Anyway, my eyes are not just one color: my right eye is two colors, and my left eye is three colors. I just recently found out there is a name for something like this. There is complete Heterochromia Iridum, which is where both eyes are two completely different colors, and there is partial Heterochromia Iridum, which is where the same eye has multiple colors (this is the one I have). Here's a link to the Heterochromia Iridum Wikipedia page.
For legal documents and things of that nature, I say my eye color is hazel. My right eye is hazel and green, and my left eye is hazel, green, and brown. If there happened to be an option on legal documents for this, I would definitely state all my colors, but I can only choose one. Is there an option and I just don't know about it yet?
Here are pictures of my eyes:
This picture is from 2010 (I had a friend do my makeup for an event at
school). You can just barely see the 2 colors in my right eye (I can try
to take more pictures if requested).
This picture is my left eye. I took this at the end of 2013.
I asked my parents if they remember when my eyes started to change color, and my mom said I was about a year and a half old, while my dad said he couldn't even tell me the color of my eyes...sounds about right. My mom didn't know if I would get blue eyes like my dad, or brown eyes like her and my bother. Turns out I got neither. Heterochromia Iridum is usually genetic, but I don't know any other person in my family with this. It can also be caused by injury to the eye, but I have only had a couple injuries to my eyes, and they were after my eyes changed colors (the handlebar from my bike hit one of my eyes when I was 4, and I had pink eye when I was 21).
Just because I'm sure someone will ask (sarcastically or not), or someone may be too afraid to ask: other than the color, my eyes are just like other eyes. In my case, I'm not color blind at all. I'm sure there are other cases where the person has partial or full colorblindness. I don't see weird things, and I can see perfectly fine when I have my glasses on. I do have really bad astigmatism in both of my eyes, but I'm positive it's not from this; my eyes are just really bad.
Growing up, I hated the color of my eyes. I didn't know why mine had so many different colors, and I just wanted to have one color like everyone else. Now that I have grown up, I have learned to appreciate the rarity and the beauty of my eyes. What I have is not common, and I am now proud of my eye colors.
Do you have Heterochromia Iridum? Do you have something else cool about your eyes? Let me know in the comments below, I would love to talk to you!
XOXO
Jen
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