Seeing colors differently

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I

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see fewer shades of color than most

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people do so normal people see a million

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colors I may see as many as a hundred

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million my name is Wendy I'm a producer

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at CNN and I am colorblind my name is

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Maureen Seberg I'm a tetrachromats and

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I'm an author tetrachromacy is the

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presence of a fourth kun class in your

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retina

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if I keep naming my invisible colors

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maybe I'll have my own Crayola box one

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day when I was in kindergarten my

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teacher called my parents because I was

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coloring the leaves of my trees and the

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trunks of my trees the same color

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because I couldn't really see the

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difference between green and brown the

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only time it was ever overwhelming is a

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paint contractor came to my house and

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brought no fewer than 32 samples before

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I was satisfied that it was a true beige

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when I pick out clothes that's hard I

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have been known to buy the outfit that

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the mannequin is wearing because I know

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that that goes together you don't want

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to go clothing shopping with me because

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the salespeople tell me but it matches

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and I can only look at them

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sympathetically and keep looking I never

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think like oh