“Haven’t Had To Shave In 26 Years”: 40 People Who Absolutely Won The Genetic Lottery

I can see colors that others apparently cannot see.

This came to be known because I see the place in clothes where the weaving has changed threads and the dye lot is different. I notice where embroidered items use different shades of thread because they ran out of the first shade and most people don’t even notice.

I can tell in wallpaper, paint on the wall, even on cars or furniture. I can tell the colors of green in the sky caused by the tint in your side windows vs the pink from the front windshield tint, and they are different. It drives me nuts at times.

On those “color tests” online, what you see as “40” colors, I can see where they begin the gradations to slowly shift to the next color and fool you, so there are hundreds of colors there in the “test”.

But the bonus! I can also remember colors, so I can perfectly match paint colors to fabrics from memory, or buy a shirt to match a pair of slacks in exactly the right color without having them next to each other.

And since I am an artist, I can easily mix paints up to get exact color I’m after, no sweat.

Comes in handy.

All the women in my family live past 100, going back at least 5 generations. We tell our first husbands that they're our FIRST husband's because, well.. it's understood that we'll carry on well after they're gone. No one had dementia at the end, either. Sharp as a track and built to last.

I am a homozygous carrier of the CCR5 Delta32 mutation.

I lack the receptors that HIV uses to infect people, so I am VERY HIGHLY resistant, possibly even immune.

It's a mutation you see in people with Northern European ancestry. I get one mutation from each of my parents. I AM THRILLED to have it because from what I can gather (and I am not a scientist) that gene is the key to stopping HIV and AIDS. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area so the AIDS epidemic was a huge deal here.

So, scientists, if you need blood, bone marrow or WHATEVER for studies or who knows what, I'm O-, CMV-, and have the CCR5 Delta32 mutation.

I would be THRILLED to be involved in anything that helps save lives.

I have very dense bones...?

I found that out when I had to have a hip replacement. When my doctor told me I have above-average density to my bones I said, "OH! So I really AM big-boned!"

He turned and looked at me and flatly said, "Yes, but you're fat, too."

He couldn't let me have that for just five seconds.... LMAO.

3 fully functional kidneys.

rorscachsraven:

I was born with only 1 so you must have had my spare 😂😂

I’m Black and Japanese. I’m 48 but look like I’m in my 30s. I moved away from my home town, but everytime I run into someone I went to high school with, I can feel their eyes on me and I legit get a little guilty.

My dad is 72 and looks barely 50. We both are still pretty athletic and active.

I tell people that between my two races, I’m gonna look like I’m 34 until I’m 62, and then suddenly overnight I’m gonna look 105.

I can draw near photographic portraits of people with a pencil. I didn’t know until I was a teenager, and it was a school assignment, and I just, did a great job, and was shocked, I had no idea I could do that.

Then I went to show my grandma how proud I was, looked at the art on her walls, and realized I inherited it.

I have NO leg hair. Or arm hair. Literally NONE. I haven't had to shave in 26 years.

Feels nice sometimes, ngl.

My teeth are perfectly straight. No one believes that I never had braces. I’ve also never had a cavity or any other dental work.

I have some pretty s****y genes but I have double eyelashes which is so pretty and I've passed it to my kids (my son's look like they have eyelash extensions!)

I also have natural ginger hair and blue eyes which is the rarest combination and that feel pretty special.

I don't get hangovers. I get drunk as ANY Irishman, but the next day, I'm fine. I also have stupid good vitals for a fat dude. No excess cholesterol, not pre diabetic, good heart and blood pressure, but I look like Hagrid. *shrug*.

Everyone in my immediate family is very intelligent.

All outshined by my little brother though. He's one of those weird super genius kids. Taught himself to read and write at about 2 years old and now he does programming and 3D modelling at 11.

I'm nearly 26 and he's about as good at maths as me now. Who knows how far he'll go.

I’m white but I have inherited the gene that causes dry ear wax and non smelly sweat. This genotype is more common in East Asia and quite rare in Europe. I am ethnically Finnish so I wonder if it’s some distant Siberian ancestor influence.

I have tetrachromacy. It's rare in women and incredibly rare in men, especially to this degree. It means I have a fourth colour cone, allowing me to see colours outside the usual spectrum (normal is 1 million, I see upwards of 100 million).

Describing and categorising colour is hard, so over the years, I've named them by the feelings I associate with them for whenever people ask me. They seem to understand a lot better when I tell them the feelings associated, almost like they can see it without seeing it.

Tips of wet grass blades when the sun rises, mineral-rich rocks underneath a light stream, retroreflective animal eyes, my budgie's wet glistening feathers; all have a unique colour and I've tried my very best to categorise them!

While I count myself very lucky, it can be quite isolating. I've met one other person who sees like me via a study years ago, but we went our separate ways. Almost nobody sees the world as I do, and it sucks sometimes. At least I can describe it somewhat through feelings, though!

My immune system kicks butt.

I am a kindergarten teacher. Kindies are renowned for being adorable and efficient little vectors of all kinds of disgusting contagion.

In the past 11 years I have taken only ONE sick day because I was actually sick.

Don’t have any reaction to mosquito bites.

Probably never going bald.

Excellent sleep.

Everyone in my family has this.
Usually falling asleep does take less than 5 min and we can all fall asleep basically wherever/whenever we want to (and easily get up).

All of my mom's siblings lived into their late 90's and beyond. Unfortunately my mom, who was the baby, got Parkinson's and we lost her at 65. But so far I and all my siblings are still here and not doing half bad for being 76, 73, 71 and 69. We are not overweight and still have all our mental faculties. We are also pretty short on wrinkles and we are all still active and doing things. My husband and I are even building a house from the ground up by ourselves. He's 73.

I’m thin without making any effort. Have been this way my whole life. I’m 50 now and I still wear the same size I did in my 20s.

My hair is extremely thick and somehow stays healthy no matter how much u dye it and it grows pretty fast too.

belleandbent:

Us too. Thick and luxurious. My mom is 72 with long, thick, black hair. Maybe a few grays here and there.