Heterochromia and Autism

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Wow, I've never heard of that before.

when I was very young my eyes were solid dark brown, then in my teens they lightened and became irregular.

Is there some kind of particular name for that?

can't find a single word for it but it is a phenomenon of decreasing melanin levels in the iris, don't know the reason for such.

Wow B19, that's very interesting about the second sight and Scottish belief, because my mother was a Scot and her side of the family has, lets say, an interest in our family in that kind of folklore... Oddly my mother never said anything about my eye, but this is very interesting! Thank you for this link!

Did I forget to mention I have red glowing pupils?

On a show called "Lockup," which takes place in prisons, a couple of guys "tattooed" their corneas; one tattooed it red; the other, blue.

i have central heterochromia, brown to green.
my dad and one of my sisters have brown eyes. my mom and my other sister have blue eyes. i am the only one with heterochromatic green eyes. i am also the only one in the immediate family with autism.
coincidental or linked, i do not know.

http://research.omicsgroup.org/index.ph ... erochromia

Alexander the Great is on the list. I wonder how that sign was interpreted in ancient Greece.. I couldn't find any information on that, however a current era Greek woman posted online about these ascribed cultural "meanings" of heterochromia in females:

" I'm 30 years old, female, born, raised and living in Athens, Greece.
When the doctor brought me as new-born to my mother's arms, she immediately commented positively surprised 'my daughter has different eye colors!!' 'it must be the anaesthesia you're on'', the doctor replied. 'babies are born with blurry eyes'
Little did he know.
My right eye is the lightest of brown with a hint of green(call it hazel) whereas my left one is dark brown. I'll post a photo soon.
According to legends and urban myths, girls born with different eye colours were related to or envied by fairies.
All stories are not connected to any bad superstition of any kind.
''When a girl of immeasurable beauty is born, a good fairy comes along, stares at her and that intense stare gives the girl the mark of the fairy, that is bi-coloured eyes.'' Another version of the legend calls:''When a girl immeasurably beautiful, fairy-like beautiful is born, a fairy comes along and gives the little girl a subtle little flaw, so as to be distinguished from the original fairy.''
In any case, having heterochromia iridis(totally greek expression, phonemic transcription of 'ετερόχρωμη ίριδα' for the record) is considered to be a sign of good luck and a kind of indication of protection from something divine and above."

Alexander the Great conquered an enormous portion of the land mass of Earth, because he was able to co-ordinate his attacks from several directions at the same time. His military commanders were given an enameled disc, colored a very dark grey, almost black (like my eyes), which was worn around the neck, on a leather thong.

And they were also given a strip of old cloth, which had been soaked in silver nitrate. (Yes, the same stuff that is used in photography to make light-sensitive paper.) As the day passed, the cloth scrap became darker and darker. When the cloth was the same color as the disc, the attack was launched.

The cloth was known as "Alexander's Rag Time Band"!

^^^

Well this makes perfect sense now -- people have always suspected I was "away with the fairies" LOL!

I have green to blue central heterochromia with tiny brown flecks and dark blue/black limbal rings. People in my wider family have similar features, though none of us have the same variations.
The different types of heterochromia can occur with conditions like mosaicism & chimerism or waardenburg syndrome.