Autism and hypermobility survey

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It was hard to know if my score was 2 or 4 as the knee bending was so subtle in both knees. I have a knee condition called Chondromalacia Patellae, in both knees. My knees are knobbly so normally poke out, in the test they were almost flush to my upper leg, with a very subtle incline just below the knee when I held my heel up by resting it upon something. Simply holding out my legs unsupported did not display the very subtle incline displayed by the test with supporting my leg at the heel.

I can easily touch my hands flat on the floor, can just about touch my left thumb to my forearm, but no longer my right, which I could just a few years ago. I can only get the base of my little fingers to 90% although I can further bend the top sections back at about 45% back from the rest of the finger.

I am 39. In the past I have been told by boyfriends and members at the gym that I am very flexible for my age. (when I used to go, have not been in last two years)

My PE teacher at school thought I should take up gymnastics, but I never did. The limited yoga I have done, for no long period of time, I found easy but I have never done it enough to be the reason for my reasonable flexibility at 39. I can do the crab, and can get myself into athletic sexual positions.

Hope this is helpful.


Debra

PS

Forgot to say, I am an Aspie

Just 2 for me with the 2 thumbs, age 53, dx autistic.

exactly the same here mate

Aspie, 17, scored a 9.

I can also do a lot of other crazy stuff...pop my shoulders out of socket, bend my thumbs all the way backwards (like to the other side of my wrists), etc.

are you really doing this for school or whatever, or are you just curious? i sure as hell am. i might have ehler's-danlos syndrome--i match most of the criteria for the hypermobility type.

i would score a 5. however, my skin is not hyperextensible. my elbow hypermobility literally scares people very badly. i can also convulse my eyes at will and give myself goosebumps all over my body just by closing my eyes and sortof "willing it."

i'm 25, male, asp-dxed

7.

7 points.

I'm female, 20 years old, and I have AS (autodiagnosed).

I scored 4, I can bend both thumbs and pinkies. Also, I can bend my other fingers and wrists

I need to change my score I though I was a 6 but I tried again tonight and I can bend both thumbs back. I showed a friend some of the things the survey asked about and she pointe dout that my elbows do bend beyond 180 degrees. So I'm a 9.

Reviving an old thread because I'm curious...

I got a 0, but:
I have had back problems since I was a young child.
I have "weak" wrists.
I have had tenosynovitis.
I had bursitis as a teenager (this normally affects only "old people").
I have chondramalacia (patellafemoral syndrome).
After having a baby I was diagnosed with hypermobility of the pubic symphysis (a joint in the pelvis)... not fun!

Female, 35 years old, undiagnosed Asperger's. (My brothers, both classic Aspies, are so flexible that they can get into lotus position without using their hands.)

So, what's the Asperger's-hypermobility link?

Should revise my earlier post. I actually later that year of my life, was diagnosed with hypermobility by a jaw specialist, after being told I actually scored 8. (Everything but the bending over, and my arms are proportionally short so it's unclear whether I could do that if they were typical length.)

I didn't know what knees or elbows were supposed to look like (or what "10 degrees" looks like for that matter), and I have an injury (most likely, ironically enough, caused by hypermobility -- I sprained my little finger reaching for a book relatively gently, but at just the wrong angle, and it now stays permanently flexed as a result) that made it hard to decipher the results for my little fingers on my own. But I've now been also evaluated by a hand specialist who says my fingers are definitely hypermobile at most joints except the injured one (and that likely was before), some fingers more than others.

So let that be a lesson to anyone who self-tests on this thing, it's possible to score yourself less than you really score, so it's good to see someone else if you're concerned or confused. But it does put a lot of experiences (such as not believing anyone who told me they were double-jointed unless it was very severe, because I used myself as a basis for comparison and believed myself not to be double-jointed) into perspective.

I was diagnosed with hyper mobility syndrome by my arthritis doctor. I also have classic autism.

I am female, 18, dx'd Asperger's/Autism. I scored 1 on the Beighton criteria, though my right thumb gets REAAALY close to touching the forearm, like within a centimeter or even a millimeter.

That, and I'm not sure about the angles of the knees and elbows, though they seem pretty much straight, not bending back. My fingers, though, bend fairly far, and my pinky fingers go to about 90 degrees, but not past as far as I see.

Yeah, I grew up with my older sister being double-jointed, and she's even more flexible with fingers and elbows and stuff than I am, so I always though I was at normal flexibility.

Then in 9th grade during physical fitness testing, I found out that when stretching my hands past my toes with locked knees, I was the most flexible in my grade, even though I hadn't participated in PE or been that active for 3-5 years, and correspondingly had done little stretching during that time compared to my peers, who mostly had been in PE concurrently and through the last 3-5 years.

I do have pain and difficulty in handwriting, and for senior year of high school I did very little writing at all, but for my history essay exam, it hurt so much that the professor told me I could write in bullet points rather than essay. It still hurt a lot and I was one of the last to finish, but at least it's better than having half of one question answered.

Age 20, diagnosed AS, maybe general PDD/PDD-NOS something. I scored 6 and maybe could score 8 if my right hand wasn't messed up. Knees, elbows and on left hand thumb and little finger all bend backwards. I have no issues with it whatsoever, guess I'm lucky.

You DO sound AS to me. Take that as a compliment.

I'm male, and I could only have maybe scored as high as a 1. Right now, it is 0. I consider myself AS as well.

4 - little fingers and knees.
female.
believed AS but self-diagnosed and high-scoring on all the self-screening tests.