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Senses and Stuff

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     When it comes to a person's sense of sight, many people either identify as having normal vision or having color blindness. However, tetrachromacy is a rare genetic mutation that occurs only in women that allows someone to see 100 million shades of color instead of the regular one million different hues. The genetic mutation gives the person with tetrachromacy an extra fourth cone instead of three cones, allowing them to simply see "colors in other colors". For someone who has this rare condition, they will be able to different between hues that are indistinguishable to others who have normal vision. This may make it overwhelming for those who have tetrachromacy to be in surroundings that are full of different colors, but this condition can also improve an artist's work or the ability to distinguish illness just in people's skin tones!      As an artist, I feel like having this condition would be extremely fascinating as I would be able to essentially s...

BioHeroes

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     The Biohero that correlates with my birthday, October 18th, is HappyMouth. HappyMouth has the ability of the Broca's area, meaning that she has the power to control the speech of others. Her abilities also correlate with the power of Dopamine, which means that she can make others happy and control the mood of those around her.       When HappyMouth was just a little baby, her parents used to constantly entangle themselves in big fights and arguments. She yearned for peace and silence, and to her surprise, she found that she could shut up all of the noise around her with just a snap of her fingers. By doing so, she improved the mood of both her and her siblings, officially giving her the ability to control happiness and speech.       In the world of both good and evil, HappyMouth is often called out to control the mood of a party, gathering, or even relationship. She can also quiet down street fights and break up dangerous crime...

My Life Story

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I was born on October 18, 2005, a fateful day that was actually several weeks past my expected birth date. According to my mom, I started talking at age 4 ... which was very late. Everyone was quite worried for me because I was always sick in some way, but hey, I think I turned out okay... My first word was probably "哥哥“ which means older brother in Chinese. I know that my parents were definitely salty about that. I think my first milestone was when my parents (forcefully) made me learn the piano at age 5. In comparison to my older brother, I was never the quickest at learning piano, and music theory is something I will never be able to fathom. Even so, I would always feel super cool when I played in recitals and got awards for competitions, even if most of the medals at home are participation awards... Unfortunately, I stopped going to lessons because of school, but I know for sure that I'll pick this hobby back up again in the future.  Another big milestone was when I went t...