any color blind DUers out there?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

I am feeling alone in the great big world today. I am the only person I know with this lovely problem...

TheProdigal

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1. Red-green colorblind here

But I don't think 'colorblind' is a very descriptive word. I don't see them as 'black and white' (ie, without color), but I tend to confuse them, and they both tend to look like a brown to me. I can distinguish them with proper light and some cueing, but otherwise, they sort of look like two shades of the same color.

I didn't know I was colorblind until an Air Force physical at the age of 23. Up until that point, I assume everyone just figured I had a bad sense of color as far as the way I dressed.

Interestingly enough, I *think* that in exchange for diminished red/green vision, I think I'm better with blues and yellows than most. Blue is probably the most 'vivid' color to me.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. i am blue-green

apparently a pretty rare form. So much fun at parties..."So, is this black or grey or what?" I, like you, see color but cannot distinguish. I know it is either blue or green, but could not tell you which.

My 'problem' was discovered when I was a very tender age. Before I could read the color on the crayon, I was coloring thing 'wrong.' I was either VERY ARTISTIC or there was a problem...and since I'm NOT artistic...

I have groovy red receptors though! That color and its variations JUMP out at me.

TheProdigal <---glad to know he's no alone!

[Pithlet]

2. My husband is

I wish I knew what the world looked like to him. He only sees a few colors, and can't always differentiate the degree (light blue vs dark blue). He says he's convinced that there are only 3 or 4 shades of color, and everyone else is making the rest up.

[Virginian]

4. ditto

My husband is Red/Green and so is his cousin the ART Professor.
My husband is sensitive about it. I try to reassure him that he shouldn't be

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. the ART professor?

now that's rich! I am not sensitive about it or anything, it just makes life a little difficult from time to time. I wonder if there is a pair of glasses out there that will solve my problem...hmmmm

TheProdigal

[Virginian]

7. Yes, the art professor!

He is mostly into sculpture but I asked him what he did about color. He said if he really wants to know, he just asks the class, "Can anyone here tell me what color this is?"
Instead of "Red" the answer will be "Alizarin Crimson" or "Cadmium Red" or some other fine tuned shade of red.

[Nikia]

6. I'm not but it is on both sides of the family

My mother's father is very color blind and has always bought black and white televisions as a result.
My father's cousins from his father's sister are all blue/yellow color blinded, both the men and women.

[put out]

8. Wow, the women too. Pretty rare.

[dbt]

9. Both blue/green and red/green here!

Aside from being trotted out to entertain the "Normals" at family gatherings, the only real problem I have ever had with it is when I encountered a traffic light mounted sideways. Couldn't figure out whether the alleged green was to the left or the right. Narrowly avoided a rather messy collision, thanks to Guardians.

Oh yeah. It has also kept me from being a successful audio engineer because I can't read the color codes on resistors. That's why I became one, I suppose...

:smoke:
dbt

[ProudGerman]

10. I've always wondered about that

That has been something that I've wondered about ever since I learned their was such a thing as color blindness. I mean, because of that, you'd expect they'd always mount them vertically, so you know to go when the bottom light is lit.

I've also wondered who would be liable in an accident caused by them being mounted horizontally and a color blind person not being to tell which light is green. Would the city be partly responsible for that....or what?