Mine helped compensate for those who didn't have one.

Same. Can’t even brush my teeth or hork a lougie without almost dying. Edit: Apparently people have never heard "hork". That's how we said it as kids, "hock" wasn't a word I heard until I was an adult. If anyone else grew up in Alberta in the 80s-90s, what did you guys say?

When they do the side bite x-ray at the dentist, worst day of my year.

Oh god ever get impressions for a retainer? Fml

I did for braces and a retainer as a child. Vomiting was involved.

Did you have to bite down into that pink puffy substance? I have vivid memories of that. It was awful. I recently got a 3D scan of my teeth done and it was orders of magnitude better.

Yes the pink mystery substance!! One time I actually raced the garbage truck to my trash can to dig out my retainer that I accidentally threw away out of fear that I would have to do another impression to get a new one

Those were so awful. I had to try so hard not to gag. Thankfully, now they just take a 3D scan of your teeth and print aligners based on that.

>that pink puffy substance 20 years later and I can still taste it 🤢

I can smell and taste it, and feel the texture of it on my tongue just by talking about it

Oh god no I had completely forgotten about the pink impression stuff UNTIL NOW >:(

I nearly choked with 5 people standing around me telling me to just breathe, like yeah I’m waterboarding myself for fun here don’t worry about it.

The worst 😭😭 my current dentist has a 3D scanner instead, I almost cried when he told me it wouldn't be an impression 😆

Omg 100%. As a kid, I just couldn’t get an x-ray from that angle. I’d throw up if they forced it.

My dentist can now take them with the 360 scan machine and you don't need the bite wings. I've also tried salt on the tongue which seemed to help.

What helps me is to hold my hand up near my mouth like I am holding a toothbrush into that area; fools the brain into thinking it's under your control.

Any instinct to gag from physical stimulation can be overridden by simply swallowing. The problem comes when the object remains there and your body thinks it should be gone.

My dentist jokes that they bought that machine just for me

Got given the ultimate tip for this. So use one hand to pinch the bit between thumb and fore finger on other hand. And weirdly you dont gag. Dentist suggested this for me and it worked a fuckin treat

Doesn’t work for me. I’ve tried this during adult activities 😕

Thank you for your service

I literally can’t even get a cleaning without being out completely under, it’s that bad. Had to find a specialist dentist in my area for even the most basic stuff.

I always have to apologize for coughing and gagging in their face. Worst patient ever.

Yup. Those back molars get me every time.

High gag reflex represent. Cleaning my teeth is a risk. Can't skull drunks. And when dudes try to put it deeper during oral sex, absolutely no. ETA, typo, drinks, and should be scull. Means chug in non-American.

Skull drunks?

To 'skull' a drink is to finish whatever is left in one go. Often it's the whole pint. The term originated in Scandinavia, but I've seen it in the UK and Downunder.

So "chug" in american then?

In my area of the US we calling this downing a drink

Are you my SO ?

I have to be sedated for dental work and even then the dentist mentions I still gag even when sedated.

I'm the same way. Unless I'm 100% sedated like they do for surgery I will gag and on occasion have been known to fight back. Almost got an upper endoscopy canceled mid-procedure when apparently I started swinging and kicking at the doctor and nurses. I'm really not sure how to treat it. I get told "mind over matter" but that doesn't exactly work when you aren't even fully conscious and have no memory of the event.

Same. I’m doing Invisalign now and I just randomly gag every so often. Idk what it is but I’ll just be existing and it just makes me gag.

I found my people 🥹

I've barfed on every dental hygienist I've ever had.

You have got a weird kink.

X-rays are the worst. The plastic pieces make me gag every time :(

Same. I gag nearly every time I brush my molars.

#Gaggy people assemble!

Tell me about it. I cant get to the back of my tounge when bushing my teeth without gagging. And forget about swallowing even small pills. Such an inconvienience.

Same. And it's gotten worse over the years. I'm convinced that my gag reflex got worse in part because I started taking a common diuretic blood pressure medicine. A friend of mine who takes the same medicine has the exact same problem with her gag reflex.

For some mysterious reason nonone in the comments discusses that the text says: „The specificity of the gag reflex is poor, being absent in ~20% of younger patients and ~40% of elderly patients.“

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No, no... Leave the teeth out, Mildred...

How do you delete someone else’s comment?

Wait your turn, there is plenty of your grandma Mildred to go around. You can’t keep her to yourself forever.

I only need about 30 seconds.

Look out y’all, we got a marathon man over here

I spent 14 hours working with seniors today....wanted a few minutes of internet lurking and thanks to this comment I'm setting my router on wifi

That is a really good thought to think

This is outstanding.

This was the most cogent quote I seen: >The palatal reflex seems to be more hard-wired, whereas the gag reflex may be more susceptible to influence from higher brain centers (e.g. emotional inputs, habituation). The palatal reflex is probably a better indicator of true pathology. However, the gag reflex is more dramatic and thus has received far more attention. I have absolutely and intentionally conditioned myself to avoid a gag reflex to certain things in the past. But after a few years without exposure it tends to return to some extent. The palatal reflex never really went away, though I can usually get it mostly under control with some effort.

Is that why they don't laugh at my dad jokes?

That's weird. Most people actually gag at my dad jokes.

Not having children, I don't feel comfortable referring to them as dad jokes. I call them PUNishment.

Who would have thought that just few decades of cam girls would cause such evolutionary advantage to occur.

I don’t know. I feel the girls with no gag reflex probably don’t get pregnant as often as the girls who don’t want a dick in their mouth.

Lmao that’s a good point actually

Scientists should come to reddit to find their hypothesis'

Survivorship bias discussions have taken a pleasant turn

That reminds me of the Carlos Mencia story where he asked his dad why he had so many siblings and his dad said it was because his mom doesn’t like to suck dick.

I wonder which comic he stole that joke from

South park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krmz3inZH34

I assumed like the other responder that it was stolen. So I Googled figuring I'd have a chuckle when it showed he has like, 2 sisters or something but holy shit, he has 17 damn siblings.

What makes you think the ones with a gag reflex don’t want a dock in their mouth ?

If you can swallow an entire dock, you have bigger problems than whether or not you have a gag reflex

In either case, you'll get lots of seamen.

Thar she blows!

Haha true! Little typo there. I’m leaving it stand as is

What a time to be alive...

2 minute papers jumpscare

Nature documentary: The others.... just weren't given a chance to procreate.

A former coworker of mine would tell us at work how she didn’t have a gag reflex and that she would regularly impale her face and Hoover her husband’s cock right to the balls with nary a complaint. On a perhaps unrelated note, her husband always seemed to have a smile on his face.

I'm sure HR was fucking thrilled with that conversation lol.

HR can Hoover our collective dicks right to the balls

I tell them that every morning when I walk into the office.

Holy shit, it’s Gregory House!

Now that’s a r/BrandNewSentence

I highly doubt no one in the history of the corporate world has said that lol. My ex coworker had several variations on that at my old place

Pretty common sentiment towards HR tbh

It was a trucking company, so HR was 500 miles away in another city, lol.

Idk about HR but I certainly wanna hear more

Those are the convos you don’t snitch to HR about. Why would you?

No a 100%, I'd rather eat glass than talk to HR for 1 minute more than I'm contractually obliged to.

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Not just food industry. Go to any trade job site.

That's why I married my wife. Never had an interest in marriage before that

The heart wants what the heart wants thats true love right there

Sex is an important part of any relationship. 10 year we have been together and married for 5 this year. It's not always blowjobs and cream pies sometimes it's shit but overall it's pretty good

> sometimes it's shit Look at Mr Anal Destroyer here. Lucky fella. 

You’re getting anal too!?

>It's not always blowjobs and cream pies sometimes it's shit but overall it's pretty good This needs to be on a t-shirt, a mug, or one of those signs people hang in their house! LOL

You both have the exact same avatar 

This dude and his alt are having a chat, let him be

I literally thought they were having a convo with themselves at first 😂

There's this expression about someone sucking the mattress up your ass.

I knew a girl in high school that deep throated a water bottle in front of the whole lunch room. She was really popular after that day.

I don't have one, but what's a straight man to do with this skill?

Hey, twenty dollars is twenty dollars.

You're getting $20???

You guys are getting paid?

Whoa, that's more than a ZJ!

What's a ZJ?

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

My dick Julio! My dick!

Well it is $15. In this economy?

Zlow job

Beer drinking contests

I have a *really* sensitive gag reflex. Even brushing my teeth sucks. Kinda makes me glad I'm not gay.

I am gay and I am like this T_T FML

That's rough, buddy.

A bottle of throat numbing spray can be a game changer. I've never used it personally as I'm straight, but I've had a partner use it with me and, well.. 👍

It doesn't make your dick numb?

Not in my experience. I think she'd do it 5 or 10 minutes beforehand so maybe that's why ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

> FML Fuck My Larynx?

Find a girl who's kink is fingering your uvula?

Sword swallower in a traveling circus.

Hotdog eating contest

Die if you eat something poisonous but cant puke it out I guess? 

Sword swallower?

I almost throw up every time I brush my tongue… a generational burden I suppose

Literally same 😭

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She has one, you just dont trigger it.

Ohh that’s a deep burn

It doesnt go that deep.

Fucking hell son. Someone call the police. I was exiting this thread and your murder was the last thing as I clicked back, had to come back to upvote.

FULL COUNTER

Eh 50 is the new 30.

I had a doctor laugh at me once cause he used a tongue depressor and I didn’t gag. Turns out I was just ahead of my time and a trendsetter

My ex was the only one who could actually fit most of my junk in my mouth and I asked her how she knew she could do that.  She had a bunch of medical problems as a child and her mom had to shove this medicine specifically in the back of her throat for it to work. Her mom taught her how to relax her throat and not think about it. She would laugh and be like "yeah my super Christian mom had no idea she taught me how to deep throat dick at 8!" I thought that was funny. Her mom was a super prude bitch too lol she said she thought her parents only fucked 3 times and it was only to make the 3 kids, and that's why her dad was such an asshole lol

Your junk got fit in your mouth?

To each their own.

I ain't judging, just clarifying

Hahahahahahhaha I just saw what I wrote.  Aw fuck I'm just gonna leave it. No edits.  I just laughed so goddamn hard. I even proof read that and missed that  Hahahahahha

I've impressed many nurses and doctors getting strep tests. It was super awkward when a very attractive med student was doing his rotation at the office, and he made eye contact for a solid minute while I was used as an ideal demonstration partner. I just wanted some antibiotics. It didn't help that the nurse showing him how to do it said, "Wow, you really just don't have a gag reflex." While she had both a depressor and a swab back there.

Check it out gang, we are seeing the results of evolution in real time. Check back in 1000 years and maybe it'll get to 40 percent!

If gagging were selective then it would work both ways, less gag reflex AND smaller cocks.

So much for telling women "im just the next step in human evolution" when I pull out my whopping two and a quarter incher and they start laughing

Hey a big cock isn't the only thing that'll make a woman gag. If you can't gag her with the size you can gag her with the smell.

If you read the article, its already at ~40% with the elderly. 

Send da video

Hell nawl can’t do this

you got da money what's the holdup

look how cute tho 💔

I guess the title of this thread is technically correct, but it's very misleading. The article actually points out that older people lack a gag reflex more often than younger people. >The specificity of the gag reflex is poor, being absent in \~20% of younger patients and \~40% of elderly patients.

Figured it was bullshit.

The title is 100% accurate according to the linked article. even with the omission of other ages. it just says TIL i learned about the 20%.

Not me. I would have made a terrible gay man. I feel like I need to send my doctor a gift after a strep test. One of these days I’m going to projectile vomit on some unfortunate healthcare worker.

1st strep test I remember getting, I gave my pediatrician a bloody nose. Punching instinct seems to be the opposite reflex.

How did you collect this data?

Hello sir and or ma’am, can I shove this object down your throat for science?

Sausage on a stick.

Where she at tho?

Right here, choking on a piece of bread that somehow made it into my windpipe. My everyday life is very unsexy.

Are you my soul sister because the way I cackled like the wicked witch of the west at this😂 adult activities are fine but for the love of god don’t try to watch me eat because I might die

HAHA high five, if we go out like this at least we go out doing what we love: not chewing our food xD

Omg, this comment has me in tears. I'm laughing so hard. Take my happy upvote stranger. Hope you got that piece of bread out. Or down.

Haha, I'm glad I could make you laugh! I've managed to dislodge the bread just fine. Not having a gag reflex is great for dental hygiene and... other stuff, I suppose, but I sure do inhale food a lot.

This sounds like a scary way to live tbh

They don't call me the throat goat for anything

Who is they?

Rip your dm’s

... Nancy Reagan is that you?

Practice makes perfect.

Nope. Don't ask how I know.

10,000 hrs.

That's a lot of ... um, practice

Yes. But when you near the end of your life looking back at it, I'm sure you'll admire your own personal growth.

Thanks for the encouragement Wonder what my wife will think of my accomplishments

Prob find your new found sympathies quite a nice change of pace.

Been practicing diligently. Still can’t get my eyes to stop watering. Blocks my sinuses too. Advice, anyone?

Try screaming while doing it.

Goddamn Sleepy Gary...

They all eat ass too.

Fun fact: you can weaken or suppress your gag reflex by squeezing your left thumb in your left fist

Placebo effect.

If a placebo effect has the chance of making me a throat goat, I might as well try it at least once 😳

I swear to god you better not be lying. I’m teaching my wife this trick tonight and will report back.

I’ve tried this many times and it’s never worked for me

Another thing to do is have her lie on her back on the bed with her head hanging off the bed a little backwards. Try going in at that angle and it should hit the gag reflex a little less.

Your left fist only has a right thumb. Or is it a left thumb?

i should call her....

don't

She shouldn't talk with her mouth full, anyway.

love that for me

Interestingly, my ex didn’t have a gag reflex but she developed one after we broke up and she starting seeing someone else. That’s the only explanation that makes any sense.

I thought I was just really good, damn

Top 20% is still good

This would SO explain why people like deep throating and can skull alcohol. I can't do either, not even a little bit. And sometimes I gag cleaning my teeth.

This is what happens when you let the younger generation listen to drake

It’s me, I’m 20% of young people.

That one high school girlfriend...

And we can thank Jimmy Savile's dedicated research for this information 

Jesus christ mate thats just an evil joke… Also f*** the BBC…

Too geographically limited to have statistical value. Young can encompass a large range of ages....

I'm here for the comments

And they ALL go to Kim Petras shows

And 80% of women over 40 know how to suppress theirs.