A health communication of the people with oligodactyly aims at exploring the meanings associated with deformities of physical organs in fingers and/or toes from birth. This study discusses how fifteen people with oligodactyly in the village Ulutaue, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, construct themselves having physical abnormalities and physical organs different from those of other people through communicating with the surrounding environment. This research uses a subjective interpretive method with a health communication approach. The results explain that the people with oligodactyly are as the subjects and are considered to have their self-meaning, including the meaning of the physical abnormalities with the positive and negative self, the physical organ limitations with the self-meaning of feel ashamed, worthy to be pitied, will to work hard, patience and encouragement. The physical organ abnormalities provide a “scary, goose-bumpy, pity, and disgusting” image for the people who see them. To feel as “like anything” becomes the basis for the appearance of subjective meanings of every action in constructing oneself.

少指症患者的健康交流旨在探索与出生时手指和/或脚趾身体器官畸形相关的意义。本研究讨论了 Ulutaue 村的 15 名寡指患者如何, 印度尼西亚南苏拉威西岛，通过与周围环境的交流，构建自己具有与其他人不同的身体异常和身体器官。本研究使用主观解释方法和健康传播方法。结果说明，寡指者作为主体，被认为具有自我意义，包括身体异常的意义与积极的自我和消极的自我，身体器官的局限性与羞耻、有价值的自我意义。被怜悯，会努力，耐心和鼓励。身体器官的异常给看到的人提供了一个“可怕、鸡皮疙瘩、可怜、恶心”的形象。