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[RagnarokIV]

I was shopping on the weekend and while in one store I saw someone with what I’ll describe as stickman disability.

They looked like a stickman with their legs like the above image.

They couldn’t bend or move their legs in anyway, so they kind of waddled back and forth from one leg to another to move forward, a little like this:
(Just imagine no bend in the knees)

I’ve never seen this before and tried searching online for info but I can’t find anything. Has anyone here seen stickman syndrome before?

I know it’s hard to understand this, so an alternative method is to use your index and middle finger to make a Winston Churchill/MGS Big Boss “V” then put it upside down on a table like this - “ /\ “
Then try and emulate walking without being able to bend or move the legs directly forward.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Extreme arthritis maybe?

 

[RagnarokIV]

Extreme arthritis maybe?

I don’t think so because they were a fairly young boy. He didn’t seem in pain so I thought maybe he was just being silly like I used to be, but he was genuinely like this all the time (saw them in a few stores).

 

[Trogdor1123]

I don’t think so because they were a fairly young boy. He didn’t seem in pain so I thought maybe he was just being silly like I used to be, but he was genuinely like this all the time (saw them in a few stores).

Jeepers, that sounds odd. I really don’t know. Sounds unpleasant though forcsure

 

[jufonuk]

 

[Trunx81]

 

[AV]

I don’t think so because they were a fairly young boy. He didn’t seem in pain so I thought maybe he was just being silly like I used to be, but he was genuinely like this all the time (saw them in a few stores).

Honestly just sounds like a kid being a freak. I'd probably have done this as a game to keep myself entertained while mum did the shopping.

 

[AJUMP23]

Isn't this what Celine Dion has?

stiff person syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that affects one or two in a million people, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. The disease notably causes progressive muscle stiffness and painful spasms.

 

[Solarstrike]

 

[RagnarokIV]

Honestly just sounds like a kid being a freak. I'd probably have done this as a game to keep myself entertained while mum did the shopping.

I thought so because I used to this, and still do stuff to keep me entertained shopping like farting, but the whole family had disabilities.

One kid was the stickman, the other looked like downsyndrome and the third kid had a disfigured face with a dent in his head like Max Haus from Wolfenstein.

Maybe I’m getting old and more empathetic, but it’s the first time I thought “poor bastards” for what they have ahead of them in life.

 

[SirTerry-T]

I don’t think so because they were a fairly young boy. He didn’t seem in pain so I thought maybe he was just being silly like I used to be, but he was genuinely like this all the time (saw them in a few stores).

Could have had Perthes Disease?
My brother had it as a kid and had to have his legs in plaster right up to his waist which made walking difficult, if not impossible without a "waddle".

Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Alebrije]

There is a i'll where bones and joins become like rocks...but what You describes could be another one.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Could have had Perthes Disease?
My brother had it as a kid and had to have his legs in plaster right up to his waist which made walking difficult, if not impossible without a "waddle".

Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I think it could be this or something similar.

His legs were like this (image search for perthes disease)

Google Image Result for https://www.researchgate.net/publication/17478276/figure/fig1/AS:284426253684747@1444823911876/Front-and-rear-views-of-the-Toronto-brace-for-Legg-Perthes-disease.png

But no cast, and nothing linking his legs. His legs were basically locked in that position

 

[*Nightwing]

Their Knees were shot out in a war

 

[poppabk]

Maybe I’m getting old and more empathetic, but it’s the first time I thought “poor bastards” for what they have ahead of them in life.

Wait. What would you have thought when you were younger?

 

[kanjobazooie]

Wait. What would you have thought when you were younger?

"Lucky mofos get reserved parking space"

 

[Blitzmangoman]

I still do stuff to keep me entertained shopping like farting

 

[RagnarokIV]

Come on, don’t tell me you don’t do it.

Or my other tactic is to go into a toilet cubicle and do arm pit fart noises and laugh.

 

[HoodWinked]

 

[bitbydeath]

There’s a disease called scleroderma where your body slowly turns to stone.

 

[SJRB]

 

[UnravelKatharsis]

 

[GeekyDad]

Sounds like perhaps cerebral palsy.