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I guess one of the things you guys are the most curious about is color.
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How does it work for me? What is it?
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I don't know.
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So, being blind since birth, I've never seen color.
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I don't have any concept of what it is.
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I mean, I've never seen anything.
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But there's this whole part of vocabulary, of language -
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that doesn't mean anything to me.
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Over the years, people have tried and tried to explain color to me,
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and I just don't understand it.
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I think the best way to show you, is to try and explain to someone who's never heard before,
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what the ocean sounds like.
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Or what the birds sound like.
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And that's where color is for me.
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'Cause somebody who's never heard, doesn't know what those thing are -
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has no concept. None.
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And people will try and explain a sense, with another sense.
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It's like the way this smells, maybe, that's what a particular color...
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What?
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So you're going to tell me you're going to explain what color looks like, by my nose?
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That doesn't make any bloody sense at all.
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So when somebody says something's red to me,
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I don't quite get it.
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I know that red is fire, or a stoplight is red.
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Or when someone says you're in the red.
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You know, that means you're in some trouble, like financial trouble.
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Again, just stuff that I picked up from hearing about it.
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But I don't know what it looks like.
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Blue.
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Blue as the water is blue.
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Cold, or ice is blue.
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The sky is blue.
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Now how can the sky and ice be the same thing, that's weird to me.
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But... what's that?
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Same color! Same color, means two completely different things.
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I don't get it.
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I hear a lot about orange.
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Is an orange actually orange? The fruit?
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I know nothing rhymes with it.
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There's nothing that rhymes with orange, is there?
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Way to go, orange.
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Way to be involved in poetry and song.
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Black. What's black? Black is supposed to be all the colors, all smushed together.
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And then white is the absence of color?
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So when I hear black and white ...
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To me they're just opposites, right?
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'Cause one has everything and the other has none.
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And then there are things that don't have color.
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Like water. But -
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It doesn't have color, but the ocean does? I don't get that.
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Color is hard. How do sighted people keep 'em all straight?
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I can't even think of anything that's indigo. A car.
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They always have weird colors for cars.
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I remember one time a long time ago, I was buying a car with somebody,
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and they said "How about heather mist".
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I was like, "What?"
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I've never even heard of that. Nothing else in the world is heather mist.