Hey TL, haven't blogged in a while, thought I'd make this a fun one.
Today I woke up, and just like every other day, I looked pretty much the same. Nothing crazy happened. I took a bath because I needed to chill in some warm water, I brushed my teeth, nothing huge. At all times, though, when I look in a mirror, I know something is different about me. It's pretty obvious, actually.
Pretty much the same thing happens whenever I talk to people. I always get the same reaction about how I look. It's always the same kind of mild shock or surprise when people look at my face. I'm not horribly disfigured, nor am I the second coming of Fabio... not yet at least.
I have a condition called Heterochromia Iridum, if you could call this a "condition" considering it wasn't brought on by an injury or ailment. It's having two distinctly colored eyes. For me, I have a steely blue left eye, and a steely green right eye. Usually the first thing people tell me when they stare me in the eyes is, even before saying something that is totally deep and meaningful, "Holy shit, do you have two different colored eyes?"
It wasn't always this way. I wasn't always this heterochromatic. In the words of Spongebob, "I caught the ugly," or at least something like that. The "condition" can occur due to maturation, which is how it happened in me, and today I found out that it is exceedingly rare in humans. This got me thinking about having two different colored eyes, and the fact that in my family there are 2 children out of 4 that have had eye color change, and one of them, me, had permanent color change.
In babies, it is fairly common to have eye color change. In fact, even into puberty, it's not all that rare to have eye color change. My brothers both had infant hair color change, as did I. One went from blonde hair to brown hair, the other's hair got darker. One of my brothers had eye color change about 4 years back, around when mine started changing. None of that is all too rare or even weird. That's pretty normal stuff.
The story behind my eye color change, though, is one that I don't tell all too often because of how standard it seems to me. One day, around when I was 15 turning on 16, I woke up and my eyes were not as dark blue. I didn't really notice it too, too much until a bit later. I just kinda went with the flow for the day. About a week later, one of my eyes had turned green. My friends didn't notice, but my brothers and parents did. About a month after that, my eyes turned back to blue. After that, my eyes turned this indigo-ish color where the green and blue were mixed - honestly that color was the coolest my eyes have ever looked because there were splotches of green and blue mixed around like something out of the hands of Kandinsky - and stayed that way for quite some time.
At that point, my eyes were distinctive looking from other people's eyes - to this day I've never seen eyes like those indigo ones - but were not all that distinctive from one another. My left eye was slightly more blue, and my right was slightly less blue. Eventually this continued until I was getting closer to my 16th birthday. Around then my eye color began to set. I woke up one day and my eyes had become more distinct over night it seemed. I awoke, I don't know how far after that day, at some other point in the future to find that my eyes were completely distinct. One eye was blue and the other was green. Needless to say that this made picking an eye color on my drivers license a bit harder, though in the end I just chose blue.
After that day my eyes haven't changed from their duality. One is green and the other is blue. I don't know what the ratio of people with this compared to not is, but I've never seen another person like this in my life, though I know people have told me they've had friends with this "condition." I still have yet to meet anyone who has fucked up eye color like me though.
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EDIT: You guys wanted pictures so here you go. The blue eye has a lot of shadow on it in the pic, sorry about that. It's a lot more vibrant in real life and a lot blue-er looking if that makes sense. The green one is pretty lit well so it's easier to see. I wish I had a better camera for this , just my Galaxy S4. + Show Spoiler [my eyes] +
Nice blog man, Googled "Heterochromia" and as far as I can say it looks cool. Green + Blue is even more cool, imo you should see it as an attractive advantage >:D
On November 04 2013 01:09 MoonfireSpam wrote: Free coloured contact lenses. Pretty cool. Had a friend with a white streak of hair down the middle. Always reminded me of Rogue (X-men).
I'm starting to get some gray hair around the temples, so I'm hoping that my girlfriend starts to call me Mr. Fantastic.
On November 04 2013 01:44 Kingsky wrote: arent people like you more prone to sight-impairedness? well as long as it doesnt affect your health you have a gift
In a family of people who've needed glasses since the 3rd grade I have perfect vision haha.
Also yeah I do have chameleon eyes I guess . I should grab a red colored contact lens and put it in for the green eye and have blue-red on dress up nights.
how old are you? I think post-20 this is an advantage, not disadvantage, and something that makes you more attractive, not less.
I had a classmate in high school who had one brown and one blue eye. at first I thought she was a bit weird looking, by the end of high school she was one of the prettiest girls in class, and I think her eyes contributed to both those impressions.
On November 04 2013 02:32 Liquid`Drone wrote: how old are you? I think post-20 this is an advantage, not disadvantage, and something that makes you more attractive, not less.
I had a classmate in high school who had one brown and one blue eye. at first I thought she was a bit weird looking, by the end of high school she was one of the prettiest girls in class, and I think her eyes contributed to both those impressions.
I'm 19 now actually. It's probably one the things I'm most lucky to have honestly. It's an instant talking point, it puts people in a position where they are staring into my eyes which is always a positive, and usually people are astounded lol. It's less a bad thing, and more a mutation that I've never seen so other than the benefits I have from it, I have no idea how other people consider it. So far it seems like people think it's a fun positive.
Hmmm I looked up heterochromia and apparently central heterochromia is a thing. I've had it for a while I guess, but never noticed it. I've never had anyone point it out to me, probably because it's not as noticeable as your version. I normally just say that I have hazel eyes because the colors kind of blend, but my eyes are actually light grey/blue on the outside and goldish brown in the middle.
On November 04 2013 01:44 Kingsky wrote: arent people like you more prone to sight-impairedness? well as long as it doesnt affect your health you have a gift
Yeah, my vision is horrible . Both my eyes have different prescriptions. One eye is fine and I can live with it from day to day but the other eye sucks ass. Normally I just don't wear glasses because the good eye is dominant so my vision doesn't get all messed up, and because normal glasses make my eyes different sizes. I'll probably have to wear contacts eventually.
Also it's weird, because I'm not used to stereoscopic vision any more and I am always stunned by how beautiful everything is when I wear my glasses. Especially trees.
I'm curious- what is your ancestry? My ancestors are German and Irish.
The eyecolor line in my friends passport reads something like: Left eye: Green/Blue. Right eye: Grey/Green/Brown. He spent some time in an asylum when he was little, because nobody wanted to care about him and his family was rather poor, he probably got malnutrition or some poisining from the water supply there, his right eye has more like brownish color bleeding out of the middle of the eye.
On November 04 2013 09:39 HaRuHi wrote: The eyecolor line in my friends passport reads something like: Left eye: Green/Blue. Right eye: Grey/Green/Brown. He spent some time in an asylum when he was little, because nobody wanted to care about him and his family was rather poor, he probably got malnutrition or some poisining from the water supply there, his right eye has more like brownish color bleeding out of the middle of the eye.
That was one of the things that was stated could happen in the wikipedia article. It said that it's rare to have genetically and that it's totally benign like that, but the majority of cases for the already rare happening occur because of either disease or some kind of damage done to the eye. Eye color bleeding out has a lot more to do with malnutrition and physical abuse though than heterochomatic eyes.
On November 04 2013 12:21 Clazziquai10 wrote: I actually wish I had something cool like that... lol
Everyone has something awesome about them haha. I'm sure you've got somethign too.
Eye color changes happen quite a bit among kids, but nothing so dramatic as what you described. I've met someone with a blue right eye and a green left eye, but yeah it's exceedingly rare. Did you happen to get photographs of your eyes in the various stages you described?
PS: On the topic of hair color, blonde hair in particular gradually becomes brunette over the lifespan.
The good news is if 28 Days/Weeks Later ever happens you'll be immune. Funny thing is my freshman year we actually did a disease modeling problem based on this being the immunity to the rage virus and did a whole simulation on it. We found an estimation for how common it was but I can't remember at the moment or find the paper.
I always thought heterchromia was pretty cool when I found out about it. I've never actually seen anyone heterchromia with two distinct eye colors in people in person before. I agree with Liquid`Drone though. I think it could be advantageous to you.
I guess I have what is called central heterochromia. It's not as exciting as yours but it has gotten me quite a few compliments for my eyes before. *subtle brag* I don't have a really good quality camera atm so idk how well you can see this. I have blue eyes with kind of a gold colored ring in the middle near the pupil. + Show Spoiler +
On November 04 2013 16:45 Shellshock wrote: The good news is if 28 Days/Weeks Later ever happens you'll be immune. Funny thing is my freshman year we actually did a disease modeling problem based on this being the immunity to the rage virus and did a whole simulation on it. We found an estimation for how common it was but I can't remember at the moment or find the paper.
I always thought heterchromia was pretty cool when I found out about it. I've never actually seen anyone heterchromia with two distinct eye colors in people in person before. I agree with Liquid`Drone though. I think it could be advantageous to you.
I guess I have what is called central heterochromia. It's not as exciting as yours but it has gotten me quite a few compliments for my eyes before. *subtle brag* I don't have a really good quality camera atm so idk how well you can see this. I have blue eyes with kind of a gold colored ring in the middle near the pupil. + Show Spoiler +
^wow those pictures actually look kind of creepy on second thought.
If you can't see it very well my eyes are pretty similar to the central heterochromia picture on wikipedia. + Show Spoiler +
Would be cool to see pictures of yours.
I thought that golden circle around the eyes was normal, heh. My eyes change colour from green to brown and anywhere in between on a regular basis. Personally I prefer when they're green .
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Chameleon Eyes :D 
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