This is how we will get sicker and sicker.

Instead of the 50 stars.

i’m a tetrachrome, and there r 2 shades of red, so close most ppl cant tell the difference. 1 is my fave color and the other is the visual equivalent of fingernails on a blackboard.
those flags r that red. a correct american flag has a carmine red, not a fucking cad red.

How did you come to know this about yourself?

One of my eyes sees blues and greens more brightly, and the ther reds and yellows more intensely, if I am out in bright sunlight. I noticed this when I was in elementary school while hanging upside down by my knees from a tree branch.

I don't remember which eye does which, and at 74, I'm not about to repeat the tree stunt to see if I can replicate the experience - .

dont recall the exact length of the test, but it was comparing very close colors. at least 50 swatches. passed w flying colors. pun intended.
but i am/was a painter, and yeah, it drives me nuts trying to find the perfect red. esp as they r very hard to tell in fluorescent light. drives me nuts in the thrift store, too. it’s the diff btn a yellow based red and a blue based red, a dividing line on the color wheel. so the blue light can fool even me.

my youngest is apparently a chimera. among other weirdness, she’s a tetrachrome in 1 eye, and almost color blind in the other. also her thumbs dont match.

(we had that in the lab )

My mom used to paint (oils) as a hobby while we were little. She had a wood storage box of Grumbacher oils and a big easel (with wheels), plus a bunch of stretched blank canvases (different sizes) that were ready for use. She took some lessons in palate knife painting from a neighbor. I was always fascinated at her ability to use color (not just painting but also with flower arrangements and display of the seasonal decorations that she would buy and pull out of the closet throughout the year). She used to complain about not being able to capture "perspectives" (like 3-D dimensions, etc) though, something that my dad was good at.

i do have 1, cuz i’ve done that, too. it’s for telling other ppl what color something shd b.
but i do see finely enough to tell 1 swatch from another. or at least, i did last time i checked, but i’m starting to get cataracts. yuck.

it was for describing tablet coating/capsule colors.

...over the past 5 years. Started out as a customer. One of the first times I was in his shop, I was admiring a rug new to his collection. He was writing a description of it, and was puzzling over what to call the predominant shade of red in the design. I said that it looked like pomegranate seeds. He immediately decided to use that term, and explained that pomegranate juice was one of the natural substances used to dye the yarns from which some rugs are woven.

He has since often asked for my ideas on what color names to use in his write ups, which I find very flattering. I have the giant size box of Crayola crayons and a big box of their colored pencils that I take with me to his shop when he calls on me to help choose color names. It's an entertaining challenge, and something totally different from my long peds NP career.

All I see are the flags flying beside the British flag and the red on both hanging from a distance look close enough to be identical...