Holding a bowling ball? It’s like trying to fit into your jeans after Christmas.Ī couple of weeks ago when was trying to use an electric carver to cut a roast. Tapping out a message on my phone? I have to type with my index finger because the pad of my thumb is the size of 2×3 of the letter keys on a large keyboard. BDD is just… kind of weird.įor me, my odd thumb means that I can find some ordinary tasks difficult. Well, back when fortune tellers started practicing palmistry it also meant that you were accused of having a temper and being callous, earning the name “murderer’s thumbs.” Which is pretty cool, unless you were accused of a crime because of it.Īs far as modern science has found, it’s actually a harmless mutation (if you count out the teasing endured in school), and doesn’t serve any evolutionary purpose. The odd one out in the family – my brother doesn’t share my mutation (author’s own image) It’s also the most common form of brachydactyly – about 3% of the world’s population have the condition. Sometimes also called the stub thumb, it’s where the end bones of both of my thumbs are about half the size of a normal thumb’s, and the nail beds are wide. Well, it turns out that I was born with a condition called brachydactyly type D (or BDD).
It was only years later that I found others with “orange” thumbs and began to wonder, why are my thumbs so strange? Six-year-old me didn’t care so much for how she was different, all she knew was that some people at school had an “orange” thumb, like her, and others had “banana” thumbs. All throughout school I would scour my classrooms for anyone with opposable appendages that were out of the ordinary. For me it has always been one of the first things I notice. It’s not necessarily something you might think about often, the shape of a person’s thumb.
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