You didn't believe me, did you? Now you do. I have two
different colored eyes. My favorite first responses I've heard
from people noticing:
"Are those your real eyes?" No, I bought them at the supermarket.
Come on! "Ooo, my dog/cat has eyes like that!" Great, now I'm being
compared to a household animal. Woot! "Did you know that
David Bowie/Kate
Bosworth has eyes like that?" Yes, I do. Woop de doo. You
are now the gazillionth person to tell me. "Wow, you're the first person I've ever met like that! You know
you're one in probably 5 million people?" I doubt it. I've
personally met two people with the same thing. "What's wrong with your eyes?" Um... nothing? "Are you wearing two different contacts?" Reasonable
question. Nope. "You have the most beautiful EYE (the green one) I've ever seen!"
Props for that one, it was pretty good.
Nicknames as a result:
Tie Dye Eye
Diarrhea Eyes
5 Eyes (used to wear glasses, how that works, I dunno)
Eye Candy
Pimp (lol, just messin!)
Yes. They are two different colors. This is a scientific
condition known as
Heterochromia iridium.
How does this happen? How is this possible? Taken from
"Ask Yahoo!"
Dear Yahoo!:How can someone have two different
colored eyes?
Iris
Dear Iris:
According to the experts at
Scientific American.com, it was once believed that eye color
was controlled by a single gene and inherited in a straightforward
fashion (remember
Mendel from high-school biology?). These days it's not quite that
simple. We
now believe that eye color is a polygenic trait.
Eye color is determined by the amount of
melanin, a dark
brown pigment, present in your irises. Blue eyes are due to a lack of
melanin, while brown eyes indicate melanin-rich irises. Thus, people
with darker hair and skin have higher levels of melanin and tend to have
brown eyes, while people with lighter hair and skin have lower levels of
melanin and usually have lighter colored eyes. This is also why many
babies are born with blue eyes. Their eyes change color later as they
begin to produce more melanin.
When an individual has different amounts of
melanin in each of their irises, their eyes are different colors.
Heterochromia iridium (the scientific name for two different
color eyes in the same individual) is relatively rare in humans but
common in some animals, such as horses, cats, and certain species of
dogs. A
variation on the condition is heterochromia iridis, in which an
individual has a variety of colors within one iris.
Heterochromia iridium
is thought to result from an alteration to one of the genes that
controls eye color. This can be an inherited trait, although trauma and
certain medications may result in increased or decreased pigmentation in
one of the irises. Certain medical syndromes, such as
Waardenburg syndrome, may also cause someone to have two different
colored eyes.
Some people with this condition wear colored
contact lenses so their irises match, while others take pride in their
striking
appearance.
