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I read someone's comment in YMBAAI saying that there's a connective tissue link in aspies. I can't find anything on it on the net, so I'm turning to the "experts"! Any knowledge would help.

I've heard lax joints or loose joints are a common occurance. I'm kindda double jointed in my hands in that I can bend them in all sorts of weird ways.

What about double jointedness? Here's a few things I can do;

-Bend my thumb RIGHT round the opposite way,
-Make my second, third and fourth fingers go crooked
-Bend my wrist forward so that the thumb of it touches the wrist with no gap beneath it
-Point my toes so far that they point a tiny bit backwards
- dislocate all my fingers, and my knees and shoulders
- make all the fingers on my hands bend up and back
- turn my knees sideways and up slightly
- make my mouth look like Wallace's out of Wallace and Gromit
- Go into full lotus position

Could this have anything to do with the connective tissue?

Double jointedness is the same thing as lax joints I think, but I'm not 100% sure on that so don't quote me I can bend my fingers at the fingertips
I can bend my wrist way back
My thumb goes in all weird directions
All this stuff makes my family go all crazy and then they tell me to stop
My family just dosn'ty appreciate me for all the neat aspie tricks I can do

Ok I do that too! Or should say I used to cause now I'm old and getting pretty stiff. But I have this disease and was curious as to whether it was a link to the aspie thing as in genetics. Suppose not but I have to explore everything til I'm exhausted and from all angles. BTW.... I was sooooo relieved to find out I was aspie! I am sleeping better and my outlook is much better. I'm a real snot and I don't care now! LOL!