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When professional identity depends on failing abilities

I work as a graphic designer and my color vision is getting worse, but I haven't told anyone because this is all I know how to do.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The prospect of losing not just a skill but the entire sense of purpose built around that skill can make us cling to increasingly precarious competence rather than face an unknown future.

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