In the Philippines during the early 1960s, this troper's mother got polio when she was a toddler. She lived, but, like many polio survivors, was left severely crippled by the illness. Her parents went to a couple of different doctors to see if they could at least restore some of her mobility. Because of medical malpractice and one doctor being a n00b, Mom instead ended up becoming ''worse''. So they took her, partly in desperation, to a WitchDoctor. As of this editing, my mother is able to walk normally well into middle age. This troper believes it to be a combination of extensive knowledge of folk medicine, ''perhaps'' some magic, and ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve, but hasn't worked out the exact proportions of each.

In addition, said mother is currently in her early fifties, but looks just a little over half her age. All of her female relatives, including her own mother, are similarly OlderThanTheyLook. My mom's always attributed her beauty and youthful appearance to gathering the first dew in May and washing your face with it, and taught this Troper to do the same when she was seventeen. Said troper brushed it off as superstition and believed it was most certainly genetics, until she read this article. Now it's just '''''probably''''' genetics.

In physics class this troper had a moment where a string came off a pulley when it was pretty clear such a thing shouldn't have been possible. We figured out where the whole was eventually, so it's a subversion, but it was really freaky at the moment. (Might be the wrong trope (DoingTheWizardIn maybe?), IDK.)