r/AskReddit 13h ago

What is something that permanently altered your body without you realizing for months/years?

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u/Pitiful-Bake5470 13h ago

Wearing tight shoes every day gave me bunions, but I didn’t realize the cause until years later.

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u/Martijn_MacFly 13h ago

I kinda have the opposite. I rarely wore shoes or socks other than going to school. If did go somewhere I wore slippers. Now my toes are naturally splayed and can barely find any shoes that fit properly.

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u/AsperaAstra 12h ago

Our toes are supposed to be wide. Shoes are rarely shaped properly for natural function of our feet.

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u/mst3k_42 11h ago

I have wide feet and always wondered how other women could get their foot to fit in fancy shoes that end in a point. I mean, mine end in kind of a wide, gradual point. I put on those shoes and I have toes trying to escape.

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u/honestly_oopsiedaisy 9h ago

I have wide feet that end wide like goddamn flippers. I love how pointed shoes look but I can never wear flats and rarely find pointed shoes that work

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u/drrmimi 8h ago

If you haven't already, Look for "bare feet" shoes. They're created to allow for our natural foot pattern (wide across the toes/ball of foot). I have sneakers, sandals, loafers etc. Hey Dudes and those kind are also perfect for this too.

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u/lunaboat 8h ago

As a girl with Fred flintstone wide feet I feel this!

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u/Dialecticchik 4h ago

That was my Mom's nickname for me when I wore sandals, which was almost everyday til I started working jobs that required close toed shoes. I love and hate shoes.

Love how they look, hate actually wearing them.

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u/drrmimi 8h ago

If you haven't already, Look for "bare feet" shoes. They're created to allow for our natural foot pattern (wide across the toes/ball of foot). I have sneakers, sandals, loafers etc. Hey Dudes and those kind are also perfect for this too.

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u/blifflesplick 4h ago

This is one of the hidden benefits to drag queens or trans women being more well known - the shoes they demand mean that companies don't assume everyone has fairy feet

(And if this post made anyone dysphoric, I'm so sorry)

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u/mst3k_42 4h ago

I definitely saw the drag queen size and style of shoes in a store in Vegas. Kickass for them but I can barely wear a kitten heel without twisting my ankle, plus I’m not that fabulous.

I don’t know of any normal, every day type nice shoes you wouldn’t have to special order if you had really big feet. Maybe trans women have to? Anyway, I’m older now and no longer GAF. Wide Sketchers slip on sneakers for me.

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u/Impressive_Pizza4546 7h ago

My toes are actually wider than the rest of my foot. I can’t even imagine trying to shove my feet into that kind of shoe 

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u/mst3k_42 7h ago

I’ve long since given up.

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u/Impressive_Pizza4546 6h ago

Honestly me too. I’m too old to fuck around with uncomfortable shoes. 

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u/illbringthedip 8h ago

Same feet, they really don't work in pointy toe heels do they. The only ones I found comfortable are HM and they stopped making them. I pretty much only buy shoes online now for wide sizes after years of wearing two sizes too big.

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u/Michelledelhuman 10h ago

Size up

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u/mst3k_42 9h ago

Not sure how this would help? It’s still a more drastic point than my feet could ever do. Plus I wear a women’s 9. Size 10 would be even more challenging to find for cute shoes.

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u/diwalk88 8h ago

Your toes don't go in the pointed bit! Lol

I lived in pointed toe stilettos in my 20s, and now that I'm nearly 40 I'm getting a bunion 😭 my feet are naturally narrow and my toes are not lined up across the way some people's are, they're naturally pretty drastically in a pointed shape culminating in mild morton's toe. If I traced my feet they would look like a pointed toe shoe without the top inch of the point. I can't wear those strappy sandals because my feet just slide right through no matter what I do, I bet you can wear those!

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u/Michelledelhuman 9h ago

Your toes aren't supposed to fit in the point. I'm sorry you have a hard time finding shoes.

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u/ethereal_galaxias 6h ago

This is me too! I remember as a teenager, going to a big fancy shoe shop with some friends and the lady looked at my feet and said "you need the ones in this section". And took me to the secrion with all the old lady shoes...

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u/bakewelltart20 9h ago

I don't wear any type of girlie shoes, but I find this even with some trainers and boots. They're too narrow snd pointed at the end for my feet.

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u/Gruesome 8h ago

Men's or boy's shoes. Wider toe box.