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.
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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Jesse - Aug 24, 2006 2:15:46 pm PDT #3695 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Scrappy - Aug 24, 2006 2:41:06 pm PDT #3703 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Most colorblind people can see some blue--so green looks different than blue. However, green and brown and purple often look similar. I think when you are really little, odd color choices are expected, and by the time you reach 5 or 6, you can identify a lot of colors based on experience and guesswork. You don't know that other kids don't see what you are seeing when you look at a box of crayons, so there's no reason to ask about it. If I tasted "spicy," for example, in a way that is different than everyone else, I'd have no way of knowing that. I'd only know to call that flavor spicy when I encountered it just like everyone else.
Scrappy - Aug 24, 2006 2:43:24 pm PDT #3704 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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