Colour blindness.....annoying.

Colour blindness.....annoying.

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Garlick

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40,601 posts

239 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2009
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I've always been colour blind, and it has never really bothered me until recently (I didn't want to see a teapot in a pattern of coloured dots anyway). When I sold cars I had a few tricky moments when punters asked what colour an interior was, or that they wanted to look in that green car on the forecourt, but I got by.

However, recently I have found it to be a right PITA. Now I'm 36 I realise that simple things like wondering how rare my meat is, or checking to see if the old spuds under the sink have green bits on them. Similarly, I am growing some chillies and it can take me a while to spot them growing. There are also some health issues too, like spotting blood and suchlike. That can be tricky for me to do.

I don't have a reason to post this, but all of a sudden I find it more annoying that ever....I wonder what the world REALLY looks like? I guess that it is something that I will just have to live with - that and everyone holding up random objects asking 'what colour is this?' when they realise you are colour blind hehe

plasticpig

12,932 posts

224 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2009
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You may be able to find out what you are missing out on in the next 10 years or so: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8255112.stm

Buzz word

2,028 posts

208 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2009
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My workmate is colour blind and I find myself putting my foot in it all the time. I'm always saying things like 'you want the red part' or something like that them bursting out laughing as he give me a look and my head catches up. From what he say one of the worst elements seems to be clothes. I think he takes it on advise what to wear together.

Blue160

272 posts

202 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2009
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Garlick said:
......that and everyone holding up random objects asking 'what colour is this?' when they realise you are colour blind hehe
yes I am also colour blind and find that really annoying. It was worst at primary school though when teachers would demand to know why my pictures had brown grass and purple sky (as far as my eyes are concerned purple doesn't exist)

also used to enjoy sailing when I was a kid, but being unable to tell red navigation markers from green turned out to be a bit of an issue.......

Garlick

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40,601 posts

239 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2009
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I had a favourite brown T shirt, and many months later I was told it was green. Similar things have happened with furnishings and suchlike.

When I was a kid, I fancied being a pilot. The colour blindness killed that idea!

gti tim

1,633 posts

200 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2009
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Likewise - I am red/green colourblind. I have green T-shirts which to me look brown, and viceversa. I cannot do the dot pictures, and therefore could not be a pilot either (RAF selection process discovered this).

It doesn't really have much of an impact on me, except that I cannot join the firearms teams at work, which means i cannot get into other departments I want to, but unless I want to spend my day looking at numbers hidden in circles of dots, then it doesn't matter.

Shaolin

2,955 posts

188 months

Wednesday 23rd September 2009
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Colour blind people are supposed to have better low-light vision. I read that it has been maintained as in a primitive hunting situation, when the rest of the tribe are trekking home due to light stopping play, those with good low light vision can still be active and maybe bag an extra mammoth or something.

So take up hunting at dusk - you'll be the envy of all - HTH.

Munter

31,319 posts

240 months

Thursday 24th September 2009
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On the plus side with 2 good colour blind eyes at least you still get 3D vision and depth perception.... I've yet to go to one of these new 3D movies but I suspect with one good eye it'll look really st. And I think they want to do more of them that way to get past people videoing them...

Lord Pikey

3,257 posts

214 months

Thursday 24th September 2009
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Garlic - if you want to sample what the real would is like try a Chromagen (sp) lens. I got one when i was 17 and it fixes your colour blindness by tricking your brain with a coloured filter.

I got one when i was 17 and it got me into British aerospace as an electrician smile I used it for about 3 years until the job i was doing no longer meant life or death based on colour.

Its a bit messed up the real world. i remember walking outside the optician with this strange lens in and past a Orange phone shop. God dammit orange is a bright colour! I am red green colour blind and to be honest, i prefer my world. Its a lot nicer than the luminous world the rest of you live in.

The only thing that annoys me to this day about being colour blind is playing WW2 shooting games, cant see brown amongst the greens!

There is a optician in Kingston that deals in them if you want to try it out. PM Me.

Chilli

17,318 posts

235 months

Thursday 24th September 2009
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Garlick said:
wondering how rare my meat is, or checking to see if the old spuds under the sink have green bits on them.
Paul, I suggest you see a doctor mate!

Liszt

4,329 posts

269 months

Friday 25th September 2009
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Munter said:
On the plus side with 2 good colour blind eyes at least you still get 3D vision and depth perception.... I've yet to go to one of these new 3D movies but I suspect with one good eye it'll look really st. And I think they want to do more of them that way to get past people videoing them...
I have monoscopic vision as well and it is fine. Must admit wasn't overly impressed with the 3d effect but I was probably only seeing the one image.

Stevenj214

4,941 posts

227 months

Friday 25th September 2009
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Liszt said:
Munter said:
On the plus side with 2 good colour blind eyes at least you still get 3D vision and depth perception.... I've yet to go to one of these new 3D movies but I suspect with one good eye it'll look really st. And I think they want to do more of them that way to get past people videoing them...
I have monoscopic vision as well and it is fine. Must admit wasn't overly impressed with the 3d effect but I was probably only seeing the one image.
Monovision here too. Can't see 3-d pictures/movies as 3-d.

It also halted my enquiries into the Police, RAF and Army Officer Training.

raebomb

38 posts

181 months

Monday 28th September 2009
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I suffer from this too, I find shades of colours really hard to tell apart, and like one comment above, coloured in my pictures in primary school with the wrong crayons...to me there was no issue though.

One funny scenario was when playing snooker with a mate, I used the pink as the cue ball and potted the brown thinking it was a red, my mate hit the floor laughing.

I'm just about to apply for a job which states I must have perfect eyesight, including colour vision, so this may be the first time that it might act as a curse.

With clothes/decor I play it safe with white/grey/black most of the time.

neenaw

1,212 posts

188 months

Monday 28th September 2009
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It always amazes me how so many jobs require good colour perception to get into them but once you are in the job, it doesn't affect you at all.

I only found out that I had poor colour perception when I went for my medical to join the RAF as a vehicle technician. I was told that I had poor colour perception so wasn't allowed to join up as I wouldn't be capable of doing the job. The strange thing was that I had been doing an identical job for 6 years leading up to the application and carried on doing it for a good few years afterwards with no problems caused by my so-called colour blindness!


triggersbroom

2,376 posts

203 months

Monday 28th September 2009
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Shaolin said:
Colour blind people are supposed to have better low-light vision.
So take up hunting at dusk - you'll be the envy of all - HTH.


rofl

AndyAudi

3,007 posts

221 months

Monday 28th September 2009
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I've found this thread amusing and insightful, I've never (knowingly) known anyone colour blind and always assumed those with the condition saw a very minor variation to the colours most others see.

The stories of the Car Interiors, Snooker Balls, and T'shirts genuinely came as a shock.
I can see (pardon the pun) why it could be so frustrating.

Steve-O56

74 posts

182 months

Monday 28th September 2009
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I'm red green colour blind, it didn't used to bother me when I was younger but it seems to be getting worse nowdays. I think I need to get checked out again because i'm having dificulty distinguishing a lot of colours nowdays.
And yeah it does get iritating when you constantly get asked 'what colour is this' lol

Road2Ruin

5,167 posts

215 months

Wednesday 30th September 2009
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Colour blindness is often misunderstood by those who are not colour blind and indeed even by those who are. The most common colour blindness is red/green. Now this doesnt mean that the person cant see red or green or even that he may be able to see properly all the other colours. The eye has 3 colour receptors Red, Green and Blue. In Red/Green colour blindness all this means is that the red and green ones aren't working to their full strength but the degree may vary. In reality what happens is that the colour you see is a less vibrant version of the actual colour. This may not seem a problem but the bigest issue lies when colours are mixed to produce other colours,for example purple. The person who is red/green colour blind wont see purple properly and may get it mixed up with blue as the red in it isn't picked up very well. The same goes for greens and browns, they are often mixed up too. Generally though dressing is not a prolem as the colours that clash badly are easy to spot. I did once find a website that could show you what a colour blind person saw,,and vica versa (however that's spelt), by uploading a photo it either desaturated the colours or enhanced them and displayed the result.

Peter (red/green colour blind)

Here is website, very intereseting
http://www.vischeck.com/daltonize/

Edited by Road2Ruin on Wednesday 30th September 10:46


Edited by Road2Ruin on Wednesday 30th September 10:51

gareth_r

5,712 posts

236 months

Wednesday 30th September 2009
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gti tim said:
I am red/green colourblind. I have green T-shirts which to me look brown, and vice versa...
Me too. Finding out I'm red/green colour blind explained why I sometimes get green and brown wrong... but I don't confuse red and green.


Edited by gareth_r on Wednesday 30th September 13:03

Mr Flaky

133 posts

180 months

Wednesday 4th November 2009
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http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/fk-the-co... (oops, click to enter and 5th row down on the right)

don't lynch me, my brother is colour blind, red/green again, bought him this last xmas! I am going to hell, some epic t-shirts there, some I don't think you could wear outside of your home, got a mate's new born son a kids one that said "all daddy wanted was a blow job"

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Edited by Mr Flaky on Wednesday 4th November 16:10