# What's your blood type?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-blood-type/561187>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 19, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-blood-type/561187 "2010-11-19T03:15:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-blood-type/561187/81 "2010-11-22T19:30:27Z")

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> [@Registered\_at\_Last](#):
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> Well, knowing that we have the rarest blood type … the population of those answering polls on blood types always seem to have an over-representation of AB- !

I noticed that too. I’m remembering mine from on my squid tags when I was in the Navy 40+ years ago. I could have it wrong. The RH factor, anyway.  
Here’s a chart  
[http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/medicine/blood-type.htm](http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/medicine/blood-type.htm)

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**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-blood-type/561187/82 "2010-11-22T20:42:22Z")

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I am AB+. My 2 sisters and I all have different blood types. I think one of my sisters has the same type as a parent but the +/- might not be the same.  
I like my blood type for the fact that I can be in the hospital and not deplete the stores of O- blood.  
I hate my blood type for the fact that I can’t help anyone in my family if they need it. It really really sucks and I hope it never comes up.  
I donated blood 2 or 3 times but I usually did platelets (my count was somewhere above 350k). I haven’t done it in a while because of 1 very bad experience but I’ve been thinking of getting back into it.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-blood-type/561187/83 "2010-11-22T23:05:44Z")

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> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#):
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> Yeah…I misread the little gene chart in my head. I just \*really \*wanted to say something about \*\*GuanoLad \*\*'s mom. 😉

Why I oughta…!

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