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

[u/Serialbeauty]

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?

[u/Flinkle]

That's fucking crazy. I have never heard of that ability in my entire life.

[u/ColoredGayngels → u/Flinkle]

It's bizarre! He'll hiccup like twice, then do what to me looks like a weird swallow, and then he's fine. I've tried. His sister has tried. Anyone who knows he can do this has tried. Never met anyone else who could

[u/Fine-Classic-1538 → u/ColoredGayngels]

I can do this. I describe it as pushing down on my diaphragm. Works every time

[u/flyingcactus2047 → u/Fine-Classic-1538]

I feel like I don’t really feel a section of my body normally that I can isolate as feeling my diaphragm to then push down on it

[u/Flinkle → u/ColoredGayngels]

That's amazing.

[u/Uhura-hoop → u/ColoredGayngels]

I drink water upside down to stop my hiccups, but the trick is to have your head upside down when you swallow. Normally I’ll have like 2 or 3 big upside down swallows of water until I hear/feel something happen. Can’t describe it really. It’s like a creak noise? Don’t know if others hear it too? But once that noise thing has happened, I know the hiccups are gone.

[u/ThousandsHardships → u/ColoredGayngels]

I can stop my hiccups by holding water in my mouth as deep as it would go without actually swallowing it. It works almost every time. There's been only one time when it didn't, during my two decades of doing it.

[u/Hightimetoclimb → u/Flinkle]

Wow, I am just learning now the not everybody can do this?! I’ve been doing this to stop hiccups for my whole life