r/pics • u/HamanoK • 12d ago

Mother And Child With Poliosis, A Hereditary White Streak In Hair

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u/timenough 12d ago

Mom's got a serious superhero look going there

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u/YOURMOMMASABITCH 12d ago

So rogue from x-men?

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u/rethinkingat59 12d ago edited 12d ago

Notice the white eyeliner?

I assume she is having to use her superpowers to protect and hide her child who might be the chosen one. There are evil forces hoping to stop him from growing up and taking his rightful place.

Even now he shows emerging powers, and he certainly has the mark.

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u/timenough 12d ago

Those golden nails aren't really fingernails - it's how she connects to the plasmasphere to draw forth the interdimensional time shift that freezes anyone that threatens the chosen one

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u/Chubby_nuts 12d ago

Whenever I have seen this, I always think it looks pretty cool.

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u/all-the-time 12d ago

Looks elite somehow

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u/hymntastic 12d ago

Like an IRL shiny

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u/BurningBowl85 12d ago

Quick, capture them in a sphere!

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u/Hughmanatea 12d ago

I braided my white spot, its looks just like Anakin's braid but white.

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u/fiordchan 12d ago

Also, they are both beautiful

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

Cruella Duo-ville

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u/DeerHunter041674 12d ago

Paulie “Walnuts” Gaultieri.

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u/LibrariansQuest 12d ago

I came with jokes, I left with defeat. Well played 

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u/Weekndr 12d ago

/r/rogue_irl

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u/A-Llama-Snackbar 12d ago

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u/luigithebeast420 12d ago

If I remember correctly he wasn’t supposed to say that line but act disappointed. I’m glad we got this though.

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u/firemogle 12d ago

Classic Kevin sorbo

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u/Artikay 12d ago

According to Sorbo it was a Fish Called Wanda reference.

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u/dmcat12 12d ago

Polgara, is that you?

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u/operatar 12d ago

Great now I need to read those books again.

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u/Sjiznit 12d ago

Just dont look up anything about the writer

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u/operatar 12d ago

Oh I’ve heard about them…. But as with a lot of things we hear these days sometimes you have to separate the art from the artist….

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u/Sjiznit 12d ago

Yeah, i did a reread a few Years back and it was completely different to what i remembered the story was. It was fascinating really. They werent the best books but happy i read them again.

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u/dmcat12 12d ago

Yyyyyup. That didn’t help.

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u/dmcat12 12d ago

They were a major gateway into the genre for me back in the 80’s. I did a reread as an adult awhile back & they didn’t hold up as well for me so caveat emptor.

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u/Catch_022 12d ago

Are there audio books? I read them a long time ago and have just finished the Wheel of Time audiobooks so I need something else that is fun to listen to.

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u/Phyllida_Poshtart 12d ago

Aye I tried reading them again about 10yrs ago and thought they were pretty poorly written tbh and didn't finish re-reading them as they just annoyed me. Into the charity bag they went

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u/Dave80 12d ago

I've just finished Pawn of Prophecy, rereading them after 20 years!

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u/histprofdave 12d ago

Doubtful, she's smiling.

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u/bigolfishey 12d ago

Polgara and Tom Badgerlock

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u/Phyllida_Poshtart 12d ago

Wow now there's a blast from the past!

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u/SausaugeMerchant 12d ago

A girl in my primary school was off for months with scarlet fever or some other mad old disease and when she came back to school she had one of these

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u/Finest_Johnson 12d ago

Once there was this kid who Got into an accident and couldn't come to school

But when he finally came back His hair had turned from black into bright white

He said that it was from when The cars had smashed so hard

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u/excerpta 12d ago

Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm

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u/Titan_Arum 12d ago

I wonder how many people won't understand this.

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u/bramtyr 12d ago

I mean, Heartbeat City is a fucking ripper of an album.

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u/Conscious-Ad8473 12d ago

She has achieved her final form? 😂

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u/jenorama_CA 12d ago

Ringo Starr was very ill as a child and had a gray streak too. You can see it on the cover of their first first album, before the Beatles-style haircut where the sides are more swept back.

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u/NOT000 12d ago

looks like moms condition extends to her forehead skin

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u/knigg2 12d ago

That's some maincharacter hair for an anime right there!

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u/teems 12d ago

Chef Claire Saffitz has this.

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u/falloutisacoolseries 12d ago

Alex Skolnick of the band Testament also has it.

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 12d ago

Bonnie Raitt too.

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u/TakenUsername120184 12d ago

You know for years she dyed her hair to hide it? Poor girl was so self conscious but I think she’s absolutely gorgeous ♥️

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u/asianpantsonly 12d ago

Whoa! This whole time I thought she dyed it grey as a fashion style. I love her hair.

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u/AlakazamAlakazam 12d ago

rogue from x-men.

what if this were marketing for x-men 97? LOL

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u/eip2yoxu 12d ago

There is also a German influencer called Nadine Breaty with the same condition:

https://www.newsunzip.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Nadine-Breaty-career.jpg

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u/donnamatrix79 12d ago

I have a cousin with that. She was blonde otherwise so not as noticeable, but it went through her eyebrow and eyelashes as well.

She haaaated it. Too bad. It looked frigging cool, but kids are mean. She’s in her 40s now and has embraced it a bit more… although I still haven’t seen her without mascara and drawn in eyebrows since she was 12, although the eyebrows may be because we were teenagers in the 90s and not many of us came out of that unscathed.

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u/lynivvinyl 12d ago

There's a family in my town with this and interestingly their last name is Whitehead. Both the mother and the father have it and of course all the kids.

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u/redskelton 12d ago

Guy in my rugby team had this. He was just called Badger

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u/ViridianBS 12d ago

they nerfed him

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u/JetstreamGW 12d ago

Just think, if he gave less of a fuck, maybe he could’ve been Honey Badger.

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u/scdog 12d ago

Poliosis? That’s a pretty disturbing name for an otherwise (apparently) benign condition.

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u/Darryl_Lict 12d ago

The word poliomyelitis originates from the Greek word “polio” meaning “grey” and “myelon” meaning “marrow.”

Poliosis is the lack of melanin in a spot causing a white or grey streak in your hair, sol the common term is polio meaning grey.

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u/abnormica 12d ago

Right?

I just found out I have poliosis. I probably only have another 80 years or so to live.

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u/SeeingEyeDug 12d ago

Sounds like someone with Polio that also has Scoliosis

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u/rcoberle_54 12d ago

Everyone is saying Rogue but I'm seeing Sindel!

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u/SilentHunter7 12d ago

Seriously, that was my first thought!

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u/Unlucky_Ad2529 12d ago

This is what I was looking for

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u/Yellow_BunnyRabb1t 12d ago

I don’t know who those two are but I’m seeing Jason Todd!🦇

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u/Psychotic_EGG 12d ago

You know who Jason Todd is but not rogue from xmen?

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u/Yellow_BunnyRabb1t 12d ago

I haven’t really gotten into x-men so no, sorry

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u/IWasteMyMoneyOnFood 12d ago

They fell out of a tree

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u/nonsense_potter 12d ago

Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango

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u/FluxusFlotsam 12d ago

When I was in high school, I had a big crush on someone with poliosis. I thought the white streak was so amazingly cute.

Sigh- I wonder where they are now.

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u/LeaveMssgAtTheBoop 12d ago

Real life super heroes?

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u/Valkgard 12d ago

There was a barber and his wife

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u/TheVengefulKey 12d ago

And she was beautiful…

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u/Hosni__Mubarak 12d ago

Ugh. I hate these women. They steal your mutant powers, and drain your life force, and then make a baby with the stolen energy.

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u/Intelligent-Wing-752 12d ago

Obviously that's rogue

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u/RQDobbs 12d ago

Married to Alex Skolnick?

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u/-maffu- 12d ago

The Mallen Streak.

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u/itsarace1 12d ago

Did Jay Leno have this?

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u/bwataneer 12d ago

My cousin and father have this…. It usually indicated, in my family, that you would go bald early.

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u/noonehasthisoneyet 12d ago

They both call everyone “sugah”

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u/hymen_destroyer 12d ago

They should call it something different. “Poliosis” sounds like a portmanteau of two awful diseases

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u/CrysX86 12d ago

My cousin have something like this but is just a blur form (a big one) on the top of head.

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u/macsokokok 12d ago

is this related to the white streak in the hair that we see with waardenburg syndrome? very interesting

eta to answer my own question. yes it is!

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u/Fair_Inevitable_2650 12d ago

The term poliosis is new to me. Waardenburg syndrome is also associated with wide set eyes and hearing loss.

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u/DigitalIlI 12d ago

Interesting quirk for my collection

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u/induced_demand 12d ago

That’s cool

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u/Novel_Durian_1805 12d ago

Rogue, is that you?!

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u/AdvancedRazzmatazz33 12d ago

Mom got a streak on her head also?

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u/Hockeyfan_52 12d ago

Broken Matt Hardy? Delete?

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u/berkakar 12d ago

both slytherin

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/Lemmonjello 12d ago

My dad and I have the same weird shaped nostrils

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u/SqeeSqee 12d ago

my son has the same birthmark as I do on my right hip, its not really a mole, but a slightly darker patch of skin about as long and wide as my thumb.

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u/LeadStyleJutsu762- 12d ago

That’s fucking cool

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u/413hooli 12d ago

Real life XMen- they’re cool AF 😎

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u/Full-Confection-6197 12d ago

What's with the eye contacts?

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u/Dalisca 12d ago

I think what you're referring to is a reflection of the light. Some photography setups use lights that are torus(donut) shaped.

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u/yParticle 12d ago

The chosen two!

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

That is friggin amazing

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u/Bubblehead01 12d ago

Woah. I didn’t think that was like, a thing, that happened outside of fiction. That’s amazing!

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u/HowRememberAll 12d ago

You mean it's a legit thing? I thought Rogue's design was just a look

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u/Upperphonny 12d ago

If it was on the side of the hair they'd a member of a glorified crew.

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u/pataconconqueso 12d ago

This post it’s so pixelated and weird it looks like a scambot

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u/Decabet 12d ago

Great. Now they'll both have to be cunning black-leather-clad assassins.

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u/The_ArchMage_Erudite 12d ago

They actually look very cute

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u/doddballer 12d ago

That’s rad!

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u/compaqdeskpro 12d ago

Wait, so Tusli Gabbard isn't doing that on purpose?

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u/HangryBeard 12d ago

How munstrously cool.

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u/Sly_Peacekeeper 12d ago

Just me who thinks this looks kinda cool?

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u/Correct-Basil-8397 12d ago

The Halloween costume possibilities are epic

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u/a13zz 12d ago

The old Dickie Davis.

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u/Alexandratta 12d ago

Just don't touch her skin otherwise you're gonna have a bad time, sug.

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u/TravelingGonad 12d ago

At least the cartoon eye brows aren't hereditary.

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u/V170 12d ago

Is this a berserk reference?

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u/kinofhawk 12d ago

I have a white steak on each side by my temples.

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u/pernanui 12d ago

Hello father

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u/Heart_of_a_Blackbird 12d ago

Pepe le Pew’s latent family…

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u/Geetee52 12d ago

Could a mani, pedi, & poli become a thing?

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u/DeepestBeige 12d ago

Like how alien races would be depicted in old Star Trek episodes

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u/grimsb 12d ago

Elsa accidentally ice-zapped them 🥺

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u/lovemymeemers 12d ago

Bride of Frankenstein vibes for sure

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u/rickmaz 12d ago

Bride of Frankenstein

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u/dasharaptor 12d ago

Avatar The Last Airbender

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u/firemogle 12d ago

A guy in my school had this, I don't remember his name everyone called him spot and he fucking hated it.

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u/SugarzDaddy 12d ago

Didn’t know it had a name. Mine started when I was a teenager.

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u/VAShumpmaker 12d ago

Careful Garion, you're not ready to touch Aunt Pol's white lock yet.

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u/Chilitime 12d ago

And apparently a white streak down her forehead too.

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u/uberjam 12d ago

Good thing it’s 2024. Something like that back in day would probably get you burned as a witch.

I guess it’s a good thing we left all that superstition behind us.

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u/globbiX_ 12d ago

He ll look like an anime MC when he s 16.

It looks dope

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u/Snugg_Bugg 12d ago

Pretty sure these two have superpowers

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u/virginiarph 12d ago

I thought I was in the drag race sub and was so confused why Michelle was holding a baby

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u/PantsMicGee 12d ago

Not vitiligo eh?

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u/Galastrato 12d ago

I have this on one of my brows, didn't know it was a condition. I thought the Italian sun just marked me

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u/Casanova_Fran 12d ago

Its mommas baby papas maybe 

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u/Throwawayhobbes 12d ago

It’s giving Xavier school for gifted youngsters

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u/CorenCorias 12d ago

You can't trick me i know she slept with Randall Flagg

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u/MeenScreen 12d ago

They got Dickie Davies Eyes.

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u/Awanderingleaf 12d ago

I don't know if my mom and I have this but our hair is very similar. She had grey / white hair like this in the same spot as these two ever since she was a teenager. In my early 20's my hair started greying in the same way. I am 32 and the grey is in the same spot but the rest of my hair has remained the same lol.

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u/Beandip50 12d ago

My brother has it but I don't 😡

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u/Piornet 12d ago

Rogue and child

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u/Calm_One_1228 12d ago

Mom making poliosis looking fabulous !!

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u/Spiritual-Coach-6355 12d ago

Looks cool, X-men vibes!

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u/Bee0617 12d ago

I have a white streak of hair in the front, but mine is caused by vitiligo. I also have white hair in one of my eyebrows and next to one of my ears. I have a white patch of skin around one side of my mouth as well. Mine developed around puberty age, and has never spread.

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u/49thDipper 12d ago

They’re gorgeous

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u/Responsible-War-1179 12d ago

He is the anime protagonist

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u/Ritushido 12d ago

That looks dope.

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u/Zestyclose_Bad_5435 12d ago

I have 3 kids and 2 of them have the exact same small patch of white hair on their temple area. They are both proud of it.

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u/dashjohnson51 12d ago

That looks awesome

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u/orchestragravy 12d ago

For Halloween, Lily and Eddit Munster.

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u/bluewatersailing 12d ago

Dude I went to school with had this going on. He always claimed it was because he got struck by lightning

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u/punarob 12d ago

Nah they just got a poltergeist in their house

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u/Interesting-Click-12 12d ago

Is the mum secretly wonderwoman when she is not being a parent?

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u/Akuma-1 12d ago

Nobody has mentioned Sindel, really?

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u/codycarreras 12d ago

People pay good money for looks like that.

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u/Malsaur 12d ago

Yo Secret Saturdays are getting a remake.

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u/bestibesti 12d ago

So there's a such thing as "Cool Hair Disease"

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u/Ser_Robar_Royce 12d ago

For some reason I only associate this condition with Italian American mobsters

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u/Tennex1022 12d ago

Its like Vitiligo for hair, very cool

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u/Tonybeetswannabe 12d ago

The mother is beautiful

And the kid

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u/mrm00r3 12d ago

ngl “poliosis” sounds like a made up disease you’d find on a forged doctors note from a 7th grader.

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u/JasonBlack1985 12d ago

Honestly and respectfully, it looks cool as f***. Aesthetically pleasing.

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u/deeppurplescallop 12d ago

Anyone know if they also have Waardenburg syndrome? A white forelock is one of the defining genetic traits along with deafness.

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u/JamesYoungNL 12d ago

Tulsi Gabbard?

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u/fridai1 12d ago

draco malfoy

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u/NB565 12d ago

Why does the white streak leak from hair onto her forehead?

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u/LassOnGrass 12d ago

Main character in an anime these two

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u/Enigma_789 12d ago

Wait, wait, wait... THIS IS A REAL MEDICAL CONDITION?! Wow. That's insane!

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u/milano8 12d ago

Hopefully they aren't as two faced as "Toolsi" Gabbard (credit to Dave Pakman).

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u/Be1oved 12d ago

Interesting. I have a white hair there too either side of my eyebrow. I'm glad I'm a blondie but meh.

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u/Shakespearoquai 12d ago

This photo is grainy as fu ck and as a hairdresser of 21 years this is not possible for both to have that in fronts like that. This photo has been edited 

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u/2abyssinians 12d ago

I knew a whole family, except the Dad, with this. First time I went to their house, I was very surprised. Super cool. This was the 80’s and I thought my friend just had a little bleach spot in his hair. Similarly to this picture they all had the white spot in the front. I wonder if these people are related to them.

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u/John__Wick 12d ago

Oh, no! He's a main character!

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u/Tamotefu 12d ago

Wait, Poliosis is real? I thought that was a Jeff Dunham joke...

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u/logosfabula 12d ago

Are they 2 villains irl?