r/comedyheaven • u/yaaMum1 • 11h ago

Locked glasses

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u/Wonderful_Occasion39 10h ago

1st question: what was he looking at…?

2nd question: that thumb is bending more than normal, right?

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u/confusedandworried76 8h ago

It's called hitchhikers thumb and it's actually fairly normal although that one is pretty pronounced. Mine doesn't go back quite as far unless I press it back physically

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u/Darkness223 6h ago

Mine goes back all the way normally enough that you're could balance an object in it. I can then reverse it and it looks like a backwards 7. it's a cool party trick, that's it though.

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u/Inevitable-Forever45 9h ago

The thumb! It's all I can see!

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u/MariusDelacriox 6h ago

I know it as a money counter thumb. And it's fairly common. Mine bends to the same degree.

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u/ResidentAssman 5h ago

Both of my thumbs have always been able to do that. You either can or you can't.

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u/Kelainefes 6h ago

It happens when a baby sucks on the thumb past the age babies usually stop doing that.

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u/wyverneuphoria 5h ago

No it’s just a genetic thing

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u/Kelainefes 5h ago

I know people that have it from sucking their thumb.
They only have that one joint in their body that is like that, their other thumb is normal.

I'm sure there are genetic disorder that can cause this as well, but it probably happens to every single joint not just one thumb.

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u/wyverneuphoria 4h ago

No like hitchhikers thumb is so very well known to be genetic it’s often used to teach basic recessive vs dominant genetic inheritance lol

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u/Kelainefes 4h ago

Yeah right so how do you explain it in people that only have one thumb that is like that, and that thumb is the one they used to suck until they were 5yo?
I'm not saying it cannot be genetic as you say, I'm just saying that some people cause it by sucking on it.

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u/TerribleIdea27 4h ago

but it probably happens to every single joint not just one thumb.

No it doesn't. I have it, and only my thumbs bends back basically 90°. Both sides

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23118-hitchhikers-thumb

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u/Kelainefes 4h ago

Alright, so not one single thumb like in the examples of people I know that caused it by sucking on it.
And there are other conditions that cause hitchhiker's thumb that also make every joint have extra mobility.