About the World of Clubbed Thumbs
“Picking your nails” or “sucking your thumbs when you were little”: some explanations that are popularly given for the trait known as clubbed thumbs.
It wasn’t till I was 25 that I found out that it’s a unique trait, genetically inherited according to scientists, and shared by millions of people. In fact, the scientific term for clubbed thumbs is Brachydactyly type D or ‘BDD’ for short.
This page is dedicated to the unique trait knows as ‘clubbed thumbs’.
This weblog is dedicated to bringing together people with clubbed thumbs (or people who’re interested) to share information, scientific or otherwise, about their thumbs.
Cheers!
Alf P
updated 15/6/09
updated 08/4/09
updated 24/2/08: picture of my left thumb!
December 20, 2007 at 11:46 am |
i have 2 clubbed thumbs. born in the usa of italian heritage. would love to know more about the historical figures who had one or both clubbed thumbs. maybe i am from a long line of italian royalty!!??!! (so who has the royal treasury?)
June 17, 2009 at 2:36 am |
do you have a short fuse?
In palm reading they are called ‘murderers thumbs”.
August 8, 2009 at 5:50 pm |
I am 55 years old and I used to be embarrassed about my thumbs as a child. I would hide them. For many years I never wanted to get a manicure. I am the only one in my family to have them so far. But as a nurse I notice them on many people I run into. I show them to them and we laugh and share our stories. My vet has them, and he is very down to earth and intelligent. I have been told that we are special to have them. Therefore I choose to think of them that way. In recent years I heard them called toe thumbs. That is cute cute and describes them perfectly. As for Megan Fox I saw the first transformer movie and did not notice hers. I usually am pretty observant. Now on the internet they are making a big deal out of her thumbs in a negative way, calling them a flaw!!! This is not right, she is unique. We need to embrace our differences. We truely are special people.
September 13, 2009 at 10:35 pm |
i do also my right thumb is clubbed and my second toes are crooked
pellegrino my last name/
January 10, 2008 at 4:40 am |
I have one clubbed thumb. A Mormon woman (they’re big into studying genealogy) told me that it’s from French ancestry. This is true for me – my grandfather was either French or French Canadian but we actually have no idea where he was born. At any rate, his parents spoke only French and my grandmother was never able to talk to them as she didn’t speak French. No offense to us, but it seems that a thumb would club as a result of inbreeding (they don’t look right after all!) and the royals were very into keeping the bloodlines pure right up to the point of inbreeding – so maybe the royal thing is true. I’m the only one in my family with a clubbed thumb – immediate and extended family included. Although now that I look at those photos, maybe my brother has them, too. Hmmm…
June 17, 2009 at 2:41 am |
if that is the case why don’t you see those thumbs in the paintings of royalty throughout the ages?
My mother has two clubbed thumbs and she is mad as a rabid dog.
January 11, 2008 at 4:11 am |
omg! i had clubbed thumbs my whole life and i just started to care about htem now! they are soo funny looking but i o it makes me unique,
January 12, 2008 at 10:34 pm |
This is so strange! I never made any big deal about my right thumb, just thought it was sort of ugly! Then, today, while browsing through wikipedia (trying to find out what a “widow’s peak” is) I run into this “List of Mendelian traits in humans” and, all of a sudden, I discover that not only I have Hitchhiker’s thumbs, but that my weird thumb could be sign of regal heritage!
I live in Italy and my parents are both italian. My mother also has Hitchhiker’s thumbs and both of them are clubbed (so I got both traits from her). I also know another girl who has a clubbed thumb (left), she married one of my cousins and we have no other family relation.
My father always told me he loved my thumb because it is like my mother’s, the woman he loved until he passed away.
June 17, 2009 at 2:44 am |
hickhikers thumbs, they are also called murderer’s thumbs because people who have them lack self control according to palm readers, and once inflamed they can’t pull back.
September 12, 2009 at 6:06 pm
That is rediculous! murderer’s thumb is an old wives tale, i have a very high stress job where i deal with a lot of jerks and i have never lashed out at anyone or havent been able to control my temper. i dont even think i have a temper, or could imangine screaming at someone. do your research pal, and dont just listen to some crazy palm reader. do you even have clubbed thumbs or know what it is like to go through life with people making fun of such a small feature on your body. its people like you that make people like us feel embarassed about something that we shouldnt be ebarassed about at all.
February 23, 2008 at 9:12 pm |
I have two club thumbs. I have always hated them. I is hard to make people understand that you are born that way.
June 25, 2009 at 2:24 pm |
i agree. i was made fun of in grade school and it was very traumatizing (the boys were very mean and disgusting). now i hide them as much as i can, because all people say is how weird they look. well, guess what, your FACE is weird! how about that? that’s what i would like to say, but i’m too nice.
both of my thumbs are club thumbs, but they aren’t as short as some of the photos of club thumbs i’ve seen… maybe i just have a slight case of it?? and both of mine are exactly the same. i know they came from my mother, because my 1/2 sister has one club thumb. THANKS MOM
March 3, 2008 at 3:13 am |
I have two clubbed thumbs and have only met two other people with them. I hate when anyone comments on them. I am 100% italian and I believe my father has them also, however he has chubby hands so it looks as though I got it from him. No one else in my family has them. I never knew they even had a name. If there is a slight chance I have some royal blood in me, I will take it!!!!! At least now I have a comeback for the people who try to make me feel like there is something wrong with me. I just might not try to hide them anymore and give everyone the royal thumbs up!! :]
March 9, 2008 at 3:01 am |
I was told they were called hangmans thumbs! I am native american on one side and english,scottish,and irish on the other side! I usually call myself a mutt with stubby thumbs. I can never find gloves to fit or press on nails! It is nice to see others with stubby thumbs cool!!!!
March 9, 2008 at 1:06 pm |
I think there must be a gene for club thumbs. I have two myself. My mother has two and her mother had two. My daughter has two club thumbs also. My granddaughter has one club thumb. I always thought that my family was the only one in the world that had funny looking thumbs. It is nice to see that there are lots of people just like me. Many people are so surprised when they see my thumbs, its like did you mash your thumbs and they grew like that. It is amusing to some people. I personally have always hated my thumbs. I try to hide them when I can so people won’t see how ugly they make my hands look. My daugher don’t seem to mind showing hers off. My daughter even went as far as having acrylic nails put on hers. I think that you find it more with people in the south.
March 14, 2008 at 12:27 am |
wow! I never knew there were so many people out there that had clubbed
thumbs. I thought I was the only one who was suffering..I thank God i hve them it could be rather hard to do with out them.I had a doctor tell me that it was from the irish desent.and to people over there. you are of importance. my mom was irish an scottish, an my dad was of the metr. decent and some indian. who knows! I know I have them and have had for 55 yrs. so gang we need to start a club! lol we are diffrent and unique. no one quite like us we have been set apart from the rest… they can call us the short and stubby gang or the royal thumbs!!!!! it might be exciting to meet others with this trait
March 16, 2008 at 1:07 am |
I have two clubbed thumbs which I also only realized recently were a genetic trait that other people have…I always thought I was the only one with cobra thumbs! I don’t know anyone else in my family that has them, however my dad has pretty short legs, “club legs” if you will. Maybe this has something to do with my thumbs being short. Does anyone else with club thumbs have family members with shortened legs?
March 17, 2008 at 10:09 pm |
Wow I am so glad that Im not the only one!!! I have a clubbed thumb on my right hand and am soooo embarrassed by it. I recently met a woman in a shop who also had a clubbed thumb, it was amazing to meet someone else with the same thing. I think it’s a genetic thing but no one else in my family has it. I am of Pakistani origin so this whole Italian thing seems a little odd.
April 2, 2008 at 12:42 am |
Yay! I’m not deformed. I’m glad this isnt common knowledge, it’s so much fun watching people when you tell them you cut the tip of your thumb off
It’s amazing how much the picture looks like my hand!
July 2, 2009 at 2:53 am |
Hi there…I am also Robin…. (girl) and I have 2 “clubbed” thumbs…. I only just stubbled upon this website..and, boy am I glad…. I used to tell people that I ran into walls and used my thumbs as cushions…. people don’t seem to get that these are the digits we’re dealt with… although I understand the shock upon first sight…. I waitress for money and am hyper-aware of how different I am everyone I serve…and further worry that people will loose their appetites from my “deformity”…. Anyhow, glad to know there are others with this special physical trait and I should continue to carry the plate…. Yay!
April 8, 2008 at 11:39 pm |
hey guys, i’ve got two and they’re great! i show them off because people are like “cool!” i know a bunch of people who have them, and they all seem embarrassed of them, but it’s nothing to hide. because they are so small, it makes it harder for opponents to beat you in thumb wars
trust me, the midget thumbs make you awesome.
June 19, 2009 at 6:51 pm |
Hillarious!!! I have to stubby thumbs and I always win at thumb wrestling…that must be why!! I never knew there was a name for it…but it is great to know there are other people with the same thumbs out there!! I am usually embarrassed by them, but honestly its a great ice breaker. Everyone notices them and I give them the ‘ol “Thumbs up!”. When I go to get fake nails put on, its funny to watch the person digging through the box of nails to find the right size for my thumbs…and then finally they have to go into the drawer to get out the “special” size.
PS. I am 50% Italian.
June 19, 2009 at 7:01 pm
…I should clarify….I am 50% Italian and 50% German, so they might be right about the European descent.
Also, I plan to get a custom bowling ball made since my thumbs never fit in the balls they have at the alley
LOL
June 25, 2009 at 2:29 pm
i am not sure which side my club thumbs comes from. i keep hearing that it is italian, and also indian? i know they came from my mother, who is indian/irish/german… and my 1/2 sister (from her 1st boyrfriend) has one club thumb. my father’s side of the fam doesn’t have any that i know of. and he’s 100% italian, so that makes me 50% italian, then a small % of indian/irish/german… who knows where they come from!
August 31, 2009 at 9:35 pm
About the bowling balls:
I am the only one in my family (that I know of) that has clubbed thumbs. However my entire family are avid bowlers. When I was younger I used to bowl by rolling the ball down the aisle, because I couldn’t fit my thumb in the hole like everyone esle. I now bowl with a custom – made ball, but it was really funny seeing the guy at the store measure my fingers for the bowling ball. He said they didn’t have any with my “measurements” in stock, do they would carve me a new one!
June 20, 2009 at 3:44 am |
i beat my brother at thumb wars all the time!!!!! he still laughs at them but i love my clubs!
April 9, 2008 at 9:53 pm |
Hi, I have a “club thumb” on you right hand. Am 100% Irish. Always hated it & still do! Also have webbed feet i.e. both toe’s beside my big toes are webbed!
I suppose I’m kind of unusual.
G
June 25, 2009 at 2:32 pm |
ok, wow. i have 2 club thumbs, and i have only 2 toes that are webbed together… my sisters always made fun of me for that… why must i always be made fun of?? i think it’s cause they’re jealous that i’m cuter than them! lol
August 18, 2009 at 9:56 pm |
Ok hmm the more and more i read I keep coming acorss Irish and the right hand thumb. I am 1/4 Irish female and have one clubbed thumb on my right hand.
I think im gettig closer as to where it comes from… i just call it my inbread marking..lol
April 10, 2008 at 3:17 pm |
WOW! There are more of us!
I also have two clubbed thumbs and very short legs! No one on either side of the family has them. in my whole life, I only met one other person with my thumb and she was from Pakistan.
April 10, 2008 at 3:50 pm |
Hi again!
I just posted and wanted to ask if people knew their bloodtype.
I’m B+ with Polish/Ukranian, Italian and Scottish.
June 11, 2009 at 8:01 pm |
OMG I am also B+ blood type with two club thumbs. I am of Spanish Mexican Indian, Basque, a little english (I am very fair skinned with hazel eyes)
June 12, 2009 at 6:16 am
Hi. I don’t think being B+ blood type and clubbed thumb is a significant coincidence. I have 2 clubbed thumbs and I’m A+…
I’ve heard the suggestions that the thumbs relate to regal/royal heritage, to Jewish ancestry, and to an indication of rare genius. While anyone of them is just fine, I’d prefer the 3rd one… ;-D
So, does anyone know what the deal with them is?
April 14, 2008 at 7:30 pm |
Hi! I have just found out club thumbs are the official name for my two short fat thumbs. I have only met one other person with them, a school teacher of mine and she shared the same birthday as me, Dec 30th which was spooky. I am English but my mother’s family originated from Ireland. I am blood group O.
April 18, 2008 at 3:11 pm |
Hi
I have one clubbed thumb (left) and one normal. I am 21, Swedish and I know my grand dad had one clubbed thumb, same as me. I am quite embarrassed about it, but no-one, apart from my family mention it to be honest. I have been with my boyfriend for 2 years, and he has never mentioned it, so I guess it’s not a big deal! Go clubbed thumbs!!
April 20, 2008 at 3:54 am |
Wow i’m not the only one! Hi to all the unbelievably awesome royal people with the toe thumbs! I have one clubbed thumb on my right hand, but everyone love it to bits. I have never met anyone with a clubbed thumb, but my family has a history of funky limbs and other weird stuff like webbed fingers and toes, and even joined kidneys! I am from Irish, English, Welsh, Scottish and German ancestory, and probably even Italian or Spanish. Anyway, everyone with a clubbed thumb should not be embarrassed about it as it makes you truly unique and definately more awesome than the rest
April 24, 2008 at 10:04 pm |
wow.
i hate my thumbs.
i always tuck my little ‘clubbed’ thumbs in my hand , so nobody sees them.some people find them cute,some find it weird.
i have met about 3-4 people with them.
so it must be quite common.
prehaps i should learn to love them, but its hard. lol.
THUMBS UP.
(Y)
xx
April 29, 2008 at 9:40 pm |
i have two clubbed thumbs. the irish thing doesn’t make sense to me as i’m english, german, and native american. i, too, have been self conscious about my thumbs. people laugh at them a lot or ask “what’s wrong with them?” i have seen a few people with clubbed thumbs. my dad has clubbed thumbs as well. i did a search on google and it says it’s from european blood lines. doesn’t really specify where exactly. i’m not really self conscious about my thumbs like i used to be. i’m born this way and there’s nothing i can do about it. might as well just accept them the way they are. it’s nothing to stress about. =)
April 30, 2008 at 3:30 am |
wow – this is weird. I can’t believe these thumbs have a name. I have seen a number of people over the years with the same “thumb” as me – I only have one on my right hand. the people I have seen before with them have had two thumbs – never one with only one and one normal one so I guess I an kinda strange in that aspect. I never actually realized it was a condition or named defect before. I have to say when my son was born 6 years ago the first thing I asked my hubby was whether his thumbs looked normal… it has bothered me and I have tried to hide it most of my life although now that I am in my 30’s it seems to bother me less and less.
It is pretty weird reading about this online and looking at pictures and seeing how much some of them look like mine. crazy. I guess I am thankful I had normal toes and was healthy otherwise and did not pass it on to my son.
May 2, 2008 at 6:56 am |
I googled “short fat thumbs” and came across this site. When I saw the picture of that thumb I started laughing and couldn’t stop. I told my friend “My thumb is on the internet!”
I have two clubbed thumbs. I was a little self conscious of them growing up, but ever since I graduated from high school they haven’t bothered me. In fact, I adore my thumbs and I’m glad I have them. I love to show people and watch their eyes bulge out and they exclaim “What happened?” I think its funny. Only a handful of people have noticed it on their own though… And I’ve never met anyone with thumbs like mine. Which is funny because I remember thinking that my mom had weird thumbs, not me… haha. I think “our” thumbs are cuter then regular thumbs. Regular thumbs look weird to me…
Oh, and most of my ancestors come from Europe. I think mostly Germany and England. And I don’t know my blood type, though I think I should.. Does “royal” count?
May 2, 2008 at 9:49 pm |
Hello, just saw my post was deleted…Hm, was it offending? I do not want to mess with my new found thumb community…anyway greetz
May 3, 2008 at 3:10 pm |
no, ‘tremens’ your post was not deleted; it’s on another thread.
May 4, 2008 at 3:34 am |
WOW!
this is so cool!
I never knew ANYBODY had thumbs like mine.
some people say they’re “deformed” which really bothers me,
but I try to just hide them in my hand. lol.
but I sarched “deformed thumbs” and came across this!
its really neat because the picture lookes exactley like both of
my thumbs.
But, it sucks that I cant wear fake nails.:/
May 4, 2008 at 10:01 am |
Me again! The webshots album is created and I’ve already received 2 pictures and I’ve decided to make an anonymous fun contest with them… The widest and the thinnest thumbs will win (no prize, just fun)… I’ll put a picture of mine to try to win the thinnest lol… Would be funny to see an 18yo girl win the widest and me , a 29yo male win the thinnest lol… Anyway thank to those who participated and I’m waiting for more… The webshots album is at :
http://community.webshots.com/album/563297521FOfYFc?vhost=community
Send your pics at spectrale@videotron.ca
Thanks
P.S: I’ve receives 1 ‘normal’ (but wide) and 1 clubbed thumbs… More clubbed needed
May 6, 2008 at 8:15 pm |
hello everyone!
Like everyone else has said, I’m glad to know that they’re others out there with thumbs like mine. Ever since I can remember I’ve been super embarrssed about my thumbs. I recently found out that they’re called clubbed thumbs, and are a sign of royalty. Not sure why. I am the absolute only person with these thumbs in my family. I know one other girl in my school that has this thumb.
I am French, German, and Norwiegen, with A postive blood.
If you’ve ever heard of megan fox, she is a beautiful actress, you will notice that she too, has a clubbed thumb! I thought that was interesting.
May 9, 2008 at 2:39 pm |
“Thumbs up” to all!
I am a 56 year old mom who has been looking for “thumbers” my whole life! This website has been a “most exciting find”. Both of my thumbs are clubbed. I am primarily of English and German blood lines. My aunt, my mother’s sister, also had this trait. My 3 children do not have clubbed thumbs. I am type O blood.
I had been told by another “thumber” that this trait could be traced back to a specific area in England- I like the royal connection!! Thanks to all of you for your stories. I love the contest idea. Before I can enter I have to learn how to photo my thumbs and then download to my computer
May 10, 2008 at 10:47 am |
Hello Judy
I’m waiting for your pic and even if they’re not the widest or the slimmest thumbs it’s ok because at the end I’ll make an average and we’ll finally know what is the average width of a clubbed thumb (not scientific but valuable anyway lol) man and women separated 
For your pics it’s easy you just put your thumb near a ruler, exactly like all other pictures (the best view is picture#3) in the Webshots album http://community.webshots.com/album/563297521FOfYFc?vhost=community
You download your pics from your digital cam into the computer via a USB cable and “attach” (add pictures option) your pic with this link spectrale@videotron.ca and you click send… That’s it and have a nice day
May 13, 2008 at 4:56 am |
Hello fellow club thumbs. I am a 25 year old female with two club thumbs. I was very self conscious of my thumbs when I was younger but they don’t really bother me know. I have had people tell me that they disgust them and that they look like big toes which bothers me. I am of german, danish and english descent. The english part can be traced back to Sir Francis Drake who was an english politician, slave trader and pirate who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth 1. His lineage can be traced to royalty, sort of. So I might have got my thumbs from him. Whatever. It seems to me that more women have them than men.
Does anyone else notice this. Is there some sort of statistic?
May 20, 2008 at 10:32 am |
Hi all – WOW !!!!!
Both of my thembs are clubbed and i live in London and i have NEVER seen another person with them !!
I have always loved them in fact at school my best friend had big braces and we nicknamed ourselves “fums n Gums ” lol
When i looked at your pic at the top and then read all of your replies i am really blown away that i’m not that unique !!
Hmmmm well all i know of my background is that i have some Spanish on my Gran’s side and Welsh on my Dad’s and Irish on my Grandad?
No Italian – wow could i be descended from Royalty ? lolol
Thank you kindly for sharing everyone and thank you Alf for your pic and setting this up to enlighten myself and my fellow – Fum friends ! ! heeehee
x x x x
May 25, 2008 at 6:35 am |
I`m 42 male in Chester England..I`ve always known my thumbs were different from others,I never really any issues with it and have also been playing the guitar for 30yrs without any problems, until a mates girlfriend noticed them and started laughing her head off about 20yrs ago.Since then I started to be very aware of them and found myself tucking them behind my fingers and when I pass someone something I always make sure my thumbs are not shown.My kids think there “cute”! But how can 2 big toes where your thumbs should be cute?? I hate them..sorry.
They`ve also been linked to a bad temper as well..I hate to admit it but I do have a short fuse and do get quite angry at some stupid things!!
June 11, 2009 at 8:24 pm |
I play a little guitar as well but with tiny hands and club thumbs it does make it a wee bit difficult. I am spanish, english, basque with some indigenous Mexican Indian thrown in for good measure, however I do favor my father’s grammie who was the daughter of an american englishman named John Hawkins. wjite skin with blue eyes , and a little too short 5 ‘ 4 ”
May 25, 2008 at 11:36 pm |
I can’t believe I’ve got two demented fingers my brother + sister make fun of them its no fair
May 29, 2008 at 3:10 am |
OMG!! Im 38 and so happy I have found that Im not alone!! Both of my thumbs are clubbed. I have a 2nd or 3rd cousin on my fathers side w/ the same. To our knowledge no one else in our family has them, including our children. Im very excited to tell my family about this as they have also wondered my thumbs were so different. Unfortunately, I dont know my heritage so I cant really make the connection to the royalty thing, but what a great story! I didnt realize that a person could have only one clubbed thumb. Thanks for all the info.!!
June 1, 2008 at 4:02 am |
love this site.
June 1, 2008 at 4:08 am |
I love that we all have “European Royal Thumbs!”
I totally agree w/the person who said they look like cobra thumbs, winning thumb wars, and of an Irish descent. I’m young-and I accept them! Both of my thumbs are that way and my dad has them, and 2 girl cousins on my mom’s side. So… I have it in my blood on both of my parent’s sides!!! I feel that it’s more common in girls too. Those pictures look a lot like my thumbs. Curious if anyone has a problem of getting infection in the sides of their thumbs and how it gets better. Thumb rings are tricky to get on! lol
June 1, 2008 at 3:04 pm |
How do I send pictures of my THUMBS. I think mine are the widest I have seen.
June 2, 2008 at 3:19 am |
Hahahaha wow I can’t believe this; this is great!
I have two clubbed thumbs… but I never knew there was a name for them!
My friends call them my nubs… or toe thumbs. But I also agree that they look like cobras; that’s what I use to describe them hahaha.
However I’m not any of the nationalities that have been previously mentioned…
I’m Irish, Spanish, Lebanese, and Croatian.
Two nubs up ;]
June 2, 2008 at 5:48 am |
Hello Molly! You think you have the widest thumbs? Just ‘attach’ your pics to your message sent to this address (a picture of your thumb near a ruler so we can clearly see the width is necessary) spectrale@videotron.ca or I’ll make a test with this address because I’ve had problem to receive some pictures lately, try svendar78@yahoo.com… I hope that you’ll win! lol
June 2, 2008 at 5:51 am |
(Clic either spectrale@videotron.ca or svendar78@yahoo.com then ‘attach pictures’ then select (double left click on the mouse) the picture from your computer and click send… That’s it!
)
June 4, 2008 at 5:21 am |
OMG!! I cant believe such a website exists! Well I am 21 yrs old and I also have 2 clubbed thumbs.. so it really makes me feel better that there is alot of other people with similar thumbs like mine..im sorry to say but I have always hated my thumbs and I think I still do just a little I just cant seem to get over the fact that they are different. In high school, there were lots of times that I was made fun of because of them and I would cry inside because of it…i was called a “freak”.. and i would just think that is just the way I was born and there was nothing i could do about..omg im like tearing right now
Well now that im a little older i am a little over it..no one in my close family has them as far as I know.. but i might..i never really paid attention.. At my high school I knew 2 people in my grade level with them, now that im in college i know another 2 people with them, and actually one of my co-workers has clubbed thumbs as well! Oh and I just realized that Megan Fox has them also! which makes me feel even better! I should be happy that I wasnt born with a missing leg or something!! Oh and I am Mexican America by the way and I believe my great grandmother was from Spain!
June 10, 2008 at 9:37 pm |
i have 2 club thumbs. always thought they were called hammer thumbs. was soooo jealous of my sister (who has 2 normal thumbs)! i hate my thumbs and always try to hide them. when people notice i tell them i caught them both in a door when i was younger and people seem to believe that! when i had my son it was one of the first things i checked and thank god he does not have them.
wish i was more like some of the people above who are quite proud of them. feel guilty sometimes when i see people with real problems and here i am happy and healthy yet moaning about my short thumbs!!! good to know that other people have it and i am not a freak.
June 12, 2008 at 6:48 am |
I have two and always felt like I was at disadvantage in thumb wars against the long thumbed majority. I also could never pull off a magic trick involving a fake plastic thumb because it was made for longies. They’re still kick ass thumbs though!
June 13, 2008 at 8:19 pm |
I found this site while I was looking for a connection between my thumbs and a medical issue. ( I have found none, by the way.) I have two clubbed thumbs and rarely have been bothered by them, even though my husband and the rest of my family have teased me about it. (When I was a little girl, I could never find a bowling ball that didn’t weigh 12 pounds or more that had a hole wide enough for my thumb. Needless to say, I was not the best bowler! I was, however, able to wear acrylics on a couple occaisions. The manicurist had another client with thumbs like mine, so she knew what to do.) My husband has almost creepily long, thin fingers. One of our daughters has his fingers and the other appears to have clubbed thumbs like me, but not to the same extent. She doesn’t seem to mind either. If it works, what’s the problem?
June 14, 2008 at 11:24 am |
Hello B.! Here’s a site for you if you want to be able to play bowling : http://kingofthemill.net/?page=Contemporary_Bowling_Ball_Fitting_Measuring_and_Drilling_Tools
So, everybody, whats your thumb size (thumb width)?
June 11, 2009 at 8:26 pm |
funny….i tooo cant use the generic bowling balls they stick on my thumbs
June 14, 2008 at 11:03 pm |
haha, I’ve read many of your posts and I’m noticing a slight trend… I am also Scotch-Irish and English. I know that it does get irritating at times when people notice my thumbs for the first time and gather a crowd around to look at them, but I still like them. It’s funny looking back at baby pictures and realizing how very tiny my thumbs are in comparison to everyone elses. Not to mention, going out and getting acrylic nails always proves difficult because the salon never has a large enough tip to fit. But it’s also nice to fantasize that I might be extremely distantly related to a royal line, imbred or not.
June 15, 2008 at 3:28 am |
Omigosh! I have two clubbed thumbs. I am of Irish and German descent. AND my husband has two clubbed thumbs as well! He is Scottish, English and German. I have seven children (ages 4 to 20) and I think they all have the thumbs, except for two…Is there a prize for the most short, fat, toe thumbs in a family? I’ll take a picture tomorrow. I was googling thumbs because my daughter (who was prom queen at her high school this spring) is having issues… I have never even tried to get acrylic nails…I always thought why bother?
June 17, 2008 at 4:50 am |
Another “Yay, I’m not the only one!”
Now I can fight the silly inquiries with a little science. And prove that I wasn’t so stupid as to slam both my thumbs in a car door when I was a baby (how would you slam BOTH thumbs in a car door at the same time, anyways?!?). No one that I’m related to has club thumbs though, so I’m a bit of a mystery. Although I’ve got at least a half-dozen different types of ancestry in me from all directions, so who knows.
June 18, 2008 at 8:24 pm |
Hey, I have thesee thumbs. I knew ppl had them but not as many as these ppl. They’re kinda embarrasing because all my friends are like “omg they’re so weirdd” and I’m like yeah, I know. But, whatever. Ya know? Its a hairflip. One of my bestfriend says its cute. :]
June 19, 2008 at 3:14 pm |
I have 2.. My Great grandfather on my mothers side had them and 1 of kids did as well. my 2 Kids do not have them. Thank god! I’m canadian french.
June 23, 2008 at 8:44 pm |
Today a doctor tried to tell me that clubbed thumbs indicated lung issues. Are you kidding me??? Cool to find this page!
I have 2, my brother and mom also have 2, and we’re Scots/Irish/English/Hungarian. Aside from bowling balls sticking, pretty girl-gloves squeezing and thumb rings being impossible, it’s never bothered me! I just laugh when people grab my thumbs and call them “nubby,” “stubby,” or “E.T. Thumbs.” That’s a new one, huh?? I mean, come on, it’s not like we have two noses or something! I met a girl who plays Belle in the stage show of Beauty and the Beast who has them and she’s gorgeous and proud of her thumbs! Standing out is fun!
June 24, 2008 at 1:04 am |
im cool.
i have clubbed thumbs.
June 24, 2008 at 3:27 am |
OMG! I met a lady today with one clubbed thumb. (she is the 4th i have met) She informed me about genetics so I came home to do some research. Very interesting to read all of these posts. I have always hidden my left clubbed themb in the palm of my hand because I was so embarrased of it. People always ask….did you smash it, suck it, break it etc when you were smaller? I always say, Nope, I have no idea why its this ugly. Im 33 and it doesnt bother me like that anymore. Acrylic nails is a no go for sure, Cobra is a funny way to describe it. I have enjoyed all of the info I have read. I do not know my heritage but am going to look into it for sure. My grandparents are from the south and thats all I have. (Lousianna & Texas) Im going to try to go to the website listed above and do the picture thing. I will continue to research and keep this site in my favorites. OH…..Im the only one in my family that has this….at least that we know of. Did you guys have this clubbed thumb from birth? I have no idea if it was from birth or appeared this way later. Thanks for the info.
Wendy…Vancouver, Washington USA
June 25, 2008 at 7:20 am |
This is so cool…I didn’t know there was a community of us out there. I am 22 and just recently realized that my thumbs are due to some kind of genetic defect. Nobody else in my family has clubbed thumbs but I can tell you that I am of Spanish and Puerto Rican decent if that helps??? I would really like to find out more about this if anybody finds anything else out!
June 26, 2008 at 7:03 pm |
omg im not alone with these thumbs. i have one clubbed thumb on my left hand. Im british/welsh/italian. im really happy there are other people like me. all my life ive had people call me “toe thumb” or say my thumb looks like its made out of playdough lol!!!
June 30, 2008 at 6:16 pm |
I have those thumbs both of them and my sister has one regular and one like that.
July 15, 2008 at 3:30 am |
I also have these thumbs. I never knew there was a name for them until tonight. I ALWAYS hide my hands and I have been teased for years. Nobody in my family has them ~ I have asked my parents, aunts, and other extended family and I seem to be the only one. I’m so glad that both of my children don’t have them. I have hated them for over 45 years and love winter so I can wear gloves!!! I’m so glad I found this website so I could read others stories…but how can I find more pictures?? I think mine are probably the most fat and short!! Yuck!!!
July 18, 2008 at 2:18 pm |
I also have these thumbs, and ive always hated them
Ive always found that with mine that they aren’t the best for technical work as the top bit is slightly “crunchy” as it bends, which has always kinda concerned me. I’ve only ever known one other person with these thumbs but they moved to a different school and I never really talked to them anyway!
I’m english but not sure of my ancestry, both my parents are english
July 21, 2008 at 8:53 pm |
Im not the only 1!!!
I never realized so many ppl shared this quality…
I too, am so embarrassed when ppl make comments about them. But im happy that im not alone.
This is the first time i ever looked up the condition b 4 so i wa pleasently surprized.
July 25, 2008 at 4:51 pm |
I’VE FOUND MY PEOPLE!!!!!!
July 28, 2008 at 2:39 am |
I can’t believe how many of us there are out there! Glad to read your stories- I can totally relate to problems with bowling balls, art classes, peers, etc. It is so good to know that I am not alone!! I am 47 and of Italian descent. My paternal family were from Rome and northern italy and my maternal family came from southern italy. I am an A-blood type. Love the speculation that our clubbed thumbs may be indicative of a royal heritage! Makes the suffering a bit better! Never liked my thumbs, but feel so much better to know that there are many of us out there.
August 1, 2008 at 4:58 am |
I know that thumb!!! Reading thru these comments, I feel like I found long lost kindred spirits. I have two club thumbs. Until today, I thought they were called “tailor’s thumbs” . When I was growing up, my mother attributed the “stubbiness” to the fact that I sucked my thumbs. Wow, was I sorry. I know better now. I can so relate to your stories about bowling balls, nail tips and gloves. I am the only one in my Irish/Scottish/Norwegian family who has them. My Norwegian grandfather may have had one. I thought they were part of a skeletal anomoly package because I also have shorter (actually lower) than usual baby fingers (pinkies) and my second to last toes are shorter than the baby toes- anyone else have this or is this unrelated? (For the record, my blood type is O).
August 3, 2008 at 8:02 am |
hi everyone. I’m glad to have found this site. I’m east indian. My parents come from India and I get it from my fathers side. I was reading in the handology book in chapters book store that anyone with clubbed thumbs is very stubborn or has a temper but we are able to bring it out only when we want to which is not all the time! I dont know about you but i see it in my dad and i do get my temper from him! i thought that was unique
August 5, 2008 at 11:57 pm |
Hi im lea im 14 years old and i didnt know what was wrong with my thumb ever since i was little everyone had normal thumbs but not me it more so looked like a toe and i always got made fun for it then today i looked it up and realized what it was and i had no idea some people would have the same problem as me well thanks alot for all your help!
August 6, 2008 at 2:17 am |
I always thought that I was the only person in the world with these ugly thumbs. To me they are ugly and my mother always told me that it came from thumb sucking. It was agony for me to eat in public, always trying to hide my thumbs. So glad that there are so many people out there that have the same affliction. I am very pleased to have found this webpage.
August 8, 2008 at 5:45 am |
I LOVE MY THUMBS! I have two little stubby thumbs and I’ve always thought they were quite funny, as opposed to being any kind of thing to be embarassed about.
Oddly enough, my first boyfriend had one clubbed thumb and a couple of decades later, I married a man with one clubbed thumb.
I think they must be a sign of perfection!
August 11, 2008 at 9:14 pm |
Hi. I have one clubbed thumb on my right hand- same as my mum!!! Its funny- i have met several people with these thumbs (although everyone but my mum and me had them on both hands) and they are all wonderful people. I am quite proud of mine. I am actually a geneticist so i find it particularly interesting. I am from Scotland. Another reason to be proud!!
I found out there is one gene that is responsible. It is autosomal dominant (you only need one copy of the gene) and it has variable penetrance (you can have the gene without the thumbs). Apparently it is less penetrant in males which is why there are more females with the cute thumbs- but it is called Bachydactyly type D (i think that is latin for special!!).
: )
August 17, 2008 at 4:39 am |
Wow! I am so thrilled by this site! I too have two clubbed thumbs. I have 3 brothers and none of them have it and neither does anyone I know of in my familia.
I remember noticing something different about my thumbs when I was a young girl. I also remember the day some girl at school told me I must be “an alien” because look at my thumbs “they’re so…different”.
A lady in jr high told me her niece had that too and that it was genetic. She said her neice could bend her thumb all the way back!
Also, someone also has told me it is related to artistic people. What do you guys think?
Recently, I actually met someone who had them! She said no one else in her family had them either. She also said she was artistic.
Well, I’ve gotten a lot of teasing as well. I think people are just stoopid if they are really weirded about someone’s nail shape.
Its so weird to see the photo gallery=those hands looks just like mine!
August 17, 2008 at 4:33 pm |
Hi,
@Canadagirl:Yeah, I’ve heard about that artistic thing, my mother used to tell me that when I came back from school, crying, because people were joking about by thumbs…;))not kidding… It would be cool if it was.Actually I’m quite good at drawing… I read a few times about characteristic properties (hand-palmistry), that short thick thumbs indicate an impetuous person, that easily loses its temper…
@all:
Hi, i’ve posted here a while ago.Reading thru the msgs, I draw the conclusion that women are more often affected by “clubbophilia” (HA!) which underpins observations I’ve made in the past!Most people I met who had clubbed thumbs were girls/women.
Anyway (I’m a guy and also am proud owner of 2 clubbed thumbs), I just wanted to say I feel relieved knowing that out there there are some other folks swinging their clubbed thumbs;)).We’re not alone.UNITE, CLUBBED THUMBS OF THE WORLD, LETS RAISE OUR THUMBS IN THE AIR AND MARCH TOGETHER!
Question: Do you mind people asking about your thumbs?I sometimes think its quite rude!Because most people don’t ask about that…Just yesterday I’ve been asked (during a party) “mate, whats wrong with your thumbs?”, I laughed it away saying ” yeah theyre alien thumbs blablabla” but I have to say I didnt feel confortable at all!Its not the first time!Anyway, just wanted to know your opinion!
BTW I’m from Germany, wehere do you all come from??
August 21, 2008 at 5:08 am |
I saw a doctor yesterday and during the exam he commented oh I see you have club thumbs I was in shock I’m almost 26 and never thought there was a name for my thumbs. I’ve gone my whole life hiding my thumbs especially in my school years, I always kept my hands closed with my thumbs tucked in the center of my palm, I would even keep my thumb turned into my palm when I’d hold hands with boyfriends. I got into quite a few fights due to kids making fun of my thumbs or asking stupid questions like did your thumb get run over by a truck. I wish I had known that it wasn’t just me but oh well now I do know so I can explain the why anytime I get asked.
August 26, 2008 at 3:50 am |
I am 49 years old and didn’t realize this had a facination. Every time one of my childeren has been born my wife always checks their thumbs to make sure they are “normal”. My Aunt says it is because “we have dwarfs in the family”. Well at 6′5″ that is the only part of me that has been dwarfed…. My one poor little thumb has been smashed, cut, bitten and burned. My doctors just said “well it is kinda gimpy so I guess it doesn’t work too well…
Oh yes. I always try to hide it.
My parents never noticed it until I brought it up. When I look at pictures when I was a toddler I can see that big old thumb hanging there…
So today I was in a class with a fellow that had two thumbs like ours…. I didn’t bring it up. Possibly I should have.
August 26, 2008 at 8:44 pm |
I have 2 clubbed thumbs too. I have met two people in my life who also have them. Both women. I am of 100% German descent. Can’t wear a thumb ring, but no one else uses my bowling ball! Texting is a bit of a pain as well. No one else in my family has this that I am aware of.
August 27, 2008 at 3:10 am |
Re: artistic: I have 2 club thumbs and I am a pretty talented illustrator/painter. I have kept a near perfect rendering of my hand that I did as an assignment in 7th grade art class. I got a “C” because the teacher didn’t think I portrayed the thumb correctly- Little did he know becuase I was too embarrassed to show him the model, which was of course my clubbed thumbs.
Re: dwarfism: I was told by a geneticist that there could be a disposition toward dwarfism (we adopted so I’ll never know). Re: being especially impetuous-oh, yeah. A little short fused, fer sure
Re: having other shorter digits :I’m still curious to know if anyone also has the shorter than average pinky finger or second to last toes to go with their special club thumbs. I thought this was part of the complete set or am I just really lucky?!!
August 29, 2008 at 9:05 am |
My family is from the south. and my grandmother is native american.
i have always been embarrased and teased about my weird thumbs.
its really good to know im not the only one anymore!
September 1, 2008 at 6:38 pm |
hi i hv got 2 clubbed thumbs n i m from india, my parents are of indian tibetan origin. and yes people often make fun of ma thumbs.. its funny but a blog on clubbed thumb i never expected. nice to have it??
September 1, 2008 at 6:48 pm |
many people in north west India located in a small place seem to have this trait. cuz many of cousins and friends have it either in the one hand or the both. pic looked as if some body took the pic of ma thumb and uploaded here… ha ha ha !!!
September 2, 2008 at 9:30 am |
wow im so happy i found this site, im 22 and have two clubbed thumbs one is a bit worse than the other, they used to really bother me but now sometimes i show them off for a laugh, i feel much better knowing im not alone, i am welsh, my uncle has them too and he is english/scottish. xx
September 3, 2008 at 4:40 pm |
hi Elaine !!!
i m also from genetics background too and presently working on bacteria. i tried not seriously but just out of curiosity i found that the gene responsible may have a morphogens like function. during the time of embryo genesis concentration of these morphogens determine weather its going to be clubbed or normal.
September 6, 2008 at 7:57 am |
hey i have two clubbed thumbs as well, the thing is no1 in my family has it, its weard. my nationalaty is 100% lebanese and i live in australia. sometimes i like my thumbs and sumtimes im embaresed, alot of mixed emotions. people have teazed me about it but i try and egnore them, its accutuly kinda cute when you look at it in a different way
September 7, 2008 at 12:35 pm |
Heyyy! I’m soooo happy to have found this site!! I have two clubbed thumbs and I always feel so unique and special, until people start saying im deformed. I LOVE when i find people with the same thumbs!! My question is- no one else in my family has them. I’m Jewish, does that have an effect? And i read that they are dominant, but that cant be. oh, and replying to patty- I have short pinkys too!!!!! Ive never met someone before with pinkys that dont reach to the top line on their ring finger!!!! Oh- and my favorite class is genetics if that helps me understand anything.
September 8, 2008 at 2:40 am |
Wow. I had no idea there were other people out there with thumbs like mine. No one in my family (of my knowledge) has clubbed thumbs. Just me. Now I no longer feel alone!
September 8, 2008 at 4:25 am |
What a unique club we have here (pun intended)! Does anyone else, besides Gavi and me, have the short pinky to go with our facinating thumbs? The top of the pinky reaches the mid knuckle instead of the top joint of the ring finger because the pinky knuckle lower than the others.
I also have what some have called “Fred Flintstone” toes- short and stubby with an exceptionally short second to last toe on each foot. (My husband loves me in spite of it)
My roots are Norse/Celtic…Maybe it’s all from my Druid ancestors.
September 8, 2008 at 11:07 pm |
I am of Italian decent, and live in the United States, and come from a long line of club thumbs. My right thumb is a club thumb, my grandmother and my mother both have or had a club thumb, one cousin has a club thumb and my son has one club thumb. Just by chance tonight I was cutting my nails and was wondering how rare this genetic condition might be. Wow was I surprised, besides family members I have never seen anyone else with a thumb like ours.
September 11, 2008 at 2:01 am |
My thumb is on the internet!!!! I was browsing Facebook groups and I typed “thumb” just out of curiosity and came across the Clubbed Thumb Society! I was astonished! I’m from Greece, 20 yrs old, I have a right club thumb and always have been extra embarassed of it. The worst thing I’ve ever heard is “Freak thumb”..! My friends call it “The Frog Thumb” and I think that’s kinda cute!
My dad’s thumbs are kinda fat (!) but I think i got mine from my grandpa whose thumbs were both clubbed. I have never met a person with a thumb like mine but I DID notice that Megan Fox had one when I saw Transformers at the movies!
Guys, I’m so surprised, glad, relieved and thankful we’re a whole lot with funny thumbs!! And I might even begin to like mine…
Cheers, Nat
September 11, 2008 at 2:04 am |
PS. I’m quite hot tempered and stubborn, by the way!!!
September 22, 2008 at 2:16 pm |
Hi… I have clubbed thumbs and I have small hands in general, short pinkys too. I never had a manicure as im too embarrassed. For the ladies out here, does a manicure improve the look of the hands. Do people wear fake nails? For a special occasion, im always like to look really good but my hands let me down. I try to hide them. Any advice on this??
September 23, 2008 at 7:27 am |
My mom and I both have pinkies that do not reach the top line of the ring finger! They only reach until the first line. =P But I don’t have clubbed thumbs. Just stumbled onto this site because I’m researching my pinky for a Genetics homework.
September 26, 2008 at 11:02 pm |
I have club thumbs and i thought it was a deformaty, my great grandmother, aunt and cousin all have the thumbs. I was told people who have club thumbs tend to have heart conditions. Is there any truth to this? If you have any information let me know. Thank you for any help you can provide me.
September 27, 2008 at 1:19 am |
omg i have two of them! i always loved them, i felt unique but alwayd hid them from people, but now, i am so happy others have it too, and i was even happier when i found out i have a chance of being royalty=D
so awesome. im 14, im also glad i found out now than when im older, thanks for making the site
September 28, 2008 at 1:47 pm |
Hi there!
Glad to read I am not the only one with clubbed thumbs. My grandmother had them too and yes, her father was the cook for the Italian King Vittorio Emanuele III. I have no idea if my great-grandmother had an affair with royalty or not, but the idea is amusing. I have always been curious to learn if this trait is attached to other genetic problems such as mine (kidney stones). Any ideas? Thumbs up to everyone!!
PS: To Cath: I have my nails done on a regular basis and yes, they make the thumbs look a bit longer and less… Different, but I can assure you a good manicurist has seen clubbed thumbs before, so go ahead and get your claws done!
September 28, 2008 at 2:14 pm |
Almost forgot to post info on the questions asked so far:
1. I have shorter legs than average, for a woman. I also have wide feet, with short toes, and I was one hell of a swimmer for many years. I can also bend and turn much more than the average person; I wonder if that means that people with these thumbs are more ‘elastic’ than the average person…
2. My blood type is B+
3. I am a very good artist; I started drawing like an adult at the age of 6.
4. Yes, I have a short temper.. Then again who can abide idiots?
5. I have lordosis; meaning the backside sticks out and is ‘bubbled’ rather than wide. Narrow hips, muscular legs.
6. I don’t process protein very well; whether animal or vegetal makes no difference; that’s where the cystine stones come from.
7. I am 100% Italian, and moved to California 10 years ago
Hope this helps!
September 29, 2008 at 1:51 am |
Oh, my goodness. I was just browsing through the net trying to find out information about my “weird” hands, pulled up this site and–there was my thumb! I’m so tickled, this is the only time I’ve ever seen a clubbed thumb other than mine.
Actually, both my thumbs are clubbed. I’ve always hated them, thought they were SOOOOO ugly, and still tend to keep them hidden. (They are a source of great amusement to my grandchildren!) In addition to the clubbed thumbs, I also have unusually short fifth fingers, which, together with the short thumbs, really puts a crimp in my ability to play the piano!
As for ancestry, I’m mostly of English, Scots and Irish on one side, and English, “Pennsylvania Dutch,” Scots-Irish, and Welsh on the other. No one else in my family has (or had) club thumbs that I know of, and neither of my sons inherited either my club thumbs, or my abnormally little fifth digits.
Additional medical information–my blood type is B+. and I have trouble with some sort of auto-immune disorder.
It’s interesting to see that others on this site have “club thumbs and little pinkies.” Makes me wonder if it’s some sort of syndrome….
September 30, 2008 at 6:04 am |
hooray for funny deformities! it’s nice to know i’m not alone;)
October 1, 2008 at 7:09 pm |
Hey everyone! I’ve been working on a clubbed thumb gallery for a few months now. Up to 134 pics. You can see it here:
http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii237/clubbedthumbs/
Please send me an email at clubbedthumb@hotmail.com and I’ll add your pic. No names are used.
JT
October 4, 2008 at 4:04 am |
This site is awesome. I didn’t realize there were so many other people with clubbed thumbs. I’ve only met two other people that weren’t related to me with clubbed thumbs. I also have short pinkies. Is that common for people with clubbed thumbs or something? My grandma had em and so does my dad. I’m not sure if any of my aunts or uncles do too. I’m of Spanish Jewish descent.
October 7, 2008 at 12:44 am |
OMG! So my girlfriend was just making fun of me for my clubbed thumbs (which I have always thought were weird, but not really a medical condition) so I thought I’d look them up on wikipedia and see what it said. It had a link to this website and I can’t believe it…I’ve finally found my people!!! I have two clubbed thumbs, two abnormally short pinkies, and what I like to call “Fred Flinstone” feet. Are all these things connected? What causes them? Will I pass these traits on to my future children? I have so many questions now! But at least I know that the weird quirks I’ve grown up with are actually NOT abnormal. Thanks, guys.
October 7, 2008 at 2:09 am |
Hey Melanie,
I know of cases of clubbed thumbs being passed on and also times when they are not. Not sure of the chances though. A good friend of mine has clubbed thumbs and toes so I assume there is a connection there. As for what causes them, I’ve heard several different theories, ranging from too much thumb sucking as a baby to lack of oxygen before being born. Not sure what is true though, perhaps its case by case.
If you ever want to share a pic, I’d love to add it to the gallery (names are never used).
Anyway, welcome!! (^_^)
October 7, 2008 at 11:35 am |
ha ha ha, i have clubbed thumbs too…and have only just found out they are called “clubbed”, my twin sister has them too and my friend has one normal thumb and one clubbed thumb, my brothers are always takeing the mickey out of me… cant wait to show them this site…… heres to all of the clubbed thumb brigade, let us unite lol xx beth
October 9, 2008 at 3:17 am |
Hi, Melanie!
I have two clubbed thumbs, and little pinkies, too. My feet are “normal” except for some extra webbing between my second and third toes. My brother’s thumbs were not clubbed, but he had even more webbing between his toes than I do. Has anyone else here noticed the extra webbing bit in their own feet, or in the feet of family members?
As for inheritance–I have two sons, and neither of them have clubbed thumbs, or tiny pinkies. I know that when they were born, that was one of the first things I looked for–and breathed a sigh of relief then they turned out to have hands like their dad’s. I know I was teased a lot when I was a child about my thumbs…my mom always used to tell me they were that “weird” shape because I sucked my thumb when I was a baby, but I never believed her.
Welcome to the website. Isn’t it fun to discover that there are lots of other people out there with “funny” thumbs just like your own?
–Jan
October 12, 2008 at 8:28 am |
This is crazy! Both of my thumbs are clubbed but I thought I was deformed or somthing, I’m so relieved that this is an actual genetic gene, I actually feel special and different now.
I’ve always been self concious about them and my friends would make fun of them but now I’m kinda proud of them, so HAH on those who have regular boring thumbs
clubbed thumbs UNITE!
October 13, 2008 at 5:19 am |
I love my thumbs
but my mom makes fun of me and
says how do you text with those things??
hahahah
my aunt also has them but she isn’t related by
blood.. and we always say what is up with your thumbs?
hah
October 15, 2008 at 5:50 pm |
how did thumb came to India (manali) from Europe?
because i know more than a dozen unrelated friends of mine who have this. but all of us come from a geographically isolated place located north west India.
October 19, 2008 at 3:27 am |
BOTH OF MY THUMBS ARE CLUBBED AND 2 THIS DAY I STILL GET TEASED ABOUT THEM… THE BIGGEST JOKE IS THEM BEING CALLED HAMMERS OR THE PHRASE “HAMMER TIME” BEING USED… I ALSO DEVELOPED THE HABIT OF HIDING THEM UNDER MY PALMS W/O NOTICING I WAS DOING IT… SINCE I’VE BEEN OLDER I HAVE A FRIEND W/ BOTH CLUBBED THUMBS, AND A FRIEND W/ ONE CLUBBED THUMB… i ALSO INCOUNTERED A CUSTOMER OF MINES WHO WAS A MALE W/ BOTH CLUBBED THUMBS AND FOR THE FIRST TIME AN ASIAN WOMAN WHO ALSO HAD CLUBBED THUMBS AND NOTICED MINE… IT’S FUNNY HOW PEOPLE W/ THESE THUMBS CAN SPOT SOMEONE ELSE W/ THEM ALSO… I DO GET MY NAILS DONE BUT, THE HARD THING IS MY THUMB IS STILL WIDER THEN THE LARGEST NAIL THEY HAVE 2 OFFER… I’M OF CHEROKEE, CHOCTAW, SHAWNEE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ORGIN, ENGLISH, IRISH, SCOTTISH, SWEDISH, DUTCH, AND GERMAN FROM MY MOM’S FAMILY AND ALL I KNOW FROM MY FATHERS SIDE IS THAT I’M NATIVE AMERICAN AND FRENCH… AS FAR AS SOMEONE’S QUESTION OF BLOOD TYPE I’M A- RH- WHICH IS NOT ONE OF YOUR MORE COMMON BLOOD TYPES… ONLY 15% OF AMERICANS ARE RH-…. HOPEFULLY WITH MY INFO I CAN GET A BETTER IDEA WHERE THESE THUMBS CAME FROM…
October 22, 2008 at 5:50 am |
I have two of these horrible things. I have hidden them all my life. No one else in my family has them. I have run across a couple of people through the years who have them. I hate to hand people things and hope they don’t notice. My fingers are fairly long and nice looking. I fantasize about normal loooong thumbs and wish I could wear a pretty thumb ring lika a girl in high school. Some people have commented when I was young and in school. I am 40 now and haven’t had a questuon or rude comment for years. Could it be I have perfected my hiding them?? I wish the best for all of us. I am of German and Irish decent….Thanks to all.Oh, I thought I read years ago that Paul Newman had them, too. I don’t think anyone mentioned him (RIP).
October 24, 2008 at 12:57 pm |
This is wonderful news. Insecurity about the appearance of my right thumb is something that has eaten at me for years…especially in my profession where cameras and eyes are always present. Thank you for sharing the stories of what these “clubbed” thumbs mean to us, and to history!
Peace,
Keysha
October 25, 2008 at 4:34 pm |
Didn’t know it was a sign of royalty in Europe. But I guess that doesn’t apply to me because im Korean. Still interested in what European royalty has clubbed thumbs
October 29, 2008 at 4:32 am |
Yes! I have always been wondering what happened to my thumbs. I thought that I must have broken a bone or something. I remember first realizing about them when I was like 9. I’m 18 now and no one has really noticed. My left thumb is the clubbed one. My right one is normal.Im afraid that it will somehow affect my social life in the future. Has anyone gone to a doctor to find more info? I’m always scared that it will somehow affect me in the future. It’s weird having to different thumbs. Thanks for your stories. Please give me as much info as you can.
genaro31@att.net
October 29, 2008 at 4:26 pm |
I have always wondered why i have deformed thumbs, i didn’t know there was a whole community of other people with them out there, or indeed that you could just have one deformed one and one normal. Weird but cool – now i don’t feel like such a freak! Its never stopped me having a normal social life but i’m glad my daughter hasn’t inherited them all the same. Im RH neg and have some Polish in my ancestry…I dont know if there’s any link but others have mentioned it. There’s far worse deformities/diseases/illness out there so if widescreen thumbs is your only problem be thankful!
October 29, 2008 at 7:19 pm |
Hey everyone! My clubbed thumb gallery is up to 199 pics! Thanks again to everyone who has sent me a pic to add.
Still looking to add more to the largest clubbed thumb gallery on the net! Anyone else willing to share? Your name will not be used.
Please email me at: clubbedthumb@hotmail.com
The gallery is here: http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii237/clubbedthumbs/
Thanks again!
Jason
October 30, 2008 at 12:35 am |
I have 2 clubbed thumbs and am of Irish,Swedish,and possibly English heritage. My mom has 2 clubbed thumbs as well and I think my mom’s dad did too. I have always been a bit self conscious about my “ET thumbs” and am just learning to appreciate their cuteness. As a Physical Therapist I am able to give great trigger point massages with my strong thumbs!! I have also heard they are a sign of English royalty.
I have only met 2 other people besides my mom who have them! Nice to know there are more of “us”!!
October 30, 2008 at 6:48 pm |
this is great! my brother and I both have 2 clubbed thumbs and I always thought it was b/c our dad is a smoker…haha! we’re both of full blooded korean descent. It’s weird though b/c neither of our parents have clubbed thumbs. I’ve always hated them but am learning to embrace them as my own uniqueness.
October 31, 2008 at 4:46 am |
I’m the only one of my family with stubby thumbs (I think) and fairly short fingers and I find my mom’s long bony thumbs and fingers bizarre! I ♥ my stubby thumbs! ^_^
I’ve met only one other person with them.
I myself am half irish, 3/8 german, 1/8 polish. I also have short legs and a long torso. Now *that* I mind. XD
November 1, 2008 at 12:46 pm |
What a delight to learn of this website!
I’ve often wondered if there is more of a story behind these crazy thumbs of mine and/or whether they mean something. My thumbs and hands look IDENTICAL to the one on the home page of this site! 
Glad to know there are “others” out there. 
My (paternal) grandmother used to squeeze/massage my thumbs when I was a kid in the hopes that she’d help to make them longer and thinner. She told me not to worry, that they’d get longer and thinner when I got older. Now I’m 36, and have stopped hoping they will.
I usually only ever see people with these thumbs once ever couple of years – however I met 3 people within the last two months that had them. One was a Mexican guy in his thirties (I was in Mexico). He told me his wife has one club thumb too (she is Mexican as well). Then I met a woman at a trade show in Vegas that had two club thumbs. Now I’m in China and just last week I met a Chinese man who has one club thumb. Crazy!
One of my maternal aunts has a single club thumb. I’m told my maternal great grandmother had two club thumbs – I’ve always felt a special connection to her b/c of this (despite the fact that I never met her). I have often wondered what else we have in common. No other relatives of mine that I’m aware of have club thumbs. Sure does seem to be more predominant in women. I am of German heritage. I have two brothers and neither have club thumbs.
In highschool, when I used to regularly get asked, “Omg, what happened to your thumb?!”, sometimes I’d tell people I got it stuck in an elevator and they’d believe me. Other times, I’d just show them my other thumb (which looks the same) and they’d look embarrassed for asking. For a while in my twenties, my nickname was “thumbs”.:) People seem to ask me less these days. At the end of the day, I think there are far worse things to have than these funny-looking thumbs, so I’m not too bothered by them now. Not very feminine-looking, but I think it makes us special.
Some questions for other fellow club thumbers….
- If there is an obvious genetic link in your family, was the trait passed down through the maternal or paternal side?
- Do your siblings have club thumbs? Male or female siblings?
- Are you artistic?
Hey, we should form a club!
Any fellow “clubbers” in Vegas? 
lol
November 2, 2008 at 6:07 am |
I just learned i had clubbed thumbs and thier starting to give me ideas that could possibly earn me some money!
November 4, 2008 at 10:00 pm |
I am 43-years old, of English and German descent and have a clubbed thumb on my right hand. My mother was the first in her family to have a right-clubbed thumb and my sister has two clubbed thumbs. I have three children, two boys and a girl. Both of my boys’ thumbs are “normal”, but my daughter inherited two clubbed thumbs! Interestingly enough, my husband’s nephew has two clubbed thumbs and no one else on his side of the family has this trait. Thank you for sharing this information on the www. I have always hidden my “deformity”, but now realize that we are special indeed!
November 5, 2008 at 4:37 am |
yayy i have 2 xD i neverd really notcied them being at all different form the rest cause i havent really compared thumbs
this is so fun =)
November 5, 2008 at 3:20 pm |
Hi there I have 2 Clubbed thumbs and only ever met 3ppl with them. My nana was Italian so maybe i didn’t just inherit the nose lol. IM SO CHUFFED IM NORMAL! Thank you alfparelli for enabling me to see im normal
November 5, 2008 at 3:30 pm |
My brother doesn’t have them neither im the only person in my family who has them as far as im aware but my Italian Grandmother Rosa died before I was born so I dont know if she had them or not. I got sick of ppl saying urgh haven’t you got wierd thumbs that all through childhood I would hide them inside my sleeves or wear gloves. Only recently I now point them out to ppl before they comment to stop any hurtful comment. Its strange how no-one else in my family has them. I went to get acrylic nails put on about a year ago and the nail artist was horrified! She couldn’t get a nail to fit which made me feel abnormal. After reading this site I see now many women obviously have the same problem. Hey might start a business making clubbed thumb aftificial nails! Any business partners out there?! lol ENJOY YOUR THUMBS YOUR UNIQUE!
November 11, 2008 at 8:22 pm |
i SWORE i was the only one with these types of thumbs. i have 2 of them.
i always hide them under my hand.
its kinda weird that everyone seems to come from European descent and im DOMINICAN!! im so freaking weird. im the only one in all my family[and i have a big one].
but im glad they actually have a name. i searched up ‘weird types of thumbs’ on goggle. LOL
November 14, 2008 at 4:59 am |
The clubbed thumb gallery is now up to 250 pics!
http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii237/clubbedthumbs/
Keep ‘em coming!!
November 17, 2008 at 5:40 pm |
Growing up I was not teased much about my left thumb, but by 10th grade I was hopelessly self-conscious about it and decided to keep it hidden at all times; now in middle age, I’m ready to get over it! As Eleanor Roosevelt said “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
My mother’s background was Irish or Scottish, my father’s is Swiss German.
November 18, 2008 at 12:23 pm |
Im so happy i found this ive never seen anyone or knew anyone had it
but still i love my club thumbs it makes it so easy to press buttons on video game controllers thx to it i pwn at all shoot em ups bwahaha im 18 if u were wonderin
November 20, 2008 at 3:26 am |
I can’t believe I found this site. I hate my thumbs and can remember hiding them as early as 5 years old. I am an expert at hiding them behind my index finger. I hate when people see them. As a kid, other kids used to ask me about them. Now, at age 38 people just look at them and don’t say anything. My sister has the clubs too and so does my uncle who got them from his grandmother – it’s a strong gene isn’t it. My first born girl who is almost 3 has them (won’t she love that as she gets older). I laugh and say that I’ll have to teach her how to hide them. My second born girl who is 4 months has not shown the signs of the clubs yet – I think she is safe.
I think Blackberry should make a unit for the “club” club. They are hard to use with these things…lol
November 22, 2008 at 10:13 pm |
i have one clubbed thumb!!! i never knew why it was short and wide my other thumb is normal yayyy! now i know
November 24, 2008 at 5:31 am |
Anyone else willing to share a pic for the gallery?
email me at: clubbedthumb@hotmail.com
Thanks!
November 24, 2008 at 5:58 am |
I am a 55 year old female and the oldest of four children and the only one in my family with clubbed thumbs. My grandfather(on my father’s side) had them and he always told people his thumbs were cut off. None of my cousins have them either. My grandfather was Italian but his mother’s father was German. I have three children and one of my daughters doesn’t have them, one has only one, and my son has two like me. I too have always hated them and tucked them in my hand so they would not be noticed. My son has had comments made about his too. Because I have these thumbs I would always notice peoples’ thumbs and admire the long, slender ones. In doing this I have come across many with the same thumbs. My brother married a girl that had them too. I used to always say that maybe we were all related to someone great like Julius Caesar or something. When I saw that the gene may have occured as a mutation from royal blue-bloods I thought to myself that I wasn’t far from wrong about the past connection. I knew a lady that would read peoples’ auras and told my mine was royal purple. Ha Ha So after 55 years, I have learned to accept them and not feel so self concience. And… it touched my heart to find this website and read your stories and find I was not alone in how I felt. thank you all so much
November 26, 2008 at 10:54 pm |
I remember seeing an interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian author, back in the 80s. They showed a close-up of his hands in his lap, and he had two clubbed thumbs!
November 27, 2008 at 4:12 am |
I’ve noticed a pattern of many clubbed-thumbers being either Irish or Italian. I am both Irish and Italian, as well as being a mutt(descended of other countries as well). Just something to think about. When people see them, they typically saw “eeeew”-they are half-joking, half-serious, I think. But hey, actress Megan Fox has them too, and she’s beautiful! And I’ve always liked them-I’ve always said they are my favorite thing about myself. I don’t know if this means I’m confident or pathetic…
I knew several other people had thumbs like mine, and all the clubbed-thumbers I’ve met are also pretty…hmmmm
But it’s great to know there are millions of us!
November 27, 2008 at 11:35 pm |
i recently met a korean girl who has ultra-stubby thumbs. it basically looks like her thumbs have been truncated and then the thumbnail put back on what’s left behind. seriously, her thumbs look like under 2cm in length
(i’d say half in inch, for you non-metric ppl).
i went out with her for a beer once, and when i saw those thumbs i decided “never again”. sorry, but i could not date someone with thumbs like that. it just grossed me out. that was last september.
2 days ago, she called me, but i didn’t answer.
freeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaky!!!
July 14, 2009 at 10:05 pm |
Oh well,
What is freaky for one, isn’t freaky for another. Besides nobody is perfect. And would you also say no to actress Megan Fox, if you had the possibility’ to date her. Cause for your information she also has a clubbed thumb. And she’s fucking hot. So there’s got to be more than the Koreans girl thumbs why you didn’t wanna date her anymore.
November 30, 2008 at 3:33 pm |
i have two clubbed thumbs. none of my friends have them but i just found a lady i worked with has them too. i can’t believe how many people actually have them. i get teased for them all the time and everyone actually calls me thumbs but i’ve grown to love them even though they’re short and fat. haha. and for the record… the fact that someone couldn’t date a person with these thumbs is the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever heard. but hey everyone has their standards i suppose so i don’t judge. maybe i’m just partial because they’ve grown on me… well they actually stopped growing halfway through my 9months.. haha. but hey power to the thumbs=]
November 30, 2008 at 3:34 pm |
oh and i am irish, italian, polish and german. so maybe that is a trend Elizabeth!
November 30, 2008 at 3:40 pm |
oh and i am german, irish, italian and polish so maybe that has something to do with it seeing as thats the growing trend. i just finished reading most of these comments and i LOVE the fact that they’re actually so common. for the longest time i stopped going to get my nails done because the asian lady behind the desk would always stop the other nail artists in what they were doing to come and look at my thumbs. they laughed and laughed and talked about it all the while i couldn’t understand so i just stopped going. plus have you seen acrylic nails on these things?? not really a winner.. haha. anywho i’m finally done glad to see theres other clubbers out there… next chance you get play a game of thumb wrestling.. its a sure fire way to win every time=]
December 1, 2008 at 11:01 am |
Famous names: what about C. S. Lewis?
In his autobiography ‘Surprised by Joy’:
“What drove me to write was the extreme manual clumsiness from which I had always suffered. I attribute it to a physical defect which my brother and I both inherit from our father; we have only one joint in the thumb. The upper joint is visible, but it is a mere sham, we cannot bend it.”
Or is this a different condition? Can you bend both joints in your clubbed thumb?
December 10, 2008 at 12:52 am |
ok ill repeat what everyone else has said: YAY IM NOT THE ONLY ONE!!
i have one clubbed thumb on my left hand, and its always bothered me. I hate when i get acrylics on because in order to have both thumbnails even with each other, the short thumb’s nail has to be really long so it makes it difficult to text. i am 16 and im irish and german, but mostly irish. and the royal descent thing is cool because im related to princess diana. i like this site a lot! =]
December 11, 2008 at 7:40 pm |
Clubbed thumbs are nasty as hell.
Just the sight of them makes me want to puke.
freaks!
July 7, 2009 at 11:51 pm |
Nothing is more pathetic than someone who just says stupid, childish, and mean-spirited things for no reason other than to insult people. Going on a chat and stating something for no reason like that really belies a sad state of affairs. What kind of a pathetic existence must someone have to need to get on a website and post insults to strangers? What kind of loser needs to try to make themselves happy by trying to be mean to others? I feel bad for people like this while at the same time wanting them to just go away or kill themselves or something, so the rest of us don’t have to deal with these depressed, angry, useless, sad fools.
December 12, 2008 at 2:17 am |
I think you are all fine and hope you don’t ever let anyone or anything stop you from living large!!!!!!!!!
Merry Christmas!!!!!
December 12, 2008 at 11:16 am |
My girlfriend has little thumbs , they are the cutest thing i have ever seen. i spend hours playing with them. i have never thought them freaky in any way. its just another thing that makes her unique.
December 12, 2008 at 11:36 pm |
both my thumbs are clubbed. i didnt know that it was common i just thought they were tiny, considering everything else on me is. and people always tell me i have “small thumbs” the teasing really sucks, but thank god im not the only one.
December 13, 2008 at 12:00 am |
I’m 13. I’m glad I found out early! I searched short wide thumb nail on google and found out about it, that others have it too. Kept searching and found this great site!
My grandparents on both sides are from the Netherlands, witch means im 100% Dutch. Both my thumbs are clubbed… I am really embarrassed by them and i hate when people see them. All my friends want to paint each others nails at parties and stuff and im so embarrassed when they paint mine and say something about my thumbs. Now I dont want anyone to paint my thumbs, or nails
I hope someday i wont be embarrassed by them… i havent told any of my friends either i just hide them..
My mum has it and my grandad had it on her side.
I live in australia now and my parents lived in south africa before they came here.
I think it would be awesome if heaps of people with these thuumbs would come together one day.
December 13, 2008 at 12:50 pm |
i have two clubbed thumbs and was told they were Danish thumbs.. because the Danes missed hammering their nails and shortened their thumbs. (hehe- cute story, huh?) i was approached in college by a man who saw my thumbs from accross a room, and told me this story, and then showed me his thumbs…. first time i had ever seen anyone else with the same thumb drama i have had all my life.
inedeed, i was teased about my thumbs by children, and grew to be a little senseitive about it. Now that i am 40ish it is not a big deal, but i was looking around for some information on these thumbs, because i suspect my 10 month old daughter might have some clubbing.
Thanks for the site. The internet is so cool!
Rock on everyone… *thumbs up*
December 14, 2008 at 11:18 pm |
I have always wondered about my clubbed thumb! I got made fun of as a child for it-so by the time i got into high school, it became a habit to tuck it away in my hand. Most of my close friends have seen it and love it! My grandma on my moms side had two clubbed thumbs, my mom has two and, one of my uncles has two as well. I myself only have the one on my right hand. I thought it was just a family thing, but apparently not! I am mexican on both sides, and so far, I haven’t seen anyone else leave a comment saying they were as well, althought I haven’t read them all! This is sooooo interesting!! I love it, just like I have learned to love my “special” thumb!
December 16, 2008 at 1:42 pm |
i also have 2 club thumbs and small pinkies and the only one in my family i know of .some people notice but most dont .i have met about 4 people with them its funny its something you notice right away . cant say i love them but i live with them .i am of english heritage . i think i can have a short temper at times but i am also a very kind person of heart and when i meet someone with the same thumbs i tend to feel a connection with them i laugh and say we are just special people thats the only explanation i have for them . an after reading all of your comments i think im right its only special people who have them and obviously there is a lot of us !!!!
December 17, 2008 at 6:03 pm |
i have clubbed thumbs to. I think it is great there are people like me there. It is hard to hitchhike with the freakishly small thumbs. My co-workers tease me all the time about them and say I have baby big toe thumbs. Even my Indian (dot not feathers) makes fun of them. It is so hard to open a large jar of pickles with these freak thumbs. I think we should have a clubbed thumb convention one year. YA SMALL THUMBS!!!
December 18, 2008 at 10:56 am |
I, too just stumbled on this web site and was totally amazed by how many others have “my thumbs”! I am 54 and a neonatal nurse and I have 2 clubbed thumbs…exactly like the one pictured above. My mother has one on her Rt hand and her mother always told her it was from sucking her thumb! Then I turned up with 2 of them and that theory disappeered! My one sister has one on her Rt hand and one of my daughters has one on her Rt hand also. I ‘m the only one that has 2 of them which I always said is awkward because people think you DON’T KNOW your thumbs are different and they have to tell you!! I know exactly what these people are saying about hiding them in your palms because I have always done that also! I always hated sharing a hymnal at church because I had to hold the book with my thumb in plain view to the other person. Is that weird or what ?? I have met only 3 other people besides my family members that have one or both thumbs like mine. Only one person I have ever known had 2 thumbs like mine. I talked to a genetisist at work once and he told me it was usually a sex linked trait which means it affects only females or only males in the family, so I was surprised to learn some of you have male AND female relatives with the thumb trait. In my family it has only been females. I met a male nurse in Arizona that said he and his Dad and brothers had them, but not the sisters. One of my daughters got one thumb like mine and the other daughter was disappointed she didn’t get one !! Go figure !! We are of mostly German descent. I am happy to hear I am not so unusual !! In my work in the Newborn ICU I have seen so many genetic malformations that I know we should all be thankful that all we got was unusual thumbs ! Hey…they work don’t they !! I am a stained glass artist in my spare time. Check out what my big thumbs can do at “suesstainedglass.com” !!! They don’t hold me back !! Take care everyone !!
December 18, 2008 at 12:32 pm |
Why is my e-mail and name staying on this site? I thought it was not to be published ?
December 19, 2008 at 4:38 am |
AH!
I’m not the only one!!
I’m 16, and i’m always so self concious of them…just the other day, somebody came up to me, and told me they were short, fat, and stubby. I always get so offended…and i try to hide them by wearing long sleeves, and tucking them in my hands.
My grandmother, my old friend, and a girl at my school are the only ones that have them.
maybe now i won’t be so alone feeling. :]
December 19, 2008 at 6:01 pm |
Would any of the new members here be willing to share a pic for the gallery? Its up to 265 pics here: http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii237/clubbedthumbs/
email me at: clubbedthumb@hotmail.com
Thanks!
December 26, 2008 at 5:32 am |
Nasty Says:
December 11, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Clubbed thumbs are nasty as hell.
Just the sight of them makes me want to puke.
freaks!
***************************
Hey Nasty one, why don’t you put your face up on here and then let’s see if we all puke!
December 27, 2008 at 5:32 am |
i’m 15 and have always been so embarrassed by them! my siblings won’t come near my hands. nobody in my whole family has them. i know 2 other people that have them but i didnt know this many people had them! i’m so used to tucking them in, this makes me feel better about them.
December 29, 2008 at 10:34 pm |
The first search I did when getting online five years ago was on short thumbs. I barely found a name for the condition, nothing else. I just searched again last night and OMG! I see all these pictures of my thumbs!! Well, only half are as short and wide as my two thumbs.
I inherited my thumbs from my grandpa on my mother’s side. Neither my mother or her two sisters got the thumbs. I am the only one of my mother’s three children who has these thumbs. My son did get my thumbs but my daughter did not.
Sure, occasionally people/kids who see my thumbs would comment out loud about them. Probably alot more people see them than I am aware of. I don’t go through life looking at people to see if they are looking at my thumbs. Hmmm. Makes me wonder now if I have been hiding them all this time and didn’t realize it. In certain situations I definitely do feel embarrassed of my ugly thumbs and I do tuck them in my hand.
I just found out have short pinkies too but never realized it until I read this forum and looked.
One good thing is my thumbnails grow long and strong which makes them useful tools when cleaning. I also have short toes too. I think long “finger” toes are gross! My toes are perfect.
Maybe we should start a singles dating site for people with club thumbs? I’m 40 something and am looking for a good man. I do think we should have a yearly get together.
December 30, 2008 at 7:47 pm |
crazibutrue,
Would you be willing to share a pic for my gallery?
My address is clubbedthumb@hotmail.com
December 31, 2008 at 1:14 am |
My family and friends have always goodnaturedly made fun of my sister’s and my fat thumbs. I always blamed my mom’s side because my cousin has thumbs like that too, but also one of her middle finger’s is stubby and shorter than the fingers on either side of it. Then we discovered that my cousin on my father’s side also has thumbs like this. My family is mostly of German heritage with some English and Scoth-Irish. I’ve never met anyone outside my family with thumbs like this.
December 31, 2008 at 1:18 am |
I just remembered a funny story about my thumbs. One time in art class we were supposed to draw our hands. When I turned the drawing in my teacher told me that I did a very nice job but that the thumbs were disproportionate to the rest of my hand. So I showed her my hand and she started appoligozing immensely, but I just laughed.
January 5, 2009 at 3:23 am |
Hello fellow stubby thumbs. I have never met anyone who has a thumb like me! I have always loved my irregular looking thumb although I have been asked many times about it. I always just say “I love my thumb…..look it works (and I bend it) They usually don’t know what to say. I think it’s really cool being in a select and unique group don’t you?
January 6, 2009 at 12:58 pm |
WELL WELL WELL….
thank God I’m not the only one, I have met only two people in my life which have these thumbs.
Both my thumbs are clubbed. Something I was told which is pretty cool is that its the sign of the healer (Luna Thumbs). I have healed 3 different people who were pretty sick and there all still alive and tell me that they believe i healed them… beleive it or not.
Also heared that 70% of all mass murderers have these thumbs… not sure about that one.
The royalty thing i have never heard before, thats a cool story.
The artistic thing i believe as I am also very good at calligraphy… i just thought i was a monk in my past life.
I am Australian… where i originated from God only knows!
I have always known they define something special about us, and the 2 people i have met with these thumbs are also very special people.
You all may have the power of healing, and this is the sign of the healer… Clubbed Thumbs!
Be positive and be proud of your gift!!… I am
January 9, 2009 at 9:53 am |
I have always known my thumbs were quirky and figured others must have it too. I am 23 and have never met anyone else with them and no one in my family has it. I am a euro-mutt as i call myself of english, irish, german, swedish and norweigian with a little native american. I always called it my ‘gamer’s thumbs’ cause the width and depth have made an almost flat surface which is handy with video game controllers.
Downsides I have experiecnced:
Hard to play volleyball (i have hurt my thumb twice)
some poeple can be really “shocked” by it
you almost always will lose at a game of thumb war
gloves never fit right
its nearly impossible to have acrylic nails.
i also have a differnce in my pinkies. one is smaller, shorter and has a smaller nail than the other. Also working on getting a picture to send in to the gallery.
Nice to meet you all!
January 12, 2009 at 8:02 pm |
Anyone else willing to share a pic? The gallery is at 268 now. Haven’t received any new pics in a while
Email is: clubbedthumb@hotmail.com
Gallery: http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii237/clubbedthumbs/
Thanks again to those contributed! Help me get to 300 pics!!
January 13, 2009 at 8:22 am |
Yay! I found this link while researching. I am a Criminal Minds fan, and there was an episode where a man kidnapped a babysitter and 4 children… Anyway, in his FBI interview, they kept showing his hands, and he had clubbed thumbs. He was talking about genetics and chromosomes and such, so I decided to see if there was anything out there about my iddy biddy thumbs. And Voila! Here you all are! Amazing!
I have 2 clubbed thumbs. I am a true Heinz 57 mix of heritage.
Does anyone have any research as to what exactly causes this? It’s “genetic”, but I’d love to know more.
Thanks!
January 14, 2009 at 4:02 am |
I have one clubbed thumb on my left hand. I absolutely hate it! It bothers me so much its crazy. Its so embarrassing and I do EVERYTHING to hide my thumbs so people don’t notice they are different..and my boyfriend noticed one time(many times actually) and tried looking at it and I was so embarrassed and he wouldn’t stop grabbing for it, so I Hit him, and I started to cry. It was THAT embarrassing. I mean come on everyone, if you have a clubbed thumb you KNOW how embarrassing it can be. Even tho he tells me its so cute, I hate it and I wish I never was born with it clubbed. I mean, I don’t know where i got it from, NO one in my family has it, and Im German, Portuguese, a little Scottish, and a little dutch. Any ideas how I got it?
January 15, 2009 at 12:54 am |
I have 2 clubbed thumbs. No one in my family has them and until today I didn’t know that other people had them. My friends have always called my thumbs “toe thumbs”. I am Native American, Scottish, and Irish.
January 19, 2009 at 3:03 am |
I was a little bored tonight and looked down at my thumb as i typed on my keyboard. I thought I would look up thumb info online and I came across this site. I have to tell you that I have been laughing at this forever! I have laughed just as much as my friends and family have for many years. I too have been embarrassed in the past. I have always tried to hide them. I would go to family get togethers and my Dad would crack a joke about them. I would just go along and start joking with them. I would tell them that my thumbs come in handy. If you have to hitchhike you know a car can see a fat thumb better than a skinny one. You never know when you might have a leak under the sink and need to use it to plug a hole. I can snap louder than you can! if someone tries to rob me I will threaten to hit them in the head with this thing! My friends get mad at me because I am so fast on game controllers since I can hit more than one button at a time. I also found that it is hard to use a cell phone with club thumbs. As I get older they do not bother me as much. I say we all get together and have a Club Thumb Convention!
January 19, 2009 at 3:36 am |
never knew there was a term for this but i dated a few girls who had clubbed thumbs, i can’t help it, it’s pretty much a turn off….i almost got into a long term relationship with one and i just knew there was something strange about her thumbs…well i didn’t and i’m kinda glad i did bc i would feel really weird and i would just have to comment to her about it if i was actually with her….anyways…glad there are some ppl that like it.
January 24, 2009 at 8:23 pm |
I have always thought I was the only one. I have only seen two people with my thumbs. Both of my thumbs are this way. I never really cared much about it but one day I thought I might as well search them up. People always make fun of my thumbs. My classmates love to call me “toe thumbs”. Now I am happy I acually know what its called.
January 27, 2009 at 11:40 pm |
I just called my mom to apologize for telling people she did drugs while she was pregnant and that’s why my thumb is weird. I also have told people I cut off my thumb and they sewed on my toe. Lol!
January 30, 2009 at 7:31 am |
Haha.
I’m not the only one with ONE clubbed thumb like….WTF..
I’m Aussie and heaps of Aussies are of Irish Descent….hmmm?
Stupid inbred thumb HAHAHA
January 30, 2009 at 4:12 pm |
Hi Mariah,
It seems to be a widespread occurrence- Asian, European etc- therefore your comment was perhaps unnecessary. No concrete evidence to say that its caused by inbredding…Im sure there are many factors associated with clubbed thumbs.
January 31, 2009 at 10:23 pm |
I have one “toe-thumb” on my right hand and people always ask me about it. I am irish, scottish, and cherokee but I don’t have any Italian in me, as far as I am aware. Ever since I was a kid, my big sister has always tried to “fix” my thumb by pressing on it really hard and putting things around it, but it never worked, and only made my thumb sore. No one in my family has a toe thumb but I have met a few other people with two, but no one with just one!
February 2, 2009 at 7:35 am |
I have two club thumbs and i’m africian american.
February 4, 2009 at 3:06 am |
cool site !
2 clubbed thumbs since birth, always enjoyed the attention they drew growing up. Told many a tall tale of “my severed thumbs” in my teens, convinced one fellow they sewed my toes on, haha
I was video game champ in my day and always gave credit to the thumbs, plus the ladies loved them !!!!!
Canadian male early 40’s
February 5, 2009 at 11:46 pm |
wow…this is really cool. I don’t personally have clubbed thumbs but since I’ve been at college I’ve seen two girls for the first time that have clubbed thumbs. I thought it was pretty interesting so I wanted to look into it. It looks like from what I’ve read that it is something in the genes. idk. But it is pretty cool and unique. Thanks for the site.
February 7, 2009 at 5:35 am |
WOW! Here you guys are! I’m 28 and I can’t believe I only now just thought to research this oddity I have (just the right thumb.) I feel so kindred to you all!
My thumb gets stuck in bowling balls and people always ask me, “Did you smash it when you were a kid??” and the snickering from manicure ladies. Sheesh, we’ve had a hard life, fellow Clubbers.
You guys are awesome, because of you I’ll keep my head held high and my stubby thumb up!
February 7, 2009 at 5:46 am |
Oh yeah, and I NEVER win thumb wrestling either but man, that lil’ guy is fast–I’m a photographer and he can cover a lot of ground when it comes to button-pushing.
February 8, 2009 at 4:58 pm |
My wife of 18 years has “club thumbs”. We have three daughters,(16-14 and 9) when they were born that was the first thing we checked!! I don’t know where I heard that this trait always skips a generation, from other posts, I see that’s not the case.
We were actually discussing this at breakfast this morning when my oldest realized that her children could have this.
So I googled “stubby thumb” and found this site.
I have only met 1 other person with these thumbs. My wife thinks Matt Damon has at least one, from a close up in a “Bourne” movie.
Well now we have a name for it….I’m gonna do more research
February 9, 2009 at 8:12 pm |
Hi, glad to know I’m not alone anymore – I have two such lovely appendages and all I’ve got to say is..
“Wazzup homies!!” ;o)
February 12, 2009 at 12:07 am |
I have stuby thumbs 2 !! i thoughy no 1 else had them! that pic looks just like my thumb.i can do everything a regular thumb can do well exept get those arrtafical nails they dnt fit my thumb lolz !! ha =] PeAcE !!
February 14, 2009 at 6:04 am |
I thought I was the only one with nubs on my hand! I have two clubbed thumbs and was always embarrased of them until a couple of years ago I finally learned to accept them
This is a cool site!
February 16, 2009 at 8:55 pm |
Clubbed thumbs are one of the most disgusting traits anyone can have. It’s such a BIG turn off.
sorry, but its true.
February 17, 2009 at 3:58 am |
this just made my day
stubby thumbs kick normal thumbs’ ass!
February 19, 2009 at 3:13 am |
This is too weird. I always thought I was a freak and people always made fun of my thumbs. I have two and my sister has one. We are almost 100% french canadian with a little native american. Some people say they look like toes
I’m glad I’m not the only one!!!
As far as the royalty goes, our family is traced back to a duke in France, maybe it does have something to do with it!
February 19, 2009 at 6:23 pm |
OMG! I just found this site. Like response #43, I too, have two clubbed thumbs and have always, always, always hated them. I hid them whenever possible but it’s difficult if handing things to people. I, too, used to tell people that when I was a child my thumbs had been slammed in a door. People would cringe! Now I just consider it a birth defect! But I still hate my thumbs and would love nothing more than to have plastic surgery to make them normal. My brother has one clubbed thumb. No one else in our family has them!
February 20, 2009 at 9:56 pm |
havent read all the posts but wanted to say that in my experience women with these thumbs allways seem to have really good bodies, legs especially. is it just me? ps my thumbs are both the long variety
February 21, 2009 at 2:16 am |
Just met a girl at the gym who has two clubbed thumbs. She HATES them, but I think they are sooooo cute. Funny how beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
February 21, 2009 at 2:29 am |
OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!! I always thought I just had an effed up thumb, until tonight. My cousin showed me that Megan Fox (actress) has 2 clubbed thumbs!!!!!! I didn’t know that more people had this!!!
Only my left thumb is like that, my right thumb is normal.
I knew my thumb was clubbed when I was in the eighth grade when some girl noticed and then began to make fun of me lol Ever since then I’ve been hiding that thumb….but this is just CRAZY!!!
My parents were both born in Italy, so I am Italian-Canadian.
I noticed a lot of people said that they are Italian…do you think that has anything to do with it?!?! This is crazy, I HATE MY THUMB lol I wish I could get like…plastic surgery to fix it lol but after knowing that so many people have this….I don’t hate my thumb as much anymore lol
February 21, 2009 at 4:55 am |
Hi! I think that we should all put our age and thumb width as info… This is a clubbed thumb information site so comparison is a way to more information : Me I’m 30yo Male and my thumbs are 20mm each (0.78 inch) … What about all of you?
Jay
February 21, 2009 at 11:45 pm |
I have 1 clubbed thumb and of Italian Heritage and was born in the UK
February 22, 2009 at 12:28 am |
I have two clubbed thumbs and am Irish/ German. My German dad has a pair as did his mother. I was very embarrased by these thumbs while I was growing up and I always kept them hidden in the palms of my hands.
By the time I grew up I wasn’t embarrased at all. WE don’t need “normal thumbs” for thinking, walking, talking, running, skiing, climbing mountains,
sailing, riding horses, or for being in love. However, those of us with clubbed thumbs shouldn’t look for work as hand models.
My kids have “normal thumbs”!!
People stare more at my husband than they do at me. He’s six-feet six inches tall and people always say,
“you’re tall aren’t you??” Odd—he gets more comments about his heighth than I get about my thumbs! I LOVE this crazy site!!!!
February 22, 2009 at 2:36 am |
i have always been told my thumbs look like big toes. they were always afraid that i would touch them and would contract it. i am the only one in my family that has them. The only person that hasn’t noticed them is my fiance. He has no problem with them and loves me unconditionally. I used to be embarrased of them but i am proud now. We are special people and deserve to be respected.
February 23, 2009 at 8:40 am |
And what is your thumb width and age everybody? This way we can identify people with similar thumb (also problems and solutions concerning different matter (fake nails, bowling balls etc…) )… I’m 30 and my thumb are 20 mm wide (each) that’ 0.78 inch each…
February 23, 2009 at 8:03 pm |
OMG! I feel like everyone on here was telling my story! Both of my thumbs are clubbed. My husband calls them toes. Everyone makes fun of me. I would hide them all through school b/c the minute someone saw them they would make a huge deal. I am finally comfortable enough not to care and laugh at all the jokes. Hey,,,if that is all that is wrong with me then I am doing good right!!
Question…does anyone else hold their pen weird when writing???
February 24, 2009 at 7:33 pm |
Hi fellow clubbers! I’m 21 yo and my right (clubbed) thumb is 0.81 inch wide and my ‘normal’ thumb is only 0.76 inch wide! I wish I had both thumb the same size cuz it looks kinda weird lol… Anyone else with the same (or more) size difference?
February 24, 2009 at 10:26 pm |
Hey Marie,
Would ya be willing to share a pic for the gallery? Thanks!
clubbedthumb@hotmail.com
February 25, 2009 at 3:39 am |
I have two symmetrical club thumbs. I am Finnish on my mom’s side, with maybe a little swedish/russian, and paternal grandfather is of british descent, with maybe some scottish/french/native american. My paternal grandmother is of polish descent. I am the only person of several generations of both sides to have club thumbs. My old science teacher thought they were found in people of cherokee descent, but since club thumbs are a recessive trait, both of my parents would have to be part cheroke, and my mom is pretty much full-blooded finnish.
February 27, 2009 at 4:53 am |
Hi! It’s funny I looked for some informations on my weird thumbs and found this cool site
I’m only 14 and my thumbs are already much larger than Marie ( btw why an ‘e’ at the end) and Jay… My thumbs are about 0.97 inch wide each so I presume it will continue to get larger! Btw, forget about bowling with those things loll Anyway, it’s cool to have the width information even though I feel even more like an alien now (thumbs larger than some adults much older than me…) I hope to see other teen with thumb as big as mine, it would be reassuring loll! See ya!
February 27, 2009 at 11:47 am |
Hey there!
I am 29 and i have two clubbed thumbs as well.
I have to say, i always hated my thumbs and i started beeing o.k with them just now.
I am from Germany and my whole family is and always has been.
My grandma had clubbed thumbs, small ones, not as “big” as mine.
I found no german record of clubbed thums in the german internet ANYWHERE. Glad i have some information now.
KADI
February 27, 2009 at 11:47 am |
Hey there!
I am 29 and i have two clubbed thumbs as well.
I have to say, i always hated my thumbs and i started beeing o.k with them just now.
I am from Germany and my whole family is and always has been.
My grandma had clubbed thumbs, small ones, not as “big” as mine.
I found no german record of clubbed thums in the german internet ANYWHERE. Glad i have some information now.
KADI
March 1, 2009 at 3:05 am |
Hi J.T! When I’ll Have more time I’ll try to send you a pics
Wow James you’ve got large thumbs for a young men… It’s funny cause I think that my younger sister (she’s also 14, just like you) has larger thumb than her 16yo boyfriend… I’ll have them take some measurement just for fun and I’ll tell you loll… See you all…
March 1, 2009 at 3:51 am |
I have clubbed thumbs. As a kid, I was ashamed of them and always hid them. As an adult, I am not as self conscious. My dad also has the same thumbs. His side of the family is mostly German.
March 1, 2009 at 4:02 pm |
Also…. Both of my thumbs are 2.1cm wide…just under an inch. I am 28..going to be 29 in June. My fathers family is from Belgium w/ ties to Germany( I am fourth generation in the US). Mothers side is English. I am the only one in my family that I know of with clubbed thumbs, My daughters are normal.
March 2, 2009 at 1:35 am |
I’m a 58 year old mother with two clubbed thumbs that measure about 2.2 cm or 7/8 inch wide at their widest part. My mother also has two of them. Hers are straight up, mine curve like hitchhicker thumbs. A girl cousin of my mother also had them. My children did not inherit them. My ancestry is from the Canary Islands (Spain) on both sides of the family and partly from France on my father’s side. My blood type is O+. I do not present other notable traits like short pinkies, short fingers, or short legs but have a longer that average torso.
They catch the attention of many people, especially doctors. One doctor once called them “drumstick thumbs” in Spanish (“palitos de tambor”). Most recently another doctor said they were “royal thumbs” and mentioned the believed link to European royalty.
I never imagined such a large community of clubbed/royal thumbed people. I myself have only met another two persons with clubbed thumbs and they were women.
Even though they can get caught in a bowling ball, I find them very useful. They are conversation starters and since their nails are wide and strong, they peel oranges in a cinch.
I have grown to love and be proud of my “different” thumbs.
March 3, 2009 at 12:44 pm |
Hi Marie!
Cool, if ya have some time that would be awesome if you could share a pic!
I received a few more pics today that I need to upload to the gallery. Getting close to 300!
JT
March 4, 2009 at 8:57 am |
haha im 15 and i have 2 aswelllll i love it people say there ugly but i reckon they are the best thing i have haha
March 5, 2009 at 3:38 pm |
I have one on my right hand.
I HATE IT.
I spend time wondering how i can thin it out, but you can feel the bone and it’s just thick!
My thumbs remind me of ernie and bert( of sesame streeet)
One tall and skinny, one short and fat.
I have never known what to call it, but i knew there had to be a name.
Finally I saw someone refer to it as ” clubbed thumb” so i started looking that up and now I see other people have the same problem.
Yes, bowling is not fun. finding a ball w/ a big enough thumb hole is not easy!
I do not show any my thumbs and I hope no one noticed them.
Dialing the cell phone is not as hard as you’d think with the giant thumb, but it does get in the way at time.
I’m 35 and still have not gotten used to this bizarre thing attached to my hand!
March 5, 2009 at 7:06 pm |
Ha I have two ’stubby thumbs’ and so does my sister! We were always moaned at that it was a result of nailbiting! They do look pretty bizaare! I discovered there was something ’special’ about them when doing shadow puppets aged about 10, and my thumb looked more like a tree stump than a swan! Well it’s nice to know there are others out there hehe!
March 7, 2009 at 2:42 am |
I have a clubbed thumb as well. I knew that others have it but only because my grandmother told me that several people in her family had them. They always called it a “Dutch” thumb. Don’t really know if this true or not as far as origin. The only thing I don’t like about it is not being able to bowl. I have to get a really heavy ball that has a big enough thumb hole. It is so horrible. So I don’t bowl that often.
March 10, 2009 at 11:33 am |
Thank you for creating this cool site. I wish so much something like this had been available when I was growing up, instead of feeling like a freak and hiding my hands so not to “frighten children and scare the horses”, so to speak.
) What a strange world when those with physical differences feel embarassment about it, rather than those who judge, reject and ridicule others feel embarassment about their lack of compassion, but that’s how it is. It’s probably a bit of ‘law of attraction’ also, that when we judge ourselves negatively, we attract all the judgemental types out of the woodwork to treat us the same way.
I have this on both thumbs, and have often wondered WHY??? Especially when children tease and reject you for some aspect of your appearance, you will be affected with self consciousness the rest of your life unless you are fortunate enough to have an upbringing that was strong on positive nurturing or learn to overcome it. It also doesn’t help to read that it’s called a “murderer’s thumb” in palmistry. Good God.
I remember at age 7 by chance opening a medical textbook and was shocked to see a picture of thumbs like mine. It said they were caused by “thumb sucking”, and I believed that until in my early 30s saw a hand specialist and asked him. He said no, clubbed thumbs were the result of genetics. It was a relief to hear that they weren’t caused by a childhood mistake.
However, I still wonder if there is a link to oxygen deprivation or lung issues in infancy because the lung meridian runs to the top of the thumb, as well as the top of the thumb representing the brain in reflexology. I had pneumonia with a high fever when I was 2, plus a mom who smoked cigarettes during pregnancy, and maybe this could have had this bone damaging effect? I also remember reading something a medical psychic wrote about how the mother can unconsciously suppress her unborn baby’s willpower by negative thoughts and the baby can develop clubbed thumbs from this (top of the thumb = willpower center of the brain, supposedly). But who knows. I don’t really believe that one too much.
About 10 years ago, I went to a hand dr to see if there was something that could be done, thinking that maybe the bone could be reshaped and slimmed down, considering ‘bone shaving’ is done on faces, and a toe can be reshaped for actual “toe thumbs” when replacing a thumb that has been amputated. However, it’s not possible due to some important nerves that run along the sides of the thumb. I was told it may be possible to lengthen the 1st distal (I think he said it would take about 6 months for each hand) but it would have meant not having use of a hand for a long time and would have effected my work.
But I did have some of the skin tissue removed for cosmetic reasons. Had an xray done and could finally see how this condition makes the thumb tip quite different from the usual–short, thicker, the upper joint wider than the lower joint, with little room for nail growth on the tip, but the 2nd distal is normal. With clubbed thumbs, the thickness is not just the bone but excessive skin tissue that gives the “bulbous” appearance. It didn’t make them look “normal” to have them thinned out, but I am glad to have had that anyway. Apparently this technique is also done in the US for people who don’t like their big toes because they are too “fat” or their baby toes for being too thick for high fashion shoes.
As other’s have mentioned, there does seem to be a connection with artistic ability, and I too am a very good artist, very good at detail drawings and painting. My hands are also very sensitive and can ‘feel’ energy, so I am a healer as well. My blood type is O (negative, I think), ancestry is Irish/English/Scot/Norwegian. No one that I know of has this in my family. I have seen CTs on all kinds of people though, both male and female but mostly on Caucasian and Chinese people, that I have seen in person, anyway.
I remember the first “celebrity” I saw on tv who has one CT, a woman who (according to her bio) used to be a model but now is very well known in my country for her work as a interior decorator. Also, I think Ann Landers (and probably her sister Abby) had this http://www.mylifetime.com/files/imagecache/photo_gallery_featured/files/images/e-gall-landers-vanburen-twins.jpg (she was likely wearing false nails in that pic). Joe Vitale (from ‘The Secret’ and self help books has them as well. False nails can be worn, btw, but I’ve found the only ones that fit are ones you put on yourself (not ones done at a salon, not that I’ve ever gone to have a ‘mani’… never wanted a stranger staring at my hands for that long
That was bit of a novella, but I hope something I wrote may be of help to someone reading this just like I’ve been helped from reading what other’s have shared here.
March 10, 2009 at 2:07 pm |
Elin,
Thanks for the informative read! Lots of interesting information.
I am very interested in how it looks now after you’ve had skin tissue removed. Would you be willing to share a pic?
I also didn’t know about the nerves that run along side of our thumbs. Again, very interesting.
March 10, 2009 at 5:41 pm |
yes, i’d be interested in seeing a picture too.
i squeeze my thumb trying to imagine it thinner, granted it won’t ever get all taller
March 10, 2009 at 5:59 pm |
i just submitted some pics of my thumbs.
let me tell you , it’s is not easy to photograph both hands at once!
March 10, 2009 at 5:59 pm |
God Bless The Mighty Club Thumb!!!!
March 11, 2009 at 1:16 am |
AZ,
Could you send them to clubbedthumb@hotmail.com? I’ll add your pics to the gallery. I’m almost to 300 pics!
March 11, 2009 at 12:17 pm |
sure, where is the gallery?
March 13, 2009 at 6:39 am |
Finally! An answer! Im 24 and ever since I can remember I have thought i was the only one with these stubby thumbs! When i was younger i used to try my hardest to hide them from everyone and hoped I could have surgery on them. My friends still pay me out but im kind of use to them now. And now i feel so much better that im not a freak! YAY! Thanks to everyone!!
March 16, 2009 at 1:41 am |
Hi I am 22 years old and Mexican. I had no idea so many people had thumbs like me or that they even had a name to them. I have always been embarrased about them and would always hide them from people. Now, I am just glad I have all 5 fingers on each hand.
March 16, 2009 at 6:15 am |
Hello Sally, I do not have little thumbs but my wife’s mom does. Since so many people have left their ancestry information I thought it a service to provide a statistical analysis. This may not be accurate but reflects this pages postings as best I could analyze them:
0% Persian, Hungarian, Japanese, Arabian, Dutch, Vietnamese
<1% Scots, Norwegian, Finnish, Pakistani
1% Swedish, Danish, Chinese, Korean, Scottish, Scots-Irish, Indian
2% Mexican, Polish, Spanish, French
4% Native American
6% English (13)
7% Irish (14)
7% German (14)
7% Italian (16)
4% Male (8)
2% Female (5)
Confidence Interval (214responses/US population): 6.7
125 named nationalities out of 214 responses.
Either this site is popular with Italians/Germans and Irish/English or combined they comprise 20% to 33% of the US little thumb population.
We love you Sally and your little murderers thumbs.
Love Rebecca and Forest
March 18, 2009 at 8:21 pm |
im 15 years old and live in england. i have really stubby thumbs and i thought they would grow but i guess not, i decided to google it and found this site. im glad other people have it and think its cool. i dont get bullied or anything about it but its not normal and i sometimes think people will think im some sort of freak. i try and hide my thumbs with in my palm or keep them in my pocket and whenevr people see them they laugh and asked how i got them as if i had been in some sort of acident
March 19, 2009 at 2:55 pm |
Love this site. Both of mine are about and inch and a quater wide. Italian Grandmother had them said they were used for rolling the pasta cavatelli. I’ve met only one other person with them over the last 30+ years and she was also Italian. We thumbers should love our precious gift. More powerful than your average humans and is particularly useful for deep tissue massage and other satisfying uses. The only problem I’ve run into is hammering a small nail, otherwise love mine.
March 20, 2009 at 8:23 pm |
My boyfriend has clubbed thumbs. I think they’re adorable and wouldnt change them for the world
March 20, 2009 at 11:20 pm |
Hi, i’m 16 years old and from Illinois, USA i have stubby thumbs too. I think they make me unique and special and me and my friends always make fun of them, but i go along with it because i gotta admit they’re funny. I am not embarrassed at all about my thumbs and no some should be because it makes us different and unique. I am so surprised of how many people have them!! i’ve met only a couple people with them. Is there any more info of where they came from? I’ve always been curious…
March 23, 2009 at 7:38 am |
me again!
i find it really annoying when I go bowling and my thumb gets stuck in one of the holes in the ball… lol. I’ve never met anyone with the same thumbs as me but i’m glad i stumbled across this page ages ago!!!
go toe thumbers!
March 28, 2009 at 3:16 pm |
i can’t believe other people have these thumbs!!! i’m italian and my dad has them too but i’ve never met ANYONE else with them! people always ask me about them, i guess they think i’ve never noticed them in my 21 years of life? lol the worst part is when you get acrylic nails and they *always* have to use the widest nail they have in their kit & even that isn’t quite wide enough lol! Also it’s hard to text on a cell phone with small keys!! haha I love this site.
March 28, 2009 at 8:26 pm |
OMG! I’m so glad I’m not the only one. It’s only my right thumb and I always thought it was because I sucked my thumb.
Ang, I totally agree with you! I can only text with my left thumb! And whenever I get my nails done, all the ladies crowd around and ask me about it! LOL
March 29, 2009 at 9:32 pm |
I am 100% Korean (families lived there for thousands of years) and I have them. So, I don’t think this is European-only phenomenon. I can think of few other people that have type D thumbs that are Asian (be Korean, Japanese or Chinese, some I have met personally and some from anecdotes my friends told me back in college.) I am a guy by the way.
April 1, 2009 at 8:31 pm |
I am a 25 year old female that has both thumbs and have only met 3 other people the same! Contrary to the ‘thumb sucking’ explaination, the reason is genetics. It is a dominant trait that is passed through the family, and there are many variations of short digitis. Yet I am the only one in our current family with this physical trait. My father seems to remember an uncle of his with short digits, but is not possitive. As for the connections to the arts and royalty, I have to agree. Drawing, sketching and painting are my artistic outlets. As for the royalty connection, I am a descendent of the Hohenzollern royal family which ruled Prussia from the 1100’s to the early 1900’s. And yes I plan on reclaiming our castle, I mean all I have to do is show my thumbs right?
-Allie in Annapolis
April 2, 2009 at 1:40 am |
I was so excited to find this website! I don’t even remember when I realized my thumbs were “different.” Sometime in late middle school/ early high school. My thumbs are one of those unique features that makes me me. And I totally agree with Georgia about bowling… I always have to bowl with a heavier ball because those are the only ones with holes big enough for my thumbs!
April 4, 2009 at 9:07 am |
I am a 16 year old old f. I live in Alaska, I’m koyukon Athabaskan (70 percent) flemish, and welsh. I have a huuuuuuge family (extended) of over 150 people and I’m the only thumie up here. I was never aware or embarased by my thumb (left) untill a few years ago, now i get really paranoid, and catch myself trying to hide it. Its really hard in highschool, and when a bad friend of mine noticed my thumb she laughed and yelled “look at rachelS thumb!!” about seven people crowded around me and one of them even called me a freak. Ever since then I’ve hid my thumb. Its nice knowing I’m not alone, and being “royal” makes us unique.
April 4, 2009 at 10:44 pm |
OMGosh I have 2 clubed thumbs and I have only meet one other person with thumbs like mine, I dont think its a race thing I am french but my freind is english, I am going to have to tell her about this page!!
does any one know what causes it, I do know I was born this way
but Im woundering if their is a gene that causes it
April 8, 2009 at 12:57 am |
I have the cute thumbs as well-both hands and born with them! I am left handed and my mom would squeeze them daily so they would be long and slender when I grew up! No luck-let’s have a reunion! I am of irish decent-
April 9, 2009 at 2:07 am |
I have a clubbed thumb, I’m jewish from russian and polish decent…maybe a little irish since my mom was adopted…my niece who is half italian has 2 clubbed thumbs…it doesn;t really bother me…when people make comments i come up with crazy stories…i’ve always wondered what it meant thought…i also have two long second toes, which supposedly has some meaning…
April 10, 2009 at 4:40 am |
I have 2 clubbed thumbs. I was always told I would grow out of it, but I never have. I actually come from Ethiopian heritage, so I don’t think it has anything to do with your heritage.
I didn’t know there were so many others who had them, too!
April 13, 2009 at 7:27 am |
HI i am so glad i am not the only one with strange thumbs. I hide my thumbs a lot coz i think they are fat. But over the last week i hav learnt thay it is a part of me. I used to think when i was youngr that no one would marry me coz of them but that was just a stupid teenage thing to think . I also recently found out that Megan Fox has clubbed thumbs and shes a model so i guess it doesnt matter what they look like …Thnx heaps!
April 13, 2009 at 7:29 am |
Hi guyz its me again. I am Australian and have a European background. None of my family or extended family have clubbed thumbs so its not genetic for me!
April 14, 2009 at 3:22 am |
no one in my family that we know of has club thumbs, but i guess i’m lucky because BOTH of my thumbs are clubbed, not just one. I have been to a few palm readers that have told me that they are “money thumbs”, whether this is true or not, i have no idea. Having my thumbs does sometimes cause me difficulty, such as when i do bar chords on my guitar, but other than that they function normally
April 18, 2009 at 12:39 am |
I first heard the term “club thumb” at a shower in Denver, CO over 30 years ago, when a woman yelled it out to me across the room – You have a clubbed them! I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life. However, I’ve come to terms with my thumb. It has cost me so far this month a total of $60.00 and another $40.00 on the way – seems I have a bone spur on the left side of it from hitting the space bar for some 50 years! It is now inflamed and not happy at all. The doctor asked me my family lineage and I told him Irish/Scot – seems most of the people that he sees with this have this same family tree. Either way, it has served me well over the last 63 years and I think I’ll keep it!
April 23, 2009 at 7:04 pm |
I have two clubbed thumbs and live in England. I originate from Venezuela, and my aunt on my mother’s side has one clubbed thumb and one normal one. However, my father told me I have Irish blood in me, and I heard a rumour that in europe clubbed thumbs are sign of royalty…
so I’m not sure when this gene came in.
I’m not sure when I realized when my thumbs were different, but I’m 17 and they make me feel selfconscious :/
I only found out that they had a name today! My friends have been referring to them as midget, stunted and even maggot thumbs haha
April 23, 2009 at 7:13 pm |
I’m gonna to post another message haha….
someone above said they tuck their thumbs into their hands! Me too!! to hide them :S
also I just remembered I think my great-grandparents on my mother’s side originated from Spain… so some more european roots there…
I find that I always notice (enviously) other people’s thumbs… but that meant I found others with club thumbs, so I realized I’m not a freak and thought it might be genetic. Research led me here
thumbs up! we’re royal! My surname is Reina and it means Queen….
April 23, 2009 at 7:16 pm |
and the artistic trait is true! I draw also
and write and stuff
we’re like some kind of advanced race
we’re just so much more gifted that normal-thumbed people.
I feel a connection to you all
April 23, 2009 at 7:40 pm |
http://www.academy-of-psychics.com.au/feature19.html
its me again… found this on google! read it!
The clubbed thumb was originally called murderer’s thumb as people with our thumbs are often angry, it seems. Its true for me. If I get angry, you’ll know about it.
April 23, 2009 at 8:12 pm |
Both my thumbs are clubbed and I used to live in shame of them. But to learn there are so many with this i’m proud of my unique quality! although it is hard to text..
April 23, 2009 at 9:22 pm |
It is easy for me to text and I have two club thumbs. And I am a descendant from the Israelite race (africian american).
April 25, 2009 at 10:44 pm |
it seems like its more prevalent in females because most of the posts are from women.
i have two of them. i don’t like them. sometimes i kinda accept them and then other times i just want to cut them off. i find that mines are so ugly.
im the only one in my family with these thumbs. oh yeah and im dominican.
April 27, 2009 at 3:57 am |
Oh my goodness finally found out after 20 years that there was a name for my thumbs. I always thought I just had short, fat, nubby, thumbs. I too have had problems with bowling balls getting stuck on my hand and I have never been able to win at a thumb war bad because I am competitive. I do get embarrassed when people make a comment about them or worse grab them. I am a server at a resturant and I set down a plate yesterday and the man at my table grabbed them and embarrassed me infront of the entire resturant he said it so loud the usual “WHAT HAPPENED” response most people give. Then he said your thumbs are weird all I wanted to say was well yeah but you’re rude.
I am Irish, English, and Greek odd combination I know. My uncle is a geneologist and a few years ago wrote a book about our family possibly linking us to royalty.
April 29, 2009 at 2:36 pm |
Hi! I need the picture of a female with large thumb (it will stay anonymous) near a ruler so we can clearly see the width for an new and small acrylic nail company that want a picture in their business plan… The thumb must be larger than an inch or 25mm… Just include your age with the e-mail… Send your pics at woct7@yahoo.fr
Thank you very much in advance! Things are looking great for clubbers who needs acrylic nails it seems!
Marie
May 1, 2009 at 7:23 pm |
I always thought my short, stubby thumbs were just a fluke. I mean, no one in my family has them and I’ve only met 2 people who had anything similar. My family used to joke that I stunted their growth by sucking them when I was younger! Luckily, I’m not a fan of artificial nails but they do make it difficult to use a lighter (don’t worry, I’m not a smoker, either). I’m of Scottish-Irish heritage, but it would be pretty cool to trace my heritage to royalty.
May 2, 2009 at 3:16 am |
omg…i’m excited to read about other people who have thumbs like myself. i’m the only one in my immediate family who have such thumbs. my mother’s 1st cousin has one normal thumb and one like mine but only because she sucked her thumb as a child. there is also another cousin and an uncle of my mother’s who have the same short and wide thumbs. i didn’t notice how different my thumbs were until i was in the 6th grade when an older guy i knew said to someone, “her thumbs look retarded”…then that is when i became self conscience. i’ve grown to love my thumbs and the people at the nail shop say they’re cute…
May 2, 2009 at 3:41 am |
i just called my grandmother to inform her about this website and asked about our background and she said my great grandparents where both half french and i’m hispanic…so wow…lol…about one of the comments way up there regarding megan fox, i sn her in a magazine and noticed her thumbs quick and actually tore the page out to show my hubby…oh and just to let anyone who gets their nails done know…my thumb is a size 0 nail…haha…[[i love my thumbs]]
May 3, 2009 at 7:10 pm |
hey
i know everyone has said it but im really happy to find people who have the same ‘condition’ as me!
i am 14 and am really concious of anyone touching my hands because my right thumb is clubbed. I worry about people seeing it. Can false nails cover it up? Does anyone know?
May 4, 2009 at 12:24 am |
Wow
i have never ever seen anyone with thumbs like mine
im just about 14 and it is really embarrasing cause no one else i know has thumbs like mine but at least now i know there are a heap of ppl out there with thubs like mine
i always get asked if my thumbs got run over by a car or if i smashed them in a door it gets abit annoying after awhile.
I know i do have some euorpean heritae cause my grand parents moved from englad to australia when they were young an i also have scotish ( douglas was my mums last name) and i also come from a greek backround
it is SOOOOOOO GREAT to know that i am not the only one with thumbs like that
May 4, 2009 at 7:01 pm |
btw im from england and i have irish and italian roots
May 4, 2009 at 10:54 pm |
When studing genetics 20 years ago, I was astonished to find out that there is a significant correlation betwen ‘clubbed thumbs’ and variations of mental retardation. I would suggest testing for the more pronounced cases.
May 6, 2009 at 1:32 am |
Hi again! Since my previous e-mail doesn’t work anymore, I make this repost with the new e-mail to send your pics… Here it is : I need the picture of a female with large thumb (it will stay anonymous) near a ruler so we can clearly see the width for an new and small acrylic nail company that want a picture in their business plan… The thumb must be larger than an inch or 25mm… Just include your age with the e-mail… Send your pics at svendar78@videotron.ca. Thank you very much in advance! Things are looking great for clubbers who needs acrylic nails it seems!
May 6, 2009 at 10:24 pm |
I have a small thumb on my left hand and a normal-sized thumb on my right hand. I noticed it when I was little and never thought much of it. I always knew it made me unique. I happily show it to friends and find it a fun party trick. Only recently did find out that I know a couple of people with the same condition! I was quite interested to know that there are a lot of us out there!
I did some research on the cause of this and here’s some of what I found:
The condition is caused by a genetic mutation and is technically called Brachydactyly type D . About one in a thousand people have either one or both thumbs like this. It’s a dominant gene in females and a recessive gene in males. Out of the people who have it, about three-fourths of them have it on both thumbs.
A lot of you have been trying to figure out the most common heritage of people who have it…I’m afraid I’m a mutt and won’t be of much help. I’m German, Dutch, English, Irish, and Scottish. But what might be of interest, though, is an Asian friend of mine has it on both thumbs. And to “Speedracerboy”’s point, she happens to have just finished her PHD at Harvard…so I’d say that his urge for testing for mental retardation in pronounced cases is absolutely absurd! It happens that people with certain types of syndromes, like downes syndroms, have the condition as well, but it’s certainly not mutually exclusive!
May 7, 2009 at 6:32 pm |
In response to marie i am 14 and i have a clubbed thumb on my right hand but it is just under an inch wide. would it be any use to you?
June 12, 2009 at 3:25 pm |
Alice,
You sound just like me when I was your age! I am 29 now and have learned to look at my thumbs with kindness. Seriously, if i had normal thumbs, I would have broken them like 10 times. Hang in there and try to focus on your favorite body parts for now!
May 7, 2009 at 9:12 pm |
Dear kate,
it’s funny that you mention that. i myself have both short legs and clubbed thumbs! i am also irish and my name is kate! my goodness this website has opened o many new doors for me haha!
May 7, 2009 at 10:41 pm |
Hello fellow thumbers. Nice to meet you all. How many of you are limited on your texting ability?
I have both hands cursed and I have a friend with just one thumb of wideness. However, hers is man made. She sucked her thumb till she was 12 and now its stuck that way.
I too am a mutt. I’m 1/4 italian, 1/4 dutch and 2/4 Heinz 57.
For all you star Wars fans out there…Jake Lloyd {Anakin} has one. I noticed it at the convention. I think I embarrased him. Go to Darth Rixxx at Myspace to see a pict. I’ve searched for it in the movie. They gave him a thumb actor.
May 8, 2009 at 2:09 am |
To Alice : Sure! It’s exactly what I need… Just be precise when you take your picture so we can clearly see the measure of your thumbs width… Thank you a lot in advance
May 11, 2009 at 2:42 am |
I forgot, to everyone else, feel free to send your pics, the more I have, the better the results!
At svendar78@videotron.ca
May 11, 2009 at 8:52 pm |
I have both clubbed thumbs. I’m 100% polish.
May 12, 2009 at 6:18 pm |
marie: i can only send you the pic if im sure that it will remain anonymous?
May 13, 2009 at 2:28 am |
@ Alice : Yes it will stay 100% anonymous, the purpose is to show the kind of thumb width that will fit with the large acrylic nails, no need for any personal informations at all here
May 13, 2009 at 6:35 pm |
Marie : okay, will email you shortly. Do you have clubbed thumbs by the way?
May 13, 2009 at 7:25 pm |
@Alice : Thanks and to answer your question, unfortunately, no, but I find them kind of cute lol!
May 13, 2009 at 8:52 pm |
This is so cool. My whole family has stubby thumbs. My sis in law says that they come from a tribe in Western England. She says this is where we got the hips and thighs too. lol When I was a kid and got teased about them I just told everyone that my dad smashed them with a hammer! Then they felt sorry for me! lol They are great for thumb wrestling and playing video games. I am surprised there are so many of us that have them. I am proud of them now that I am no longer a kid. They really did look bad as a kid because I bit my nails really bad, till they bled. I really didn’t have much of a nail. Well…. that’s all.
May 15, 2009 at 6:00 pm |
Hello everyone!! I think this is the coolest thing I’ve ever found on the internet. I’ve never been too curious about my thumbs until a few days ago so I started looking for information and found this site. Both my thumbs are clubbed and I have to say that I LOVE THEM, I think they are so unique. I’ve only met three other people with this kind of thumb and no one in my family has them but I hope that if I have kids, one of them has them, that’d be really cool!!
My mother says she never noticed until some people started making fun of them when I was a girl, she thought maybe a nurse crushed them when I was born!! Some people ask me if I used to suck them (kinda funny, how can you get equally clubbed thumbs by sucking them!!!), or if I had some sort of accident and so on but I don’t mind the jokes… I have been aware of their rarity since I was very young and never really bothered me although I did feel different at times. Nevertheless, I love their shape and I love the big round fingerprint they make and they are really good to give massages!!!
It’s pretty cool to find about people around the world who has them.
Ma. Luisa,
Monterrey, Mexico
May 16, 2009 at 8:55 pm |
Hi Maria!
Would you be willing to share a pic for the gallery? If so, shoot me an email at clubbedthumb@hotmail.com
Thanks!
May 21, 2009 at 10:02 pm |
Wow, this is neat! I’m the only person in my family to have clubbed thumbs and I didn’t know what it was called til just minutes ago when I was looking up all my weirdnesses on the internet. At least now I know there’s not anything wrong with me… I still kinda hate them though.
May 22, 2009 at 1:11 am |
@ Alice : Hello! I want to know if you’ve send me the pics because I haven’t receive them so I want to know if my e-mail is the problem or you just didn’t have the time yet… Waiting for your reply…
May 22, 2009 at 6:53 pm |
The gallery is now up to 314 thanks to everyone here that contributed! Just wanted to post the link for everyone to see in case it got lost in the hundreds of replies!
(Still have a few more that were sent today that I need to add)
Thanks again everyone! I’m pretty sure its the largest clubbed thumb gallery on the net!
http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii237/clubbedthumbs/
May 29, 2009 at 1:26 am |
How funny!! I just was browsing the internet and decided to research my fat thumbs. The picture looks just like mine. (I have two). I inherited mine from my grandmother and I have 2 cousins who were also blessed! Weird thing to inherit…I always say “I got my thumbs from my grandmother”..
May 29, 2009 at 4:58 am |
You are all discussing your thumbs … some of you have been “looking for thumbers your whole lives” … are you retarded or just that bored?
Go be workaholics, go have unattainable goals, go sleep with many many people, go do something. You’re all weird and I’m ashamed to call myself a thumber. I’m cutting off my thumb tonight.
May 29, 2009 at 11:58 am |
I just tried to put a ring on one of my ‘weird thumbs’ as I can never usually fit a ring on them, and then decided to google ‘weird thumbs’ and all these articles and pics came up!
I am a 27 year old female and I have only met one other girl in my life with thumbs like mine – which makes me scared that I maybe adopted if its genetic, ha!
My boyfriend and his mates used to really take the mick at first and it used to bother me but guess it could be worse. I am so happy I have found all of these facts out – I feel like I now belong!! Thank you!
May 31, 2009 at 9:00 pm |
Wow It’s so cool that I know that all of these people have the same thumbs as me
sweet. I though I was one out of like five in the whole world or something lol.I think our thumbs are really cute haha
June 3, 2009 at 9:00 pm |
This is cool. My sister and I each have 2 clubbed thumbs. Neither of our parents have them. However, we are 1/4 italien, 1/4 cajun french, and the rest a mix of scottish/irish/english.
It is strange that we both have them, and neither parent does, I wonder if both are carriers?
June 4, 2009 at 8:45 am |
Hi Amy!
Would you and your sister be willing to share a pic for the gallery?
If so, could you send me one at clubbedthumb@hotmail.com
If not, no problem! Thanks!
June 4, 2009 at 10:06 am |
i have 2 clubbed thumbs, but finding i’m the only one in my entire school that has them. but i feel special though at my school it’s known as butt thumbs when you put them together.
June 7, 2009 at 6:24 pm |
Hey all!
I am okay now and it seems like nobody really notices unless I bring it up. I am a court reporter, so my fingers — and those glorious thumbs — are very important to me, and they work just fine!! Scored third highest in the state of CA when I took my court reporting test years ago. And I am 100% Dutch, born in Holland. My mom told me when she went back to the homeland and visited that she noticed an uncle of mine that had one clubbed thumb! Think it’s just hereditary. Neither of my kids has one. Wonder what the stats are on having one or both??? Think I’m glad I have two; at least they are symmetrical. Whatever. Nothing to hide, my friends!!
I have two clubbed thumbs and three brothers who teased me about them while growing up
June 7, 2009 at 6:27 pm |
People With Clubbed Thumbs are actaully the best Bassists (slap of corse).
June 8, 2009 at 7:43 pm |
Marie: I am having email trouble but have sent a picture of my thumb to you next to a metal ruler. Hopefully you wil recieve it soon as i have sent it twice
June 11, 2009 at 12:51 pm |
God Bless the Internet! I have never seen or heard the term ‘club thumbs’ till today. I just thought I was deformed. Now at least I know I am not alone. I have been pondering surgery to make my thumbs look more normal. Anyone hear of any successful surgery to thin out the thumbs?
June 11, 2009 at 6:58 pm |
Hi there.
I have 2 clubbed thumbs. So did my grandma and so does my 2 year old daughter. I am English and if anything the gene comes from London Irish connections I guess! I was teased a lot as a kid but now I am pretty chilled about them but will have to work hard to persuade my daughter not to get stressed I am sure. I’ll try and take a picture of mine …. they look like big toes. I could try and take a pic of my daughters but they’re kind of tiny!
June 12, 2009 at 12:09 am |
Hi all,
I have two clubbed thumbs. I’m 50 and I never knew until today that other people have “big toe thumbs” like mine! Speaking of toes, mine are kind of stubby. The rest of my fingers are nice and long. It’s so nice to read all of your posts and to know that I’m more normal than I thought! My ancestry is Scottish, German, Romanian and Russian. My parents don’t have the trait, nor do my siblings. Neither of my children inherited the trait, either.
June 12, 2009 at 12:57 am |
Interesting site. I came across the “Clubbed thumb” term after the news story about Megan Fox broke recently. I’m 43 and have never considered myself disfigured.
I’m from the north of England originally, so the possible French or Irish connection in my heritage is interesting. Must get around to tracing the family tree …
June 12, 2009 at 1:54 am |
Wow. I can’t believe people are that self-conscious about a friggin’ thumb. I have one on my right hand, and growing up kids teased about it, but only out of curiosity. I told most of them a safe fell on it when I was a kid and smashed it, leaving them to stare at me dumbfounded until I told them I was joking. One girl would literally come up to me every day and ask to see them. Oh, well! Why are they such a big deal?
June 12, 2009 at 2:27 am |
Helloooo there from Los Angeles!
I am SOOO EXCITED to hear from all of you! I too just found out today about Megan Fox’s thumb -and I thought that I was the only one! (People used to call my thumb Stubby). Well, it is quite possible, then, that we are all related -if it is a GENETIC TRAIT. (My husband says that we are all related to leprechauns
I am half Scottish and half Jamaican.
So BIG UPs to da wee thumb club!!! Booyah!
June 12, 2009 at 4:24 am |
YAY!! My sisters teased me all my life! I’m so glad i’m not the only one with nubby thumbs..lol!
June 12, 2009 at 5:15 am |
Very interesting site. I never knew so many other people had this. I was also teased about my thumbs as a kid. Some of my friends used to tell little kids that my toes had to be sewn on to my hand because I was born with no thumbs. This teasing bothered me as a kid, however I dealt with it. Nice to hear I’m not the only one.
June 12, 2009 at 5:59 am |
WOW!!! I’m so excited that I’m Not the only one with a Stubby Thumb, on my left hand. Im from the US and my Dad is Italian and french and my moms Irish and Germen. I was always so self consences about my thumb until someone at my work told me it meant that you were smart if you have hammerhead Thumbs and i came accross this website. High five to all the stubbies.
June 12, 2009 at 7:19 am |
I have a clubbed thumb and I thought this was an ugly thing until I found this site. Megan Fox has it also..cool!
I believe this has something to do with artistic abilities. I’m a Fine Arts student, I paint and make poems and act too.
Cheers to us!
June 12, 2009 at 8:17 am |
I actually found the Megan Fox story really depressing. She has one clubbed thumb and the Daily Mail (a UK mainstream newspaper) described it as a “Defect”. Why do we not value unique things. If you don’t conform to the norm you are defective? How do I tell my 2 year old her thumbs are beautiful, cute, and a sign she is more daughter when newpapers describe our thumbs as defects….
June 12, 2009 at 11:54 am |
I have two clubbed thumbs. My sister calls them Toe thumbs. I am 50% Russian, and 50% American and the only one in my family with toe thumbs.
June 12, 2009 at 12:38 pm |
I am so excited that my little sister found this site. Through you guys, she can find solace in the fact that shes not alone in her “toe thumbedness”.
June 12, 2009 at 2:18 pm |
i have 2 club thumbs to! I never met anybody with them! im the only one in my family to have them! i thought that i was the only one to have them, but my mom said she saw somebody with some just like me!:)
June 12, 2009 at 3:09 pm |
Ha, I am here because of the Megan Foz story too! I have 2 club thumbs. Just found out today they are called club thumbs, I always called them stubby or toe thumbs. I am a mutt, German, Irish, English, Norwegian, Russian.
June 12, 2009 at 4:57 pm |
I am 25, (100% Italian) and until today I didn’t know there was a name for the way my thumbs are. No one else in my family has them to my knowledge, but I never knew my paternal grandparents so you never know. I hate how people always have to point them out like there is something wrong. I have met a few other people over the years with the same thing. I was however unaware that you could only have one clubbed thumb. Interesting!
Good to know there are so many other people like me!
June 12, 2009 at 5:58 pm |
I have the weird thumbs as well. I am American with Italian and Polish ancestors. How interesting! I am 31.91 years old as of today.
I met one man with similar thumbs. Nice to know all of you people are out there with the same thumbs. The internet rules!
I actually came across this site from another site that poked fun at Megan Fox’s thumbs. Apparently she is in Transformers or something… Here is the image: http://imgur.com/kWSnF.gif
Funny! Woo.
June 12, 2009 at 7:01 pm |
my thumbs and legs are short but I am normal in every other way….
June 12, 2009 at 7:18 pm |
This is funny! I am 29 and have two. When I used to go have acrylic nails put on the nail techs would always laugh and talk to each other in another language. I met one other girl in HS who had the thumbs too… My brother has them as well. Both of my kids’ thumbs turned out fine though.
June 12, 2009 at 9:04 pm |
Both of my thumbs are clubbed thumbs. My dad’s mother had them too. Out of all her children and grandchildren, I am the only one that has her thumbs. I always hid them when I was in elementary school. One day, this boy asked me if I didn’t have thumbs. I stopped hiding my thumbs then. I figured it was better to have funny thumbs than no thumbs.
I have 2 sons. They don’t have clubbed thumbs but the oldest has short legs. He is 6′3″ and wears a 32 length pants. He always says that he would have been a lot taller if he didn’t have such short legs. My mother’s dad had short legs. I always thought my son got his short legs from him. Now, I’m wondering if there is the short legs and clubbed thumbs connection.
June 13, 2009 at 1:01 am |
Totally Hilarious!!!
I have two (I don’t like the way “clubbed” thumbs sounds…) I have never felt embarrassed by them!!! They are CUTE!!! Seriously!!! My Grandmother Burns had them and the way I looked at it was… I always felt incredibly fortunate to have them passed down to me!!! My Grandmother was an extremely Beautiful person both inside and out!!! We are ALL in great company the **Beautiful** Megan Fox has a cute little thumb…
My first boyfriend loved them…. My best friend loves them… and my husband grabs them all the time saying he loves me… “thumbs and all”… I tell everyone I would be perfect if not for the thumbs… **~joke~** I am pretty cute though ** (lol) ** The only down fall… difficult to text… But they ROCK at thumb wars!!! and are great for trigger point messages!!!
*My blood type ~O Neg~
I am a mix… English… Irish… German… Scottish and Swiss
WOW!!!
My daughter and son have them BUT they are closer to “normal” looking then mine…
Thumbs up… to all my Thumb sisters and brothers out there…. It’s a good thing!!!
June 13, 2009 at 1:59 am |
I have one on my right hand all my friends make fun of them know i’ll just tell them I’m roylalty.
June 13, 2009 at 2:48 am |
Well, I am 5′11″ and have 36″ inseams. (I am female.) And I have O+ blood. So the blood type and short leg connection doesn’t seem to make any sense. Hmmmm. It does make me happy to know there are so many of us out there! We are cool!!
June 13, 2009 at 3:18 am |
It would be neat-o if we all met together and took pictures of like hundreds of our thumbs together. What if something as huge as that would make for a Discovery Channel special or something.
Probably not, but that would be cool. So if you guys ever get invited to be on the Discovery Channel, don’t forget to email me!!
August 6, 2009 at 8:42 pm |
That is not a bad idea actually. I think that they would do it. They do cover interesting conditions and do really thorough (I think I spelled that wrong) research on their topics. Not only would it be really cool for us, but I think it would be interesting to learn about it in depth. I mean, look at all of us who are JUST finding out that this is a condition? Really cool idea!
August 6, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I looked at Discovery Channel’s website and there wasn’t really a place for “People with weird body parts, then they found a blog site about their weird body part, and now they want media attention”.
It would be fun to learn more about it, though.
<3
June 13, 2009 at 6:48 am |
Wow, not to sound repetitive but I never knew that other people had them. I thought that my left thumb may have been squished when it was forming or something. My whole life it as always been the object of laughter and somewhat of a talking point. I’ve never been embarrassed by it. I’m simply qute pleased to have a conversation starter during awkward moments.
June 15, 2009 at 11:32 am |
I have both thumbs clubbed. My father was only 5′3″ tall with particularly short legs, although I am average height for a female of 5′5″. A massage therapist who had worked all over Europe asked me if I had ‘Gallic’ ancestry as my bone structure suggested – I really don’t know. My family is English on both sides as far back as we can trace, but I did notice more people in Brittany with both my colouring (blue eyes, dark hair & fair freckled skin) and clubbed thumbs. I’d love to know for sure where my ancestors came from.
June 15, 2009 at 12:55 pm |
Both my thumbs are “toe thumbs”, I never knew there was a real name for it. As a kid, I was made fun of for having my little thumbs. I would constantly tuck them under, and sometimes still do. They gave me a complex. My older sister has one clubbed thumb and one “normal” thumb. No one else in my family that I know of or ever met has them. I am 5′8″ long legged, long fingers. I am of Mexican, Polish, German descent. I have never met anyone other than my sis who has had the same thumbs as me. I always look at peoples hands to see if they are like me. I have two kids and as soon as they were born I checked their thumbs, neither of them carried on my little thumbs.
June 15, 2009 at 7:35 pm |
I am 30 years old and my right thumb is the only one that looks like ET. Growing up my brothers and sister would tease me saying it looked like a toe or ET. I always thought it had to do with me sucking my thumb as a child, but some years back my sister found a magazine article in a doctors office or nail salon about my thumb. She tore it out and gave it to me. The picture was that of my thumb. They called it a “Hammer Thumb” and gave a brief history on the gentic disorder also saying that it was a sign of royalty in the European bloodline. I’M FAMOUS I THOUGHT!!j/k. I still have the article and still bring it out to show people for good laughs.
Then 3 years ago at a family reunion did we discover that my great aunt (who was 100 yrs old at the time) and her great neice also have thumbs like mine. I was told my great grandma had a thumb like ours too. We all put our thumbs together. We realized on what side of the family this gentic disorder came from (the Itailian side).
Growing up I only knew my 4th grade teacher to have two thumbs like mine. As I got older, I have ran into a few people that also have a thumb(s) like mine. It seems to be more common or maybe it’s that we’re all ok talking about our ET thumb and showing people now and we’re not so embarrassed by it anymore. Thanks to Megan Fox this past week, our thumbs have become noticed everywhere.
June 15, 2009 at 7:42 pm |
I really don’t like my thumbs, everyone makes fun of thumb, I wish I had normal thumbs.
June 15, 2009 at 10:03 pm |
I have the pair of stubbies, and remember hiding them from my first real girlfriend growing up. She later told me she would hide hers till we seen each others and noticed we both had the stubby thumbs! True story. I’ve since met only one other co-worker with a single stubby thumb. I am Mexican which is not really a race since Mexicans are a melting pot of people e.g., Spanish, French, Amerindian, Lebanese, etc. My Father’s home town had a large migration of Spaniards back in the 1700s when Mexico was still a Spanish colony and those folks may have brought those genetic traits with them. Who knows…
June 16, 2009 at 8:43 pm |
me too…Nacho…I am mexican from the lower rio grande valley in Texas.
I may have gotten these wee thumbs from my father’s maternal gmother who was anglo. her name was sarah hawkins. and I heard she had them as well as her daughter my gmother , Defina Hinojosa.. anyway I know of another Mexican american in the Valley who has them as well. good luck where are you from?
July 29, 2009 at 6:22 am |
my right thumb is clubbed. I am also Mexican American from Texas. My father has one as well and he was born in Mexico. We are the only two that I know of so far to have clubbed thumbs. I don’t think I have any European descent. I’m not sure what the rest of my family is. I hear Portuguese and Tarahumara so far. I have always wondered why my dad and I have them and this one girl who wasn’t related to me. Now I know I am not alone!!!!!!!!!!! My husband calls it Wombly thumb. He just made that up one day. I still sord of dislike it because I can’t get fake nails (someday) and gloves fit somewhat tight on that thumb only. Also I can’t bowl because my thumb doesn’t fit and I’m afraid it will get stuck if I even try to shove it in there. : (
June 16, 2009 at 1:58 am |
I have two clubbed thumbs, although until today I never knew they had a name. When I do a “thumbs-up”, my thumbs actually have a tendency to bend backwards at the knuckle – they look especially short then.
I don’t recall ever being teased as a child, but throughout my life people would occasionally notice them and give me a hard time.
About 20 years ago, I was a bank teller and people noticed them all the time then since they were watching my hands as I counted money out to them. I wasn’t necessarily embarrassed, just tired of people pointing them out to me (“OMG, look at your thumbs!”), as if I were a freak show attraction!
Once, a woman actually reached across the counter and grabbed my hand and said, “look at your thumbs!” I just took my hand back and said, “yeah, I know – they’re short”, but then she said, “No, that’s not what I meant. Your thumbs are the same as mine!” We both were both laughing and so excited to have found another person with SFT syndrome (short, fat thumbs).
Now in my late 40’s, she’s still the only person I’ve ever known with “my” thumbs… until today! Willie Geist did a bit on Megan Fox’s thumbs on Zeitgeist and it was like a revelation! This website is amazing (thanks by the way). I can’t believe this many people are our there!
I don’t know my heritage on my mother’s side (mutts), but on my father’s side we’re French. I know of no one else in my family (extended or otherwise) with these thumbs.
Do I wish I had normal thumbs? Sure! if only because it would be easier. The nail likes to grow wide and it’s a pain to keep trimmed to where it looks decent. Not a big deal though – it’s part of who I am.
My husband likes to tease me once in awhile about my “2nd big toes”, or my “limitations because of my thumbs”. Now, I can tell him it’s just because I probably come from royalty! What a kick!
June 16, 2009 at 7:10 pm |
My sister has a clubbed thumb. I always give her are hard time about her “third big toe”. She’s not too sensative about it though. I doubt it really means much or could give anyone some insight as to who they are or whatever. Besides. It is just a thumb! It’s not like it will keep you from being successful or something! Look at Megan Fox! My sister doesn’t look like Megan, but she’s successful in her own right.
June 17, 2009 at 1:00 am |
I have one clubbed thumb or toe thumb as some of my friends would tease me. My club thumb is on my left hand…both thumbs are hitchhikers thumbs. I never realized so many other people had it. I’ve only met one person in my life that had it and she had it on both hands and hated it. It never really bothered me – once when getting my nails the Asian woman picked it up and started laughing at it to the others…I don’t need to know your language to know what you’re probably saying!!!!!
I’ve read that it could be called Clubbed Thumb, Hammer Thumb, Stub Thumb, etc. Somewhere out there it said the Hammer Thumb on the right hand shows aggressive behavior on the left it shows the opposite.
I’m of Italian & Irish heritage! The one person I met in my life was also of Italian heritage!!!
June 17, 2009 at 2:36 am |
Wow this is amazing.. i too have a “clubbed thumb” (right)
My best friend thinks itz cute but i used to really hate it.. anywayz i grew out of that as i am 18 now.. and sometimes when bored i would just show it to people and their reactions are ussually so funny..
But itz so weird a lot of people on the site have mentioned being with this unique trait and being linked to European blood.. I however am a black girl but i do have indian/ Arabic blood.. just thought it’ll be interesting to mention..
June 17, 2009 at 9:27 pm |
Toe Thumbs or Brachydactyly is plainly and simply put–the product of ancestral inbreeding.
June 18, 2009 at 2:41 am |
My brothers always called them my “Bert and Ernie” thumbs after the characters on Sesame Street. My father had the same thing but I have only met one other person with these thumbs. My right thumb is clubbed, left one is normal, like my dad
June 19, 2009 at 6:15 am |
HI, Just discovered that my 12 year old daughter has clubbed thumbs on both hands. She was delighted to discover that she has the same thumbs as Megan fox supposedly has. She loves to be different. I know this because we spent half the day yesterday drying the tips of her hair blue. She is of Italian/Ukrainian decent.
Just wondering if anyone with this has hyper mobile joints as we all seem to have in the family?
June 19, 2009 at 6:35 am |
Oh Yeah. To the person who said that it was a sign of artistic abilities, you maybe on to something. My daughter is a very good artist already at 12. Drawing, Poetry, song writing. Anyone else?
June 19, 2009 at 7:43 am
Interesting that you drew that parallel – now that you mention it, I do have hyper mobile joints, but only in my arms and shoulders (it’s made me prone to injury).
As for the artistic abilities, I can’t draw a lick, and though I do like to write and sing, I can’t say I’m exceptionally good at it!
June 20, 2009 at 4:34 am |
I have been made fun of for my two clubbed thumbs my entire life! I was always so embarassed by them because I have never seen anyone else with them. I am the only one in my family who has them. I’m 100% Italian and I noticed that a lot of other Italians on here have clubbed thumbs too!
June 22, 2009 at 5:12 am |
Hello all “clubbed thumbers”, how refreshing to find a website with people who have thumbs like mine. I have two of these unique thumbs. I nearly fell out of my chair laughing when I saw all the pictures which look exactly like mine! My grandmother and my father have them also. It is interesting that neither my aunt (my dads sister) or cousins have this trait. I am of Scots-Irish descent, also some Native American. I was looking up this type of thumb because I was wondering if there is a link to dwarfism??? I was just watching a TV show with some dwarfs on there and I noticed they had these same thumbs. I am only 4′11 and my father is rather short (5′5) for a man. Im thinking there may be some type of gene mixed in there?? Anyone done research on this??
June 23, 2009 at 12:49 am |
I realized it was a genetic trait when I noticed my grandpa’s thumbs after he died and was in the casket! My mom also has these thumbs. We are Mexican American with German blood. My friends would crack up laughing at my thumbs which I admit, are quite funny looking but it doesn’t bother me in the least. I’m unique!
June 23, 2009 at 4:17 am |
Hello all. I am a 29 year old male with 2 ‘clubbed thumbs’ and they both look just like the picture at the top of the page. My sister has 1 clubbed thumb on her right hand. I do not know of anyone else in our extended family has them. I have another brother and sister and they both have normal thumbs. I am of mainly German, Spanish, and Swedish decent.
During my life I have only meet two other people, both women, who had a clubbed thumb on their right hand. Also a friend of mine, who is Italian, told me he had told his Grandmother about my thumbs, as he had never seen anyone with them. She told him they were ‘Murder’s Thumbs’ and that always stuck with me so it was nice to reference to what he told me here.
Growing up I loved playing video games. Since I played so much I normally beat my friends. One day one of was watching me play and noticed I could hit both the A and B buttons on an old school Nintendo controller at the same time. At that moment my “toe thumbs” as they called them, became a blessing they were all jealous of.
June 24, 2009 at 6:21 pm |
I have one clubbed thumb on my left hand. I am of Vietnamese descent. I’m not sure if I have any mixed decent.
June 25, 2009 at 2:40 pm |
i didn’t find this site until i heard about megan fox’s thumbs. it makes me feel a lot better that a GORGEOUS talented woman has the same thumbs as me! although, i was made fun of QUITE A BIT in grade school by the boys (i will not say what they called my thumbs), it is a little disturbing. i have been scarred for life because of these prepubescent boys. lets just say they like to ask if i sat on them a lot? how repulsive is that? what a**holes. anyway, since then, i have been hiding my thumbs from the world. when people see them, they are very inconsiderate and say things like, “what’s wrong with them?” and “why do they look so weird?” well, as i try my hardest to hide them, every once in a while, they are noticed and it really makes me uncomfortable. i guess since all of you are learning to love your thumbs, i can try to love mine…
June 25, 2009 at 4:16 pm |
Hi Alf,
I just find out about clubbed thumbs because of Megan Fox. I thought I was the only one with this weird condition! My left thumb looks exactly like your picture above and I think my two big toes might be clubbed too, hard to tell. Good to know that it is genetic, I always thought I caused it from my obsessive nail picking. Now that I know I am not the only one I can try to stop being so self conscious about it.
Neil
June 25, 2009 at 6:45 pm |
Neil brings up something that I’ve also wondered about. When I was young, I also obsessively picked at my nails (something I’ve thankfully stopped over time). I never made a connection to my thumbs, but as there are other “nail pickers” and former “nail pickers” on here, it still makes one think…
June 28, 2009 at 9:40 pm |
I have one “retarded thumb” on my right hand (I apologize if that term is offensive, but it’s what I started calling it when I was a child). I am 50% French (French Canadian at least), 25% Italian, and a 25% mixture of Irish/German/English/misc. I’ve always sworn that my left thumb was similar until I pulled and squished it normal again when I was a child, but I know that doesn’t really make sense. (I think the two thumbs probably just looked more similar when I had younger/smaller hands, but the un-clubbed one eventually grew normal and made it seem like I had magically ‘fixed’ it.) I don’t know of anyone else in my family who has the same thumbs. I do not have hitchhiker’s thumbs, but I did always pick/bite my nails as a child. I did not suck my thumbs at all.
I always leave that thumb unpainted if I paint my fingernails a dark color so as not to draw attention to it, but a friend recently asked me why it wasn’t painted (clearly my plan backfired, and not painting it drew MORE attention!). She said her sister-in-law has thumbs like mine.
I found this site when I saw some article about Megan Fox’s thumbs and realized a bunch of people must have the same problem (not that it’s really a problem). I had to laugh when one person mentioned getting a custom-made bowling ball, because I’ve had the same problem the few times I’ve gone bowling.
June 30, 2009 at 4:12 am |
my dad had clubbed thumbs which must be where I inherited it.
he passed away just months ago. I am 15 by the way.
as weird as this sounds I feel like my thumbs are an eternal bond between us and even though he is gone I can always look at them and smile.
this makes me want to be a doctor and study genetics!!
I feel special even though I sometimes hide them. I come from germany and also ireland. I loove the Internet!
July 7, 2009 at 11:33 pm |
Lol, Damn bowling balls! Why wasn’t my royal thumb on the left hand!?
July 2, 2009 at 2:30 am |
hello i am 32 i have two club thumbs always had them i never thought any thing of themi untill my sisters stupid boyfriend was making fun of meghans fox recenently i was offenened cause i think he was actuallytmaking fun of me
August 6, 2009 at 8:32 pm |
He sounds like quite the buttmonkey.
July 2, 2009 at 2:51 am |
oh i notice peoplesm bloodlines im o posivtive and my father is 100 percent morroccan my mother is adopted so her family history does not exist although she heard she might be canadian french
July 3, 2009 at 6:29 am |
Wow, I was not aware that there were so many of us
Personally, I have always been a bit embarrassed of my left clubbed thumb. The medical term for this dominant genetic trait is Brachydactyly Type D. Both my sister and I have it on our left thumb. As for the my heritage, I am of Mexican, Spanish, Basque, Italian, French and Cuban descent. I know, I have a pretty mixed bloodline :] It’s funny because when my daughter was born, the first thing I checked were her thumbs! lol. (did not inherit them) I just do not like when people make comments like “what’s wrong with your thumb?” “is your thumb deformed” and especially when they yell it out and people turn around and look at your thumb all weird .. so yeah, that is my story :]
July 3, 2009 at 8:27 pm |
I have one clubbed thumb (my right one) and i also have webbed toes. Not good digits for me! I never knew that this was an actual condition untill today, it nice to know that its not my fault after years off people asking me had broken my thumb (i hadn’t) or asking why i bite my thumb nail so short (i DON’T, its always like that!!). It doesn’t really bother me anymore, i’m used to it. The only thing that really bugs me is that I can never find false nails to fit it!!! haha, nothing life threatening though (:
x
July 7, 2009 at 11:27 pm |
I have one of those. My right thumb. I never knew why and was self-conscious about it growing up, although I really don’t know why. I guess it was just knowing how rotten people are, and how anything different, no matter how small, is a cause for ridicule, disdain, or some other negative reaction.
One, day, when I was 22 and working as a waiter in a restaurant, I looked at a co-worker’s hand, and SHE HAD ONE TOO! I really had thought up until then that I was all alone. She was a cute girl, and as we were talking and comparing thumbs, another waitress, who actually looked something like Megan Fox(who also has one!) and was a total babe, stuck out her hands and showed that she too had the exact same situation! All of us had the big thumb on the right hand, as apparently does Megan Fox, so I wondered if this was always the way. After reading here I see it isn’t. I was shocked and relieved at that point, though, since until then I had never met anyone else with the same thumb. It was nice that both the girls were really cute, too. It’s funny, I used to tell people it was a sign of the ancient Celtic kings, or that it was how the aliens were to know who to put in charge when they landed. I used to tuck it into my hand sometimes, but now I’m going to look at people’s hands all the time to see if I can find any other “thumbmates”.
July 14, 2009 at 10:57 pm |
Finally! After 29 years I’m finding out where my two funny looking thumbs are coming from and that there’s a name for it. And its fantastic to read stories from others! When I was young I was ashamed of my thumbs and would constantly try to hide them. Nowadays I’m less ashamed, but I still find it a bit embarrassing when people are staring at them and want to examine them from all different angles
. My parents always wondered why I have these thumbs. Because, although its genetic, they dont know anybody in our family (parents, brother, grandparents, aunts etc) with such thumbs. I live in the Netherlands, my mother is Dutch and my father is from Surinam. He is from mixed heritage, problaby african/jewish-portugese/native. Next year I’m going to meet some family members for the first time in Surinam, so maybe then I will meet some family with the same thumbs 
.
July 20, 2009 at 4:26 pm |
When i saw Transformers in the theaters and saw Megan Fox’s thumb when she was driving the truck, i yelled out “she has thumbs like me!” and my husband said “wow, she does!”
I used to get teased when i was in elementary school, but i guess you could say i have “murders thumbs” because i got agressive about it when people teased me. Let’s just say the teasing didnt last long after i beat up a boy at recess for for making fun of my thumbs.
Now that i’m older i have come across alot of people with clubbed thumbs. I think the royal blood line claim is true because i am of Irish descent as well as Native American (Cherokee and Apache). I used to think that i inherited my thumbs from my Native American ancestors. I’m really artistic and i figured my thumbs evolved from the Native American women who threw pottery all the time. lol maybe so, i throw pottery as well and my thumbs come in handy for throwing some cool shapes and designs! Oh, and my husband claims i give awesome back massages, too.
As far as the royalty thing goes, I’m a Harrington which is part of the Celtic Royal Genealogy supposedly…So rock on royal thumbs!!
July 21, 2009 at 12:08 pm |
Hi there! I am 100% Polish and I also have this “problem”:) I wish I could do something with that…I mean operation or sth. If anyone knows how to make those thumbs look nicer or more normal…:) Please write about it!!!!
I have noticed that Sanaa Lathan (actress) has also those thumbs..:)
Sory if there are any mistakes, I am not perfect in English..
July 22, 2009 at 3:11 am |
I am 100% Italian and I have club thumbs! I never knew they were different until my boyfriend said something! Finally, I am not alone!
July 23, 2009 at 1:51 pm |
I am 37 and have been self conscience of my thumbs my whole life. I have read through a lot the comments here and it seems that a lot of of us have felt the same throughout the years. I never knew anyone else who had thumbs like mine (both of mine are “clubbed”). About 5 years ago I met someone else who has one thumb like mine. So I didn’t feel so much like a freak when I saw it. I used to hide them inside my fist when I was around people. I didn’t want to be considered abnormal. I have 3 children and when each was born it was the first thing I looked for on them. My youngest daughter is the only one who has the “thumbs”. She is 6 and thinks it’s COOL that we match.
July 23, 2009 at 1:52 pm |
Oh and I am of English, Irish and German descent.
July 23, 2009 at 1:58 pm |
and I am female. My last daughter is to my second husband who is half Italian. She also has red hair which is another genetic thing altogether, but I find interesting that she is the one who inherited my stubby thumbs.
July 24, 2009 at 3:04 am |
Oh my gosh!!!!! Coming here feels like finding long lost family!!!! It is good to finally meet you all!!!
What I know about my clubbed thumb heritage:
My paternal grandmother had 2 club thumbs
My father only has one (don’t remember which hand)
I have two. I am the only one of my three siblings from my father’s side that inherited the thumbs.
July 26, 2009 at 8:12 am |
im 17. thought i was the only one who had this. i only have one on my right hand. my mom has 2. and my sister, who isnt blood related to my mother [her stepchild], has 2 as well. maybe its in the gene pool from both of my parents?
July 27, 2009 at 5:36 pm |
I have 2 “club” thumbs, and really tiny hands and feet. I am also the only one in my entire extended family that has them. I’m not at all Italian either – I’m mostly Russian. Who knows. I never sucked my thumbs either.
My mom used to joke that I shouldn’t be a nail polish or glove model, but I don’t really mind them. I used to hate my thumbs, but now I like them, they’re kind of cool.
p.s. the only other person I have met with these thumbs is an old woman at the grocery store, she dropped her receipt so I picked it up and she saw my thumbs. I am really glad to know that clubbed thumbs are actually a real thing that other people have!
July 28, 2009 at 2:33 am |
CLUB THUMBS–NOT FOR BOWLING AFTER ALL…
Whenever I go 10-pin bowling, I have to use a ball that is twice as heavy so I can fit my club-thumb in the hole. I am an average-sized woman using a bowling ball made for a giant man. When I was a small child, my nickname was “Thumbs” and the kids told me that my thumbs were replaced with big toes when I was a baby. I am so relieved to have found a support network to communicate about my club thumbs.
August 2, 2009 at 5:16 am |
lol ive had that problem i have to use HEAVY balls because i cannot fit my thumbs! lol
July 31, 2009 at 12:48 am |
I have one clubbed thumb on my left hand. I never even knew it had a name I just recently heard that it could be something genetic. So I wanted to research and learn more. I was told it could be from thumb sucking but I never sucked my thumb as a child. I got shot with a bb gun on my nail and always blamed it on that. I don’t know anyone else with this type of thumb. I have had a few people look at me funny when I get my nails done and my friends joked about it in school. But I think it makes me unique and different. Glad to know I’m not the only person with this thumb!
August 2, 2009 at 5:15 am |
lol! woowww all my life ive been ask if i smashed my thumbs or were they my toes!
August 2, 2009 at 10:43 pm |
Wow!! I feel like many of you do that I finally have an answer to my thumb. I am the only one I know that has a short right thumb. I’ve been teased about it all my 45 years. In reading all the responses… it is interesting to see that it is predominately right hand if it is only one thumb. hmmmm…. As many others have said… I don’t feel so alone anymore!!
August 4, 2009 at 10:36 am |
You know, I am a 55 year old woman and it is only in the last few months that I discovered what my club thumb on my right hand was all about. All my life I have hidden it tucked inside my palm, embarrassed about how it looked. The only thing that helped me was when I was about 14 years old, I met my Dutch paternal grandfather and he had a european thumb or club thumb just like me! I was the one in the family who most closely resembled him, even in this special way with both of us sharing this unique thumb. I always thought that I had inherited a deformity from my Opa. Now that I know that I don’t have a deformity as such, I am less inclined to want to hide it away. At last my thumb is finally out of the closet and I am not so self conscious about the way it looks. On the whole, most people don’t know what it is and comment on how different it looks, often with a bit of a curl on their lips. After all, it is a bit unsightly!! I challenge everybody who has this phenomenon to embrace your uniqueness and hold your head, and hand for that matter, high and be grateful.
August 4, 2009 at 7:06 pm |
My girlfriend has bilateral clubbed thumbs and 1st toes. Which she has passed on to both of her daughters. Obviously this isn’t any big deal, makes her unique. I had a curiousity though. She was adopted, via Childrens Services in Ohio, Columbus area. Her DOB is 8/28/1970. Of course she’d love to find her birth parents. Since this is inherited, I thought maybe someone out there might be able to help. All she was told about her birth mother is that she was an Ohio State Univ. student. Reply to this e-mail please.
August 6, 2009 at 1:41 am |
I am soooo happy I found this website. I had my first manicure yesterday and was told that these “toe thumbs” are really a link to possible royal blood.
I too can relate to the embarrassment related to these thumbs. I was made fun of all through school but did find a way to use it to my advantage when really young…..I just told my friends that I was abducted by aliens and they “marked” me for follow up in several years, LOL Worked for a while. We are of Italian-Scottish decent through my maternal tree and German-English on my father’s side.
I always just thought…..to bad I don’t have rhythm because these babies would be awesome for bongos!
August 6, 2009 at 12:17 pm |
I had an infection in the bone of my thumb and after a long course of antibiotics and surgery, my thumb shrank down and now resembles a clubbed thumb. Not having seen another like it one day, this man I met while waiting for a cab exclaimed, “Oh, you’ve got a LUCKY THUMB, my sister has a lucky thumb, it means your lucky! Remembering my infection I replied “no, I’m not lucky”. He said “yes, yes you are, you were born with it.” Well, God Bless, him I just agreed with him and said I guess your right, I am lucky. Well, here’s the point in the story where you expect me to tell you I won the lottery. I didn’t. However, subsequently through the years I have met others who were born with a clubbed “LUCKY” thumb. Some very nice people indeed. So even though I can’t claim it as a birthright, I do feel lucky to belong this group even if by accident.
August 6, 2009 at 12:26 pm |
Oh yeah, one more thing, …one time i went in to get a manicure/pedicure at the nail salon with my best friend. The woman set to do my nails looked at my thumb and said, “is that your toe?”. I said, “what?”. And, before I could respond my friend replied laughing, “Yeah she was born with 11 toes!”.
I know, right? Cuz, it was obvious to all when I came in I had 10 visible fingers and 10 visible toes. Where did that girl think the extra toe came from? (-:
August 6, 2009 at 8:13 pm |
I had a similar experience getting a manicure. It was an Asian woman doing my nails and was speaking another language to the neighboring manicurist. She pulled my hand around so that the other girl could see it, they started laughing and saying something I could not understand! The worst part is, she never asked me or said one word about my thumb to me! I was so self conscious a that point that I have never gotten a manicure again! That was about 6 years ago!
August 7, 2009 at 3:29 am |
I felt so out of place with my 2 clubbed thumbs!!!! Thank goodness that there are other people that have the same thumbs as me!!!!!!
August 9, 2009 at 3:26 am |
I have never liked the looks of my hands. I have 2 clubbed thumbs and very short stubby fingers with square nails. I have seen other people with a clubbed thumb or two and have wanted to say something to them, but I thought it might sound rude. I have pointed mine out to people with normal thumbs in conversation, and most claim to have never noticed them. I am mainly German and English. No one in my immediate family has clubbed thumbs (including 2 brothers and 3 neices). I got a manicure (for the first and last time ever) when I got married and the manicurist assured me that I didn’t have the ugliest hands she had ever seen – just that she wouldn’t exactly recommend a French Manicure!
August 11, 2009 at 6:44 pm |
This is fantastic! My brother, who is one of three that are always poking fun at my toe thumbs, sent me the Wikipedia link for clubbed thumbs or Brachydactyly type D (BDD). Aside from my paternal grandmother, I know of no one else in my family with toe thumbs. My grandmother is of English-Irish decent and I’m the same with a little German and Austrian and thereabouts mixed in. I see the Irish and German ancestry is quite common based on the above comments!
Just in doing a little web browsing I see it can be genetically mapped (they know its specific location on a chromosome), it appears to be a dominant trait and that it may even be considered a form of dwarfism that affects the skeletal development of the thumbs or fingers. It’s most common in females and may be as common as 1 in 1000. I know I’ve met quite a few in my lifetime, 3 females and 1 male come to mind right now but I’m sure there were more.
Anyways, I’m thrilled people are talking about it. It has always fascinated me! I look forward to reading what other people can dig up about them! Anyone started a Facebook “Support Group” page?? Haha… that would be hilarious! And cool to see how many people are out there and where they’re from!
Be proud of your thumbs! They give you quite the advantage at Thumb Wars!! (More surface area!)
August 11, 2009 at 10:02 pm |
For anyone who is on Facebook and is interested, I started a group for clubbies!
Here is the link:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115471108996
August 11, 2009 at 11:32 pm |
Joined! Woo.
August 12, 2009 at 4:59 am |
Oh yea, and there is a FB page too, this one is a little more interactive!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Clubbed-Thumbs-Unite/112300183309?ref=search&sid=1805407479.794412043..1
August 21, 2009 at 1:36 am |
Is it strange that I find clubbed thumbs to be incredibly attractive on girls? So many people seem to be saying “they are nasty, etc. etc.” but I really think the opposite. I cant stand when I hear people say it makes Megan Fox less attractive for example. I think clubbed thumbs are cute and unique! Wish I had them…
August 22, 2009 at 8:08 pm |
I always show people my thumb and make the joke that I was born without a thumb so they put my big toe on my finger(left) haha.. However, I never thought about how many more people had this trait and my fiance’ decided to look it up on the computer when i told her of the several stories i have heard and the folk-lore stories I have been told by several “interesting people” who had a prior knowledge of the “clubbed thumb” (as i see people call it).. obviously she has found a great deal of information on the subject.. She LOVES the thought of me being from royal decent and since my last name has a big history(there is a place called LA’ MONCEAU in PARIS.. So I do not try and discourage her thinking and pretty much bask in her little new found discovery that she has “the pick of the litter”… all in all.. I wanted to share my story and say that I have always liked my thumb and could use it as a good conversation starter.. While I’m on the subject.. If ANYONE knows about “monceau paris” I would love to find out about it because the way I know is cause I saw it on the internet.. god bless you all … Jaime Monceaux
August 22, 2009 at 8:09 pm |
wow…i have read some of these short stories about clubbed thumbs….lol..i never knew they had a name and i can relate to almost every story that has been posted its actually funny to me and it has as well made my whole day i have two fat thumbs and i have always been ashamed of them always triying to figure how to hide them…..my dad also has clubbed thumbs as well as 2 of his sisters but since i have read most stories that these come from italians…well i am 100% mexican does that make any difference?? jus wondering i dont know …but anyways im just glad that this website excists and it is so funny how someone posted about the bowling balls…lmao i could not stop laughing at the fact that i have had the same problems with bowling and nail salons!
August 25, 2009 at 1:44 am |
haha i didnt know they actually had a name
always just called them stubby thumbs.
i have two also on my hands
but big toes resemble the stubby thumbs and are shorter than the second toe.
i used to get made fun of all the time for them, but now i feel fine about them. people think they’re cute.
oh and im korean
August 26, 2009 at 10:20 pm |
Remember that game “Head’s up 7-up?” Well, I hated that game. It’s the one where everyone in the classroom puts thier heads down on thier desk and put thier thumb up. 7 people are “it” and they go around tapping thumbs and then at the end, you have to guess which one tapped you. I don’t know, maybe it was just my teacher who made up that stupid game but I redirecting…..I hated that game AND my thumbs when I was little. Now, at 36, I totally forget about them until someone mentions them or I see someone with the same thumbs and I show them mine and we laugh. Bowling balls have always been an issue and gloves can be an issue. The top of my thumb seems to be a little more rounded than the others that I have seen. It’s a bit exagerated. I don’t mind though. Whatevs!
August 29, 2009 at 7:51 pm |
I have on clubbed thumb on my left hand. I hate when people ask to see them or want to show them off to other people. Its really embarrassing. But I know theres nothing that I can do to change it, so I’ve come to accept them. I still unconsciously hide my left thumb just because I was so used to doing it for several years. But if people don’t like it they don’t have to look! I can trace my family lines only so far back but as far as I can tell I’m full Mexican. My brother has 2 clubbed thumbs but neither of my parents do.
August 31, 2009 at 4:41 am |
I want all of you freaks to know that you are sinning without even knowing.. as stated in Romans Chapter 5 verse 17
“For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.”
You should all die horrible, horrible deaths. I shall take vengeance in the name of, our lord and savior, Jesus christ and strike you all down. freedom of speach mother fuckers. I hate all of you and your, hopefully dead, unborn children. fuck you freak thumbs.
August 31, 2009 at 4:43 am |
:tard:
August 31, 2009 at 7:37 pm |
What a psycho, jealous hater!!!!!
September 12, 2009 at 2:21 pm |
I’m assuming this is a joke because I do not know how anyone could be this ridiculous. Just in case…
How does having a Clubbed thumb become sinful according to that passage? I understand your right to speak freely, however, perhaps you should try to support your statement with relevant information. After all, we did not do this to ourselves. If god created all things on earth, then God also created us. Maybe your just jealous because we evolved with fantastic thumbs and you did not.
P.s keep your vengence to a minimun; murder is a sin. jerk!
September 13, 2009 at 3:00 am |
You are so mean and somebody is going to kill YOU, buddy, for saying this. Watch yourself they don’t call us clubbed thumbs for nothing…….. >:D
September 1, 2009 at 12:17 am |
The ‘hottest of hot’, Megan Fox, has clubbed thumbs.. fun fact of the day.
September 2, 2009 at 6:11 am |
Wow – Freekyourthumbs – WTF is wrong with you? Isn’t your Jesus/God the one who created us? Are you calling Him/It a looser?
You bite – I’d say you sux but that’s nice – you BITE!!
September 2, 2009 at 10:46 pm |
Yep just lke everyone else whos posted…. I to have clubbed thumbs. In third grade I noticed both my thumbs didnt look like all the other kids thumbs so I was embarressed and thought they were hiddious. When I got into medical school my instructor put a drawing of my thubs on the board (he didnt know I had those thumbs) I looked over to my friend and I told her DUDE! those are my thumbs! lol My instructor then asked if anyone knew someone who had thumbs like that. Well of course my friend and a desk mate said SHE DOSE! I was sooo embarressed and I was asked to show them to the class. But I have now gotten over the fact that I have odd thumbs and I love them because it shows that im NOT like everyone else
September 7, 2009 at 4:00 am |
I have three grand children with clubbed thumbs….. two of the children’s mother have the and the other’s grand mother have the…. none have a problem with them….. one is a boy and football player…. the girls are cheerleaders…. they know they are unique…. God made them this way… we all have something different… I heard a man speak that has cerberal palsey some one ask him when he was young about being normal…. he said… and you think you are normal….. end of subject…
September 8, 2009 at 11:59 pm |
Well I’m 25 and I just now decided to google “deformed thumbs” and to my suprise I found The World of Club Thumbs. I’ve only met one other person that has both club thumbs, however I had a really good friend in high school who had one. I was always told growing up that my Grandmother had thumbs like mine, I never really payed much attention to them. I’ve met many people that have noticed them and told me that it was because I sucked them, I even had one girl while I was in Basic Combat Training tell me it was a sign of hear disease. I am German/Polish/and a little Irish mixed in with it. I’ve always seen my thumbs a good conversation started.lol. I think it’s great one you have something that makes you unique.
September 12, 2009 at 1:57 pm |
I have one clubbed thumb on my right hand. My doctor always called it nintendo thumb because I played super nintendo all day as a kid. My right thumbs covered the AB buttons very nicley, making me an undefeated champion.
I’m also italian. I have a enourmous family; so far I am the only one with a clubbed thumb.
September 13, 2009 at 2:53 am |
I am in Jr.High and i just recently realized there was something wrong with my thumbs. I didn’t really care, i just lived my life. But then somebody told me I could probably research what Megan Fox’s thumbs have and it would explain my condition. I did, and came across this amazing website. I feel better about my thumbs (not that I ever felt super bad about or something). My friends all think they’re cute, I think they’re hideous but now I know why! Thank you!!
September 14, 2009 at 11:59 am |
I was really young when I realized that both my thumbs looked different than other people’s. Since then I always tried to hide them by tucking them into my palms, and growing the nails longer in an attempt to disguise them. Since I’m older now (32) I don’t fixate on it nearly as much, but I still get somewhat embarrassed when somebody points them out. My mom’s are somewhat wide, but my maternal aunt and one of my cousins have thumbs like mine (lucky them!). We’re english, irish, french, scottish, dutch and cherokee (no italian or jewish), but have been in America since the mid-18th century. However, I’m currently living in England and I noticed a girl with one clubbed thumb last week in a store and I had to stop myself from going up to her and excitedly showing her my thumbs (the brits think Americans are weird enough without me demonstrating it, haha). After that I got curious and started searching around online and learned all about brachydactyly type D (BDD), and how MANY of us there are! It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who can’t text with her thumbs
September 15, 2009 at 1:04 am |
i have two clubbed thumbs and growing up I was blamed for picking my nails …
i felt so upset for being treated like a liar…
about the heritage thing,
i’m turkish , born in the aegean part of turkey , neither my mum nor my dad nor my grandparents nor my siblings has this. This might be a mediterranean trait.
About the regal heritage , I dn’t know if that is true or if it means anything , but all the people I’ve met who had clubbed fingers were smart.
I myself can draw pretty well, and I’m a quick learner and practical thinker with a tendency to slight depression when it’s not sunny.
September 15, 2009 at 1:56 am |
I too get depression in the winter when it is less sunny. I am also a quick learner and practical thinker. However, I cannot draw AT ALL. I have tried and tried but just can’t do it! I have two clubbed thumbs and am of Irish, Scottish, German, Dutch, French, Choctaw, English, and Cherokee decent. My dad has one clubbed thumb and his mother had two clubbed thumbs like me. Other than them I don’t know of anyone else in our family who has them.
September 16, 2009 at 11:05 pm |
I’ve got two clubbed thumbs, none of my family or friends have them. Not even one! I actually NEVER met someone who has them so I’ve always thought that I was the only one until I saw pictures of Megan Fox’s thumbs! I can’t believe all the bad things that have been said about her thumbs!! It’s just plain mean! People should grow up and consider other people’s feelings. Anyway, I hated my thumbs when I was younger just because they looked different than everyone else’s so I tried to hide them as much as I could. I don’t think anyone noticed them except my friends who never picked on me and that made me feel much better. Now I’m 20 and I’m totally not embarrassed of my thumbs and I don’t care what people say! I finally learned how to embrace myself. I’m a good person with great artistic skills, I have many great friends and a wonderful family. I think that people wouldn’t care how your thumbs or hands look like, they would care about YOU as a person, and that all what matters to me! You guys talked about texting, I can text using my thumbs and I find no problem with texting at all! I’m sorry if my post was too long, I’m just so glad that I finally found MANY people like me and this is really a great site! Wow and this is actually the FIRST TIME I talk about my thumbs and what I feel about them!
September 19, 2009 at 4:59 am |
I have just one clubbed thumb on my left hand and have been teased about it. It was never really noticed until I was about 10 or so, and ever since then people won’t leave me alone. I used to be so ashamed of it and I thought of myself as a freak, so I would always tuck it under my other fingers and hide it away. Over the years I have come to accept it, though, and have even found a friend who has two of them. It is still a little weird and embarassing to have someone talking to you and staring at your thumbs. I wish they wouldn’t stare. I also have an overlapping fifth toe that I catch people staring at as well. But, I guess we all just have to deal with it, right? I’m glad Megn Fox has a clubbed thumb
September 19, 2009 at 7:33 pm |
Both of my thumbs are “clubbed” thumbs. I never thought they were a big deal, because I was born pre-mature and I was very sickly all my life. I thought it was just an effect from those things. And I’ve always thought they were cute, because I am, over all, very small. So I just joke that i am a miniature human. I am native american, blue blood. Maybe it’s from my blood line? Maybe it’s from my premature birth. Either way, I love them!
September 24, 2009 at 12:45 am |
I have two club thumbs but they’ve never bothered me. I didn’t actually notice my thunbs were different until around fifth grade or so (yeah, I was kind of a spacey kid). No one else in my family has them except for my cousin, and it looks like they’re from the Swedish side of my family. Weird. Anyways, I don’t really care that my thumbs are “funny,” I just think it makes me unique (though it does eff me up when I have to draw hands for art class). Besides, I have the same type of thumbs Megan Fox has! That’s just cool.
September 27, 2009 at 4:43 am |
This is hilarious! I’ve had various friends and family actually give my toe-thumbs nick names such as, “the beatlies”, “nubs”, and “play station thumbs” – doesn’t bother me a bit, it’s so funny! I’ve actually told people that my Dad dropped me down the stairs when I was an infant and I landed thumb-first. Another favorite of mine is telling people I was born without thumbs and these are actually toes of a 12 yr old boy who passed. I also follow with, “My Mom is still friends with his mother and they send Christmas cards to each other every year.” I have a friend who still believes this is true. HHAAHAHAHAH
September 27, 2009 at 4:43 am |
correction! “the BEASTLIES”
September 27, 2009 at 5:00 pm |
Hi everyone, i used to say that my my left thumb is grown short because i used to suck on it throughout my whole childhood and it grew in the shape of my palate. I really believed it myself! I developed all sorts of ways to hide my clubbed thumb and managed to keep it undercover for most of my life. The only times people found out about it were when my sister thought it was a great party joke to tell everyone about my “cripple thumb” as she called it, i was so embarrassed…!!! The first time i heard that i wasn’t the only one, was when i was 15. I felt relieved thinking that there might be more people out there who couldn’t resist sucking thumbs in their childhood too ( :
I just found out about it being genetically yesterday and i’m glad to be able to give it a name other than “crippled thumb”. Interesting to read about joined kidneys as my grandmother was born with tree Kidneys two of which were joined. I never thought about a connection but i does make sense and its the only hint i have. I am German with some Polish blood.
September 27, 2009 at 5:05 pm |
Hi everyone, i used to say that my left thumb is grown short because i used to suck on it throughout my whole childhood and it grew in the shape of my palate. I really believed it myself! I developed all sorts of ways to hide my clubbed thumb and managed to keep it undercover for most of my life. The only times people found out about it were when my sister thought it was a great party joke to tell everyone about my “cripple thumb” as she called it, i was so embarrassed…!!! The first time i heard that i wasn’t the only one, was when i was 15. I felt relieved thinking that there might be more people out there who couldn’t resist sucking thumbs in their childhood too ( :
I just found out about it being genetically yesterday and i’m glad to be able to give it a name other than “crippled thumb”. Interesting to read about joined kidneys as my grandmother was born with tree Kidneys two of which were joined. I never thought about a connection but i does make sense and its the only hint i have. I am German with some Polish blood. Like the idea of a get-together like a “clubbed thumb club” ( :
September 29, 2009 at 2:10 am |
Hello Everyone,
This is so cool Theres Seriously a page all about Clubbed thumbs
My both thumbs are clubbed and i have always been made fun of for my fingers i always try to hide them away from the people tht talk about them, I’ve meet 2 other peoples with both of there thumbs Clumbbed… and they have too been made fun of for the small inperfection… I’m mexican but my great Grandpa Was From Spain…. ummm & i would really love to learn the history of Clubbed thumb… Oh andd I’m Really Proud Of have these “Clubbed thumb” [:
October 1, 2009 at 2:32 am |
I didn’t realize there were so many people with this “clubbed thumb!” I have only one and it’s my left one. It never really bothered me until I started getting my nails done. The stupid nails would never stick because my nail is flat! I don’t think anyone noticed it until my little sister pointed it out to the world saying… “Have you seen Mikayla’s retarded thumb yet?”
October 5, 2009 at 2:26 am |
My friends call my club them a retarted thumb!
October 1, 2009 at 7:04 am |
You should all be ashamed of yourselves! Talking about your wonky thumbs in a public forum like this! When I was 18 I had my two thumbs surgically corrected and my life has been better because of it. I advise all of you to do the same.
October 1, 2009 at 4:13 pm |
I do not consider my thumbs to be ‘wonky”. I am proud to have the same thumbs as my ancestors. I never even knew they had surgery to make them different and don’t think I would change my wonderful thumbs for anything. My thumbs don’t make my life good or bad, what is in my heart does. Andrew, I am NOT ashamed of my thumbs or myself but I do however, pity you for your vanity and selfishness. “Wonky”, I like that word! LOL
October 1, 2009 at 7:01 pm |
Both my thumbs are clubbed, and i am chilean.
October 3, 2009 at 7:46 am |
I have them too! Was really hard growing up with them. Always hiding them and whenever possible ‘pressing them into shape’. Only since having children I know how little it matters: they work!
Both my parents are from Switzerland and I know nobody in my family with them. Rh neg. royal?
October 5, 2009 at 2:25 am |
WOW! That picture looks identical to my hand. I cannot believe all the people that also have clubbed thumbs. It is very interesting to look at everyones stories. I have one clubbed thumb, on my left hand, and my friends always made fun of it, in a joke sort of way. I tend to make a joke of it as well, but after reading some of these stories I am kind of proud to have one! I, like many of you, were so afraid to get my nails done because I was afraid that I was going to get made fun of, but I did it – they do have nails big enough! I’m not sure where I got mine from, but I would like to find out!
October 5, 2009 at 7:54 am |
Haha so many people with clubbed thumbs?! I didn’t know there were so many more! The only thing I knew was that I’m not the only one with these weird thumbs because a friend of me has the same thumbs! And I know an other person who has them too. But that there were so many other people with the same thumbs? haha!
I’m not proud of my thumbs but I do not hate them, the only thing is that thumb wrestling isn’t fair with my small fat thumbs!
I’m from Holland by the way!
October 9, 2009 at 1:59 pm |
i have clubbb’d thumbs
the only people who ever make fun of them are my friends and family
and i do to
i lovingly refer to them as my ‘penis thumbs’ bahaha
that muderers thumb is bs
cept when it comes to me
i naturally have a nasty temper
but i love my thumbs.
they’re so unique and creepy =] <3
October 9, 2009 at 2:04 pm |
They’re the reason im so good at ps2 and 360
they’re my gaming thumbs.
i’d LOVE to know where the club thumbs first showed up ie region/country?? anyone know? well tell me!
October 10, 2009 at 1:55 am |
Good evening to all my clubbed thumb people. I love my thumbs. It’s in my family. My great grandmother had both, my grandfather has both, myself and my aunt have both and other members of my family have just 1. My 10 mo. son doesn’t have them but we’ll see what the rest of our kids will have. I’ve heard a ton of things about it. People look at you like you’re the weird one. Maybe we can get handicapped parking stickers for it haha J/K. I wish we could put pics. of ourselves and our “gifts” on this page. Keep it real everybody and stay down for the cause.
October 10, 2009 at 2:00 am |
Oh and have you ever had someone try to squeeze the sides to try to squeeze them back to normal? I know y’all know what I’m talking about.
October 11, 2009 at 2:53 am |
Wow. haha. i was looking at my nails and started thinking about my thumbs and thought i would look them up and im really suprised with how many people have them. haha.
my grandfather was full blooded itallian and there are other parts of my family with itallian decent too, so that much is interesting.
but i have always been made fun of for my thumbs and the whole “royal” deal makes me feel a little better about it. haha.
ive heard it all..
midget thumbs, frog thumbs, deformed thumbs, toe thumbs..
but have you all ever got this one.. ET thumbs. ha. yeah.
anyways.
glad to meet some fellow clubbed thumbers haha.
oh and, yeah.. michael.. ive got the whole “try to squeeze it back to normal” thing. that made me laugh.
October 13, 2009 at 3:10 am |
This website is long overdue. I will list some of my characteristics, so others can compare and contrast their own. I am not aware of anyone else in my family with this condition.
Affected: Both thumbs, second to pinky toe on one foot, big toe on other
Gender: Male
Height: 5′11″
Health: Generally very good
Hair: dark and very curly
Ancestry: Swiss, Irish, Dutch, Belgian
Intelligence: above average
Education: Masters
Athletics: average, but avid exerciser, and in good shape
Personality: artistic, introverted, contrarian, iconoclastic
Diet: can eat just about anything, but caffeine causes paradoxical depression
Vision: 20:20
Other: I like pets, dark humor, philosophy, art
Career: Educator
Age: mid 40’s
October 17, 2009 at 10:36 pm |
My brother and I have clubbed thumbs, received directly from our father who was from Roumania. Until reading comments on this website, I didn’t realize it was a “thing.”
October 23, 2009 at 2:18 am |
Hi there!
I too have a pair of awesome toe-thumbs! WOOT! Personally, I love mine but there seem to be many who do not. While I cant perform magic to change them for real, if anyone wants to know what their thumbs would look like if they weren’t clubbed, I can show you (I work a lot in photoshop)
Its just for fun, but if anyone is interested feel free to let me know!
October 23, 2009 at 8:50 am |
I noticed something strange about the clubbed thumb thing that must be :
people whith those thumbs (as me and probably a lot of you) are born under the sign of the taurus, or have a planet in this sign ( mostly the ascendant or mars) the only exmaple i have beside me is megan fox, which is .
to all the clubbed thumbs persons : please try to look at your natal chart
here’s a site : http://www.astrotheme.com/ascendant.php
(of course you can find you natal chart using another site, it’s not important)
OK it’s just an crappy astrological theory, but my experience verified this funny detail a lot of time and i wanted to point out this fact with you to see if its true or not at a high scale.
id be very glad to hear you about what you found.
October 23, 2009 at 11:32 am |
i have two clubbed thumbs, hated as a kid… used to wear gloves all year round. No body in my family has them except me, and the only other person i have met with them was my moms best friend whom i’ve always called my ‘thumb dad’ and at one point in my life wonder if perhaps he really could be my dad…. but no he’s not.
i gave birth to my second child last week and both my kids have normal thumbs…
October 27, 2009 at 6:06 pm |
I have short fat thumbs, as did my mother and one of my uncles. The man that dressed my mother for her burial says his mother had them and she lived in Canada. I hope someday to find a correlation. My father’s family is Italian. My mother’s was Pennsylvania dutch/irish, etc. No help there.
thanks
October 30, 2009 at 7:04 am |
WOW!!!! All I can say is, THANK YOU everyone who has written about their “clubbed, stubby, thumbs. I have lived with my one stubby thumb for 54 years, never knowing there were others who have the same condition. As a teen I would dread going to a movie with a date because they would want to hold my hand and I always feared my thumb would be found out and my date would be repulsed by it. Silly, now that I’m all grown up and don’t worry about such things. Maybe if I had known then, there were so many people with thumbs such as mine, I wouldn’t have been so self conscious. I have made peace with my fat, little squatty thumb.
October 30, 2009 at 10:55 pm |
YAY US! I have 2 clubbed thumbs! BDD’s in the HOUSE!!!!!!!!
November 3, 2009 at 10:38 am |
Hey guys.. thanks to your site I have relised there are so many people with this special trait. I have not met anyone with this same trait which im guessing so many others are in teh same vote too. This is why I have created a fan club of clubbed thumbs for us to help spread our love for them
come join it on facebook!! “Clubbed Thumbs Fan Page.” Hope to see some of you there 
November 7, 2009 at 12:30 pm |
I have two clubbed thumbs and I think mine look worse because I bite them ! Some people say they’re ‘weird’ and some say ‘OMG theyre sooo cute!’ i am quite embarassed about them and tend to hide them with my hand naturally and when I put my hand up in class I hide them. Strange, but I have got used to hiding them now. I am about to go to a Nail salon and get acrylic nails and Im scared they will say I cant have them done ! Oh well I know quite a few people with them. Also, no one else in my family has them! hmmmmm…
November 11, 2009 at 5:24 pm |
I had to laugh when I saw the picture of the thumb…………..MY thumb! Not in fun but in recognition! Someone else has thumbs like me!!!! I have been embarrassed by my thumbs too but then my gynecologist told me they are a trade mark of some tribe from the Caucasoid Mountains. I really would like to know more about it. Anyboyd got any info?
I agree, “yay us!”
November 11, 2009 at 9:19 pm |
Hii, Im Patricia, I am 15 years old and was born in the U.S. Chicago. My right thumb is clubbed and I have been teased by many people about it during my life. My friends are used to it because they know me since I was little but many people that I dont know so much use to notic eit very quickly and make fun of it. There is even a girl who I met in art class the past month and she always asks me to see it jaja thats stupid. I think that shes jelous and needs to find defects on other people in order to feel better i dont really know. Well I am VERY HAPPY TO HAVE FOUND THIS PAGE I ALSO THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WITH CLUBBED THUMG UNTIL THIS MONTH WERE I FOUND OUT A VERY POOPULAR AND BEAUTIFUL GIRL FROM 12 grade also had it and megan fox alsoo haha i always said when I was little that my clubbed thumb came from my fathers side and my normal one from my mothers thats kind of funny haha..
November 11, 2009 at 9:21 pm |
Oh and my sister also has a clubbed thumbbb but in both her hands