Hair colour of family members

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This right here: http://www.rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm proposes that red hair is more common among people with autism. I have heard somewhere else on this site that if a person with autism doesn't have red hair, they probably carry the red gene but it's not being expressed. I don't actually believe that, but I am going to test it out.

Do you guys have red hair in your family?

I have actually only known two autistic people with red hair (a girl at camp last summer and a boy 3 grades below in elementary school).

Please answer the poll as best as possible.

Please answer to the closest family member with red hair (e.g.: If your mom has red hair, but so do two of your first cousins, answer "One first degree relative has red hair".

My father and his sister have red hair. I have coppery brown hair.

One would have to go far into the extended family to find someone with red hair in my case, I believe

Me too. I am not sure about my mom (certainly not any first or second degrees relatives, probably not 3rd, but I am not about anyone else, but my mom tells me she does not know of any).

I know for fact there is not red hair on my dad's side. I am pretty sure the autism comes from that side.

My hair is a mix of brown, blonde, and red, but all interspersed so it looks like I just have darkish brown. It's mostly brown, though, I'd say about every tenth hair is red. How would I classify that?

My mother has bright red hair, my grandpa had bright red hair.

Mine is chocolate brown with red highlights.

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Last edited by nat4200 on 21 Apr 2012, 1:40 am, edited 1 time in total.

Nope but I'm half Asian and my mum's Dutch side doesn't have any red hair in the family, they're all brunettes and maybe a couple of blondes.

I was a carrot top until late elementary school. My hair is now auburn, which is still more red than brown. Most people refer to me as a red head or 'ginger' still.

My mom had auburn hair as a child, but she has dyed it for years, so I don't know what color it is anymore.

My great grandmother had red hair before it went grey.

Not a single person I can think of, even factoring in cousins.

Interestingly, I've noticed most people have that bit of red that seems to make their hair look "richer", like a fuller overall color. So I've looked at my hair a lot to try to see any hint of red. But no matter what light I look at my hair in, I don't see even a slight hint of red. It's just... brown and blonde. I get blonde highlights very easily, but it's just shining strands of gold, no copper. My father has very dark brown hair (it's almost black. He's from Poland and also has a persistent tan. My grandmother was the same.) My mother is blonde. My three brothers all have hair like mine- brown & blonde mixed, but no red.

I'm happy with what I got, but red hair is my favorite hair color...

My hair is dark brown but for some reason some of my facial hair is red.

Kind of irritated me the answer no red hair in my family. My 2 half sisters I think have what would be called strawberry blonde hair. blonde/red. They are part of my family but I don't have a red hair gene that I know of.

Would be helpful if you put the percentage of overall population with red hair.

Last edited by Alexender on 13 Mar 2012, 11:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.

This poll strikes me as missrepresentative. You may find some sort of correlation among Caucasian people only, but if you're polling all people on a whole, the vast majority of equally-sampled people worldwide will never have anyone in their families with red hair, autistic or not.

Oops, sorry, I forgot to mention that the poll is unscientific and that is not the intent.

I can't change the poll options now, and what would part-Caucasian people do?

I don't want to only allow Caucasians to vote because some people might think of that as racist, also, people could break the rules.

Alexender, I believe 2% of the general population has red hair. Not sure if that is American or World.

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I have red hair.
I have no siblings, nor do my parents,
but of my parents and grandparents, none of them have/had red hair.

My aunt has red hair. I don't know about her (my mum's) parents, because they died when my mum was young. No one else in my family has it.