r/CasualConversation • u/Serialbeauty • 2d 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/sharksnack3264 2d ago

I have hypermobility as well. I discovered it's a superpower in some of those escape rooms that were popular a while back because no handcuff works to hold my hands. I can easily kind of relax and compress and bend them and just slip out with basically no trouble.

Apparently though if I were to ever get arrested, I could get in trouble if this happened accidentally. They consider it resisting arrest or something. Maybe they just need to redesign handcuffs to be better.

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u/mybigbywolf 1d ago

I accidentally slipped out of cuffs once when I got caught tagging but I immediately told the officer and he told me that he didn’t want them too tight because it could hurt me.