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if you're reading this you've probably googled it at some point and have seen these.
and you've probably thought, what the hell does it even mean, now, I'll tell you what it means, and I'll also tell you why this is retarded.
these images refer to the position of the zygomatic arch relative to the nose, in this theory: if the position of this bone is closer to the eyes than it is to the bottom of your nose they're high set.
this is the zygomatic arch.
now the problem is, if you know human bone anatomy, there's actually very little variance in the position of this bone, it's more or less in the same spot for everyone (middle of the ear)
which means, that in order for anyone to have 'low set' cheekbones, this bone (in purple)
would have to be somewhere near the bottom of the ear, and in order to accommodate that, the jaw would also have to move down.
there's literally no healthy person that has this, this kind of divergence isn't a variability, it's a deformity.
now for the final nail in the coffin, when people who aren't autistic are discussing the set point of the cheekbones, they're not actually looking at the zygomatic arch, instead they're looking at the depth of the zygomaticomaxillary complex.
that's the colored part, it's the front of your cheekbone.
what depth means in this context is the downward length of this bone, which is quite variable, unlike the arch.
I'll use some examples for this.
young johnny depp, someone that's coined to have 'low-cheekbones'
now the reality is, that going by the zygomatic arch his cheekbones are actually insanely high, but the reason people think they're low is because they're vertically long, which means the lines don't start until near the bottom of the nose.
you can tell in his 3/4th shots, he's got very long cheekbones.
now take sean o' pry as example, who has vertically short cheekbones.
from the front his creates very long lines which are nearer to the top of the nose, much longer than you'd see in someone with vertically long cheekbones.
but this isn't how cheekbones are measured, it's how they're perceived though.
by the way, having shorter lines isn't a death sentence, it barely matters at all.
and you've probably thought, what the hell does it even mean, now, I'll tell you what it means, and I'll also tell you why this is retarded.
these images refer to the position of the zygomatic arch relative to the nose, in this theory: if the position of this bone is closer to the eyes than it is to the bottom of your nose they're high set.
this is the zygomatic arch.
now the problem is, if you know human bone anatomy, there's actually very little variance in the position of this bone, it's more or less in the same spot for everyone (middle of the ear)
which means, that in order for anyone to have 'low set' cheekbones, this bone (in purple)
would have to be somewhere near the bottom of the ear, and in order to accommodate that, the jaw would also have to move down.
there's literally no healthy person that has this, this kind of divergence isn't a variability, it's a deformity.
now for the final nail in the coffin, when people who aren't autistic are discussing the set point of the cheekbones, they're not actually looking at the zygomatic arch, instead they're looking at the depth of the zygomaticomaxillary complex.
that's the colored part, it's the front of your cheekbone.
what depth means in this context is the downward length of this bone, which is quite variable, unlike the arch.
I'll use some examples for this.
young johnny depp, someone that's coined to have 'low-cheekbones'
now the reality is, that going by the zygomatic arch his cheekbones are actually insanely high, but the reason people think they're low is because they're vertically long, which means the lines don't start until near the bottom of the nose.
you can tell in his 3/4th shots, he's got very long cheekbones.
now take sean o' pry as example, who has vertically short cheekbones.
from the front his creates very long lines which are nearer to the top of the nose, much longer than you'd see in someone with vertically long cheekbones.
but this isn't how cheekbones are measured, it's how they're perceived though.
by the way, having shorter lines isn't a death sentence, it barely matters at all.
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