prominent forehead, anyone?

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Huge foreheads ahoy! After being taunted in school for having a big forehead my mother found the perfect solution... Bangs!



It's a shame there isn't a solution for covering up my social flaws.

I remember reading somewhere that big foreheads are associated with AS, and I certainly have a big forehead:

WOW, you're taking photo lessons from labpet!

I've never tried an Occipital Bun but whole wheat buns are great with mayo, turkey and a bit of provolone.

That picture was taken on January 3rd of last year. I just don't like showing my face very often.

Actually everything else doesn't look the same -- the hair is combed over part of the forehead in the one on the right, so you can't see it as well, but it's the same shape underneath.

um I have a really big head & my face is like, heart shaped... I dunno I think I look wierd, so I usually have my hair down, but here is a pic where you can see it



I'm the left most girl... so you can tell the size od my head... the other girl is over 6' tall and mine is much bigger than hers.

Mine is overly huge (5 finger forehead) , as I look like the alien character Mekon , if I don't have hair covering it.

I have a big forehead as well. Not too long ago a friend tried to pull my bangs back and then wanted me to go out like that.....oh no thank you I look like Frankenstein. 5 fingers??? I have 6 possibly 7

BTW this is me in profile etc.



And I don't think I have a large or protruding forehead. Lot of other weird things about my facial structure, but not that. (And for reference in the second picture, my chin ends above where it seems to, I've had a wattle all my life but it got even more obvious when I gained weight.) Although I also have real trouble figuring out what people mean when they talk about a protruding forehead or heavy brow ridge or whatever, those terms mean nothing to me in terms of what I see.

Prominent forehead and brow; parietal and occipital region like palming a volleyball+. Had my soft spot from birth for over 17 months in large form, with months more before it completely hardened.


M.

Good, I am not the ONLY one! As for my protruding forehead? It juts out about 1cm at most, between the highest depth above the nose between the eyes, and the highest point of where it protrudes. I have a relatively large forehead height, but I think the width is roughly normal. The depth at its deepest point is a bit more though. NOBODY ever mentioned it, but I certainly notice it if I am wiping my forehead. My brow ridge(the protruding part if the skull under the brows) is maybe 1-2mm in my case. I would consider that normal. AGAIN, NOBODY mentioned it. I can hardly notice.

BTW from what I can see, MANY people seem to have roughly the same volume, regardless of what appears at first glance. So those with wider often appear lower, ones that stick out in the back often are more sloped in front. I think the volume I have may be roughly average, though I DID have a large head, for my age, when I was younger. Of course, nobody has really hit a limit, so I don't know how much it really matters.

That is certainly not meant to apply to everyone, and not everyone here, but I want to temper my statements, and I am just saying. AND, as for such brain mass, supposedly everyone has cells that can be recruited to act as neurons. Of course, they can't do it as well or as fast as regular neurons.

So, WHO KNOWS, maybe such brain mass just appears to make no real difference. It may be like Arnold swartzenegger once said about protien. You don't REALLY need that much but, if you take enough, it is there right when you can best use it.

OH and, before you say anything, I am talking about more than a REASONABLE amount of brain mass. Supposedly, some people have had half their brain removed and have STILL done pretty well. Neurosurgeons generally RELY on that. They DO try to do most such drastic things before the person is really a teenager though. There is a growth period in there.

I've always had a large head- I'm a woman of shortish-medium height, but my hat size is 7 and a half (extra-large). My dad has a big head, and he also likely has NLD. As you can see from the picture from when I was a kid, my forehead was especially prominent then- I hated it!

What protruding part of the skull under the brows?

If I touch it all I can feel are the tops of my eye sockets, I can't feel anything that protrudes in that location in between the eye sockets either.



I think my head is more on the small side than on the large side. My brother OTOH has a huge head.

My head is huge and even size 7 and 3/4 hats are tight on my head. Least they make New Era caps up to size 8.
And thats the only size I can wear or they give me a headache.

Size 8 hat still has to be shoehorned onto my noggin; while a little of that is hair, it isn't that much of a difference... just got a huge head.


M.