Teacup Guy and I saw Little Miss Sunshine the other day and had a spoilery question: Is it realistic that the teenage boy would not know he was colorblind at the age of 16?
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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sj - Aug 24, 2006 2:03:50 pm PDT #3693 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
bon bon - Aug 24, 2006 2:13:46 pm PDT #3694 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I could swear that I heard of someone who didn't find out until they were like 30. I may have heard this here.
Jesse - Aug 24, 2006 2:15:46 pm PDT #3695 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I seems really unlikely, but we had a hand-wave that he knew he was colorblind, but not that it would screw his chances of becoming a pilot. I realize that doesn't exactly work with what happened in the movie.
Scrappy - Aug 24, 2006 2:15:50 pm PDT #3696 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
SJ - Yes. My DH is colorblind and didn't find out until he was around that age. There is no reason for a colorblind person to assume there's something odd in the colors they see, because just like everyone else, "red" looks different from "yellow"--it's just that for them, both those colors look more like different versions of gray.
Jesse - Aug 24, 2006 2:16:29 pm PDT #3697 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Really, Robin? Fascinating!
bon bon - Aug 24, 2006 2:19:05 pm PDT #3698 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Incidentally, Little Miss Sunshine is excellent for people who are wondering what it would look like to spend two days driving about twenty minutes away from my parents' house.
Scrappy - Aug 24, 2006 2:19:55 pm PDT #3699 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yes, Cowgirl, he found out in art class in high school, when they were painting portraits. The teacher praised his surrealistic color choices, which he thought were realistic.
Jesse - Aug 24, 2006 2:29:13 pm PDT #3700 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I guess when you're younger, no one criticizes your color choices? See, this is what I don't get -- there was never a time in like 4th grade when he (generic -- I believe it about your HUSBAND) colored a tree pink instead of green? And by "4th grade" I mean old enough to know better, not like a 3 year old.
bon bon - Aug 24, 2006 2:32:20 pm PDT #3701 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Presumably he colored it the same color he saw everyone else coloring it.
Jesse - Aug 24, 2006 2:38:07 pm PDT #3702 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I guess.