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Robin Nelson's avatar

I enjoyed this ! Well said.

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Margaret Honeysette's avatar

My sister has a son who is color blind to all colors. He was home alone watching TV when my sister got home one day. He was in grade school. She asked him why he didn't fix the colors on the screen. His answer was "we have a color TV?" She couldn't believe nobody knew. She asked how in the lower grades he always got good grades on the papers that said color the sky blue, the grass green etc. He said he always looked at the crayon labels and matched them to the colors the papers said to use. She has another son who doesn't see reds and greens. They found that out one night when they went to open house at his school. He told them to be sure a look at his Santa Clause picture. He said he put big red lips on him so they could tell his from all the others. He was with them but he wouldn't point it out. They said they couldn't find it. He took them right to it and said look, big red lips. There was Santa with big green lips. My son doesn't see reds and greens either. My dad was born with cataracts in both eyes and didn't see colors either. When he was in his twilight years he finally had them removed and he could ser colors for the first time. He was like a kid in the candy store. "What color is this, and this, and this etc. All my growing up years when he was doing electrical things at home we had to help him get the correct color wires hooked up. My favorite color is purple.

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