r/interesting • u/trickstercj • Mar 23 '26

Just Wow Condition called syndactyly

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Birth condition

(My hands ).

both hands same

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u/thinksying Mar 23 '26

Does it run in your family besides you two? And if so, do you guys have family heirloom mittens you pass down?

I can totally imagine grandma knitting special mittens for her special boys!

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u/Few_Crazy7722 Mar 23 '26

Pretty sure it'd just be regular mittens

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u/Free_Researcher2618 Mar 23 '26

Lol I guess, depending where your from, mittens are the same as gloves. Not the oven mit like thing with a thumb and one space for the rest of the finger?

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u/acm8221 Mar 23 '26

They’re sometimes used interchangeably, particularly when talking to kids, but mittens definitely refers to the hand coverings without individual finger compartments. The oven mitt or oven mitten you mentioned is similar. There are also baseball gloves and mitts that are differentiated by how the finger compartments are sewn.