What influence does that have on your life? Are there challenges or limitations associated with the absence of the fat pad?
ghostesez on
What about the other one? Same thing?
KorolEz on
Weirdly enough it looks like that the skin that would accommodate those muscles is there though
GoatFuckerDeluxe on
And that is why, children, you need to wank every day.
NotChedco on
How well would you do in thumb wrestling?
Torelq on
I suggest you campaign for equal rights for aliens :3
LilMissADHDAF on
You could get out of handcuff so easily!
PillarOfVermillion on
You definitely have it. It’s just atrophied for some reason.
braindeadzombie on
I knew someone who had polio as a child, they had the same thing. She said it was a common characteristic of polio survivors. Something about it being one of the first muscles attacked.
The difference was more pronounced on her hands, the other hand muscles worked okay for her.
ETA: I see that OP commented that their hand is otherwise normal, has good grip strength. Maybe my friend’s was more pronounced from using her hands to push her manual wheelchair.
Afraid-Revolution-33 on
Just watched the video you linked. This is SO cool, but also.. having these muscles myself, seeing the absence of them on someone else looks so strange. Not having the same range of motion seems frustrating as someone who takes it for granted.
Are there any things you *can’t* do? Given that lack of mobility? Or is this just your normal. Genuine question
IDdizzle on
This is called thenar hypoplasia. It’s linked to several genetic conditions or can be ‘just something that happens sometimes’ (idiopathic). More than mildly interesting I’d say.
holeinmyboot on
what’d you do
Schwartzy94 on
Is the muscle there and just small? If it is then training…
timmy5toes on
Your palm to finger ratio looks all fucked up too
afterglowsky on
Thenar eminence is missing
EnderWiggin07 on
You just made thousands of people look at their hand
LastMessengineer on
Then it’s just a glove.
Thinyser on
That’s not the only thing weird about it…
Backrow6 on
How do you know when your steak is done?
LordMegamad on
Never skip thumb day folks
RLewis8888 on
They never get the hands right.
TheFfrog on
Can you touch your pinky and thumb? That’s basically what that muscle is for
20PoundHammer on
bet your right hand does, switch off once in a while and get out more often.
rjway5 on
I have the same thing!!! Yay someone else! I show people and they get so bewildered and call it weird 🤣ðŸ˜
‘No one even noticed i was there’—op following the great Thumb Wars
Comfortable_Ant_8303 on
Can you touch your thumb to your pinky? thats the muscle that flexes it to do that, or force all your fingers and thumb into a single point (like a hand puppet)? im curious what happens when you try
HumpieDouglas on
That pad of muscle can be a major erogenous for some people. Sometimes I would take my late wife’s hand and gently bite that spot and it would drive her wild. She said it felt like a little tickle that would send electricity all over her body.
blamberr on
IgarashiDai on
I wonder if it can be formed (at least a little) by training it? I remember when I was pipetting for hours in university, that thumb muscle was extremely thicc at the end.
I still pipet a lot, but not nearly as much as back then – and that muscle’s size has reduced substantially.
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Better [video](https://streamable.com/bhg7qm) showing it.
Does this make you less handy?
What influence does that have on your life? Are there challenges or limitations associated with the absence of the fat pad?
What about the other one? Same thing?
Weirdly enough it looks like that the skin that would accommodate those muscles is there though
And that is why, children, you need to wank every day.
How well would you do in thumb wrestling?
I suggest you campaign for equal rights for aliens :3
You could get out of handcuff so easily!
You definitely have it. It’s just atrophied for some reason.
I knew someone who had polio as a child, they had the same thing. She said it was a common characteristic of polio survivors. Something about it being one of the first muscles attacked.
The difference was more pronounced on her hands, the other hand muscles worked okay for her.
ETA: I see that OP commented that their hand is otherwise normal, has good grip strength. Maybe my friend’s was more pronounced from using her hands to push her manual wheelchair.
Just watched the video you linked. This is SO cool, but also.. having these muscles myself, seeing the absence of them on someone else looks so strange. Not having the same range of motion seems frustrating as someone who takes it for granted.
Are there any things you *can’t* do? Given that lack of mobility? Or is this just your normal. Genuine question
This is called thenar hypoplasia. It’s linked to several genetic conditions or can be ‘just something that happens sometimes’ (idiopathic). More than mildly interesting I’d say.
what’d you do
Is the muscle there and just small? If it is then training…
Your palm to finger ratio looks all fucked up too
Thenar eminence is missing
You just made thousands of people look at their hand
Then it’s just a glove.
That’s not the only thing weird about it…
How do you know when your steak is done?
Never skip thumb day folks
They never get the hands right.
Can you touch your pinky and thumb? That’s basically what that muscle is for
bet your right hand does, switch off once in a while and get out more often.
I have the same thing!!! Yay someone else! I show people and they get so bewildered and call it weird 🤣ðŸ˜
Hey OP, I have this too!
[No muscle pad!](https://imgur.com/a/GX75wTu)
I also have this. Dozens of us!
‘No one even noticed i was there’—op following the great Thumb Wars
Can you touch your thumb to your pinky? thats the muscle that flexes it to do that, or force all your fingers and thumb into a single point (like a hand puppet)? im curious what happens when you try
That pad of muscle can be a major erogenous for some people. Sometimes I would take my late wife’s hand and gently bite that spot and it would drive her wild. She said it felt like a little tickle that would send electricity all over her body.
I wonder if it can be formed (at least a little) by training it? I remember when I was pipetting for hours in university, that thumb muscle was extremely thicc at the end.
I still pipet a lot, but not nearly as much as back then – and that muscle’s size has reduced substantially.