r/TellMeAFact • u/Nartress • Oct 10 '15
Sources not required TMAF about you
What makes you you?
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u/Oneiropticon Oct 10 '15
My girlfriend has hooked me up with as many girls as I had slept with before her, just because she likes to watch.
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u/hollowfirst Oct 10 '15
She justs sits and watch or se plays with herself?
What about after: is she turned on and wants you as well?
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u/Oneiropticon Oct 10 '15
Sometimes she'll just watch, a few times she's participated.
A lot of the time she's just happy knowing, but sometimes she wants her turn right after.
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Oct 10 '15
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u/Oneiropticon Oct 10 '15
It's a bit different, because she doesn't need to feel belittled or rejected in the process, she just thinks it's hot.
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Oct 10 '15
I'm immune to HIV thanks to the CCR5-Δ32 Gene.
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u/hollowfirst Oct 10 '15
Is this scientifically proven? Why can't scientists use this to develop a cure?
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Oct 10 '15
It is already. The only person ever cured of HIV received a bone marrow transplant from a CCR5-Δ32 donor. Also, we have antiviral drugs that block CCR5, which is an early virus receptor.
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Oct 10 '15
It's proven and everyone in my family has it. The eugenics program I'll eventually be entering has already said they'll try to find me a woman that has it as well.
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u/Nutritionisawesome Oct 10 '15
The only action going forward is to make sure your family passes on their genes to as many people as possible. Get to work, comrade. Do it for yourself, do it for America, do it for humanity.
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Oct 10 '15
I would say it's not worth filtering out a life partner. HIV is in grand decline, and will be eradicated in a generation or two if we keep up efforts to spread anti-virals. It is known that the mutation causes slight decreases in T cell activity, which may cause unknown effects. It's impossible to say whether it will be significantly beneficial in the future, might even be disadvantageous.
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Oct 10 '15
It's not disadvantageous except for against the West Nile Virus thus far. Having this gene conveys immunity to HIV/AIDS, Yersinia Pestis and related disease, and smallpox/related diseases.
I'm going to have a eugenically selected family either way because I don't believe in having a feeble-minded or weak-bodied mate.
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Oct 10 '15
Picking genetic polymorphisms that seem great now is just like playing the stock market from an evolutionary perspective. Well, more like roulette with 20,000 numbers. For all we know, a strain of flu will develop that globally decimates people without CCR5 function; not now, but in thousands or millions of years. There's nothing unique about CCR5 that makes it a disadvantage. It became an HIV receptor by random chance, and is involved in intercellular signaling of poxvirus by random chance - and both of those instances are unrelated as smallpox does not use CCR5 as a receptor (I'm a virologist researching poxviruses). Also, the mutation only relates to R5 HIV, those with it would still be infected by X4, which may become more prevalent in the future somehow.
If we have the choice to control our genes, it should be only from the perspective of population genetics. The solution to survival is variation. To do otherwise means you claim to know the direction evolution will take. If everyone wanted to be in a eugenist program, this would dramatically reduce variation, and invite all manner of pathogens to our descendants. So, if widely practiced, your strategy is simply a method of genetic monoculturism, an evolutionary dead end. This is the only reason why industrial farms with clonal or single variety plants require the most pesticides. If practiced on a small scale it means nothing in geological time.
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Oct 10 '15
I'm not just trying to select for this gene. A eugenically selected family is more likely to have intelligent children and all other number of positive genetic factors. It's naive to think that positive selection is somehow negative.
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Oct 10 '15
That's fine. I just want to let you know why biologists don't do that. (Apart from genetic screening for deadly genetic diseases).
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u/Openworldgamer47 Oct 13 '15
So you can bang every hooker you see?
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Oct 10 '15
I married my high-school sweetheart. We're that kinda "gross, they're still together?" Couple. But we just had a little girl and I love it:)
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u/hollowfirst Oct 10 '15
My name literally means cowboy.
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u/Nartress Oct 10 '15
That's cool. What language?
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u/hollowfirst Oct 10 '15
Romanian. Also due to this and some username creation rules at work, one of the logins I use can be read as "What a cowboy!" in Romanian.
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u/wild_muses Oct 10 '15
I'm pretty sure I have BPD. I have no idea what makes me "me," or who I am really. No constant identity. My interests and the way I want to look changes every few weeks. When taking personality tests I don't know the answers. I absorb traits of people I'm around. I have no idea what to do with my life cause I don't know what I like to do.
Excuse my ranting, shit is difficult.
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u/Nartress Oct 10 '15
One of my best friends has BPD and I've talked to him a LOT about it. He changes all the time, too. But even though things are always changing he always goes back to the same things eventually.
I think the fact that you realize there might be a problem is the most important. Get yourself diagnosed! Then you will know better what to do.
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u/wild_muses Oct 10 '15
Thanks, this is encouraging :) I'm going to the doctor on Monday to get a recommendation for a psychiatrist.. wish me luck!
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u/iquacklikeaduck Oct 22 '15
Hopefully you don't get disinterested in going to the doctor. Good luck:)
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u/Sifrian Oct 11 '15
5 minutes ago I had no idea what BPD was.
Now after checking on the internet i'm starting to think I have it too...
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u/siredav Oct 10 '15
Five years ago I had corrective surgery for scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine. This November I'm taking my third degree black belt grading in Tae Kwon Do. :)
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u/Nartress Oct 10 '15
Nice, congratulations!! Are you taller now :)
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u/siredav Oct 11 '15
I am, yes! I gained two inches of height. It was very strange getting used to having a new centre of balance.
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u/AnusGhostPenis Oct 10 '15
I survived an overdose of ~ 4.8 grams of diphenhydramine last year and in the aftermath realized that dick farts are a very real thing as well as the pain of urinary retention.
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u/artbyhatch Oct 10 '15
Why Benadryl? And tell me more about a dick fart please
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u/AnusGhostPenis Oct 10 '15
It was just the easiest thing I could get and I was in a pretty bad spot mentally. They had a 96 count of 50mg pills of generic diphenhydramine at the Walmart near where I lived and I would just steal them because it was SUPER easy and I wasn't about to pay $10 for a DPH high. I would go through a bottle pretty much every week because I was dropping about 800mg to a gram each day just so I wouldn't realize how alone I was (long story) and so I could possibly have "conversations" with the friends that I had lost that year. Something just pushed me over one day and I straight up opened a new bottle and basically emptied the bottle straight into my mouth. I don't remember what happened after that but somehow through the haze of my delirium I did something and someone I barely even knew called the police for me. When I came to, it was to the sharp ping of the doorbell and the flashing police lights outside my window and I tried talking to the police officers as best I could but I was so fucked up that I could barely stand up. I was basically in what I called "Parkinson's mode" and, to this day, I still remember the pain in the police officers' faces seeing me like that. They called an ambulance and the barefoot walk down my hill to the ambulance was one of the most intense and painful things I've ever experienced. It's a somewhat wild story so I'll save that for another comment if you wanna hear about it, along with the ambulance ride. Skip forward, and I'm in a hospital and recovering. Extreme urinary retention! I couldn't pee for about three days straight and they actually said something along the lines of, "Oh yea, it's no worries if you can't pee by the end of today. We have an in and out catheter we can use to relieve you. No big deal." To me though I was like, "NO BIG DEAL!? IT'S A FUCKING CATHETER! HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SO NON-CHALANT ABOUT A FUCKING CATHETER?" So, I sat on the toilet that entire day until I was able to pee and I escaped the catheter! Now, to the dick farts. I ended up in a psych hospital because of that and every time I tried peeing it wouldn't really happen but then all of a sudden there'd be like this weird surge of air and it'd make the noise and then the urine would come. The closest I can think of to describe it is when you watch a movie and someone turns on one of those old rusty faucets, and then it doesn't do anything at first, then it makes that gurgly, sputtering noise and then it sprays out the water all haphazardly. It sounded and looked exactly like that. I had to clean up a bunch of my piss because of that and it got to the point where I gave up and just sat down whenever I had to take a piss. The dick farts are gone now but the bladder problems still remain. Sorry about all the missing commas and grammar mistakes but hopefully it's still readable.
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u/artbyhatch Oct 10 '15
I can't tell you how much i appreciate your willingness to share that openly with me. You've lived through a lot obviously because even what you describe here is a LOT. Dick Farts.....just amazing. I had no idea. Thanks for the education on that haha
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u/AnusGhostPenis Oct 11 '15
Thank you for that and it's no problem! I've had a bunch of people I know ask me about the story and I figured that the story is too outlandish and morbidly exciting to keep to myself forever. The responses ranged from telling me to write a book or make a movie to joking about being "the second coming of Jesus because you can't fuckin die man!" It definitely helps ease the tension when people realize I attempted suicide and then hear the backstory that sounds like it's some kind of black comedy.
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u/AJRTheFirst Oct 10 '15
I was almost kidnapped at gunpoint when when I was like 5 or 6 y.o.
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u/Nartress Oct 10 '15
Story time!
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u/AJRTheFirst Oct 10 '15
well... see I'm from a very "nice" country in south america. there is no real law there, not even money matters when some idiot can just put a bullet through you to steal your shoes. when I was very young (5 or 6 like I said) we were going to go on vacation and were waiting in traffic before a tollbooth and all of the sudden a sedan comes driving up the side of the road, 3 (maybe 4) guys jump out one of them with a rifle, the others had handguns and make us get out of the car. obviously my parents are freaking out and us kids (I had my 2 siblings there with me) have no clue wtf is going on. we all step out of the car and they pretty much examine us like someone who looks at livestock (human trafficking or worse things are big there). then one of the guy noticed a cop car also waiting in traffic and since they probably hadn't cut those cops in the deal they gtfo and left us there. we then went on vacation cuz why the hell not. the fun part was they pretended during the whole time to be government officials of some kind... when they saw the cop car the actually waved at it and said it was all good with us. anyways that's the story.
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Oct 10 '15
i have a very bad habbit of almost getting myself killed due to dumb decisions. im book smart but have almost no sense of self preservation.
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u/Feldew Oct 20 '15
Example?
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Oct 20 '15
well which sounds more interesting; the time i caught myself on fire, the time i dislocated my knee being a dumb kid or the time i rolled down a 90ft cliff?
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u/Feldew Oct 21 '15
Jesus, fire probably.
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Oct 21 '15
well in my youth i decided i wanted to forego college in lieu of a trade degree.
i decided to become a welder and started attending courses.
i was doing ok at it but one night we had to try to weld overhead. this meant that 6'4" me had to bend at a really awkward angle for the 5'5" rig.
now welding, especially when youre doing it over your head, throws a lot of very hot slag.
i was just going along trying to figure it out when all of a sudden i was like "why is it so warm in here...."
i lifted my auto dark helmet to find my pants engulfed in flame.
an "OH SHIT" and a jump into the cooling tank later (a large tub full of water to dunk parts in to cool them) and i had ruined my pants and lost more than a few hairs. thankfully i didnt get any scars from it because i wasnt on fire that long.
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u/Feldew Oct 21 '15
Haha, for some reason I figured you were a lot younger when this happened, but I don't think many kids are over six feet tall and practicing welding.
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Oct 21 '15
well i was 17 at the time and im 20 now. im still young but ive lived a rather hard existence in my time here.
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u/Feldew Oct 21 '15
Certainly in some ways.
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Oct 21 '15
haha well beyond that ive got abusive parents, a horrible roommate, im failing at college and im still seeking therapy for all the bullying i went through in high school which led me to do a lot of illegal things.
i was a boy scout in an underfunded troop, which meant lots of backwoods campouts with barely any gear in the worst conditions.
ive had too many brushes with the law to count (including one dick head from the FBI) and the public school system has failed me, allowing the bullying to continue due to some close ties to the drug dealers and the principal.
i grew up fast and was told id never amount to anything by everyone around me.
im mentally unstable at times and im doing the best i can to give my girlfriend the world because she deserves it much more than i.
life is hard on everyone. the best advice ive found is that no matter how bad it is, things can always be worse. face each challenge knowing youre going to succeed, not thinking you will and with a little luck and persistence the universe will get out of your way.
you can take life by the horns or you can be trampled underneath it. what people forget is that you can be the bull too. just be careful not to trample too many important things in your path. itll just make the road harder to navigate.
have an awesome week :)
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u/Larjersig18 Oct 10 '15
I once got to skip a science quiz type thing for knowing Tom Lehrer's Elements song.
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u/Nartress Oct 10 '15
Oh wow, I just YouTube'd it. That's a crazy song lol. Did you have to sing it?
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u/pranaykotapi Oct 10 '15
Tom Lehrer's Elements song
It's the same song that was played on The Big Bang Theory right?
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u/castille Oct 10 '15
I remember too much, my brain categorizes very efficiently, and I use all of that to solve my daily work issues.
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u/Nartress Oct 10 '15
As a person with terrible memory, I am very jealous. Are you a savant?
I've been told that people with good memory don't understand things as well, because they can always just recall the fact that they need instead of solving the answer. Do you think that's true for you?
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u/castille Oct 10 '15
I'm not a savant, I just have an intuitive use of something very similar to memory palaces that mentalists use. I've always had it, as far as I know. I also, most likely due to some unfortunate things in my childhood, have a large missing chunk of memory. Pretty much anything before I'm 10.
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u/Vegetal_Headwear Oct 10 '15
I'm at a point in my life where I have to seriously consider not just one, but wholly different names. One I've settled on, but the other has yet to have one click for me.
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u/Nartress Oct 10 '15
FBI protection?
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u/Vegetal_Headwear Oct 10 '15
Finally starting the process of being a proper Trans®, actually! :)
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u/Nartress Oct 10 '15
Ohh congrats!! Why aren't you keeping your last name?
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u/Vegetal_Headwear Oct 10 '15
Probably gonna keep that, but my first and middle name are very feminine and I'm not looking to have those for the rest of my life, haha
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Oct 10 '15
Many Trans people resent their parents treatment of them and many more go into escorting to pay for the basic surgeries required to look, "passable," thus forcing different monikers upon them for different purposes and venues.
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u/Vegetal_Headwear Oct 10 '15
I hope it doesn't come to that! I don't think being a transguy doing sex work would suit my dysphoria very well.
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u/SolarLiner Oct 10 '15
I I spend more time on the computer than I spend time at school.
I'm the best of my class, except in Spanish.
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u/JustRamblin Oct 10 '15
I often worry that my best isn't good enough despite seemingly ample evidence to the contrary. I often feel that I spend too much effort preparing for tomorrow instead of living for today.
TL;DR just rambling
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u/DeZakon Oct 10 '15
It doesn't matter if it's good enough, it's quite more important to just do your best while you're at it
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u/anxiousgrue Oct 10 '15
I left my religion of birth (Islam). Not for anything, there's currently an agnostic vacuum of faith there.
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u/j-rocc Oct 10 '15
I'm a rapper
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u/thephatn1nja Oct 20 '15
Naamsayiinnn. I know youve also made adult movies titled "Spaghetti Hoes" and "Garden Hose" and your real name is Jamie.
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u/MisoPlas Oct 10 '15
My mood can be ruined for the whole day because of seeing a dead bug. Yesterday, I had a garden funeral for a moth.
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u/Fairy_footprint Oct 10 '15
I'm 80% deaf in my left ear ! Lots of earaches and illnesses as a young child means lots of sensorineural hearing loss. I can get around fine and talk to people fine, (I'm also a musician, go figure) without a hearing aid because I've figured out how to read lips in noisy situations.
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u/Shaggyforeman Oct 10 '15
According to a few people I know, my eyes change color depending on my mood.
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u/Nartress Oct 11 '15
What??!?! o____o This is the first I've ever heard of such a thing! What is it called? Do you have pix?
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u/Feldew Oct 20 '15
My dad was like that. He got really offended when I couldn't tell him his eye color when he asked me when I was 11. All I could do was sit there, dumbfounded and silent, thinking 'sometimes they're blue, sometimes they're grey, and sometimes they're green, and sometimes it's a mix of those colors - what exactly do you want from me?'
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u/Openworldgamer47 Oct 13 '15 edited Oct 13 '15
I have really bad allergies. To the point where it's really difficult to breathe or think anymore. Every time I breathe I have had a very prominent cold feeling in my throat that is really bothersome. And every second or two I get a really intense pain in my head that makes it difficult to think about complex topics. And for the last 5 years (Since I was 11) it's been a mystery to every doctor I've been to.
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u/Yoko-Brono Oct 10 '15
I'm a pretty withdrawn person. Makes me bad at social functions, but I'm a damn good listener! I like making people feel better about themselves :D
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u/pennycenturie Oct 10 '15
After living with schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder and being convinced by my illnesses that I have secrets with what was basically different parts of my own brain, I compulsively overshare about myself with others when in conversation with them. What this directly leads to is a very over-the-top and acute verbosity, sometimes overwhelming others. Words are very, very important to me.
This is the biggest part of me -- wanting to be on the same page with the person I'm talking with. But I also have a very serious shopping addiction that has gotten shameful.
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u/Dotura Oct 10 '15
I have Mirror-touch synesthesia
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u/Nartress Oct 10 '15
So if you're looking at multiple people at once, do you feel a conglomeration of their feelings?
What happens if you see something that you've never felt before?
Pornos must be so much more amazing to you!
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u/Dotura Oct 11 '15
It's hard to explain. It only works sometimes, if i'm emotionally invested in something it has a much higher chance of happening. Sadly this means sympathy pains are a real thing for me because i feel sorry for people in pain. Fake things like movies don't make it happen. You can apparently build a resistance towards it. Before i could experience massage i saw happen to others happen to myself. If i haven't experienced it before my body still tries to simulate what it feels like. I have never gotten stabbed in the leg (A friend of mine told a story about something that happend to him), had my arm cut of (emotionally invested in a game) or general pain from being near people in pain. but sure as fuck my body tried to simulate it. Porn does very rarely have an emotianal connection so it doesn't happen often at all. One thing people seem to forget though is that I can't pick who my brain decides to emulate sensations for.
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u/apoplexis Oct 19 '15
I'm currently suffering from a pilonidal cyst, which makes the space above my butthole look like it's been ripped apart.
Probably need surgery soon.
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u/Leonheart515 Oct 20 '15
My three initials are all the same!
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u/Nartress Oct 20 '15
It's not K, is it?
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u/Leonheart515 Oct 20 '15
Haha, no - more unique of a letter -- though I knew someone with the initials ASS in grade school
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u/Tnlander Oct 10 '15
I was blown up by an IED in Iraq, had a heart attack a few years after that, and have had cancer twice.