Interesting, Typically Unknown Facts about Williams Syndrome

• Blue and green-eyed children with Williams syndrome can have a prominent "star-burst" or white lacy pattern on their iris. Notice how there is one color and then another seems to have exploded inside of it?  
  
• Many are very musical and are “touched by music in a different way than the general population”
• “Williams Syndrome is commonly used in the United States, while Williams-Beuren Syndrome is widely used in Europe," but they’re the same thing
•  Most of those affected are very outgoing, friendly, and talkative
• No two individuals have the exact same symptoms or disabilities 
•  Most have extreme anxieties-or phobias- or are easily agitated.
• By the time the person impacted is middle-aged, they will most likely have some sort of diabetes as well as significant hearing and vision loss.
•  Many individuals have a problem eating, and are then skinny and unable to gain weight.