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[elfy]

Today I talked to a girl who had just four fingers on one hand (well, her thumb and three fingers). It looked pretty, hm, natural, as if she was born this way (instead of loosing a finger by accident, like my uncle did). It wasn't, she told me she was born without bones in her thumb and so they removed her thumb and instead made her index finger her 'new' thumb. Anyway, all this just made me remember that as a kid I always wanted to have just four fingers on my hands, because of the four-fingered elves in Elfquest.

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[laurenia.livejournal.com]

She wasn't called Carmen, maybe?
But I think she only has three fingers. It took me ages to notice that her hand is not "normal".

[barbardin.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, a former classmate of mine was born without thumbs, too. She had it done shortly before she joined our class and it looked really, really painful. No fun. Keep your five fingers, I tell you. ;)

[elfy.livejournal.com]

I just met her today, she was a... naja, eine von der Hamburg-Mannheimer, musste mit mir was wegen der Riesterrente ausfüllen.
I noticed nearly right away that there was something 'not normal' with her hand. She said most people don't notice and she actually doesn't care much about it (as in, it doesn't make her feel unnormal or anything).

[elfy.livejournal.com]

I think hers was done way earlier, maybe even shortly after her birth, I guess. And don't worry, I no longer desire to get rid of any fingers ^^.

[flower-star.livejournal.com]

I was more wishing for pointed ears and wasn't exactly a kid anymore >_> ...

[elfy.livejournal.com]

Well, sure I wished for pointy ears, too! :D

[(Anonymous)]

Bei Domian war das letztens auch Thema. Leute, die sich aus irgendeiner fixen Idee heraus körperliche Dysfunktionen wünschen.

Der gesellschaftliche Niedergang äußert sich eben auch in Dekadenz dieser speziellen Art.

[vanita.livejournal.com]

Ich glaube nicht, dass es diese Ideen in früheren Zeiten nicht gegeben hat.

[elfy.livejournal.com]

Err, ich war ein Kind und meine Vorbilder waren Comicfiguren. Und die hatten das nicht als Dyfunktion oder Behinderung, das 'war einfach so'. Ich wäre damals eben gerne auch so ein Elf wie in diesen Comics gewesen und dazu gehörte in dem Fall nunmal ein Finger weniger an jeder Hand.
Mit gesellschaftlichem Niedergang hat das wahrlich wenig zu tun, imho.
*shrugs*

[elfy.livejournal.com]

*zustimm*

überhaupt klingt dieses 'gesellschaftlicher Niedergang' wie das, was so ziemlich in jedem Zeitalter von irgendwem gepredigt wurde.

[gaharr.livejournal.com]

Auch die Römer beklagten sich über einen moralischen Verfall der Gesellschaft und der Jugend ganz besonders....

Ich glaub das ist wirklich kein neues Thema was du da anschlägst *lach*

[lord-caramac.livejournal.com]

Well, there are some plastic surgeons who might be willing to do an ear mod for you... I wonder whether I will ever have the balls to have my ear pointed...

[elfy.livejournal.com]

I saw what can be done, but actually never saw a result I liked. And I wouldn't want a result that doesn't look exactly the way I imagine it and just 'best of what is available and still ugly'.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Had I met her I would feel duty bound to ignore such a "deformity" since it didnt really affect me in any way.

I think however the Elfquest link was the thing which made it a point of interest for you.

[elfy.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually it was the EQ-Link why I talked to her about it, otherwise I would have ignored it, too. We had a nice little chat before that anyway.

[dotintheshark.livejournal.com]

Really? When I read Elfquest, I was always glad that I had five fingers, because it seemed to me that you do a lot more with five fingers than just with four.

Though it may sound cold (and I don't mean it that way), it's fascinating what surgery can do these days.