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Colour Blind

pd101 · 2008-01-31 19:42:30

This is a half rant - half interested-in-other-opinins post. It can be really annnoying when it comes to using anything colour coded and even more annoying trying to describe it to other people. You get "what colour is this" and "what colour is that" all the time. The way it affects me most is watching sports. I was…

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#32 01-02-2008 10:55am
IvyTheTerrible

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Senna wrote: »

A secondary school teacher done of these tests on me years ago and said i was colour blind, but i have no problem playing snooker or watch football. I think its a very mild case of colour blindness.

It's probably not "mild" colourblindness but just a different type. It depends on what mutation there is in your colour receptor cells in your eyes. Red/green colourblindness is the most common but there are other types too involving different colours, which is why you can play snooker and football.

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#33 01-02-2008 10:57am
Lawless_Samurai

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Yeah I have a few friends who are colour blind and I always wreck their head trying to explain it to me. That link to wikipedia really explained alot! Don't think I'll be annoying them as much anymore!

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