Hello all! I'm 26F, and I have the same genetic condition that causes fainting goats to "faint".

It's called Myotonia Congenita, a rare muscular disorder affecting approximately 1 in 100,000 people. For comparison, your lifetime odds of being struck by lightning in the US are about 1 in 15,300!

With that said, neither I nor the goats actually lose conciousness when we fall. Myotonia Congenita is a muscular channelopathy, meaning the chloride channels in my skeletal muscles don't function properly. This interferes with the electrical signals that control muscle relaxation, causing my muscles to stiffen or temporarily lock up after contracting.

The condition can also cause unusually large muscles that develop with relatively little effort, despite sometimes experiencing profound muscle weakness. Similar forms of myotonia have been observed in dogs, cats, and of course, goats! There are also paralytic and dystrophic variants found in humans.

I was diagnosed at 19 via genetic testing. I am happy to answer any questions about my condition, it's effects on ny everyday life, and what it's like being a human fainting goat!

My location is one of three new “Adventure World” locations, which has a heavy emphasis on play versus games so it’s predominantly play structures. I’m an “attendant” meaning my job is predominantly cleaning, ensuring kids are following the rules, general hospitality such as greeting and conversing with guests, and yes, summoning the rat every 30 minutes, which I do essentially every time he comes out because it’s the aspect of the job that I’m best at and the apathetic teens I work with don’t have the ✨pizzaz✨ for it.

I am also ~30, not that I personally think it matters what job I have at this age. I am on disability for a myriad of reasons so if I want extra money, I need a job that won’t pay me so much that I lose my benefits. The fact that I can work ~20 hours a week part time is not evidence that I am capable of obtaining forklift certification or whatever, this is a very easy gig.

There was a very low chance of survival because it happened out of a hospital setting without any medics nearby. Everyone says I’m strong for surviving but I didn’t do anything at all, all I remember was going to sleep, was out for 3 months but in my head it was 3 hours later. Ask me anything (AMA)

24 hours of labour, no meds, no epidural and... no pain. Hearing other experiences (both from friends and online) seems like mine was a pretty rare experience so here I am! Ask away! (Sorry for the mistakes, english is not my first language)

Hello everyone! I'm from Japan and I'm here to answer your questions. I have been studying English for four years, and I have also traveled to the UK and New Zealand. Feel free to ask me anything about Japanese culture, daily life, food, or whatever you're curious about! I'm looking forward to sharing my experiences and learning more about your perspectives as well.

Hi everyone,

I'm an indie game developer and making a Cold War themed game called Third Bloc on my own.

I would like to answer your questions about gaming industry, developing a game, or where you can start this path.

Context: I got diagnosed in 2017(at the age of 9). 25th January to be specific. I had (stil have but not as frequent)a bad history of stomach aches. So on 25th Jan I felt a weird feeling like a stomach ache but I ignored it and went to school, at school I was feeling weak, really weak, like no strength to even lift a pencil, I somehow made it to the end and while I was on stairs, I collapsed then teacher panicked, ran towards me, picked me up, gave me water and all. Then sent me home with a teacher. So at home I couldn't climb the stairs as I was feeling weak. After the help of my family Im finally on my bed but it was weird, so my grandparents took me to a public hospital nearby in the evening and there the doc gave me some injection (don't remember what) I was kind of fine and then on the next day when I jumped from the bed, I fell cause my legs weren't working, then family rushed and took me to a hospital, there doc checked me gave me ivig treatment then I got shifted to a better hospital after 2 days, there I again got ivig treatment while I was on ventilator and then after 8 days I again shifted to another hospital, there I was on ventilator, I got 2 endoscopies cause at that time I had pneumonia, my right lung was sticking to my left lung. The Movement of my whole body was gone, I was only able to move my neck and above my neck, then one day, I was declared dead by the docs (idk it was what they thought or they jumped on the conclusion way too quickly) because after few chest compressions I was back, then I used to get 4-5 blood tests everyday, so I had to get some blood from the blood bank tok cause of blood deficiency, then I got a tracheostomy and after everything, from Jan 25 2017, I started walking in August 2017 and without support, I think it was sep or oct of 2017 and now it's been like 9 years??? I passed my school, and I'm gonna start uni in a couple of months. Everything is fine, just have foot drop. Anyways, thank you for reading the whole para and if u have any questions about facing physical problems, mental. How my family treated me, how it was to go back to school after a year. Just ask!!!!

Edit- so I'm posting it again idk why ig awareness? Ppl still don't know about GBS. So just ask!!!. I'll reply to all of them!!

I'm a 19-year-old guy. I was born with this condition, and I stopped walking at 13. Now I'm losing movement in my arms, but I'm trying to stay positive. I'll answer any questions or concerns. Greetings!

I did one of these like four or five years ago, and didn't have a very reliable phone/internet connection at the time, so I couldn't follow thru with it the way I would have really liked.

But yes, as the title says, im a bona-fide for better or worse modern American Hobo in every sense of the word. The full Monty. Eating out of dumpsters, playing music on every street corner in the country, and of course, using every single less than legal mode of free transportation there is, mainly frieght trains.

ASK ME ANYTHING!

In my early twenties, I fell down an accidental path of exotic animal; rescuing. It started with one bearded dragon when i was working at a pet store, and within the year i was renting a business building and had snakes, lizards, birds, insects, you name it. I even got into volunteer work with alligators during the time. AMA.

I am in my second year of highschool (sophomore year) and I live with multiple disabilities including cerebral palsy, nail patella syndrome, ADHD, and various psychiatric disorders. Ask me anything as long as it is appropriate.

Feel free to ask me about daily life, driving, dress codes, the food, social norms, or what's changed for women here in the last few years. I'm also happy to talk about the culture, the misconceptions people back home have, and what's surprised me most. If you've always wondered about something about Saudi Arabia, ask away.

I’m 32M and live in the Midwest. I live in a small acreage farm and have about 30,000ish bees for honey, chickens, farm dogs, and cattle. I also am a former game warden who left that career and teach middle school math. Probably not your most interesting person in the world, but maybe I am. AMA

I’m 16M and I have two moms. I wasn’t adopted or born through IVF or anything like that. My biological mom got pregnant with me under horrible circumstances, but she decided to keep me. While she was still pregnant with me, she met my other mom, and they became friends before eventually starting to date. So my mom has always been in my life I’m their only child. AMA

AMA, 23m, Igot hypermobility in my knees and I have a stoma.

I am 23m from the UK, I got my hypermobility diagnosis when I was about 16.5 years old and I got my stoma when I was about 18.

I have dislocated my left knee 3 times in a span of about 22 months and for my first 18 years I was completely incontinent. AMA

Yea so I got diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome at 19 years old (it is most common in 40-50 year olds) and I got diagnosed with fibromyalgia in January (it is usually diagnosed in 30-50 year olds). Hyperhidrosis I’ve had for a few years. Sjogren’s syndrome is a not so known autoimmune disease but the second most common rheumatic inflammatori autoimmune disease.

There was a point in my life I did not leave my house unless it was for school or work. If I shopped it was only with my mom & I didn’t like to be alone. After many years with the help of my best friend who is old enough to be my second mom I now enjoy leaving my home, meeting other family & friends, travel, and have gotten a lot better about meeting strangers & being able to converse with them. I am now making steps towards living independently in my own apartment. I used to have severe physical symptoms of my anxiety that made me very sick & now I almost never do.

AMA!

I work at a state run facility where people from ages 12-80 live full time sometimes the rest of their life after being admitted. There are very broad reason people live here some are bed bound, for some this was their last chance before jail/juvie, and we even have an individual who chooses to live here. Ask me anything!

Like the title says, I survived the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in CA history. It's been about 8 yrs this November.

Side note I also am finally learning boundaries and have unfortunately lost my best friend, and my relationship w my sister is strained so if you have questions about boundary setting or losing friends/family due to it, those would be appropriate questions too.

I was extremely anti-circumcision but after years of going back and forth with some bedroom issues, I ended up deciding on a 'minimal' circumcision as a 'least worst' option since it appeared to be the only way to resolve the issues. I did not want a full circumcision and all the doctors I talked with would only perform a full circumcision.

Finally, about a year later, I found a doctor who was willing to do a partial circumcision.

I woke up fully circumcised anyways.

Because I wasn't really forced into it (medically urgent crowd), but I also didn't exactly choose it (aesthetic/religious/peer pressure/etc... crowd), I feel it gives me a very unique unbiased perspective. I got cut 10 years ago, so I also know the before/after better than most.

AMA

Update: Ok, I'm going to sign off for now but will check back periodically. Hopefully I introduced a more unbiased perspective than the usual black and white screaming matches haha

4 years ago he went to prison. Can't be super specific here due to the rules, but i can get into it a bit in the replies. He is, however, a monster. I find answering questions and talking about it to be therapuetic and its not a topic I really want to bring up to people who know me personally.

edit: 10 years plus 20 years on the registry, yes THAT registry

I started writing to inmates as a penpal as a hobby a while back after communicating with an actual friend who was in lock up. He said that having someone (but especially a woman) to talk to really helped him get through it. So I've continued with others too.

I’m 17F and I quit dancing after 10 years. I started when I was 6 and did competitive hip hop and breakdancing. I apent most of my childhood dancing and competing, my life was basically school, dance, sleeping I quit for good last year, so it’s been a year since I stopped

The festival stuff was fun. The other clientele makes things interesting. And my personal life story ties it all together into one I hope to have some impact to make the world a better place with.

I could talk at length about a variety of topics, but for this one I’d like to talk most about what it was like running a crew of land pirates.

As the title says one of my special interests is horror movies I haven't seen everything but I Consider myself to be pretty knowledgeable so in honor of Halloween coming up feel free to ask me anything you want whether it be recommendations fun facts or anything else you want to know