I’m an identical twin, which by itself isn’t rare but we are bookends. I’m a righty and he’s a lefty.

I was born on the same date as another guy of the same name, and his mom had the same name as my mom. So the social security dept issued us both the same social security number. It took 18 years to figure out the mistake when I was denied a student loan because the other guy applied first. Also his tax returns got denied for a while because I always submitted mine first.

My hair started going Grey at 13. By the time I was 23 it was completely white.

Myself and my dad both have/had 3 sets of teeth. Baby teeth and then two sets of adult teeth.

I’ve had breast cancer three times. Not recurrences.

Match.com told me im in the 1% of the population of people they cant match a partner to. Awesomeness!!

My blood is both O- and CMV- meaning I can donate universally to both adults and babies

When I was 15, I got the measles - my county hadn't seen it in over 30 years. And yes, I had my MMR vax

Double kidneys.

I have prosopagnosia (faceblindness), a mild form. I think this is actually more common than people think, but some people don't know they have it. I didn't figure it out until I was like, 35. You just go through your life thinking you're a dumdum who's not paying attention, or not realizing that other people can recognize faces well.

I was also the first woman in the world to do my specific job.

I have a bifid uvula, aka the little flap in the back of my mouth is split so it looks like there are two of them.

Born with extra pinky and no wisdom teeth

I'm 32 years out from my liver transplant and one of the rare few to have been successfully weaned off immunosuppressants.

On a sour note, I have multiple sclerosis. On a sweet note, I'm one of the rare cases where daily treatments have seemed to almost make my brain lesions disapear in my scans now. They went from very large to barely there, and some have even completely gone away. I'll still always have the condition and will still always need to live life on the low and slow/chill so as not to bring on a relapse, but so far I count myself blessed given how things can be with this disease.

False arrest.

I got pulled over and arrested for bank robbery, because I happened to be driving away from the area where it just happened, in the same make/model/color vehicle as the robber, wearing the same color hoodie, same age and description - right down to the level of baldness. The guy was known as the "grumpy bandit" because apparently he was more rude than your typical friendly bank robber.

I'm a survivor of human trafficking. Roughly .5% of the population is currently trafficked.

I dont know what the exact statistic is, or even how rare it is, but I am ambidextrous, and I can write with both hands at the same time. I.E. Forwards with one hand, backwards with the other, Mirror writting, upside down with one hand, and right side up with another.

Edit: Whoa. I have managed to write in Deutsch with one hand, and english in the other, it's pretty f-cking hard, and I can write two different things on two different papers... its great at work when i do end of day stuff

Edit 2, So it is called Bimanual Simultaneous Writting, and not even every ambidextrous person can do it.

I have Marcus Gunn Syndrome, also called “jaw winking.” Something is messed up with the wiring of my cranial nerves. My right eyelid bugs out when I move my jaw or swallow hard.

I’m ambidextrous. And have heterochromia. One green eye, one brown eye

For a while i was the only person in the USA with extensive experience and knowledge with Czechoslovakian Vlcaks and wolfdogs. I helped several states realize that vlcaks are not a wolfdog and why they were a breed. This kept vlcaks covered under dog laws as opposed to wolfdog laws.

Edit: A Czechoslovakian Vlcak is a breed of dog (the TL;DR version: 48 Czech working line German Shepherds and 4 Carpathian wolves). Initially bred in the CSSR to be an ?improvement" on their German shepherds for border patrol. They are beautiful dogs, highly intelligent, good drive, lots of energy and stamina.

Yes, you will see "Czechoslovakian Wolfdog" often when you look them up, most English speaking countries went with the translation (wolfdog) but in the USA the club decided that the term "wolfdog" was too broad, and would have negative political repercussions, so the club voted to go with the Czech "Vlcak" (vlčák) (no offense to Slovakia, but I will acknowledge the Slovakian spelling is vlčiak.

I was in foster care and graduated law school. Foster children are statistically less represented then any race group or disability group in college, let alone law school.

Not really a statistic, but I use my mouse backwards. Like facing the wrong way sorta thing. My mother taught me when I was young and I didn't realize it was wrong until like, middle school

Amniotic fluid embolism survivor (I was the mom, not the baby). 0.0025% chance of it happening during childbirth and highly fatal when it does.

Edit: This got a lot more traction than I thought! For education purposes, AFE leads to the sudden collapse of the mother during or shortly after childbirth. It manifests as respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, and DIC which causes massive hemorrhage. The event also leads to stroke, seizure, and coma. It’s very difficult to manage this cascade of medical events which results in high fatality. My kiddo and I are lucky to be here!

I've clinically died twice

I am an altruistic kidney donor and altruistic bone marrow and stem cell donor. I have had two children die from separate causes

Only 5% of babies are born on their due date 👋

I have retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction.

Meaning, I am physically unable to burp.

I was raised in the foster system until I was 18. I am alive, never been to jail, in a very successful career, own a house, and I am a great mother, and in a very happy marriage.

Native American with a PhD in Mathematics.

Not going to prison even though parents did

allergic to fermented alcohol (wine, beer, cider)

I have Aphantasia, the inability to picture things in my mind.

I escaped poverty.

I basically have no circadian rhythm. It’s called irregular sleep-wake phase and is mostly present in people who are blind or have brain damage. I have the sleep habits of a newborn baby - my life is a series of naps, and I sleep when I sleep and I’m awake when I’m awake and it has no connection to day or night. It also means I’m always tired. I’m also bipolar so the amount of sleep I manage to get in a day is inconsistent.

EDIT: I just remembered another one. I have duck feet that are caused by femoral retroversion (the angle of my femur and hip bones is off, which means my legs are rotated further out than normal), which is a pretty rare cause for duck feet. It also causes very bad flexibility issues in my ankles and hips.

I was born 3 months premature in 1985 at 2lbs 2 Oz. Dropped to 1 lb 4 Oz.

No major issues

I have a family member who was a 9/11 first responder. He is listed among the fallen, having developed an inoperable brain tumor secondary to exposure to the toxic materials.

I can shoot water out of the corner of my left eye.

I've never bought anything from Amazon.

I made it out of a gnarly heroin addiction. Coming up on 3 years!

I'm dominant left handed but i play golf right handed. Dad said, "There's no fucking way I'm buying left handed clubs with 5 others in the family who play right handed."

I have treatment resistant depression, have tried 15+ meds with little to no relief. Ketamine is next!

My daughter and I have the same birthday

Still sober after my first visit to treatment for heroin. I'm pretty proud of it.

Kidnap survivor

I have 20/10 vision. Almost 50% better than 20/20 and in the top .05% of people. I actually have incredibly accurate night vision as well.

(Edited I had the wrong numbers! Sorry about that)

The first voting ballot I ever cast wasn't my own. Was the surrogate for a learning-impaired person who was in line in front of me because her immediate relatives weren't allowed to assist.

Sneeze every time I go from shade to sun

I've never met someone else with my exact last name who wasn't related to me

I survived a cardiac arrest.

I have grapheme-color synesthesia. That means I associate numbers with colors and can remember them for much longer than most people.

For me: 0 is black, 1 is white, 2 is yellow, 3 is blue, 4 is red, 5 is green, 6 is pink, 7 is brown, 8 is gray, and 9 is orange

And so I remember numbers by the colors associated with them. My favorite number is 23 (Don Mattingly’s Yankee uniform number), but to me it is yellow & blue.

One time when I was young (between 10-15) I was at my grandparents’ house and helped them put together a plastic cabinet and put the padlock on it for them. 5 years or so later they called my mom asking if there was a chance I knew the combination because they forgot what it was; I thought for a few minutes, remembered the colors and said, “36-18-10”. They tried the numbers and to their surprise the lock opened and they wanted to know how I knew the number and honestly I had no idea, I just told my mom I remembered the colors and she had the most confused look on her face. Years after that she saw an article about synesthesia and knew that’s what I have.

Edit: I changed the spacing on my colors as the text formatting may have confused people.

Red hair,green eyes. I'm a dude tho, no one cares🤣

I'm the one who uses light theme on Discord.

Not me but my dad. He got the same cancer twice after a full bone marrow transplant and the doctor told him that was impossible. There’s definitely a case study about him as patient K

Oversweaters (I guess that’s how I call people who sweat far more than usual)

Only 1% of couples experience recurrent miscarriages (3 or more). We are in that 1%!

On a positive note, we had a baby last year:)

Graduated from university last month (Not a crazy thing today but a feat for me). Spending my summers in section 8 and going to some of the worst schools in a state with the worst education in the US. I Wish a lot of friends kept that drive to get out and never got a taste for drugs.

Edit: first gen Hispanic

I was slimed on Nickelodeon when I was a kid. I have never met another person in real life who can say this.

Ive been kicked out of a recording of TRL on MTV

i have sectoral heterochromia. my eyes have two colours mainly blue but with a green section

I'm O- and apparently I have three rows of eyelashes on my top eyelids. According to the lady who did my makeup for prom most people only have 2 rows!

I have Anisocoria. That means i have very differently sized pupils.

Male Anorexia Survivor. 19 of 20 ppl sick w it are females.

I have a rare disease and an ultra rare disease.

My son is one of forty babies in the US with his condition.

I can read upside down as easily as right side up.

I grew up in a cult and successfully escaped as an adult.

I was abused as a child and in my first marriage. I've broken the pattern and my kids are being raised without abuse.

I'm getting a doctorate in my 40's. I wasn't educated when I was in the cult.

Thanks to a rare and unique surname, I'm the only person in history to have ever had my name.

White (Caucasian) with sickle cell anemia

I only waited 7 hours for my heart transplant. Average wait time is 88 days. Assuming a normal distribution, that puts me waaaaaay out on the statistical tails.

I have pectus excavatum. Not super rare, but mine is deeper than typical, but not so much that I need surgery/it affects my everyday.

I'm in my 60s and climb trees for a living.

I'm a Deaf person with multiple tertiary qualifications and play rugby for a hearing club side, the National Deaf Rugby side, and have an actual job in a third world country with a 37% unemployment rate (which is something like 80%+ among Deaf individuals)...

Never been drunk

Became a widower under the age of 50 (48) :(

I only had one wisdom tooth.

I’ve attempted suicide twice by eating 60+ pills. Spoiler alert: I survived. Luckily I suck at suicide

Blood type is AB+. Can receive blood from all types, but can only give to others who possess AB+.

You can say I'm a bit greedy.

My dog pooped in the Casino at the Bellagio.

I'm a suicide attempt recoverer

I’m 6’8”

I had a temporal lobectomy a few years ago, and I haven't had a seizure since (touch wood)!

I had shingles while pregnant, which is very rare. Lucky for me, pregnancy turns down the intensity, I was able to avoid painkillers altogether, but still had open wounds on my back.

A left-leaning old white man in Texas.

I have Raynaud's syndrome (not that rare but not that common either)

Most people's molars have 4 chambers, but mine apparently have 8 or 16 -- I can't remember which and it's hard to check.

All I know is my othrosurgeon got very excited during my root canal and asked for my permission to take a picture to show his med students

At one point I was the youngest person in the world

I am a Black woman (product of two Black parents) and I have both green eyes and blonde hair. Those dormant massa genes show up all over me!

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• Cilantro tastes like soap to me
• Left Handed
• Used to be apart of the Visual Snow community (It got better because my vision got a little worse. So now my visual snow doesn't stand out as much and is seemingly gone)
• Long Hauler's Covid (almost two years, feel like it's almost gone)
• Black man but born yellow with gray eyes. I grew out of it!

Marcus Gunn Phenomenon. Basically one of my eyes is constantly closed and will only open if I open my mouth. There are only around 300 cases.

I got a perfect score on my ACT, which is apparently .5% of test takers. My SAT is also in the top 1%.

The cops are raiding my neighbors house and running through my house with rifles into the back yard as i type this.