Mind Retrofit

Lately Daniel has been claiming the color green. I have been wondering why he would claim a color. He has always been partial to green, when he was little I noticed that he stayed more calm when I put him in hunter green or slightly lighter shades of hunter green. I also noticed when I put him in red he would be more aggressive than usual. The first time I noticed this was one day when he was about two yrs old he was having a rough day, I ended up having to change his clothes, he was wearing red and I changed him into something green. I thought maybe he had just snapped out of it or something.

However, I noticed the change and I decided to test it out.

Sure enough every time he was in red he was more aggressive and just seemed unhappy so I would put him in green or a dark blue and he would have a shift in his mood. I decided to only put him in deeper colors like burgundy, hunter green, and dark blues. He seems to be ok in light blues and mustard colors as well but not bright greens or yellows. He gets very hyper in those colors. It is very interesting. I did a little research on the subject and found that indeed colors can effect our moods, the clothing we wear can make a difference. I have always had issues with wearing very bright colors or certain patterns. I can feel them, it’s like they are attacking my skin or something. I wore black most of my teenage life. I was depressed but I wonder how much of it had to do with me trying to control my emotions, who knows.

The other day we were in the car and in the back Daniel yells out of the blue “green’s mine!”.

I turned around and said “what?” again Daniel shouted in a very jolly happy tone “green’s mine!”. He started laughing and he thought it was very funny, as we were all laughing he then shouted while giggling “Joshua is blue!”. Hmmm….this got me thinking and then he went on “Ariel is red!”. Ok, of course I had to ask “what color is Mommy?’. He said “red”, “Daddy is light-blue” and “Grammy is green like Daniel”.  I asked him all of the family members I could think of that he knew and he started labeling the girls red and the boys blue so I thought this is strange I wonder if it is just a girl/boy thing but what is up with the green?

I decided to ask him about his Sunday school teacher he had that day and he said that she was yellow and the other one, who was a guy was red and blue.

Interesting, I have no idea what he is measuring or what it is about. I know I have seen colors around people and people say that is an aura, sure I can see that but I wonder what it is really about. David said it could be Daniel measuring the degrees of Asperger’s he sees in a person since he and my mother have many of the same characteristics, David and Joshua have similar traits and Ariel and I show similar traits. But that doesn’t really explain the other people who share the same colors who show no signs what so ever. It still is an interesting concept. It could be that he really likes green, Grammy likes green even though she doesn’t express her likeness for it but he just knows, Ariel and I both like red and Joshua’s favorite color has been blue since the day he was born.

Joshua has grabbed everything blue and claimed it for his, even as an infant.

Daniel could be claiming green like Joshua has claimed blue, we do tend to get Ariel red things, Daniel green and Joshua blue. It could be nothing more than that or he could see people in color. I do that and I have always steered clear of people who seem to have a blackness around them it makes me uncomfortable, I have noticed that those same people Daniel does not want to be around either. Although that could be the vibe that I am giving off and he feels it. Anyway maybe we will find out as he gets older, maybe not but as for now Daniel has dibs on green, just so everyone knows.