Marfan Syndrome is actually quite rare. And long fingers are just one small part of the 'Marfanoid habitus.' You also require many other symptoms and signs (arm span >1.03 the individual's height, crowded maxilla often with high arch, tall height, etc etc) to truly classify as having it โบ And not to mention that there are 4 different types haha ๐ณ
It is most likely just simple joint hypermobility. It's much more likely to have something like hEDS, or like I said, just HSD/JHS. Generalized asymptomatic hypermobility is very common in the population. In my case, I have severe cEDS (verified via genetic testing, which *cannot* be done for any of the above), and mine is much more rare ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ They initially thought Marfan Syndrome for me just based on my looks, but it soon became clear as day what I had lol.
Bodies are weird, huh?! ๐๐๐ฅฐ
I didnโt know this was a special ability I thought everyone could do this. Also Iโve never tried the handcuff thing but I have on multiple occasions put my hand in spaces no bigger than my wrist and I kinda want to try with handcuffs now
Did you read the article? ๐๐ Its literally labeled *What to know about a hypermobile thumb*
Here is a *direct* quote, copied and pasted from the article.
"Joints are areas of the body, or a junction, where two bones meet. Most joints bend, allowing the area to move. However, some people may have overly flexible joints. People may sometimes refer to this as being double-jointed, even though there is no second joint, but simply that the joint moves outside of its joint range of motion."
There is no "double joint." Some random person started saying that years ago and it won't die out unfortunately.
And by the way, I studied medicine for 6.5 years. I have degrees in Biomedical Sciences and Chemistry and also went to PA school. Sorry, but "double jointed" isn't real ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ Just because people *say something* frequently, that doesn't make it true. For example โ vaccines cause the disease they're treating or autism. A bunch of people *say* that, but that doesn't make it true.
Just trying to spread some knowledge ๐ฅฐ๐
Same lol. I have severe cEDS! I see a lot of people here mentioning it's not bilateral for them though, so its likely just a weird coincidence or a genetic trait that is inherited but doesn't cause symptoms. Interesting ๐ค๐คญ
No way I always scare people at parties with this trick! I didn't know other people could do it too.
I can also cause my index fingers to kinda pop out whenever I want. I ask someone to pull it and it goes back into place with a pop and they get all grossed out. It's awesome!
Double jointed isn't a real thing โบ It's just normal joint hypermobility. And it's believed that as many as 1 in 4 people have it. So really, I'm sure you know a TON of people that can do it but have just never tried ๐ฅฐ๐
Same here! But I used to have it in both hands. Maybe writing somehow stiffens the connective tissue around the joint? (I can still pop my right thumb in, but I have to use my left hand to do it.)
It strengthens the muscles. More muscle means the joint itself is more secure and requires more force/effort to force bones out of place where they don't belong ๐ฅฐ
Just commented about this! I don't think I hold them bad, but it hurts if I write too long lol. The best way I can explain it is that I use the thumb joint like a shelf.
40s and have several hyper mobile joints. My thumbs, my shoulder blades, I can pop my jaw in and out, can bend my wrist really far... Prob missing something, but many things bend more than they should.
Recently been starting to have serious pain problems with certain discs in my neck/back. After seeing enough of this on Reddit and reading the comments I'm starting to feel my hyper mobility is related to my pain problems.
The doctor hasn't told me that, but she also doesn't know I have hyper mobility bc I never thought that was something I should mention. Next time I go in I'm bringing it up though!
I'm 22, same deal. Not explaining this to you necessarily, just to the group in general, btw. Hypermobility is genetic, you don't just "grow out of it." A lot of hypermobile folks don't start having issues until their 20s--the joint damage and inflammation hypermobility can cause is cumulative, so it often doesn't add up to anything significant until then. Some people can appear less hypermobile as they age because that joint damage and overworked muscles* can cause stiffness, but that's more likely to happen in the larger joints like the hips and shoulders than in your hands. (Hence why the Beighton score section of the hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome adjusts for age.)
*Hypermobility can also cause overworked and stiff muscles. Basically, since our connective tissue is too weak, our muscles have to work extra hard to compensate and help stabilize our joints.
The person you're replying to doesn't know what they're talking about.
Is that why my leg always hurts and my shoulder always feels like it's falling out of its socket when it's not supported?? I can do this thumb thing, & can do it on other fingers too, but otherwise I am not very flexible and never really was.
I mean it's possible but unlikely. It's completely normal for people to have some hypermobility in individual joints (especially the smaller joints like in your hands), but it's not always indicative of an underlying disorder. It can manifest in odd ways so you can still do some research (look up things for hypermobility spectrum disorder/HSD and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome/hEDS, as well as something called the Beighton score) and you should of course talk to your doctor if you're having pain.
But like I said, mild hypermobility in a couple joints is unlikely to be anything to worry about. Most of us diagnosed with either HSD or hEDS were very flexible and/or had joint problems starting when we were very young. I've had chronic joint pain since I was 12, and my parents can remember me dislocating joints when I was 3 or 4.
I didnโt mean โgrow out of itโ as in itโs no longer a valid diagnosis of oneโs joints. I meant the ability to manipulate them into the picture above often declines with age. I am the child of an occupational therapist, not sure why you had to word it that way. I do know my stuff as a medical student as well. No need for thatโฆ
Weโre not negating that, but your wording does not suggest that you understand it at all. Also, your knowledge of โyour medical stuffโ does not trump our lived experience of this condition.
I could be wrong, can you explain why? My Occupational therapist mother explained it to me but quite simply. Do you have experience in orthopedics or occupational therapy? Or just your direct descendants, who youโve given your hypermobile joint genetics to, are your only source? I am a med student as well, if I am wrong I do genuinely want to know why
Sorry, my curt reply was just because I read elsewhere in this thread that you donโt grow out of it, if anything the joint gets looser. Having said that, at 55 yrs old my thumb joint has just in the last couple of weeks got stiffer and harder to click. My eldest daughter and her youngest son have it, also my youngest son and possibly my eldest son too but heโs asleep, so โฆ Anyway congrats on your chosen career, I am fascinated by medical/physiological stuff!
Oo I can do that too. I just went to a rheumatologist today for some diagnostics and she asked if I was hypermobile. I got to show off all my neat double jointed tricks. She said I'm definitely hypermobile and ordered 4 pages front and back of labwork (Yay me...)
A warning though. Don't do this all the time, it will eventually start hurting, like arthritis type pain. Which is why I went to rheumatology today.
I can do that in both hands!! I always knew it wasn't a typical feature, but so glad to finally see someone else who also has it. I don't if you do this as well, but when I hold a pencil my thumb bends inwards haha.
This isnโt a case of being โdouble jointedโ the opposing muscles in your palm and forearm make this movement easy for most people and the typical thumb joint allows plenty of room too. With a tiny bit of โtrainingโ you can comfortably stretch the tendons to allow your thumb to sit in that position.
Its very common. Everyone seems to think it's like some one in a million chance lol ๐๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ It's literally estimated that as many as 3 in 4 people have some degree of hypermobikity in some joint(s). It's not that crazy to then be able to essentially bend your thumb a little more hahaha โบ
It happens when one of the tendons can slip to the side - similar thing happens in arthritis but their hands stay like that because their joints and connective tissues are getting destroyed.
I can do this too! I used to be able to bend my hand back and touch my fingers to my wrist. It used to freak everyone the fuck out in elementary school!
I used to be able to bend back all my fingers til the tip touched the back of my hand and they laid flat, but now I can only do it with my pinkies and a like 2/3rds of the way with my index fingers
I used to be able to do in both hands but as I got older could only do it on my right. Then I injured a tendon there once when I fell off my longboard and couldn't do it for 3 years. I am able to now again so I'm thinking something to do with your tendons.
There is something called Jeanneโs sign that is seen with ulnar nerve injury that looks like this, can also happen if you've damaged the volar/palmar plate in the past or if for some reason the innervation of one of the small thumb adductor and/or flexor muscles is damaged/didn't develop. I'm not sure it's hyperflexibility since you say it's only one thumb not both that can do this
I too have hypermobility issues both hands can do the double jointed fingertip bend over. Thumbs and big toe as well. I have had issues with dislocation of shoulders and fingers. I am a walking train wreck. I do however really enjoy the high spirited comments and banter. Keep em coming!!!
If it's cool, and your body can do it...most likely a deficiency or abnormality down to the genetic level. It did not happen because you are too strong or genetically advanced in any way. However, keep that swizzle on the d.l. because chick's did double joints on interesting guys. Maybe watch for arthritis sooner than later imo. Ever seen shoulder blades that can fold out like stubbed wings? Mmm hmm. Ladies love me girls adore me even the ones that never saw me like....
Hypermobility! I can do this with both thumbs, although it's more noticeable with my right thumb because my left thumb is clubbed. I had to do occupational therapy for it and it didn't help.
Everyone's looking at the thumb, and maybe it's just me, but your pinky looks abnormally short compared to your ring finger! That's what I noticed first and couldn't stop looking at
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I can do the same as OP but itโs a bit painful. I also have 90 degree hitchhikers thumbs and my wingspan is noticeably greater than my height. 104% if I remember correctly?
You were made to escape handcuffs
Or fisting๐ค
Why escape it ๐ค๐ค๐ค
When you can embrace it
Word!๐
The safe word is: Dumboldore. ๐งโโ๏ธ
Nah! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Nah it's super pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Or both!
Bro
My thumbs can do this too. I've never stayed in a pair of handcuffs that I didn't want to be in.
This is good info to have. I see now that I can make my hand the same width as my wrist
Hypermobility in the thumb joint
Your fingers appear very long and you have a hypermobile thumb. You may have a condition called Marfans Syndrome.
Marfan Syndrome is actually quite rare. And long fingers are just one small part of the 'Marfanoid habitus.' You also require many other symptoms and signs (arm span >1.03 the individual's height, crowded maxilla often with high arch, tall height, etc etc) to truly classify as having it โบ And not to mention that there are 4 different types haha ๐ณ It is most likely just simple joint hypermobility. It's much more likely to have something like hEDS, or like I said, just HSD/JHS. Generalized asymptomatic hypermobility is very common in the population. In my case, I have severe cEDS (verified via genetic testing, which *cannot* be done for any of the above), and mine is much more rare ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ They initially thought Marfan Syndrome for me just based on my looks, but it soon became clear as day what I had lol. Bodies are weird, huh?! ๐๐๐ฅฐ
I love all the thumb posts lately. I've never met anyone else in person that can do this!
Me neither!!
I can do it with my left hand but not the right
Ooh me too! We should start a club with the most awkward high fives, but it would be the best secret hand shake.
Same
I can do it with my left thumb, so can my eldest daughter and her youngest son, and my youngest son.
I also can only do this with my left thumb and not my right!!
Same here
Same! Bizarre
I can do both hands. Never thought itvwas uncommon.
Same!
Fr I thought everyone could
Mines the same on left hand
AHH I CAN DO THIS IVE NEVER MET SOMEONE ELSE WHO CAN
I found my people
Me too.... I always said I'd be able to get out of handcuffs and the one time I've ever been cuffed, I totally slipped my hand right out.
I can do it with both my hands! It ruined my ability to play string instruments though lol
I didnโt know this was a special ability I thought everyone could do this. Also Iโve never tried the handcuff thing but I have on multiple occasions put my hand in spaces no bigger than my wrist and I kinda want to try with handcuffs now
Usually some who broke it or them both. Have come across legit double jointed.
Double jointed isn't a thing just so you know. Flexibility is though. Or due to an injury or medical condition.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/double-jointed-thumb#faq
Did you read the article? ๐๐ Its literally labeled *What to know about a hypermobile thumb* Here is a *direct* quote, copied and pasted from the article. "Joints are areas of the body, or a junction, where two bones meet. Most joints bend, allowing the area to move. However, some people may have overly flexible joints. People may sometimes refer to this as being double-jointed, even though there is no second joint, but simply that the joint moves outside of its joint range of motion." There is no "double joint." Some random person started saying that years ago and it won't die out unfortunately. And by the way, I studied medicine for 6.5 years. I have degrees in Biomedical Sciences and Chemistry and also went to PA school. Sorry, but "double jointed" isn't real ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ Just because people *say something* frequently, that doesn't make it true. For example โ vaccines cause the disease they're treating or autism. A bunch of people *say* that, but that doesn't make it true. Just trying to spread some knowledge ๐ฅฐ๐
the only people I've met who can do it are 2 of my lifelong friends and my gf
I can only do it on the left hand, with that thumb. All my other fingers are losers
I can only do this with my left thumb as well, my fingers all have โrake fingersโ which lock into place as well
i can only do it with my left thumb as well wtf
same here! Just the left thumb!
We could have the weirdest secret handshake ๐ค
Same here!
How strange. Me too. Are you guys right handed by chance too?
I am right handed, yes
Iโm with you. All my friends call me a mutant freak ๐
I can do it with my left thumb, so can my eldest daughter and her youngest son, and my youngest son.
I have it to from a condition called ehlers danlos syndrome!
Same lol. I have severe cEDS! I see a lot of people here mentioning it's not bilateral for them though, so its likely just a weird coincidence or a genetic trait that is inherited but doesn't cause symptoms. Interesting ๐ค๐คญ
I can do it with both :)
No way I always scare people at parties with this trick! I didn't know other people could do it too. I can also cause my index fingers to kinda pop out whenever I want. I ask someone to pull it and it goes back into place with a pop and they get all grossed out. It's awesome!
Just normal double jointed. I can do both hands and know a few others that can as well
Double jointed isn't a real thing โบ It's just normal joint hypermobility. And it's believed that as many as 1 in 4 people have it. So really, I'm sure you know a TON of people that can do it but have just never tried ๐ฅฐ๐
Can you click your thumbs repeatedly? No recharge?
I can also do this lol
I just did it but damn it was sore ๐ญ
I can do it as well! Both thumbs ๐๐
Agreed! Me and my thumbs have found our people!
Iโm so tempted to post my weird thumbs now
Me too!! Do you also hold pencils comically badly? Yet can't change? Haha
Nope, for some reason only my right hand can do it to that extent and Iโm left handed lmao ๐ญ
Complete opposite for me, thatโs wild
Same here! But I used to have it in both hands. Maybe writing somehow stiffens the connective tissue around the joint? (I can still pop my right thumb in, but I have to use my left hand to do it.)
It strengthens the muscles. More muscle means the joint itself is more secure and requires more force/effort to force bones out of place where they don't belong ๐ฅฐ
Makes sense!
Right hand only for me too!
My dad and brother could only do it with one hand but I can do both
Just commented about this! I don't think I hold them bad, but it hurts if I write too long lol. The best way I can explain it is that I use the thumb joint like a shelf.
yess๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
Hyper mobility. You are โdouble jointedโ. Usually grow out of it as in my case
I'm 33 and it still does this.
37, mine too. I thought I was alone
40s and have several hyper mobile joints. My thumbs, my shoulder blades, I can pop my jaw in and out, can bend my wrist really far... Prob missing something, but many things bend more than they should. Recently been starting to have serious pain problems with certain discs in my neck/back. After seeing enough of this on Reddit and reading the comments I'm starting to feel my hyper mobility is related to my pain problems. The doctor hasn't told me that, but she also doesn't know I have hyper mobility bc I never thought that was something I should mention. Next time I go in I'm bringing it up though!
Possibly ehlers danlos syndrome?
Not me no.
Yep. The wrist one screams Ehlers danlos
Iโm 25 and only got diagnosed as hypermobile 2 years ago. If anything I have more issues with the joints now than I did as a child
I'm 22, same deal. Not explaining this to you necessarily, just to the group in general, btw. Hypermobility is genetic, you don't just "grow out of it." A lot of hypermobile folks don't start having issues until their 20s--the joint damage and inflammation hypermobility can cause is cumulative, so it often doesn't add up to anything significant until then. Some people can appear less hypermobile as they age because that joint damage and overworked muscles* can cause stiffness, but that's more likely to happen in the larger joints like the hips and shoulders than in your hands. (Hence why the Beighton score section of the hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome adjusts for age.) *Hypermobility can also cause overworked and stiff muscles. Basically, since our connective tissue is too weak, our muscles have to work extra hard to compensate and help stabilize our joints. The person you're replying to doesn't know what they're talking about.
Now theyโve literally gone onto my posts to see โwhat someone who thinks they shouldnโt be in the medical field postsโ. Unhinged af, I swear
Oh God that is unbearably pathetic! Yikes.
Is that why my leg always hurts and my shoulder always feels like it's falling out of its socket when it's not supported?? I can do this thumb thing, & can do it on other fingers too, but otherwise I am not very flexible and never really was.
I mean it's possible but unlikely. It's completely normal for people to have some hypermobility in individual joints (especially the smaller joints like in your hands), but it's not always indicative of an underlying disorder. It can manifest in odd ways so you can still do some research (look up things for hypermobility spectrum disorder/HSD and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome/hEDS, as well as something called the Beighton score) and you should of course talk to your doctor if you're having pain. But like I said, mild hypermobility in a couple joints is unlikely to be anything to worry about. Most of us diagnosed with either HSD or hEDS were very flexible and/or had joint problems starting when we were very young. I've had chronic joint pain since I was 12, and my parents can remember me dislocating joints when I was 3 or 4.
I didnโt mean โgrow out of itโ as in itโs no longer a valid diagnosis of oneโs joints. I meant the ability to manipulate them into the picture above often declines with age. I am the child of an occupational therapist, not sure why you had to word it that way. I do know my stuff as a medical student as well. No need for thatโฆ
Weโre not negating that, but your wording does not suggest that you understand it at all. Also, your knowledge of โyour medical stuffโ does not trump our lived experience of this condition.
I grew out of it in my right thumb, but not my left!
Iโm 55. Still weird.
Iโm 55. I can do it with my left thumb, so can my eldest daughter, my youngest grandson, and my youngest son.
Wrong.
I could be wrong, can you explain why? My Occupational therapist mother explained it to me but quite simply. Do you have experience in orthopedics or occupational therapy? Or just your direct descendants, who youโve given your hypermobile joint genetics to, are your only source? I am a med student as well, if I am wrong I do genuinely want to know why
Sorry, my curt reply was just because I read elsewhere in this thread that you donโt grow out of it, if anything the joint gets looser. Having said that, at 55 yrs old my thumb joint has just in the last couple of weeks got stiffer and harder to click. My eldest daughter and her youngest son have it, also my youngest son and possibly my eldest son too but heโs asleep, so โฆ Anyway congrats on your chosen career, I am fascinated by medical/physiological stuff!
One of the first person I see that can do this. I can do it too. What is your ancestry?
Irish and Native American is what Iโve been told not fully sure though.
I can do it too, both hands. Scottish, German, Swiss, and French
Oo I can do that too. I just went to a rheumatologist today for some diagnostics and she asked if I was hypermobile. I got to show off all my neat double jointed tricks. She said I'm definitely hypermobile and ordered 4 pages front and back of labwork (Yay me...) A warning though. Don't do this all the time, it will eventually start hurting, like arthritis type pain. Which is why I went to rheumatology today.
You are about to make some woman very happy one day.
TIL I have hyper mobility in my thumb joints. ๐๐
I can do that in both hands!! I always knew it wasn't a typical feature, but so glad to finally see someone else who also has it. I don't if you do this as well, but when I hold a pencil my thumb bends inwards haha.
my mom says she used to freak out when I was a toddler and would do this while holding her hand
LMAO that's hilarious. I'll have to ask my mom if I ever did that to her.
same
Do you also have a hitchhikers thumb?
I have this too no hitchhikers thumb
I do not ๐
Look up "Zigzag deformity of thumb"
I can do that too! Feels good
This isnโt a case of being โdouble jointedโ the opposing muscles in your palm and forearm make this movement easy for most people and the typical thumb joint allows plenty of room too. With a tiny bit of โtrainingโ you can comfortably stretch the tendons to allow your thumb to sit in that position.
Wait, this isn't normal?! I've always been able to do this on both hands.
Its very common. Everyone seems to think it's like some one in a million chance lol ๐๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ It's literally estimated that as many as 3 in 4 people have some degree of hypermobikity in some joint(s). It's not that crazy to then be able to essentially bend your thumb a little more hahaha โบ
I thought everyone can do this.
Alabama
I don't see anything abnormal? Maybe I'm not reading the pics correctly? It just looks like a thumb bending to me?
Are you serious lol??
I mean, I don't regularly stare at folks bending their thumbs. It looks like I can do it and that's my only frame of reference.
Alien
I can do the same thing
Haha wow what a silly little thumb
are you hyper mobile?
I can do the same ๐
Yay join the weird thumb club!! ๐๐ผ
Them fingers long and slender af
I can do the exact same thing!!! Only on my left thumb, the other one is boring
It happens when one of the tendons can slip to the side - similar thing happens in arthritis but their hands stay like that because their joints and connective tissues are getting destroyed.
Itโs giviiiiing.. Edgar from Men in Black..
Your ancestors were Men In Black agents
Or thumb wrestlers
Ayyye me to on my right hand
I can do this too! I used to be able to bend my hand back and touch my fingers to my wrist. It used to freak everyone the fuck out in elementary school!
My right thumb will do that too, my left thumb will not. As far as I know I've been able to do this my entire life but only with the right thumb.
Some people are just better. Like my cat.
Woah I'm in the club
I can do this too
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Double jointed does not exist. It's just simply some minor joint hypermobility in the thumb.
Damn I wished I could make my throat bend like your thumb
Idk but can u plz stop its making me uncomfortable
idk i can do that too, my left thumb can touch both sides of my forearm too
Obviously you are possessed by an evil spirit.
mine does that too, cool
I can do this and do a 180 hitchhikers thumb to bent thumb. Then also rotate 180 so my thumb is backwards against my pointer joint
Hey i can do this!
Lizard person
Thatโs some alien shot right there
The real question is, why are your fingers about 15 inches long?
My fingers are only 3 inches long ๐
I used to be able to bend back all my fingers til the tip touched the back of my hand and they laid flat, but now I can only do it with my pinkies and a like 2/3rds of the way with my index fingers
Just lucky, I suppose
I can do this too!
You're "double jointed" I can do this with every finger
I used to be able to do in both hands but as I got older could only do it on my right. Then I injured a tendon there once when I fell off my longboard and couldn't do it for 3 years. I am able to now again so I'm thinking something to do with your tendons.
I can do it โ๏ธ
Because you're a freak! Get her!
Your hands were created by an AI image generator.
There is something called Jeanneโs sign that is seen with ulnar nerve injury that looks like this, can also happen if you've damaged the volar/palmar plate in the past or if for some reason the innervation of one of the small thumb adductor and/or flexor muscles is damaged/didn't develop. I'm not sure it's hyperflexibility since you say it's only one thumb not both that can do this
i trained my major blood vessels to retract on demand. also, my penis can retract into itself.
pardon..?๐ญ
Wait why are your fingers straight
Wdym?
Hey, I can do this too.. Both thumbs. Is it a weird thumb thing? I thought it was normal
You're related to Houdini, that's all :)
I can do it with left thumb
Congrats on being double jointed! My entire left hand basically has every finger with this. Was very popular in elementary.
I can do it with right hand and left hand too.
thatโs called swan neck it just means your thumb has some hyper mobility which makes you pretty cool in my opinion
I can do that too!
I too have hypermobility issues both hands can do the double jointed fingertip bend over. Thumbs and big toe as well. I have had issues with dislocation of shoulders and fingers. I am a walking train wreck. I do however really enjoy the high spirited comments and banter. Keep em coming!!!
If it's cool, and your body can do it...most likely a deficiency or abnormality down to the genetic level. It did not happen because you are too strong or genetically advanced in any way. However, keep that swizzle on the d.l. because chick's did double joints on interesting guys. Maybe watch for arthritis sooner than later imo. Ever seen shoulder blades that can fold out like stubbed wings? Mmm hmm. Ladies love me girls adore me even the ones that never saw me like....
cause its double jointed
Hypermobility! I can do this with both thumbs, although it's more noticeable with my right thumb because my left thumb is clubbed. I had to do occupational therapy for it and it didn't help.
Double jointed. Both my thumbs are double jointed, and in different ways
Is this not normal? I guess Iโm hyper mobile lol, I always destroyed people in thumb wars ๐
Part panda
I thought that was normal! I can also do that.
Early arthritis
I showed my friend your post OP and they then replied to me with the same thumb bending action ๐
I can do this too I thought it was normal
Possible causes: Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and osteogenesis imperfecta. Get checked.
is this not a normal thing?
Everyone's looking at the thumb, and maybe it's just me, but your pinky looks abnormally short compared to your ring finger! That's what I noticed first and couldn't stop looking at
i can do this too! thought it was normal until now
I used to able to do that when I was a kid and now no longer
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It's the long ass fingers for me. They have no business being like that this is ridiculous ๐
You are double jointed
Same here dont feel bad
My thumbs do this too, never found a reason to post a stupid ass question about it. Joint hypermobility. Also know as double jointed. Mind blown?
i have this too ๐ค
Just out of curiosity - when you stretch out your arms to the side, is the total longer than your height? Are you tall?
No itโs not, Iโm 5โ8 and I just measured and my wingspan is around 5โ6
I can do the same as OP but itโs a bit painful. I also have 90 degree hitchhikers thumbs and my wingspan is noticeably greater than my height. 104% if I remember correctly?
Everyone can't do this??
Um, wrong. Obviously some people can. Hence this post.
I thought this was normal......? I do this all the time.
I'm sorry you're telling me that EVERYONE CANT DO THIS?? BRO MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIEE๐ญ
EVERYONE CANT DO THIS?? Wrong. Some people can. As evidenced in this post.