Hair colour and Asperger's

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11 Feb 2014, 11:41 pm

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I was born with honey blonde hair. It turned to light brown by the time I was around 7. When the light hits it different ways you can see blonde, red, gold, and silver highlights in it.

Mine is the same way (and I'm also English/Scottish)... I have individual strands that are coarse and black, and others that are fine and blonde, and everything in between. And it's impossibly thick.

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11 Feb 2014, 11:58 pm

Born with dark brown hair and it's slowly trying to turn gray already. No read highlights far as I know or blonde ones. There are some lighter shades of brown if you look hard.

Diagnosed PDD-NOS in 2011 or ASD now under the new DSM-5

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12 Feb 2014, 12:38 am

I was born with and still have dark brown hair (and a few well-hidden grays).

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12 Feb 2014, 1:03 am

Ashariel wrote:

dianthus wrote:

I was born with honey blonde hair. It turned to light brown by the time I was around 7. When the light hits it different ways you can see blonde, red, gold, and silver highlights in it.

Mine is the same way (and I'm also English/Scottish)... I have individual strands that are coarse and black, and others that are fine and blonde, and everything in between. And it's impossibly thick.

With mine it's not that the individual strands are different, I think they are all the same (except for the hairs that have turned gray). It's the sheen that changes color in the light. If I twist a single strand in the light it seems like it changes color. My hair is fine and thin and almost has a translucent quality to it at times.

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12 Feb 2014, 2:35 am

Me = blonde, diagnosed Aspergers
Son = red, diagnosed Aspergers

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12 Feb 2014, 3:14 am

I'm raven-haired. I am confirmed to be an Aspie.

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12 Feb 2014, 10:11 am

Brown seems to be the most common so far in the poll. Brown is common in most white people. I don't see why there would be a correlation between Asperger's and hair colour. If there was, it would have been discovered a long time ago and would be mentioned in nearly everything you read about Autism.

My dad is ginger (seems to have turned darker now but used to be a natural ginger when he was a kid and younger adult), but is NT, and was the only one out of his family who was ginger. Most of his family are blonde. I'm a natural blonde. So is my NT brother and most of my NT cousins.

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12 Feb 2014, 11:01 am

My natural hair color is a very dark brown that almost looks black. I dye it red, though.

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12 Feb 2014, 12:36 pm

i had light blonde hair as a child, then it became average-brown. now i dye it mid-blonde (not too bright). i do make a lot of effort on my hair, as one of my enjoyments is making myself look nice.

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12 Feb 2014, 5:25 pm

Seems to be a bit of an odd survey and I don't understand the purpose of it relating hair colour and ASD. Most humans have dark brown to black hair, consequently it would seem most ASDers would too. Unless you are saying that ASD is only found in certain groups of people which might be unfair and rather to say that any autistic diagnoses are underdiagnosed in many groups of people.
This site self selects according to language and I can't see someone with ASD in Turkmenistan being on here and giving this study the proper weight.
Besides, I briefly saw that old chestnut of red hair disappearing on this thread. Red hair is not going to disappear until someone kills any person bearing the red haired gene. It might become rarer as the human population grows but not until there's some sort of genocide will it disappear. And Pacific Islanders have a different form of the red haired, blonde haired gene. And you never know what might pop up in random places.

This io9 article relates to blonde hair but corresponds with red hair as well.

http://io9.com/the-science-urban-legend ... 1512228306
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair#G ... stribution

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12 Feb 2014, 5:36 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

Actually the poll results are kinda interesting.

Vast majority of humans have black/dark brown hair.

Only like 1 or 2 percent are redheads. But thats the whole planet (including Africa and Asia).

WP users tend to be from the English speaking world: Americans, Brits, Canadians. Presumably mostly White.

Redheads make up five percent of northwest european populations. The Celtic Fringe of the British Isles is the highest ( Scotland 12 percent, Ireland 10 percent, with high numbers in Wales as well).

So if WP were representive of caucasians in general you expect like 6 percent redheads.

But the poll has 21 percent redheads (higher than Scotland).

So maybe that IS a significant clue to correlation between hair color and autism.

Was born blond and gradually morphed to an almost black dark brown color in my teens. Stayed that way until I turned gray. But do have one redheaded male cousin.

I find that most polls that inquire on hair colour tend to be skewed toward Caucasians. Among ethnicities that are generally considered to be exclusively black/brown of hair colour, like East Asians, South Asians, sub-Saharan African etc, one can find a range of different hair colours from pitch-black to auburn, and from blueish tones to a more reddish hue.

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12 Feb 2014, 5:48 pm

I have AS and have dark brown hair.

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13 Feb 2014, 2:38 pm

I have AS and have naturally brown hair

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13 Feb 2014, 2:50 pm

AS and dark brown and of european type like most in here.

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13 Feb 2014, 3:20 pm

I'm an Aspie with dark brown hair. However, when I was younger, I had jet black hair.

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14 Feb 2014, 2:24 pm

Dark Blonde almost brown hair
suspected autism (undiagnosed)

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Your Aspie score: 167 of 200
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