Your most hated body perk

[marygold]

Sorry, couldn't find a proper term. Basically the following little things your body does from time to time
-sneezing
-coughing
-itching
-limbs falling asleep
-that terrible moment when your leg decides to cramp in the middle of the night because obviously you've had enough sleep. Wake the hell up, my human host. Time to be in pain.
-yawning
-et cetera

And why. You may have many, but choose one, and choose one you love!

I hate sweating among many other perks. I don't want it to stop because then my homeostasis will fall apart, but I sweat a lot and it's terrible. My skin feels sticky, my back has this hopeless feeling attached to it (because I can't do anything about it) and the bottom of my feet end up feeling so disgusting.
I love sneezing, such a feeling of satisfaction at the end!

What are your hated/loved body perks?

[Chuu]

The leg one is my least favorite. I freak out when it happens to me everytime. >_<// Esp when the other times I am trying to fall asleep and I feel like sinking.

I had a friend who liked picking her hair out one by one, it was a nervous tick. The underside of her hair had a part on her scalp that was pretty much barren. She plans to shave the underside of her hair after she gets married to help combat the tick.

[marygold]

@Chuu sometimes my leg is on the verge of calming down, then I move wrong and it starts all over again. One time I had to relive the cycle FIVE times. Or maybe it wasn't five. I lost count.

[ahkwardkat]

If It's affecting me, it's limbs falling asleep. XD

As far as other things, coughing drives me insane when others do it. It's probably because I have a family member who coughs constantly, though it's for a medical condition, so it can't be helped. It still drives me crazy though to hear it, especially when we aren't at home. I hear it enough at home, I don't wanna hear it out and about too.

[Zanreo]

Feet falling asleep and getting that "prickly" feeling - like it's being stabbed by lots of tiny needles from the inside -_-

[Kayke]

I have night terrors when I get really stressed, and I sleep scream and wake myself up. It is definitely my least favorite involuntary body thing.
I'll be just falling asleep and then I'll SHOUT out of no where and startle myself awake again. It's the worst. I've done it while sleeping next to significant others and friends and they say it's not that loud, but it's enough to really scare me.

Luckily I haven't really had this happen since college. When I was doing my senior thesis it was really common.

[shatterjure]

The leg one never happened to me.
The worst is itching... I mean, i know evolutionary itching is a defense mechanism against irritants but when that ''irritant'' is AIR, it's just too much xD

[WhatAHero]

itching mostly. i get bed bugs during the summer from time to time and they always bite me around the wrist and neck and it bothers me every night. I do that little thing with my nail where i edge it deep into my skin in a circle around the bite to get some semblance of numbness from the itch.

[Cielle]

weirdo alert: I actually kind of like sneezing. Like the moments leading up to the sneeze are kind of unpleasant, but afterwords it's like "yus I did it". But if I had to pick a least favorite involuntary reaction, it's probably that falling feeling that jerk you awake. apparently scientists thinks it happens when your body speeds through the first step of falling asleep, so your brain thinks "I'm DyInG HALP" so you jerk yourself awake as a defense mechanism or something. sigh. stupid brain.

[joannekwan]

HICCUPS

Can't draw shit when I have them.

[60Six]

So I've never seen anyone else but my mom with this problem but after googling it, I guess a lot of other people have it too.
But basically, at least once or twice a day I get these involuntary...gasps? It kind of sounds like the inhale you take for a hiccup but stops short of actually being a hiccup and just sounds like I'm...well, dramatically gasping. I have zero control over it and there's been so many times people have asked me what the big deal is that I'm gasping over and I just have to awkwardly explain I get these weird involuntary gasps. It can be really embarrassing when I'm in a quiet office too and everyone's quiet and then just suddenly GASP from my little corner of the office.
They don't hurt or anything and don't really inconvenience me in anyway physically, but I really hate them and wish I knew how to stop it. OTL

Edit: A better way to describe it would maybe be like those gasps you can't control when you're crying. Except I'll get them at any point no matter what my mood is and just a single one, not a series of them like when you cry.

[Wishjacked]

I think this is probably really weird, but when I'm interested in something I stop swallowing automatically... which means I drool, a lot, all the time. It's really hard for me to talk to people in real life or draw traditional art because I get too into it and if I forget to make myself swallow… eh, t's just embarrassing.

[NickRowler]

Canker Sores...god they are awful. Your whole mouth hurts and you can't eat or brush your teeth without being in huge amounts of pain.

Allergies are also awful especially the ones that seem to just pop up. There are foods I could eat as a kid that I can't eat now because they make me want to vomit. I have a poor relationship with food because eating the wrong thing can make me feel awful. Also, apparently when I went to the beach, instead of tanning, my skin broke out in hives. Do you know what also gives me hives, some dish soaps. Smelly products also give me headaches.

[Shanny8]

My fucking cursed skin. Wants to dry out at times in the summer(the humidity doesnt help) and dries BADLY in the winter(been trying to invest in a warm mist humidifier for the past couple of winters). Itches, gets irritated and flares up when I scratch(I try not to scratch, but sometimes the itch becomes unbearable). Right now I'm trying everything known to mankind to alleviate this vicious cycle(short of going broke to see a doctor) to no avail- shea butter, aloe vera, so called lotions & soaps that supposed to be nourishing for the skin; nothing seems to work(long term).

What's even worse is that I'm a big proponent of washing my hands- if I wash them too many times a day(usually at work after being around gross, germy people) my hands get dry & start to hurt. This condition get WORSE in the winter(coz the air is dry & cold), so I have to keep a bottle of lotion at my desk. It makes drawing some days in the winter a pain(literally).

I just want to find a product that actually works in keeping my skin from drying out and itching so much- and my bod doesnt develop a tolerance to it.

[Zanreo]

Allergies are also awful especially the ones the seem to just pop up. There are foods I could eat as a kid that I can't eat now because they make me want to vomit.

Yeaaaah... I loved kiwi then suddenly eating them made my mouth and throat itch like hell. Now the closest I can get it artifically kiwi-flavored stuff :c

[heterodont]

I used to get charley horses (sudden muscle contractions that don't stop for several seconds or more) a ton when I was growing up - they used to wake me up and I'd be crying from the pain because of how bad they were. Thankfully they went away with heat compresses and stuff but god they are such a pain to deal with when they pop up nowadays >_>

I also get these random violent coughing fits from time to time - with nothing to trigger them either. I just start coughing as if I have a very bad sore throat and my body's just trying to clear my throat or smth. They're not too inconveniencing because they rarely happen but I do usually have to stop whatever I'm doing because the fits rattle my whole body :Y

as for body quirks I like...the fact that my hands feel like they haven't seen a day of work in my whole life. A lot of my friends comment on how baby smooth they are and get mad - which I find funny because tbh I never use lotion because I hate the sensation of anything on my hand, so using lotion gives me this feeling that there's some sort of film on my hand and I hate it.

[KSlinger]

I get joint pain in both hands from time to time, the kind that makes you feel sick and cutting them off seem like a very reasonable solution.

[JessJackdaw]

Umm, I know it gets a lot of light in slice of life comics, but heck, they're certainly accurate. Periods, man, they are the worst. D:< Most hated body quirk by a landslide. I mean... why do we even have them? Most mammals just reabsorb the lining just fine... Humans are just weird and gross I guess.

I guess my unisex hated thing would be joint pain just like @ScampiCub. Only mostly my back and neck, not so much my hands.

What are your hated/loved body perks?

Oh wait, most loved too? D: Uhhh.... that's hard to identify. Good hands for grasping a pencil, decent vision, and a stable mind to draw things? XD I dunno, that's hard. There's a lot to be grateful for.

[WakaXO]

I hate hate HATE when my eyes twitch... and it always happens when I am talking to people, like "sorry no, I am not a creep or plotting your murder my eyes are just weird like that..." 😂

[demthorshie]

Waking up with the feeling of pins and needles in my right hand. I also sniff a lot when i'm in deep concentration. :s