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unsymetrical
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is it normal that a persons body is unsymetrical?
i am a 22 year old male and the left side of my body is totally different from my right side all the way from the top of my head down to my toes...
i cant stop focusing on it, and it makes me very uncomfortable in social situations as i feel that everyone can see this.
Do you think it's normal?
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Very normal. About as many people are symmetrical as are born with perfect teeth and eyesight. In other words, not many.
Yeah, my rib cage is totally different on each side.
Anonymous
Chances are, you're not as asymetrical as you think. You're just focusing on it a lot and making it bigger in your head than it really is. But the truth is the only people who aren't asymetrical are the people who have nothing better to do all day than work out. It's possible that your daily activity favors one side of your body and the muscles on that side have built up more. If you're right handed, try doinging things with your left hand of vice versa. It shouldn't take long to balance yourself out. If you still think it's not working you might want to invest in a few sessions with a personal trainer, this is a very common problem they hear about.
Yeah, everything on my left side is a little bigger. My left eye, left earlobe, left foot. Everyone is like this... just look at the people around you, everyone has one eye that's bigger than the other.
Dude, NO one is symmetrical, not one peron on the planet. Take the best looking person you can think of, and place their face on a grid, and I can guarantee that it won't match up perfectly, people get all funky when they come out of the womb, and things shift as you grow and stuff. You're golden home skillet.
Just like everyone said, no one is symmetrical. Even famous, beautiful actors--if you look at Uma Thurman's face, for example, you'll see she's not perfectly symmetrical. Little asymmetries are, I think, what make faces interesting and human. I guarantee you, no one notices. If it is causing you genuine distress, to the point that you spend hours thinking about it and avoid going out because you think it's all people can see, then you might have a serious problem called body dysmorphic disorder. If this is the case, please get help as soon as possible. In BDD, the what you see when you look at yourself is literally distorted--someone with a perfectly normal nose might actually see a bulbous, enormous one when she looks in the mirror. Therapy will help a lot, as will doing things you enjoy. Best of luck.
anonymous i agree withyou. your focusing on something so much that it seems more than it actually is.and loki, whats up? does your name happen to start with a j?
On the off chance this isn't that you're overthinking it, and your body really is severely asymetrical, there's always the off-chance that you're a tetragametic chimera. It means you had a fraternal twin in the womb but you absorbed into one person. Parts of you would be genetically not quite the same. It's be obviously related, but not identical. It's been known to happen, and believed to be much more common than we ever knew, because no one tests for it. But most likely, you're just obsessing. Seriously, chill.
I hate you.
its nice that people try to comfort you, but in all honesty you're quite a freak. try to wear clothes that disguise the disfigurement.
yeah its normal you unsymetrical bitch
normal, but studies show girls like guys who are more symmetrical, and vice versa
I would consider you abnormal if your body was totally symmetrical..