Anyone Colourblind?
- Thread starter Jules
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my sil is color-blind. she didn't really know it until she was in HS. her closest friends started asking her things like... WHY are you wearing that blouse with that skirt? she thought she was color coordinated, but apparently not.
she tried special contact lenses for a while. one was very pale pink... you couldn't see the color on her eye. one was blood red and made her look very strange with one huge pupil.
i remember her making a comments... something along the lines of... you remember when you had that little green car and we went XYZ? that car was a dark red.
she tried special contact lenses for a while. one was very pale pink... you couldn't see the color on her eye. one was blood red and made her look very strange with one huge pupil.
i remember her making a comments... something along the lines of... you remember when you had that little green car and we went XYZ? that car was a dark red.
IrisSenior
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We are all colour-blind in my household. Most of it is the red/green but I have trouble with blue/green. Hard to pick out decorating stuff for the home. I once picked out a bright green paint for the sunroom and my daughter helped pick out a nicer green. I once asked the eye doctor how my son knows the colour is red and he said 'you told him it was'.
jujube
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Colors are "dull" in my bad eye, but they're still there.....
I had a friend who was colorblind. He had a house he rented out. The man he rented it to asked him if he could paint the inside. My friend said ok but to only paint it a neutral color. When the man moved out and my friend showed it to new potential renters, he kept getting funny looks. Finally he asked someone if something was wrong. They said "the house is nice but everything is lavender". My friend had no idea.
Probably...this was many years ago (I am old).
I'm sure those glasses cost an arm & a leg by now too.
I think the statistic is something like either 7% or 11% of the people on Earth are colorblind with most of them being men.
And actually, I don't know why they refer to what most "color blind" people have as "color blindness" when what most of them have is really a "color vision deficiency".
Mine is a red-green deficiency where I have problems distinguishing between certain tertiary (third level) tints and shades of red, green and brown.
The only issue it has caused in my life has been employment in certain areas.
Like commercial driving, for instance. In order to be a commercial transporter, one must pass a DOT physical, which involves taking a color vision test. Something I cannot pass. I lost out on a pretty good job once back in the 80's because of it. They were ready to hire me, but couldn't because I failed the color vision test.
If you don't know and would like to find out if you have a color vision deficiency, click on the link below to see several examples of something called The Ishihara Test.... <---- link
If you see numbers inside the circles of dots, your color vision is OK. If you don't, you have a color vision deficiency.
I've never heard of glasses that "fix" the problem, but they have for years had a contact lens called the "X-Chrom" lens. It's just one, so you only have it in one eye. It's not meant to "fix" or cure the problem, just to allow you to pass a color vision test.
The one contact lens costs about $400.
Plus, they no longer allow the use of them to pass a job related physical exam.
X-Chrom contact lenses and glasses <-link
when i said fix i meant correct not cure. sorry for not wording it better.
fuzzybuddy
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Colour blind? Oh, you mean "color".
Yeah, it's childish, dumb, etc. But on this side of the pond, colour is color. I'll go to my room, quietly, now.
Yeah, it's childish, dumb, etc. But on this side of the pond, colour is color. I'll go to my room, quietly, now.
hollydolly
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the word is Colour... lol, we invented it first...
hollydolly
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Jules
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Funny thing, I was going to use color in the title and Spellcheck kept changing it.
Irwin
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I'm color blind. It can create problems in some things I do, like when I have to wire something and the wires are color coded, then I'm screwed and have to ask for help. Clothes shopping used to be a pain. I'd always have to ask the sales person what color something was. And coffee! Regular is in a red can and decaf is in a green can. They can look exactly the same, depending on the light!
A long time ago, one of the Denver suburbs was installing horizontal traffic lights. I pulled up to the intersection and had no idea what I should do. I had to wait to see what other cars were doing. They've since switched them to traditional vertical lights.
I've sometimes wondered how other people see colors, but it hasn't really been that much of a problem in my life.
A long time ago, one of the Denver suburbs was installing horizontal traffic lights. I pulled up to the intersection and had no idea what I should do. I had to wait to see what other cars were doing. They've since switched them to traditional vertical lights.
I've sometimes wondered how other people see colors, but it hasn't really been that much of a problem in my life.
Irwin, are you completely color blind or do you just have a color vision deficiency?
I have a slight red/green deficiency. Not too bad, though.
I can see primary and secondary colors, but when they start getting into shades and tints, that's where I can have problems.
It's just bad enough that I could never get a Class A or B CDL..
Irwin
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No, not completely. I think that's pretty rare. I'm like you... red/green/brown and different shades give me problems. Like lime green looks like yellow, pink looks like tan. I bought a pink shirt once thinking it was tan. Ooops! Purple looks like blue.