Can You Actually Be Double-Jointed?

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  • Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
  • Can you bend your arms behind your back, click your wrist or touch your thumb to your forearm? Most people describe someone with these talents as being "double-jointed," but that's not an accurate representation. Here's a look at what's really going on with your friends who are unusually flexible.
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    Can You Actually Be Double-Jointed?

Комментарии • 271

  • @MrGlitch_YT
    @MrGlitch_YT 6 лет назад +215

    They have anxiety because everyone at school is always forcing them to show off their ability

    • @tamae.j7359
      @tamae.j7359 6 лет назад +6

      Yes! I used to have people ask me to show them how I touch my ear with my foot standing up it makes you wish no one knew after one person finds out

    • @tamaraduh6334
      @tamaraduh6334 6 лет назад +2

      yes everybody in the 2nd,3rd,and fourth would ask me to do backflips

    • @LauLessPariah
      @LauLessPariah 6 лет назад

      Yeah. A lot. They always ask.

    • @LauLessPariah
      @LauLessPariah 6 лет назад

      @@tamae.j7359 everyone kept asking me to show them my high kick. I can kick higher than my head. I can also release my shoulder blades.

    • @tamae.j7359
      @tamae.j7359 6 лет назад

      @@LauLessPariah I used to pop my shoulder or hip out just to make my sister freak out
      -So entertaining

  • @Taikamuna
    @Taikamuna 6 лет назад +29

    I'm so uncomfortable

  • @crpineo
    @crpineo 6 лет назад +37

    ...god damnit, now I'm going to feel anxious about being more prone to anxiety due to double-jointed-ness

  • @kko4934
    @kko4934 6 лет назад +120

    Anyone here have a "double jointed" thumb too?

  • @SarahKDB
    @SarahKDB 6 лет назад +37

    I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility Type and it causes a lot more than just being uber flexible. Glad this video shows a bit of a different side of being super bendy. I'm in constant pain and it's definitely not fun.

    • @kennedywatts8756
      @kennedywatts8756 6 лет назад +1

      Sarah B same

    • @Maya.0114
      @Maya.0114 6 лет назад

      Oh my😮

    • @carasachs4004
      @carasachs4004 6 лет назад +2

      Yes, I have hEDS too - shout out to my zebra family! I’m cringing watching this video, saying “don’t do that!”. Party tricks like this come at a high cost.

  • @just-a-silly-goofy-guy
    @just-a-silly-goofy-guy 6 лет назад +146

    Double-jointed people freak me out, like actually

  • @crystal-oy5dv
    @crystal-oy5dv 6 лет назад +7

    Almost everyone i know: OMG LOOK CRYSTAL CAN MAKE HER WRIST DO A 360°
    Or
    HOW ARE YOU SO FLEXIBLE?

  • @carasachs4004
    @carasachs4004 6 лет назад +1

    I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, hypermobility type (hEDS). It’s a genetic Connective Tissue Disorder which effects every system in the body, not just joints. It causes a great deal of pain. I’m an atypical hEDS person because I also have fragile skin (which is more common in people with classical EDS). EDSers have high adrenaline levels all the time. We also have poor proprioception - meaning we have a hard time knowing where our bodies/limbs are in space - so we’re known to be rather klutzy. Our joints are loose and can dislocate easily - either partial or full dislocations. These are NOT painless for the majority of us, in fact they can be intensely painful. I think all of these things contribute to the high anxiety levels.

  • @Cheetahprint85
    @Cheetahprint85 6 лет назад +74

    Who was the most famous skeleton detective?
    ......
    Sherlock Bones. 🕵🏻‍♂️☠️

  • @melanieh.3091
    @melanieh.3091 6 лет назад +3

    My friend has double jointed shoulders and she gets easily anxious and cannot use a lot of the equipment in the gym because she's scared that she'll injure herself.

  • @saucedoss
    @saucedoss 6 лет назад +9

    A friend of mine can twist his hand full on 360 degrees

    • @aimyboucher3378
      @aimyboucher3378 4 года назад

      I wish I could do that 😂

    • @cydney1545
      @cydney1545 3 года назад +1

      Ey I can do dat. I freaked out a whole classroom because of it, it was funny😂

    • @ashishlal7212
      @ashishlal7212 3 года назад

      Same and I face problem in doing pushups

    • @XordaXGaming
      @XordaXGaming 3 года назад +1

      @@ashishlal7212 i can do that and I am double jointed and the only problem I have is that my right leg pops out of its socket from time to time. I just need to lay down and stretch my leg. Hurts but I laugh it of after 🤣

    • @ashishlal7212
      @ashishlal7212 3 года назад +1

      @@XordaXGaming ohkk 😅😅😅 take care

  • @wolfquester44aj51
    @wolfquester44aj51 6 лет назад +5

    I have a double jointed finger. I didn't think it was such a bad thing.

  • @brandonfelix9958
    @brandonfelix9958 6 лет назад +8

    Okay.... I seriously think RUclips is reading my mind. I was just thinking how I am double jointed and then this video was just released and showed up in my recommendeds

  • @babunking7401
    @babunking7401 6 лет назад +1

    My friend has joint hypermobility and it is so wierd/cool/unusual to see him do it!

  • @firenationfiles2063
    @firenationfiles2063 6 лет назад +2

    *Interesting!* …and creepy to see that elbow bend backwards.

  • @unleashingpotential-psycho9433
    @unleashingpotential-psycho9433 6 лет назад +160

    I think being double jointed is more useful for a woman than a man.

  • @annika5495
    @annika5495 6 лет назад +4

    *_I'd rather be ambidextrous than this...._*
    *_Oh wait, I'm already ambidextrous..._*

  • @shatterpoint23
    @shatterpoint23 6 лет назад +1

    I Just found the correct term for my so much flexible fingers and jaw ‘hypermobility’. After so many years, I found the right term, because I just didn't know what is this type of flexibility called.
    All my fingers are extremely flexible and some can be easily dislocated and my jaw is so flexible too.

  • @panchikofan123
    @panchikofan123 6 лет назад +5

    *i have anxiety and I'm double jointed.*

    • @alexthompson8977
      @alexthompson8977 6 лет назад +1

      If being double jointed isn't real then why can my toes bend like fingers?

    • @panchikofan123
      @panchikofan123 6 лет назад

      @@alexthompson8977 because flexibility?

    • @Dannysaurus606
      @Dannysaurus606 6 лет назад +1

      Me too

  • @codoroki
    @codoroki 3 года назад +1

    My thumbs are double jointed. My thumbs up looks like an L. I can actually balance my body on the flat surface of where my thumb’s fingerprint is. I can even do finger pushups pretty easily because of it.

  • @darksoals
    @darksoals 6 лет назад

    I have double jointed index fingers. It’s not as fun as you’d think because they “lock” when I strain them too far and then I have to pop them into being able to move again.

  • @rumi1768
    @rumi1768 6 лет назад +1

    0:37 I thought everyone can do that..

  • @mynameismmandimheretosay7979
    @mynameismmandimheretosay7979 6 лет назад +1

    I have double jointed thumbs, and I can turn my arm 180 degrees from normal, does that count?

  • @RavenStaria
    @RavenStaria 6 лет назад +1

    1:13 happens all the time

  • @notubercharged
    @notubercharged 6 лет назад

    AW YES A VIDEO ON HYPERMOBILTY
    I'm excited because hypermobilty isn't a often looked at medical problems especially when you're like me and have JHS. Later in the video probably explains why I'm always alert and nobody can jumpscare me unless the tickle me in which I go limp and collapse on the floor. Oof

  • @justcrafty2676
    @justcrafty2676 6 лет назад +4

    So, it's actually a disadvantage?

    • @adriansookai
      @adriansookai 6 лет назад +1

      No Because people like me can show my double jointed skills off

    • @Moe__Jama
      @Moe__Jama 5 лет назад

      @@adriansookai lmao same that is the case with my elbow

    • @outblessed
      @outblessed 4 года назад

      dreefree Ayyyy

  • @salameri6573
    @salameri6573 6 лет назад

    i have it and it really really sucks i would gladly trade it with anyone else for a normal body. My collar bones keep dislocating and my feet are flat that its a torture to stand or walk for a long time unless I’m wearing suitable shoes.

  • @ANONYMUS-gf6sq
    @ANONYMUS-gf6sq 6 лет назад

    Who other double jointed people were also trying to do what the staff were also doing?

  • @MidnightBloomDev
    @MidnightBloomDev 6 лет назад +2

    But it looks weird...
    Alexa double play despacito

  • @Ravioli05
    @Ravioli05 4 года назад

    I can curve all my fingers back, I honestly thought that was normal. Till I saw people unable to do it, I also can bend the top of my fingers only on my right hand.

  • @NeighborhoodOfBlue
    @NeighborhoodOfBlue 3 года назад

    I'm really disappointed that this didn't get into the hypermobility disorders like Ehlers-Danlos.

  • @CoenWilson1
    @CoenWilson1 5 лет назад

    I am hyper flexible and have joint hyper mobility
    I can turn my arms backwards twice and turn my legs all the way around and I can make my thumb touch my wrist and make my thumb and pinky wrap around my wrist and can turn my pinky to a 90⁰ angle
    I am not trying to show off
    But still, I love this gift.
    For me my leg bones in the back of the middle one of them goes behind the other bone and I can't move. And then it will pop back into its place. Proof of hyper flexibility. But it still hurts like hell.
    Once again
    *I am not trying to show off*

  • @h-bomblovel3526
    @h-bomblovel3526 3 года назад

    I’m double jointed to with both of my thumbs and my shoulder

  • @cloudstrike4138
    @cloudstrike4138 6 лет назад

    I can just push the thumb of my left hand past the joint of my index finger, but not too far back, just where it ends
    It freaked out a lot of people, tried doing it with my right hand, but it started to hurt
    so no flexibility for me, too painful, risky, and I'm paranoid about stuff

  • @benebeck5628
    @benebeck5628 6 лет назад +1

    My fingers are double-jointed. They allow me to bend them 30° backwards

    • @Witheredrobux
      @Witheredrobux 6 лет назад +1

      I can bend one of my index fingers and both of my thumbs back farther than the rest.

  • @Inhumane
    @Inhumane 6 лет назад

    I tried doing that thumb thing. It didn’t work.

  • @inactivecringeaccountlol2637
    @inactivecringeaccountlol2637 6 лет назад

    Can they control the ring finger?

  • @NewbyTon
    @NewbyTon 6 лет назад +2

    I have been lied to

  • @PokemonGo-vi1cp
    @PokemonGo-vi1cp 6 лет назад

    On of my friends in double jointed

  • @mx.sinister2206
    @mx.sinister2206 4 года назад

    I actually don’t feel alone based off of most of the comments

  • @LauLessPariah
    @LauLessPariah 6 лет назад

    I can release my shoulder blades really far and my fingers do some weird skeletal thing. That counts i think!

  • @aurathewolf6737
    @aurathewolf6737 3 года назад

    I have double jointed elbows, they don't make you the best being on earth, just something a bit unique.

  • @TigerDuDe77
    @TigerDuDe77 3 года назад

    Shit anxiety? Guess that’s my go to excuse now

  • @SaintsLuvv
    @SaintsLuvv 4 года назад

    I have a double jointed thumb

  • @sturgesvideos1068
    @sturgesvideos1068 3 года назад

    I have double jointed elbows

  • @sakeriyasaleh4820
    @sakeriyasaleh4820 6 лет назад

    me too

  • @tamae.j7359
    @tamae.j7359 6 лет назад +1

    I have hyper mobility an think it makes me a better climber an dancer

  • @luzosorio9882
    @luzosorio9882 6 лет назад

    Im hyper mobile in 3 places: my thumb can touch my forearm in both hands, my thumbs like knuckle thingy can pop in and out on both hands and my fingers can do the thing the lady with red nail polish and the purple blouse did with my right arm. Lol I’m such a freak
    Edit: also what if I put my hand straight and then pull all my fingers back and they are almost touching the back of my hand. Is that hyper mobile because I can do that too with both my hands and feel no pain at all

  • @anonymoushue
    @anonymoushue 6 лет назад

    My fingers especially my pinky are flexible. My pinky and rotate and fold backwards and be unseen

  • @Myworld1139
    @Myworld1139 3 года назад

    I'm double jointed!!

  • @auroraliqhts
    @auroraliqhts 4 года назад

    Two of my friends, their dad is a doctor, they say double joint isn’t a thing

  • @devuclear2269
    @devuclear2269 6 лет назад

    *Looks at thumbnail*
    Me: where's her body
    *Moves thumb*
    Me: the fu-

  • @thequillster
    @thequillster 6 лет назад

    I've got a double jointed pinky finger and it grosses people out when I bend it back lol

  • @kitsokittyivenhok6
    @kitsokittyivenhok6 5 лет назад

    *jumps on wheelchair*
    I HAV OSTEOPOROSIS.

  • @drytadpole
    @drytadpole 2 года назад

    I was actually the only one who was "hypermobile" whom I've met in my whole life where have these 20% of the population been bruv

  • @Ravioli05
    @Ravioli05 4 года назад

    I’m still trying to grasp the fact people can’t bend there fingers back.

  • @outblessed
    @outblessed 4 года назад

    I’m hella double-jointed.
    It’s fun to freak people out with my joints. 😂

  • @thickinikki823
    @thickinikki823 6 лет назад

    My friend is double jointed in alot of places I wish I was

    • @gamerboy-yy5sh
      @gamerboy-yy5sh 4 года назад

      I'm double jointed too I can bend index finger tip and can pop my joint on my right and left hand.

  • @adriansookai
    @adriansookai 6 лет назад

    I'm double jointed

  • @opliz2383
    @opliz2383 3 года назад

    I just discovered that im double jointed and just wanted to check out how many weird stuff i can do
    Also i remember playing twister with my friends and always winning lol

  • @myramadariaga3582
    @myramadariaga3582 6 лет назад

    I have the finger myth of double joints

  • @sweetsugarhoneycandy5458
    @sweetsugarhoneycandy5458 6 лет назад

    No wonder why I sprain my ankle only by walking....

  • @Maya.0114
    @Maya.0114 6 лет назад

    My fingers are double jointed... I feel paranoid now

  • @rainHellsing
    @rainHellsing 3 года назад

    I have that funky hyper flexibility in most my body, I’m able to touch my elbow to the ground with out bending my knees also all my fingers can make a v bending backwards I can’t pop my shoulders out but I have a wide rang of movement with them lol

  • @vanparker9344
    @vanparker9344 6 лет назад

    If blood is bluilding up in your Legs then change your poster

  • @saiikarin2334
    @saiikarin2334 6 лет назад

    Just out of pure curiosity, anyone else here is able to pop their thumb in and out it’s socket? I used to think everyone else could do it since I often did it as a way to calm myself but apparently not everyone can

  • @Aztrani
    @Aztrani 6 лет назад

    I am double jointed I can move my thumb weird

  • @luthfurrahman7890
    @luthfurrahman7890 6 лет назад +1

    Ehlers Danlos Syndrome so under researched

  • @fatamy8597
    @fatamy8597 6 лет назад

    Who else had that one kid in class that would always show off their bullshit double joint

  • @Account1746
    @Account1746 6 лет назад

    No

  • @noctarin1516
    @noctarin1516 6 лет назад

    I discovered by this video that i am double jointed

  • @milsnor
    @milsnor 6 лет назад

    0:38 I can do that I thought it was normal. ?

  • @oscarortega3803
    @oscarortega3803 6 лет назад +1

    Here before this blow up lol

  • @llama_is_coolyeet1183
    @llama_is_coolyeet1183 6 лет назад

    my whole school is double jointed

  • @fungebob6882
    @fungebob6882 4 года назад

    all of my fingers are double jointed

  • @mr.markan657
    @mr.markan657 6 лет назад

    I have depression and im as flexible as a metal pipe

  • @Pfyzer
    @Pfyzer 6 лет назад +1

    So its more a curse

  • @ammarkhan6883
    @ammarkhan6883 6 лет назад +1

    double joint might save us from getting injured in an accident

    • @crpineo
      @crpineo 6 лет назад

      ...yeah, gonna need verified statistics on that

    • @LauLessPariah
      @LauLessPariah 6 лет назад

      @@crpineo my fingers didnt break and my neck is still up right.

    • @crpineo
      @crpineo 6 лет назад

      @@LauLessPariah ...all that tells me is that you used those words here, on a comment chain on a video; you've provided no proof that you were in any kind of accident, no proof that you are double-jointed in those parts of your body, _and_ no proof that, even if those two facts were true, that it was the reason you were not hurt
      Again, *_verified statistics_* simply claiming something on the internet with no verification, and nothing but a single personal anecdote, is _not_ verified statistics

  • @petarded8529
    @petarded8529 6 лет назад

    But can your joints run Crysis?

  • @yannabear1389
    @yannabear1389 6 лет назад

    Oh I love being double jointed

  • @wateredbottle2529
    @wateredbottle2529 4 года назад

    I have anxiety cause I’m special? Ok sweet

  • @sibakhin5191
    @sibakhin5191 6 лет назад

    Great, one more thing that supposedly adds to my anxiety.

  • @Nadiaputriangginita
    @Nadiaputriangginita 6 лет назад

    Whoa I'm pretty lucky then since I never dislocated any bones in my body

  • @niyahnisbett4541
    @niyahnisbett4541 3 года назад

    So this is what it’s like to be double jointed😳

  • @Shark-kawaii104
    @Shark-kawaii104 6 лет назад

    Why is the world have to be like I mean even if you did what the world want you to do and more than it you won't be better than some exceptional humans who are heroes that are born not mad,example those people have this kind of felixibility when they are born but others have to go and kill themselves to earn that but they won't ever get to those who has this Felixability because those people are heroes that are born but not earned their ability . I have learned that the meaning "the world will never be perfect" doesn't mean that some people you love die no, that not it it means more than that, example some one born in a family that kills children when they are ten but ten is not long but if you imagined if that child wanted to be a big known man but he can't because he is gonna die at 10 so world isn't perfect a about people dying and leaving you because all of us gonna experience that so that is easy but the world isn't perfect about your job and etc

  • @eburneanix
    @eburneanix 6 лет назад

    I dont know im a double jointed person and i dont know why my classmates surprise when i bend my thumb and placing it to the arms and i just know i am a double jointed person XD

  • @FMD9K
    @FMD9K 6 лет назад

    I can twist my hand 360 degrees

  • @andyarrow1661
    @andyarrow1661 6 лет назад

    I know a guy who can bend his finggers up agaisnt the back of his hands.

  • @ndeath745
    @ndeath745 6 лет назад

    I thought Im the only one that can do the stuff on 0:04

  • @willday9316
    @willday9316 6 лет назад

    Yamada Tae?

  • @LokiSeidrGod
    @LokiSeidrGod 4 года назад

    Came here because I thought I was cool, got out knowing I have more chances of having anxiety and dying. Nice.

  • @badmonkey2468
    @badmonkey2468 6 лет назад

    I’m stiff like a stick

  • @brokensandwich5824
    @brokensandwich5824 3 года назад

    My thumb can pop in and out

  • @connorbrown7989
    @connorbrown7989 6 лет назад

    I can snap my thumbs backwards

  • @1Tako1
    @1Tako1 6 лет назад

    Well then I have Joint Hypermobility.

  • @ellehirose
    @ellehirose 6 лет назад

    I am double jointed ➿

  • @ShortbusMooner
    @ShortbusMooner 6 лет назад

    I can do my finger tips!

  • @iiveex_7215
    @iiveex_7215 3 года назад

    Yes you can be double jointed cause I have like 7 classmates who are.

  • @pee_cock
    @pee_cock 6 лет назад

    this sounds weird,,, but i can pull my index finger so far back that it can touch the back of my hand,,,, does anyone else have that too

  • @claudiaivy104
    @claudiaivy104 6 лет назад +2

    I hate people who think double jointedness actually exits

    • @triplea2072
      @triplea2072 6 лет назад

      Hate? Um... why? Is it really that deep