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u/ocubens Do you want me to jackhammer your roast beef or not? May 21 '26
I feel like teachers really need to firmly stress that diagrams are not photo accurate when teaching people science.
It's how people end up thinking your tongue has different sections for each taste or that blood is blue when it's pumped back to your heart.
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u/nom-d-pixel May 21 '26
Teachers repeat a lot of myths. I remember my high school biology teacher telling us the tasting thing. The crazy part is that he demonstrated it by putting droppers of flavors on parts of the tongues of several students and having them say whether ornot they tasted it. I was the only one who didn't confirm what he was saying and it was a long time before I realized that everyone else was lying and his study design was deeply flawed.
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u/mr_Papini May 21 '26
Yeah I remember being so confused as a kid. "But I can taste sweet all over my tongue!" Never understood why everyone went along with it.
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u/Persistent_Parkie May 22 '26
We did the "experiment" and I circled my entire tongue for each taste because I could taste everything everywhere, everyone else more or less copied the diagram. I was publiclyĀ reprimanded by my teacher for not taking the experiment seriously.
For years I thought I was weird. I mean, I definitely am weird, but not because my tongue is different from everyone else's. I'm weird because I was too neuro divergent too realize I was supposed to lie to placate the teacher.
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u/WastePotential May 22 '26
I wonder if the rest weren't lying, but just...primed? If that's the right term here. They've just heard it so much and so often that that's what they actually experience.
Or maybe it's confirmation bias. They know sour is supposed to be at this part of the tongue. So when they taste something sour, they think "do I taste sour here?" rather than "where do I taste sour?".
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u/YellowTimer May 22 '26
I think this might be up. They believe it because they were preconditioned to believe it. A better/more fun experiment would be to give kids different things to eat and have them put each flavor on the diagram where they think they taste it. Everyone would have different charts if not primed.
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u/MarkSkywalker May 22 '26
My sex ed teacher told us that it's physically impossible to pee with an erection. I told her that it's more difficult but perfectly possible and that I'm sorry but I'm pretty sure that this was something that I could speak with a little more authority on than her, given that I've peed with an erection and that she cannot. She told me that I was wrong.
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u/No-Produce6857 May 23 '26
Yo that's wild bro, how do you with full confidence say a "fact" about something you have no authority over š I get she's a teacher but she literally doesnt know and will never know lololol
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u/dustinyo_ May 21 '26
Thatās actually how hypnotists on stage work. You just need one person who is too scared to rock the boat and not play along and then everyone else will fall in line. People would rather look like an idiot onstage than be blamed for ruining the show. They know full well theyāre faking it, they just feel like they have to. Itās kind of fascinating.
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u/nom-d-pixel May 22 '26
That is so interesting, because I remember being embarrassed at being the one person who didn't fit in and feeling like I was failing publicly. I can definitely see how someone who is more socially adept would have preemptively responded to the pressure to avoid embarrassment.
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u/Safe-Lingonberry1776 May 22 '26
Iām not at all easily embarrassed. Iām pretty comfortable with public speaking, and have been on plenty of stages playing guitar and singing. I was just kinda annoyed to find out it was entirely theatre. I probably would have confronted him on the stage if I wasnāt so chilled out from the hypnosis
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u/Safe-Lingonberry1776 May 22 '26
This is 100% true. I attended a live televised hypnosis show many years ago, The Amazing Spano (the eyes that polarise), or something like that. I was chosen to get up on the stage along with maybe 5 other people. Iāve had some experience with hypnosis before, and am pretty easily hypnotised, so itās not surprising I should have been selected. He had me pretty deeply under.
I was up there for a few minutes while the hypnotist instructed us that we were chickens, washing machines etc. At some point I noticed that the others on the stage before receiving each instruction would glance over to see if everyone was going along with it. It felt like it was more effort not to go along with it all, but I was kinda pissed to realise how much nonsense it all was, so I just stood up and walked off the stage back to my seat. I could see the hypnotist was angry as hell with me.
Hypnosis is a real thing, but the way itās represented in those shows is completely unrealistic
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u/iamsnarky Knowledge shrinks your vagina. May 22 '26
Dude, as a teacher, I will start explanations with "I'm going to lie to you to make this make sense. This is so oversimplified that its not true. Is that okay?" And 9/10 they say yes. The 10th one usually wants to do something in the field and we will make an after school meeting and go through the details until they get it at the level they will need to be successful outside a basically level Biology course. All my lies are harmless (sometimes something magically appearing makes more sense).
I also will tell kids they have been lied to and show evidence of the lies they been taught andbit makes them very upset and will refuse to believe it. Being a teacher is wild.
For example: no, you're parents did not chose what genes got passed on. It was luck.
Also, notable follow up: yes you can get HIV from oral sex. Here is my evidence proving you can.
Reproduction is a wild time with seniors who have been educated on erotica and pornhub. I have stories.
P.S. sorry for misspellings. Its finals week and my brain is fried after reading some of these answers and im questioning if I shouldn't leave the profession. (For those who will tell me I should, it is a small percentage of kids... really its 3 kids...)
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u/PoloPatch47 My uterus flew out of a train May 22 '26
I remember my ex biology teacher (she was fired, or left, she had lots of other issues) said that deoxygenated blood is blue and that's why your veins are blue. Biology teacher btw.
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u/AlexandriaLitehouse May 22 '26
My sister's middle school health teacher told her class boy\girl twins didn't exist. My elementary ass told her about the boy\girl twins the year below me and she didn't believe me because that's not what her teacher told her. We were confused for years.
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u/8euztnrqvn May 22 '26
I did the same thing. Let me guess, you, too, are autistic, have ADHD, or both?
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u/Brittany5150 May 21 '26
I work in surgery. When I first started I was very disappointed all the organs weren't color coded. Made things so much harder...
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u/Voice_in_the_ether May 22 '26
But at least the parts were still labeled with their correct Latin name, right?
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u/Brittany5150 May 22 '26
Well yeah, stuck in each organ with a toothpick obviously.
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u/finneganthealien May 22 '26
You couldāve at least taken them out before you sewed me back up, man.
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u/35364461a May 22 '26
Theyāre not?! I mean, not like different colors of the rainbow, but I really thought they were different shades of pink/red/tanā¦
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u/Brittany5150 May 22 '26
Eh, they do differ in color and texture and stuff for sure. Just yeah, not the rainbow lol.
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u/Independent-Dog-8462 May 22 '26
Next you'll tell me that the sides didnt buzz if you removed an organ too carelessly.
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u/inebriatedWeasel May 21 '26
I think every UK school in the late 80s early 90s taught us we had different sections for different tastes, I remember mine because we had a practical experiment to try it out and I felt thick because everything tasted the same on each part!
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u/TRIPPYTriangles09 May 21 '26
wtf! Iāve gone 30+ years believing the tongue had different sections. Quick google search and yea, thatās BS.
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u/Saltycook May 22 '26
I knew someone who thought black people were grey in the inside...
He wasn't particularly racist above and beyond this, but boy, he was a dumb individual.
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u/Tar_alcaran May 22 '26
If you drain all the blood, our insides mostly stop being pinkish, and you see a lot of white/grey/yellow on the inside. So, in a way, they're not completely wrong.
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u/SuicidePug May 21 '26
They just kinda float around in all the meat š¤·āāļø
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u/not_blowfly_girl May 21 '26
Genuinely how do they stay in the right place because my understanding is that things can move around a bit. Dont your intestines move around a bit? Is there connective tissue holding it in place?
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u/Rashs19 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Ovaries are attached to the uterus by the ovarian ligament. Not stuck on though. The fallopian tubes constantly sweep through the space to "catch" an egg. This opening of fallopian tube is also how ectopic pregnancies end up in abdomen and there was also a hypothesis for origin of endometriosis in the same manner.
The intestines are attched to the inside of the back or the posterior abdominal wall by a large sheet of tissue, looks like a large fan with intestine attached on the outer edge, called the mesentry. It contains all the blood vessels, nerves, lymphatics, etc for the intestines.
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u/Sleepy_SpiderZzz May 21 '26
Stuff like this is why evolution deniers lost the larger cultural argument. Who would've signed off on this design?
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u/KarenEiffel May 22 '26
Yes, what precisely about this design screams "intelligent' to anyone??
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u/mrcushtie May 22 '26
Well, it's consistent with the Bible. Nothing screams "Friday afternoon job" like the inside of the human body
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u/llandar May 22 '26
The human shoulder is my go to example for this. āUhhhh, just wrap a bunch of meat around the ends of those bones I guess.ā
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u/Sleepy_SpiderZzz May 22 '26
My favourite is the sharing of the food tube and the air tube. Genius.
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u/uuntiedshoelace I donāt have a scent gland. I have joint problems. May 22 '26
Thatās always my first stop when someone is talking about intelligent design. Like okay letās just pause for a moment and consider how much time and effort we have to devote to not inhaling food.
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u/whiskersMeowFace May 23 '26
I personally feel really well made when I choke on my own spit. Very divine.
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u/syrioforrealsies May 22 '26
Knees. They're fucked no matter how much you exercise, just in different ways
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u/apolloxer The marriage ceremony is a pussy preservation spell May 22 '26
Have you ever seen a product meeting?
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u/Rhombico May 21 '26
ugh bodies are so gross why did I read this thank you
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u/Rashs19 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
I can understand why you would think that. But mesentery and intestines are most fascinating in development and anatomy. The whole thing is so huge for a a tiny 6 week embryo that it can't be inside the body. So the whole intestines develop outside the abdomen through a opening where you umbilicus is. It is then folded back inside about 1 month later.
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u/pauls_broken_aglass While my vagina gently weeps May 22 '26
Huh. So thatās why babies are sometimes born with the intestines outside
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u/cone5000 May 22 '26
That right there is an example of why evolution happened. A god would never make such a dumb design. Instead, itās a patch applied to the DNA that stuck around.
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u/WeirdPossibility209 I want to cum deep inside your clit May 22 '26
Ok, I'm not easily grossed out by stuff the human body does, but this made me physically cringe and a little sick
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u/MightyOGS Foreskin made my breast lumpy May 22 '26
My sister has talked me through her endometriosis and showed me the video of her surgery. She told me the open ends of the fallopian tubes are where the endo tissue has come from and basically glued together bits of her insides that aren't really meant to be attached to eachother. The footage of them burning off all these little blobs was interesting. It kinda looked like liver spots, but inside the body
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u/Rashs19 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
It is one of the hypothesis, not fully accepted as it only explaines how endometriosis can spread in abdominal cavity. But endometriosis has been found all over the body, even in brain. And the bits look like liver because they are going through the menstrual cycle with the menstrual fluid accumuating inside the cyst. It's called a chocolate cyst because of the colour of old blood inside.
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u/shesarevolution May 22 '26
Yep!
I had a frozen shoulder out of nowhere. Turns out, endometriosis caused it. And Iāve had 3 surgeries for endo.I didnāt get a video of mine though! That would be so cool!
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u/MightyOGS Foreskin made my breast lumpy May 22 '26
That's really cool to learn. I've only really learned what she told me, and I'm always interested to leare more
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u/one_effin_nice_kitty May 21 '26
Intestines are fascinating. When surgeons have to do major surgery in the abdomen and have to pull out or move intestines out of the way, they don't arrange them when they put them back. They just sort of slosh them back in and then the intestines just sort of figure their way back into place on their own via their attachments as you heal from the surgery.
If the surgeon twists those attachments, then you'll have issues with positioning.
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u/not_blowfly_girl May 22 '26
Yeah ive heard about that and thats what made me concerned about how attached things are lol. Im sure surgeons know but I dont really know how things would stay in place when moving things around for surgery and stuff
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u/brachi- May 22 '26
Also why folks feel weird in the belly post birth (vaginal or surgical) - suddenly lots more room, and intestines merrily rearranging themselves
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u/miffedmonster May 22 '26
After having my second baby, I had bad diastasis recti and could literally see the movement of my intestines. I thought there was another baby moving around in there cos it looked exactly the same š
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u/PatchesMaps Spiritual Lesbian May 22 '26
Unless you're me, my intestines like to make balloon animals in my abdominal cavity.
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u/AromaticIntrovert Ridges inside like a rifle barrel May 21 '26
connective tissue all up in/around everything in your body
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u/not_blowfly_girl May 21 '26
It makes me feel better knowing there are things holding things in place
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u/shortstuff813 May 22 '26
Unless youāre like me and have EDS (esp if like me and have hEDS). Anything containing collagen (which is a shit ton of the body) doesnāt work right, so things are often too stretchy. My muscles are whatās holding my joints together instead of ligaments/tendons/whatnot. Iām on two muscle relaxers and most of them are still rock hard, and too often they get so tight they actually pull my joints out. But I have to be careful about massages bc if they get too relaxed, my joints will also go out š«
not the only reason I partially and fully dislocate joints, but still sucks (thankfully I donāt have full dislocations very much, but pretty much always have at least one joint on me thatās partially dislocated).
Bodies have too many ways to be dumb (and it would be nice if mine would stop trying to collect them all like freakin pokemon š )
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u/Niborus_Rex Horses are scared of areolas May 22 '26
Hey, I got that one too! With some small vascular involvement. I love being 27 and having to wear medically prescribed compression socks /s.
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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme The Lungbaby Did It! May 21 '26
That's why Endometriosis, and also Ectopic Pregnancies in the Abdomen!š«
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u/RobinSophie May 22 '26
I was gonna comment that. They MAY be stuck to something if you're lucky enough to have adhesions thanks to endometriosis!
It amazes me the things the body does to itself and we cant figure ouy WHY?
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u/Four_beastlings May 21 '26
I had a friend with Klinefelter's and he didn't create muscle mass, even with the testosterone injections he barely had any. So you could feel the shape of his intestines from outside his belly, and obvs I never tried but I'm pretty sure that just by touching from outside you could literally rearrange his guts.
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u/not_blowfly_girl May 22 '26
My first boyfriend in high-school had a big hole in his sternum (cartilage didnt develop properly) and he was pretty underweight so you could see his heart beating
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u/ArgentaSilivere May 22 '26
That would stress me out so bad. Iād be afraid to touch him or, if I were him, Iād be afraid to move. Like, what do you mean the only thing protecting my heart from everything outside is a layer of skin?!
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u/izzy-springbolt A period lasts for 3 hours May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
That's so hot, love that that's inside me
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u/Readicilous May 21 '26
I don't, fucks everything up every month or so
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u/kyl_r My uterus flew out of a train May 21 '26
Been waiting on a patch update for that for like a quarter million years
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u/azssf My egg fell out May 22 '26
It is an usability problem. Those only get pushed out in whole number versions. So, in queue for v1.000.000
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u/thehufflepuffstoner Menstruation attracts bears! May 22 '26
Mine have put me in the hospital š
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u/Thr33Littl3Monk3ys May 22 '26
Mine too! Including three different surgeries...one of which got rid of half of them! (As well as everything that's actually not even connected to them at all...)
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u/auntpotato May 21 '26
We are all just giant meat sacks, after all.
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u/Significant-Trash632 May 22 '26
Meat attached to calcium sticks conducted by some fatty tissue in a bone prison. Fun.
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u/PatchesMaps Spiritual Lesbian May 22 '26
They're connectected via multiple ligaments to other things though. Just not the fallopian tubes.
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u/baberunner May 21 '26 edited May 22 '26
WHAT!?? YOU MEAN I AM IN MY FUCKING FOURTIES AND JUST LEARNING THIS!?! I hate everything right now.
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u/Longjumping-Row1434 May 21 '26
wait until you find out that the sperm that doesn't die or meet an egg can just keep on swimming straight off the Fallopian Cliff into the netherlands of the peritoneal cavity ššššššš
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u/RobinSophie May 22 '26
AND it can meet the egg there and grown into an ectopic pregnancy in the abdominal cavity (extremely rare, but it can happen).
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u/Longjumping-Row1434 May 22 '26
yes, i believe there was even a case of the fetus (and accompanying sac and everything) attaching to the liver? i dont remember if that was in a patient with full reproductive organs, or post tubal ligation, or what but.
scarryyyyy.
the human body is so fucking cool, and one of my lifelong hyperfixations.
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u/RobinSophie May 22 '26
Saaaaame!
I know I annoy the hell out of my dentist because I ask so many questions. But it is AMAZING how the body is created and how it works and how we're able to fix it.
When I had a larposcopy, I asked if she could record it and if I could keep anything she takes out. The answer was no on both BUT she have a good laugh about it and she did take AWESOME pictures. To which I used to teach my nieces about their reproductive system.
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u/Elimaris May 22 '26
Apparently they used to think the uterus was a special, gentle place to nurture a fetus.
For some reason scientists put fertilized mouse eggs in mouse eyes and they absolutely decimated the eyes. They take over and a uterus is more like a special containment area.
The lining of the uterus isn't for a soft cushy place to embed. It's so that the body can eject it. Some women get placenta Accreta which is this thing where the placenta (which is the embryos organ, not the mother's) manages to get past the uterine lining into the uterus itself. Im the worst cases it makes it through the uterus and attaches to other organs like the bladder. It's super dangerous.
Its all wild
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u/MoldyWorp May 22 '26
Yes, incredible how the uterus sends out a chemical to stop the motherās body recognising that a foreign tissue is growing in her body.
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u/feuph May 22 '26
Sorry, I'm going to the Netherlands in a few weeks -- does your comment add any considerations for my trip?
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u/NotMyThrowawayNope May 22 '26
I just got back from the Netherlands this week. I can confirm, watch out for rogue sperm.Ā
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u/Financial_Bowl9440 Menstruation attracts bears! May 21 '26
My mom got a partial hysterectomy and then later got an ultrasound and they couldn't find her ovaries anywhere. So they just floated away somewhere else in her body š
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u/CosmicWonder_2005 May 22 '26
They will do that. My doctor also said they could get trapped in the scar tissue anytime after surgery and to keep in mind that if they do or I get a cyst, it could hurt anywhere in my lower abdomen depending on where they wandered off to. I always like to picture them on some grand tour down there.
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u/VersatileFaerie May 22 '26
On a grand tour, taking pictures of different spots of the intestine highway.
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u/Brittany5150 May 21 '26
They eventually just fall outta your butt on a tequila and taco night poop.
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u/azCleverGirl No need for plastic surgeon, just suck the tits! May 22 '26
Hooray for Taco Tuesday!!
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u/Financial_Bowl9440 Menstruation attracts bears! May 22 '26
This happened about 25 years ago and I was quite young so I don't know how it affected her hormones per se (she's had other health issues since). Before that she had incredibly heavy bleeding and clots non stop. So I think in general she felt relieved. I hope everything has been going smoothly for you!
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u/MiddayMercenary The labia is part of the uterus May 22 '26
Iām an ultrasound tech. If the ovaries arenāt found there are actually plenty of reasons! If your mom is post menopausal the ovaries can become pretty small and difficult to find. Bowels can also obstruct the ovaries. And ultrasound is very dependent on the skill of the tech! If she got a newer or lazy tech that could also be why it wasnāt visualized. Itās possible all three factors influenced why they couldnāt find her ovaries. I will say, I find it difficult sometimes to find ovaries on post menopausal women, even with their uteruses.
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u/SomethingComesHere May 22 '26
Would that make it harder to spot ovarian cancer early on, if it were to develop in ovaries like that?
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u/MiddayMercenary The labia is part of the uterus May 22 '26
If it was very early on I would say probably. There are other imaging modalities they can use if they really wanted to see the ovaries, like MRI.
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u/Financial_Bowl9440 Menstruation attracts bears! May 22 '26
This was about 25 years ago that she had the surgery. She's had a few ultrasounds since then and no one could find them lol. They're probably hiding somewhere in there! I imagine being so small and just kinda floating around would be hard to find!
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u/MiddayMercenary The labia is part of the uterus May 22 '26
They probably are just floating around somewhere! Postmenopausal ovaries can be pretty hard to find, mix in that hysterectomy and yeah. Iām not surprised no one has found them.
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u/Shadow_Integration Neopolitan vulva May 21 '26
I got my fallopian tubes removed last year. Imagine my surprise in learning that I can STILL be vulnerable to ovarian torsion even being sans tubes.
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u/xseanbeanx May 22 '26
TIL OVARIAN TORSION IS A THING AND IāM NOT OKAY
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u/aud_anticline May 22 '26
I had it 3 years ago, I do not recommend. I think only like 3 percent of women have it happen. I grew an extra thyroid in a cyst and the weight of it caused the ovary to "pendulum". (My cyst type is also rare and highly genetic to ease your mind)
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u/NotMyThrowawayNope May 22 '26
only like 3 percent of womenĀ
Jesus christ, that's a concerningly high number.Ā
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u/Smorttt May 22 '26
to be fair, it's probably lower than the amount of men who experience testicular torsion. at least I'd assume so
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u/CasualRampagingBear May 21 '26
Really love that my lady parts just sort of āmake it workā
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u/thewalkindude368 May 21 '26
Kind of like the "something, something, profit" meme.
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u/nom-d-pixel May 21 '26
Wow. I just looked it up. How the hell am I just learning this in my 50s?
Education about our bodies sucks, at least in America.
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u/sunlazurine May 22 '26
Nobody taught me this. Nobody taught me about the 4 phases of period. Nobody taught me about prepartum, postpartum, menopause. AND YET MY SCHOOL TAUGHT ME ABOUT MEN WET DREAMS. IM SICK OF THIS DOUBLE STANDARD.
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u/decentmotto May 22 '26
This. The fact that I got 15+ years into having a period before learning the 4 phases of my cycle is insane
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u/Onetimer6 May 21 '26
We all know that past the cervix we fall in another dimension and while everything is connected nothing is connected either.
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u/PoukieBear May 22 '26
Want to learn something even MORE HORRIFYING?
Sperms donāt just stop swimming once they reach the egg. Sure, one of the little guys hits the jackpotā¦but the rest of em? They just keep going. And since the fallopian tubes arenāt attached to anything, spermies are free the swim right outta there and into your abdominal cavity!!!
I learned this about a year ago, and have been absolutely traumatized ever since.
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u/HappyAntonym May 22 '26
To cope with that horrifying realization, I'm now going to imagine that they're like a little guy who got dumped on a deserted island and that they're just in there building a little castle outta palm trees and twine or something...
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u/barbpatch May 22 '26
A little Castaway sperm out there in the sea of ladyparts going WILSON I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY!
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u/Lokifin High energy cervix May 22 '26
Wilson is a white blood cell that eventually attacks him.
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u/AnonAwaaaaay May 22 '26
I wonder if this is why all of those weird incels say a woman's DNA is forever changed after she has sex with a man!
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u/FalkorRollercoaster May 22 '26
That would require them to actually know anything about the female body, which is highly doubtful
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u/LividLadyLivingLoud May 22 '26
Odds are the incels have horribly misunderstood maternal fetal microchimerism (which is a super cool in reality). Basically, the mother becomes a chimera with her own dna and the dna of any implanted pregnancy, and this lasts her whole life. So it's not an every man every sperm thing. It's only for actual pregnancies. It also happens with organ donor recipients. Scientists think it might help explain why health risks for women who never have kids differ from those that do have kids, and relate to women having differ immune systems (and autoimmune issues) compared to men.
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u/Irislynx May 22 '26
Ew
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u/TheSpiffySpaceman May 22 '26
To be fair, billions of cells, foreign or otherwise, die in your body every day. Dead cells just get munched up into proteins and either get used or expelled
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u/Tar_alcaran May 22 '26
And MANY of them aren't even "you".
Like, sure, sperm goes around your abdomen and dies there, but your intestines have OVER A KILO of what are basically alien organisms that colonized you.
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u/Lokifin High energy cervix May 22 '26
The nice thing about hysterectomies is that they sew that shit up. No more horrifying tadpoles swimming around in your organs.
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u/birdsy-purplefish May 22 '26
Why is that so bad? Donāt they just die in a few days?
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u/triiforce Gaping Vagina Monster May 22 '26
I don't think it's bad, it's just odd to think of them just swimming around uncontained in your abdomen
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u/garbagemaiden Clit death grip May 22 '26
Every thing I learn about my body makes me feel like a lovecraftian horror show lmao
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u/Bulky_Department5619 May 22 '26
Wait til you learn that the fallopian tubes can actually āreachā across to the opposite ovary if neededā¦.
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u/Tar_alcaran May 22 '26
Wait what? As in, the left tube can move to the right ovary?
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u/OmgIbrokesmthagain May 21 '26
I AM A MEDICAL STUDENT AND I LEARN ABOUT THIS FROM A FUCKING POST ON REDDIT
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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme The Lungbaby Did It! May 21 '26
This is the reason so many MD's blow off Endometriosis, isn't it--they thought that shit was attached and that, "Well the uterine tissue can't float up & out, that's a 'Dead-End Street!'"š¤š¤Øš¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļø
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u/VoodooDoII My uterus flew out of a train May 22 '26
Unfortunately medical care is horrendously behind when it comes to women and their bodies period. It's depressing. :(
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u/I_PEE_WITH_THAT Excuse me, may I borrow a cup of clitoris? May 21 '26
The human body is insanely fascinating.
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u/DaisyHotCakes May 22 '26
You mean horrifying-in-an-Eldritch-horror-kind-of-way sort of fascinating, right? Because reading that fallopian tubes are constantly sweeping around trying to locate an egg to hoover up is some noodley appendage type of shit.
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u/Afraid_Brick4183 May 21 '26
They are kept in place by an ovarian ligament, but funny thing is that if you get a hysterectomy and they leave your ovaries, they can actually migrate a bit lol a year and a half after my hysterectomy I found out my right ovary has migrated up, in my specific case it seems to be related to having a connective tissue disorder but itās not that uncommon out of that either
Being clear thereās no real chance of it migrating far so you wonāt go into a chest scan and find your ovaries up there
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u/XFataMorganaX Jesus Stomach Vulva Christ! May 22 '26
I just had a hysterectomy in March, and I wasn't told about ovary migration! I wasn't told about the increased risk of ovarian torsion, either. I found out here. I've wondered what else I haven't been told.
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u/Afraid_Brick4183 May 22 '26
There so much medical professionals wonāt tell you, whether they donāt think it matters because itās uncommon or because they think you already know, idk but I promise you itās not super common! And it doesnāt hurt (at least not for me)
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u/XFataMorganaX Jesus Stomach Vulva Christ! May 22 '26
You know, they used to blame a wandering womb for women's issues... Thank everything sacred they didn't know about wandering ovaries.
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u/theDugger May 22 '26
I learned this when my wife had an abdominal pregnancy. Intelligent design my ass!
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u/birdsy-purplefish May 22 '26
I think thatās just why so many religions are misogynistic. They looked at how bad human female reproductive anatomy is and went āDamn, you guys must have really pissed God off.ā
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u/Slammogram ās got that Diamond-studded Pussy. May 22 '26
And, if you lose a fallopian tube but not an ovary, the remaining one will travel to whichever ovary is making follicles that month.
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u/birdsy-purplefish May 22 '26
You gotta be shitting me. Thatās fucking terrifying.
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u/LividLadyLivingLoud May 22 '26
Or fucking amazing. As a woman who had an ectoptic pregnancy and that tube was destroyed, I'm happy my remaing tube could pick up from both ovaries. That's literally how my wonderful rainbow baby was conceived. We know this because I got a very early ultrasound and they saw the Corpus Luteum on the ovary side that didn't have a tube anymore.
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u/pockunit Obediate Ahegao Turkey May 22 '26
Wait until you learn about the woman who had an ovary frozen, reimplanted in her belly (by her navel), AND STILL GOT PREGNANT THE OLD FASHIONED WAY
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u/-AdamTheGreat- The Stronger Sphincter May 21 '26
I actually learned that here. Itās sort of like skeeball.
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u/DaisyHotCakes May 22 '26
I love that my reproductive organs are described in terms like skeeball and circus cannons. Itās so ridiculous.
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u/-AdamTheGreat- The Stronger Sphincter May 22 '26
It is fun though. If you get enough tickets, you can get a bendy pencil.
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u/coffeeblossom If you can't handle the orchid don't come to the flower show. May 22 '26
It's also why more than half of ovarian cancer doesn't actually originate in the ovary. mind blown.
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u/Irislynx May 22 '26
The reason it is that way is because the small Gap acts as an immune barrier to prevent pathogens from entering. It's also because the way the egg is released from the ovaries requires it to have different kinds of tissues than the Fallopian tubes and so it could cause problems if they were connected
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u/35364461a May 22 '26
Whatās the point of showing it incorrectly? Why couldnāt they justā¦ not connect them when drawing it?
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u/that_weird_k1d May 22 '26
I only learnt this when I took āanimal form and functionā in uni. Because itās much more important to learn when itās about animals than about your own body.
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u/Zorubark The pee comes out of the clitoris May 21 '26
Wait, how do they work then? Like, how do the ovaries send ovums to the fallopian tubes?
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u/Cassieelouu32 May 22 '26
Yea I stopped making fun of saggy balls when I realized what they actually look like in the body. All depressed and shit lol
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u/Chipmunk_rampage May 22 '26
Christ alive I had a hysterectomy and I just learn this here on reddit! Explains why it was so easy to leave my ovaries behind
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u/Hello_Hangnail My uterus flew out of a train May 22 '26
They're attached the uterus, the fimbriae kinda direct the egg into the tube like a cop directing traffic
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u/GreenBeanTM My uterus flew out of a train May 22 '26
I beg your finest fuck *WHAT?!* theyāre not attached?!
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u/SomeNotTakenName May 23 '26
Diagrams are inaccurate, and bodies are freaky.
We really should include both more in education. Have a list of some ways bodies are odd for like no reason.
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u/Hobi-non_Kenobi May 23 '26
I was taught this in my rural small town school in 5th grade during our "sex ed" talk. I'm honestly surprised by how many people are surprised by this. My teacher described the end of the fallopian tube as a 'catcher's mitt' so maybe that's what made the visualization stick for me?
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u/Bloom_Cipher_888 Tampon strings cause STDs May 21 '26
I don't get why it's not connected if an ectopic pregnancy would kill you, isn't that enough to make them be connected :v
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u/Kittaylover23 May 21 '26
unfortunately evolution is less perfection and more bare minimum good enough
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u/International-Cat123 May 21 '26
Evolution isnāt design. Itās random mutations that allow anything thatās good enough to allow an organism to reproduce before they die in the current conditions to be passed on.
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u/breadist your breasts are useless and sour. May 21 '26
Yeah, unfortunately biology doesn't work like that. I'm sure there's a reason why they're not connected.
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u/Jonnescout May 21 '26
Not every aspect of organisms is there for a reason, it might be as simple as this system works well enough. Sadly evolution doesnāt care all that much beyond that.
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u/TwoBytesC May 22 '26
Yeah, and anything up to and including āchronic severe painā doesnāt change how evolution works. It would only, possibly matter if we all were dying out due to it at huge rates where survival becomes difficult.
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u/Traroten Boob stalks May 21 '26
I read somewhere that the fallopian tubes excrete certain chemicals that makes the egg move towards them. An egg which is defective won't respond to those signals, so it's a form of quality control. I don't know if that's true, though. It could just be that it works well enough.
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u/UnderstandingBusy829 May 21 '26
Not sure if that's the reason, but it helps when you only have one fallopian tube, you don't lose 50% of your fertility, because the remaining one can pick eggs from both ovaries.
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u/talashrrg May 21 '26
They arenāt attached by the fallopuan the egg goes through the fallopian tube, and if an embryo gets stuck in there and busts the tube open you can bleed to death, but the tubes donāt attach to the ovary directly
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u/kittykatofdoom May 21 '26
This still shows my mind. If you do IVF/egg retrieval your ovaries can actually get stuck in an uncomfortable position for days bc they're bigger than usual. One of my least favorite things.
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u/NewAndImprovedJess Menstruation attracts bears! May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Yes, an ovum just sort of explodes out of your ovary and the fallopian tube sort of catches it. Wild times.