In the Lincoln group in the United Kingdom, walking on the street you may meet this man named Gary. In terms of appearance, he is unremarkable, and his height is also very average, not the feeling of "standing out from the crowd".
But as long as he shows his special, you will definitely subconsciously imitate it and then be very surprised. Because no matter how you imitate it, you can't do gary, stretching the skin so long.
Yes, Gary not only can stretch the skin of his neck so long, it looks a bit crazy. Even the rest of his body can be pulled very long, really long.
Just like the skin of the arm, and the skin on the body, the whole can be pulled like a pull to a very obvious difference from ordinary people.
You think it's like that stubborn place on your knees that you can't stretch your skin? Too naïve.
In fact, there are only two places in Gary's entire body that cannot be elongated, the first is the skin of the fingers, and the second is the position of the toes of the footboard, but these two places are also softer than the skin of ordinary people.
Because the skin can be elongated in almost all parts of the body, he is gradually becoming well known for this feature.
Of course, there are also numerous TV shows, magazines, etc. that have sent invitations to Gary, trying to show his special to the audience through more space.
In 2009, he was invited to appear on the Guinness Book of World Records tv show, showing people the softness of his skin. Gary, who took off his clothes, looked no different from the others.
But the host then tugged at the skin on Gary's neck, and not only the host, but the audience shouted: "Oh"!
Then he showed the eyelids elongated, because ordinary people can usually only stretch about one centimeter, but the visual inspection of Gary's skin is stretched a few centimeters, and the audience begins to feel a little uncomfortable.
Another unacceptable shout is that Gary pulls the skin of his neck up to cover his entire mouth, which directly makes the audience show a disgusted expression.
After several skin elongations were demonstrated, Gary won the Guinness World Record for stretching the skin of his belly to 15.8 centimeters in length, winning the Guinness Book of World Records.
However, Gary under these auras is actually miserable. Because his skin is so different from ordinary people, it is because he suffers from a disease called "EhlersDownos syndrome", also known as hyperelastic skin.
This disease, which affects connective tissue, is associated with defects in collagen metabolism and causes the skin to have super elasticity. Gary also said that when he was a child, his relatives liked to pull his skin to show his friends, and when he grew up, he gradually realized that he was suffering from the disease.
At the same time, because the skin is more abnormal than the average person, Gary's skin and blood vessels are more fragile, the healing speed of the wound is slower than that of ordinary people, and the range of motion of the joints is significantly higher, so it is more likely to appear dislocated.
Because of the special, Gary's life path seems to have been decided long ago. He became an amateur performer, appearing from time to time in the American circus as one of the most atmospheric roles.
The second identity is that of a stuntman in the film. In contrast to spending a long time on makeup on the actors and editing the film in the post, hiring Gary directly can show the visual effects needed more realistically.
It's like in 2014, Gary played one of the small roles that didn't appear in a small movie, "He Shed Skin for Me."
(Movie screenshot)
Of course, along the way, Gary was asked a lot of questions on the show, such as whether he would be recognized by passers-by on the road after being recognized on the tv show and asked to show the specialness of his skin, and the answer was yes.
The second question is whether the skin of "that thing", as the most obvious feature of men, can also be elongated. The answer, too, is yes.
At that time, the host of the Guinness World Records program had a metaphor, and Gary said "YES", which caused the audience to laugh. Even now, a lot of people ask Gary that question...
As for the third question, it is whether the skin will be very painful to pull so long, but the answer to this question is actually no.
But in exchange for this, as mentioned above, Gary's joints are more painful, and tissues such as blood vessels are more fragile, more likely to be injured and more difficult to heal. More importantly, there is currently no cure for the disease.
Although social media is now very developed, Gary does not often haunt it, with this feature to create a so-called "special person" to become an Internet celebrity in people's mouths, but to live an ordinary life.
This may be the life Gary wants most. Because the specialness of the skin really brought him the attention of various flashes. But the pain that needs to be endured after staying away from the flash is only experienced by Gary himself.
Living quietly and ordinary is the best choice for Gary, whose body is different from ordinary people.