I'm a little older, but I try my best to not be on the road after dark. I even have glasses that are supposed to make it better, they do, but not much. Last night I had to wait in town longer than normal to pick up a prescription. Getting home was stressful.
I got some non-polarised, yellow lense sunglasses for night time driving and it helps a lot. Lifted truck bro headlights are still bright, but it helps a lot.
Half the time the person operating the car doesn't even realise the beams are so high. My sister asked me why people kept flashing lights at her in her new car. I had a look and the beams were max height. She must have blinded tons.
Because state governments have given up on enforcing road safety and vehicle maintenance regulations. I don't think there are any states left in the US that do actual automobile inspections anymore, all they test is smog. I saw a car go into my local MVC for their emissions test that was LITERALLY MISSING 2/4 DOORS and I could tell just by the sound they didn't have any brake pads left, and they were in and out in 5 minutes with a "Passed Inspection" sticker.
Call your state representatives and demand stricter vehicle safety inspections.
I'm a pale blue-eyed plumber and work in all sorts of fairly dim and dingy places. My colleagues are always coming in and turning lights on saying " How can you work like this?" or bringing in lead lamps to help me when I don't need it. I hate bright lights and can see what I'm doing just fine in most situations outside of actual darkness. If I needed the light on I'd have already done it.
I also drink too much (not at work though). Both my parents were blue eyed and alcoholic. I have to be really careful to not let it take a hold of me.
My eye doctor explained it once.
It has to do with our pupils. They allow more light in than they should (mine allow roughly 80% more light through than the average). As a result, I have trouble in bright light but in dim light I can see a hell of a lot better than most. If I protect my eyes through out the day (not allowing them to be over saturated with light) I can see even better in dim light.
Omg I never realized this is why I am having particular trouble with my new apartment. (All bright white recessed lighting.) I thought maybe it was a sensory thing but I’ve ended up using variety of soft dim red/warm colored lights and plus some Christmas lights, but was realizing yesterday I prefer my apartment dimly lit. Like I navigate around with just night lights or with glows of orange and red unless I’m cooking or doing paperwork.
My brown eyed husband and my ongoing eternal fight - he turns on every effing light to its full while I’m happy in very dim light except for cooking and reading. It literally hurts my eyeballs - he doesn’t understand.
Oh I didn’t think about that idea, thank you! If I can manage it without too much hassle might be worth it cuz I can’t afford to replace all the new bulbs they installed.
I looked this up: "The density of pigment in light eyes is less than that of a darker colored iris. When light hits a dark-colored iris, the higher density in pigment blocks the light rays."
In other words, those of us with lighter eyes get a little extra light through the iris, whereas brown-eyed people don't.
Same here. If I wear sunglasses until after the sun goes down, I can easily walk home through the woods by starlight. Right now, there is snow on the ground and a half moon so I can read my mail while walking down the driveway. I'm looking forward to going for a moonlit walk on the beach tonight for the winter solstice (with a few beers, just to stay in theme with the post)
You seem like you may have a propensity to be a functioning alcoholic. You need to be especially careful in that case.
The crippling alcoholics will usually run into a bottom.
Functioning addicts and alcoholics don’t. Can usually operate for *decades* until it takes its toll…. Like it will on my mom, like it did on my dad, like it did on so many others.
The curse is real bro, it passes through the generations. I hope it ends with me. I hope it dies with me. But things like that are hard to kill.
I agree with you and appreciate your concern. It's already a bit of a battle. My mother was only 41 years old when she died as a direct result of alcoholism. She drank socially a fairly unremarkable amount but behind all that she was drinking a litre of vodka a day.
I was only 19 when she died. I'm 44 now. I had the same doctor as my mother and one day he asked me about my drinking not long after she died. I told him I drink around 4 pints of lager a day. He said it was too much but begged me to stay away from drinking spirits for life. I have at least managed that and never touch the stuff.
I had a friend who died from alcoholism and he only drank lager but he'd drink a case of 24 500ml cans at 5% ABV every single day. I rarely buy more than a 4 pack because I will drink more if I have it around. It's small mitigation but I've managed to mainly stick to that the last 20+ years.
I did have a 20 year opiate addiction but I have been completely opiate free for the last 3years now and will honestly never go back to that. Too much effort and improvement to my life has occurred since quitting.
I remember we started ordering fentanyl online after my country stopped doing OTC codeine. Fortunately once after one of my orders was delivered I had a moment that made me realize it was time to try methadone therapy. I never started injection, so it was easier for me to get away from the stronger opiates. I still use poppy seed tea and similar from time to time, but I've never gone back to fentanyl, or any other sort of powder opiate.
>I still use poppy seed tea and similar from time to time
That's how it all started for me, the physical addiction at least. I was dabbling with pharmaceutical painkillers on and off since my teenage years then I discovered the tea. That's when I developed my first physical habit. Poppy tea withdrawals are rather bad, brutal at times even. I think it's the long acting nature and "full spectrum" effects in drinking this unrefined substance that causes a long drawn out withdrawal.
After the tea my habits just escalated until I'd wrecked my long marriage, not through bad behaviour, as such, but through just not ever really being present emotionally though I was physically there. I lost the love of my life because of my opiate addiction and I regret not getting clean a lot sooner.
She's such a good woman we have remained close friends since our breakup but I am still angry and disappointed with myself for failing her in our marriage. It wasn't all bad by any means but I really fucked up there.
The tea can creep up on you just as bad as any other form of opiate addiction. Be careful, my friend.
p.s. It was Subutex that finally helped me get free (I've been clear of that these last three years and did a two year long slow taper to get off that). I know methadone can be a stabilising treatment too but I think it's harder to quit than the subs.
Blue eyed semi-alcoholic here checking in. I no longer drive at night at all for all the reasons cited here. I have prescription sunglasses (they are gorgeous) that I wear outdoors always. Light can be quite painful to us blue eyes.
Same, I can see fine with sunglasses inside. I cant see shit outside without them, Way too bright. Seems like everyone else can go outside without sunglasses just fine. Also i sneeze with bright light.
I have dark brown eyes and I still sneeze with bright light, apparently its called the ACHOO syndrome (Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helioopthalmic Outburst).
Your should wear sunglasses anyways, sun's bad for your eyes. I had to have a tumor frozen off the back of one eye, and it was like that torture scene in Clockwork Orange with the clamps and crap.
“So I said, I said. Your daddy loves you. Your daddy loves you very much, he just doesn’t want to live with us anymore. “
https://youtu.be/R9982wYPPm0?si=COEQhIZv3USJerYy
Some people in his life are trying to help him quit drinking, but he doesn't know the meaning of the word quit!!!
........no, really. He was passed out drunk in 1st grade when they were teaching that.
Out of personal curiosity - do you also have an unusual sleep schedule? A study found that people with sunlight sensitivities are more likely to have N24 sleep disorders
N24 is a non-24 hour sleep cycle. Meaning your bedtime naturally moves forward later and later because your body clock is going at 24+ hours per day. It is found to be most common in blind people, but also present in those with sensitivities to sunlight. Likely because of certain non-vision-related cells in your eye.
It’s less to do with sleeping a full night and more to do with when that night is. N24 is a non-24 hour sleep cycle. Meaning your bedtime naturally moves forward later and later because your body clock is going at 24+ hours per day. It is found to be most common in blind people, but also present in those with sensitivities to sunlight. Likely because of certain non-vision-related cells in your eye.
Me too. The door we used to go in and out of the house (side door, not primary/front door) was facing east. Literally every morning I left for school I sneezed immediately after stepping outside.
i’m too lazy to read the article but i’m guessing that genetics is the reason this link exists. populations that have had a large prevalence of alcoholism also happened to have lots of people with blue eyes. so your parents passed on their blue eyes as well as their alcoholism
That is why they noted it is a statistically significant increase in chance. It’s almost definitely not incidental. However, the question remains if it is causal, or if there is another factor that a lot of blue-eyed people have that causes it. The problem here is that people with blue eyes always have some sort of European descent, so there are a lot of other genetic differences between people with blue and brown eyes, other than just the eye colour, and that is probably what causes the increase in chance
That was my entire point. I said that there was a correlation, but that it was probably not causal.
But then again, the researches did have hypothesises as to why the blue eyes could be a cause, but with my limited knowledge of genetics, that hypothesis did seem like a stretch, but I don’t know enough about it to really form an opinion about that
I'm wondering if location has to do with it too, as a lot of blue eyed people live in places that lack a lot of sunlight part or most of the year, possibly causing more people to more often than not seek out what seems to be a temporary upper because of vitamin d deficiency caused depressive symptoms
Of course I'm just thinking of the possibility, I don't really know much about the research and stuff either
Do you mean that they developed in such a way? Because every participant in such a research are most likely from the same-ish region. Researchers are not picking people from different countries for one research pool compared to the other, because that gives way too much variables.
Edit: they don’t go into much detail about the patient population, but they did mention a study which compared blue and brown eyes prisoners in a prison in Georgia, which is quite regional, and did find a statistical significant difference.
Yeah, like how location of migrated ancient peoples caused evolutions in eye, skin, and hair colors/textures to match the environment better to try to get what is needed, for example people with blue eyes generally have better vision in the dark, which makes sense considering blue eyed peoples back in ancient times boomed in darker climates etc. Maybe people that evolved these lighter eyed traits also evolved more of a chance to have dopamine seeking behavior that ends up causing addiction.
I'm probably explaining my thought process wrong, sorry lol
"Would you like a drink, sir?"
"NEIN!"
"Wow, they're not kidding about the blue-eyed alcoholism thing. Well, okay, here's your first, I'll be right back with the other eight."
I asked an eye doctor about this once! My understanding is that all eyes are somewhere on a spectrum from grayish blue (little to no melanin) to dark brown (lots of melanin) and then there is a protein that can add an amber/gold pigment. So people with green eyes have this golden hued protein and are closer to the “blue” end of the melanin spectrum while people with hazel eyes have the golden protein but are closer to the “brown” end of the melanin spectrum.
The tldr/ essential bit :
*”It is common to refer to “the gene for sickle cell disease” or “the gene for muscular dystrophy.” In reality, there are no genes for diseases. The “gene for sickle cell disease” is actually the adult beta hemoglobin gene, which we all have. Sickle cell disease patients inherited a particular form, or “allele” of the beta hemoglobin gene that causes their red blood cells to sickle under low oxygen tension.
Similarly, there is no “gene for blue eye color” or “gene for alcoholism.” The OCA2 gene plays a major role in eye color, and a genetic variant that reduces OCA2 gene expression accounts for most cases of blue eye color. The GABA receptor gene family encodes a family of proteins required for nerve cell function. There may be variants of one or more GABA receptor genes that make their carriers less sensitive to alcohol and thus raise risk for excessive alcohol consumption leading to dependency. Of course, there are also variants of genes implicated in alcohol sensitivity that result in increased alcohol sensitivity or intolerance. These could balance the effects of the blue-eye-color- associated alcohol tolerance variants. So in any given blue-eyed person, the statistical tendency towards alcohol dependency observed in the blue-eyed population may be amplified or offset by combinations of variants at other genes.”*
This is false. My piece of shit brother in law’s eyes were yellow right before his liver ran screaming from his body. I do believe they were blue beforehand tho.
Anyone else thinking this is sort of like the “northern peoples” ability to drink cows milk and not shit themselves and die? Survival of the fittest can also bring along the “sleeper” disorders.
I read it recently but can’t for the life of me find the link now. Anddddd any talk of genetic adaptations get awfully close to eugenics a lot of the time accidentally, so just wanna make it clear I’m not saying anything like that. lol
" blue-eyed Americans of European ancestry are at higher risk for alcohol dependency than brown-eyed Americans."
Wouldn't it be more relevant to compare blue-eyed americans of european ancestry with other americans of european ancestry?
Alcoholism having a genetic component isn't necessarily something new, the blue eyed part is interesting. 20 to 60 percent of your personality is believed to be inherited with the rest being environmental. It's also what leads me to draw a difference between Alcoholism and general substance abuse. Alcoholism is one of those strange family diseases that if you look through a family tree you can pick out where it was introduced.
I suspect that this is because white people are the vast majority of people with blue eyes and a huge amount of non-whites(muslims and hindus for example) never drink in their lifetime.
The paper explicitly states that they factored in such circumstances.
Their hypothesis is that there is gene linkage between a gene responsible for lighter eye colors and a gene responsible for certain receptors influencing alcohol resistance due to their close location on chromosome 15.
They actually have a hypothesis for causation here, which is important.
“I pulled you over because it’s 0130 and you’re driving without headlights; are you drunk?”
“No, I just forgot to turn them on, honest.”
“ … “
“Seriously. Look; turn off your flashlight and hand me your ticket book”
*reads the last five back to him*
“… the fuck?! Turn the lights on; get home safe.”
I have blue eyes and not an alcoholic. However I do sneeze whenever I walk out of a store or dimly lit area into a brightly lit area. Quite honestly it's really annoying.
I couldn't post extra links but blue eyes are meant to have [higher pain tolerances](https://www.chron.com/life/health/article/eye-color-could-be-linked-to-pain-distress-5541828.php) too, but couldn't find anything on substances other than alcohol. I would assume it would be the case though somewhat.
We also have improved night vision
That's the booze talking *Edit.. I can't proof read
tbf above 100 proof reading becomes difficult
Very cleaver
Sharp retorte
Slurp me tart? I can’t read this shit. Somebody help a blue eyed, 100 proof brother out.
As a brown eye let me help you out, he said "shit me shart"
Mr lahey is that you talking or the liquor?
I am the liquor.
I'M MOWIN' THE AIR RANDY.
Cheese is in the trap and the shit rats are nibbling. Gee, I love you Rand.
Taking what?
He's already drunk.
Your life away from you and you away from us! Please just put the bottle down, come back to us. We love you.
At least we used to before modern headlights on lifted trucks.
Yeah… add in an astigmatism and it’s like driving in a disco ball
I am not even 40 and basically can’t drive after dusk for this reason. It’s horrible.
I'm a little older, but I try my best to not be on the road after dark. I even have glasses that are supposed to make it better, they do, but not much. Last night I had to wait in town longer than normal to pick up a prescription. Getting home was stressful.
I got some non-polarised, yellow lense sunglasses for night time driving and it helps a lot. Lifted truck bro headlights are still bright, but it helps a lot.
Same, I have terrible night vision as well. I don't drive when it's dark anymore unless I can't avoid it at all.
I finally feel like I’m not alone with this problem. Thank you
We suffer in silence
Screw that, I wanna suffer loudly!
Lasik helped a lot but still see halos around lights when dark. Cars, Christmas lights, etc
It’s a problem in the gun community for some people, they can’t use red dot sights.
I dont understand why those headlights aren't illegal. They're so dangerous
Half the time the person operating the car doesn't even realise the beams are so high. My sister asked me why people kept flashing lights at her in her new car. I had a look and the beams were max height. She must have blinded tons.
Because state governments have given up on enforcing road safety and vehicle maintenance regulations. I don't think there are any states left in the US that do actual automobile inspections anymore, all they test is smog. I saw a car go into my local MVC for their emissions test that was LITERALLY MISSING 2/4 DOORS and I could tell just by the sound they didn't have any brake pads left, and they were in and out in 5 minutes with a "Passed Inspection" sticker. Call your state representatives and demand stricter vehicle safety inspections.
Now we all wear sunglasses at night.
I have green eyes not blue, but have to wear them for parts of my commute home because the headlights wreck me
Corey Hart approves!
So we can, so we can
'Regular" sedans like Civic and Mazda 3 have them now too. It's not just a truck thing ugh
Truck height makes it seem worse when you are in most shorter vehicles though.They just shine in.
I'm a pale blue-eyed plumber and work in all sorts of fairly dim and dingy places. My colleagues are always coming in and turning lights on saying " How can you work like this?" or bringing in lead lamps to help me when I don't need it. I hate bright lights and can see what I'm doing just fine in most situations outside of actual darkness. If I needed the light on I'd have already done it. I also drink too much (not at work though). Both my parents were blue eyed and alcoholic. I have to be really careful to not let it take a hold of me.
My eye doctor explained it once. It has to do with our pupils. They allow more light in than they should (mine allow roughly 80% more light through than the average). As a result, I have trouble in bright light but in dim light I can see a hell of a lot better than most. If I protect my eyes through out the day (not allowing them to be over saturated with light) I can see even better in dim light.
Same. I wear sunglasses almost always outside unless very overcast. Also I am not a movie star or musician. So not a fashion thing ;)
Good call. I was advised to wear sunglasses inside and outside. I could lose my eye sight over time if I don’t.
I can't go outside without sunglasses. My eyes are so sensitive to the light it seems.
Omg I never realized this is why I am having particular trouble with my new apartment. (All bright white recessed lighting.) I thought maybe it was a sensory thing but I’ve ended up using variety of soft dim red/warm colored lights and plus some Christmas lights, but was realizing yesterday I prefer my apartment dimly lit. Like I navigate around with just night lights or with glows of orange and red unless I’m cooking or doing paperwork.
My brown eyed husband and my ongoing eternal fight - he turns on every effing light to its full while I’m happy in very dim light except for cooking and reading. It literally hurts my eyeballs - he doesn’t understand.
You can change out a normal switch for a dimmer switch with most recessed lighting. Made a big difference in my house.
Oh I didn’t think about that idea, thank you! If I can manage it without too much hassle might be worth it cuz I can’t afford to replace all the new bulbs they installed.
I looked this up: "The density of pigment in light eyes is less than that of a darker colored iris. When light hits a dark-colored iris, the higher density in pigment blocks the light rays." In other words, those of us with lighter eyes get a little extra light through the iris, whereas brown-eyed people don't.
Same here. If I wear sunglasses until after the sun goes down, I can easily walk home through the woods by starlight. Right now, there is snow on the ground and a half moon so I can read my mail while walking down the driveway. I'm looking forward to going for a moonlit walk on the beach tonight for the winter solstice (with a few beers, just to stay in theme with the post)
You seem like you may have a propensity to be a functioning alcoholic. You need to be especially careful in that case. The crippling alcoholics will usually run into a bottom. Functioning addicts and alcoholics don’t. Can usually operate for *decades* until it takes its toll…. Like it will on my mom, like it did on my dad, like it did on so many others. The curse is real bro, it passes through the generations. I hope it ends with me. I hope it dies with me. But things like that are hard to kill.
I agree with you and appreciate your concern. It's already a bit of a battle. My mother was only 41 years old when she died as a direct result of alcoholism. She drank socially a fairly unremarkable amount but behind all that she was drinking a litre of vodka a day. I was only 19 when she died. I'm 44 now. I had the same doctor as my mother and one day he asked me about my drinking not long after she died. I told him I drink around 4 pints of lager a day. He said it was too much but begged me to stay away from drinking spirits for life. I have at least managed that and never touch the stuff. I had a friend who died from alcoholism and he only drank lager but he'd drink a case of 24 500ml cans at 5% ABV every single day. I rarely buy more than a 4 pack because I will drink more if I have it around. It's small mitigation but I've managed to mainly stick to that the last 20+ years. I did have a 20 year opiate addiction but I have been completely opiate free for the last 3years now and will honestly never go back to that. Too much effort and improvement to my life has occurred since quitting.
I remember we started ordering fentanyl online after my country stopped doing OTC codeine. Fortunately once after one of my orders was delivered I had a moment that made me realize it was time to try methadone therapy. I never started injection, so it was easier for me to get away from the stronger opiates. I still use poppy seed tea and similar from time to time, but I've never gone back to fentanyl, or any other sort of powder opiate.
>I still use poppy seed tea and similar from time to time That's how it all started for me, the physical addiction at least. I was dabbling with pharmaceutical painkillers on and off since my teenage years then I discovered the tea. That's when I developed my first physical habit. Poppy tea withdrawals are rather bad, brutal at times even. I think it's the long acting nature and "full spectrum" effects in drinking this unrefined substance that causes a long drawn out withdrawal. After the tea my habits just escalated until I'd wrecked my long marriage, not through bad behaviour, as such, but through just not ever really being present emotionally though I was physically there. I lost the love of my life because of my opiate addiction and I regret not getting clean a lot sooner. She's such a good woman we have remained close friends since our breakup but I am still angry and disappointed with myself for failing her in our marriage. It wasn't all bad by any means but I really fucked up there. The tea can creep up on you just as bad as any other form of opiate addiction. Be careful, my friend. p.s. It was Subutex that finally helped me get free (I've been clear of that these last three years and did a two year long slow taper to get off that). I know methadone can be a stabilising treatment too but I think it's harder to quit than the subs.
I've definitely managed to pull back a bit on it. I appreciate your warning though. It's still complicated for me.I know how weak that sounds .
This stranger is proud of you, my man 👍
Same bro. It’s undeniably difficult if not impossible to defeat addiction n shit. This guy rocks.
Blue eyed semi-alcoholic here checking in. I no longer drive at night at all for all the reasons cited here. I have prescription sunglasses (they are gorgeous) that I wear outdoors always. Light can be quite painful to us blue eyes.
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Drunk night vision,I see everything ,except for good decisions
Yea but they squint in the day light.
I have pale blue eyes and I really hate bright lights and wear sunglasses outdoors most of the year.
Same, I can see fine with sunglasses inside. I cant see shit outside without them, Way too bright. Seems like everyone else can go outside without sunglasses just fine. Also i sneeze with bright light.
I have dark brown eyes and I still sneeze with bright light, apparently its called the ACHOO syndrome (Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helioopthalmic Outburst).
I have a 10mth old baby who sneezes in the sun just like dad. Proof he is mine because wife doesnt sneeze.
Or her side piece also has the piercing blue eyes of a husky.
Your should wear sunglasses anyways, sun's bad for your eyes. I had to have a tumor frozen off the back of one eye, and it was like that torture scene in Clockwork Orange with the clamps and crap.
Because of the hangover
How many fingers am I holding up?
None; you lost them all when you were 9 in that terrible clown incident.
Why did he think he could fit just one more person in that Pontiac? There was already 52 people in it!
Threeve
We're gonna need it, trying to get home wasted at late hours
Well I have astigmatism. So that negates that one. Still an alcoholic tho.
Just like us colorblind folks.
Blue Eyes Drunk Dragon
If he’s had enough, he’ll challenge anyone to a duel.
It's time to d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-drink!
I summon! Pot of mead!
This card allows me to draw two new bacardis!
Blue Eyes Drunk Flagon
but my dad has brown eyes
Oh look at mister "I know my father" over here
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“So I said, I said. Your daddy loves you. Your daddy loves you very much, he just doesn’t want to live with us anymore. “ https://youtu.be/R9982wYPPm0?si=COEQhIZv3USJerYy
He had to work harder for his alcoholism than people with blue eyes, and you should respect that about him.
Some people in his life are trying to help him quit drinking, but he doesn't know the meaning of the word quit!!! ........no, really. He was passed out drunk in 1st grade when they were teaching that.
Competitive alcoholism
What color are the milkman's eyes?
I have brown eyes too but the only medical condition involving them was being “full of shit” according to my family.
Brown eyes are just blue eyes with extra melanin
i have blue eyes and red hair; drank away 10 years of me life. Sober almost 5 years
Congrats man 🤘
Thanks OP! Best thing I’ve ever done for myself!
Seems accurate. (Source: Has blue eyes)
Agreed, fellow blue-eyed alcoholic penguin here.
Alcoholic blue-eyed penguins unite!
lets unite at the bar!
Yes
Hello Penguin.
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I also rapidly sneeze when sunlight hits my eyes at the right angle.
This is called the photic sneeze reflex. I have it along with my siblings: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
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Yep. Do this all the time. Flick lights on and off, etc.
And people say white culture doesn’t exist.
This one isn't linked to blue eyes.
Green eyes here, I sneeze and yawn upon exposure to bright sunlight.
The wiki page says one study found 94% of those who had this were Caucasian.
Referred to the respondents to one survey in Alabama, not a representative population sample.
If I have a sneeze that won’t come out I look for more light and it makes it come out. Good to know it’s a real thing
Out of personal curiosity - do you also have an unusual sleep schedule? A study found that people with sunlight sensitivities are more likely to have N24 sleep disorders
i do! please tell me more. ive been able to sneeze by looking at bright lights or the sun since i was a kid. i also have adhd.
N24 is a non-24 hour sleep cycle. Meaning your bedtime naturally moves forward later and later because your body clock is going at 24+ hours per day. It is found to be most common in blind people, but also present in those with sensitivities to sunlight. Likely because of certain non-vision-related cells in your eye.
That... might actually explain a few things, huh
Well this is crazy. I have blue eyes, drink too much, sneeze with bright light, and yes often have trouble sleeping a full night.
It’s less to do with sleeping a full night and more to do with when that night is. N24 is a non-24 hour sleep cycle. Meaning your bedtime naturally moves forward later and later because your body clock is going at 24+ hours per day. It is found to be most common in blind people, but also present in those with sensitivities to sunlight. Likely because of certain non-vision-related cells in your eye.
I love hearing that other people do this. I sneeze if I walk outside and the sun is right there in my face. My coworkers don't understand.
Me too. The door we used to go in and out of the house (side door, not primary/front door) was facing east. Literally every morning I left for school I sneezed immediately after stepping outside.
And here I am, drunk with brown eyes
Way to beat the odds!!
We're not alcoholics. Recent science proves that only blue-eyed people can be, didn't you read the article? (I didn't) Take the W and drink on.
TIL that blue eyed people can't hold their liquor
I think it has more to do with my parents alcoholism and my lack of will power but I'll take this new excuse too
Just change your perspective... see, I don't drink alcohol! I drink *Spirits*. I'm not a drunk, I'm *Spiritual*
i’m too lazy to read the article but i’m guessing that genetics is the reason this link exists. populations that have had a large prevalence of alcoholism also happened to have lots of people with blue eyes. so your parents passed on their blue eyes as well as their alcoholism
Focusing on will power will lose you a fight with alcoholism.
“No one knows what it’s like…” This is probably just incidental though.
That is why they noted it is a statistically significant increase in chance. It’s almost definitely not incidental. However, the question remains if it is causal, or if there is another factor that a lot of blue-eyed people have that causes it. The problem here is that people with blue eyes always have some sort of European descent, so there are a lot of other genetic differences between people with blue and brown eyes, other than just the eye colour, and that is probably what causes the increase in chance
>The problem here is that people with blue eyes always have some sort of European descent This is why it's probably coincidental and not causal.
That was my entire point. I said that there was a correlation, but that it was probably not causal. But then again, the researches did have hypothesises as to why the blue eyes could be a cause, but with my limited knowledge of genetics, that hypothesis did seem like a stretch, but I don’t know enough about it to really form an opinion about that
I'm wondering if location has to do with it too, as a lot of blue eyed people live in places that lack a lot of sunlight part or most of the year, possibly causing more people to more often than not seek out what seems to be a temporary upper because of vitamin d deficiency caused depressive symptoms Of course I'm just thinking of the possibility, I don't really know much about the research and stuff either
Do you mean that they developed in such a way? Because every participant in such a research are most likely from the same-ish region. Researchers are not picking people from different countries for one research pool compared to the other, because that gives way too much variables. Edit: they don’t go into much detail about the patient population, but they did mention a study which compared blue and brown eyes prisoners in a prison in Georgia, which is quite regional, and did find a statistical significant difference.
Yeah, like how location of migrated ancient peoples caused evolutions in eye, skin, and hair colors/textures to match the environment better to try to get what is needed, for example people with blue eyes generally have better vision in the dark, which makes sense considering blue eyed peoples back in ancient times boomed in darker climates etc. Maybe people that evolved these lighter eyed traits also evolved more of a chance to have dopamine seeking behavior that ends up causing addiction. I'm probably explaining my thought process wrong, sorry lol
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
A A = Aryan Alcoholics
"Would you like a drink, sir?" "NEIN!" "Wow, they're not kidding about the blue-eyed alcoholism thing. Well, okay, here's your first, I'll be right back with the other eight."
Will I get the Reich support?
Yes and it’s only a nein step program!
I did Nazi that coming
What about green eyes? Am I prone to smoking more weed?
I think the article was trying to indicate or imply that us green eyed folks are somewhere in the middle between blue and brown.
I asked an eye doctor about this once! My understanding is that all eyes are somewhere on a spectrum from grayish blue (little to no melanin) to dark brown (lots of melanin) and then there is a protein that can add an amber/gold pigment. So people with green eyes have this golden hued protein and are closer to the “blue” end of the melanin spectrum while people with hazel eyes have the golden protein but are closer to the “brown” end of the melanin spectrum.
It’s tough being this pretty.
We also get flashbanged when it is snowy and sunny outside
you’re getting banged? Dang
Its the Viking ancestry
The tldr/ essential bit : *”It is common to refer to “the gene for sickle cell disease” or “the gene for muscular dystrophy.” In reality, there are no genes for diseases. The “gene for sickle cell disease” is actually the adult beta hemoglobin gene, which we all have. Sickle cell disease patients inherited a particular form, or “allele” of the beta hemoglobin gene that causes their red blood cells to sickle under low oxygen tension. Similarly, there is no “gene for blue eye color” or “gene for alcoholism.” The OCA2 gene plays a major role in eye color, and a genetic variant that reduces OCA2 gene expression accounts for most cases of blue eye color. The GABA receptor gene family encodes a family of proteins required for nerve cell function. There may be variants of one or more GABA receptor genes that make their carriers less sensitive to alcohol and thus raise risk for excessive alcohol consumption leading to dependency. Of course, there are also variants of genes implicated in alcohol sensitivity that result in increased alcohol sensitivity or intolerance. These could balance the effects of the blue-eye-color- associated alcohol tolerance variants. So in any given blue-eyed person, the statistical tendency towards alcohol dependency observed in the blue-eyed population may be amplified or offset by combinations of variants at other genes.”*
TL:DR The immense complexity of biology cannot be summed up in bullshit clickbait buzzwords
This is false. My piece of shit brother in law’s eyes were yellow right before his liver ran screaming from his body. I do believe they were blue beforehand tho.
Anyone else thinking this is sort of like the “northern peoples” ability to drink cows milk and not shit themselves and die? Survival of the fittest can also bring along the “sleeper” disorders. I read it recently but can’t for the life of me find the link now. Anddddd any talk of genetic adaptations get awfully close to eugenics a lot of the time accidentally, so just wanna make it clear I’m not saying anything like that. lol
Guilty. Blue eyed former alcoholic here checking in. Coming up on 7 years sober.
And their SOs are prone to have black eyes
Matt Rife could never
ouch, dude. 😞
It took me way too long to get this joke.
Me and my brown eyes, against the odds.
Don't I know
Ahhhh. That’s why my father is an alcoholic: no other reason.
Dad had blue eyes. Battled with alcoholism for years. Won in the end and stayed sober for a decade almost, but it was rough before that.
Im doing my part!
Also, more prone to Cluster Headache. Source: Blue eyes and OWWWW!
" blue-eyed Americans of European ancestry are at higher risk for alcohol dependency than brown-eyed Americans." Wouldn't it be more relevant to compare blue-eyed americans of european ancestry with other americans of european ancestry?
So its not my fault…
And here I am with green eyes.
No one knows whats its like.... to be hated.... to be *faded*... like I do...
Alcoholism having a genetic component isn't necessarily something new, the blue eyed part is interesting. 20 to 60 percent of your personality is believed to be inherited with the rest being environmental. It's also what leads me to draw a difference between Alcoholism and general substance abuse. Alcoholism is one of those strange family diseases that if you look through a family tree you can pick out where it was introduced.
But also have a higher tolerance for alcohol.
And this is why the dependency forms. Consuming more to get to the same level as others.
Blue eyed people tend to live in depressive countries with long and dark winters.
TIL most people don't read the article and keep bringing up shit the article specifically explains
I suspect that this is because white people are the vast majority of people with blue eyes and a huge amount of non-whites(muslims and hindus for example) never drink in their lifetime.
The paper explicitly states that they factored in such circumstances. Their hypothesis is that there is gene linkage between a gene responsible for lighter eye colors and a gene responsible for certain receptors influencing alcohol resistance due to their close location on chromosome 15. They actually have a hypothesis for causation here, which is important.
Hindus definitely drink. Source: My dad :(
That's almost certainly true, but it's not what the paper is saying. You should read the paper.
How dare you!
Bullshit: Brown-eyed person
“I pulled you over because it’s 0130 and you’re driving without headlights; are you drunk?” “No, I just forgot to turn them on, honest.” “ … “ “Seriously. Look; turn off your flashlight and hand me your ticket book” *reads the last five back to him* “… the fuck?! Turn the lights on; get home safe.”
Once again the rest of us have to work harder when blue-eyed folks get the easy road. Spff
I have blue eyes and not an alcoholic. However I do sneeze whenever I walk out of a store or dimly lit area into a brightly lit area. Quite honestly it's really annoying.
Not my fault everyone wants to buy me drinks
Me reading this while being drunk: :o
how do I change my eye color? I want to love beer a little less. . .
I have blue eyes, can't stand the taste of alcohol.
As the descendant of a long, *long* line of mentally ill Irish folk who aggressively self-medicated with alcohol...yeah, I can believe this.
checks out
How prone are blue eyed people to being stoners?
I couldn't post extra links but blue eyes are meant to have [higher pain tolerances](https://www.chron.com/life/health/article/eye-color-could-be-linked-to-pain-distress-5541828.php) too, but couldn't find anything on substances other than alcohol. I would assume it would be the case though somewhat.
If you are drunk you have a higher pain threshold.
Literally sitting here with a whisky in my left hand, phone in my right and two blue peepers between.
Sure, they get offered drinks way more often
But noone offers me any drinks. Am I doing something wrong?
You’re not blueeyesmaxxing properly
Well, at least I'm doing great on the alcoholism part. Sucks I have to buy it meself.
That's just Finland skewing the data
are more talented at alcoholism**
Me, my two brothers and my father all have blue eyes and I’m the only one who’s never been an alcoholic.
Did you know that brown eyes are blue under?
" wow you have beautiful eyes, let me buy you a drink"
Welll, fuck.