Autistic Morphology

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Does anyone have posteriorly rotated ears or a flat face?

I've been studying the reported features:

http://depts.washington.edu/dbpeds/Dysm ... 282%29.pdf
http://www.stat.missouri.edu/faculty/fl ... mun_12.PDF

I have posteriorly rotated ears and a flat face/flat malar region (used mirrors to check the side view to be sure).

I may also have slightly wide set eyes also.

Just interested what others may have.

1. No I don't

2. I learnt on a course that no two people have exactly the same shaped ears

3. I never knew Autism had ''physical features'' until this very minute

Wow, good stuff. Need some time to really look these over.

It's not the shape of the ear it's the tilt/angle.

Have a look at the links I supplied and you will find lots of interesting scientific information about it.

I can't read the doc, my Adobe update issues are driving me crazy lately.

Is the malar region *above* the cheeks? I look squished in right above my eyes at the beginning of my forehead. That's always bothered me. If it's the actual cheeks, I have wide cheeks and they're not flat at all. In fact, they're apple-ish.

I don't think I have a flat face or anything. When I was a child my eyes looked very wide-set but I now know they're exactly average, right in the middle -- I know this because I know my pupillary distance for when I need to buy glasses.

My ears are pretty much "regular."

I think malar is the medical name for the cheekbone area.

Thank you. Nope, very pronounced there, both in width and depth.

I have a lot of dysmorphic features:
Posteriorly rotated, low set ears
a-symmetrical face
thin upper lip
corners of mouth turn downward
hair whorls
clynodactyl pinky fingers (5th fingers bend inward toward other fingers).

I don't know what these have to do with autism, but I think something went wrong genetically.
My parents thought I was cute though. In spite of all this I don't look too bad. I have a small round childlike face.

wow, I can add another one to the list, which I didn't know was a potential feature of autism, the clynodactyl 5th finger - thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Yay!

I had a post about clinodactyly a long time ago....and everyone looked at me like I was crazy.

(Well, I am, but...)

I have the curved fingers, flat malar region, asymmetrical face, rotated ears, thin upper lip, etc.

Whenever I see this thread, "autistic morphology" I think it has to do with the morphology of the word autism which I guess would be aut+ ism - meaning something like "selfism". This is what comes from studying linguistics.

...and the old taking things literally element too!

I have a flat, asymmetrical, longer than average face so it applies to me

It looks like I have practically no cheekbones unless I laugh or smile very
forcefully

I'd definitely say my autistic genes show in my face

I'd say it's nature's way of saying 'autistic genes - beware!'