Weird fingers and thumbs (and feet and shoulders and knees)

[notmarcie]

Since finding out I'm hypermobile, I've become obsessed with bending my joints. It's odd, for 32 year I didn't know that most people cannot do this

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[super_nuova]

Ahhh! I am very un-bendy, so all of these pictures simultaneously weird me out/ impress me.

[elizawrites]

I can do most of those! Especially the last one!

Wait, shit. Hypermobile, eh?

[notmarcie]

Between 5-20% of the population are apparently. Some people it causes no problems, some people have pain, some people have a lot of people and other have Ehler Danlos Syndrome.

Do your joints click a lot, do you have ankle/foot/knee/back pain? Does it hurt if you stand for a long time? Do you find you bump or knock yourself into things or stumble? Could be hypermobility. I've become pretty fascinated as it explains a LOT of things. Even the issues I had with my eyes when I was 2 years old!

[h_loves_c]

WEIRD: I can do most of those, too, and I had no idea that not everyone can. And my joints DO click, all the time, and I stumble into things like it's my job. I didn't know it was a thing, I thought I was just clumsy and chubby!

I am completely fascinated.

[amy_pi]

Pretty much this for me too.

[kumquatmay]

I can do most of these things, but not the finger split or the bendy wrist. And my joints do click, too. I'm clumsy and standing desks sound like TORTURE to me. hmmm...

I love the bending my fingers back as a stretch. LOVE.

[kumquatmay]

oh wait, I can do the finger split on my left hand, but not my right!

[crunchcandy]

oooh I can do most of those too- i've never been able to do the bending the thumb back onto the arm thing. I often sit on the floor with both feet pointing to each other/ away from each other and have had strange looks for that. My joints are much less mobile now as i've got arthritis in some of them. Lots of the symptoms you've listed would explain a LOT of my problems- I stumble on flat surfaces and have long had a worry that my feet would 'flip off' when walking!

[notmarcie]

Hypermobile joints often end up arthritic.

[crunchcandy]

I've just gone and read some more and i'm now convinced that I have this- the first photo on the wikipedia page is what I do as my party trick- locking the middle joints of my fingers and just bending the top ones over- I knew it was a bit odd, but thought it was something everyone could do.