Do you have a large head?

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I read a thing that said people in the spectrum tend to have large heads, and I wondered how true that was. I have a large head; most one size fits all hats don't even come close to fitting. But i'm only 5' 8", so it's not like I'm a giant.

No, I'm a pinhead.

Larger than average head.

My head is huge, my hat size is usually XL or XXL. I blame my Scottish heritage.

Males generally have bigger heads than females.

And I have a small head. It looks too small for my body, I am tall and lanky and have a big fat neck then this tiny peahead at the top. Makes me look very quaint. Plus I have the world's thickest hair, so it makes my head look bigger than it is, but if you view me in a distance, my head is very small and stupid.

God, why am I so f*****g ugly????

I've got a big head. I'm not sure if this trait is in any way peculiar to AS. What a large head in relation to the body does indicate is high intelligence. The more cranial capacity in volume, as a ratio to body weight, usually means higher intelligence. As an example, just look at some of the most intelligent public figures. They tend to have high foreheads.

I'm NOT saying a large head per se means intelligence, or whales and elephants would be the most intelligent animals on the planet. In both cases, their ratio of brains to body weight are much lower than humans.

Didn't know I had a bigger brain. I just assumed I had a thicker skull.

In comparison to my body-proportions (I am rather small and skinny): Yes!
I have a big forehead and big eyes.
Sort of "Tweety".

Look at dolphins. Their brain / body mass ratio is similar to humans.

http://understanddolphins.tripod.com/do ... gence.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio

Aharon, you've got me chuckling now. You may have a thicker skull, but I doubt it's that much thicker!

Seriously, the ratio I've described isn't always true. There are medical conditions that cause one to be hypercephalic without being particularly intelligent. But as a general rule, having a head disproportionately large compared to the body means higher intelligence.

The reason is we actually have three brains: The part of our brain that regulates our bodies, the part that creates our emotions, and the top brain that permits higher order thinking. The reason animals like dogs and simians tend to have sharply sloping foreheads is they don't have a well developed top brain that allows for abstract thought; only humans have this.

I found it a little bit difficult to answer this because my head is A LOT smaller than MOST people's but I had to say yes it is because for my height and weight (short and thin) my head is definitely big! I think my head is big so that it can store all that pointless rubbish that I absorb into it daily...

Thank you. What you sent corroborates my contention. Here is the first paragraph:

"Brain-to-body mass ratio, also known as the brain to body weight ratio, is the ratio of brain weight to body weight, which is hypothesised to be a rough estimate of the intelligence of an animal. A more complex measurement, encephalization quotient, takes into account allometric effects of widely divergent body sizes across several taxa.[2] The raw brain-to-body mass ratio is however simpler to come by, and is still a useful tool for comparing encephalization within species or between fairly closely related species."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio

Conclusion? It doesn't pay to put Political Correctness ahead of facts and truth.

Checkmate, dude.

Here is a study that investigates the relationship between cranial capacity and intelligence in US military personnel:

http://www.charlesdarwinresearch.org/Rushton1992.pdf

My head is normal size.

If you have a big head, this has an advantage though!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HYxJp02W1w[/youtube]

Which one?

Autistic children develop a larger than average head in infancy followed by a period of less than usual brain development, so the net effect is almost no difference, perhaps a little larger but not significantly so in studies.

The brain goes through a period of discarding redundant tissue after birth and it's hypothesized that this doesn’t happen in autistic children.