Albinoism

The degeneration called albinoism has a remarkable influence upon the hair, destroying its coarse, nappy, wooly appearance, and converting it into fine, long, soft, silky, curly threads. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)

Why not try to correlate it to something like albinoism, which while similarly “broken” from a purely biological perspective carries no moral stigma? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Generally speaking, my complexion being somewhere between the spectrum of Julianne Moore and albinoism, I am not a tanner. ❋ Jay (2007)

Also within our species we have dwarfism, putitary giantism, albinoism, and thousands of other variants that are noticeable. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As Jagreen Lem had emphasised, without the blade he was less than half a man, for his albinoism weakened him. ❋ Moorcock, Michael (1963)

Among the higher animals, albinoism and melanism may, as I have already stated, be considered as analogous facts; and I met with one case of a bird, a species of Lory (Eos fuscata), clearly existing under two differently coloured forms, since I obtained both sexes of each from a single flock, while no intermediate specimens have yet been found. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

[Warning: side effects may include late-onset albinoism, increased risk of liburuls, and John Birch Syndrome] ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had never known that crayfish could be kept as pets, nor that the blue coloration occurs naturally in some species as a mutation similar to albinoism.