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10 May 2013, 6:25 pm
my left leg is roughly 3/4 inch shorter than my right leg. I have a [approx.] 14.7 degree scoliosis between my 8th and 14th thoracic spine. if you look at my eyes from a distance they appear brown but up close they appear a mottled olive drab. the top part of my face [middle-nose on up] looks Japanese but the lower part appears more European. the right side of my head hair appears thin and flat, while the left side is thicker and fluffier. I have a few cowlicks on my scalp. I am very moley. I am thoroughly asymmetrical. 
I was always aware of "looking different."
10 May 2013, 6:35 pm
Mottled? If you have several different colors then you have a kind of heterochromia
They do not know what causes it yet, but it appears to be about having an extra "slot" for eyecolor. So twice the active genes for eyecolor...
Here's a very thorough description, though they seem to think "it's inherited" will suffice as an explanation:
http://musingsofabiologistanddoglover.b ... auses.html
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10 May 2013, 7:09 pm
^^^
fascinating
I guess I have the central kind.
10 May 2013, 7:27 pm
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10 May 2013, 8:19 pm
fascinating
I guess I have the central kind.
So do I
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10 May 2013, 8:23 pm
10 May 2013, 8:31 pm
be glad you don't have the rest of my assorted addlements and asymmetries.
Oh, but I do. And many of the assorted physical things linked to autism. Hello my fellow moley slightly-japanese-looking person!
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10 May 2013, 9:00 pm
10 May 2013, 9:13 pm
are you Eurasian also?
Something similar to that
But my fathers side looks almost identical (but a bit more "ethnic") to my mothers side who's all variants of europeans so I don't know. Are you also really tired of hearing "But where do you come from?"... I didn't realize what they were asking for several years(! !! !!), so I always answered truthfully and got laughed at and then they follow up with the "No where do you reaaally come from?" which then turns into "But where do your parents come from? Where do they really come from?"
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10 May 2013, 9:19 pm
^^^
it is the opposite with me, in that my mother's side is Japanese while my father's side [both decease, i'm old] is "Pennsylvania deutch." I don't mind the odd occasional person asking me my ancestry, I gladly state that "if only I had some Italian in me, I coulda started WW3." 
anybody that would ask you questions that would make you sad, has [IMHO] some serious 'splainin' to do when they meet their maker. 
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10 May 2013, 9:34 pm
10 May 2013, 9:35 pm
it is the opposite with me, in that my mother's side is Japanese while my father's side [both decease, i'm old] is "Pennsylvania deutch." I don't mind the odd occasional person asking me my ancestry, I gladly state that "if only I had some Italian in me, I coulda started WW3."
anybody that would ask you questions that would make you sad, has [IMHO] some serious 'splainin' to do when they meet their maker.
The thing was that during a long time I thought they were asking about which city I came from and then getting laughed at
(yes, I was very clueless) I would just have answered if I knew what they were asking. But I still sometimes find questions like that a bit unnerving, depending on the attitude.
I'd never heard about Pennsylvania deutch before, that's cool being able to trace your ancestry that far back
And I like that joke!
But be careful if the person asking is italian 
10 May 2013, 9:36 pm
