I found this surprisingly emotional. A sort of metaphor for when the world expects you to conform to their standards. Like when the deaf were forced not to use sign language and people with a stutter were expected to get over it easily.

Not to mention when left handed people were forced to learn to write with their right. :) Okay not so great an example as Jonathan’s.
What a horrible test you’ve created! Poor traumatized kid.

Ah, that was sad. Sounds like a bizarre torture scenario for the color blind kid. I like, if I read it correctly, his desperation driven imagining of a glint of color.

The story is so much more heart-wrenching knowing that both buttons were red

Ok, well this explains more. How do you enter stories into two separate challenges but make them sequels?