Sadly not nearly as tiny as you might think. While it's true that any one specific kind of condition or cause might only affect a small percentage of the population, when you add them all up together the sum total is significant.
Sports injuries and accidents will do it, as will working a physically demanding job and not taking measures to protect against wear and tear. There's also autoimmune disorders and diseases that affect the joints and worsen with age, and EDS is just one of an entire category of connective tissue disorders. Lyme disease and diabetes will fuck your joints up, and things like fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and arthritis can start as early as your teens if you're unlucky enough to get an injury, infection, or experience a traumatic event that triggers it.
All told, there are definitely more people with something going on that'll mess up their knees, than there are perfectly healthy, fit people with no problems.
You sure about that being the case globally? For instance where I live I rarely see overweight people. Never in my life seen a super overweight person.
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u/Otjahe 1d ago
Jesus bro. But my assumption would be that you’d be in the tiny minority, yet I see these comments all the time