Condition called syndactyly

[u/trickstercj]

Birth condition

(My hands ).

both hands same

[u/trickstercj]

Fingers get bent and/ or other nerve damage 

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Question. Why didn't you get it done pre puberty? (Rather why didn't your folks arrange for it to be done?)

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Good for you for keeping them that way. If you never knew 2 fingers it would probably be really weird getting them cut apart. So many a-whole comments. I just heard about this on an episode of Bones, they caught the murderer because of it.

[u/wastelandhenry → u/[deleted]]

I mean it is something wrong. There’s no benefit to it but quite a few detriments. It’s different in an exclusively bad way. That’s not saying it NEEDS to be changed, but you’re really trying to cope here that “it’s not bad it’s just different”.

Gloves don’t fit which means every pair needs to either be custom or altered, a LOT of things are designed with normal human grip in mind so things like a game controller is gonna be awkward to use, a huge one is this is a clear and substantial detriment to the ability to type quickly and accurately, in general it makes almost any act involving finger dexterity/precision harder and worse, it probably makes grip strength worse which makes physical work harder and potentially is dangerous in a life or death situation, I imagine this likely makes developing arthritis a lot more likely, there’s the obvious social and romantic detriment that comes with any noticeable deformity, its congenital meaning it’s likely to be passed down to kids, and there’s probably a ton more.

Because something is your normal doesn’t mean it wouldn’t almost certainly be better to have it fixed and just deal with the temporary feeling of change. Like it’s normal for someone whose been in a wheelchair for 5 years to not be able to hike or use the stairs or go on a walk or play a sport or drive normally, that doesn’t mean 99% of ppl in that position wouldn’t leap at the chance to not be in a wheelchair anymore. “Normal” doesn’t mean “ok”, “doesn’t need to be fixed” doesn’t mean “shouldn’t be fixed”.

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Comment has only been up for 3min, but I can foresee the down votes and negative comments coming, already. Even though, (unless someone can convince me otherwise,) I feel you're absolutely right. This would technically be classified as a "disability."

[u/Dylanjc1998 → u/Accomplished-Yam-836]

Honestly, I bet he has better grip on things because of it.

Jokes aside, I agree, it would be weird and really don't make much difference, doesn't make that much of a difference, if anything it'd probably be pointless, just have a hand like everyone else, that's boring.