Things About the College that Your Kid Didn't Know About Before Attending

@maya54, your daughter’s comment that all you need to be able to do your own laundry is to see colours in order to sort got me thinking - I am raising sons who actually cannot see colours! It’s 5 % of the male population, so not even that rare…

Being of the red-blind variant, they do not just perceive hue differently but also shade. I need to resort all older son’s laundry because he keeps putting the brights in with the darks. Orange, rose, red, all look dull and dark to him, he can’t tell them from ochre or brown. Deep red looks black.

So by the time he moves out, we need to make sure his clothes are all in shades of white, blue, grey and black! If he even cares, he can go back to wearing bright colours once he lives with a partner with adequate colour vision.