Large foreheads???

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Hi!

I'm a 25-year-old male self-diagnosed Aspie and my mom (who is NT) has a theory that most Aspies have rather large foreheads in proportion to their face.

Do you think this theory of my mother's has some merit and has factual basis?

Well, I have a small forehead.

I'm a self-diagnosed aspie (well, my family diagnosed me...I used to hit my head on things when I was a 3 years old...bam...bam...bam...I miss it;-)

I have a very small, narrow head; however, in proportion? My forehead is also large. My son is aspie also...his forehead is also large...

I think my forehead's average sized.

The first though I had upon reading your post was "Christina Ricci".

Is Mena Suvari an aspie?

I have a large forehead and a large nose as well. When people make fun of it I tell them that all body parts are relative which means I have large genitalia as well. If they don't believe me I just tell them to ask my girlfriend. They always shut up after that.

Actually, I don't think that holds true into adulthood. As a kid, I had a large head. My mother even said I hated t-shirts, and it was hard to find ones that would go over my head. Once she reminded me, it all came back. And that was ANOTHER reason I HATED turtlenecks. I ALSO use to HATE wool. I don't have such a big head anymore in relation to the norm.

I even heard a theory that men had sloping foreheads and women had flat. I checked it out, and the first few seemed to confirm that although mine, like yours appears to be, is flat, and I am male. Eventually(I guess I just didn't look hard enough, and it wasn't very long anyway), I saw more men that had flat, and even some women that didn't have heads like that.

My head is rounded, PROBABLY because I was not born by cesarean. I do think my brain was kind of pushed forward because I read SO much, even into the night, when I was very young, so I DO have a little bulge in front, hardly noticable and nobody has commented. If I read books in bed, my head lies flat against the wall, hence the reading theory. Nobody has commented about that either.

Steve

This would probably be more a conversation about where your hairline sits than anything to do with the brain.

Hi, SteveK!

I too disliked the feel of wool on my skin.

I was also born by Caesarian-section. My mother endured 30 hours of labor and she and I almost died because of the idiot doctor.

My forehead is flat and so is the back of my head. That part is herititary though and comes from my maternal grandfather's side of the family...

I'm not referring to hairline. Forehead, at least for this purpose, starts where the scalp ends and the face begins...

As I said, I was NOT born by cesarean. They have done studies, and found differences in the shape of the head. Based on what little I can tell from your picture, my head is a little taller and a little more narrow. The width of the back of my head is wider than the front. As for the flat part in back, it isn't THAT big. I estimate it probably costs about 1cubic inch.

There have also been studies to indicate most growth happens at night, and the skull shape can be changed DRASTICALLY! One tribe binds babies heads to make them tall and pointed! Heredity plays a part, but nutrition and environment play a very big part also.

Steve

Yep, I have a large forehead. I have a large head, and I can't find any baseball caps that fit. From what I have read and heard, Aspies can sometimes have relatively large heads and long faces. Like anything else, there is no hard or fast rule. We are all different of course.

You could project movies onto my forehead. Really big epic ones too.

but then my sweedish grandmother had a hairline from back of ear right over the top to back of ear.

I plan to be a sci fi planetary martiarch in my old age!

I doubt the two are related. I've never seen any aspies with a large forehead. I've seen plenty of NT's with one.

My hand is bigger than my face.

i recently read (skimmed, it was very long) something about a theory of a tie between AS and neanderthals. also neanderthals i think had big foreheads.
we could be the results of a homo (haa haa) and neanderthal getting it on back in the day