Bodily Oddities

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I've got very long toes.

oh yeah, i forgot about that one, me too. i got toes like fingers and my second toes are much longer than my big toes.

Oooh, cool! Be careful though- you wouldn't want an eye infection!

This is called "Morton's Toe". I've got it on one foot, and my dad has it on both.

From years of playing piano and stretching my left hand to hit chords, my left hand spreads much further than my right. If I line them up, the tip of my right thumb only reaches the joint of my left thumb.

Ooh, I've got that too, by the sound of it, Morton's Toes (on both feet) hehehe, I'm so pleased, I've always wanted to have something with a name

I've never liked it- I always thought it was gross.

Actually, I just wiki'ed it, and there's some cool info on it:

"It has a long association with disputed anthropological and ethnic interpretations. Morton called it Metatarsus atavicus, considering it an atavism recalling prehuman grasping toes. In statuary and shoe fitting it has been called the Greek foot (as opposed to the Egyptian foot, where the great toe is longer). It was an idealised form in Greek sculpture, and this persisted as an aesthetic standard through Roman and Renaissance periods and later (the Statue of Liberty has toes of this proportion). The French call it pied ancestral or pied de Néanderthal[1], believing it to be a sign of intelligence[citation needed]. Cleopatra was known to have this, and many consider this trait to be a sign of beauty. Podiatrist/archaeologist Phyllis Jackson has interpreted it as a characteristically Celtic toe, as opposed to a Saxon toe."

Sign of beauty and intelligence, eh? All right, in that case I can live with it.

You know, that's absolutely true, about the Greeks...I've got Botticelli's painting Primavera here, not the original, unfortunately, lol, but all six ladies in the painting have Morton's toes! Ha! I'm doubly delighted now. We have the feet of Aphrodite!

Morton's Toe, and its a good thing. Yippie! At least part of me is associated with beauty!

halebopp wrote:
Yeah I used to get stuff in my ears from swimming all the time, too. I don't think i'm double jointed... but I can do these with my hands.


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I used to do stuff like that with my hands and finger joints when I was in my early to mid teens.
But now I'm getting near 50 I don't have that kind of flexibility anymore, besides I might be developing
arthritis in my hands and arms. There is a lot unexplained pain in my shoulders, elbows, and wrists.
My hands and forearms are small for a person of my size.

I'm double-jointed, and I can bend my fingers right back until there's roughly a 45 degree angle between my fingers and the back of my hand. Also, I'm quite good at forwards contortion, and my shins are twisted, so my feet naturally turn out. If I want them to face forwards, I have to turn my knees in (because of this, I'm more comfortable standing on the sides of my feet than the soles, and I can't crouch down with the soles of my feet on the floor or else I fall over ).

"My toes have knuckles" As a kid at school kindly told me. I can pick stuff up with them easily. Horray.

Those pics sure LOOK like double jointed fingers.

I can do that.


I have a problem where the muscle in my 'pointer toes' (don't know what else to call them) will spasm and pull the toe off to the side. Pretty painful. Usually happens while I'm swimming. The same thing happens in my neck if I turn my head the wrong way. In the motion of trying to tuck your chin under your armpit while yawning. That's far worse though because it's so hard to straighten my neck. And much more painful.

I can spread out my toes, which apparently not all people can do. I can also do those things with my hands shown in the pictures. I can bend my fingers back quite far as well. I'm also very flexible and would probably make a great contortionist. I can push the tip of my nose up very far, which most people can't do, apparently. I can pick lots of things up with my toes too. And I was born with an outie bellybutton, although it has become an innie now.

i can twist my tongue and gleak(voluntarily)
i'm double jointed in my right shoulder.