I am colorblind. It's not something terrible, just harmless defective wiring in my brain. I've learned to deal with it in my everyday life, I go a long time now between color mistakes. I can see the colors, or at least I think I can, but it is sometimes hard for me to identify them. An analogous explanation I give people is that they can see a car, they know there's a car there, they can like the way the car looks, and they might even have an idea of what car it is but when it comes time to identify it they can't determine exactly what car it is. That is my relationship with color.
Life is what we perceive it to be, even color vision is just our brains perception of different wave lengths of light. So I'm left here wondering sometimes what the world truly looks like. Color blindness most commonly affects green, red, and blue. So what does the sky really look like? I see it as blue, but being color blind for as long as I can remember, my faculties for describing or analyzing color has been severely compromised. I'll probably never have an answer for this, but at the same time, others will probably never see the world as I see it. My rods and cones are all messed up; mostly my cones.
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