Found out I am Colour-blind!

KnowItAll · 07-06-2005 01:07AM #1

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 · 07-06-2005 01:11AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:12AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:12AM

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

LadyJ · 07-06-2005 01:13AM

At least you can't be racist!:D

07-06-2005 01:14AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:15AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:15AM

lol damn navy people i hate em

Matthewthebig · 07-06-2005 01:15AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:15AM

so can you tell whos on line or off line?

Matthewthebig · 07-06-2005 01:16AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:16AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:17AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:19AM

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

Easily_Irritated · 07-06-2005 01:21AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:22AM

red contacts ?

Easily_Irritated · 07-06-2005 01:23AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:24AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:24AM

monkeyfudge wrote:

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

an alter boy bi any chance

LadyJ · 07-06-2005 01:24AM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:58AM

i was diagnosed as being colour blind when i was 22

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

monkeyfudge · 07-06-2005 03:58AM

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 · 07-06-2005 09:00AM

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

skywalker · 07-06-2005 09:19AM

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 · 07-06-2005 09:41AM

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 · 07-06-2005 09:55AM

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 · 07-06-2005 10:14AM

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 · 07-06-2005 12:06PM

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 · 07-06-2005 12:14PM

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 · 07-06-2005 01:09PM

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

madrab · 07-06-2005 01:51PM

i still remember my first night time driving lesson

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

:-)

Found out I am Colour-blind!

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