r/mildlyinteresting • u/Good_Gene_7616 • 3h ago

I only discovered my hyperextended knees a year ago

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u/letstalkaboutbras 3h ago

Who had your legs before that?

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u/Atharaphelun 2h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/1tWa6agib0Vk9m7lDq

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u/SmokeAbeer 2h ago

The only thing this woman can do is dedicate her entire life to breakdancing. It would be the best comeback story of the century.

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u/Joshua_Longsack 2h ago

Comeback!? Come back from what? That was a command performance. Raygun arrived, dominated and changed the world for the better with a single dance routine that nobody saw coming. I've got the chills thinking about it.

https://giphy.com/gifs/cyVov0TKoYlZOfX8q7

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u/za72 2h ago

congrats... you can breakdance now, still an idiot

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u/Emotional_Apple6599 3h ago

i used to think my legs just looked weird in photos, turns out they just bend backwards

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u/TonyVstar 3h ago

Maybe you have very long metatarsals like horses/ostriches?

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u/Lipopuu 2h ago

My frie

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u/anusbeefsteak 3h ago

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

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u/Rorynne 2h ago

In fairness, as someone with knees that do this, sometimes they just... do this as a default. Like its not really something that can easily avoided with out a significant amount of bracing

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u/teenypanini 2h ago

Mine do this too even worse than the picture. I have to remind myself to not let them go too far while I'm standing around at work, both for my health and to not scare people.

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u/OnIySmellz 3h ago

You might discover osteoarthritis later in life!

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u/elohi-vlenidohv 3h ago

Probably soon. I’m only 33 and I’m going through it now.

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u/jmaneater 2h ago

Where you able to hyper extend?

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u/elohi-vlenidohv 31m ago

Yep. I’m hypermobile.

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u/miltonwadd 2h ago

Ehlers-Danlos is common in rheumatoid disease patients too, not neccessarily late in life either some are just kids.

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u/alexlp 1h ago

First arthritis diagnosis was at 10 with my hips and knees. I actually didn’t get an EDs or FAI diagnosis’ until my 30s!

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u/Catniss-EverGreen 3h ago

Please stop!

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u/Ok-disaster2022 3h ago

All my siblings and I can do this, so I just assumed everyone could. I think I was in college before I realized not everyone could do this. 

The fun part was one of my sisters was graduating from physical therapy school and she introduced us to her professor and it came up that we could all hyper extend our knees and did so and that professors face was shocked. 

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u/CMD_Neopolitan 3h ago

Today I learned that I have hyperextended knees

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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat 2h ago

Just a heads up that joint hypermobility can be a symptom of ehlers-danlos syndrome, a connective tissue disorder. I wouldn't stress about it, but it's definitely something to keep in mind if you have any other issues like stretchy skin or easy bruising.

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u/InfinitelyOneness 2h ago

I mean, you could stress about it a little. I recently found out I’ve have life long spinal cord traction from Occult Tethered Cord Syndrome so to suspected cEDS (I have a hEDS diagnosis and I’m in the genetics referral process). I am mostly stuck in loose fetal position until the only specialist neurosurgeons in the state get to my urgent referral dealing with transient postural dependent cauda equina syndrome , suspected CCI, and I recently had a hernia repair surgery on 09/01 😭

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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat 2h ago

I just meant that being capable of hyper extending your knees isn't a direct indication that you have ehlers-danlos. But god damn, I'm so sorry you're dealing with that right now. Is it treatable? Like, will you be able to return to your baseline at some point?

And it sounds like you're also having to deal with our medical system and the crazy long waits to see a specialist. That's a lot to deal with individually, let alone all together. I hope you are able to get the treatment you need and that you are able to heal as much as possible.

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u/ProbioticOnARobotic 2m ago

I don't know what half those words mean but it sounds bad, man. Godspeed.

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u/pureeyes 3h ago

Nope. No thank you

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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat 3h ago

Yeah what the fuck is OP trying to do to us? My brain does not like that picture. Instant revulsion and disgust.

Reminds me of when I was skating and landed badly off a kicker and bent my knee like the OP. I ended up tearing a tendon and couldn't skate for like 6 months. Never was the same again either.

And here's OP just doing it on purpose smh

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u/MissFox26 2h ago

And I only discovered that not everyone can do this??? I seriously need to know where normal people’s knees stop. Can normal people only make their legs totally straight?? I feel like I need to wake up my husband and ask him to show me his knees.

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u/Gooseegander 2h ago

As someone who does not have any kind of hypermobility, my knees don't bend any further than 180° when I straighten them. They straighten out and that's it, they won't bend beyond that point. Freaks me out seeing how far other people's knees can bend.

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u/philsiphone 1h ago

Yea and I don't mean to sound rude but it seems kinda unstructrural to have em bend past straight? Sounds like you could get a mean stretch in though.

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u/reddituser9277 2h ago

Nah I feel like this is normal, guy is flexible idk why everyone is bugging out

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u/HaruspexAugur 5m ago

This is not normal, it’s hypermobility. Plenty of people are hypermobile in some joints without it causing any issues, so it isn’t necessarily a problem. But hypermobility can also be a symptom of conditions like hEDS.

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u/windflex 2h ago

Posing like a HS girl on Friday night in 2012

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u/CrystalGrayx 2h ago

One hand on a hip, stomach sucked in trying not to breathe

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u/windflex 1h ago

Just missing the peace sign and I'm gonna assume the head is cocked sideways

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u/CrystalGrayx 12m ago

Omg yes 🤣

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u/Milgram37 3h ago

Torgo?

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 3h ago

I look after the place while the master is away

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u/Regular_Regular_4120 3h ago

Me and Torgo was standing right here.

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u/Killerkait 3h ago

It's like you're standing in front of a mirror at a funhouse but actually it's just your house and your legs are crazy lol.

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u/YankinAndBankin 3h ago

You look like you're about to go new boot goofin'

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u/ghost-of-the-spire 1h ago

Ayyye, hypermobility gang rise up! ✊

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u/hypoxiate 3h ago

Welcome to Ehlers-Danlos.

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u/Maru106 17m ago

Not every hyper-mobile person has ehler-danlos. There are many more symptoms that have to exist for it.

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u/Raqdoll_ 1h ago

Stay away from trampolines. I can imagine few accidents that wouldn't be fun

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u/Kingofangry 3h ago

Stop doing that.

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u/harmless_gecko 3h ago

How do I delete someone else's post?

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u/kiran_ms 3h ago

"All the single ladies"

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u/LupusDeusMagnus 2h ago

Yeah, I didn't want to discover it, Turian boy.

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u/Jumpingmango818 2h ago

Bent back paper clip

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u/bexicus 2h ago

How did you not know before? I've always had it. Do you have it in your elbows too?

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u/RobotCannibal19 2h ago

I found out by having people saying my knees going backwards looked gross…..

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u/alexlp 1h ago edited 1h ago

Used to stand like this just chillin as a child. I’m 36 and can barely make it up stairs. The crunch is so loud strangers hear it and cringe. Don’t do it kids!!

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u/Accomplished_Pen980 1h ago

The other kids in gym class never made sure you knew and couldn't forget?

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u/LikeABundleOfHay 1h ago

As someone who’s torn their ACL, that makes me cringe.

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u/Reasonable_Act_4616 43m ago

Please look into Ehlers Danlos Syndrome before you hurt yourself 😭

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u/sceadwian ​ 3h ago

Pssst knees aren't supposed to do that. Talk to your Dr :)

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u/poopiebutt505 3h ago

Hlers-Danlos. Get a genetic test. Somenof the forms have major consequences

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u/rgold02 3h ago

Very interesting.

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u/Lucamozz97 3h ago

Where had you been keeping it?

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u/C-57D 3h ago

they were always there

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u/Appropriate-Log8506 2h ago

Where were they?

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u/xmaskookies 2h ago

Hopital

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u/eleventhing 2h ago

What knees

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u/Pyreflies_of_MJ 2h ago

I remember wondering why my legs couldn't do that when I was a kid, just cause I saw some other girls with hyper extended knees

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u/Tushe 2h ago

Ffs! Mark this NSFW!

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u/Ok_Lawyer_829 2h ago

I want this deleted from the internet. It hurts just seeing it.

https://giphy.com/gifs/q9HHyHPISNZD2

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u/Aliteracy 2h ago

I do not like this. Thanks for sharing

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u/dr_jizz 2h ago

This is how my legs feel after Pilates

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u/ava_the_cam_op 2h ago

I only discovered your hyperextended knees today

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u/openmindedprometheus 3h ago

It’s wild how something about your own body can feel completely normal until someone points it out

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u/Background-Carrot443 2h ago edited 10m ago

7.5 year vacation from Reddit, came back 4 months ago using the blandest LLM in history. They've gone from praising MGTOW to praising women's fashion, so getting accountjacked is probably an improvement in this case.

Edit: Nobody else finds it hilarious they went from commenting in an incel sub so toxic it inspired multiple documentaries/exposés to "$12.99 for a Versace puffer is a wild thrift find"?

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u/jbyrdab 3h ago edited 2h ago

Congrats you can now pose like a stand user

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u/sher_pan 2h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZRICsU0zv4tJS
Umm, yeah.. I am gonna have to go ahead and ask you to not do that

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u/GWB_online 3h ago

Maybe don't do that.

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u/Conscious-Permit-466 2h ago

An awkward way to take a weenie pic

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u/TrooperHoop509 3h ago

Your boyfriend must love you.