CAE identify your loved ones (or at least your children) by their hands? Meaning if there was a lineup of random people whose hands you could only see, would you be able to pick out all your loved ones?

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CAE identify your loved ones (or at least your children) by their hands? Meaning if there was a lineup of random people whose hands you could only see, would you be able to pick out all your loved ones?

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  1. Slawth_x Avatar

    Absolutely. Probably any part of her I would recognize immediately

  2. hamstercheeks47 Avatar

    Yes, including my mom, dad, and sister, and I barely get to see them as we’ve been states away for almost a decade.

  3. hhvcfty Avatar

    I work at a hotel and yesterday I was handing someone their room keys and was thinking how much their hands look like my sisters who I haven’t even seen in 2+ years. Weird how that works huh

  4. SadMud1198 Avatar

    Easily. Even my ex wife, it’s been 7 years since I saw her hands but I’d know them.

  5. novelomaly Avatar

    This is so fascinating and I wonder how often people even think about this! I was just thinking about it the other day & my friend happened to ask the question today (which she was pondering while being stuck in a hotel after the big earthquake. 😢 Thank God she survived!)
    I know I could i.d. the hands of my Grandpas’ who have been dead for years. I guess we don’t realize how intimately we study & know hands. 🤯

  6. Icooktoo Avatar

    Yes, absolutely.

  7. Hexoplanet Avatar

    I could 100% identify my mom, dad, sister, boyfriend & ex-husband. Anyone else would be a struggle.

  8. cjs81268 Avatar

    I have a couple dozen loved ones who are friends and family and I would be able to know any of their hands in a lineup. I’m very detail-oriented to a fault.

  9. Chemical-Mix-6206 Avatar

    I could identify my mom’s and my ex’s. Probably my sister’s. Probably not my brothers unless the others in the lineup had different skin tone & hair color. I’m the only one with distinctive scars – they’d all spot my effed up hands even in a lineup of other effed up hands. Haha

  10. snapbackthrowback Avatar

    I could spot my parents and siblings and most of my friends, 100%. I have really small/odd hands so I’ve spent a lot of life comparing them to others.

  11. Tall-Start-8099 Avatar

    As much as I adore them I don’t think I could!

  12. CrunchyRubberChips Avatar

    Well after reading all of this I feel I’m an outlier, but no. I’d have an idea maybe but I’d never be able to be sure.

  13. OkPickle2474 Avatar

    Yes! I remember a lot of people by their hands. Once as a child, I outed a friend of the family as a WalMart Santa because I could tell by his hands. I was rushed away from Santa’s workshop, and he wore gloves after that.

  14. nashamagirl99 Avatar

    I could with my dad because he has callouses and is a nail biter

  15. GreedyBanana2552 Avatar

    Oh totally. And at least 2 dozen more people