Just as color perception (and in turn blindness) exists on a spectrum, so too does the ability to experience emotions.
Most people who experience color deficiency, do not have issues with all color (red and green are most common). Color blindness can also come with heightened awareness in other areas...like better than average night vision or a keener sense of smell.
These details parallel well when describing people with emotional deficiencies, in that:
(1.) Someone on the spectrum for narcissistic traits, often still keenly feels rage, envy, hatred and fear.
(2.) Narcissists experience the above emotions more often and at greater intensity than the average person, BECAUSE they lack the ability to feel other emotions (like empathy) which might otherwise (ironically) diminish and balance those feelings out.
(3.) Even a full blown psychopath with no neurotypical fear response, (I.E. only feels an adrenaline rush) is not 100% emotionally colorblind. They still experience pleasure in a limited, ego driven sort of way. If this were not the case, they would have no motivation to do anything, (including anything bad.)
(4.) Total lack of emotional feeling and complete colorblindness, are both incredibly rare, and can signal something more serious...like a brain injury or a neurological condition.
Most people who experience color deficiency, do not have issues with all color (red and green are most common). Color blindness can also come with heightened awareness in other areas...like better than average night vision or a keener sense of smell.
These details parallel well when describing people with emotional deficiencies, in that:
(1.) Someone on the spectrum for narcissistic traits, often still keenly feels rage, envy, hatred and fear.
(2.) Narcissists experience the above emotions more often and at greater intensity than the average person, BECAUSE they lack the ability to feel other emotions (like empathy) which might otherwise (ironically) diminish and balance those feelings out.
(3.) Even a full blown psychopath with no neurotypical fear response, (I.E. only feels an adrenaline rush) is not 100% emotionally colorblind. They still experience pleasure in a limited, ego driven sort of way. If this were not the case, they would have no motivation to do anything, (including anything bad.)
(4.) Total lack of emotional feeling and complete colorblindness, are both incredibly rare, and can signal something more serious...like a brain injury or a neurological condition.
I've never heard someone say they wish they were colorblind, but I've heard a ton of people say they wish they lacked certain feelings, because they think it would solve all their problems. This is kind of like thinking you could avoid getting stuck in traffic if you no longer saw the red in a red light. Emotion is not the heart of the problem.
Emotional color blindness might very well take away things like: codependence, trauma responses and making personal sacrifices for conscientious decisions...but it would also diminish your capacity for joy and your ability to have meaningful relationships with anybody.
Better to sort out the kinks, then throw the whole baby out with the bathwater.
Emotional color blindness might very well take away things like: codependence, trauma responses and making personal sacrifices for conscientious decisions...but it would also diminish your capacity for joy and your ability to have meaningful relationships with anybody.
Better to sort out the kinks, then throw the whole baby out with the bathwater.
by Olive989 March 15, 2023
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Get the John Colormug. by Colored Spook April 21, 2023
Get the Colored Spookmug. Colored spade is a song from the 1968 Broadway play, Hair. The song contains multiple ethnic slurs towards African Americans. (EX: Uncle Tom, pickaninny) Also some creative and funny ones. (EX: Table cleaner at Horn and Hardart, Shoeshine boy) The song is about the things one of the characters in Hair, Hud Johnson, has been called as a black man. Despite the lyrics, Colored Spade is a fire funk song.
I'm a colored spade, a nigra, a black nigger, a jungle bunny, Jigaboo, coon, Pickaninny, mau mau,
Uncle Tom, Aunt Jemima, Little Black Sambo, Cotton pickin', Swamp guinea, Junk man, Shoeshine boy,
Elevator operator, Table cleaner at Horn and Hardart, Slave voodoo, zombie Ubangi lipped,
Flat nose, tap dancin', Resident of Harlem
And president of The United States of Love
President of The United States of Love
shit
You invite this man to dinner
You're gonna have to feed him
Watermelon, hominy grits, An' shortnin' bread
Alligator ribs,
and pig tails,
Some Black Eyed Peas,
Some chitlins,
Some collard greens
And if you don't watch out, The boogie man will get you
Boo!
Uncle Tom, Aunt Jemima, Little Black Sambo, Cotton pickin', Swamp guinea, Junk man, Shoeshine boy,
Elevator operator, Table cleaner at Horn and Hardart, Slave voodoo, zombie Ubangi lipped,
Flat nose, tap dancin', Resident of Harlem
And president of The United States of Love
President of The United States of Love
shit
You invite this man to dinner
You're gonna have to feed him
Watermelon, hominy grits, An' shortnin' bread
Alligator ribs,
and pig tails,
Some Black Eyed Peas,
Some chitlins,
Some collard greens
And if you don't watch out, The boogie man will get you
Boo!
by D20Dicing May 19, 2023
Get the Colored Spademug. by Datboi22345 November 25, 2019
Get the Game boy colormug. The only magical cat you can get during Samhain. It's what you get when you cross a chamelion and a black cat. It has chromatophores in its fur which enable it to change to bright hues, including hot pink and day-glo green. Compare to horse of a different color.
In the Ozarks there's a electronics wizard that has a color cycling cat.
Deliah had a hard time finding her color cycling cat after she set down her hunting vest.
Deliah had a hard time finding her color cycling cat after she set down her hunting vest.
by Wm. Wallace The Freedom Fighter December 25, 2007
Get the color cycling catmug.