Colour blindness.....annoying.

Colour blindness.....annoying.

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Garlick

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40,601 posts

241 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

Garlick

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40,601 posts

241 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!