Hair colour and Asperger's

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Undiagnosed, but seem to have autistic and attention deficit tendencies. I chose "brown" though my hair is not really brown - it's like that of a calico cat, there are black, dark brown, chestnut brown, reddish and light-colored, ambery hairs. It looks dark brown, almost black, when it has been tied back and the lighting's dim, but when the sun shines through it, it has this auburn sort of shade.

I think I was born with very dark hair, which then became lighter until it was almost blonde, then darkened again; or I had extremely light hair at first, which then became darker. Something like that, I don't remember exactly what my parents told me.

me:dark blonde with natural blonde highlights
Mom (Bipolar but dad suspects her of being on the spectrum, comes with divorce): Dark brunette with some red (and grey due to aging)
Brother (Low IQ NT): dark blonde
Dad:Same as Brother (with the exception of grey being present )
Half Sister: Brunette with red

Me: Dark brown
Mom: Extremely dark brown, almost black (She dyes it)
Dad: Grey now, but when he was younger, it was light brown, and it was kind blondish when he was a teenager (I have seen pictures of him)

My hair colour changed from white in the summer to brown in the winter while dark-copper-redish-shiny in the spring and fall and now it's like that always.

I've got black hair and a brown skin because I'm mixed race.

Unfortunately aspergers is a world wide phenomenon that doesn't limit itself to caucasians with red hair.

Aspie with chocolate-brown hair here! Though you do hold a matter of factual premise regarding red-heads. Perhaps it is just a inelaborate coincidence?

Percentage rates possibly (though I have never heard that before). But for actual totals, I do not think you will find this to be true since the majority of the people on the planet have brown or black hair.

Mine is naturally brown.

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I'm a natural blonde and I have AS. We're such a diverse group that I think our hair colors represent what society looks like as a whole.

I marked red - but it was closer to dark red/auburn before it went gray.
Red as a young child, maturing to red-brown and then darker with age until it began to go gray. Easy to sunburn with freckly skin and while this might be TMI - very red pubic hair. My father (the AS traits are from his side of the family) was a tri-color - Dark brown hair on his head, a blonde mustache and a red beard (no idea of the rest, but he was also very freckly and like me, quick to sun burn. My NT mother had a classic olive complexion with very dark brown hair and tanned easily.

Diagnosis: Asperger's Syndrome

Hair colour: Dirty Blonde

Youngest son has had 2 girlfriends, both autistic, both gorgeous redheads. I was born blonde, turned brown, dyed blonde, turned bald, turned grey brillo pads, back to blonde,but never have I been redhead. Does a surplus of freckles count?

Actually the poll results are kinda interesting.

Vast majority of humans have black/dark brown hair.

Only like 1 or 2 percent are redheads. But thats the whole planet (including Africa and Asia).

WP users tend to be from the English speaking world: Americans, Brits, Canadians. Presumably mostly White.

Redheads make up five percent of northwest european populations. The Celtic Fringe of the British Isles is the highest ( Scotland 12 percent, Ireland 10 percent, with high numbers in Wales as well).

So if WP were representive of caucasians in general you expect like 6 percent redheads.

But the poll has 21 percent redheads (higher than Scotland).

So maybe that IS a significant clue to correlation between hair color and autism.

Was born blond and gradually morphed to an almost black dark brown color in my teens. Stayed that way until I turned gray. But do have one redheaded male cousin.

Team Brown is winning! (Oh wait, that just means I'm boring and average... Darn it!)

my hair is close to jet black

I was born with honey blonde hair. It turned to light brown by the time I was around 7. When the light hits it different ways you can see blonde, red, gold, and silver highlights in it. I started getting gray hairs when I was 25, those are silver/white.

My ancestry is almost completely Irish, English, and Scottish, with a bit of Cherokee.

My hair is almost exactly like this description from the book My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews: