random curiosity

[ratcreature]

I've been wondering about epicanthic folds after reading once again a line in an eye tutorial that they appear only on Asian eyes. I know that is not true, because my own eye corners have such a skin fold, though not an extreme one (here's a closeup photo of my own eyes, you can see the small folds on the inner corners). I realize they aren't *that* common with Caucasian eyes (a couple of times I was even teased as a kid), but obviously they happen as normal variation (and not just with genetic diseases).

Poll #9098 non-conformist eyes

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What are your eye corners like?

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my eyes have such epicanthic folds without any Asian ancestry
9 (33.3%)

my eyes look like expected (i.e. no folds, or folds only with the right kind of ethnicities)
18 (66.7%)

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[ratcreature]

That's interesting. I guess we are never exactly symmetrical, so that may happen. And it's good to have my feeling confirmed that such a fold isn't actually all that uncommon in European eyes after all.