I can do that! Can you make your thumb touch your wrist?

WHY AM I JUST LEARNING THIS ISN’T STANDARD I AM AN ADULT

I learned that my thumbs were double jointed/hypermobile like in college, maybe?  Despite things like my band teacher thinking I’d broken my thumb on my flute and a teacher in seventh grade laughing at how I’d drawn a person giving a thumbs up even though I’d thought I’d done a great job of using my own hand as a reference.  Turns out most people’s thumbs don’t bend backwards at 90 degrees?   I thought everyone could do the same shit  All That Time, and now here we go again. I didn’t know any of this other shit was the same kind of thing, fuck me now I’m googling everywhere looking at pictures like ‘fuck me, my hands are 10 party tricks for the price of 2′

Imagine how cool I would have been in elementary school if I had known

Though speaking of hands/elementary school, because that’s what we’re doing today, I guess, when I was in about fourth grade we learned about tendons and it Scared The Shit Out of Me

I spent a lot of time on the floor playing and drawing and when I had to get up, I’d spring myself off the floor with force from my hands.  When I learned there were tendons in my wrists, I couldn’t stop imagining them fraying and snapping like ropes, so I started getting up differently.  I wonder if it’s because my hands felt a lot more bendy than standard issue and everyone else had a stop latch somewhere I didn’t. 

I had similar !!! reactions to learning about appendicitis and the diseases you could get from undercooked meat, so Good Job On The Panic, Small Self.   Upon reflection, I am amazed at how many things I thought were going to kill me, but also now have further grasp of why I’m now an anxiety-ridden undercooked piece of meat (with no appendix!) myself.