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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 60017" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>MWM - after I posted this last night I did some digging, I think I found the site you did. It's really good, I'm going to register and do the test, get the kids to do it too. </p><p></p><p>Playing "Guess Who" was really good for difficult child 3, and may be why he's actually not bad at the "this face is different to/the same as that face" part of the quiz they showed on the TV.</p><p></p><p>And I've been wondering about me, too. Like husband I'm also fairly lousy with names, but there are some aspects of facial differences that I don't notice. And some I do. For example, with husband's cross-cousin's husband, his features are SO distinctive that when they had a badly malformed baby about 20 years ago, so his facial features were badly distorted (poor darling) I could still see that apart from that, he resembled his father. (The baby had associated severe brain development/breathing problems and died at about 10 months of age). And yet, I don't notice someone's colour, unless it is REALLY distinctive. For example, I'll notice someone with albino-white skin, or someone so dark that light just seems to disappear near their face, but otherwise everyone looks much the same colour to me. I wonder if it's because my mother was dark and so am I - dark in "white" terms, but the lovely Maori couple we spent time with in New Zealand - she was the same colour as my mother. So maybe it's NOT an indicative of my noble acceptance of people of all colours (yeah, right) - maybe it's just something my brain can't see unless it's really distinctive.</p><p>We had a boy stay with us - he was about 10, he would be a man well and truly now - from Philadelphia. A terrific kid - bit of a handful, but what 10 year old boy isn't? But he was one of the darkest people I've ever seen - as dark as Burnam Burnam, an amazing Aboriginal man who lived in our area, well-known in Australia as going to Britain for our bicentenary and claiming Britain for the Aboriginal nations under "terra nullius". Very cheeky, since that is how Australia was claimed.</p><p>I remember this Philly kid, walking along holding his hand and seeing a hand darker than mine, clasped within it. I wasn't used to it, it was unusual.</p><p>The only other skin as dark as that - when easy child was a baby in the child care centre where I worked at the time, there was at same age as easy child in the same nursery, the son of a uni lecturer from Uganda. easy child was so pale, and with this Uganda baby lying next to her on the play mats it was an amazing contrast. They were a week apart in age, but he was so quiet compared to my hellion! Probably just as bright though, considering his parents. easy child and the boy from Uganda played together until he was 2, and his parents went back home. I've often worried and prayed they have stayed safe.</p><p></p><p>But otherwise, I really don't see colour unless I make an effort to look at it and even then I have trouble mentally 'defining' it.</p><p>Weird. And now there could be an explanation!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 60017, member: 1991"] MWM - after I posted this last night I did some digging, I think I found the site you did. It's really good, I'm going to register and do the test, get the kids to do it too. Playing "Guess Who" was really good for difficult child 3, and may be why he's actually not bad at the "this face is different to/the same as that face" part of the quiz they showed on the TV. And I've been wondering about me, too. Like husband I'm also fairly lousy with names, but there are some aspects of facial differences that I don't notice. And some I do. For example, with husband's cross-cousin's husband, his features are SO distinctive that when they had a badly malformed baby about 20 years ago, so his facial features were badly distorted (poor darling) I could still see that apart from that, he resembled his father. (The baby had associated severe brain development/breathing problems and died at about 10 months of age). And yet, I don't notice someone's colour, unless it is REALLY distinctive. For example, I'll notice someone with albino-white skin, or someone so dark that light just seems to disappear near their face, but otherwise everyone looks much the same colour to me. I wonder if it's because my mother was dark and so am I - dark in "white" terms, but the lovely Maori couple we spent time with in New Zealand - she was the same colour as my mother. So maybe it's NOT an indicative of my noble acceptance of people of all colours (yeah, right) - maybe it's just something my brain can't see unless it's really distinctive. We had a boy stay with us - he was about 10, he would be a man well and truly now - from Philadelphia. A terrific kid - bit of a handful, but what 10 year old boy isn't? But he was one of the darkest people I've ever seen - as dark as Burnam Burnam, an amazing Aboriginal man who lived in our area, well-known in Australia as going to Britain for our bicentenary and claiming Britain for the Aboriginal nations under "terra nullius". Very cheeky, since that is how Australia was claimed. I remember this Philly kid, walking along holding his hand and seeing a hand darker than mine, clasped within it. I wasn't used to it, it was unusual. The only other skin as dark as that - when easy child was a baby in the child care centre where I worked at the time, there was at same age as easy child in the same nursery, the son of a uni lecturer from Uganda. easy child was so pale, and with this Uganda baby lying next to her on the play mats it was an amazing contrast. They were a week apart in age, but he was so quiet compared to my hellion! Probably just as bright though, considering his parents. easy child and the boy from Uganda played together until he was 2, and his parents went back home. I've often worried and prayed they have stayed safe. But otherwise, I really don't see colour unless I make an effort to look at it and even then I have trouble mentally 'defining' it. Weird. And now there could be an explanation! Marg [/QUOTE]
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