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Does this child always want to wear those colours herself (assuming it's a she), or just force them on you? Just curious. Interestingly, with regards to your own favourite colours, someone once told me that purple and green were colours associated with the feminist movement. Don't know how much truth there was to that assertion, although I did once see a bunch of badges for some feminist cause, whose most prominent colours were green and purple. As for green alone, I've also heard it said that that colour is traditionally the colour of Islam, which perhaps explains why one Islamic country (Libya) has a flag that's just a plain expanse of that colour and nothing else (that'd have to be one of those paradoxical examples of something so boring it's actually kind of interesting!). That's moving a bit off-topic, I know; I just thought you might find it interesting.
No, he is a little boy on the Autistic spectrum. He always has to have green, red and blue. He pitches a fit if he has to have something he deams girly. If we are painting he will pick up a green apron and say "is this a boys apron?" or if its tennis he wants a "boys racket" and tells me I should have the Pink one. I'm trying to teach him that people can choose what they like and that there are no colours for gender. In a way its endearing he has a really outdated view on gender roles. Ladies stay home and cook, Men go out to work. This even passed on to his view of dinosaurs! He was shocked and appalled when he found out that female T-Rex's were bigger, stronger and were more aggressive annnnd to top it off! They didn't even look after their own babies. Hehe.

As for my favourite colours. I had no idea about the feminist movements. I just like purple because its a lovely rich colour, and green because I am "a child of nature" No hidden meanings behind them. I also like brown. Not many people who like brown I don't think.