1 in 462 billion

Yesterday I decided to check the odds of being born like this, and it was really brutal. To be more precise, I obviously didn’t calculate the odds of having a specific facial feature, but simply all the diseases I have that somehow disrupted an ideal growth and made me this way.

• Being born prematurely at 26 weeks is 1-2% of the world’s population.
• Being born with scaphocephaly is 0.036% of the population.
• Having hypothyroidism before the age of 18 is 0.1-0.3%.
• Developing androgenic alopecia before the age of 18 is 2-5% of the population.
• Developing celiac disease at 16 years old is 0.5-1%.
• Being born 5’7 tall in a country where the average height is 5’9 is 15-20%

All of these conditions started either before I even began puberty (hypothyroidism when I was under 10 years old) or right during it (alopecia and celiac disease when I was 15-16 years old). The final percentage was roughly that the odds of being born with all of this was 1 in 462 billion, to put it into perspective, it is estimated that only 112 billion people have lived on Earth since Homo sapiens appeared 200,000 years ago.

I’ve always thought I was unlucky, but now that I see the actual data, I realize it can’t just be bad luck. I was literally born to fail, and no number of surgeries will ever change that.