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To be upset by skull picture on Facebook

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IfIonlyhadsomesleep · 04/07/2013 10:40

There's a fascinating photo doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment. It's a skull which has milk teeth in place and adult teeth ready to come. It is really interesting but I can't look at it without thinking that the skull belonged to a child who died aged five or so. Have hidden the post, obviously, but am I being a bit over sentimental for it to upset me?

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YouTheCat · 04/07/2013 10:42

You can hide the image on facebook so you don't have to see it.

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IfIonlyhadsomesleep · 04/07/2013 10:47

Done that! Just want to know if I'm an oversentimental fool!

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Fakebook · 04/07/2013 10:48

Can you post a link? Sounds fascinating.

PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 04/07/2013 10:49

YouTheCat the OP had already said in her post that she has hidden the image.

It's understandable that some people will be upset by such an image.

livinginwonderland · 04/07/2013 10:50

Ooh, I've seen that, I find it so interesting.

Link: 25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8mc0sSE4Y1rsxz63o1_500.jpg

OddBoots · 04/07/2013 10:51

I'm not too sure the OP would want a link to the picture here Fakebok but there are several pictures if you google image search 'skull teeth'

Fakebook · 04/07/2013 10:53

I googled and found it. I don't think they're real skulls. It's just a depiction.

emmie31 · 04/07/2013 10:54

I thought you were being over sensitive, but now I've seen i it myself It makes me a bit sad too, my 6 year old has the bottom teeth missing at the moment .

emmie31 · 04/07/2013 10:55

Not real skulls? Ok feel better now. In that case its very fascinating.

squeakytoy · 04/07/2013 10:55

just looked at the link and dont find it remotely upsetting, it is nothing more than you would see in a museum or on the news..

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IfIonlyhadsomesleep · 04/07/2013 10:56

I'd post a link if I weren't, in addition to being a sentimental old fool, a technical no hoper Blush

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mrsjay · 04/07/2013 10:58

ust want to know if I'm an oversentimental fool!

aww I remember somebody posted a picture of the catcums (sp) and there was a little mummified baby oh I was all choked up,

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IfIonlyhadsomesleep · 04/07/2013 10:58

I'm pretty sure, even if its a model, that it would have been cast from a real skull.

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IWipeArses · 04/07/2013 11:01

I was a bit like that last night watching Horizon as she examined a brain.
But it's a contribution to science and education.

needaholidaynow · 04/07/2013 11:01

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CajaDeLaMemoria · 04/07/2013 11:03

It's not a real skull. It'd be a horrifically bad casting, too.

PaleHousewifeOfCumbriaCounty · 04/07/2013 11:08

It creeps me out in a trypophobia type fashion

Sallystyle · 04/07/2013 11:11

Yes, it freaked me out because of my trypophobia, but at the same time it is amazing.

NotAroundTheEyes · 04/07/2013 11:18

'Tis not real.

It is fucking terrifying though. I posted it on my FB and then had to delete the pic. And I love skulls. I collect skull jewelery FGS. But there's a bleeding limit!

RiotsNotDiets · 04/07/2013 11:20

That is fascinating! So, are the teeth there from birth? Or do they develop later?

katykuns · 04/07/2013 11:23

I found it fascinating... I had a twinge of sadness, that what I was looking at was once a small person, but it didn't really upset me.

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IfIonlyhadsomesleep · 04/07/2013 11:24

Think I'm going through a phase - the mummies at the British museum got to me a bit last summer.

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Fakebook · 04/07/2013 11:27

I'm not good at anatomy, but wouldn't the adult teeth be inside the jaw bone and hidden rather than on display, if it was a real skull? I may be wrong!

ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts · 04/07/2013 11:28

That's fascinating. I think it looks quite real but I'm not upset by it.

badguider · 04/07/2013 11:33

That's fascinating. Those eye teeth that are right up by the nose and under the eye sockets are ones I had to have taken out under GA in hospital at age 15 as I already had a full set of teeth but they started to come in. I understand better now why I was so bruised and battered afterwards if they had to go right up there for them...