Epic win for a three year old little boy who narrowly misses being lost to adoption!

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64. It's hard to know what little kids think about race sometimes. My son is color-blind,

so he would use green crayons to color people's skin -- everyone was a shade of green to him. When he learned to read, I told him to look for the colors that said "peach" or "tan" or "brown" if he needed a skin color. (Even if they looked basically the same to him as "green" or "gray" or "pink".) He would color grass with the pink crayon, and I had to explain that he should use the "green" crayon for grass. (Unless he wanted to color it differently on purpose, and then any color was okay.) Imagine what it's like when what you see doesn't match up with what most everyone else sees!

When he got to kindergarten, he started talking about this black boy who was a friend of his. I couldn't think of a black boy in the class. There were a couple black girls, but no boy. I finally figured out that he thought that when you called someone "black" you were referring to hair color. (Which actually makes as much sense as anything else.) There were a few black-haired Asian boys in the class, and one of them was his friend. And he also thought he and I were black people, because our hair was almost that dark.