In a couple of threads online, peoplestarted sharingwhat makes them different from everybody else. The answers to thequestion"What are you in the 1% of?" varied: people covered everything from genetics, unique experiences, and, of course, some morbid stuff.
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Mine’s pretty godawful. I have 2 uteruses.Edit: lot of people asking why I put up with it till I was around 33. I didn’t know . Because doctors don’t listen to women complaining of menstrual issues, is why. The endless pain and bleeding? Suck it up, take 3 Advil not two (holla). Starting at age 12. Till I lucked into a rare empathetic gynecologist who, since I’d always known I was uninterested in parenting, offered me a minimally invasive (just removes the top of the uterus, the rest of me stayed there) hysterectomy to stop the pain and hemorrhaging. And in doing the surgery, he discovered what no other doctor had cared enough to find.I love that guy!N.B. in the States, it is rare and usually extraordinarily difficult for a young woman who has not borne children to get a voluntary hysterectomy. Criminal.
I have a double gene mutation that makes me highly resistant or even immune to the HIV virus.
Chefs. I have earned a Michelin star.
I’m one of only @200 deaf pilots in the world and one of only four (that are commonly known of) in the world with Commercial & Instrument training.I’m also one of the only deaf people who hold both a pilots license and a commercial drivers license.
Genetics. A red head with ab- blood and hazel eyes. I’m a walking recessive gene.
I’ve been in 2 helicopter crashes and 1 plane crash. There is only a small group of people who have survived that many crashes. I’m also not a pilot.
I suffer from a relatively harmless “phenomenon” called “Aphantasia”.I am incapable of conjuring images inside my head. I “know” what object or thing I’m supposed to think about but all I see is nothing.When I dream, I know what’s happening and what I’m supposed to see but it’s just a whole lot of nothingness. I guess you could say I’m “blind” in my mind.Apparently around 1% of the population suffer from this weird condition.Must be nice having a screen in your head that shows anything you can imagine :/.
I can make my eyes shake (voluntary nystagmus) and I can wiggle my ears.It was a lot more impressive when I was 7.
Cancer survivor. Think that’s 5%. I had it 3 f*****g times.
Far less than 1% of people make their living creating crossword puzzles. I’ve also written five novels, three of which were published.
According to my step counter, walking.Not even kidding, I manage a warehouse and walk 10-15 miles a day at work. Apparently this is more than 99.3% of users.Turns out the one thing I’m exceptional at is the one thing almost everyone can do. Yay.
Not me but my dad.He was born with a backwards heart and didn’t find out till his heart attack a few years ago and it actually saved his life.His doctor later told him that after being a doctor for over 30 years he’d never seen someone with a backwards heart and that apparently 1% of people on the planet have it.
I’m naturally ambidextrous. Apparently that’s something only 1% of people naturally are. I can use both right and left hands ably for any task. For example, I often switch which hand I write with based on how I’m sitting.(It’s worth noting natural ambidexterity is not the same as learned or acquired ambidexterity. For example, left handed people often have to use things designed for right handed people but otherwise are left handed.).
Typing in my PC.. I can type up to 170 WPM sometimes, and in the human benchmark site that’s 1%.
Mirror writing:writing the same exact thing with my left hand, except backwards and to the left, while I write it normally and with my right hand.
I’m an American of North Korean descent
My actual name. My last name is one of the rarest in the country and I am the only person with my name out of the entire population.
I’m albino.
So apparently my left eye is 32mm. The average size is 21-27mm. My eye doctor said it was neat.
If you make 40k a year and have no debt… Wealth, globally speaking.
Eyesight. I have 20/10 vision, turns out only about 1% of people have better than normal 20/20 vision.
I’m a totally in the 0.2% of something. People who have a rather nasty reaction to the blood thinner, Heparin. Lost half my toes because of how lucky I am.
Grandmaster in league of legends (0.02%) 😎, this results in not having a social life or girlfriend so don’t recommend.
Degrees. I have a BA, MA, JD and two PhD’s. If I’m not mistaken, less than 1% of the world has that many (and neither should I).
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I can stop my hiccups on command.
Birth control. 99% effective right? I’m living proof of the 1% XD.(It’s cool though, my parents never acted like they didn’t want me.).
According to Amazon, I’m in the top 1% of kindle readers. They keep track of these things and within the last couple years started sharing the info with users as seasonal “Achievements.“At the end of the Spring season, they sent out emails with the final data: from April 1st to June 31st I read:74 daysFor a total193 hours.I don’t really have a social life. As though that wasn’t clear enough from the stats
I’m of the .002% of people with osteopoikilosis. This freaked the s**t out of me because when I was diagnosed the first thing the doctor said was “wow I’ve never seen this in anything but textbooks before”…
I’m one of around 1% of people directly related to Swedens great kingGustav Vasa, still living. I’m one of 100k people.
I have AB- bloodtype. Less than 1% of the worlds population have it.
Im the 1% of the top students in my stem high school.
Hyperhidrosis. Excessively sweaty arm pits for no reason. I could be sitting there completely at ease and sweat rolls down my sides from my pits. I have found a product to fix the issue however I know no one else who has the same issue personally.
Not as interesting or cool as others but im in the 1% of the population that has no immunity to Rubella even though ive been vaccinated for it several time. Apparently some peoples bodies dont take to some vaccinations. Fine with everything else like mumps measels etc its just the rubella.Ive also got type 2 duanes symdrone in my right eye. Duanes being a uncommon eye condition anyway, right eye being least common to have it in an type 2 the least common of its type out of the 3 types. Won the duanes lottery with that one.
I held a 2nd place world record for the Mushroom Gorge time trial in mariokart Wii for 15 minutes.Edit: thanks for all the replies! Didn’t know this would touch the hearts of many!
I am diagnosed with Visual snow syndrome. Basically seeing through static. It may not be rare as thought but I am one of very few people to be formally diagnosed.EDIT:1) no this isn’t normal and sorry to all the people who found out they had VVS through my stupid Reddit comment lol2) lots of ppl asked how I was diagnosed- I was at an eye specialist for an unrelated reason and he asked if I had any other concerns. I described my sight to him and he said that’s probably VVS. He referred me to a neurologist and she diagnosed me.3) I don’t remember not seeing flickering dots. I’ve never done psychedelics. I was unaware d***s could worsen or cause it. Thanks for the warnings though! Definitely won’t be doing psychedelics now haha.
Infertile people. The people who can’t have children after a year of trying, for whom no treatment works, have no diagnosis to explain why, and end up the 1% of the 1% and move on to surrogacy/gestational carrier.
As a Lithuanian I belong to a nationality that makes up 0.03% of the world population.
Everyone is born with a space in the base of your skull, I have an enlarged space. The Dr called it an Enlarged Cisterna Magna.Having it isn’t what makes me part of the 1%, it’s the fact that it hasn’t caused me any trouble or neurological issues that puts me there. It was only found when I had an MRI for migraines.Edit: totally got the wrong wording. I’m sorry for misleading anyone, that came on the back of flu meds and little sleep.I have stress induced migraines and hormonal ones too. Nothing to do with the lack of brain function, that just makes me a little dull 😁.
Being deaf.Only 0.22% (roughly 600k people) across all age groups in the US are deaf. More than half are over the age of 65. I’ve been profoundly deaf since birth, so I’m in an even smaller percent than 0.22%. LmaoSource.
Distance runners. My marathon PR is faster than 99% of marathon finishers world wide. That said, the distance from my time to the world record is about the same as from the 70th percentile to me.
According to the census, my town is 1% black. So that means it’s just me.Edit: Woodstock, CT POP: 8221 The racial makeup of the town was 97.2% White, 0.4% African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.000001% Pacific Islander, 0.4% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races.
Technically this is 2% but I have curly blonde hair I don’t really have a trait that’s 1%.
Top 1% of sellers on Etsy.
Fewer than 1% of Americans have completed a full marathon, I have completed 10.
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