Could it be a lefty thing?

The other day Briggs directed me toward the "green ball...I mean orange!" I was excited and floored at once. Maybe it's because he's a lefty, too?! Let me explain.

I have never met another person that confuses their colors, but I do this myself, consistently. I confuse the following colors:

Green with Orange

Blue with Yellow

Pink with Purple

I do it so often that I always pause for half a second before saying the color (unless I've already called that item that color once before - once I name something green out loud, I always call it correctly) And Ejers is so used to it that she usually silently translates me in her head and fixes my color mix-ups. So if I happen to say it correctly without hesitation, she thinks I've said it wrong.

I even have a baby blanket that I call "Blue Blankey" and it's almost entirely yellow. See, solid, historical proof that I'm mental.




I'm not color blind, I swear. And it's not an absent-minded thing, I routinely mix up the exact same color names. I've even mentioned this to a neuropsychologist and he just said, "Hmm...soy sauce..." Ok, not exactly that, but just as disinterested.