Found out I am Colour-blind!

KnowItAll

I was about 11/12. I always had trouble with car colours when my friends would point one out. I just thought that they spent a long time studying colours. I thought being colour-blind was like seeing a black n'white tv.

I found out by taking a test in school. When told I was colour-blind I thought they had the wrong person! So, is there anybody else here colour-blind? How long did it take you to find out?

Tar.Aldarion

nope but i think thats like the good vision thing.before i found out my vision was slight impared i always wondered what people with bad eyesight would see.
lol at studying colours^^

oh ya my friends always know hes colourblind,dunno how he just cant tell the diff between some colours.

Basq

Don't know if this is technically classified as colour-blind.. but all the males in my family can't distinguish between some colours very well!

For instance.. i have real trouble distingushing between black and navy!

But i do have fantastic vision!

Tar.Aldarion

ya thats mild colourblindness,usually its red and green i think

LadyJ

At least you can't be racist!:D

Tar.Aldarion

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

ya thats mild colourblindness,usually its red and green i think

Indeed it is as they have the longest wavelength so they would be most at risk.

monkeyfudge

basquille wrote:

For instance.. i have real trouble distingushing between black and navy!

So you can't tell the difference between layman's socks and priest's socks?

Tar.Aldarion

lol damn navy people i hate em

Matthewthebig

The strange thing is it is very hard for a women to be colourblind. as its passed on the male side of the gene.

the only way a girl can get it is if her dad has it and her mum has the resessive gene

county

so can you tell whos on line or off line?

Matthewthebig

monkeyfudge wrote:

So you can't tell the difference between layman's socks and priest's socks?

they were jsut very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very dark navy

Tar.Aldarion

monkeyfudge wrote:

So you can't tell the difference between layman's socks and priest's socks?

LOL^^ love that quote!
and as for the wavelengths,thats the only reason i could come up with for it being red and green cos they are not very similar...

Basq

Matthewthebig wrote:

they were jsut very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very dark navy

"THEY SHAFT YOU EVERY TIME!"

Tar.Aldarion

woah they must take you to the cleaners especially if you told em of your disorder^^

Easily_Irritated

My best mate is red-green colour blind. Thats the most common type. if he sees red or green its just a greyish colour to him. Hes been colour blind from birth so has never seen the colour red or green just different greeny shades.

Altho, I was reading an article about that at xmas and apparently there are scientists constantly working on relieving this problem and in germany they reckon they'll be able to fix it in less than 10 years!

Tar.Aldarion

red contacts ?

Easily_Irritated

Matthewthebig wrote:

they were jsut very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very dark navy

is it not very very very very dark brown/blue?
you're probably right and Im just mad. Great episode... well, they're all great episodes!

OY

I think what you are talking about is Red-Green Colourblindness.
I was diagnosed with this when i was 13. Failed the test miserably at the opticians, could not see a single number in the coloured circles test. it is funny because of course i never thought i was colour blind. I was seeing the same as i was always seeing and did not think any different.
The devestating news though was when i was told i could not be a pilot. At the time i was spending a lot of my weekend flying Cesnas with my neighbour and loved the thought of being a pilot.
There are a couple of other careers that this hinders (electrician being one that springs to mind) but ultimately it does not affect your everyday life.
I paint on a regular basis and see colours all around me, they are just not always the same shade of colour as what others are seeing.

- OY

(Sorry if i am repeating. I started this reply, had a call at work and by the time i finished it it appears everyone else said the same thing as me! Oh well!)

county

monkeyfudge wrote:

So you can't tell the difference between layman's socks and priest's socks?

an alter boy bi any chance

LadyJ

Easily_Irritate wrote:

is it not very very very very dark brown/blue?
you're probably right and Im just mad. Great episode... well, they're all great episodes!

Actually it's blue.

Mossy Monk

i was diagnosed as being colour blind when i was 22

had no idea, like most i have difficulty distinguishing between some colours

monkeyfudge

county wrote:

an alter boy bi any chance

What's an alter boy bi? Do they have sex with both the nuns and the priests?

John

Some people when they have a stroke lose all their colour vision, they see in black and white. It's called achromatopsia

skywalker

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

ya thats mild colourblindness,usually its red and green i think

So do 3D glasses/films not work at all on people with this disorder, or do they work really well?

madrab

i have been colour blind since birth, the hole red green thing is difficult but i can see them (but i cant tell the difference between red and yellow LED's, which can be difficult especially as im an engineer )

the worst one is that there is no colour purple for me, i dont know what it looks like, i see about 50 squillion shades of blue, but no purple

kinda like dark blue, blue, light blue, pink thats it, can be annoying, i also figured out that the reason blue was my favourite colout as a kid was that it was the main colour i saw

also i can have trouble when playing snooker, the brown ball can be the same as the red balls

the_syco

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

red contacts ?

Yes, you can get special contct lenses. Someone on a course I went to used green glasses, all the time, as he was colour blind.

Raz

A couple of online colorblindness tests,

http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html
http://colorvisiontesting.com/online%20test.htm
http://colorvisiontesting.com/ishihara.htm

It would be best to print these out before taking them. Most monitors settings will be a little off making the test either easier or harder.

EDIT: some more detailed information about colorblindness and it's different types,
http://colorvisiontesting.com/color2.htm

JackKelly

When i was in primary school, i was sitting beside a guy and we were making a map of Ireland. He coloured the entire thing brown and wouldn't believe me when i told him it was brown and not green. Being young, i was just like w....t.....f?

snorlax

duno if this will be any use to you but it has some good links, information about it

http://occupational-therapy.advanceweb.com/common/editorial/PrintFriendly.aspx?CC=54152

RE*AC*TOR

So I guess then traffic lights are an interesting concept for red/green colorblind people.

madrab

i still remember my first night time driving lesson

instructor "Red Light!!!"
me "OH Crap"
car tyres "SCREEEECH"

:-)

juno75

A couple of online colorblindness tests,

Just done em and I think Im colour blind :eek:

Stephen

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

So I guess then traffic lights are an interesting concept for red/green colorblind people.

I wouldn't think so, red is always on top, green is always on the bottom.

Squirrel

madrab wrote:

i have been colour blind since birth, the hole red green thing is difficult but i can see them (but i cant tell the difference between red and yellow LED's, which can be difficult especially as im an engineer )

the worst one is that there is no colour purple for me, i dont know what it looks like, i see about 50 squillion shades of blue, but no purple

kinda like dark blue, blue, light blue, pink thats it, can be annoying, i also figured out that the reason blue was my favourite colout as a kid was that it was the main colour i saw

also i can have trouble when playing snooker, the brown ball can be the same as the red balls

I was watching snooker on TV, no problem with the red and brown, but pink and yellow, no bother with red and green, but black and navy confuse me so much

RE*AC*TOR

Stephen wrote:

I wouldn't think so, red is always on top, green is always on the bottom.

Still though surely an interesting concept. Being that they both look the same??

I'm sure a colorblind person can adjust - but as someone mentioned above - both colours look grey - it could be interesting for those times when you see a light in your peripheral vision or something like that.

I'd be interested to knwo if there are any restrictions on colorblind people driving - or how they cope?

Mossy Monk

with snooker the ones that confuse me are brown and green, and red and brown

KnowItAll

skywalker wrote:

So do 3D glasses/films not work at all on people with this disorder, or do they work really well?

I did a 3d test and got 10 out of 10, which I was told is rare. People who are colour blind have vision as clear as anybody - it's just colours..

Tar.Aldarion

skywalker wrote:

So do 3D glasses/films not work at all on people with this disorder, or do they work really well?

think they would work the same with fecked up colours

Hugh Hefner

Easily_Irritate wrote:

My best mate is red-green colour blind. Thats the most common type. if he sees red or green its just a greyish colour to him. Hes been colour blind from birth so has never seen the colour red or green just different greeny shades.

[CULCHIE]So does that mean he can't watch The Matrix like?[/CULCHIE]

Redshift

As a problem I think it's blown way out of proportion in most cases. I am red green colour blind my self, diagnosed in primary school I fail all the tests for this condition both controlled and the ones that were posted here.
Now heres the thing it's quite annoying to be told you can't be an electrician or a pilot and occupations like that by people who are probably colour normal and have no idea what colour blindness is like. In my job (service engineer) which I have been doing for the last ten years I am continously working with small multicoloured wires far more colours infact than an electrician would generally work with, yet I have never had a problem in all this time. Desipte deing told by various eye doctors and testers that i'm hopelessly colour blind.
I have also been driving for 10 years Red looks Red, Amber looks Amber and Green looks Green, I may see them different than a colour normal person but I can still interpret them as the correct colour. I also hold a certificate in marine navigation and steering which I have have done many hours of in both light and darkness. The tests for this were conducted in darkness requiring me to read and interpret the different colour lights used in navigation and I can do this without difficulty.
In short I do many tasks which require me to see and interpret colour correctly which obviously I can do in spite of being colour blind.

Squirrel

Redshift wrote:

As a problem I think it's blown way out of proportion in most cases. I am red green colour blind my self, diagnosed in primary school I fail all the tests for this condition both controlled and the ones that were posted here.
Now heres the thing it's quite annoying to be told you can't be an electrician or a pilot and occupations like that by people who are probably colour normal and have no idea what colour blindness is like. In my job (service engineer) which I have been doing for the last ten years I am continously working with small multicoloured wires far more colours infact than an electrician would generally work with, yet I have never had a problem in all this time. Desipte deing told by various eye doctors and testers that i'm hopelessly colour blind.
I have also been driving for 10 years Red looks Red, Amber looks Amber and Green looks Green, I may see them different than a colour normal person but I can still interpret them as the correct colour. I also hold a certificate in marine navigation and steering which I have have done many hours of in both light and darkness. The tests for this were conducted in darkness requiring me to read and interpret the different colour lights used in navigation and I can do this without difficulty.
In short I do many tasks which require me to see and interpret colour correctly which obviously I can do in spite of being colour blind.

Exactly, colour blindness is just a different way of seeing each colour.

John

if it's just a different way of seeing each colour then how come you can't differentiate between red and green, or can you and I'm just wrong?

RE*AC*TOR

I always wanted to discover a new colour. Wouldn't that be cool?

Obviously its impossible given that the visible spectrum is only so wide - but I guess it kind ties in with all of this.

dudara

I realised my cousin was colour blind when we were 6 and he coloured the sky green and the ground blue.

From what I understand red/green is only an issue when they're placed on top pf each other. For instance, liverpool on green, or for an ex, an orange football on green grass

skibum

I only found out I was colourblind when I was about to sign up for an apprenticeship with the ESB in 1986, (That was the time when there was NO jobs or prospects in Ireland, and it felt like I had hit the jackpot when I was told I was one of the successful applicants) I had done the medical and just before the contracts were signed it was noted that the eye test wasn't completed. The Ishihara test was pulled out, i was asked to follow the line with my finger, What line?? Bang went my apprenticeship, my second choice was Car mechanic, that also went out the window.

One of the previous posters stated that you can allow / adjust for different colours, maybe if your condition isn't too severe, but with me I don't see various colours or shades, EG pink, shades of blue's, green's and red's. Playing snooker can be very interesting.

I worked as a Lift operator in a ski resort for two seasons, and there were red / green leds all over the control consol, I told the lifts manager about my "problem" and being typical Australian said no worries and had them all labeled Red / green!

I also worked as a field service engineer doing the usual install's, repairs, maintenance for all sorts of IT equipment, but when it came to repairing patch leads or rewiring hubs etc, I always made sure that I "Confirmed" the colours with the first available person on site!

Capt'n Midnight

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

I always wanted to discover a new colour. Wouldn't that be cool?

Obviously its impossible given that the visible spectrum is only so wide - but I guess it kind ties in with all of this.

All you need is to have a new chemical in your eye. At present we see three colours (I've heard up to seven pigments) So with a bit of genetic engineering we could have pigments that respond to ultraviolet like bees, or maybe a little further into the infra-red. Also by using overlapping ones or ones with narrow bandwidths we could fit more colours into the existing spectrum.

My uncle got a pair of fawn trousers. Couldn't wear them because they were pink.

John

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

All you need is to have a new chemical in your eye. At present we see three colours (I've heard up to seven pigments) So with a bit of genetic engineering we could have pigments that respond to ultraviolet like bees, or maybe a little further into the infra-red. Also by using overlapping ones or ones with narrow bandwidths we could fit more colours into the existing spectrum.

But that's not discovering a new colour, that's allowing access to an already existing but imperceptible range of colours.

Capt'n Midnight

John2 wrote:

But that's not discovering a new colour, that's allowing access to an already existing but imperceptible range of colours.

Bees see in the ultraviolet they can see stuff that we can't like UV pigments in flowers. But anything we see as red they see as black because that would be a new colour for them. At a guess fish should be able to see further into the infra-red than we can, again seeing things we can't.

Humpty D

KnowItAll wrote:

I was about 11/12. I always had trouble with car colours when my friends would point one out. I just thought that they spent a long time studying colours. I thought being colour-blind was like seeing a black n'white tv.

I found out by taking a test in school. When told I was colour-blind I thought they had the wrong person! So, is there anybody else here colour-blind? How long did it take you to find out?

I guess you'll have to change your username now.