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Those are definitely stock photos of cute kids. And cute kids with tousled hair like that, look even cuter.
More importantly, I’ve never had a frontal hair whorl either. My hair has always been straight, straight, straight, and never formed cowlicks or whorls. Ditto for my brother, who doesn’t have ADD.
The notion that having a hair whorl identifies kids with ADD is just as ludicrous as the notion that people with “caveman” brows and “apelike” faces are mentally deficient. There were scientists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were involved in the field of Eugenics (that is, selective breeding). Their books had many photographs of institutionalized people who had these particular facial features, as “proof” of the theories. The theories have now been completely discredited, and the photographic “proof” exposed as a matter of only photographing people whose appearance supported the theories. And that ain’t good science.
Similarly, the “science” of Phrenology (the belief that the position of bumps on a person’s head indicate personality traits and health issues) has been exposed as pure bunkum, though some people do still believe in it.
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