Are you double-jointed?

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I've read that there's a correlation between autism and hypermobility. Are you double-jointed, and if so, what can you do? I can put my feet behind my head, which either amazes people or disgusts them. I got more of the former in high school, but more of the latter in college. I'm not sure why.

I am not at all. Not in any way shape or form.

I often feel like I'm half-jointed.

I'm fully Spectrumized, though.

Three of my fingers on both hands.

I'm not double jointed

I was diagnosed by two medical professionals as being hypermobile. It runs in the family.

Most of my joints are too flexible. My hips rotate much too far. I can do things with my hands and fingers that people think is disgusting (I guess because they think they shouldn't bend in that way). I can clasp my hands behind my back in different ways that most people can't.

But it has nothing to do with my "eccentric" personality traits because it comes from the other side of the family.

I'm hypermobile. I can cross all my fingers together, wrap my arms around my legs (elbows under knees), put my heel behind the back of my head, etc.

I also have joint pain every day and night. Hypermobility is not as cool as a lot of people seem to think.

Do you have benign joint hypermobility syndrome? I was initially diagnosed with that before my real diagnosis.

I think it's dumb that people find it disgusting. Doing that stuff doesn't hurt much (at least for me) because our bodies are naturally able to do that. We just have shallow ball-and-socket joints.

In my case I think my connective tissue is abnormally elastic. There are different reasons for it. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a bunch of types of genetic conditions that can cause this. I probably have a mild form. Hypermobility does run in my family. But I didn't have any genetic testing or anything.

I think it's funny that people find it disgusting, because I never even knew before that people normally can't do those things. I was so surprised when I found out. Usually the things I can do are quite natural to me and don't hurt.

I have my right pinkie that I can bend backwards on one joint in particular.

...That's the joint ! That's a funky joint .

I can do that thing with my thumb where I bend it back to my wrist (so can my mom), but other than that, I don't seem to have joint hypermobility.

My hips have too much range of motion. I can put my hands flat on the floor, actually farther, without bending my knees.

My fingers all bend back much farther than they should. I can bend both thumbs to my wrists. One of my elbows bends slightly backwards.

Those are the ones that I know are hyperflexible.

I can put my hands on the floor without bending my knees as well. I figured most people could do that.

No. It's one of the criteria for having hypermobility joint syndrome. Normally people can not put palms flat on the floor without bending knees, unless they do a lot of regular stretching. Mine actually can go a few inches farther than that.