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Probability........
Do you have a particular item or characteristic that's somewhat rare, or a fun fact on probability? Share them here!!! Anything that pertains to the subject of chances, probability, or rarity, belongs here.
I myself am a redhead, which is 1 in 100, but the chances decrease significantly if you also have blue eyes(which I do). However this information will also increase my chances of being guessed...... I won't say any more.
submitted by Probably Not, age Uncertain, What Are The Chances?
(January 25, 2018 - 10:59 am)
(January 25, 2018 - 10:59 am)
I'm left handed, which is in 1 out of 10 people! And considering that it's a chance of 9.5 of two right handed parents having a left handed child, it's quite cool I was born left handed! Oh, and literally none of my family( even cousins and aunts) are a lefty. I have one left handed aunt and I think that's it!
(January 25, 2018 - 12:43 pm)
I'M A LEFTY TOO! I also have no family who are left-handed! Literally NONE of my 35 or so cousins on both sides of my parents are leftys, along with my grandparents, 12 aunts and uncles and my parents! It's odd, sometimes a burden when it comes to, oh, say I bought a calligraphy set with some of my birthday money, I brought it home, opened it up, and then saw that there where no instructions for left-handers :/
Do you want to be guessed, @Probably Not? Because I'm preetty darn sure I know who you are...XD
There is one thing that definatly makes me unique, and I think that it counts because being left handed counts too. I don't often share this with just everybody, but I want to now.
I was born with Talipes Equinovarus, otherwise known as a club foot. That means that my right ankle (though it can happen in both feet or the left foot, too) had grown inside my mother's womb twisted inwards almost 90 degrees. This only happens 1 in 1,000. I had casts done to start stretching my tendons and ankle when I was only a day old. I had braces that my little baby feet wore untill I began walking. When I was 3, I had a tendon transplant, which is when the doctors move over one of the tendons in my big toe of my "bad foot" over so I would have flexibility. I have six giant, bumpy scars to this day stretching all the way up into my calf, and ending on the sole of my foot, where they sewed in a button to hold my newly moved tendons in place. I've had trouble with pain and tightness over the years, having to have my foot casted over and over again, and having to wear a walking boot for a summer. I've been having trouble just recently with my tightness in my calf, causing all the bones in my "bad foot" to shift and then crunching down on my joints on the insole of my foot. So, yeah. I've probably bored your ears off by forcing you to listen to my woe, so I'll just stop there. However, I know there are people out there, born with one or even two club feet, who didn't get surgury. They've had to live with their twisted, imobile ankle(s) forever. I can run, dance, and walk. So as much as my foot pains me and probably will for the rest of my life, I feel....oh, I don't know what the word is for it. Lucky? No. Special? No. Priviledged? Yes.
Okay! End overly long post!
Olympic gold medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi was born with a club foot. Her parents started her skating to help her feet and look how it did!
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(January 25, 2018 - 5:11 pm)
I have voluntary nystagmus, and hereditary element only 8% of the population has! It's pretty cool, I can shake my eyes when I want to.
(January 25, 2018 - 6:39 pm)
My dad can do that!
(January 26, 2018 - 8:04 am)
Oh, one of my gymnastics friends can do that! It's so weird and cool. Her eyeballs can just... vibrate.
(January 26, 2018 - 10:51 am)
I can do that! I didn't know it had an actual term, though.
(January 26, 2018 - 3:46 pm)
Oh, I know a family where all their kids can do that! It's a little bit creepy! They can make their eyeballs vibrate, roll upwards, become cross-eyed, and roll them outwards! I thought that it was just a skill you have to work on, like raising one eyebrow, but I guess not!
(January 27, 2018 - 12:43 pm)
I have synesthesia, which is when two or more of a person's senses intermingle. In my case, I can 'see' sounds, meaning that when I hear something I see a color and sometimes pattern or texture in my mind's eye, known as chromesthesia, as well as color-graphemic synesthesia, which is where letters and numbers have colors. Only 1 in 2000 people have synesthesia.
(January 25, 2018 - 10:08 pm)
I have synesthesia too!
(January 26, 2018 - 5:14 am)
That's super cool, Cockleburr! I'm pretty sure I have mild synesthesia. I don't have Chromesthesia (which sounds really cool actually), but I'm pretty sure I have color-graphemic synesthesia (and my brother too) because I have colors for pretty much everything. For instance, A is yellow. The number 1 is blue. The name Cockleburr is reddish orange.
Another thing about me is that I'm cross-dominant.
So, let me explain. What that means is that I have the opposite dominant hand as eye. SOO foir me, that means I'm right handed, but left eyed. The most common combination is for a person to be right handed and have a right dominant eye. The second most common is to be left handed and left eyed, which is still rare. But when a person is either left handed and right eyed, or right handed and left eyed, that's SUUUPER rare. I don't know the statistics, but I'll try to find them out and post them.
(January 26, 2018 - 8:36 am)
Wow, that's cool! For me the name Leeli is spring green with a touch of pink, though when I say it outloud it's tinged with blue from my voice. Kyoto is Alice Blue, with a tint of yellow. My voice is generally blue, so when I say it it gets more intense and adds some green in there.
I also have ADD (attention deficit disorder), which 11% of children ages 4-17 have been diagnosed with.
(January 26, 2018 - 10:59 am)
That's so cool that your voice is blue! For me, Leeli is yellow with a tinge of spring green, and Kyoto is navy blue!
(Also, as a side note, this is kinda weird, but I may have discovered a new type of synesthesia. So, last night, I started realizing that I could pair people with different items of seating. XD For instance, I'm a distressed white wooden bar stool with a cushion on it. To me, you Cockleburr, would be a comfortable red tinted leather chair. Then again, I'm just getting over being sick, so mayb ethat messed with my brain a bit. XD)
(January 27, 2018 - 9:17 am)
I think I know who you are...xD
I also have red hair, which is the rarest hair color in the world. That is the only improbable thing I was born with. The only other thing I can think of is im a right hockey player which is unusual. Oh, and also I do some drawing with my left hand, but I am naturally a righty. So nothing really special. xD
(January 26, 2018 - 1:07 pm)
Wellll... I'm a lefty, though I tie shoes right-handed and shoot a bow right-handed.
One of my eyes is slightly smaller than the other one, and I don't think I can see as well out of it. Idk what the probability is for that, or if it's even really a thing. Other than that there's nothing really out of the ordinary about me.
(January 26, 2018 - 3:25 pm)
I’m right-handed left-eyed! And I’m pretty sure I have ADD and possibly mild OCD. I don’t quite have synesthesia, but if I try I can sort of see or feel things as a different sense. Voluntary synesthesia? Or can everyone do that? I don’t think I really have any unlikely genes, unless you count pale skin and blue eyes.
(January 26, 2018 - 4:04 pm)