HEARING COLORS: MY LIFE EXPERIENCE AS A CYBORG

Abstract

I was born with a rare visual condition called achromatopsia, which is characterized by total color blindness. Although I have never seen color, colors have always been a part of my life. They are omnipresent in our everyday life, and they have permeated language: yellow pages, Green Peace, the Red Cross, oranges, Bluetooth, Pink Panther, the Yellow Submarine, etc…