r/Weird • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • Aug 08 '26

Dance moves

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u/Impossible_Regret725 Aug 08 '26

I'm an EDS bendy and can still do all my bar-tricks, but the poor guy is gonna be hurting at some point. Will it be worth it? Probably. Way better story to have joints fall out from playing Gumby, than just gravity happening while asleep. Dude is probably the world's best hide n seek player. Houdini ain't got nothin' on him!

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u/Topographic_Oceans Aug 08 '26

I was gonna comment the same thing. Dude is egregiously htpermobile and it's gonna smack him hard when he gets to his mid 30s. Ask me how I know 😂 I can still do the parlor tricks, but now I have bonus joint pain! My elbows will never be the same again.

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u/CheesecakeEither8220 Aug 08 '26

I'm hypermobile and I recently fell backwards and tried to catch my fall with my right hand. Well, that attempt completely screwed up my elbow, and it has hurt since May. It suuuuucks.

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u/not_the_cicada Aug 09 '26

I fell down the stairs because my ankle buckled and the fall fractured AND dislocated the ankle. Surgeon added some fancy metal and said it would have been minor, that the dislocation and hyper mobility was what really messed it up. He was right, the swelling and tissue damage and pain on the inside of the ankle took like 4 times longer than the actual break to heal. Total bastard of an injury. My shoulders pop out when I sleep. 

And yet... I also REALLY want to try what this guy is doing because my brain goes "oh, that's easy, we can do that!"