The guitar I use for daily practice, for the Blues Hound course, and because it is my favorite, has a neck that is 2 inches wide -- i measured it before posting this.

Is that a normal width for an electric guitar?

I ask because after I practice the "a major chord", my fretting hand looks like those in the zombie movies, all twisted and weird looking. Not to mention that I think that if I purposely slice my finder tips with a knife, the pain will surely be way lesser than when I finger that chord.

Yes, after suffering a severe "procrastination illness" I now have to start all over again (module 1) sadly

That was is so embarrassing for me to say -- but it is the truth, sorry.

And so ... I am now wondering if I bought a guitar with too thin of a neck by mistake, or if that is the normal width -- but either I have sausage-size fingers or the guitar neck is too thin ..... whatever it is, fingering that chord really hurts.

I checked YouTube and alternative ways of fingering it were shown; however, I pretty much really want to finger it the way it is presented in the course. By nature I am not one to give up easily.

I am left-handed too, which limit the options to find a guitar model with a wider neck.

I got to find a solution soon or switch to a basket-weaving course ... right now it really hurts my fingers

Any advise will be much appreciated.

And if this is the way it is, then I shall keep trying to deal with it. My facial expressions when I play that chord is not to imitate blues players, it is a genuine reaction to finger tip pain

help, please