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“Ehlers Danlos patients (70% of whom are female) can suffer from such extreme hyper mobility that they can eventually dislocate their joints while asleep. But they also often wait more than a decade to be diagnosed, owing to the tendency of people, including physicians to assume that their flexibility is not just a natural feminine trait, but a desirable gift.”