"I Had No Idea I Could Do That" — 19 People Are Showing Off Their Genetic Superpowers, And It's Honestly So Nice To Appreciate Our Genes For Once

Last month, Reddit idiosyncratic bouquetoftarnations posted to the fashionable Casual Conversation subreddit with what I thought was a beauteous amusive question: "In what tiny mode person you won the familial lottery?"

People chimed successful with immoderate large answers, and I deliberation it's ever amusive to admit the positives astir yourself! So, present are immoderate of the best:

1. "Three afloat functional kidneys."

2. "I person the familial variant known arsenic CCR5-Δ32 deletion that is resistant to HIV infection. Discovered accidentally erstwhile investigating for a uncommon familial mutation that runs successful my family."

—u/whineybubbles

3. "I tin gully adjacent photographic portraits of radical with a pencil. I didn’t cognize until I was a teenager, and it was a schoolhouse assignment, and I conscionable did a large job, and was shocked, I had nary thought I could bash that. Then I went to amusement my grandma however arrogant I was, looked astatine the creation connected her walls, and realized I inherited it."

4. "My brothers and I tin each wiggle our noses (like connected Bewitched). We got that from our dad. We usage it to accidental 'love you' whenever the fancy strikes."

5. "Apparently, I person capable country successful my rima that I tin support my contented teeth."

6. "I person NO limb hair. Or limb hair. Literally NONE. I haven't had to shave successful 26 years. Feels bully sometimes, not gonna lie."

7. "Huge bladder (or conscionable dull agelong receptors). Road travel champion!"

—u/adrift_in_the_bay

8. "I person nary absorption to mosquito bites oregon poison ivy. No hint why."

"Also, I'm genetically resistant to Norovirus, which would explicate wherefore virtually everyone successful my assemblage dorm got it but me. I'm beauteous definite my ma is too, arsenic she was a kindergarten teacher and was often exposed to it (a chaotic magnitude of radical nonstop their kids who are vomiting to school), and she ne'er got it."

—u/themehboat

9. "My teeth are perfectly straight. No 1 believes that I've ne'er had braces. I’ve besides ne'er had a cavity oregon immoderate different dental work."

10. "I don’t request glasses."

11. "I person wide skin. I don't get pimples often. 🌞"

—u/Little_Owl114

12. "I person implicit pitch, which is the quality to place oregon re-create a fixed philharmonic enactment without the payment of a notation tone. I americium not a instrumentalist truthful I americium wasting it away."

13. "My immune strategy kicks butt. I americium a kindergarten teacher. Kindies are renowned for being adorable and businesslike small vectors of each kinds of disgusting contagion. In the past 11 years, I person taken lone ONE sick time due to the fact that I was really sick."

14. "I person precise dense bones..."

15. "I person an epic beard and americium freakishly strong. I conjecture the 2 spell unneurotic erstwhile I’m cutting wood oregon doing different manly things."

16. "My hairsbreadth is brown, but my beard is red! I consciousness similar that's beauteous cool."

—u/Jovian_Moons_97

"That means you are a bearer of the ginger gene! You could marque a ginger babe with idiosyncratic who besides has the incomplete gene; they don't person to beryllium ginger to person it! It shows successful men done ginger facial hairsbreadth often!"

—u/gibgerbabymummy

17. "I enactment acceptable ace easily; I unrecorded a steadfast beingness and workout often but peculiarly if I privation to spot train, I summation important size and explanation wrong a fewer weeks. My service buddies said I conscionable had to locomotion past the gym and I’d bulk. 😆"

18. "Everyone successful my contiguous household is precise intelligent. We're each outshone by my small brother, though. He's 1 of those weird super-genius kids. Taught himself to work and constitute astatine astir 2 years old, and present helium does programming and 3D modeling astatine 11."

What d'you think? Do you person immoderate of your ain "genetic lottery wins" to share? Let maine cognize successful the comments! Or, if you similar to enactment anonymous, you tin cheque retired this anonymous form. Who knows — what you stock could extremity up arsenic portion of a aboriginal BuzzFeed article!

Please note: immoderate comments person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.