Me finding out in my late 20s that I had ADHD and now figuring out I’m likely autistic too.
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.
Turns out that being so nervous about any kind of change in your life to the point you get physically ill is NOT normal.
Maybe not normal, but it’s certainly a common issue.
It also happens to me.
You may have an anxiety disorder. I got therapy and meds and my life is so much better now.
Yes, because the definition of normal is “within this many standard deviations from the average”, and people consider themselves average until learning otherwise.
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
Normal is all of that, but without waking up in the middle of it.
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
yeah just let it ride
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.
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
Huh, TIL there’s a name for what I have. Although mine is intermittent.
You shouldn’t self diagnose from a vague comment on the internet. Speak to a doctor.
The commenter he responded to is a doctor though…
I have, they just kinda shrugged and said that’s weird. Had cardiac workups and echos and everything done.
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.
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.
Yep. Remember that you are unique, just like everyone else.
Shin splints. I thought running just hurt, and we all had to put up with it.
Is that … Not the case?
Nope. Shin splints.
I thought shin splints were pretty universal. TIL.
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
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.
Whut?
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.
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.
