#0097 | mine eyes deceive me
Submitted by Joseph in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Here’s Joseph’s story:
“They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what happens when those eyes don’t see too well?
Like many of the male relatives in my extended family, I was born color blind. This meant not realizing there were beautiful red flowers in the green bushes in front of the house where I grew up until the day someone realized I couldn’t see them and pointed them out to me.
I didn’t feel cheated per se, but I did become aware of a whole spectrum of visual experience others take for granted from which I have been excluded. As the saying goes, “perception is reality,” and the truth is that my version of reality is lacking in texture and detail.”
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