# Do your arms bend this way?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-your-arms-bend-this-way/999607>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 30, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-your-arms-bend-this-way/999607 "2024-03-30T15:36:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-your-arms-bend-this-way/999607/21 "2024-03-31T14:04:01Z")

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I did that many times as a kid. It’s still possible, but clearly my arms are less flexible.

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**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-your-arms-bend-this-way/999607/22 "2024-03-31T14:14:47Z")

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I worry about the Dopers who – upon _attempting_ it – can no longer physically respond to the poll.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-your-arms-bend-this-way/999607/23 "2024-04-01T01:33:18Z")

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I can do it, but I am very flexible-- I have a collagen defect, and could put my feet behind my head until a few years ago-- I’m 57, and they don’t go all the way behind my head anymore, but I can put the soles of my feet up to the sides of my face. I could also get into the lotus position until a few years ago without using my hands, and now I can still do it, but I have to pull my toes of one foot up with one hand.

I can also still sit one the floor criss-cross applesauce, and get up no-handed.

And I scar very little. I have no scar from my c-section, nor the stitches I had Harry Potter-style on my forehead in my early 30s from a car accident when the rearview mirror hit me in the forehead. When I was gutted like a fish 5 years ago to have a twisted gut repaired, I ended up with just a pencil-line scar, that may still fade.

So I may not be a good example.

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**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-your-arms-bend-this-way/999607/24 "2024-04-01T15:15:37Z")

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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> My arms will do that, but my wrists don’t want to.

Same here.

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