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Marrshu
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02 Oct 2008, 7:56 pm

Got eyes about as blue as my avatar. :D



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02 Oct 2008, 8:02 pm

as blue as the oceans run deep and the sky is on a crystal blue day...blue eyes all the ways. people say i have beautiful eyes but i don't really see it.:scratch:


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02 Oct 2008, 8:26 pm

Blue eyes, analytical.
My AS parent has blue eyes, emotional.

I've been complimented on my eyes and am able to force others to look away before I do.



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02 Oct 2008, 9:16 pm

mine are green, but once long ago they said they were blue..;)

There is one survivor of the Nazis...the Volkswagon (Beetle), and there once was 'the Thing', which was the Nazi jeep..;)
Audio tape, ballistic missles (the Scud is just a souped-up V2), and Broadcast Television, are a few of the things they gave us. Not much to go on..;)



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02 Oct 2008, 9:26 pm

I have green eyes. My hair was platinum until about age 8. From then on it darkened to medium ash blonde. My family is Irish and so are my looks.



02 Oct 2008, 9:41 pm

I have blue eyes but they are greyish.



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02 Oct 2008, 9:50 pm

All the research was destroyed? Why would that happen. I mean if the Nazis were defeated, then why aren't the experiments openly revealed.
Wasn't anyone curious as to what they were researching? Last I heard, the few Jews to survive the experiments were given $5,000 well after the fact and basically ignored. Why? It seem like a waste to discard such research. Weren't they the founders of neuroscience? They were the first to perform brain surgery as far as I know.

Anyway, it's interesting to hear about all the changing eye colors. Sounds like it's eye color runs a little more haywire with people on the spectrum.
I still wonder what they Nazis were selecting for with eye color and hair color. It's hard to believe they just wanted to breed for looks. I think they were experimenting with Aspergers, trying to refine it or something.

But then again, maybe I'm just trying to understand crazy and finding it incomprehensible. :lol:

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02 Oct 2008, 10:22 pm

not in my head



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02 Oct 2008, 10:46 pm

Do you keep them in the refrigerator? 8O


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02 Oct 2008, 11:28 pm

Magnus wrote:
All the research was destroyed? Why would that happen. I mean if the Nazis were defeated, then why aren't the experiments openly revealed.

The scientists themselves managed to destroy or hide some of their research at the end of the war as it could otherwise have been used against them as evidence that they committed war crimes.

Much research did survive but it was often not discussed in scientific circles because of the embarrassment caused by the scientific community by some of its members having been involved in experiments where such terrible means were used to achieve the ends. Understandably, nobody wanted to be associated with the Nazis after the war was over.

Many former Nazi scientists continued to work. Some concealed their wartime activities, e.g. by destroying evidence, but in many cases the Allies knew of their crimes but ignored them in order to be able to make use of their scientific expertise There was competition between the US and Britain on one side and the USSR on the other for German scientific expertise. The most well-known example of this is Operation Paperclip, by which the US invited many German scientists with unsavory backgrounds to work in the US. The best-known such person was Wernher von Braun, who designed rockets for the Nazis during the war and later designed the rockets that put Americans on the moon. He is widely considered to be the greatest rocket scientist of all time. His wartime Nazi background including the use of forced labor from concentration camps in the construction of his V-2 rockets was concealed until after his death in the 1970s.

One of American satirical singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer's most famous songs was about Dr. von Braun:

Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Ha, Nazi schmazi," says Wernher von Braun

Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun

Some have harsh words for this man of renown
But some think our attitude should be one of gratitude
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun

You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German oder English I know how to count down
Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun


Magnus wrote:
I still wonder what they Nazis were selecting for with eye color and hair color. It's hard to believe they just wanted to breed for looks. I think they were experimenting with Aspergers, trying to refine it or something.

This is very unlikely.

Nazi eugenics were simply based on the pseudo-scientific idea that people of Northern European descent (who happen to be more likely to have light hair and blue eyes) were superior in every way (intelligence, morality, culture, physical strength, etc.) to other people. This concept was considered quite respectable in much of the world (the US was probably the other leader in the "science" of "racial purity") until after World War II was over. The Nazis, having taken it to its horrific logical extreme, destroyed its social acceptability.



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02 Oct 2008, 11:38 pm

As far as keeping the Nazi research, was it done with the scientific method? Control groups, double blind etc.? I didn't think so.



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03 Oct 2008, 2:05 am

Just to OP: I am logic based. I have few emotions and am analytical but I do feel. I seem to have a distinct separation of Thought from Emotion, which I have observed many NTs lack, in general terms. Please know I am not intending at all to perpetuate any stereotype nor categorize those who are neurotypical, just stating by repeated pattern.

My eyes are dark vivid jade green. They've been always green. Genetics - many in my ancestry are green-eyed. High genetic propensity for autism too (I am a HFA). Blonde hair, very pale skin which is slightly yellowish. I'm Celtic and Gaelic, by heritage.

The science community is, and should be, thoroughly ashamed of the Nazi 'research,' which was not research at all but merely hate perverted into pseudo-science. Whilst eye color is interesting, genetically, there's no correlation between coloring and one's neurology.

Many believe still that green eyes are associated with the Irish. Not necessarily - I am unsure how/why this is assumed. I am not Irish, btw. I recently read that statistically the highest genetic incidence of phenotypic green eyes is in Hungary.


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03 Oct 2008, 2:25 am

darkbrown here :(
but this explains why L and Near from deathnote both have dark eyes

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03 Oct 2008, 2:27 am

I have brown eyes, but my dad who is also an aspie has very bright blue eyes.



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03 Oct 2008, 2:53 am

Darkish bloo



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03 Oct 2008, 3:02 am

My are a deep shade of blue.


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