Re: FRONTAL HAIR WHORL AND ADHD ANY SORT OF CONNECTION?

[Patte Rosebank]

Looking for connections can be good. Unless it involves things that have been completely discredited by science. Then, it’s a waste of your time and energy.

Bent pinkies, hair whorls, bumps on the head, “cavemen/simian” cranio-facial features, palmistry–All have, at one time or another, been pointed to as indicators of some form of mental illness or personality trait or “moral deviancy”. And all have been discredited.

I did palmistry for years at fairs, and sometimes, when we were bored, we’d tell people the opposite of the standard interpretations, just to see what would happen. And the people who got the “opposite” readings would always be amazed at how perfectly we’d described them—which is exactly the reactions we’d get from people when we did the correct interpretations. It’s because people are so eager to find a personal connection that our brains fill in the gaps to create connections that aren’t there. That’s why you can give a huge, random group of people the identical horoscope, just changing the star sign to match each person’s, and everyone will say that the horoscope was dead-on.

For the record, according to classical palmistry, a curved or twisted pinkie denotes someone who is dishonest and manipulative. Now, this could be because some people interpret the great leaps of logic and flashes of creativity that occur in people with ADHD or autism, as being dishonest or manipulative behaviour. But I’ve met a lot of dishonest, manipulative people with perfectly straight pinkies, just as I’ve met lots of very honest people with curved pinkies. So, for me, this proves that palmistry is NOT an accurate way of determining a person’s health and/or personality traits.

The one thing you can trust, though, is that swirls do occur frequently in nature. Sometimes joined in a spiral; other times, as radiating circles. And they can be very interesting to look at.

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