I'm not very flexible in my legs but I am pretty flexible in my arms. I have the ability to rotate my elbows more than is normal. I can't do the splits, never have been able to, or touch my toes. I can do the palms behind my back thing and the reaching back to grab my ankles- seems normal to me.
I have a friend who can make his thumbs touch his wrists 
To end on a freaky note, my toes are double-jointed. 
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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