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Originally Posted by RyanW
My understanding of it is that it comes from a lifetime of things having poor color contrast enhancing one's awareness of brightness and texture contrasts to compensate.
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That's too close to the myth that when one sense fades, the others become more acute. Some people can adapt remarkably, but most just pay more attention without increasing raw acuity.
My legally blind best friend thinks she has acute hearing as compensation. None of us have the heart to tell her the truth.