Head Circumference
Posted by
Josie Barnshaw
on 16th March 2010
at 13:56
Hi Damian
Yes, my youngest son who has a diagnosis of Aspergers has always had a large head and quite a high forehead. It's not quite as obvious now that he has stretched somewhat (or maybe I have just got used to it!) .... he is 5' 11" at the moment (14 years old), yet my oldest who I suspect would also fit the Aspergers criteria does not have a noticeably larger head but does have a high forehead (he is also tall being 6ft 3 and 19 years old).
Josie - Community Champion
Posted by
bumblebee
on 16th March 2010
at 14:09
Hi Damian,
Yes, both Josie and Jack's heads are large and always have been. At 6 months old, Josie's head was double the size of Hollie's who was 3! The pictures show just how obvious this was at a very young age....Hollie's head was large at birth, but she quickly grew into it!
We took part in a research project (I think through Oxford) a while ago about head circumferences and autism and we were asked to measure all the children's and our heads for the study....Jack's head aged 2 1/2 was 2 cm smaller than his dads!! I have always struggled to find hats to fit my children, but also to fit me too so I guess my head is bigger than average too....
Now my husband does have an unusually large forhead, but it is definately growing as he gets older! I am pretty sure it is down to him loosing his hair though and not autism!!
Claire - Community Champion
Posted by
Peachy
on 27th April 2010
at 13:54
I have 2 with ASD, both have long faces but in particular the more severely affected child has to buy clothes a size up for head room or they get stuck LOL. Our Paed didn't screen for fragile X but I suspect it may have been a good diea.
Posted by
bumblebee
on 27th April 2010
at 17:49
Hi Peachy,
Welcome to the forum :0) I'm glad its not just the people in my house who have that problem!
Claire - Community Champion
Posted by
lkbmau32
on 2nd May 2010
at 09:42
Both my children had large heads and were large babies. But my son does not have autism and my daugher does.
Posted by
donnaj
on 13th May 2010
at 13:08
Hi there,
I am waiting on a diagnosis for my son and he has always had a large head. People used to actually comment on the size of his head. It used to make me feel uneasy.
I have heard of this theory before, wasn't sure how accurate it was, but after talking to a few people whoes kids have autism they have said the same thing.
Posted by
Thruppence
on 28th June 2010
at 12:29
Hi, my son has an unusualy thick skull and large head, as mentioned by the doctor on one of our many visits to A&E, I had never heard of Fragile X untill i read it here, now I'm wondering if i should ask for a test. He has had his Autistic ADHD diagnosis and is settled into a realy good school, but bless him hes the only one in the family with a big head.
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Posted by
damo73
on 16th March 2010
at 13:24
Hello all,
I have often seen ideas relating autism (and also fragile X) to large heads and long faces (both of which I have myself - both me and my son had a head circumference at birth that was off the chart - about the 102 percentile - our poor mothers!). I just saw a random picture of George Orwell on the internet and + thought, mmm...long face, large head circumference, I wonder...typed in 'George Orwell Asperger' in a search engine + up he popped as a possible candidate.
Has anyone else found that they (or their children) have unusually large heads?
Damian