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True Confessions: My Children Are Abnormal (Part 2) - - The Alien Tongue

February 7th, 2007 by Sexy Mom · Viewed 11961 times · 44 Comments


It took me a lot of pleading (please, please), coaxing, cajoling (or else I will not advance your allowance!) and bribing (I’ll buy you a new set of Mac make up, or another Tiffany necklace, shopping at Zara, even a US trip-cum-New Jersey rhinoplasty), to get Monica’s permission to post this picture – the Alien Tongue. Is it 3 tongues? or a clover tongue? I really do not know how to call this tongue contortion, I have searched the net, but could not find anything similar, though 1 or 2 of her siblings could make a single W out of their tongues. Genetic perhaps? Monica is child no. 2, 23 years old, a third year student at the Ateneo de Manila School of Law.

Photos below shows Monica with boyfriend, Christian.

You can read, A True Confession: My Children Are Abnormal (Part 1) here.

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44 responses so far ↓

  • Kyels // Feb 7, 2007 at 1:14 am

    Wow, that’s unbelievable. An ability, definitely!

    (:

  • pining // Feb 7, 2007 at 4:33 am

    Ang galing! pwedeng pang guinness book of records :-)

  • Leah // Feb 7, 2007 at 5:48 am

    Now, i’m rolling my tongue trying this. I can only do one roll, not 3.

    This is definitely genetic, can anyone else in your family do it?

    Pang-guinness nga ata?

  • noemi // Feb 7, 2007 at 8:13 am

    that’s really cool. I can only roll one fold.

  • dimaks // Feb 7, 2007 at 8:13 am

    haha, i can only do 1 fold :)

    but I can move my ears… can anyone of them do this too?

  • Sexy Mom // Feb 7, 2007 at 9:21 am

    dimaks – not one of my kids can move their ears. but I CAN, now we have one thing in common.

    noemi, pining – i, too, can roll one fold

    it’s unbelievable, kyels and pining – i am thinking of uploading the tongue movements in you tube (LOL), but again, she might ask for the moon!

  • Belle // Feb 7, 2007 at 10:30 am

    Amazing! It is something that has never been done before. She should be in the Guinness book of records.

  • eric aka senor enrique // Feb 7, 2007 at 10:55 am

    Wow! Incredible! Crikey! Jeez!

    How is she able to do that?

  • jangelo // Feb 7, 2007 at 11:01 am

    I can sing my ABCs backwards.

  • Sexy Mom // Feb 7, 2007 at 11:28 am

    sr enrique, you shoot so well that i would love you to take snapshots of the alien tongue, then submit the photos to guinness as most of our dear readers, belle, leah, and the others jestly suggest.

  • Sexy Mom // Feb 7, 2007 at 11:30 am

    jangelo – what are you a racoma for if you cannot recite your ABCs backwards? am sure pia and baby cate will be able to do the same when they grow older. try folding your tongue, many times over, chances are, it is in the genes!

  • elizar // Feb 7, 2007 at 1:19 pm

    wow, amazing!! galing ah! my brother can do one curve, but this is great! :)

  • Wil // Feb 7, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    That is definitely unique! I wouldn’t be surprised if the media starts calling. :D

  • Sexy Mom // Feb 7, 2007 at 3:32 pm

    thanks, elizar.

    Wil! that’s frightening.

  • mr nice ash // Feb 7, 2007 at 8:42 pm

    i can’t see the pics. perhaps someone should send it to me. hehe.

    btw, my dad can curve a ‘W’ with his toung… ;)

  • KK // Feb 8, 2007 at 4:04 am

    woow! that’s some wild tongue. You might get an invitation to Jay Leno for that! :)

  • Sexy Mom // Feb 8, 2007 at 9:46 am

    mr nice ash – thanks. i emailed you the picture. the tongue is 1-1/2 W, and really folded!

    kk – that’s an overkill!

  • Prab // Feb 8, 2007 at 2:06 pm

    Weird. That’s all I can say. I can only do one fold, though I can move my tongue side ways, both sides, to make at look as though it’s standing on it’s end.

    That makes three of us with the ear thing, btw. :D

  • Rach // Feb 8, 2007 at 4:59 pm

    That’s fascinating! I couldn’t even fold my tongue the way others do.

  • Sexy Mom // Feb 8, 2007 at 7:14 pm

    Prab and Rach – until now, i, myself still react differently every time we talk about the alien tongue, from cool, to weird, to fascinating, to unbelievable, etc.

    now, prab, dimaks and i could form a team for moving ears.

  • Chateau // Feb 8, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    Last night, my sister and i were observing my baby son, Nate’s tongue as i think i saw something unusual with the way it..er.. curls.. I’m at a loss for the a proper term hehe… We couldn’t believe our eyes. then I saw your post today. I think Nate’s is an alien tongue in the making! LOL!

  • sesame // Feb 8, 2007 at 8:19 pm

    Wow, this is amazing! Her tongue must be really flexible. But it can straighten to look normal right? Btw, she’s a beauty!

  • Sexy Mom // Feb 9, 2007 at 12:26 am

    chateau – i’m excited to see Nate’s baby alien tongue. oh, that would be cute!

    sesame – if she can’t straighten her tongue, then i will be afraid. thanks, she’s a beauty, inside and out.

  • mr nice ash // Feb 9, 2007 at 2:57 am

    i can join for the moving ears. but only the left ear…

    thanks for the pics. i got it and it’s soooo… uhg…

  • Toe // Feb 9, 2007 at 10:07 am

    Aaaah…. Sexy Mom, my comment didn’t get posted. I think I commented here two days ago. I think are blogs are spamming each other… I retrieved your comment from my akismet spam too. :)

    Hey, Monica and I are both from Maryknoll High School and Ateneo Law School. :) I could twist my tongue once… but her tongue is awesome! :) Your daughter is very pretty Sexy Mom!

  • Sexy Mom // Feb 9, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    3-1/2 of us now for moving ears, prab, dimaks, myself and 1/2 of mr nice ash

  • Sexy Mom // Feb 9, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    toe – i was wondering earlier where my comment landed.

    when monica saw your comment she opened your site, and was impressed. is it the miriam/ateneo bond?

  • kathy // Feb 10, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    Wow! This is the first time for me to see this kind of tongue-curling! Nakakaaliw. :)

    And oh, your daughter is very lovely!

  • KD // Feb 12, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    Kahit anong pilit ko, di ko talaga magawa yung ginawa ng daughter mo hehehe. Pwedeng pang ” Riepley’s believe it or not”.

    Bloghopped from Tita Toe’s blog =D

  • KD // Feb 12, 2007 at 5:53 pm

    Ripley’s Believe it or not – =D

  • tutubi // Feb 13, 2007 at 4:54 pm

    can’t even do the single contortion of my tongue :(

    other abnormalities I can think of are the hitchiker’s thumb and those who can raise their eyebrows alternaely.

    I have a hitchhiker’s thumb, btw

  • Sexy Mom // Feb 16, 2007 at 8:58 am

    thanks, Kathy!

    KD, thanks for visiting. as to ripley’s, am sure it will not happen, my kids swear that they have 1 or 2 friends who could do it. and 3 of her siblings can do it, too.

    tutubi – i had to think hard what a hitchhiker’s thumb is until monica demonstrated it to me. i thought you were fond of hitchhiking (LOL)

  • dave // Feb 21, 2007 at 7:19 am

    Tongue clover ability is usually a dominant female trait passed on from mother to daughter(s) it is more common with females that have dark hair and eyes. There is a gene that makes a special connection from the females brain to her tongue to allow her to do this. This gene is usually cancelled in males although not entirely so. The main reason for females posessing tongue clover ability goes back to prehistoric man and woman. When an infant was old enough to come off of breast feeding but still had not developed the ability to cut and chew their own food, the mother would chew their food up for them and then insert a small portion into the infants mouth for them to eat via the mother’s ability to “clover” her tongue. If you look at the shape of the tongue in this position you can see how this would have worked as the tongue forms a sort of spout. There have been studies that have proven that females who still posess this trait also have very good mathematical ability i.e. the ability to do calculus in their brain without writing anything down.

  • Sexy Mom // Feb 21, 2007 at 8:58 am

    hi, dave. that’s very informative. i never thought about that.

    you know, one of my boys (i have 4) could do the same, and all of my girls (3 of them) could also do it. but i can’t.

    as to mathematical ability, monica has always avoided math, that is why she opted for a course in communication arts, and is now in her 3rd year in law school.

  • eddie // Mar 26, 2007 at 5:49 am

    I agree mostly with what Dave has written above. My girlfriend can make the W-shape(tongue clover), roll it into a tube using her lips AND not using her lips(rare trait), flip it over inside of her mouth either side and bend it in half. She can touch her nose and the cleft in her chin easily. However she has natural blond hair and blue eyes not dark hair or eyes and she gets these tongue traits from her dad which is extremely rare. Her hair and eye color she gets from her mom and the one tongue trait she has inherited from her mom is that when she yawns, her tongue raises up inside of her mouth to form a perfect bowl or “cup” shape. She absolutely cannot keep her tongue down when yawning. Also when her tongue forms this position the frenulum or “web” (the long membrane attached under the center of the tongue) pulls down at the tip causing her tongue tip to split at the center so that a wide V-shaped cleft appears. It looks like a butterfly spreading it’s wings and in fact she calls this her “butterfly tongue”. She has done this apparently since birth and her mom’s tongue does the same thing when she yawns. Another interesting point that Dave brought up was the math ability. She has never gone to college and did not even take pre-algebra in high school, however, since then she has totally taught herself algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and statistics. She has passed perfectly more online math tests than I can remember, and has easily scored higher than almost all others taking these tests who have taken high school/college level mathematics. She is quite the little “natural” mathematician!

  • Sexy Mom // Mar 26, 2007 at 6:56 am

    that’s very informative, Eddie, and impressive! it’s amazing how your girlfriend can do such wonders with her tongue. she can do much more than my daughter could!

    btw, i foind out that 5 of my 7 children could do such antics, some fully, some partly

    thanks, Eddie!

  • True Confessions: My Children Are Abnormal (Part 3) - - The Alien Tongues : The D Spot // Jul 25, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    [...] has. I was amazed to listen to the kids complain why it was only Monica whom I wrote about for the Alien Tongue. Three of them, 14-year old Pauline, 16 year-old Angela and 17-year old Vince gamely demonstrated [...]

  • eric // Nov 14, 2007 at 11:09 am

    lol i can do that it looks a little differrent cuz my tounge is bigger, i can fold it back on it self to, turn it over both way and do the hotdog bun things when u make a u with ur tounge

  • Daughter Monica Now 24! : The D Spot // Nov 23, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    [...] a wide reader, offline and online, and a lady of many talents. She can turn her tongue into a “W”, writes well, find good buys, and many more, but most of all, she tries to be a good child of God, [...]

  • nadine // May 31, 2008 at 3:20 am

    wowww its to nice, this is extremllllllllllyyyyyyyy beautiful:D

  • Georgie // Jun 26, 2008 at 6:32 am

    Just found out today my nephew can do the same thing ….. he’s only 18 months old! He sticks his tongue out and curls it into a weird clover shape when he concentrates. No one else in the family can do this, and as he’s a boy I suppose this must be rare too. He also has the ‘butterfly tongue’ eddie mentioned when he yawns. Not sure if he’s good at math yet though …. stil a bit young to tell.

    Sexy Mom: perhaps, just perhaps, there is someone in the family in the 2nd degree or what who can do the same. i have not researched, so i cannot yet find a logical explanation. thanks!

  • Taylor // Nov 14, 2008 at 9:16 am

    Damn it! I can do that! I was looking through a Ripleys belive it or not, and i saw a picture of someone doing this….....grrr

  • Janiessa // May 24, 2009 at 4:34 am

    hahah:)) i can do that also:)) and the wave thingy.hhahahhh!

  • MAY ANN JOY MACANAS // Aug 20, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    wowo..imposible!!I WAS SUNK TO MY SELF THAT TOY ARE THE ONE WHOIS EXOCITIC111WOWOW TOU ARE WONDERFUL

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