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Atypical Color Preference in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Front Psychol. 2016;7:1976

Authors: Grandgeorge M, Masataka N

Abstract
So far, virtually no study has ever investigated color preference in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In order to address this issue, 29 boys with ASD varying in age between 4 and 17 years, and 38 age-matched typically developing (TD) boys were studied regarding their preference among six colors: red, pink, yellow, brown, green, and blue, in clinical settings. When mean rank of preference was computed in each of the ASD and TD groups with regard to each color, it was found that boys with ASD were significantly less likely than TD boys to prefer yellow and more likely than TD boys to prefer green and brown colors. These results appear to be caused by hyper-sensation characteristic of ASD, due to which boys with this disorder perceive yellow as being sensory-overloading.

PMID: 28066297 [PubMed - in process]


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/280 ... t=Abstract

Newborn babies placed in a room painted yellow will cry more opposed to ones places in rooms painted blue or red. It's the hardest color for the brain to process for anyone.

I too find yellow a bit bright, but I do like it.

Since my son was three, his favorite color has been black. That's fairly unusual.

I like deep blue, purple, brown, dark grey and black. I find those colors to be soothing. I dislike bright white, yellow, orange and pink. Red and green are pretty much neutral.