"Is your baby an albino?"



Visitor and 1 1/2 year old son were asked this by a COLLEGE PROFESSOR. No, the little boy is not an albino, and yes, that's an inappropriate question.

Hahaha I laugh, because I have been asked a similar question about myself...

"An albino."

"A what?"

An albino. You know."

"A whaaaaat?"

Keep going "A what" and looking totally confused and befuddled, like they are speaking a foreign language.

Isn't an Albino a genetic rejection of Copper in the blood that results in a lack of pigmentation in the skin and hair?

Unless your kid is unusually white or pale, I think this professor might have meant a transracial child of black/white?

"No, he was born in [country of birth]."

Not my kid!

The little boy was very, very fair with white blond hair.

The professor has no social skills. Another thing we have all noticed about this guy is his inability to whisper. He talks in a loud voice no matter what the situation.

Who asks that, seriously? People can be so inappropriate!

I'd bet $20 the professor you're talking about has Asperger's Syndrome.

Very blonde, blue-eyed, Scandinavian looks. Back then we'd chalk it up to ignorance. NOt sure what to call it now.

My son, who is normally blond and fair anyway, was anemic and exceptionally pale around the age of 9 months. It got picked up during some routine bloodwork that they do at that age. I had thought he looked pretty pale, but it was summertime and I was keeping him out of the sun, so I second-guessed myself and thought he looked lighter because the rest of us were darker.

Nobody asked if he was an albino, though. :-(

My grandmother, the day she met her half-Native American infant grandchild for the first time: "Oh, just look at the darling Lamanite child!"

I have knowm albinos. The trait is recessive and is in decline. One albino was, indeed, black by race but clearly negroid and had a twin without the abinoism. My wife is extremely light and has albino ancestry in a family appropriately named "White". If the professor were knowledgible he would have been able to determine race and the trait by more observation. As I noted above, the albino trait can exist across racial lines.