Colour Blindness

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Does anyone else suffer from this? I have red-green colour blindness which had basically screwed up two of my selected occupations when I was at school - electrician/fireman.

I am wondering if anyone has heard of any possible ways in which to try and get normal vision?

If not, how do you guys cope with this?

I find it hard when electrical appliances that have a red and green LED, I cant actually tell when its red or green or when the cursor in a game is green I cant always see it change to red when on an enemy etc. Some games have included a colour blind option, but most dont.

(inb4 nuking from orbit and mustard)
 
I have it, as you probably know it's fairly common amongst the male population. btw the PC term for it nowdays is Colour Vision Deficiency ;)

tbh it's a minor inconvenience for me sometimes although I guess it does depend on the severity, as you would expect with most things there is a very wide range of impact. As you've found out though it is a barrier to some occupations although not as many as it used to. Electrician, airline pilot are out, didn't know about Fireman though?, and use to be Police although think that may have changed..

Although it's called Red / Green deficiency which can make things like the LED thing you mention tricky where it affects me most is in certain colours that are the same saturation ie a dark red / dark brown or a light grey / light green. People often ask what is it like to be colour blind and the way I describe it is if you turn down the colour control on your TV then colours will start to become more indestinguishable and less vibrant and that's probably the best way to think of it.

A tip though if you find out someone is colour blind don't point at a bright Red ballloon or a vibrant blue jumper and say 'what colour is that' ? as of course they can tell the colour unless they are very severley deficient :p

My brother and I are both colour deficient but our kids don't have it as it's normally handed down the female side..

There are no ways that I'm aware of for rectifiying colour deficiency in day to day life although some tinted lenses may help in certain specific situations..
 
i am colourblind and have a red deficiency, it doesn't affect me much although i always got the 'what colour is that' when anyone found out and when they pointed out 3 obvious colours and got them right they would say 'your not colourblind'.

another one (which i guess is why they call it colour vision deficiency) was 'so you can only see black and white'

i can never tell the difference between blue and purple, also yellow and light/lime green sometimes and dark green brown. its a bit annoying sometimes like rewireing cat5 cables etc but i don't find it that much of a hinderence.

if someone asks me to pass the >colour< something i have to explain it to them
 
Go into Bomb Disposal, remember to cut the red wire... oh, wait... :p

I'm really interested to know how the colours look to someone who is colour blind... do they just flicker between two colours or just appear as some sort of grey? I suppose it's hard to explain :confused:
 
Blue-green for me but not very severe at all...
I know it rules me out from flying a plane in a professional capacity, but does anyone know if it stops me from learning to fly completely as this is something I've always had a hankering to do?

Sneaky Peaky said:
A tip though if you find out someone is colour blind don't point at a bright Red ballloon or a vibrant blue jumper and say 'what colour is that' ? as of course they can tell the colour unless they are very severley deficient :p
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I had this sooooo much as a kid, eventually it was easier just to say that I saw in black and white :p
 
a few things people find funny/scary.

Healthy grass looks bright orange, the same colour as an orange. if you were to throw an orange into grass i doubt i would be able to see it. Frogs on the other hand (which people tell me is a similar colour to grass) i can spot them from a mile away. leaves are green though.

peanut butter is bright green, people say its a tan colour but its green to me, same with caucasian skin thats green.

and i`m sure some people will think its because i didn`t learn the colours when i was younger.
 
Sash said:
Does anyone else suffer from this? I have red-green colour blindness which had basically screwed up two of my selected occupations when I was at school - electrician/fireman.

I am wondering if anyone has heard of any possible ways in which to try and get normal vision?

If not, how do you guys cope with this?

I find it hard when electrical appliances that have a red and green LED, I cant actually tell when its red or green or when the cursor in a game is green I cant always see it change to red when on an enemy etc. Some games have included a colour blind option, but most dont.

(inb4 nuking from orbit and mustard)
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I'm also colour blind with green and red's, it's never really affected me much i can still wire up electrics but i do have to look a lot harder and sometimes ask someone else.

It's very amusing when people are just like "so can you only see black and white?" and pointing out a colour which is easy to identify. Also the "how do you know when to go at traffic lights?" i mean come on :p
 
Sneaky Peaky said:
I have it, as you probably know it's fairly common amongst the male population. btw the PC term for it nowdays is Colour Vision Deficiency ;)
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Lol, who needs to be PC when you have the condition? xD
Sneaky Peaky said:
tbh it's a minor inconvenience for me sometimes although I guess it does depend on the severity, as you would expect with most things there is a very wide range of impact. As you've found out though it is a barrier to some occupations although not as many as it used to. Electrician, airline pilot are out, didn't know about Fireman though?, and use to be Police although think that may have changed..
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I didnt know about Fireman either til I looked into it at careers places.
Sneaky Peaky said:
Although it's called Red / Green deficiency which can make things like the LED thing you mention tricky where it affects me most is in certain colours that are the same saturation ie a dark red / dark brown or a light grey / light green. People often ask what is it like to be colour blind and the way I describe it is if you turn down the colour control on your TV then colours will start to become more indestinguishable and less vibrant and that's probably the best way to think of it.
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Yeah, I am the same with Dark red/brown and green/grey and different shades of everything.
Sneaky Peaky said:
A tip though if you find out someone is colour blind don't point at a bright Red ballloon or a vibrant blue jumper and say 'what colour is that' ? as of course they can tell the colour unless they are very severley deficient :p

My brother and I are both colour deficient but our kids don't have it as it's normally handed down the female side..

There are no ways that I'm aware of for rectifiying colour deficiency in day to day life although some tinted lenses may help in certain specific situations..
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That is one of the things which will end up with the person being hurt by me. Its the same joke and it gets boring lol

lopkinfop said:
i am colourblind and have a red deficiency, it doesn't affect me much although i always got the 'what colour is that' when anyone found out and when they pointed out 3 obvious colours and got them right they would say 'your not colourblind'.

another one (which i guess is why they call it colour vision deficiency) was 'so you can only see black and white'

i can never tell the difference between blue and purple, also yellow and light/lime green sometimes and dark green brown. its a bit annoying sometimes like rewireing cat5 cables etc but i don't find it that much of a hinderence.

if someone asks me to pass the >colour< something i have to explain it to them
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I never won colouring in competitions when I was younger because I coloured things in brown instead of dark red =[
 
I'm red green colour blind, and yes, I get all the same stupid questions as you guys.
I also have if I remember correctly, Photoscopic-synsativity Syndrome, whereas I cannot read Red writting on a white background.

Of course, much to the hilarity of my friends, they enjoy writting things of bits of paper that I cannot read :p.
Most annoying questions are - "So your like a dog?" "Can you see this red pen if I throw it towards you?"

Heck, my post sounds like i'm bullied because of it, I'm not! Just a minor problem. And it means sometimes when i'm doing some Design work, my shades of colour are slightly different to what everyone else is seeing.
 
Ysmalari said:
@lopkinfop, that's definitely one of the most severe and from what I've heard of a fairly rare colour combination.
Do you drive, if so I'm guessing that you've trained yourself to always go on the bottom amber ;)
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I can tell the difference between the traffic light colours but i do normally go by top=stop bottom=go

Sash said:
I never won colouring in competitions when I was younger because I coloured things in brown instead of dark red =[
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i got told off in school because i coloured the sky or water in purple
 
I am also Red-Blue colourblind. It's never really bothered me, although I do also get the stupid 'What colour is this?' questions. It is hard to explain to some people, but it just means I can't distinguish between certain colours, like dark blue and purple, or light green and yellow.

I think I read somewhere that the US Army sometimes prefer having colour blind snipers on the team, because they can see past some camo that normal sighted people can't, like with the frog in the grass above.
 
I was following a driver the other day and the lights went red and they went through. I thought to myself that they must be in a hurry or just idiots so thought no more of it. I caught up with them about 30 secondes later heading towards another set of lights. These were green and the car in front slammed on its brakes! I had to go round and they flashed and hooted at me for going through! The next set of lights was the same story, they were red and the car behind wanted to get through!

Now they must have some sever form of colour blindness or are simple retards!

Oh and before anyone asks, it wasnt me in the wrong, other cars overtook as well ;)
 
Ciphon said:
Green - Red here too! Always coming back from the shops with the wrong milk.. haven't done that for awhile though :)
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do they look identicle? or if your not paying too much attention you can mix them up? if you look at them closely can you tell them apart at all?

those two colours are fine for me i see them as red and green, but i`m only red deficient so its subtle reds in say purple i cant tell.
 
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