I have very soft nose cartilage, to the point that I can get punched in the face and with 100% confidence know that no one can break my nose. I can push down on my nose and the cartilage will bend down until my nostrils are completely closed. When I let go, the nose quickly recovers its shape.
I showed a few people and they were all freaked out about it as if that's not normal at all. Any thoughts?
If it's related in anyway, I am also very flexible, I can sit down in lotus position for hours without discomfort.
Yeah, no doubt, but I find that the squishy cartilage helps to cushion blows and stops me from feeling any pain. I know lots of folks that if you barely hit their nose they get all teary-eyed but that won't affect me.
Anywho some people freak out when I show them this so I was wondering if it was a medical condition or something. I am aware that this might not be very rare.
At least a few times, playing around in high school, or working and getting hit in the face by accident. I'm not the kind to get in trouble so people don't just randomly punch me in the face.
Blake Sanders
Easily collapsible nose capable of quick reaction hiding when in danger of being caught inhaling fresh braps
>hypermobility Just looked it up. Sounds plausible, except I cannot do the extreme examples on Wikipedia like bending my hand all the way back. I don't have any joint pain either, except for some carpal tunnel sensitivity but I think this is occupational.
I can also move toes individually if I concentrate enough.
Liam King
>my superpower
Connor Perez
Oh hey, give it back!
Dominic Anderson
Then how can you claim that no one can break your nose?
Sebastian Torres
fuck you you fucking fuck
Brody Campbell
Suck my meat.
Oliver Cruz
Because I hit my nose into stuff pretty hard at work and stuff and it does not even get me teary-eyed, while others scream in pain when someone accidentally brush their nose too hard. I'm not (that) clumsy, I think it's just that since bumping my nose is inconsequential, I don't go to an extent to protect it or shield it from blows.
I don't know. I don't claim I'm some special snowflake with superpowers, I just find it odd that the tip of my nose is this soft, as many people around me pointed it out, and wanted to ask folks what they think of it and if it is somewhat common.
Get your own thread, you two. This thread is for civil discussion.
Josiah Walker
Cool stuff.
Your nose looks a bit weird though. Did you ever break it when you were young?
Dylan Gutierrez
The nose only really has solid bones near its root slightly below your eyes inbetween them, everything else is cartilage.
Your nasal cartilage does look very malleable, but be careful you can still break nasal bones and the cartilage that most consider to be their nose.
Your biggest worry for cartilage is still fast impact which can shatter or fracture the cartilage and potentially the bone too if its fast enough to pass the forces onto it but I'd say your threshold for shattering is higher than most so you'd have a higher threshold for applied forces that would break the cartilage.
There is another thing that's possible, many people usually have somewhat of a rigid nasal septum, there's cases where people are born with a less rigid one and other cases where persistent injury (usually during childhood) where the cartilage has been damaged and caused significant decay to the cartilage which in turn can produce a very malleable nose, I hope yours is purely a natural genetic mutation (more likely if this trait is common in your family) it could also be specific to you but if its not and is from old injuries, it'd be similar to hyper mobility in joints after an injury, which would just mean you've a now healed nose that's better adapted to withstand potential future injuries.
Ian Young
don't press your luck
Elijah Sanchez
Dont post about my nose loser
Ryder Cox
Too much coke.
Chase Phillips
Thanks for the input. I do not remember nose injuries from childhood so I believe this is 100% natural. My father has a rigid nose, and I never asked my mother. I am going to ask my sister about it.
I think I worded that part poorly, now if someone with the intent of specifically breaking my nasal bone (the bridge part) were to hit me while I was not suspecting it, then I guess they could break the bone, but not the cartilage part. The way I meant to type it was to express how flexible the cartilage part is, which as the first point of contact of your typical punch in the face, is the part that I suppose gets broken the most.
