prominent forehead, anyone?

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My Father and I just have large heads, period. I fit better into men's hats then women's, though my head is much smaller than his. Thus, my forehead, with my bangs swept aside, is a bit obvious. I don't know how to post a pic to proove it so.. . Tim has seen me in person though.

Last edited by LiendaBalla on 02 Aug 2008, 3:59 pm, edited 4 times in total.

I haven't really noticed mine in that way.

Brow ridges are seen sometimes in people of European descent, I can see one or 2 in some photos in this thread. My boyfriend has one, I do not, but then my bone structure is non-european. He also has an occipital buns, it is a protruding bit of bone at the base of the skull.

I dont have a big forehead, but I have some other features I guess, I have thick eyebrows and an intense, unblinking gaze.

I haven't thought about the size of my forehead either, and when I look in the mirror I can't tell if it's big or not. I am nearsighted, however, and people are always commenting (favorably) on my eyes.

Basically, I mean underneath the skin below the hair that makes up your eyebrow. It is probably far from obvious on most people. I have to really feel for it.



Just saying that there IS a lot to take into account, and it isn't necessarily something that will make you smarter, etc...

I have that as well. A chiropractor asked if I had been in an accident after examining the base of my skull and told me it was the source of my migraines. It's on my left side.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_bun

It isn't something an accident would create. Also, it is in back, and probably fairly even.

Yeah -- I literally don't feel any ridge there besides it being very close to the top of my eye sockets, although I could be missing something.



Yeah, exactly. I know some very smart people with heads that are clinically defined as being extremely small.

My rendition of teh forehead

2ukenkerl - yeah, I do have more pics! My video clip shows the whole with many photos. My late academic mentor took that photo and it's illustrative. Thanks for the link to occipital bun. Plus, as you know, I have no Sylvian Fissure.
How odd your chiropractor asked if you'd been in an accident!

True, none of us (that I know of) have overtly looking different heads, but a statistical difference in volume/mass which is a trend. anbuend - hmm....I don't know. I guess you could measure your skull circumference - there is a standard measure for females and males and a given standard deviation. Those with autism can be ~ 0.5" bigger in circumference, but not necessarily. Just logic - we inherent from our parents/ancestors our look, including facial and skull features. Our ethnicity, etc.

I'm dark around the eyes too....

dark circles around the eyes? I also have that.

Reese Witherspoon has an oddly attractive forehead.

it usually looks bigger

Dan Aykroyd says he has Asperger's

Actually in females it's also more complicated, correlated to height and weight and stuff (more correlated to weight than with males). Mine is actually smaller than relatives. But some forms/causes of autism (like Rett's, which I don't have, but a few friends of mine do) are correlated with small heads, so there's no saying that all autistic people have large ones.



Yeah. When I was a little kid, people always asked my parents if I was wearing makeup, because my eyelids were often blueish or dark red.