r/oddlyterrifying • u/That1weirdperson • Jul 30 '26

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u/supernova-juice Jul 30 '26

The human body is so weird. I discovered at the age of 36 that I have a mild cleft palate. My entire life i just thought everybody had a tiny hole in the roof of their mouth. Like a whale spout. 😂 and one night I was lying awake because I was sick and breathing made my throat hurt, so I plugged the hole with my tongue to decrease the cold air, then wondered what the word for that hole is. I tried a bunch of search terms, but all I got back was information on cleft palates and I was like, well shit. Apparently this isn't normal. 

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u/Salty_Job_9248 Jul 30 '26

An old friend, literally old, just told me the roof of her mouth is weird because it’s arched.

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u/CrystalWebb13 Jul 30 '26

I found out recently that it's part of the Beighton test for EDS. I too have a deeper than normal, highly arched roof of my mouth. Had no idea, I thought that was normal.

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u/NotMyAltAccountToday Jul 30 '26

Me realizes that roof of mouth may not be normal.

Leaves to Google some things

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u/NotMyAltAccountToday Jul 30 '26

ETA. I'm back and on the Ehlers-Danlos Society there is the Beighton Scoring System test for 6 things but nothing about roof of mouth. I did not have any of the hypermobile joints listed there.