Weird Experiences of Hypermobility
Alright, this is more about body, but also about my brain's reaction to stuff about my body. For quite a while, I've been aware that I was hypermobile, and that a number of the weird jumping joint issues I've had on and off since I was a kid were likely related to that. When I first started having these discussions, I concluded that, while I was definitely hypermobile, my hypermobility seemed to be different than a lot of my friends, and I concluded that I probably had a non-standard variant of something. I had some vague hypotheses, but mostly settled with the "definitely hypermobile, but in a weird way" and was fine with that. In recent years, more and more of my friends have been getting diagnosed or self-diagnosing with hEDS, and I started to wonder. A lot of the experiences were shared. A lot of things did make sense. It still felt like I was a little different, but maybe that was just the feeling that your own experiences are always unique. Yesterday, I went...