In “Your Questions Answered”, Heather and Brett discuss a variety of topics from the pick of the harvest of the questions on one of their podcasts. The conversation tends toward the nature of biological gender, and how, in language, this dissembles… and becomes confused with behavior… to the fact that Brett and his brother, Eric, are both ‘colorblind’ in a shared, specific way.

And here is where the language deceives us, precisely. In ‘blind’ we hear ‘disabled’, i.e. non-normative. But the actual result, is unique forms of sensing and perspective otherwise unavailable.

Yes, they do not see what ‘color-normies’ all agree ‘must be the fact’. But they can see patterns, shapes… meaningful anomalies… where, for others ‘what they see’ is declared to them by their senses.

And so they suggest that any ordinary cohort of humans, would be far better off with some members who are ‘blind’ in this way… than cohorts who saw them as ‘other’, “disabled’, ‘delusional’, and so on. They give examples of using people who are colorblind in a particular way… to spot camouflaged positions or aircraft… in battle.

And this is a beautiful and effective analogy… of the actual power of diversity. It isn’t norms that matter, it’s »relationship… and… perhaps… »purpose.

The purpose that draws us together.