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What is your eye colour?
blue 33%  33%  [ 89 ]
green 19%  19%  [ 51 ]
brown 25%  25%  [ 68 ]
hazel 14%  14%  [ 38 ]
violet 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
grey 3%  3%  [ 9 ]
yellow 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
other (please specify) 6%  6%  [ 15 ]
Total votes : 270

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24 Nov 2007, 5:40 am

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Does anyone elses pupils dilate weirdly? in this picture mine are a different size. they do that some times. They also can be really big even when its very bright. Does anyone know why?



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24 Nov 2007, 5:44 am

depends on what contacts I have in. :wink:



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24 Nov 2007, 8:16 am

Ehh... maybe... greyblue with a greenishbrown ring in it.

I have one of those annoying unidentifiable eye colours.



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24 Nov 2007, 9:08 am

I have hazel eyes.



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24 Nov 2007, 12:07 pm

2ukenkerl wrote:
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I've seen this discussion before on other autism discussion boards. I'm not sure where my opinion on the subject lies, as of yet.
I have brown eyes, and my husband has green eyes. You'd think that with our 3 kids one would have brown eyes, too, but nope. Two have green eyes, and one has blue. The two that have green eyes had blue eyes until they were about 4, then they changed. I also have brown hair, but my two ASD boys both have blond hair, and my daughter's hair is very light brown. The genes don't seem to make sense in my family.


Actually, that makes PERFECT sense! Everyone has genes for TWO eye colors! The most dominant wins. OBVIOUSLY, your other set is GREEN or grey! YOU also have brown, but your husband obviously doesn't, so the child got 2 of the others. If memory serves, the scale is supposed to be like:

brown, blue, green, grey

Frankly, I now think green and grey trump blue though.

BTW I DEFINITELY remember my eyes being blue earlier. Today they are grey and green. EACH ONE is both. An optometrist recently said there is some brown coloring that is causing the odd effect, but I never heard of THAT! So what color are they? BTW if you don't look real close, they just look green.


I seem to recall that brown pigment is the only kind of pigment in the eyes. Anything less than brown is simply a lesser amount of brown pigment. True, brown is a dominant trait, but since there are a variety of levels of lesser variants, these lesser variants each carry varrying levels of pigmentation as recessive traits, so they bid for dominance. I would imagine green, hazel, and gray all trump blue because they have more pigmentation than blue eyes. Probably dominance when it comes to these incomplete recessive alleles is determined by the allele with greater pigmentation.

I'm guessing.

I have blue eyes, although they are not a vibrant blue. Probably closer to blue with some gray; they are a bit dull in many lights. When I was born, they were completely gray but changed to blue withint he first few weeks.


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24 Nov 2007, 12:11 pm

I also kinda suspect autism may be a little more common in people of European decent and the further north one goes in Europe, the more lighter eyes become common.

Of course, this site is also heavily populated by people who are of European decent (Americans, English, Scottish, Irish, Swedes, etc.) so one would expect higher rates on here of light eyes.


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24 Nov 2007, 12:35 pm

Brown. Anyways: You've been mentioning a dark band round the iris's perimeter, I don't see much of that in your pictures though. MY eyes on the other hand, heh heh... OK, I'm acting like an ass, but seriously, my eyes are a pretty good example of those bands.
You'll see, if I ever get a digicam.

The thing Kurtz (I believe it was?) mentioned about the foxes is usually called "neo"-something-or-other-"ism". It happens to most kinds of animal-populations when they start to devolop social-skills. Basically, they never really grow up into fullfledged Mean Killing-Machines. Or so I claim.
Dogs-compared-to-wolves make a great example if you would want to study it.


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24 Nov 2007, 12:40 pm

serenity wrote:
I've seen this discussion before on other autism discussion boards. I'm not sure where my opinion on the subject lies, as of yet.
I have brown eyes, and my husband has green eyes. You'd think that with our 3 kids one would have brown eyes, too, but nope. Two have green eyes, and one has blue. The two that have green eyes had blue eyes until they were about 4, then they changed. I also have brown hair, but my two ASD boys both have blond hair, and my daughter's hair is very light brown. The genes don't seem to make sense in my family.


A little off-topic here, but biology is a subject of interest... :P

In the early stages, there's a difference between the genes you have (genotype) and their manifestation (phenotype).

Babies can sometimes have blue eyes and/or blond hair, but that doesn't mean it's what's in their gene pool. What's happening is the body is still "learning" to produce melanin, and that's why eyes and hair usually become darker. My brother, for instance, had really light brown hair when he was about three, but now it's coal-black.


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24 Nov 2007, 6:44 pm

jaguarchick wrote:
Eyes
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Does anyone elses pupils dilate weirdly? in this picture mine are a different size. they do that some times. They also can be really big even when its very bright. Does anyone know why?


in highschool, people used to ask me if i was on drugs kind of often, because they said my pupils were really big or going in and out like they were breathing... but a lot of these people might have been on drugs themselves so i don't know... when i notice the mirror, they do seem to dilate a lot, but that could just be the lighting in the bathroom...


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24 Nov 2007, 6:46 pm

i_Am_andaJoy wrote:
in highschool, people used to ask me if i was on drugs kind of often, because they said my pupils were really big or going in and out like they were breathing... but a lot of these people might have been on drugs themselves so i don't know... when i notice the mirror, they do seem to dilate a lot, but that could just be the lighting in the bathroom...

I've always just kind of assumed you're on drugs anyway; I don't even need to see your eyes, just to read what you write, and how you write it. :P

Good fortune,

- Icarus has no pupils...


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24 Nov 2007, 6:52 pm

Icarus_Falling wrote:
i_Am_andaJoy wrote:
in highschool, people used to ask me if i was on drugs kind of often, because they said my pupils were really big or going in and out like they were breathing... but a lot of these people might have been on drugs themselves so i don't know... when i notice the mirror, they do seem to dilate a lot, but that could just be the lighting in the bathroom...

I've always just kind of assumed you're on drugs anyway; I don't even need to see your eyes, just to read what you write, and how you write it. :P

Good fortune,

- Icarus has no pupils...


yes. it's a popular assumption. and i guess i mostly like it, except it has almost come to violence more than once when i would not "share" or reveal the name of my dealer since i am apparently on some good s*** and people just will not believe i am tripping on life, or whatever


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24 Nov 2007, 6:53 pm

i_Am_andaJoy wrote:
i call them green.

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they are tiny in this picture, although i do look a little crosseyed because i was trying to look at the camera


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24 Nov 2007, 6:58 pm

Mine are blue, so am I



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25 Nov 2007, 1:23 am

jaguarchick wrote:
Eyes
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Does anyone elses pupils dilate weirdly? in this picture mine are a different size. they do that some times. They also can be really big even when its very bright. Does anyone know why?


From the picture, I can see that your head is at a slight angle to the camera. Depending on the angle at which the light strikes your eyes, your pupils will dilate to different degrees, because it has to do with the amount of light reaching each pupil. In that picture, your pupils look pretty much the same to me anyway.



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25 Nov 2007, 1:27 am

Now that I think about it, my eyes look brown/green. x____x



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25 Oct 2010, 5:56 pm

they are colour changeable, I have hazel, or so people say, but people have often told me they are gold or orange, but the edges are green. Creepy, or so some people say. 8O