Many of us have a tendency to look at others and only see the things we’re jealous of. Wow, she has the most amazing hair! And his calves look like they were chiseled in stone. But it’s important to remember that everyone has some special features that make them unique. And you just might be the object of someone else’s envy!
Redditors have recently been revealing the ways in which they’ve won the genetic lottery, from having long, luscious eyelashes to being blessed with three kidneys. So enjoy scrolling through these replies about their rare traits, and be sure to upvote the ones you wish you had inherited as well!
I can see colors that others apparently cannot see.
This came to be known because I see the place in clothes where the weaving has changed threads and the dye lot is different. I notice where embroidered items use different shades of thread because they ran out of the first shade and most people don’t even notice.
I can tell in wallpaper, paint on the wall, even on cars or furniture. I can tell the colors of green in the sky caused by the tint in your side windows vs the pink from the front windshield tint, and they are different. It drives me nuts at times.
On those “color tests” online, what you see as “40” colors, I can see where they begin the gradations to slowly shift to the next color and fool you, so there are hundreds of colors there in the “test”.
But the bonus! I can also remember colors, so I can perfectly match paint colors to fabrics from memory, or buy a shirt to match a pair of slacks in exactly the right color without having them next to each other.
And since I am an artist, I can easily mix paints up to get exact color I’m after, no sweat.
Comes in handy.
All the women in my family live past 100, going back at least 5 generations. We tell our first husbands that they’re our FIRST husband’s because, well.. it’s understood that we’ll carry on well after they’re gone. No one had dementia at the end, either. Sharp as a track and built to last.
I am a homozygous carrier of the CCR5 Delta32 mutation.
I lack the receptors that HIV uses to infect people, so I am VERY HIGHLY resistant, possibly even immune.
It’s a mutation you see in people with Northern European ancestry. I get one mutation from each of my parents. I AM THRILLED to have it because from what I can gather (and I am not a scientist) that gene is the key to stopping HIV and AIDS. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area so the AIDS epidemic was a huge deal here.
So, scientists, if you need blood, bone marrow or WHATEVER for studies or who knows what, I’m O-, CMV-, and have the CCR5 Delta32 mutation.
I would be THRILLED to be involved in anything that helps save lives.
I have very dense bones…?
I found that out when I had to have a hip replacement. When my doctor told me I have above-average density to my bones I said, “OH! So I really AM big-boned!”
He turned and looked at me and flatly said, “Yes, but you’re fat, too.”
He couldn’t let me have that for just five seconds…. LMAO.
3 fully functional kidneys.
rorscachsraven:
I was born with only 1 so you must have had my spare 😂😂
I have NO leg hair. Or arm hair. Literally NONE. I haven’t had to shave in 26 years.
Feels nice sometimes, ngl.
I’m Black and Japanese. I’m 48 but look like I’m in my 30s. I moved away from my home town, but everytime I run into someone I went to high school with, I can feel their eyes on me and I legit get a little guilty.
My dad is 72 and looks barely 50. We both are still pretty athletic and active.
I tell people that between my two races, I’m gonna look like I’m 34 until I’m 62, and then suddenly overnight I’m gonna look 105.
I can draw near photographic portraits of people with a pencil. I didn’t know until I was a teenager, and it was a school assignment, and I just, did a great job, and was shocked, I had no idea I could do that.
Then I went to show my grandma how proud I was, looked at the art on her walls, and realized I inherited it.
My teeth are perfectly straight. No one believes that I never had braces. I’ve also never had a cavity or any other dental work.
I have some pretty s****y genes but I have double eyelashes which is so pretty and I’ve passed it to my kids (my son’s look like they have eyelash extensions!)
I also have natural ginger hair and blue eyes which is the rarest combination and that feel pretty special.
Everyone in my immediate family is very intelligent.
All outshined by my little brother though. He’s one of those weird super genius kids. Taught himself to read and write at about 2 years old and now he does programming and 3D modelling at 11.
I’m nearly 26 and he’s about as good at maths as me now. Who knows how far he’ll go.
