For most people, this is sheer torture, because it's nearly impossible to bend someone's fingers that way without breaking them.

But this teenage boy, to whom these hands belong, is neither hurt nor feeling any pain. In fact, this part of his anatomy is so flexible that each of his fingers can be stretched all the way to the back of his hand with ease.

The extraordinary gift also gives him an added advantage on basketball courts. While most players suffer from finger sprains from time to time, such an injury never troubled him.

"When someone passes the ball too hard, the receiver's fingers may get hurt. But mine are flexible enough to stay unharmed." He said.

The teenager admits that he wasn't aware how special he was during childhood, thinking everyone else was just like him. But now he knows other elastic human beings of his kind can only be found in movies and comic books.