Is my thumb weird?

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If I give someone a thumbs up with my left hand, this is what it looks like... I tend to use the other hand because DP says it's weird.

Do your thumbs do this? Is my thumb weird or is DP weird?

I have never seen a thumb that curves back like that. Has it been broken at some point?

I have this, its called a Hitchhikers thumb. Everyone I know thinks it's so weird and it's freaks them out ha

It's double-jointed, isn't it? That's not all that uncommon. I have double joints in the lower knuckles of both thumbs; you look to have one in the upper knuckle.

It's double-jointed, isn't it?

Idk, I thought it was just a bit flexible and DP just had stiff thumbs! Other thumb just does it a bit. He struggles to stretch his legs for example honestly thought double-jointed would mean I could bend it all the way back, which would be pretty fun as DP is weirded out from just the tip and it doesn't even go that far back!

My DD can click her finger in and out by wiggling it left and right at the base, you can hear it click sometimes, proper freaked me out when she was a toddler

Mine does it too.
I have also just noticed that I have broken the nail really low down. I have it when that happens.

Yep, I can do the thing your DD does.

If you think about it, your fingers don't (or do they?!) bend all the way forwards either, right? I mean, there's a natural limit to the joint. But I would think yours is probably double-jointed if it bends like that. Can you sort of feel the joint reverse in itself when you move it from pointing forwards to pointing back?

Has it been broken?

No, never. Tbh I never really noticed it or paid it attention until DP said wtf is wrong with your thumb?

Hitchhikers thumb never heard of it! Thanks, maybe I will use this hand even more now and really put some welly into it

We need our own 👍emoji, with a bent tip

You're not alone.

I can do this but I'm hyper mobile.

Mine is similar though not as curved. I also have hyper mobile finger joints.

Your thumb is kind of weird

Hitchhikers thumbs here too! Both bend to 90 degree angle, also hyper mobile.

I knew this is what it would be when I saw your thread title!

Mine does it too and it really freaks people out. I have no other particularly mobile or flexible joints. Just bendy thumbs. If I try and make my thumb straight it feels so strange, like I'm being really lazy and giving a half-effort thumbs up or something.

Can you sort of feel the joint reverse in itself when you move it from pointing forwards to pointing back?

This is why I'm not convinced I'm double jointed tbh, it feels normal, just like how my other thumb feels but that one can't go back as far as this one. If I push it down the tip will get a right-angle, but won't go any further.

Both my thumbs do that :-D

Mine do this! My fingers do too, though don't bend so far. If I stretch my fingers they don't go straight, they bend backwards.

I find it a bit of a pain if I'm honest, trying to push stiff buttons or use cutlery if somethings tough like pizza, they just bend! I don't know if it's double jointed or hyper mobile. It doesn't seem that weird to me!

I have found my people!

If I try and make my thumb straight it feels so strange, like I'm being really lazy and giving a half-effort thumbs up or something.

Yes, that's exactly what a "straight thumbs up" feels like to me. At first I thought DP must be lying that his can't really bend at all, I even tried forcing his back a bit and turns out he was telling the truth

Mine are the same and my fingers also bed back the wrong way when I straighten them. The dc call them my freaky fingers

Hehe mine too and my fingers also. It drives my husband mad when I point as he thinks everything is round the corner!!

Can someone post a picture of a 'normal' thumb cause I'm not seeing the issue.

Found this Lizzie

If you Google Hitchhikers thumb (thanks pp) and then I guess "thumbs up" maybe see a difference

I found this, might be better

My husband has thumbs like this he says they are useful His bend a bit further than yours and when he puts the palm of his hand flat on a surface, his thumbs lies flat alongside it, and face the same direction. whereas I have thumbs like 'A' on your post and mine stick out to the side.

I have this and so does my baby daughter.

Yes! Both thumbs.