50 Photos Of People Who Drew Wild Cards In The Genetic Lottery (New Pics)

Very true. My cousin's daughter has Albinism and was legally blind before adulthood. Her parents also have darker skin, so most people assume she isn't their child until they explain the situation. She's in her early 20s now, so she's used to it, but it's hard to be different when you're a kid.

I never knew any of that, I just didn't know there was also serious medical issues with Albinism....

My twin brother and I were born approximately 6 weeks early, 58 years ago. He had some hair, I was bald for several months, ever close to a year. I was very fair-skinned too, so they referred to me as Casper the friendly ghost , like the cartoon

And sometimes pieces of them that get hacked off are used for “magic”.

I'm disabled due to a genetic condition, and I also have a tiny bit of conmection to the Deaf community through my ongoing American Sign Language studies. I don't think it's wrong as a blanket rule to acknowledge a genetic condition as an "error" or problem or sickness; I certainly consider my own condition to be very, very challenging and painful. I do consider it a mistake in my genes, because it causes me significant chronic pain and has had multiple quite dangerous complications. However, it's always worth asking the question: to what extent is this person disabled by their genes, and to what extent are they disabled by the structure of the society around them? Her eyes and patch of pale skin certainly don't cause her harm on their own; it's only that others might bully her or be unaccepting. And deafness... it's not as simple as I myself had thought before spending some time around Deaf people and learning from them! Not all deaf people view their own deafness as a harmful burden. As one Deaf ASL instructor told me, he is very happy as a Deaf man. He has a wonderful community of other Deaf people in our city, he is a successful teacher who enjoys what he does; he gets to teach hearing folks about Deaf history and culture and he gets to help people who are becoming deaf or welcoming a deaf person into their family feel confident in their communication skills. He "listens" to music by feeling the vibrations, he has a dating life and social life .

Not always deaf (more common in Type II).

Walter has a a good 'mum', to take care of him. Love 🌷❤️😍

The Waardenburg Syndrome doesn't kill them as kids if you mean that, it's a genome error that affects melanomas in eyes, skin and/or hair. It belongs to the same family of genetic illnesses as albinism and shows up around 1/40.000 in humans, causing roughly 3% of all deaf people to be deaf. It's not particularly prevalent in African countries, but the reason why you see it that often in photos with them is because black people with blue eyes look special whereas white people with blue eyes aren't particularly out of the ordinary. Plus, it doesn't necessarily make you deaf and can also just cause you to get a lot of sunburns or get blinded easily, so white people don't necessarily notice they have it either. It far more is rare in Asian people.

It's genetic, so it might be more common in certain population "bottlenecks" or isolated populations (like smaller tribes/groups in other countries.) It has nothing to do with "poor areas".

OP said on Reddit that when their hair down, it's a bit of a disappointment, as the depigmented areas are covered by the upper layers of their hair, which still has pigment XD

yeah, my ten year old has a dark, hairy birthmark just above his left ankle, but I embrace it and tell him its not weird and not ugly.

My daughter had elf ears,lasted maybe a month. Son had one like a pancake over the ear canal,that one lasted maybe a little bit longer. Packaging problem

packaging problem, love that!