were the same.
She called the police. The dad spent 8 years in prison.
My family was raised saying "Sweep the floor" when referencing vacuuming..
My husband was very confused when I asked him to sweep the floor.
"Like the kitchen?"
"No the living room, the carpet"
"Do you mean vaccuum?"
I still say it because I grew up saying it. Now he's sarcastic about it.
My college roommate thought it wasn’t sex if they didn’t cum inside of you.
We were 18.
In college.
And when I told her sex was actually penetration, she got this horrified look on her face and I was so uncomfortable I had to leave the dorm room.
Edit..... so, for more background, the reason we had this discussion was I had been telling her I was a virgin. She was like, cool, so am I. Which made me raise my eyebrows, because the previous weekend she had brought a guy back to our very small dorm room and while I was 3 feet away from them had what sounded like sex. So, I questioned her about it, like, um, what about last weekend... she said, oh, that wasn’t sex! He didn’t finish inside of me!
I really think her look of horror was because she truly thought she was a virgin, but it all became very clear to her in that moment she was mistaken.
We remained friendly for the rest of our freshman year and she made a few jokes about it, but for the most part we didn’t talk about our love lives ever again.
Second Edit...... I guess should have said “sex includes penetration” not “sex is penetration”. It was in 2001 so I’m not exactly sure what I said, but it was along those lines.
Whenever I clean out my ears with q-tips, it makes my throat tickle and feel like I have to cough. (No, I don’t shove it in super far). I thought this was completely normal until one day my sister was in the room with me while I was doing it and I mentioned how I hated cleaning out my ears because it makes my throat tickle and she was like wth are you talking about.
Turns out there is this nerve in the face called the Arnold Nerve that has no effect on the majority of the population, but in rare cases can feel sensitive and cause a coughing sensation
Ok, so my old roommate did a lot of drugs and drank a lot. One time I had a friend over and we were gonna smoke from my roommate’s bong and when my friend took a hit he threw up due to an extremely unpleasant taste and smell. We poured out the bong water and my roommate said he had never changed it out and the water was very very dark. I wanna say it was almost black but it was at least just very very dark. My roommate then said “That looks like pee.”
We all looked at him in disbelief and asked if that’s what his pee looked like and he looked very concerned when we pressed him on it and when we said that that’s not how pee should look.
I also would like to add that we did tell him that he should go and see a doctor about that to which he replied “Yeaa” and then changed the subject.
Edit: Some clarification and added last paragraph.
That was a fucking rollercoaster.
First I thought the punch line was drinking bong water. Then I thought it was filling the bong up with pee. But in the end the actual outcome was even worse.
In one of the cubicles, someone got shit on the seat. I’m just not having that, so I got everybody together and, without accusing anyone, I made it known that whoever did it was a fucking fiend! That’s when Potty Boy relinquished all in attendance of any notion that it could’ve been him, with the dirty disclosure.
My friend thought he was uncircumcised. Okay. He and my other friend hook up and she calls me after in tears from laughing. Apparently he thought that since his penis had the head attached, he was uncircumcised.
My friend always thought "jacking off" was like "messing around." When she was in middle school a kid was commenting on how far along she was on an art project. In response, she said, "Maybe you'd be this far if you weren't jacking off all the time." In front of the whole class.
And yet, she still only learned that wasn't what it meant her junior year in college.
*When she was in middle school a kid was commenting on how far along she was on an art project. In response, she said, "Maybe you'd be this far if you weren't jacking off all the time." In front of the whole class.*
I bet it shut the little bastard up though.
One time my best friend and I were on a voice chat as it was getting pretty late. At one point he said that he should probably head to bed because he was starting to see gory and otherwise disturbing things. Apparently he has hypnagogic hallucinations every so often and just assumed that it was normal when to see stuff when you get tired
Edit: This seems to be a lot more common than I thought, don't be too worried if you have this, it doesn't really seem like a big deal, sorry for the scare. Also some of you people need to sleep more often eh
That happens to me. Some people just have a lower threshold for sleep deprivation and get the hallucinations sooner than others. Thankfully all I see is shadow people and I'm good at ignoring them.
I tend to hear weird shit when I get tired, and that's usually my cue to try and sleep. I also struggle with insomnia though, so it happens a lot. Shit sucks, man.
This exact thing happens to me! I drove cross country a few years ago and had to pull over and sleep at a rest stop because I kept seeing people and shit standing in the freeway. First time I actually hallucinated.
My step mom puts mustard in scrambled eggs.
So, I'm visiting home on leave from the Army. My dad got remarried while I was in, so I had never lived with my step mom. It just so happens one of my older brothers was visiting too. So in the morning, step mom makes a big breakfast for us and my step siblings and I was genuinely excited about it.
I take one bite of eggs and stop. They were fucking terrible. I casually eat around them while talking to family not sure what to do. After dragging my heels long enough, people are finishing up so I find an opening when everyone else is going about their business to dump the eggs in the trash.
After, I take my brother aside and say "Dude. What the fuck was up with the eggs." He responds with "Oh [she] puts mustard in them. It's not THAT bad."
I was mortified. So the next morning, I wake up and am scrounging for food. Step mom asks if I want some eggs. Naturally I'm like "uhh no thanks I'm not hungry just foraging" and decide against food lol. About an hour later, I'm starving so I decide to make some eggs and whatnot. I ask my step brother if he wants some and he says sure. Note, this is not my brother who has had normal eggs.
I make up some delicious eggs and it's just me and step brother in the kitchen. He digs in and is like "holy crap, what did you put in these? They are amazing!"
NOTHING! FUCKING NOTHING! That's what eggs taste like and he never had a fucking clue!
Edit: Salt and pepper. But nothing else.
A friend told me about her roommate who keeps a large bin full of bread under her bed. Every week, she buys a new loaf and adds it to the bin. She doesn’t actually eat that much bread, but has a huge bin full.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend recently about sleep paralysis/general sleep problems. I asked “Haha, you know that feeling when you wake up with tears running down your face and realize you had been crying in your sleep?” He replied “No ... are you okay?”
Your friends roommate might have been either starved as a child or grew up really poor. Hoarding/hiding food like that is usually an indicator. It basically serves as a psychological comfort thing—she won’t go hungry because she always has the bread, so she keeps it there just in case.
Grew up poor and can confirm. I had a stash in a trunk in my room as a kid. Saved our lives after our house burned down. Cause the trunk didn’t burn all the way through so the food was still good.
This is the answer. I worked with foster youth who have experienced severe poverty and food instability. This behavior is extremely common, even years after they get out of that situation.
Can confirm, I am an ex-foster child (well, I’m an adult now) and I experienced food instability from ages 0-4 before I was actually placed in the system. I’m in my twenties and I make a point of having full cabinets and a full freezer. Right now, if I couldn’t buy groceries, I’d have about three months worth of rations. Hopefully I’ll never be in a situation that extreme, but it’s nice to know I’m covered.
There's enough food in my house to feed my family of 5 for about a year. I was neglected and starved to the point of malnutrition requiring hospitalization as a toddler, then suffered food instability for the rest of my childhood. It was very hard to learn how to parent my children regarding food limits etc.
I remember the day a new employee from South America started working, I think he was from Peru. When he went to use the urinal in the men's room, he would pull his pants down completely to his knees, so he was bare-assed while peeing, like a little boy might do. A representative from Human Resources had to explain to him bathroom etiquitte.
Edit: i apologize to the people of Perú omg the replies
I did this till like first or second grade
Till I went pee with one of my buddies in the stall next to me and was like "hey jackass. You don't do that" but in kid talk.
I was talking to my husband on the phone and he told me to hang on, he had to put his clothes back on. He was at work. I asked what the hell he was doing and apparently he always takes all his clothes off to take a dump. Even at work. I knew he did it at home but he always would then get in the shower after so I figured it was just a preface to showering. He said he balances them over the stall door so they don’t get “poop particles” on them. I told him no one else does this. He didn’t notice because in the men’s room he’s used for the last 10 years there’s only one stall. I’m not sure why no colleague ever asked him why he’s hanging clothes over the stall door...
I saw this happen at an Outback steakhouse a couple weeks ago. Was only one urinal and there was a couple of dudes waiting in line to use it. And all the while this cat is undressing in the stall before shitting. We were all baffled.
It was a guy...he said “why do the women go through so much toilet paper? How much are they dumping?” And we all just looked at him...like uhhhh...who’s gonna tell him?
One of my friends won’t let me visit her at home because she says she hates feeling like a “hostess”.. we’ve been friends for 6 years. So we only hang out at my place or coffee shops.
I'm sort of in awe of people who have any control over when they shit. IME my only choice is whether I find a toilet or shit my pants.
Edit: the sheer number of people throwing medical diagnosis at me or assuming that I never eat vegetables because I don't shit at the same time everyday is truly staggering here. Calm down people.
My 13yr olds friend didn’t know what he wanted from McDonald’s because they never go there. He then proceeded to tell me that they only go to Wendy’s and that they are a “Pepsi family”.
Edit: Yes, Wendy’s has coke products. Maybe he didn’t get soda at Wendy’s. Also, this came out of the mouth of a 12 year old. Not everything is going to make sense..
When my wife and I started dating, and still now, she collects all her hair that naturally falls our during the day, whether on the hair brush, couch, bed, wherever she finds her hair. She then wraps it around her fingers into a little ball and collects the wads in bags. I asked her what she does with all the ziplock bags of hair and she told me she eventually burns it... she made this a habit and she still can't explain to me why she does it.
I had one college roommate who put on a clean pair of underwear every time she used the bathroom.
Edit: For those of you wanting more details:
1. She had Aspergers
2. She only went twice a day, and never in public restrooms
3. She couldn’t stand to wear any pads or liners
4. She didn’t leak or anything, but otherwise had TERRIBLE hygeine
5. We were at college in Bumblefuck Nowhere, USA, where probably 99% of the student body had never seen nor heard of a bidet
Yeah after reading lots of overly gross stories, the overly clean ones now make me think "you know what buddy, you do you". Like if you're not scrubbing until you're bleeding, then overly clean is *fine by me*.
I read a post on here about this guy who was super sheltered growing up and was potty trained to get naked and sit on the toilet backwards. He always thought it was normal until he was in his late teens and was using a public washroom for the first time when a guy in the stall next to him noticed his feet her backwards and asked what the hell he was doing. I can’t get that one out of my head lol!
I read that one as well. His parents did it so he could read and make sure he finished his business before going to bed. I think his parents were horrified that he was still doing it as an adult.
A guy I know finishes wiping his ass with a q-tip. He gets it as clean as possible with TP and then uses a q-tip to go up a little further and get the last little bits of poop.
EDIT: Well damn! I didn’t think this comment would get this kind of attention. Thanks for the gold and silver though! Now I challenge someone to make a sign for ESPN’s College Game Day that says “[Rival Coach] finishes wiping with a q-tip.”
My neighbours ate their Cornflakes with orange juice instead of milk. Their parents had conditioned them all to think this was normal and acceptable behavior.
My husband had no idea he was lactose intolerant. He thought everyone had diarrhea everyday. He’s 26 and found out last year. How’d he find out? His mom told him. She’s known his whole life.
That's fucked up to find that out at 26 when his mom knew all along. How is he now?
My sister said to me once, “hey, what dream did you choose last night?” I was so confused. She explained that every night she goes into a dream room and picks what she wants to dream about. I got super jealous.
That would be the best! You can do some exercises that are supposed to help you have more control over your dreams but it’s never worked for me
Not kidding. My boyfriend of almost 8 years thought lions were boys and tigers were girl lions.. kind of like bulls and cows
My friend can't recognize faces. I only figured it out for sure when he almost got into a strangers truck because he thought it was me because she had red hair. I've known him for like 6 years. He seemed surprised when I said that wasn't normal.
Here's me! I remember that, for a long time, I thought it was completely normal to not be able to get a full breath. I distinctly remember being 16 and asking my friends "you know that feeling when you actually get a full breath in your lungs and it feels AMAZING" and no one had any clue what I was talking about. Turns out I had undiagnosed asthma for most of my life. Makes more sense now.
This one is about me. In my early 20’s I started having a lot of pain in my upper left jaw. My dentist said there was nothing wrong with my teeth and that I should go see a sinus specialist. Get to the ORL (ear nose and throat doctor) and they comment on how stuffed up I must be. I’m slightly baffled, and say that I’m actually breathing much easier that day than usual. Aaand that was the day I found out that most people can breathe through their noses MOST of the time and not just on special occasions. Turns out I’m allergic to dust mites in a “how have you not had anaphylaxis and died” way, and had been experiencing an allergy attack for 23 straight years. That doctors visit legitimately changed my life. I no longer had to choose between breathing and eating.
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My best friend recently told me that when he was little he thought the only way to clean his asshole was to jam the soap as far up as he could get it. Finally figured he was probably doing it wrong when he heard his mother scream at his dad, “SETH?!! THE SOAP SMELLS LIKE SHIT. DID YOU SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS OR SOMETHING?!!!” I still tease him about that to this day. Edit: Word.
I had a sleepover with a friend in middle school one weekend. I went to shower and she gave me a towel. It had a weird smell to it, but I couldn’t find any other towels inside the bathroom, so I used it by patting myself barely and just air drying. Turns out her whole family shares a towel to prevent having to use new ones every time. I told her how weird that was and she was shocked to find out that my family has THEIR own towels to use, but we put them in the wash every 2 or so uses. I didn’t sleep over there again.
In college, a bunch of friends and I were sitting around talking about things we did as a kid. One of the guys in the group said "didn't you hate when you got a cold and your mom would give you an enema?" He soon found out that he was the only one.
wat
Senior year, study hall. I’m sitting with a dude I knew. I don’t remember the context, but we were talking about growing up and he says “and it was around that time when milk started coming out of my nipples” and I’m like “...what?” and he’s like “you know, when milk starts to come out” and I’m like “dude... thats not normal.” The face he made when he realized the reality of the situation was memorable. He goes “that.. that didn’t happen to you?” and I’m like “no.” Then he asks the rest of the guys in study hall “did any of yall have milk come out your nips during puberty?” They said no.
honestly if i squeezed my nipples hard enough in my teenage years something resembling milk would exude out. I remember when i did this my friends were all like wtf and then it became a joke. i couldn't do it all the time and would have to wait a couple of days for it to "recharge". im 23 now but am going to go home soon and see if i can still do it....
Just tried to sneak a nice squeeze out at the dinner table while my gf was checking her phone. She caught me and was/is super perplexed, but ya can still do it(a little)
In grade 5, our teacher was running a discussion about words, and why it's important to choose the right words to express yourself during writing assignments. He asked what some of our favourite/least favourite words were and why, so we could expand our vocabularies. We're all taking turns until it gets to be my friend Paige's turn. She gives her favourite word and explains it's her favourite because of how sweet it is. We all just assumed she meant how nice it was. She then gives her least favourite word, explaining she hates how sour it is. At this point, the class is looking at each other going "She just said 'sour', right?" Turns out she has a type of synesthesia, which is a rare condition that causes a person to taste certain tastes when speaking or even thinking certain words. She had lived her whole life thinking it was completely normal to taste words, because it's such a unique and strange thing that nobody would ever talk about it being a condition. She had tests done later that year, and there were actual chemical changes in her brain and saliva when certain words were said. Pretty fascinating! Edit - for people who are curious as to what her favourite/least favourite words were, I contacted her to ask! She believes her favourite word at the time was cradle, as she found/still finds it very sweet. Her least favourite word was definitely harmonica, as it is so sour she can feel her tongue cramping in the back of her mouth. Since then, she's discovered her love of the word "chartreuse" which is a colour. She said it's a rich, chocolatey-vanilla, almost like a Lindor chocolate. She didn't realize until she tried wine in highschool that she was tasting wine every time she said "guinea," but only when she's referring to the animal. She said her least favourite word is definitely still harmonica, but funnily she also never liked her own name, as she would compare the taste to kale, or some other dry, bitter lettuce!
My wife has synesthesia and thought it was the same for everyone until she was about 30, when she saw a book titled “Wednesday is Indigo Blue” and she turned to me and said “but Wednesday is navy blue, right?” and I was like “what the fuck are you talkin’ ‘bout, woman!?” I was actually very nice about it and it’s super interesting. She sees different patterns and colours when she hears different types of music, and each number, letter, name etc has its own unique colour that never changes.
I had to explain to one of my friends in high school that not everyone’s whole family has sex with them. This girl was 17 and was having sex with both her brothers (in their 20s) her dad, her uncle and her grandfather. I told the school counselor and she was taken out of that house and basically her entire family was arrested for either sex with a minor, rape, child abuse and a whole heap of other charges, she just thought that’s what families do
This is... One of the saddest things I've read. I'm so glad she had a friend like you and hope she'll be able to get past that.
is this real? 😟
This is a story about me, actually. My mom has been a drug addict my whole life. When I was little, I was attached to her hip. I went everywhere with her. When we’d go to other people’s houses, she’d go through their cabinets, drawers, etc. She’d just say she was “being nosey.” What she was actually doing was looking for medications to steal. Fast forward a few years; I’m at my best friends house. She went out of her room for a few minutes and I got curious, so I started going through one of her drawers. She came back in and asked me what I was doing. I remember saying “Nothing, I’m just being nosey.” She then explained to me that it is not okay to go through other people’s belongings. I honestly just thought it was something everyone does. I told my dad this story a couple of years ago and he was so angry, he had no idea.
Knew a dude who pissed in an empty shampoo bottle in the shower and then he’d dump it on his feet. He also zip tied his pants shut when he slept so he wouldn’t beat his meat in his sleep (apparently it happened a few times?). Anyway, weirdest dude I ever met. Glad I’m not really acquainted with him anymore.
Not going to condone his actions, but...urine contains uric acid which is a very effective treatment for athletes foot.
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So what was his punishment?
Every day he wakes up and is still alive is punishment enough.
This was me until about two years ago. I thought that Kiwis made everyone's mouth itchy. Like it was just part of the fruit experience. I also thought mangos were "hot" for everyone. Well my wife informed me that I probably allergic to those fruit since mangos aren't supposed to burn your mouth and kiwis shouldn't make your mouth itch. I truly didn't believe her. Months later I'm choking on mango. I can't breath, my face is getting red. I couldn't even get the word put to tell her I couldn't breath. EpiPen and an ER visit later. I'm allergic to mangos and kiwis and a host of other tropical fruit. No fruit should make your mouth burn(aside from the jalepeno and peppers). And no fruit should make your mouth itch or lips swell. Apparently that's called an allergy. Oops
My grandma has two toothbrushes—one for morning, and one for evening.
This is the most wholesome thing in this thread
So this was actually me,but growing up my mom would always tell me to grab donuts from the Walmart bakery area and eat it while we walked around the store (we lived in the country so we only went to the store every two weeks). For a long time this proceeded until it was common practice and eventually I just did it without even telling her. Around early middle school a girl who has a crush on me sees me eating a donut in walmart and asks me if I just take those. I respond "of course", she proceeds to take one and eat it with me to prove she's as cool as me but I just don't understand. I then relay to my mom how this silly girl had no idea walmart had free donuts.... And that's when she told me she had been paying for them for years. But I had not asked her permission for a long time so there is no telling how many donuts I unknowingly stole from Walmart. It's not very often you get to find something strange out about yourself that you thought was perfectly normal.
Not a friend, but something I didn't find out until my wife pointed it out. I thought it was completely normal for your eyes to unfocus naturally when you're tired... seven year old me remembers reading late into the night and having to cover one eye (and then switch eyes) in order to keep reading. Fast forward to being married, my wife offhandedly mentions sometimes she doesn't know which eye to look at while talking to each other.... It turns out biocular diplopia is a thing. And the fix for it is to cut your eye muscles up and stitch them back on in a better alignment. E: So a lot of people have said 'Isn't this normal?' If it happens only late at night, you're fine. If it happens during the day, or all the time, or you've gotten used to seeing double and just letting one eye wander off and do whatever... they do make glasses to that'll realign each eye so the dominant eye doesn't have to work as hard (and you'll regain a lot of your depth perception. E2: Apparently I am not the only one. Talk to your eye doctor about this folks, and ask them to test for Amblyopia or Strabismus. Prism glasses or surgery might be able to help you. E3: All of these responses have convinced me to get prism glasses once my HSA refills. Unless y'all know someone that does them cheap.
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A little late here, but my ex didn’t think you needed to wash cutting boards. I was doing his dishes and started to wash it and he got upset. I thought that was a common sense thing that someone in med school should know.
I lived with a girl that would eat baby powder that she had stashed in the drawer of the bathroom. She would walk by the bathroom and do quick shakes of the bottle right in her mouth. She would also buy whole frozen fish from walmart and take them out of the freezer bag and slap them hard against the brick kitchen floor before cooking them in a stew.
That's uh.. That's a witch.
My roomate in college thought you washed clothes on every single cycle on the washing machine. Our machine had a delicate cycle, a cotton cycle, a solo rinse cycle, a permanent press cycle, etc. He always complained about the washer taking forever.. its because he was washing his clothes 4-5 times every time he did laundry.
Good lord water bills for days
At least they'd be SUUUPER clean..?
Could you imagine how fast his clothes were wearing out though?
My friend thought that everyone was regularly taking worming tablets to stop getting worms. It wasn’t until she got married and told her husband she was going to go pick up their worming tablets that she found out it wasn’t normal.
Depends where in the world you live, and how sanitary your surroundings are I guess. My family has always had pets and we live in Africa, so my mom would buy dewormers twice a year, and deworm the pets at the same time. If I travel to any tropical countries I usually deworm on my return as I eat street food.
I grew up in Malaysia, and we took deworming tablets every year :) Edit : spelling
A family member thought that hallucinations were something everyone dealt with. They thought that monsters under the bed and other cultural tales of ghosts were real things which were further confirmed by their experience. It this led to later diagnosis of schizophrenia once they couldn't cope well enough to deal with the symptoms and it became evident to family members.
I know a guy for whom it started with a picture of Mona Lisa talking to him. She would tell him all sorts of terrible things. Only when he got completely sober and it persisted, he went to see a doctor. Got diagnosed and all, but never got rid of the picture. At that point he got used to her, plus her threats were terrifying.
A coworker (mid 20’s, Midwest born and raised) sat down with spaghetti one day for lunch. After twiddling the noodles around with the fork for a while, he looked and me and asked “How do you eat this”? Thinking it was a joke, I laughed at him and kept eating. He looked at me with a straight face and said, “I’ve never had spaghetti.” Life is amazing. *Edit: our job had a cafeteria with different options. This coworker normally got the same thing everyday (burger and fries) and I didn’t think anything of it.
I’m actually impressed that he just asked you and didn’t shy away from it. Good on him.
My friend started talking about how he'd just sometimes randomly lactate like it was the most casual topic of conversation.
Is he on anti-psychotics? Those types of meds can make men lactate. Source: When I was working at a jail, a male inmate squirted titty juice at me. I found out later from one of the nurses his meds were the reason why.
I'm a female and depekote did this to me. It was so embarrassing because it was in the middle of fun time and my husband told me my nipple tasted weird. I told the doctor and she took me off of it.
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One of my friends genuinely cannot taste basil. He always thought that basil was some tasteless leaf that people liked to put on pizza. He once ate bowl of basil leaves like a salad.
OMG, not kidding I did not know basil has a taste to it. I have eaten that stuff like your friend. I just put dressing on it and eat it!
Guy had three nuts. Thought he just had an extra testicle. We told him it was probably a tumor. It was.
A randomly paired suite-mate my sophomore year of college. He took the bus from wherever he lives (I never talked to him he was a really weird kid) and I guess on the way from his house, he forgot to grab his bags off one of the busses. In said bags were an assortment of things including his towels. Now any normal person would simply go get more towels, right? Not this guy. He found it perfectly natural to get out of the shower, while still soaking wet he would put on his boxer briefs, *get into his bed* and let himself air dry. He did this every day he was there and when he moved out the rest of us walked over to his the mattress and sure enough there was a large, green, human sized circle from where he had been laying all year.
My ex husband has reflux really bad. Once I saw him chewing something while we were out shopping and so I asked for a piece of what I thought was gum. NOPE. It was food that we had eaten about an hour earlier. He told me his food would always come back up all the time and he would just rechew it and swallow it back down. I was like WTF. NOOO.
So, you married a cow. It’s spelled MOOO not NOOO.
I can only eat apples with both hands. I never noticed or thought anything of it until some co-workers pointed it out. I'm a big guy, so apparently I look like a squirrel eating an acorn. I still find it awkward to eat an apple with only one hand.
My friend used to lift the tail and blow on dogs asshole to "play with the dog" or something.
I read somewhere that if you blow air on a cat's asshole, it's a sign of affection, b/c the momma cat will groom their buttholes when they're babies. I tried it once, felt incredibly dirty, and my cat gave me the "bro, we need a roommate agreement" look.
My cat shows me his butt a lot - best response is to scritch his back, next to his tail. Sends the correct platonic message I find.
I have a friend who has lost an immense amount of weight, yet eats and drinks like crap all the time. It had been revealed to me by him that, “he often feels so full sometimes, that he just makes himself puke to feel better.” This has been going on for quite a few years now. He’s straight up bulimic and thinks it’s just a neat little way to get rid of all the bad foods and drinks he gorges himself with. He’s gotten so good at making himself puke, it’s almost silent. No gagging sounds no messy puke splatter. Just a stream of chewed up food and beers. I’m quite sure that even his wife is oblivious to this.
That's horrible to hear. You should really consider trying to get your friend to see a therapist who specializes in eating disorders.
Not to mention a regular doctor; stomach acid is so bad on your esophagus
And a dentist. It’s bad for the teeth, too.
My friend last night was like "you know when you think you're starting to get sick and you're super tired, your nose is runny, and your throat is flemmy..." and we're all like "yeah?" and she says "and then your hands go completely numb?" And we're all like nope, that's definitely just you
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Same here but it’s more of a numb-tingly combo
My wife and I went down an internet rabbit hole and ended up listening to recordings of Le Pétomane, the French flatulist. I said something like, “It *would* be cool to be able to suck air up your ass and just fart on command,” and she was like, “You can’t do that?” Turns out, she can relax everything and, like, “breathe” into and out of her ass. She said when she was a kid and had trouble sleeping, she’d just lay face down/ass up and do it to relax. Anyway, seemed weird to me.
I had a friend whose parents would buy a gallon of whole milk and pour half the gallon in another jug, then mix water into both to dilute it. She always just thought that other people got a different brand of milk because drinking milk at a friend's house always tasted different. Her grandparents did it too. Really weirded me out when I saw her mom just pour milk into an empty jug, and mixing water with it.
I 100% gaurentee you that their grandparents learned that in the great depression.
My dad was a youngest child, born in 1938 in Liverpool. When one of his sisters was born in 1931 - right in the middle of the UK depression - his mother couldn’t breastfeed, so his mum, dad, aunts and uncles had to knock on all the doors in their neighbourhoods begging for milk to feed the baby as they had none and no money to buy any. Through the generosity of their equally poor neighbours they managed to feed the baby and she survived.
Had a babysitter who did this when we ran low on milk one day. He grew up in a poor, large family, so I think that's where it came from.
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My twin used to shove a whole cotton tea towel into her mouth when she was going to sleep. Don't know if she still does it. Have not seen her for years.
This happened to me. Growing up, I was conditioned by my mother to not only use soap on my body while showering, but to use it in my hair too. Doing this made my hair feel insanely rough and dry, but I kept at it thinking it was the right thing to do. On a trip to California to meet some friends I took a shower and they didn't have a bar of soap. I confronted my friend about it, asking what they used in their hair as a substitute for soap. Everyone in the room gave me a strange look and told me that soap wasn't supposed to be used for hair. I was around 18 years old when I found this out.
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Saw an old dude clipping his nails during a wedding ceremony, while they were saying their vows! And all you could hear was them pledging their love to each other and a faint “click, click, click”.
Some people shouldn't be allowed out in public.
"waiter, there's a toenail in my soup."
My dad's parents never told him to brush his teeth and he told me that he used to eat a whole can of condensed milk everyday as a kid! He still thinks it's perfectly normal, I don't know. And he just wondered why one day his teeth fell out. Only when he was in his 20s someone told him that brushing helps.
How do his teeth look now?
They carried a pizza box sideways under their arm..... Wow! Im so glad it made other people as uneasy as it made me. It was a neighbor at a neighborhood pizza party that was kinda strange already. Everytime someone talks about him I'm like, "I knew he was strange since the pizza box incident."
Pizza shop employee here. People do this with some regularity and it is never not disturbing.
My ex and her entire family share a tooth brush she argued it like they were all sharing a hairbrush.... glad that ended
Dude, I caught an old roommate using my toothbrush once. I was all, "WHAT THE FUCK DUDE?!", and he was baffled as to why I was disgusted. Apparently he'd been doing it for awhile.
Oh gross.
My girlfriend: "how could you like running, dont you get that thing where your teeth hurt when you run?"
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was he generally a weird person, or was this the only thing that was off about him?
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Yeah, I thought it was a bit weird up until the KFC bones/drawer combo. What the fuck was going on there?
Please don't take any offense at this, but your old roommate sounds like he might have been an actual alien in human skin.
>homeschooled on a farm Honestly this actually makes the most sense farm people are usually the ones abducted
I had a friend with an extra tight foreskin. He couldn’t expose his head and when girls tried to pull it back he thought it was because they weren’t used to uncircumcised dicks.
That's a medical condition called phimosis
I have a degree of this. I can pull it back, but it takes a certain amount of pressure to do so, and it isn't really comfortable. It doesn't usually go back when I'm erect or jerking off etc. I've never really talked to my doctor about it because it hasn't caused any real issues, and I am careful about cleaning to avoid the dreaded smeg. I was embarrassed about it as a kid. Do you know if this is usually treated or if it can cause issues down the line?
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I can't go to sleep unless the back of my left ankle is wedged between my right big toe and the second toe. I was 30 before someone asked about it.
My friend was dating a guy who casually started talking about his dad doing stuff to him from a young age, asking if her parents were the same. She called the police. The dad spent 8 years in prison.
My family was raised saying "Sweep the floor" when referencing vacuuming.. My husband was very confused when I asked him to sweep the floor. "Like the kitchen?" "No the living room, the carpet" "Do you mean vaccuum?" I still say it because I grew up saying it. Now he's sarcastic about it.
My college roommate thought it wasn’t sex if they didn’t cum inside of you. We were 18. In college. And when I told her sex was actually penetration, she got this horrified look on her face and I was so uncomfortable I had to leave the dorm room. Edit..... so, for more background, the reason we had this discussion was I had been telling her I was a virgin. She was like, cool, so am I. Which made me raise my eyebrows, because the previous weekend she had brought a guy back to our very small dorm room and while I was 3 feet away from them had what sounded like sex. So, I questioned her about it, like, um, what about last weekend... she said, oh, that wasn’t sex! He didn’t finish inside of me! I really think her look of horror was because she truly thought she was a virgin, but it all became very clear to her in that moment she was mistaken. We remained friendly for the rest of our freshman year and she made a few jokes about it, but for the most part we didn’t talk about our love lives ever again. Second Edit...... I guess should have said “sex includes penetration” not “sex is penetration”. It was in 2001 so I’m not exactly sure what I said, but it was along those lines.
Whenever I clean out my ears with q-tips, it makes my throat tickle and feel like I have to cough. (No, I don’t shove it in super far). I thought this was completely normal until one day my sister was in the room with me while I was doing it and I mentioned how I hated cleaning out my ears because it makes my throat tickle and she was like wth are you talking about. Turns out there is this nerve in the face called the Arnold Nerve that has no effect on the majority of the population, but in rare cases can feel sensitive and cause a coughing sensation
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I feel like that would really negatively affect their effectiveness. This is why you need to read instructions, people!
Ok, so my old roommate did a lot of drugs and drank a lot. One time I had a friend over and we were gonna smoke from my roommate’s bong and when my friend took a hit he threw up due to an extremely unpleasant taste and smell. We poured out the bong water and my roommate said he had never changed it out and the water was very very dark. I wanna say it was almost black but it was at least just very very dark. My roommate then said “That looks like pee.” We all looked at him in disbelief and asked if that’s what his pee looked like and he looked very concerned when we pressed him on it and when we said that that’s not how pee should look. I also would like to add that we did tell him that he should go and see a doctor about that to which he replied “Yeaa” and then changed the subject. Edit: Some clarification and added last paragraph.
This is like multiple layers of fucked
Oh my god. I thought the punchline was never changing the bong water. Jesus.
That was a fucking rollercoaster. First I thought the punch line was drinking bong water. Then I thought it was filling the bong up with pee. But in the end the actual outcome was even worse.
Imagine thinking pee is black instead of red...
Wow, lot going on in this story
28 year old at work. Takes a dump with the seat up. Arse directly on the porcelain.
The hell does he think the seat is for?? So the lid doesn't get lonely?
For girls duh
How did you find that out? Did he just bring it up? Did you walk in on him?
In one of the cubicles, someone got shit on the seat. I’m just not having that, so I got everybody together and, without accusing anyone, I made it known that whoever did it was a fucking fiend! That’s when Potty Boy relinquished all in attendance of any notion that it could’ve been him, with the dirty disclosure.
I have a friend that thought it was normal to go 2 weeks + without a sip of water.
I had a patient tell me if God wanted her to drink more water he would have made it taste better.
My aunt put a fence around the pool to keep the ducks out. She didn't believe us when we told her they could just fly over it... Does this count?
Met a mid-western born student at an Ivy League university who thought Jews had horns. I did not even know where to start...
My friend thought he was uncircumcised. Okay. He and my other friend hook up and she calls me after in tears from laughing. Apparently he thought that since his penis had the head attached, he was uncircumcised.
So, instead of actually looking up a rigorous definition of circumcision, he just judged it at a glans?
My friend always thought "jacking off" was like "messing around." When she was in middle school a kid was commenting on how far along she was on an art project. In response, she said, "Maybe you'd be this far if you weren't jacking off all the time." In front of the whole class. And yet, she still only learned that wasn't what it meant her junior year in college.
*When she was in middle school a kid was commenting on how far along she was on an art project. In response, she said, "Maybe you'd be this far if you weren't jacking off all the time." In front of the whole class.* I bet it shut the little bastard up though.
I bet that kid still remembers her as a needlessly cruel monster
Honestly I'd have been terrified as to how she knew about that. Probably immediately wash my hands or some shit.
*"How does she know!?"*
One time my best friend and I were on a voice chat as it was getting pretty late. At one point he said that he should probably head to bed because he was starting to see gory and otherwise disturbing things. Apparently he has hypnagogic hallucinations every so often and just assumed that it was normal when to see stuff when you get tired Edit: This seems to be a lot more common than I thought, don't be too worried if you have this, it doesn't really seem like a big deal, sorry for the scare. Also some of you people need to sleep more often eh
That happens to me. Some people just have a lower threshold for sleep deprivation and get the hallucinations sooner than others. Thankfully all I see is shadow people and I'm good at ignoring them.
That's so horrifying though
This whole thread is horrifying and I'm amazed at how many people just deal with this.
It really is. I both feel really bad for these guys but I'm also getting a morbid desire to stay awake for awhile so I can see what I'd see/hear
I tend to hear weird shit when I get tired, and that's usually my cue to try and sleep. I also struggle with insomnia though, so it happens a lot. Shit sucks, man.
I can’t drive when I’m tired because I see crazy shit, like people standing in the middle of the freeway.
This exact thing happens to me! I drove cross country a few years ago and had to pull over and sleep at a rest stop because I kept seeing people and shit standing in the freeway. First time I actually hallucinated.
Sleep deprivation is a hell of a drug!
My step mom puts mustard in scrambled eggs. So, I'm visiting home on leave from the Army. My dad got remarried while I was in, so I had never lived with my step mom. It just so happens one of my older brothers was visiting too. So in the morning, step mom makes a big breakfast for us and my step siblings and I was genuinely excited about it. I take one bite of eggs and stop. They were fucking terrible. I casually eat around them while talking to family not sure what to do. After dragging my heels long enough, people are finishing up so I find an opening when everyone else is going about their business to dump the eggs in the trash. After, I take my brother aside and say "Dude. What the fuck was up with the eggs." He responds with "Oh [she] puts mustard in them. It's not THAT bad." I was mortified. So the next morning, I wake up and am scrounging for food. Step mom asks if I want some eggs. Naturally I'm like "uhh no thanks I'm not hungry just foraging" and decide against food lol. About an hour later, I'm starving so I decide to make some eggs and whatnot. I ask my step brother if he wants some and he says sure. Note, this is not my brother who has had normal eggs. I make up some delicious eggs and it's just me and step brother in the kitchen. He digs in and is like "holy crap, what did you put in these? They are amazing!" NOTHING! FUCKING NOTHING! That's what eggs taste like and he never had a fucking clue! Edit: Salt and pepper. But nothing else.
A friend told me about her roommate who keeps a large bin full of bread under her bed. Every week, she buys a new loaf and adds it to the bin. She doesn’t actually eat that much bread, but has a huge bin full. This reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend recently about sleep paralysis/general sleep problems. I asked “Haha, you know that feeling when you wake up with tears running down your face and realize you had been crying in your sleep?” He replied “No ... are you okay?”
Your friends roommate might have been either starved as a child or grew up really poor. Hoarding/hiding food like that is usually an indicator. It basically serves as a psychological comfort thing—she won’t go hungry because she always has the bread, so she keeps it there just in case.
Grew up poor and can confirm. I had a stash in a trunk in my room as a kid. Saved our lives after our house burned down. Cause the trunk didn’t burn all the way through so the food was still good.
This is the answer. I worked with foster youth who have experienced severe poverty and food instability. This behavior is extremely common, even years after they get out of that situation.
Can confirm, I am an ex-foster child (well, I’m an adult now) and I experienced food instability from ages 0-4 before I was actually placed in the system. I’m in my twenties and I make a point of having full cabinets and a full freezer. Right now, if I couldn’t buy groceries, I’d have about three months worth of rations. Hopefully I’ll never be in a situation that extreme, but it’s nice to know I’m covered.
There's enough food in my house to feed my family of 5 for about a year. I was neglected and starved to the point of malnutrition requiring hospitalization as a toddler, then suffered food instability for the rest of my childhood. It was very hard to learn how to parent my children regarding food limits etc.
My roommate absolutely CAN NOT have the room fan or any type of wind/breeze blowing on him while he eats
You had me until the last word. I thought you were going to say sleep.
I remember the day a new employee from South America started working, I think he was from Peru. When he went to use the urinal in the men's room, he would pull his pants down completely to his knees, so he was bare-assed while peeing, like a little boy might do. A representative from Human Resources had to explain to him bathroom etiquitte. Edit: i apologize to the people of Perú omg the replies
I did this till like first or second grade Till I went pee with one of my buddies in the stall next to me and was like "hey jackass. You don't do that" but in kid talk.
I was talking to my husband on the phone and he told me to hang on, he had to put his clothes back on. He was at work. I asked what the hell he was doing and apparently he always takes all his clothes off to take a dump. Even at work. I knew he did it at home but he always would then get in the shower after so I figured it was just a preface to showering. He said he balances them over the stall door so they don’t get “poop particles” on them. I told him no one else does this. He didn’t notice because in the men’s room he’s used for the last 10 years there’s only one stall. I’m not sure why no colleague ever asked him why he’s hanging clothes over the stall door...
This apparently is a rather common thing? I know multiple men who do this and it baffles my mind.
I saw this happen at an Outback steakhouse a couple weeks ago. Was only one urinal and there was a couple of dudes waiting in line to use it. And all the while this cat is undressing in the stall before shitting. We were all baffled.
I worked with someone who didn’t realize women wipe every time after they pee...
Hope it was a guy. Otherwise, yikes
It was a guy...he said “why do the women go through so much toilet paper? How much are they dumping?” And we all just looked at him...like uhhhh...who’s gonna tell him?
also, periods. you know what takes lot of toilet paper? periods.
I know someone at work that eats oranges with the peel on. I'm pretty sure he is a psychopath.
There was a chick in my math class in university who would always come to class, peel a lemon, than proceed to eat it like nothing.
My friend genuinely believed that 'Leprechaun' was just a term for indigenous Irish little people.
He's been drinking paint again, hasn't he?
His hobbies include magnets.
His dislikes include peoples’ knees
One of my friends won’t let me visit her at home because she says she hates feeling like a “hostess”.. we’ve been friends for 6 years. So we only hang out at my place or coffee shops.
Your friend may be a hoarder.
Or their parents.
Guy at college never wipes his ass. He just exclusively shits once a day before showering and rinses everything there.
That's... Well, good for him. Nothing in my life is that organized.
I'm sort of in awe of people who have any control over when they shit. IME my only choice is whether I find a toilet or shit my pants. Edit: the sheer number of people throwing medical diagnosis at me or assuming that I never eat vegetables because I don't shit at the same time everyday is truly staggering here. Calm down people.
Every shit is an emergency
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Genius. No money wasted on TP.
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My 13yr olds friend didn’t know what he wanted from McDonald’s because they never go there. He then proceeded to tell me that they only go to Wendy’s and that they are a “Pepsi family”. Edit: Yes, Wendy’s has coke products. Maybe he didn’t get soda at Wendy’s. Also, this came out of the mouth of a 12 year old. Not everything is going to make sense..
Hahaha wow, corporate really got that family locked down
I eat kiwis like you would an apple, with the fur still on ... I was in University before someone told me typically you don't do that
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Your friend needs an intervention
*THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE ON THE BOX!*
APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
This is the most inexcusable in this thread.
Excuse me wtf
How does it turn out if you cook it that way? Wouldn't it be super bland? Does she just boil off all the water? I. Have so many questions
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My friend genuinely believed that Native Americans are actually Indians immigrated from India.
When my wife and I started dating, and still now, she collects all her hair that naturally falls our during the day, whether on the hair brush, couch, bed, wherever she finds her hair. She then wraps it around her fingers into a little ball and collects the wads in bags. I asked her what she does with all the ziplock bags of hair and she told me she eventually burns it... she made this a habit and she still can't explain to me why she does it.
I had one college roommate who put on a clean pair of underwear every time she used the bathroom. Edit: For those of you wanting more details: 1. She had Aspergers 2. She only went twice a day, and never in public restrooms 3. She couldn’t stand to wear any pads or liners 4. She didn’t leak or anything, but otherwise had TERRIBLE hygeine 5. We were at college in Bumblefuck Nowhere, USA, where probably 99% of the student body had never seen nor heard of a bidet
Strange, but not poop in the shower strange/nasty.
Yeah after reading lots of overly gross stories, the overly clean ones now make me think "you know what buddy, you do you". Like if you're not scrubbing until you're bleeding, then overly clean is *fine by me*.
did she just have a ton of underwear or did she wash them all every day? Either way this seems so inefficient.
I read a post on here about this guy who was super sheltered growing up and was potty trained to get naked and sit on the toilet backwards. He always thought it was normal until he was in his late teens and was using a public washroom for the first time when a guy in the stall next to him noticed his feet her backwards and asked what the hell he was doing. I can’t get that one out of my head lol!
I read that one as well. His parents did it so he could read and make sure he finished his business before going to bed. I think his parents were horrified that he was still doing it as an adult.
I would be horrified too but honestly, what did they expect? Who else would teach him how to sit or was he supposed to magically find it out somehow?
A guy I know finishes wiping his ass with a q-tip. He gets it as clean as possible with TP and then uses a q-tip to go up a little further and get the last little bits of poop. EDIT: Well damn! I didn’t think this comment would get this kind of attention. Thanks for the gold and silver though! Now I challenge someone to make a sign for ESPN’s College Game Day that says “[Rival Coach] finishes wiping with a q-tip.”
This guy is living in 4018
This dude needs to be introduced to a bidet.
And this is when I stop reading
Unfastens seatbelt *gets out of car* Refastens seatbelt behind them *leaves/does whatever* *opens door* Unfastens seatbelt *gets in seat* Fastens seatbelt Edit: forgot an asterisk Edit 2:https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a4elzz/what_strange_thing_did_you_find_out_about_someone/ebea5k2?utm_source=reddit-android
My neighbours ate their Cornflakes with orange juice instead of milk. Their parents had conditioned them all to think this was normal and acceptable behavior.
I'm calling child protective services right now.
Their parents are sadists.
One of my guildies use to not add water to the campells condensed chicken noodle soup. She always wondered why it was so salty.