This is called the tensor timpani and I just learned from my hypermobilty support group that it’s super common in people with hypermobilty disorders generally to be able to move them. Look up Beighton scale and give yourself a quick check.
Finding out I was hypermobile lead to me discovering my ADHD wasn’t inattention, but highly variable blood pressure and a wonky vagal nerve condition. Changed my meds, changed my life.
I only recently discovered that not everyone can do this. I was telling my teenager to “just pop your ears” when she was swimming under water and neither her nor her mom had any idea what I was talking about.
imho Belize is the best place for a scuba vacation. I went last year. Former British colony where everyone speaks English and you can spend American dollars easily. It sits next to the second biggest coral system on Earth so you have abundant wildlife.
Yeah but I feel like most adults would have had pressure sensitive ears at some point in the life (like from a cold or something), forcing them to learn about popping ears, even if the only way of doing it they know is swallowing.
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This is called the tensor timpani and I just learned from my hypermobilty support group that it’s super common in people with hypermobilty disorders generally to be able to move them. Look up Beighton scale and give yourself a quick check.
Finding out I was hypermobile lead to me discovering my ADHD wasn’t inattention, but highly variable blood pressure and a wonky vagal nerve condition. Changed my meds, changed my life.
…aaaannnndddd I’ve just stumbled into a rabbit hole that’s going to eat up half my day.
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I only recently discovered that not everyone can do this. I was telling my teenager to “just pop your ears” when she was swimming under water and neither her nor her mom had any idea what I was talking about.
Like when you do the yawning-part for your ears without actually yawning?
Exactly!!!
So that’s what that was called.
Ever scuba dive? Most masks you see have a rubber nose piece that lets the diver squeeze their nose shut so they can blow and equalize pressure.
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To wander further off topic.
imho Belize is the best place for a scuba vacation. I went last year. Former British colony where everyone speaks English and you can spend American dollars easily. It sits next to the second biggest coral system on Earth so you have abundant wildlife.
Enjoy.
People dont get what you mean with “popping your ears”? How can an adult never experience that?
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Yeah but I feel like most adults would have had pressure sensitive ears at some point in the life (like from a cold or something), forcing them to learn about popping ears, even if the only way of doing it they know is swallowing.
I’ve got that. Very useful for looking unaffected by pressure changes, which is to say, not that useful.
Like, when you pinch your nose and blow?
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I can do it on demand.
I can do that too!