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How big is your head?
I have a large head - and am diagnosed with an ASD(without ID) 59%  59%  [ 30 ]
I have an average sized head and am diagnosed with an ASD(without ID) 20%  20%  [ 10 ]
I have a smaller than average head size and am diagnsed with an ASD (without ID) 22%  22%  [ 11 ]
Total votes : 51

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18 Feb 2011, 12:26 pm

Bluefins wrote:
~60cm circumference. What should I vote?


That's a little bit larger than average for a women (if you are average height) but not that much bigger. I did find average head size for an adult women online which is 22 1/2 inches 63cm is 23 5/8 inches….The thing is determining whether your head is larger than average depends on your height and I can't find anything that shows different head sizes for different heights. :(

http://www.aussiebest.com/hat_size.html



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18 Feb 2011, 12:27 pm

another link ...for head measuring:

http://www.hatsuk.com/hatsuk/hatsukhtml ... atsize.htm



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18 Feb 2011, 1:11 pm

daydreamer84 wrote:
I read in one of my abnormal psych textbooks that about 90% of children with HFA had significantly large heads (in terms of circumference)) compared to others of their age/sex.

Nothing about relative to height there.

Anyway, I voted large, being slightly below average height and pretty skinny.



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18 Feb 2011, 1:15 pm

I have never found a hat to fit me, apart from stretchy woolly ones that make me look like a garden gnome. I had a moped once and the helmet was like a vice, it made my brain ache.



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18 Feb 2011, 3:28 pm

My hat size is 7 3/4. Hurray for big heads!! !



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18 Feb 2011, 9:47 pm

I'm 16 and my head is about 55.5 cm. I heard that your head doesn't grow a lot after age 10, so I think that would be about the full size.


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18 Feb 2011, 11:42 pm

Bluefins wrote:
daydreamer84 wrote:
I read in one of my abnormal psych textbooks that about 90% of children with HFA had significantly large heads (in terms of circumference)) compared to others of their age/sex.

Nothing about relative to height there.

Anyway, I voted large, being slightly below average height and pretty skinny.


Okay...I've corrected that.....and added that the measurement was relative to their height



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18 Feb 2011, 11:47 pm

so far 64% of you have big heads. according to the poll.... not as high as the estimate from my textbook but still a clear majority. I'm always the odd one out :!:



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19 Feb 2011, 1:33 am

I have a smaller head than most my age, but I also have a developmental disorder as well. My sister has a very large head and AS with ID so she can take my vote.


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19 Feb 2011, 6:51 am

My head is a little bigger than average, but I am also bigger than average.


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19 Feb 2011, 9:25 am

Well...my hat size 7 1/8. According to that chart that is average. But my sister, who is 18 (I'm 19) the same hat is huge on her.
I have an aspie brother as well, and he has a NT identical twin. Their heads are pretty much the same size.


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19 Feb 2011, 9:33 am

My head is average sized, I think :)


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20 Feb 2011, 1:15 am

SeizeTheDay wrote:
Well...my hat size 7 1/8. According to that chart that is average. But my sister, who is 18 (I'm 19) the same hat is huge on her.


Head size is also relative to your sex so that makes sense




SeizeTheDay wrote:
I have an aspie brother as well, and he has a NT identical twin. Their heads are pretty much the same size.


That is quite interesting!



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20 Feb 2011, 1:27 am

I have a large head. Both of them are large.



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31 Jan 2020, 11:28 am

I am in the process of getting a diagnosis for ASD, so I cannot vote in your poll.

However, I have a freakishly large head. I have only seen some half a dozen other people which such a head type my entire life.

I have been taking crap from people about it for my entire life, too. Barely a day goes by and I don't get to hear about it.



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31 Jan 2020, 11:49 am

Catlover1975 wrote:
I am in the process of getting a diagnosis for ASD, so I cannot vote in your poll.

However, I have a freakishly large head. I have only seen some half a dozen other people which such a head type my entire life.

I have been taking crap from people about it for my entire life, too. Barely a day goes by and I don't get to hear about it.


I hope that you are aware that this thread started and ended (before you revived it) nine years ago. The original poster, and most of the other folks on the thread stopped being active years ago.

But having said that...its interesting that most of the respondants (including moi) have big heads. And that you do too.

Autistic brains fail to prune neurons. So our brains just keep collecting neurons like crazy old ladies collect cats. That might be why our heads get bigger.