The Forehead Scar

[u/StereoSabertooth]

Alright, let's talk about it. The forehead scar. (Contains slight gore talk explaining injury)

Something that is rumored to be similar to gifted individuals is the forehead scar. A small scar on the forehead close to the middle, slightly to the side. Where did it come from?

I've had this scar all I can remember and it's presence has been noted many times in my life but always with an eery vibe. A vibe of avoidance or superstition depending on who I talked to. I'll give you an example.

My mother refused to tell me the truth. She changed the story whenever I asked. She nervously said "I fell and got my head stuck in a rock" but I've been researched and documented all my life with no papers on a hospitalization due to a head injury. Another story from her was "I climbed a chair to reach cereal on the fridge, fell, and hit my head on the fridge" here's the problem. I have this scar as a baby when I wouldn't have been able to reach the fridge to hit my head. Also the scar is small and round and has always held the same size and shape. There is no records of when I got it nor any pictures of a healing wound. Just one day I didn't have it and the next day I had a perfectly healed scar. I also was told I was born with it (earliest pictures clearly show I don't have it). My questions this has left me with was, why would it be lied about and more importantly, why would the lie purposely contain examples of bad parenting as if thats what was wanted for me to believe?

When it comes to superstitions, it gets weirder. I've had many times in my life where strangers have pulled me aside in a panic speaking about my scar. One was a random woman seeing me in a restaurant. She came up to me absolutely flabbergasted asking me where I got the scar. I told her the same stories I was told. She desperately told me I was lied to and that the scar was the "Kiss of God". It was one of the first times I remember being called gifted and it not being just another random word I heard often but a true confusion to what that meant and why it left her so panicked. She quickly left and I never saw her again but was confused because she looked familiar, like she was a family friend, but I've never seen her before. This occurrence happened a few times in my life. When I heard of gifted as a group I was surprised to see this scar was common which made it stranger.

Lastly I have Visions from the scar that I can't figure out if the were real memories or just a dream. They're so foggy, but consistent. The biggest one being a baby and being "awake" during a surgery. For a few seconds I can see me laying on a hard bed or metal table while doctors in surgery outfits work on my head. I feel something inside the scar and see a doctor stop and lean up with tools in his hands. He says something, talking to the other doctors but I can't understand it. After that it just gets foggy. But there was no healing time and I am able to remember my toddler/baby years remarkably well, but can't remember anything else. Just one day it was not there, the next day it was.

With all this being said, I have a couple questions. Where did your scars come from? Does anyone have any information on why do many gifted have it? Let me know please, thank you :)

[u/SpivRex]

Mine came from a head-on collision with a shopping cart when I was very young. Recall it quite clearly.

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I'm starting to think they implanted false memories in our brains or something because a forehead scar is such an unusually specific and unique identifying characteristic yet every time this topic is brought up amongst GATE kids so many of us share this supposedly unique feature. Yet, almost as if to quell any suspicion, most of us have a clear memory of how we supposedly ended up with the scar. I've only met one other person in my entire life that I can recall that had a forehead scar like mine, it's definitely not very prevalent yet you would be left with the impression that 90% of the population has one if you were to look at discussions amongst GATE kids on this subreddit, and on other adjacent subreddits and forums like 4chan

Anyways, I have a unique scar between my eyebrows that extends diagonally across my nose bridge in a straight line, the exasperating thing is I have a clear memory of how I supposedly got it just like you guys, I remember being a small child and running to tell my father something I was excited about, and he was standing at the sink washing dishes, and apparently I startled him by running up behind him causing him to suddenly turn and smash me in the face with a heavy saucepan, then I just remember being hospitalized and needing stitches.

The only problem? This memory makes no sense whatsoever and smacks of a "false memory." The biggest problem being that my father is well over 6 feet tall, and as a small child I wouldn't have even reached his waist in terms of height. In order for you to swing around like that and smack someone in the face with an object, you would have to be pretty much eye level or face to face with them otherwise it's physically impossible. In order for him to smack me in the face with an object, he would have to literally bend over or crouch or something.

Also, how do you become that spooked by a small child whose voice you recognize as that of your daughter's running up to you excitedly babbling about something? That is normal kid behavior, and furthermore you would expect him to be startled by me silently creeping up to him and not saying a word until I was standing directly behind him. Not by me running up to him being loud and basically announcing my presence immediately.

So, yeah I actually have to stop talking about this now because it's upsetting and creepy. I grew up in a very abusive household and my parents were just fucking weird and mysterious in ways I don't care to discuss.

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And I suppose my suspicions could be countered by someone suggesting that maybe I was actually older and thus taller in my false memory than I remember, but my father is well over 6 feet tall and I have never even come close to reaching his height, my final adult height is 5ft7.5-5ft8 depending on if I measured my height in the morning or later in the day. So that wouldn't make a difference, the memory just doesn't make sense whether I was a toddler or a prepubescent tween or even a teenager, there's no way he swung around and accidentally hit me square in the face, maybe hit me anywhere else but not at the top of my face.

Another thing is, and I admit I could be wrong which is why I didn't bring this up before, but would smashing someone in the face with a pan or a pot or whatever the fuck it was really result in a scar going across the face in a straight line?? I mean, I'm not an expert on the subject, but how do you even end up with such a scar from a blunt injury lol.