Did you know that vampires exist?

Ok...for all vampire fans (even Twilight fans) - did you know that vampires exist? I stumbled upon a lot of people who were attracted to this idea of vampirism, but they had no idea that the vampirism is actually a disease and is called photosensitive...

porphyria. Nowadays is a rare disease, but it was widely spread some time ago (stories of vampires started out from this disease). The disease goes like this: when you are exposing your skin to sun (in case you have porphyria) some substances in your blood transform in some sort of poison. Those who suffer, if are exposed to sun for a long period, will die and their flesh will peel. Their teeth (canines) are longer and red because of that substance. They also need to have blood transfusion. Their skin is usually pale.
The only bad think is that they really don't look good at all - just google for an image.

P.S - please note that english is my 3rd language. I did my best at explaining this disease.

OMG WOW THANKS I DIDNT KNOW THAT AND SO WHAT ARE YOUR OTHER LANGUAGES

no they don’t exist and never have
a disease that few people have doesnt mean they suck your blood and are vampires either, they have nothing to do with vampires
I mean if someone was predisposed to having an exreemly thin body frame that makes them look very thin, that doesnt make them anorexic
a few hundred years ago there were people who went around killing people and drinking there blood
either straight from there body or from a cup
they usually mutilated and cut up the corpses as well
and did other things to them,
those people were considered vampires
nowadays the media has made up a bunch of bullsh*t to make them more appealing to both older people and teenage kids who latch on to anything that’s seems cool or hot looking
so they made up crap like
they turn into a bat
wear a cape
hate sunlight
have fangs
bite you on the neck
sleep all day
come out at night
are immortal
can fly
are all gothic looking
and now even more stupid things like
they change there eye colour
and have super speed, super strength and can climb trees
these are all things that little girls and boys will love, especially if there’s a hot guy in it they can all obsess over and want to date/have sex with
nowadays though there still are some delusional people who kill other people and drink there blood, or kids who drink there own blood
there are also vampire cults were idiot and uneducated kids drink each others blood, there own blood and re-use razorblades to cut themselves. they also do things like avoid sunlight, sleep all day, ect
bottom line though, they don’t exist and never have
delusional and sick people act like what the media portrays as them
and a lot of delusional kids become so obsessed they think/believe there real

I'm well aware of that condition, and I'm just happy you didn't go into a long rant about people who turn into bats and are immortal.

jaz, darling, you should read the question again, lol

I know all of these - I was just trying to say that nobody really knows that porphyria is a disease from which these vampire stories were started. It was a common disease and people used to drink animal's blood. King George III suffered from porphyria, and some of his descendants. It is supposed that Queen Erzebeth Bathory suffered from porphyria too (this is why she needed all that blood to look good).
The media really changed them into something they are not, but I was only talking about the disease, which is a very interesting one.

P.S - beside my native language which is the 1st, my second language was french (even if I suck)

ahh sorry, I seemed to have posted the answer I give to twillight obsessed fans wanting to become vampires!

It's a theory - she may have suffered because porphryia affects your mental health too, and you feel the urge to drink blood.
I don't like obsessed Twilight fans either

Actually, it isn't just modern media that gives a type of romance to Vampirism...the original novel, Dracula was written in 1897...having been written in the Victorian Era, it's not explicit like our more modern novels (and movies)...but there has always been a sexual and romatic inference when it comes to Vampires.

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the closest thing to a vampire youll ever get. is ah' bat. (:goodluck finding one! lmao

vampires ARE real. I can easily attest to it. They don't all suck blood, they don't all have an adversion to the sun, I don't know if they all hate garilc though, but all the ones I have met do.
I have been in close assosiation with vampires for a while and they are not all gothic, nor are they all pale. I have met a few with really good tans. mostly they just look like any regular old joe off the street, but there is alway somthing about them...the air of a well kept secret, age in the eyes of a young face, a keen mystery. sometimes these are such subtle traces that only other vampires can see them. Sometimes it takes even the vampire years to discover themselves