Doll_Fin
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Anchor: As I previously stated, curiosity is ALWAYS better than ignorance so I'm happy to try to answer your questions as best as I can.
My particular situation is extremely unusual, as most of the time, the world looks like a black and white movie. I do see some bright colors under the right lighting conditions, but for the most part, it's just varying degrees of lighter and darker shades. As for art, I usually just looked at the labels to see what the colors were and let my imagination do the rest. I probably created some pretty um, unique drawings. I remember playing with watercolor paints, which are usually NOT labeled so my choices were always totally random there. I wish I still had some.
The type of red/green color blindness WreckChick describes seems to be the most common form, but all types of color blindness are much more rare in women than in men. I've even had people accuse me of lying about being color blind, saying it was "impossible" for a woman to be this way. Go figure.
WreckChick; Laura and Duane are very old, dear friends of mine and we go back a LONG time (even before they were a couple). When they moved down there and took over at Admiralty, they encouraged me to come down for quite some time, but life just kept getting in the way until last year when I finally got the chance. Now I am sorry I waited so long! I think they'll be the first to tell you that the main concern for someone like me is that I can read my gauges, read hand signals and keep track of my buddy, which never seemed to be a problem. I think the bigger challenge for them was just feeling "responsible" for me and needing to shift from "friend mode" to "instructor/student mode" while I was there. But they are top notch pros and I could see that with the other students they had, as well as with myself.
My particular situation is extremely unusual, as most of the time, the world looks like a black and white movie. I do see some bright colors under the right lighting conditions, but for the most part, it's just varying degrees of lighter and darker shades. As for art, I usually just looked at the labels to see what the colors were and let my imagination do the rest. I probably created some pretty um, unique drawings. I remember playing with watercolor paints, which are usually NOT labeled so my choices were always totally random there. I wish I still had some.
The type of red/green color blindness WreckChick describes seems to be the most common form, but all types of color blindness are much more rare in women than in men. I've even had people accuse me of lying about being color blind, saying it was "impossible" for a woman to be this way. Go figure.
WreckChick; Laura and Duane are very old, dear friends of mine and we go back a LONG time (even before they were a couple). When they moved down there and took over at Admiralty, they encouraged me to come down for quite some time, but life just kept getting in the way until last year when I finally got the chance. Now I am sorry I waited so long! I think they'll be the first to tell you that the main concern for someone like me is that I can read my gauges, read hand signals and keep track of my buddy, which never seemed to be a problem. I think the bigger challenge for them was just feeling "responsible" for me and needing to shift from "friend mode" to "instructor/student mode" while I was there. But they are top notch pros and I could see that with the other students they had, as well as with myself.
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