Albinoism In Humans

I saw an Albino asian person once and it was quite unique. I definately did a double take.

I used to live in Athens Greece and took the train to school every day. There used to be an albino Guyanan boy that used to stand on the corner near the train station every morning. As a 15 y/o it was very hard to not stare even after seeing him a couple of hundred times...

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Originally Posted by mischevious21

I dont know- I went to school with a kid that was indian, form India, and he had all white hair, black eyes, and pinkish reddish skin- but his parents and entire family looked like normal indians. Not a single person (that they could trace anyway) was albino, but he was. He was a cool kid, but had some problems with his eyes focusing.

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It's a type of albinism (I'm assuming if he had dark eyes), it's actually closely related to the Siamese rats, called Acromelanism. The pigment is temperature dependent, and often dark in cooler extremeties, and light where the body temps are warm.

Cool huh? :nerd:

I haven't seen Denise on here for a long time. I've wondered a few times where she went. Hope everything is okay!

There are a few albino people in my town- a mother with two daughters. They all get lots of skin creams and eye drops. one daughter seems to be more severe than either the mother or her sister. strange how things like that work!

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

It's a type of albinism (I'm assuming if he had dark eyes), it's actually closely related to the Siamese rats, called Acromelanism. The pigment is temperature dependent, and often dark in cooler extremeties, and light where the body temps are warm.

Cool huh? :nerd:

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I see. I wondered what it was, but I felt like I would offend him if I asked him directly. Then again, probably not- he used t joke that he was the only kid in the school blinder than me :rolleyes: lol

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

It's a type of albinism (I'm assuming if he had dark eyes), it's actually closely related to the Siamese rats, called Acromelanism. The pigment is temperature dependent, and often dark in cooler extremeties, and light where the body temps are warm.

Cool huh? :nerd:

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That is amazing! Crazy how things work like that.

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Originally Posted by mischevious21

I see. I wondered what it was, but I felt like I would offend him if I asked him directly. Then again, probably not- he used t joke that he was the only kid in the school blinder than me :rolleyes: lol

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Actually, I was thinking more about it last night, and I dont think he had acromelanism, but it's still a fun thing to know about. :P