Who knows why, but even as a child it never bothered me when people poked fun at my large head. My youngest grandson and my niece seem to be a little sensitive about it. She is only about 5’2”; if her head were not so large she would be under 5’. Both of them are incredibly intelligent and it may have something to do with their large cranial capacity.
When he he was still a toddler my grandson’s pediatrician warned my daughter at the same time he told her that his head size was in the 99th percentile that while there did not appear to be anything wrong with him... that she should try to be prepared to shell out a lot of money for his higher education.
My problem, and this is not actually a joke, is that I have had a lot more serious head injuries than most people. This is mostly because I have had a reckless nature, but I think that I really am a little top heavy and because of its large size my head gets whacked into things that would have been near misses for others.
One time my crew and I responded to a hot seized up kitchen exhaust fan. As I was getting up to take a look at it I banged my head into something. The grateful little old Asian lady whose house we were in, exclaimed, “Oh, he got such a big head!” My crew started laughing their butts off.
She said, “No! That not funny. He will live a long life; he has a big head.” That only added to their amusement. She was extremely grateful when I fixed her fan by freeing it up and getting al little lubricant in the bearings. My crew was still laughing about it and doing impressions of her for everyone else when we got back to the fire station. But apparently in certain Asian cultures large heads are revered.
Me, too, but mostly because of what's IN my head not the size of it. I did a lot of stupid things in my youth. It's a wonder I'm still alive!................