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)

 

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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

Lol, who needs to be PC when you have the condition? xD

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..

I didnt know about Fireman either til I looked into it at careers places.

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.

Yeah, I am the same with Dark red/brown and green/grey and different shades of everything.

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

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..

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

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

I never won colouring in competitions when I was younger because I coloured things in brown instead of dark red =[

 

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Can't remember which 2 colours i was, but to be honest it doesn't affect me to much! The only real problem i have is with those bloody spotted colour eye tests!

Lol, totally, I was getting confused when I did the tests before I started high school. Everyone was like "Did you see the 8?" and I was thinking to myself I didnt have any 8s so thats when I found out.

 

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Apart from that though, I do have photosensitivity syndrome, meaning that too much light gives me a headache. The dark is the best place for me. I can't play games with scrolling colours either as they make me feel weird, so no Guitar Heo or Columns or colour versions of Tetris or too much Audiosurf *sigh*.

It's genuinely annoying as everyone thinks I'm making it up

Hope this isn't thread hijacking, it just reminded me. (Also, my first point was in relation to the thread.)

I also have a variance of this. If I get too much light (example very sunny day on the bus) my eyes go red and I get sore heads lol
I dont have any problems with guitar hero or anything. Its only too much sunlight. Need to wear sunglasses more or my eyes get screwed up...

 

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i am quite sensitive to light but i assumed it was to do with my migrains. i have no problem with guitar hero or flickering light though

Might be the migraines causing light sensitivity or the light sensitivity causing migraines.
Migraines really are a killer, I get bad ones once or twice a month.

 

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I wonder if you could get glasses with a sort of filter to make them differ?

After I posted this I decided to have a look. Apparently you can but it depends how severe it is.

 

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There's a T shirt you and I need to avoid... its got one of those colourblind test things on it, and I cant see anything on it. Showed it to my wife and she burst out laughing... apparently it says **** the colourblind on it

Got a Link? I wanna see it (or not as the case will be)

 

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Can you guys also....read this?

Yes.

 

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Hmmmm...one of these days

Should have done it the same blue as the background

 

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Ha - but only colour blind people can see this !











Isn't that right chaps !

Are you colour blind too?

Edit: lol I just googled "novel colour blind test" and went to images. It returned pictures of Jesus. Awesome.