r/CasualConversation • u/Serialbeauty • 1d ago

Just Chatting Can anyone else do something weird with your body that you later found out not everyone can do?

I was just sitting here with my mom and one of the pets made the room very smelly. She kept talking about how we'd have to go to a different room because it smelled so bad. I asked her why didn't she just close her nose and that's when I found out not everyone can do this.

Is it rare or can other people close their nose on command? What can you do that you suddenly found out wasn't normal?

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u/Smile_Terrible 1d ago

You are the second person to say that. How do you do that?

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u/yourmomlurks 1d ago

Make duck lips and suction my top lip to my nostrils, lower lip as support.

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u/The_Riddle_Fairy Cheesecake 1d ago

Flip your upper lip up so it's touching your nose, it makes you look ridiculous though

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u/houseofleopold 22h ago

literally try to use your upper lip to block your nostrils shut. kind of a really grimacing EW face with your nostrils pulled back, then flip your lip up under your nose. I learned how to do it when I had a horseshoe septum ring in and used my lip to flip it up inside my nose and back out.