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Everyone thinks their condition normal before finding out it's not.

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Sackeshi@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought I was a little weird, but mostly normal for 40 years.

    Turns out I’m only normal enough to fit in, but mostly weird.

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  • Dr_Box@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I dont have the ability to burp. Didnt think it was that big of a deal until recently learning its a condition called R-CPD and is directly responsible for the stomach problems I’ve had all my life

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    • entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Huh, TIL there’s a name for what I have.

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      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You shouldn’t self diagnose from a vague comment on the internet. Speak to a doctor.

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    • SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s awesome that it’s a diagnosed thing now. I didn’t start burping until I was in my mid 20s. I’m not sure what changed but I can burp when I need to now. My first few years of drinking beer were rough when I wasn’t able to burp.

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      • Dr_Box@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah I cant drink beer or I’ll get so bloated that I have to force myself to vomit to get the gas out

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        youtu.be/QionFrgMH4w

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Goddamn. I’ve gone my whole life thinking that was just something I had to deal with. Now to figure out a way to get the treatment done, which is apparently a single shot for a lot of people.

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    • konalt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Another one! The gurgles are such an embarrassment.

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      • Dr_Box@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To make it worse I am also lactose intollerant

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If it’s not normal to wake up in the middle of night with palpatations and existential dread caused by an overload of caffeine/sugar/terrible world, then I don’t know what normal is

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    • lath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Normal is all of that, but without waking up in the middle of it.

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      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Because you spent all night telling yourself if you fake sleep eventually you’ll actually fall asleep, but really you end up staring a hole through your eyelids. The fact that you can tell it’s light in the room with your eyes closed seems like a design flaw

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      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yeah just let it ride

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    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought that was the problem, but it was just sleep apnea causing most of it. Try forcing yourself to sleep on your side, maybe look into a sleep study if you have the option.

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have had the opposite impressions. Many people think what they happen to them is unique, until they start talking about it and many people around them is the same.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Growing up with the internet I have always felt the opposite. If you think or feel something, millions of others have too.

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  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Me finding out in my late 20s that I had ADHD and now figuring out I’m likely autistic too.

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    • Kidra@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When I was looking at a questionnaire about ADHD I showed out to my wife saying something like “man, they’re really gearing these questions to diagnose everyone with ADHD, aren’t they?” She read through the list and then, with the saddest expression I’ve ever seen on her face, looked at me and asked “you mean you’ve been struggling with all of this?”

      Getting diagnosed was a formality after that.

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  • cloudless@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep. Remember that you are unique, just like everyone else.

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  • Drekaridill@feddit.is ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Turns out that being so nervous about any kind of change in your life to the point you get physically ill is NOT normal.

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe not normal, but it’s certainly a common issue.

      It also happens to me.

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      • Drekaridill@feddit.is ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You may have an anxiety disorder. I got therapy and meds and my life is so much better now.

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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s why, every once in a while, one should drop in to see what condition their condition is in.

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    • moseschrute@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But where do you drop into? The condition doctor? The car mechanic?

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      • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes

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  • 7uWqKj@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, because the definition of normal is “within this many standard deviations from the average”, and people consider themselves average until learning otherwise.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shin splints. I thought running just hurt, and we all had to put up with it.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s … Not the case?

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      • Drekaridill@feddit.is ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nope. Shin splints.

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  • jaxxed@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The opposite is also true

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    More like, we expect others to let us know if something isn’t normal and if no one has so far, it assumed to be normal

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  • Regna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, my popping kidney cysts certainly didn’t feel normal. But my doctor told me it wasn’t unusual, and just to deal with it with some meds.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What?

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      • Regna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We discovered I had some kidney cysts. Which isn’t unusual, fairly normal above a certain age apparently.

        One had previously burst (during a time when I thought it was overexertion during ten days hiking a trail) and had left scarring. As I had had no complications (other than three days of constantly feeling like someone kept stabbing my back), it was considered normal and had resolved without any other complications than some scarring.

        The other popped recently, and it felt like someone had stabbed me in my sleep, it jolted me awake, hurt like hell and then I had bloody urine with clots. Was scary, but once I went through ultrasound and cat-scans it was deemed as not all that unusual and not to worry. I am now on antibiotics and oxy, with a follow up visit later this week once my blood results come back.

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  • Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I stop hiccuping when I realize I’m doing it, and sneeze more than 3 times in a row. I feel like my hiccup and sneeze wires were crossed somewhere.

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    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, the sneezialist

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  • owsei@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have several breathing problems with my nose and some inside bits. I always just thought breathing with your mouth was considerably easier, but people can’t do it because it’s not elegant.

    Now I’m trying to get the surgery covered

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Many never find out. And not alwaya because they’re actually the normal ones.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You guys don’t see 14 point, Times New Roman words in your mind when you’re listening to someone speak?

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