I have moved my comments to chat as they are no longer at all lace related.
My partner is colour blind, and is the first person I had ever met who is. His "affliction" doesn't work at all as I had always thought of colour blindness - if I'd thought of it much at all. I suppose if I had wondered about it, it would have been in relation to interesting problems such as if someone can't see the difference between red and green, what do they see? Do they both look red, or both green, or brown which is what you get if you mix them - in which case surely they'd be red/ green/brown colour blind. Any way, so long as colours are bright and clear he can see them all. Where his problems start are with more subtle borders. He has a global "dark" colour which covers black, dark grey, brown, blue, red and green. This means he doesn't have a clue which is his navy suit and which is the grey. In fact, he thought they were the same colour (dark). He can tell if his socks are pairs or not, so he must see a difference between black and navy, but still can't see navy as a blue. I guess this is like the back and white television thing. At the other end he can't see very pale colours as different from white, particularly pink. This has to be a definite colour before he can see it. We also have some conversations at cross purposes when, for example, I am talking green and he is talking brown but this only happens when it is khaki/olive green so I can understand where his confusion is. However, he would probably maintain that they are really khaki/olive brown as he can see them as clearly different from emerald green. Since I have known him I have found out there are actually a lot of men who have this colour blindness at the edges - often not as strongly as Richard but the "is it pink or white" especially seems to ring true with quite a lot of men. Jacquie To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
