Question about hair whorl - Page 2

[Jenifer76]

Wow, interesting thread. I will have to check my kids heads when they get home. Both are left handed and my DS has autism.

[Tjej]

I remember reading when I was pregnant that the # of ultrasounds increased the liklihood of non-right-handedness.

Tjej

[Jenifer76]

Originally Posted by Tjej

I remember reading when I was pregnant that the # of ultrasounds increased the liklihood of non-right-handedness.

Tjej

That would fit for my DD but not my son. Plus my FIL and DH are both non-right handed (DH is a leftie and my FIL was forced to become a rightie).

[sapphire_chan]

My memory of reading about this is that clockwise swirls are pretty much guaranteed to be right-handed and counterclockwise is split about 50/50.

Lina's got a counterclockwise swirl and seems to be tending towards being right handed. She'll try doing stuff with her left hand frequently since I carry her mostly on my left hip (so her left hand is forward ) but it works out a lot better when she uses her right hand.

[MamaChicken]

This is an interesting exercise. I'll look as DS1's head when he gets home.

DD has a clockwise swirl right in the middle of her forehead and a counter-clockwise one on the back of her head.

The twins both have clockwise swirls on the back of their heads, but one is on the left side and the other is on the right side.

[azmomtoone]

old-wives-tale probably, but my DS has two whorls (one each direction) and my MIL says that means he should have been twins.
Just for another take on it....

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Originally Posted by Jackies Ladybug

my husband has (well, had) a counter clockwise whorl, and is totally dyslexic. he is a natural righty, but has a right dominant foot which is not common for righties.
cool to think about this stuff.

I am the same way. I write with my right hand, but do most things equally well with my left. I still read magazines and catologs from back to front. Never from front to back.

I have a counterclockwise "cowlick".

My daughter is right handed, not dyslexic, very musical, math oriented, and has two cowlicks. One clockwise, one counterclockwise. The only problem was that it made her hair grow up into what people called a peacock butt in the back.

[leavemealone]

Does the side of the head the whorl is on make a difference? I have one boy with a whorl on the right side of his head and one boy with the whorl on the left side of his head. The one with the whorl on the right side seems to go clockwise. I am not sure of the one with the whorl on the left side of his head. He's sleeping and I'm not about to wake him up for this, though it is tempting.

On another subject mentioned here, my index finger is shorter than my ring finger. I never thought anything of it until I heard about the sexual orientation tendencies a number of years ago. Then again, maybe it's just a coincidence.

[Funny Face]

This is really fascinating to think about!

[Kidzaplenty]

[chfriend]

What the heck is a hair whorl? Off to google...

[goldfinches]

I was told that double cowlicks were hereditary? My mil says they run in their side of the family.

My oldest dd has one, the right is counter and the left is clockwise, thus creating quite the "bumpit" in the back of her hair. It is so hard to style, have to be concious of which way the hairs curve.

My twin nephew has a double cowlick, also. He is dyslexic, but so is his mother, who married into the family.

So far, my dd shows no signs of dyslexia, although she is not reading yet.

[frogautumn]

My DS #1 has a double hair whorl and we just discovered that his newborn cousin does too. Just one of those genetic things, I guess.
I hear ya on the crazy hair though...it is totally unruly and refuses to be tamed

DS #2 has just one clockwise whorl.