When I was a kid, I had an acute aversion to the color orange. I really really disliked the color. Nothing could be orange...not a folder, notebook, book bag, barrette, and especially clothing. I didn't even like variants...peach, salmon, pumpkin; they were all too close to orange for me. Through the years, I mellowed, and even started to buy some orange clothes.
Then, I was diagnosed with MS. I dutifully subscribed to emails, magazines, newsletters, signed up for activities, seminars, and groups. Slowly, it started to sink in, that a lot of the information I was receiving had orange either interspersed or SPLASHED ALL OVER. The more I learned, I found out that orange is the “color” of MS. Like breast cancer has pink, HIV/AIDS has red, MS is orange.
I hate orange more than ever.
Was I having an episode of clairvoyance or precognition when I was a kid, or did I just think it was an ugly color? I'm pretty sure I was too young to know what clairvoyance was when I first started to dislike orange, so it's probably just coincidence that I didn't like orange. Except I don't usually believe in coincidence. Am I saying I was psychic? Nope, because I sure didn't see THIS coming.
I just find it mildly amusing that a color I detested as a kid, and tolerated as an adult, turned out to be a color so entwined with MS.
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