According to theCDC, over 20% of adults in the United States live with chronic pain. And while many try their best to ignore pain to avoid trips to the doctor or to simply accept that it’s never going away, it’s probably wise for us to listen when our bodies are trying to tell us something.Redditors have recently beensharingabout the interesting quirks they had that actually turned out to be mental or physical health issues. From being burdened with annoying headaches to believing that they could see the future, enjoy scrolling through these responses, and keep reading to find conversations with the person who started this thread andDr. Shahina Braganza!This post may includeaffiliate links.
According to theCDC, over 20% of adults in the United States live with chronic pain. And while many try their best to ignore pain to avoid trips to the doctor or to simply accept that it’s never going away, it’s probably wise for us to listen when our bodies are trying to tell us something.
Redditors have recently beensharingabout the interesting quirks they had that actually turned out to be mental or physical health issues. From being burdened with annoying headaches to believing that they could see the future, enjoy scrolling through these responses, and keep reading to find conversations with the person who started this thread andDr. Shahina Braganza!
This post may includeaffiliate links.
Nearly every period, I would get a terrible pain in my backside, like a stabbing pain which would make me stop wherever I was. I also had a twisting back pain on the left side of my back. The doctors dismissed it as “periods are painful” and “there’s a wide range of normal”. Finally had an MRI in my 30s and I have Stage IV endometriosis with deep infiltrating lesions. Adhesions had stuck my bowel to my uterus and also strangled my left ureter so that my kidney couldn’t drain properly and was swollen. On the mental health side, I got so used to feeling like I was a hypochondriac with a low pain threshold that, to this day, I automatically assumed I’m being melodramatic when I’m ill.
I could hear my eyeballs move in my head, it sounded like light sand paper. I could also hear other body noises, such as digestion and my heart bea. I was medicated for decades due to my " hallucinations.“Turns out I had a little hole in my skull between my inner ear and my brain. It caused a “third window” that amplified my internal body noises. After surgery, I no longer hear my eyes move, and I’m no longer on medication.
As a kid I wanted to be carried everywhere (like piggyback rides, etc) for way too long. Like I was an almost 5’ tall 8 year old asking to be carried on vacation. My feet hurt after walking more than like, two blocks. My mom took me to a podiatrist to prove there was nothing wrong with me and it turns out I had severe fallen arches and plantar fasciitis and needed corrective insoles to fix my gait. She took me for ice cream after that appointment.
My small daughter always had breath that smelled of sweets. So yeah, I always thought- ah she’s sweet inside and out! Nope, she had type 1 diabetes. I’ll kick myself forever over that one.
“I found out that it’s very important to understand the difference [between quirks and symptoms] in order to be successful in battling the problem,” the OP continued. “So as I was trying to fall asleep, I was just reflecting on my day and thinking about this when I thought that it might be interesting to hear what others have to say about this. I honestly didn’t think I would get so many answers.”
Growing up, when I got my first period at 15/16 they were extremely painful to the point I would pass out and couldn’t walk properly. My dad refused to talk about periods and my mum and sister said I was exaggerating and that I was making it up so I figured it must just be me. Fast forward to today and five GPs later who didn’t take it seriously, turns out I have endometriosis.
My inability to focus in school on subjects I didn’t care for, chronic lateness, poor impulse control… ADD, of course. Unfortunately, no one considered that possibility when I was young, because supposedly “only boys had that.” 😐
“I often see posts where people share their stories saying, ‘don’t we all?’ about the things that they do or feel, and learning that they are not actually a universal experience,” the OP continued. “As Dostoyevsky said, ‘Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.’ For that reason, I find it almost impossible to understand that something’s wrong even if it’s obvious, as long as it’s not a sudden change.”
Growing up my mom’s side of the family always claimed the women were special and like witches. We could see ghosts, hear their voices, etc. I have so many stories of seeing ghosts, or watching things move that shouldn’t have. I hear a lot of random voices, once someone whispered in my ear “can you hear me?” When I was alone. Turns out we’re all either bipolar (me, with added depression for fun!) Or schizophrenic. The ghosts are more fun though.
I thought I had just a bunch of bad habits—I could never stop rolling my eyes or making weird throat noises no matter how much I tried. Tourette’s, ladies and gentlemen. It got a lot worse once I got to college and was under more stress.
“Reading the answers to the question was actually a great experience — seeing the stories of people changing their lives after finding out what’s wrong, sharing their experiences with each other and realizing they’re not the only ones,” the OP shared.
I would let all my friends feel “the ball in my boob” in high school. One day I told my mom - she immediately called the doctor. Fast forward the next month and I had surgery to remove a tumor. It ended up being benign.
The OP also says that they’ll be more willing to book doctor’s appointments after reading through all of the experiences on this list. “I was always quite anxious about my health, but now I can’t stop thinking about tumors and stomach problems,” they told Bored Panda.
Repeating words in my head since I was a child. Then one day I went to the ER and I was extremely anxious and the doctor gave me an anti-anxiety pill and I noticed that ended the repetitive thought and words.
I thought I could see the future. In fact have bipolar 1 with psychosis.
We also were lucky enough to get in touch with Senior Emergency PhysicianDr. Shahina Braganzato hear her thoughts on this topic. She shared a few odd quirks that can sometimes mean medical issues are present.“For example, extreme flexibility or hyper mobile joints [can be] part of a connective tissue disorder (e.g. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome) or episodes of odd behavior (e.g. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy that manifests not as jerky limb movements but affects a part of the brain related to memory and emotion),” Dr. Shahina explained. “Or beige cafe au lait skin spots, which can be related to a condition called neurofibromatosis.”
We also were lucky enough to get in touch with Senior Emergency PhysicianDr. Shahina Braganzato hear her thoughts on this topic. She shared a few odd quirks that can sometimes mean medical issues are present.
“For example, extreme flexibility or hyper mobile joints [can be] part of a connective tissue disorder (e.g. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome) or episodes of odd behavior (e.g. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy that manifests not as jerky limb movements but affects a part of the brain related to memory and emotion),” Dr. Shahina explained. “Or beige cafe au lait skin spots, which can be related to a condition called neurofibromatosis.”
I didn’t like eating as a very young kid. I was underweight and anemic.Turns out my tonsils were huuuuuge and once they got removed, I could eat!
I was always annoyed at the other kids my age because they were so childish. And I always got praise from my teachers for my problem solving skills and they all used to say the same thing: that I was “thinking outside the box”. It was such a weird concept for me to receive praise for something that just seems like an obvious solution to a problem, and people reacted as if I was some kind of genius, I just couldn’t fathom that other people would miss the details that were obvious to me.This, coupled with not picking up on social cues, hardly ever showing body language or facial expressions, monotone voice, staring a lot, more advanced vocabulary than my peers, not understanding sarcasm, analyzing jokes to death because sometimes jokes aren’t logical and people found me annoying for doing this, treating plushies as if they had actual feelings, preferring to play with pets rather than other kids, reading non-fiction during the morning readings when all the other kids read like mystery books, severely disliking certain fabrics and textures, being hypersensitive to noises and light….I’m surprised that people don’t usually notice that I’m autistic.
“These quirks can be interesting on their own, but if they are connected to a diagnosis, they can be related to other concerns,” the doctor continued. “For example, people with connective tissue disorders can be prone to organ or blood vessel abnormalities. Because each human body is so wonderfully unique, there are no real trademark signs.”
When I was about 13/14 I used to complain about stomach aches and sore throats A LOT. My parents thought I was faking it to stay home from school and the doctors blamed everything on anxiety/periods.Turns out I have a hiatal hernia. My stomach acid was leaking into my throat when I was lying down at night and was starting to damage my oesophagus.
Sometimes if I was really tired or jetlagged I’d wake up and for a few seconds the room would look larger than it actually was or I wouldn’t recognise things that were totally familiar even know I knew they were things I’d seen before (jamais-vu, reverse Deja vu). Turns out I had epilepsy without realising for years. I later developed other types of seizures.
While it may not always be necessary to take a trip to your doctor, Dr. Shahina does believe it’s important to get curious about your body. “The ‘something different’ may just be part of your make-up and you may otherwise feel great, or you may also notice other features or changes e.g. energy levels, tendency to bruise or bleed more easily, or change in your mood. Definitely seek professional advice if you are concerned,” she explained.
I had headaches for several years. I was basically told it was nothing. Nope, baseball sized brain tumor.
Needing constant naps. I was already on a stimulant for my ADHD but my body demanded that I nap for two hours just four hours after I woke up in the morning (after receiving a full ten hours). Turns out I’m narcoleptic!
Dr. Shahina also noted that it may be useful to look for patterns or trends once you notice a quirk. “Are you more tired than you used to be? Is it getting worse? And as for the quirk itself, e.g. if it’s a lump or a skin lesion, is it changing in appearance, is it getting bigger in size, is it getting painful?” she asks. “How your quirk is behaving over a period of time is vitally useful information to share with your doctor to help them work out how concerned we need to be, what tests to conduct, and how closely to monitor the person.”
Holy s**t I was just talking to my mom about this. I thought I was just bad at sports and very specifically any sort of sustained activity.Think track, soccer, basketball, etc. Just thought I got more tired faster than other people cause I was lazy or whatever.Went running with my mom one time in my early twenties in the cold and she heard me wheezing afterwardsAsked if it was always like that to which I said yes. Took me to a doc and turns out I have exercise induced asthma.I do indeed get winded faster than other people but it’s not a laziness thing. No idea what would’ve happened if I found out during like middle school or something.
The expert also wants to assure readers that not every quirk is medically concerning. “It is tempting to think that if you have a quirk, it needs to be checked out immediately. And sometimes it does - please see above!” Dr. Shahina says.“But if your health care professional had a knee-jerk response to extensively investigate every quirk, first, our healthcare systems would run out resources to treat the seriously ill among us,” she continued. “Second, some investigations require exposure to radiation, dyes or surgical procedures and these can cause harm themselves. And finally, the scans we do may show up a whole heap of things that were never going to cause us any problems, but now we need to work out what to do with them, potentially exposing us to procedures we didn’t need.”
The expert also wants to assure readers that not every quirk is medically concerning. “It is tempting to think that if you have a quirk, it needs to be checked out immediately. And sometimes it does - please see above!” Dr. Shahina says.
“But if your health care professional had a knee-jerk response to extensively investigate every quirk, first, our healthcare systems would run out resources to treat the seriously ill among us,” she continued. “Second, some investigations require exposure to radiation, dyes or surgical procedures and these can cause harm themselves. And finally, the scans we do may show up a whole heap of things that were never going to cause us any problems, but now we need to work out what to do with them, potentially exposing us to procedures we didn’t need.”
My parents thought I ignored them a lot because I often didn’t listen as a young child. Turns out I had severe chronic ear infections that caused a surge of ear wax to clog up my ears and put pressure on my eardrums so bad that I was practically deaf. I had to have surgery to fix it.
“Having said that, if your health care professional doesn’t seem to be getting how worried you are about your quirk, then listen to your gut and keep escalating your concerns,” Dr. Shahina shared.“Perhaps seek another opinion, until you feel that your health is safe. The patient-doctor relationship is always a partnership,” the expert added with a smile.
“Having said that, if your health care professional doesn’t seem to be getting how worried you are about your quirk, then listen to your gut and keep escalating your concerns,” Dr. Shahina shared.
“Perhaps seek another opinion, until you feel that your health is safe. The patient-doctor relationship is always a partnership,” the expert added with a smile.
My handwriting was terrible, balance sucked and I would have tremors especially in my hands after vigorous exercise.I thought I had Parkinson’s.It was just mild cerebral palsy, which is non progressive, and I’ll have it for life. Definitely beats having Parkinson’s, especially as a teen.
I used to make sure that any sentences I said were a multiple of 3 . It then evolved to 6, 12, 24, 48 and 96. I would say words to myself to round them to those numbers.lookoutitspam:OCD gang, lol. Just diagnosed and put on meds last week. My special number is 10. Steps have to be in multiples of 10, can’t cross from carpet to tile, etc. without having taken a number of steps that’s a multiple of 10. Gotta tap my fingers on stuff 10 times.
My grades would drop every winter/late spring. I live way north and get severe vitamin D withdrawal.
Food cravings that went beyond just silly little hankerings and became extreme to the point of damaging my teeth, causing rapid weight gain or giving me kidney stones.Turns out food hyperfixation is a symptom of ADHD. Once a food hit just right at the right time, it was all I could think about and wanted eat for weeks or months.
My arms bent backwards and would freak other kids in my classes out sometimes. It was a silly party trick until I got diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and couldn’t walk after I became an adult.
All my life when I was growing up I was always uncoordinated. I had no balance (I was never able to skate), my coordination was terrible, I had scoliosis, and hearing loss and a hand tremor. My whole body was just “not right”. I fought against all that very hard - I became a bike racer, I’ve done Ironman triathlons, I’ve hiked the AT. (Yeah, I am sure I was compensating). But finally in my 50’s, after a bout of severe foot neuropathy, I was diagnosed with a congenital neuromuscular disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth or CMT which demylenates the peripheral nerves and really screws with the body’s biomechanics. I was fighting a huge uphill battle the whole time.
As a kid my hands would hurt like needles stabbing me when I wrote and in gym class my feet would feel like I was walking directly on bone. Nobody believed me. I did in school suspension for refusing to participate, even Saturday school for all the missing class work cause my hands would hurt so bad. Everyone thought it was just an excuse. Took a neurologist, rheumatologist and my primary care doctor to finally diagnose me with a rare autoimmune disease called Mitchell’s disease. It’s extremely painful. I never got the apologies from the school faculty but my mom finally understood why when she woke me up for school I would cry that my hands and feet hurt.
I don’t know if this counts as physical health but some days I’d just be really clumsy, drop things, spill things, get my words all mixed up and say the opposite of what I mean - mum tells me I was diagnosed with dyspraxia when I was 12, told me when I was 30.
My toenails used to frequently split. One time my wife witnessed this and said “that’s not normal”.Yadda yadda yadda, I had been iron deficient for like 12 years. Within two weeks of supplementing iron, I became much less disabled.
Crying over not being able to understand most math no matter how simply it was explained to me -> dyscalculiaGrowing pains, twisting my ankles and spraining my wrists often, legs giving out etc -> EDsBullied but unaware that I was being bullied half the time basically just struggling a lot socially, being labeled and “old soul” and “mature for my age” because I only knew how to talk to adults -> autism
Not me, but I helped someone on reddit get diagnosed with EDS. They posted a picture of their fingers bent in a strange way and said they didn’t know why they could do it when others can’t, so I asked if they had it. They responded saying they took a survey and had 80% of the symptoms and had made an appointment to get formally screened.
I played volleyball as a kid and was a great server. When I was 13 I served the ball and immediately felt horrible lower back pain. I went to complain to my mom and she totally blew it off since my dad and grandpa both suffer from low back pain. Fast forward through the volleyball season and I was still suffering with pain everyday. My mom finally took me to the doctor since I was complaining so much and one x-ray proved I have spondololisthesis which is common in gymnasts, football players, and other people where they extend a lot. Turns out I needed a spinal fusion and months of physical therapy.
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Turns out that, no, it’s not normal or quirky to have “visions” about being an angel and thinking that you were an angel in a past life and I do, in fact, have psychosis. It’s also not normal to be afraid of mirrors and your own reflection because you think it’s going to kill you! That’s not anxiety, babes, that’s psychosis!It’s also not normal to have horribly violent intrusive thoughts whenever someone smacks their lips or eats too loudly around you. That’s misophonia. I thought everyone found it that annoying.
I was sensitive to light and often the way the glare of the light bending was very odd, this was going on for years and every time I went to my exam the doctor said it was astigmatism and I just need to keep wearing glasses pretty much all the time. Last year I decided to go to a different doctor and turns out it wasn’t that, she said I have a rare eye condition called Keratoconus that causes the cornea of your eye to bend like a cone and over time as it gets worse can cause blindness. There is a procedure called Cross-linking that helps prevent the condition from getting worse and at times can even slightly fix the condition. I’m still recovering as it can take up to a year for it to fully “heal”.
I was not being lazy on childhood walking tours and hiking trips; I had flat feet and was in pain, therefore needing more frequent breaks. (Diagnosed age 11 or so.)My daily back aches and the several- week period where I couldn’t move my legs properly weren’t growing pains; I had a herniated disk in my lumbar spine that was compressing a nerve root. (Diagnosed at age 19, but the nerve damage is permanent.)I was not bursting into tears every time something unexpected happened because I “wanted my own way all the time”; I have generalized anxiety disorder. (Diagnosed at age 20.)I wasn’t unable to tolerate a Pap smear because “virgins always find this uncomfortable, it goes away once you’ve had a man’s penis inside you.” The aforementioned nerve damage had affected my pudendal nerve, too, causing a condition known as vulvodynia.It may not surprise you to hear that I’ve needed 2 years of trauma therapy specifically surrounding medical trauma and fears of not being believed.
Periods got heavier as I got older. Just assumed it was part of aging, until my doc ordered an ultrasound. Fibroids caused the heavy bleeding.
I ate a lot of ice cubes for a year. It was intrusive, and I had a cup full of ice cubes at all times. It felt like an addiction. And then I got a blood transfusion (about 2 pints needed) because I was severely anemic. I’m also Type 0 positive, with a host of autoimmune issues. I waited for hours in the hospital until they found blood they could give me.Turns out I was anemic because of andenomyosis, my uterus was 3x the normal size, and one of the worst cases they’ve seen. So I also got a hysterectomy.I haven’t chewed ice cubes since.
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Used to never have irregular periods. Didn’t think much of it, I was always active and running so I figured it was because of that.Turns out it was a brain tumor messing with my hormones :)
Always had weird looking nails since I was a kid. Like kind of flat, wavy and with vertical lines.Occasionally, I would get extreme random pain in my knees. I had Purpura (aka Henoch-Schonlein syndrome) when I was 18 months old.Anyways, I live a normal life and play sports until, fastforward to my mid twenties, I start getting sausage fingers after every volleyball practice. I must have an injury or carpal tunnel, I think.Many doctors and tests later, turns out I have psoriatic arthritis.
One day I had intense pain in my right wrist, nothing else. Turned out to be a heart attack which destroyed my mitral valve.
I used to scratch my head without realizing, and then scratching my skin as well. It became an addiction and obsession, without the ability to control it. Turns out I’m suffering from Dermatillomania.
Often times found myself falling in the middle of the day and needing a nap. Plus, struggling to keep weight in check, cold sensitivity, and dry skin.Cue the diagnoses of hashimoto’s thyroiditis, anemia, and low iron/vitamin DRecently, unexplained abdominal pain unrelated to my periods, wasn’t found on ultrasound and requires CT scan… likely endometriosis.
People were often shocked I could drink a liter of coffee and sleep right after. I just thought it was a cool little trait. But I really just have ADHD, people are still surprised a lot but now I got an explanation.
I’m never scared. I have only one memory of ever being scared in my life before I started therapy in my early 40s. Other people have commented on how I don’t have any fear, and I’ve objectively noticed that in some situations I’ve been in that I should be scared but I wasn’t at all.Turns out it’s because I have a dissociative disorder as a result of childhood abuse and my fear is walled off in a handful of alters. The threshold for one of those alters to take over for me is a pretty extreme level of fear so when that happened I either didn’t remember when that alter was out or I just didn’t feel the fear because I had no access to it. Brains are fascinating.
When I was in high school I would randomly get obsessively focused on brushing my teeth, especially at the gums of my front bottom teeth. It would randomly just ‘click’ and all I could think of was the almost feel-good pain you feel when you brush your gums with a tooth brush. I couldn’t stop thinking about it till I physically brush my teeth, to the point of bleeding, then rinsed with mouth wash that contains alcohol. The pain from the alcohol is what finally got me to stop hyper-fixating. I always thought it had to do with me not taking care of my teeth that well normally that I would need to over compensate when I remembered.For years the feeling went away till I was younger in my career. One day that ‘click’ happened and for almost a week, it would take everything out of me to not brush my gums all day. At the end of it I had a panic attack.I suffer from high anxiety, which has caused a couple panic attacks since high school, and even adrenal failure. The hyper-fixation is just a warning sign. Now anytime I get the feeling of “pulling my teeth out” I know I have a serious issue I need to address concerning my anxiety.
I just wanted to lay around, turns out I had depression and I was low in iron.
Did you know bad spacial awareness and randomly talking in accents are signs of ADHD and not just being a weirdo?I know that now.
Oh, you know, I always thought that my weird habit of obsessively counting things was just my unique charm. It turns out it was actually a symptom of OCD.
Hypnogogic hallucinations. For my entire life, I would hear things while I was trying to fall asleep. Anything from screaming to strange music to people talking in the next room. Over the years I just got used to it the best I could. When I started seeing a sleep doctor for my apnea, they were asking a lot of questions, and I mentioned this. It led to some other questions and tests, which led to a narcolepsy diagnosis. I don’t have the classic presentation, but I have very disordered sleep/wake cycles.It was always bothersome. I never knew it actually meant anything.
I don’t like being told to do. I understand that most people don’t but mine is extreme. Mine is so extreme that if I try to boss myself around I have to rebel against myself and not do it.Turns out I have Pathological Demand Avoidance. This stems from my ADHD but every task is an insurmountable chore because I feel such pressure to do it. Forcing myself to shower is the worst part of my day.
Being “double jointed.” Which isn’t a real thing, what I actually was (and still am) is a woman with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.
I’d have to say words over and over again because they “didn’t feel right coming out of my mouth” I would repeat a word out loud or under my breath until it “felt right.” I still rewrite notes many times because my handwriting was “not correct.” I skin pick so bad I’ll be bleeding and in pain but can’t stop because it’s not “smooth” yet, my fingers are always torn to shreds. I physically gag when articles of my clothing especially socks touch my skin and it doesn’t feel right. I’d check to make sure my alarm was on so many times I would go to sleep much later than I planned. I also count damn near everything. My family wasn’t believers in mental health.. at all. I went a long time thinking my actions and thoughts were normal.I was diagnosed with extreme OCD in my teens and I am now heavily medicated for it. I still have obsessions and compulsions but not as bad. I’m able to live somewhat of a normal life now. I still have episodes where it consumes me.
I’d get weird sensations with some odd visuals as well, but nothing super disruptive and my doctor at the time wasn’t worried, and testing would have been really expensive and unpleasant. Turns out I’ve been having seizures for 5-6 years that have now gotten worse, and I need to figure out why ASAP. Don’t ignore neurological symptoms or let someone, including doctors, tell you they don’t matter.
I noticed a blind spot in my left eye and originally thought it was related to driving toward the sun, kind of like when you look at a light bulb and a black negative image remains when you look away. It turns out I broke a blood vessel in the back of my eye due to job stress.
My “imaginary friend” that persisted long past childhood and remains with me to this day. Turns out it’s DID.
I have always had flexible joints which has caused me problems since I was a child. I recently got diagnosed with ADHD and my doctor told me that there’s a high correlation between ADHD and hyper mobility syndrome and/or generalised joint hyper mobility. My flexibility was a hint that I didn’t realise was a hint until now.
i’ve got two my senior quote was “i need a nap.” i was the lazy one who was always tired. kind of a joke between my friends and i. got to college and it got worse despite the fact that i was sleeping more. turns out i have inappropriate sinus tachycardia (a form of dysautonomia) that causes fatigue and a bunch of other fun stuff that i thought was normal. second one, i’ve always had a lot of little quirks that i kept to myself, like the sound of a woman angrily yelling gibberish repeating in my head periodically. i always thought it was kinda funny. turns out my generalized anxiety disorder was actually OCD and it was just a really weird recurring intrusive thought.
I’ve never been able to burp Turns out that’s a medical condition called Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction, or RCPD Only treatment is to get Botox injected into the Cricopharyngeus muscle in your throat Never knew why I get nausea all the time randomly thought I was just weird my whole life.
I would say the aches and pains I’ve had since I was a kid. When you’re a woman, you’re always told you have to deal with pains since it’s a part of life.After an episode of Uveitis last year, that sped to a diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis.
I didn’t like playing outside as a kid. Turns out… ALLERGIES.
Cravings to eat chalk, stone and dried mud for years. Turns out I was severely iron deficient.No urges for them now 🤢
When I was younger I used to make a lot of sounds and stick my tongue out, and just randomly spit. Mum thought I was being a knob, got told I had tourrette’s syndrome. Mad to think sometimes that I have it.
Feeling like I don’t have a body. Turns out I have Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder due to maladaptive coping from SEVERE childhood trauma.
I always had “weird knees” which I found out was Osgood-Schlatter disease. It’s not too much of a problem, I just have very sensitive knees.
I was 4..constantly sucking in my stomach..doctor told Dad it was just a bad habit..this was the 1970s. Numerous tics/ obsessions and compulsions later..years later…turns out I have OCD.
Sensory issues and selective mutism as a child were diagnosed as Generalized Anxiety Disorder when I was an adult. Guess who got diagnosed with autism at 36? Meeeee!!!
I would always sit with my legs in the shape of a W. Turns out that is also a sign of autism.
Being unable to bite down on a piece of onion because the crunch bothers me unless it’s cooked to the consistancy of mush, taking jokes a bit too literally, not understanding why a former friend never just told me her issues with me, being able to info dump about niche topics for an hour or more, insisting on sticking to my routine way of doing things even if they arent the most logical or efficient, isn’t just a combo of ADHD and anxiety and depression.It’s also autism.For someone who’s suspected my dad is autistic as well, I was in denial of having AuADHD for a long a*s time.
Craving milk. Apparently it’s an oddly common thing for folks with bipolar.
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