Wish I could find a more appropriate forum
for this question, but since I can't, I'll
post it here.
I have twelve toes, as do my two-year-old
son and two-month-old daughter. All of our
toes look normal; it's just that we have
more of them than most people do. We also
all have odd finger configurations, some
of which have been surgically fixed and
others of which will be in the future.
My wife is lobbying hard to get our
daughter's feet "fixed," too (i.e., have
one toe removed from each foot) at the
same time that she has her extra finger
removed, when she's a little less than a
year old.
I'm proud of my twelve toes and show them
to people every chance I get. I don't
think having twelve toes is a problem, so
it doesn't need to be fixed. But my wife
is adamant. She's also Japanese, and we
live in Japan, where the pressure not to
be different from your peers is much
greater than in the West. She thinks our
daughter will be teased or maybe even
bullied when she enters school because of
her toes.
The specialist we've consulted says if our
daughter's extra toes are to be removed,
it should be done while she's still an
infant, so I can't tell my wife that we
should let our daughter make up her own
mind when she's old enough to understand
the situation.
So here's my question: I want to hear from
anybody who was born with twelve toes. If
you had two toes removed, do you wish you
hadn't? If you still have twelve toes, do
you wish you had had two removed when you
were too young to know what was going on?
Why or why not?
