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Random question

Can you roll your tung? 

Were you breastfed?

I've just thought, maybe they go together? 

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Re: Random question

  • Yes and yes. I don't think they would be related though.

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  • No.

    No.

    I thought I learned in middle school science class that the ability to roll your tongue is genetic.  For some reason I'm thinking it is a recessive gene.  My siblings were all breasfed and they can't roll their tongues either.

  • I can roll my tongue, but was not breastfeed.  I was {um, am!} adopted and there wasn't the movement then that there is now in encouraging adoptive mothers to try.
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  • I can roll my tongue and I was BF.
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    I can roll my tongue, but was not breastfeed.  I was {um, am!} adopted and there wasn't the movement then that there is now in encouraging adoptive mothers to try.

    Me too!  Adopted, not breastfed, and can roll my tongue.

    ETA: I also learned in school that tongue rolling is genetic--don't remember if the gene is dominant or recessive though.

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  • I can roll my tongue and I was breastfed. Your dentist will be able to tell if you were breastfed or not because when you breastfeed from your mom your tongue knocks up against the front part of your roof your mouth while you don't do that when you suck a bottle. Tongue rolling won't have much to to with that.
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  • Yes and Yes.  Don't think they're related, though.  
  • Roll it, twist it all the way over one way and back the other, touch my nose.

    Yes.

    It's genetic.

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  • No 

    yes

    i heard its in the genes! 

  • No tongue rolling and yes breastfed.

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  • Yes, and yes.

    I don't know if they necessarily go together.. some people can and other's just can't. 

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  • The reason I ask is that in a documentary that I've recently watched they say that when babies BF they wrap their tung around the nipple. 
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  • Mouse, when babies breastfeed the basic version of what they do is 'they slap their mothers nipple against the roof of their mouths with their tongues'. That is why babies with tongue tie have suck difficulty breasfeeding and their tongues have to be 'cut'.
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  • No to both. However, like other said tongue rolling is genetic.
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  • Yes to both.

     

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  • I can, and no. 

     

    Do you know it's part of your DNA the ability of rolling your tongue? Some people has this gene, and others don't. Well, at least my biology teacher told me so, in High School lol 

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  • Another adopted person here, I'm able to roll my tongue as well. Can also flip my tongue completely upside down and lie it flat in my mouth, apparently I used to spin my nook around in circles this way!

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  • Yes and Yes. It's genetic.

    I can only flip my tongue to the left side, not the right. How odd!

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  • I can roll my tongue and I was not BF'd.
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  • Can't roll my tongue. Was breastfed. It is genetic (simple dominant punnet square situation as I recall). When I was a kid I used to try really hard to do it because my sisters could, but my tongue just doesn't do that!
  • No & yes - they are not related as it has to do with nerve impulses and muscles in your tongue.
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