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Colour Blindness
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Also known as: Achromatopsia · colour vision deficiency · colour perception disorder · dyschromatopsia · red-green blindness · Daltonism · red-green weakness · inability to distinguish colours · colour blindness · protanopia · deuteranopia
Your Body Is Speaking
The world around you has colours. Red, green, blue — a spectrum that most people take for granted. But your eyes translate this spectrum differently. Certain tones blur together, others are missing entirely. What others perceive as vividly distinct looks the same to you. Medicine explains this through receptors in the retina that don't function as intended — genetically determined, congenital, unchangeable.
And yet it is worth asking a different question: What does it mean when a person cannot perceive the diversity of the world in its full scope? When their visual system stops making certain distinctions — as though it has decided that some nuances are not relevant? Colour blindness affects the eyes. But it touches a deeper theme: the willingness to truly see the world in all its shades.
Because seeing is never merely an optical process. It is a stance.
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