People Explain How They Realized Something They Do Frequently Wasn't Actually Normal

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We've all found ourselves annoyed by the ticks or habits of others.

Some of these are fairly common, such as chewing with your mouth open, cracking your knuckles, or whether or not they pronounce the "T" in often.

Some habits are a bit more unusual, though.

Only the people guilty of possessing these habits might not realize that they're unusual until they are told by someone else that practically no one, or literally no one, else does them.

It's an eye-opening, sometimes humiliating discovery.

Redditor SixPathsOfDeath was curious to hear the habits people discovered that they shared with no one else, leading them to ask:
"What made you realize that something you always did wasn't normal?"

Undiagnosed Medical Condition

"'You know that high pitch sound everyone always hears? Wait... you don't?'"

"Apparently, I have tinnitus."- FarAmphibian4236

Hard To Imagine It Never Occurred To Them...

"When I was very young I thought it was normal to have blood on the toilet paper after pooping."

"Turns out it was hemorrhoids, apparently I have always had them."

"Yay!"- SuperevenDuper

And, Exhale...

"My mom is a yawn-yeller."

"When she yawns, you can hear it from anywhere in the house."

"One time my sister had a friend over, and we were in the basement'."

"My mom yawned upstairs, and my sister's friend asked 'was that a coyote?'"- ViolaWPeyton

sam winchester yawn GIFGiphy

Sweet Or Disturbing?

"When I first started dating my now husband, ever time we kissed he made a 'muah' kiss sound with his voice."

"Like he literally said 'muah' every time we kissed."

"I asked him why and he said he thought everyone did that because his mom did it growing up."- thti87

Unusual, But Pretty Cool...

"As a kid I would read a street sign as we drove past and I would then make as many possible words out of the letters in that sign."

"Stop, top, tops, sop, pot, pots, to, so, post, etc."

"I told my sister one day that I couldn't come up with any more words to make with some sign and she made fun of me the rest of the way home."

'I quit after that. I'm still a pretty mean Boggle player though."- Limited_turkey

Whatever Helps You Sleep...

"Pre Bedtime cereal, I had a sleepover when I was a kid and was confused when we skipped bedtime cereal."- Mre64

Old Man Reaction GIF by LaffGiphy

There Are Worse Offenses

"I thought eating cereal without milk was normal until I went to summer camp and everyone stared at me like I killed the camp counselor."- spoilerdudegetrekt

It's Only Polite

"For me it was something I never did. In my twenties, I realized you're meant to make eye-contact when talking to people (I was feral)."- wys15wyg

Who Hasn't At Least Once...

"I got stopped by a cop once because I was talking to myself."

'I literally thought everyone just mumbled out their thoughts out loud."- azuresegugio

Talk Talking To Yourself GIF by The ChallengeGiphy

Unlikely Source of Inspiration

'I'm an artist."

"I got asked one time why I draw hands looking 'like that' with all the fingers bent backwards.'

So I held up my hand in the same position as the one I just drew and it looked the same.'

"And that's how I found out I had EDS."- koinadian

The Bradys Can Certainly Relate

'Grew up in a house where seven people all shared one bathroom."

"Thought it was normal to get in the shower without waiting for the water to warm up."

"Everyone go fast before the water gets cold."

"Always wanted to try and be one of the first in line for the shower."- littleflower0929

Gesundheit!

"I was diagnosed with Arnold Chiari Malformation, which I like to say means my brain is too big."

"My wife says I have a misshapen skull...whatever...the bottom line is that my brain stem is excessively squeezed where it exits the skull through the hole on the bottom."

"I have a very minor case, but it causes randomly occurring neurologic issues."

"Upon learning of this diagnosis, my wife was reading up on the symptoms...many of which I knew were abnormalities."

"I was worried I had ALS because that is neurological."

"After reading a bit, she says, 'Do you have problems sneezing?'"

"I say, 'No, I sneeze all the time'."

"I mean, about every 4th or 5th sneeze, my vision goes white and I get dizzy and lose my balance, but I catch myself before I fall'."

"Sometimes I feel like I'm going to pass out, but I never have'."

"The look on her face was one of pure shock - wide eyes and mouth open'."

"Then I said, 'Now that I say that out loud, that probably isn't normal, is it?'"

"She responded with an emphatic, 'No it's not normal!'"

"It was normal for me because it has been that way for my entire life, so I never thought to mention it.."

"And no one had ever asked me what it felt like when I sneezed."

"And why would they?"

"Everybody sneezes, so everybody knows what it feels like."- TroubledWaterBridge

snow white and the seven dwarfs sneezing GIF by DisneyGiphy

Heartbreaking

"The first time I was staying at a friends house when I was in middle school I kept waiting for his parents to start fighting."

"His dad came home, food wasn't done yet, I was waiting for that fight."

'The Youngest brother didn't do his chores."

"I kept waiting for the screaming to start, I had braced myself for it, and it never happened."

"That's when I started realizing that parents aren't supposed to fight every night and drag their kids into it."

"Every day I got off the bus and would have to mentally brace myself before walking through the front door."

"Hoping my mom wouldn't find some random reason to shout at me for 3 hours."

"FYI I'm pretty good now."

"Moved out immediately when I was 18 and lived with a different friend."

"It's been 10ish years now."- Wesley_Otsdarva

If the worst thing you might be doing is getting on someone else's nerves, it doesn't really matter whether or not what you're doing is "normal."

But if you're worried something might not be normal about your health, probably best to call your doctor immediately.


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