[Shasown]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

Thanks Terry

Your more than welcome.

[Z]

I have a friend who struggles to distinguish between red and green; I distinctly remember in the early years of secondary school, his colouring pencils had labels on them saying what colour they were; and then a more recent, funnier memory of him trying to roll weed and tobacco and messing up the quantities he was putting in because he got confused between red and green, haha.

[setanta]

I have a friend who is quite coloured blind and yet, he's a very skilled artist lol. More into model making though.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Spaceman came down to answer some things
The world gathered round from paupers to kings
"I'll answer your questions, I'll answer them true,
I'll show you the way, you know what to do"

Who is wrong and who is right?
Yellow, brown, black or white?

Spaceman, he answered,
"You're no longer mind
I've opened your mind
You're now colour-blind"

[sooty]

When I was little, at school we had a colour blind test every year for a few years.

That Ishihara's one, ( I did not know his name until Showson mentioned it).
We were given 5~6 pages and had to read numbers.
Among them I could not identify anything number or any shape.
It was specially made for a colour blind person and if anybody managed to be able to read it, the person was a colour blind. (I did not know it then)

(Also we had a blood test so that everybody knew what type-group we were. I am a blood type A.)

[ElProximo]

Originally Posted by InOne

Is anyone on here colour blind? I've never really imagined what it would be like. I know it's not as simple as it sounds, it's certain colours or something.

I'm colour blind and its said something like 1 in 20 white males have some degree. something like 1 in 200 women (so i heard) but it can show up in other groups too.

Right, it is usually certain colours and then that can vary in difficulty depending on light and textures.
My eye doctor dude explains it as a genetic mutation where I have less 'rods and cones' (or less of the ones I would want heh).

The common one is 'red-green' colour-blindness although some can have the rarer 'blue-yellow' types.
Mine is basically red-brown-greens that I cannot fully distinguish.
For example:
No, I cannot see any sort of numbers in that graphic posted here.

People have asked me 'what its like' but you have to remember I was born this way and don't know any different.
Had I not been caught with a psychedelic colouring book (to their eyes) or coming to school with mismatched colours of socks I would not know any different.
I may still wonder if all you people are colour-blind and I am the one seeing things right?


But seriously I do have problems with traffic lights sometimes - which is a little scary. I see your 'green light' as a white light and sometimes I cannot see the 'red light' at all.
For some reason lights in the UK seem easier to distinguish than in North America so maybe the UK has better technology for this?
At stop-lights I am not looking at the colours but at where they lights are in order of 1,2,3 on the panel.

Sometimes I get screwed on instructions (elevators or whatnot) to 'press the green button' which may give me (to my eyes) a choice between several 'green buttons' lol

I cannot do electrical work (or can I?) or most things with complicated colour codes.
Colour-coded maps like you see in train stations, bus stops etc... often just a blur.
Those colour-coded types of surveys in newspapers or on television.

Generally speaking the effect for me is that all colours have a little 'beige' tone mixed in.
Except Blue and Yellow.
Blue i find a little more difficult and probably because its so frequently mixed in different hues and tints.
Pure yellow is like an outstanding electrically charged highlighted neon sign.

I should mention I can see black and white perfectly. I'm told they are not colours heh.

Funny story.. when I was a little boy around 4 years old my mum would find collections of yellow items in my room. shampoo bottles, bottle caps whatever.
Its seems I figured yellow items were magical and special and of course I can spot them easily.

I can see 'shades'. Its how I get through life. Faced with the choice of the green or red button I assume the darker one is red.
I guess that dark green is probable considered brown to others.

It is true that you cannot become a fighter-pilot or sniper if you are colour-blind. So they say. I wanted to join the military when I was a teen but someone told me I'd get rejected.
(imagine the chaos with a weapon and instruction to shoot the 'red targets')

I once met a guy who had comparable colour-blindness and also did not know any different.
He invested in a special pair of custom-made eyeglasses that cost something like 12,000 pounds and took ongoing tests and retests to eventually somehow trick your eyes to see colour properly.
He described it like this:
- As if you were watching the old black and white movie 'Wizard of Oz' and then where the scenes are suddenly in big bold colours.
(keep in mind we can see some colour),
but,
to him it was like that with 'regular vision' and then when he put the glasses on was like 'SUPER COLOUR EXPLOSIONS'.
It made his regular vision seem like 'black and white' in comparison.
He described having actual 'emotional problems' and treated the glasses like a drug or something he only used for special occasions or else he couldn't do his job.

I think I would rather just carry on not knowing any different.

[WOMBAI]

Originally Posted by ElProximo

I'm colour blind and its said something like 1 in 20 white males have some degree. something like 1 in 200 women (so i heard) but it can show up in other groups too.

Right, it is usually certain colours and then that can vary in difficulty depending on light and textures.
My eye doctor dude explains it as a genetic mutation where I have less 'rods and cones' (or less of the ones I would want heh).

The common one is 'red-green' colour-blindness although some can have the rarer 'blue-yellow' types.
Mine is basically red-brown-greens that I cannot fully distinguish.
For example:
No, I cannot see any sort of numbers in that graphic posted here.

People have asked me 'what its like' but you have to remember I was born this way and don't know any different.
Had I not been caught with a psychedelic colouring book (to their eyes) or coming to school with mismatched colours of socks I would not know any different.
I may still wonder if all you people are colour-blind and I am the one seeing things right?


But seriously I do have problems with traffic lights sometimes - which is a little scary. I see your 'green light' as a white light and sometimes I cannot see the 'red light' at all.
For some reason lights in the UK seem easier to distinguish than in North America so maybe the UK has better technology for this?
At stop-lights I am not looking at the colours but at where they lights are in order of 1,2,3 on the panel.

Sometimes I get screwed on instructions (elevators or whatnot) to 'press the green button' which may give me (to my eyes) a choice between several 'green buttons' lol

I cannot do electrical work (or can I?) or most things with complicated colour codes.
Colour-coded maps like you see in train stations, bus stops etc... often just a blur.
Those colour-coded types of surveys in newspapers or on television.

Generally speaking the effect for me is that all colours have a little 'beige' tone mixed in.
Except Blue and Yellow.
Blue i find a little more difficult and probably because its so frequently mixed in different hues and tints.
Pure yellow is like an outstanding electrically charged highlighted neon sign.

I should mention I can see black and white perfectly. I'm told they are not colours heh.

Funny story.. when I was a little boy around 4 years old my mum would find collections of yellow items in my room. shampoo bottles, bottle caps whatever.
Its seems I figured yellow items were magical and special and of course I can spot them easily.

I can see 'shades'. Its how I get through life. Faced with the choice of the green or red button I assume the darker one is red.
I guess that dark green is probable considered brown to others.

It is true that you cannot become a fighter-pilot or sniper if you are colour-blind. So they say. I wanted to join the military when I was a teen but someone told me I'd get rejected.
(imagine the chaos with a weapon and instruction to shoot the 'red targets')

I once met a guy who had comparable colour-blindness and also did not know any different.
He invested in a special pair of custom-made eyeglasses that cost something like 12,000 pounds and took ongoing tests and retests to eventually somehow trick your eyes to see colour properly.
He described it like this:
- As if you were watching the old black and white movie 'Wizard of Oz' and then where the scenes are suddenly in big bold colours.
(keep in mind we can see some colour),
but,
to him it was like that with 'regular vision' and then when he put the glasses on was like 'SUPER COLOUR EXPLOSIONS'.
It made his regular vision seem like 'black and white' in comparison.
He described having actual 'emotional problems' and treated the glasses like a drug or something he only used for special occasions or else he couldn't do his job.

I think I would rather just carry on not knowing any different.

I enjoyed reading that - very informative!

[InOne]

Ahhh nice explanation! Yeah, I never thought of the people not knowing any different so not really being able to explain it at times.