Are you color blind?

[Christine_0701]

This is stemming from one of my q's in teh decisions decisions thread. I'm curious as to how many of us on here are colorblind?

[sarahkate]

I always thought only men could be color blind?
Sounds like I received false information!

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

Hey, I thought so too, Sarah. Wow, I can't wait to hear about this. I have only known one colorblind person in my life, and he wouldn't talk about it. Grouch.

[sarahkate]

It must be frustrating to be color blind. I guess you wouldn't really know what you were missing....but that would be the frustrating part...not knowing what certain colors really look like. It would drive me crazy.

I have a friend who is color blind & his girlfriend has to pick out all of his clothes for him :P

[kittymao]

I knew a fellow who was color blind in art school.
His name was Ghost, and it was interesting.
He talked about it a little.
He couldn't see Green or Red- well, for the most part.
He could see the Shades, as when they are grey, colors have shades.
So he could figure out what color was what by seeing teh shade and comparing it to otehr shades.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/304517/colorblind.jpg

There was a time the tips of my hair were dyed a brilliant uncoagulated movie-blood red, and Ghost walked by and said " Wao. Your hair is really red." And I thought it was sarcasm and said " Why yes, it is."
And then was told that Ghost was colorblind, and he had stated that becuase he could See the shade.

weird. Anyway. That's all I really recall.

[Christine_0701]

well, color blindness is in the X chromosome...and guys have XY chromosomes, so if they color blindness in their X chromosome, they're colorblind. Colorblindness is a recessive trait, and girls have XX chromosomes, so they'd have to have colorblindness in BOTH X chromosomes....meaning their dad would have to be colorblind, plus their mom a carrier/color blind...if their mom was a carrier, they'd have a 50/50 chance of being colorblind..if their mom was color blind, they'd be guaranteed to be colorblind

my mom is a carrier, and my dad is color blind...i have 2 sisters, and 1 of them is also colorblind. i'm not as badly colorblind as she is....i can see the different colors...it's just hard for me to tell different shades of the colors.

also, when you go into the doctors, and they have those circles with the colored dots in them...lots of times i don't see any numbers lol

[sarahkate]

Oh wow! You learn something new everyday! Thanks for the info Christine :)

[Christine_0701]

no parblem! lol. another interesting tidbit, is that baldness is in the x chromosome...and is also a recessive trait...so when a guy goes bald, he gets to blame his mommy for it lol

[pantiesontherod]

A fairly well known architect here in melbourne is colour blind - and you can sooo tell - his buildings are always really yucky combinations - like pale pink with emerald green - i reckon he chooses the colours by the names! lol

[kittymao]

huzzah for colorblind artists!

How about Synesthesia (http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/synesthesia.html)?
Anyone know anybody w/ that?

[Redandpinkdaisy]

I'm not colorblind, but my grandpa is.

[hammerquill]

There are also different sorts and degrees of colorblindness. One of my high-school teachers was, I think, red-green colorblind. This was relevant because he was a History teacher, and you couldn't point to a map and say "the pink country" or whatever. He would see red and green as very slightly different in quality (not just in value, light to dark), but then all the possible shades up there, longer in wavelength than blues, were pretty much confused for him.

There are people who are profoundly colorblind as well, who see everything in shades of grey. Leads to a hugely different perception of the world, it seems. It's also exceedingly rare. There are two great books which talk about it, though: Oliver Sacks' The Island of the Colorblind and, more incidentally, Monty Roberts' The Man Who Listens to Horses.

[Bugitha]

I had an art history professor who was colorblind with purples and browns. So we would look at slides of paintings and mosaics and she would demand to know what colors we were seeing. "What color is his robe? Is it purple?" Which, taken out of context sounds like a kindergaten class rather than college. :P

[Christine_0701]

i'm red-green colorblind. this might seem confusing, but i learnt it in grade 10 science, so i'll try to explain it. basically, i see teh colors in greys. BUT when I was kid, my parents told me what colors were (i'm sure everyone's parents did. like "look at the red balloon" etc.) and so if I look at a green bowl (i actually am right now) it enters my brain as grey, my brain processes it to be green, and i see it as green. a lot of colorblind people are like that, apparantly. I have a hard time with shades of stuff though....like, a pale yellow and a pale green are hard to tell apart. sometimes i have problems with blue and purple and of course shades of colors...if you have a dark purple, and a slightly lighter/darker shade of purple, i sometimes can't tell them apart. my sister's color blindness is way worse than mine though lol.

Conversly, I know someone who was basically blind, and she's fully color blind, all she sees is greys...and it's soo annoying, because she's jealous of me, that i can see colors, so she gets pissed at me anytime someone brings up stuff about colors. But, she was basically blind, as i mentioned, and she got a double cornea transplant, so now she can see...not really good, but she can see a lot better. so that's good.

[girl-who-loves-sharks]

How about Synesthesia?
Anyone know anybody w/ that?

I wish I could say it was me! But yes, I have a friend who claims to see music. (I guess I believe him.)

[thunderstorm_19]

Originally posted by Christine_0701@Sep 23 2003, 04:13 PM
so they'd have to have colorblindness in BOTH X chromosomes....
and that's why colour-blindness is more common in men than in women, though it occurs in both.
christine beat me to the whole explanation. we covered that in anthropology briefly last year while we did genetics...

[Christine_0701]

heh. yea, I learnt it in gr 9 (and then againg in gr. 10) science.

[Kelly]

My grandpa is colour blind, although it's not genetic. It's actually snow blindness (seeing the reflection off snow in the winter in bright sun which causes your rods and cones or what-have-you to screw up).

Or something to that effect, I'm not an opthalmologist ;).

Ahhh, the terrors of living in the prairies.

My boyfriend's father is colour blind genetically. I think that's all I know.

I learned about genetic colourblindness in grade 10 too!

[venus28976]

I friend of mine in high school was partially colorblind. She couldn't see red and green and blue i think. When we were in drama the teacher told her to stand on the green line for blocking and she went to the wrong line and the teacher got mad and she was like "where's the green line? I'm color blind?"

[Christine_0701]

thought i'd bump this up for all the new ppl on the forums

[Helquin]

Vischeck (http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php) has a great site that gives a little info about the 3 types of colorblindness and lets you see how a colorblind person would perceive different web sites. I guess not every URL works, but I was able to view my blog there a couple years ago.

[shecoo]

Years ago my husband and I went to the beach with a good friend of ours. Our friend good naturedly refused to use the towel I brought along for him because he said it was pink...it wasn't, it was grey...but he insisted it was pink. We always joked around and razzed each other so he thought I was trying to embarrass him with a pink towel. I think guys have come a long way since then and a pink towel wouldn't be quite the humiliation today that is was then! :rolleyes:

[Christine_0701]

thanks for the site, Helquin, it's really cool