Colour blindness.....annoying.
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Garlick, almost a carbon copy of my experiences with colour blindness. I'm the same age as you and it made me chuckle when you mentioned that it's a PITA when you can't tell if meat is rare or not, or if spuds are mouldy, as I have the same problems.
I'm all over the place with certain hues. Some reds look brown (think snooker balls), whilst some browns look green to me. Heck, even some purples look blue to me. I'm terrible with clothes and colour combinations and I'm sure I've got it wrong on many occasions
Here's an odd one. Lawnmowers have orange cables, so that they stand out against green grass but it doesn't clash for me like it does for people with regular colour recognition. I think bright blue would be better but I'm told that blue and yellow make green, so it's too close. Not for me it isn't!
I've just accepted it as part of who I am but it does surface now and again as an issue - some jobs require perfect colour vision, which is annoying.
I'm all over the place with certain hues. Some reds look brown (think snooker balls), whilst some browns look green to me. Heck, even some purples look blue to me. I'm terrible with clothes and colour combinations and I'm sure I've got it wrong on many occasions
Here's an odd one. Lawnmowers have orange cables, so that they stand out against green grass but it doesn't clash for me like it does for people with regular colour recognition. I think bright blue would be better but I'm told that blue and yellow make green, so it's too close. Not for me it isn't!
I've just accepted it as part of who I am but it does surface now and again as an issue - some jobs require perfect colour vision, which is annoying.
Road2Ruin said:
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/
Rather than start a new thread, I thought I'd resurrect this one 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
This post has explained a lot to me. I've always struggled with green/brown, red/brown, and blue/purple. And now I now why! I've always known I was colour blind but didn't really know the science behind it.
Bloody frustrating to be honest. The wife has to shop for my clothes as I simply can't be trusted, as Garlick said, cooking meat, especially chicken can be hazardous as I can't see the pink.
Thankfully it hasn't really held me back, I got into the Police and got my Class 1 Advanced although it did raise an eyebrow on one of the instructors when I foolishly mentioned sometimes at night traffic lights to me are 'top middle or bottom...'
Anyone else found any good coping strategies? Or just more funny stories would be good
Im red green and blue purple colourblind, can be a real pain in the arse. What annoys me is when things are colour coded such as the underground train maps in london. how the hell a colour blind person can use one is beyond me and in this day and age of making allowances for disabilities it should be sorted out.
It can be very annoying at times. More when trying to work out if something is cooked or your child has a rash etc than anything else.
I did think a V6 Cavalier I had was black when I first got it, about a month into ownership my now wife pointed out it was actually deep red... Hmm, maybe in the bright sunlight it has a funny tinge to it, still not convinced however.
Favourite brown rugby shirt, yep that was green apparently.
Colouring at school was fun too, less fun finding out I couldn't be a pilot when I grew up though.
I did think a V6 Cavalier I had was black when I first got it, about a month into ownership my now wife pointed out it was actually deep red... Hmm, maybe in the bright sunlight it has a funny tinge to it, still not convinced however.
Favourite brown rugby shirt, yep that was green apparently.
Colouring at school was fun too, less fun finding out I couldn't be a pilot when I grew up though.
I can totally relate to this thread having been diagnosed as colour blind ( bad name term ) when I was quite young. I have the more common red/green deficiency. I always get the "what colour is this" response or "do you only see in black & white ?" or the even more annoying "well what do coloured things look like to you ?" which doesn't usually bother me & I can't answer the last question because as far as I know I have always had this so have never known any different.
One thing I have always wondered though is who decided what colour is what ?
For instance in the colour spectrum who decided the point when red turns to orange, orange to yellow etc etc ?
Someone must have said "I name this colour red but at this point it is called orange"
If this person was colour blind then it could be that all us "colour blind" people see it correctly & it's the rest of you that are wrong ??
The other thing that annoys me is with regards your ability to get a job if you can't pass a colour test, would that not be called discrimination if it were any other disability ?
I'd welcome your thoughts.
Phil.
One thing I have always wondered though is who decided what colour is what ?
For instance in the colour spectrum who decided the point when red turns to orange, orange to yellow etc etc ?
Someone must have said "I name this colour red but at this point it is called orange"
If this person was colour blind then it could be that all us "colour blind" people see it correctly & it's the rest of you that are wrong ??
The other thing that annoys me is with regards your ability to get a job if you can't pass a colour test, would that not be called discrimination if it were any other disability ?
I'd welcome your thoughts.
Phil.
philip600 said:
The other thing that annoys me is with regards your ability to get a job if you can't pass a colour test, would that not be called discrimination if it were any other disability ?
I'd welcome your thoughts.
Phil.
Discrimination isn't illegal, but unfair discrimination is. If the job requires good colour vision, then it's absolutely right that someone who is lacking should be excluded.I'd welcome your thoughts.
Phil.
When they were casting someone to play Winston Churchill in a film, Denzil Washington was never going to get the gig. But Will Smith got the Ali role. Hugh Grant never had a chance. Is that racial discrimination?
I wouldn't expect to get a job at Rigby & Peller as a bra fitter, because I'm a bloke. That's perfectly reasonable discrimination.
wiliferus said:
Rather than start a new thread, I thought I'd resurrect this one
This post has explained a lot to me. I've always struggled with green/brown, red/brown, and blue/purple. And now I now why! I've always known I was colour blind but didn't really know the science behind it.
Bloody frustrating to be honest. The wife has to shop for my clothes as I simply can't be trusted, as Garlick said, cooking meat, especially chicken can be hazardous as I can't see the pink.
Thankfully it hasn't really held me back, I got into the Police and got my Class 1 Advanced although it did raise an eyebrow on one of the instructors when I foolishly mentioned sometimes at night traffic lights to me are 'top middle or bottom...'
Anyone else found any good coping strategies? Or just more funny stories would be good
Hi, new here. Wilferus, I'm a colour defective PC too and have been refused an advanced driving grade. If possible could I PM you. I'd like to challenge it with my home force. Just after some info if possible.
This post has explained a lot to me. I've always struggled with green/brown, red/brown, and blue/purple. And now I now why! I've always known I was colour blind but didn't really know the science behind it.
Bloody frustrating to be honest. The wife has to shop for my clothes as I simply can't be trusted, as Garlick said, cooking meat, especially chicken can be hazardous as I can't see the pink.
Thankfully it hasn't really held me back, I got into the Police and got my Class 1 Advanced although it did raise an eyebrow on one of the instructors when I foolishly mentioned sometimes at night traffic lights to me are 'top middle or bottom...'
Anyone else found any good coping strategies? Or just more funny stories would be good
Hi, new here. Wilferus, I'm a colour defective PC too and have been refused an advanced driving grade. If possible could I PM you. I'd like to challenge it with my home force. Just after some info if possible.
Another colourblind here.
I suppose it all started when I did home electronics with dad but kept asking him what the resistor colours were as I just could not see them.
I then started to study electronics at collage and again found it to be a problem and at that point it clicked. So out was any idea of working for the GPO (Sorry BT).
I also found Teletext annoying with the green / yellow buttons as they both looked the same on screen.
But if anyone else says "Do you see grass as red" I think I will punch them.
I suppose it all started when I did home electronics with dad but kept asking him what the resistor colours were as I just could not see them.
I then started to study electronics at collage and again found it to be a problem and at that point it clicked. So out was any idea of working for the GPO (Sorry BT).
I also found Teletext annoying with the green / yellow buttons as they both looked the same on screen.
But if anyone else says "Do you see grass as red" I think I will punch them.
I had a colour blindness test many years ago and had to pass before acceptance for training as an electrician.
Because I passed, I have always had confidence in the colours I see.
A couple of years back I bought a TVR Chimaera which was a very light silver blue colour.
Several times, talking to the mechanic who looked after it, he would mention its silver green colour.
In the end we agreed to disagree.
The information in this thread makes me wonder how many of us see the world slightly differently.
We must all have slightly differently 'settings' if our red, yellow, blue receptors.
I just sent my latest TVR somewhere else for respray
Because I passed, I have always had confidence in the colours I see.
A couple of years back I bought a TVR Chimaera which was a very light silver blue colour.
Several times, talking to the mechanic who looked after it, he would mention its silver green colour.
In the end we agreed to disagree.
The information in this thread makes me wonder how many of us see the world slightly differently.
We must all have slightly differently 'settings' if our red, yellow, blue receptors.
I just sent my latest TVR somewhere else for respray
I can't see red, green or brown. The thing I find most frustrating, is not being able to see things in Nature, for example cherrys hanging from a tree. Last summer my wife and I were driving across country when suddenly she shouts OMG!!!!! LOOK AT THAT!! I was looking everywhere, couldn't see a thing until she pointed out a field covered in poppies. I had to actually stop the car and get her to point at them before I could see it.
Salterns said:
I can't see red, green or brown. The thing I find most frustrating, is not being able to see things in Nature, for example cherrys hanging from a tree. Last summer my wife and I were driving across country when suddenly she shouts OMG!!!!! LOOK AT THAT!! I was looking everywhere, couldn't see a thing until she pointed out a field covered in poppies. I had to actually stop the car and get her to point at them before I could see it.
Glad I'm not the only one...!z4RRSchris99 said:
i cant do the tests, and have been told im colourblind by endless doctors etc, but i have yet to find a situation where i see the effect of it.
Well duh....you can't see what's wrong!I'm red/green colour-blind and it can get quite annoying with subtle shades of various colours. Blue is not so bad for me, but the Red/Green blends? Ha! Good luck.
blueST said:
Biggest pain for me is not knowing what colours go together and which clash. Makes the morning shirt choice a bit stressful if the wife isn't around to advise. I tend to just try and remember which combos were ok'd previously and pick those out.
My OH is an artist, and is constantly trying to get me to wear more colour. Having experienced some shockers over the years, my wardrobe is various shades of white, black, grey and blue.
Workwear always involves white shirts, and neutral suit.
I've produced some apparently horrific presentations in the past. Dunno why, the slides looked really nice from my perspective!
z4RRSchris99 said:
i cant do the tests, and have been told im colourblind by endless doctors etc, but i have yet to find a situation where i see the effect of it.
I can't do the Ishihara plate tests either, but I can tell my reds from the greens etc in "real life". I can remember doing the plate test at school when I was about 13/14 and failing terribly. The nurse sent me home with a colour blindness leaflet, to my Mum's surprise. The following week I had to do another test with the nurse. Basically there were 3, 4, 5 or 6 coloured dots on each page and I had to pair them up (I think they were different shades of each colour). Anyway, I did it and passed with flying colours (excuse the pun). The nurse sat there confused and declared that I was no longer colour blind!
Having said that, recently I have discovered that if I'm stood about 50 yards away from a Holly tree that has berries, I can't see them (the berries), whereas other people around me can. (This was the first and only time *touch wood*, that I realised I must be a bit colour blind). Any closer than 50 yards and I can see them as clear as anything.
Can one be mildly colour blind? Or am I some sort of exception/weirdo?
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