# Can Addison's desease really make you look African-American? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 21, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-addisons-desease-really-make-you-look-african-american/514625 "2009-10-21T16:48:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-addisons-desease-really-make-you-look-african-american/514625/1 "2009-10-21T16:48:04Z")
If it really over produces melanin I could see how maybe somebody who was Caucasian eventually looking like George Hamilton or even an East Indian, but could they actually be mistaken for an African-American? ---
**Author:** ![HorseloverFat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@HorseloverFat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HorseloverFat)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-addisons-desease-really-make-you-look-african-american/514625/2 "2009-10-21T17:09:50Z")
I’d argue yes, as a lot of people dont care about distinctions like east indian or pacific islander. They’re all black to them. I have Mediterranean roots and have been asked if I was a pacific islander, latino, asian, etc before. With a lot more melanin who knows what people would think I was. Perhaps east indian or half-black. [http://www-clinpharm.medschl.cam.ac.uk/pages/teaching/images/addisons.jpg](http://www-clinpharm.medschl.cam.ac.uk/pages/teaching/images/addisons.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-addisons-desease-really-make-you-look-african-american/514625/3 "2009-10-22T02:40:32Z")
What do [Bin Laden and JFK](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison%27s_disease#Famous_Addisonians) have in common…