u/Emruhhh
Hello! We have the same thumbs. Mine are so similar.
I lifted my phone across the couch, and my husband said, "Did you post that picture?!" Which made me laugh.
Both my thumbs, and middle finger on my left hand match. I have 2 children and their hands do not match mine.
Absolutely thrilled to see you post. Thumbs up to you!
I think it's called Brachydactyly type D! My mum has it and I haven't inherited it exactly, but both my pointer fingers seem to noticeably curve towards my middle ones so odd fingers just seem to run on our side lol
u/Johns-Sunflower This is awesome. Thank you. No one on either sides of my family have thumbs like me. No one remembers having family with thumbs like me. I've even looked at distant family photos on genealogy sites. I always felt I had a mutant gene. Ha.
From personal experience, people with your thumbs are the undefeated champions of thumb wars. I'd say if it is a mutation, it's an advantageous one :D.
Some of my fingers curve and I always thought I must have broke them as a child or something. I didn’t realize that it can be a legit medical diagnosis type thing
Had a fraternity brother we called Thoe. He had both thumbs torn off in a water skiing incident. The doctors sewed his big toes on his hands to replace his thumbs.
Do both of your thumbs look like that? I’ve heard of people having their thumb replaced by one of their big toes after an accident involving their thumb.
I have both club thumbs (or as said above 'thoes' lmao) and I remember being bullied as a kid that my thumbs were fat bc I played too many video games so I stopped. never lost a thumb war tho(e)
Same! But my dad has one clubbed thumb. He insists he smashed it with a hammer as a kid but I’m pretty confident he was born with it, since it looks just like mine and is genetic
No my thumb is the only one. Also i have no problems of my cardio/lung health. And however it seem genetic , i am the only one with this anomaly in my family. (no i am not adopted)
It's not clubbed like when you have heart problems, it's just a genetic thing I guess. Both of my thumbs are like this and I have no issues with breathing or my heart. Also, nobody else in my family has them.
My thumbs are similar, I was also born with them. My daughter inherited them, and my maternal grandmother had them also. Skipped my mom somehow though.
Brachydactyly is a dominant trait, so your mom probably has the gene for it, but for whatever reason it wasn't expressed which is why you don't see it. It's a genetics term called penetrance, because even dominant genes do not always show fully. Some people with the hammer thumb gene may have no hammer thumbs or only one.
That’s what thumbs look like in cartoons when the character hits one with a hammer. If only it were throbbing!
Just curious, does this run in your family? Some other digit anomalies, like syndactyly (runs in my family), are genetic.