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How are you not envious of her? I'm asking seriously.

kempbellt 7y ago
Being colorblind myself, I used to be envious of people who could see more colors than me. I still am, to some extent. Though, over the years I picked up on an upside to it. Since I'm unable to see as many colors when viewing the world, I tend to pick up changes in motion much more quickly than people around me. It makes me fairly proficient at driving, dodging moving obstacles while doing any physical activiy, and fast-paced games (like FPS) - even if the trade off is that I occasionally killed teammates because I couldn't see the color differences between players at times. Everything has it's pros and cones (pun :D)
- acjohnson55 7y ago
  I'm also colorblind, and other than the occasional mixup, I don't feel like I'm missing out on much. There's still plenty of color, perhaps just with less vibrant difference in the red-green area.
- Mirioron 7y ago
  I wonder if it would be possible to replace a specific color with a pattern instead on a driver level.
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  - kevinmchugh 7y ago
    If it were I'd expect cheaters to have already done so, since texture hacking is a well known, old cheat
  - kempbellt 7y ago
    I was referring to driving a vehicle IRL - just in case that wasn't clear. Some gimmes: brake lights are usually horizontal to one another, and red. If you're driving towards bright white lights, or they are vertically aligned, something has probably gone wrong... This type of pattern matching is frequently how I go about navigating the world.
- whamlastxmas 7y ago
  I've heard (it could be total BS) that color deficient snipers have an advantage because they can spot artificial camo more easily. It makes sense if you're used to not relying on color as much and look more for patterns and motion
throwaway35784 7y ago
I think envy is instinctual in gregarious animals. It's a mechanism for social balancing. You can't stop the feeling except to be at the top of the social hierarchy. You can control your behavior when you feel it though. You can practice by surrounding yourself with people better than you. Play games with people better than you. Find mentors. Grow as a person so you love yourself rather than envy others. Recognize that almost everyone has something you don't. Better than you at something. Reflect on the great things about yourself. Remember who you are. Where you started. Be good. Be true to yourself. Develop your moral code. Treat all with respect and love. Including you with all your imperfections.
andrewl-hn 7y ago
Like the other commenter I too am partially colorblind. I don't know how my exact condition is called, but it's very minor. In those online tests with many-many reddish, greenish and yellowish dots I fail to read the symbol or a number in about 1-2 cases out of 20. So, in real world I can see most reds and greens, and it's not a big deal for me. However, due to my condition and her abilities our differences in color perception come up a lot more often than one might think. Surprisingly, we found out about it after about 2 years of being together :D Of course I envy her, but I mostly just happy that she can experience some aspects of our world better than most other people. It's like with talents: the fact that someone has a particular talent or skill that you lack doesn't make you hate this person. Instead you ask them to show it off, they do, you "Oo-ooh!" and "Aa-aah!", they feel really good about themselves and you're both happy. Sometimes she is sad I can't appreciate something she sees, but we don't dwell on it. She would often describe the shape or a pattern she sees and I try to picture it and say something like "Oh that's neat!". Also, there are some clothing items I never combine, and I always ask her for advice when I select my cloths, or colors for my presentation or charts. Colors are very cool. I wish we could have some kind of tech that would allow us to see colors like some birds or aquatic species do. These days there are glasses for colorblind people to give them some extended color perception, so the tech is making some baby steps.
- mark-r 7y ago
  Have you read about how those glasses work? It's kind of cool. It turns out that many color-blind people have the normal distribution of cones, but the spectral response is similar enough that the brain can't differentiate. By putting an optical notch filter in the overlap region, the difference is accentuated and the brain starts picking it up normally.
pochamago 7y ago
There are always tradeoffs. I understand that men get better hand eye coordination for their lack of color distinction

Being colorblind myself, I used to be envious of people who could see more colors than me. I still am, to some extent. Though, over the years I picked up on an upside to it. Since I'm unable to see as many colors when viewing the world, I tend to pick up changes in motion much more quickly than people around me. It makes me fairly proficient at driving, dodging moving obstacles while doing any physical activiy, and fast-paced games (like FPS) - even if the trade off is that I occasionally killed teammates because I couldn't see the color differences between players at times. Everything has it's pros and cones (pun :D)

acjohnson55 7y ago
I'm also colorblind, and other than the occasional mixup, I don't feel like I'm missing out on much. There's still plenty of color, perhaps just with less vibrant difference in the red-green area.
Mirioron 7y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to replace a specific color with a pattern instead on a driver level.
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
- kevinmchugh 7y ago
  If it were I'd expect cheaters to have already done so, since texture hacking is a well known, old cheat
- kempbellt 7y ago
  I was referring to driving a vehicle IRL - just in case that wasn't clear. Some gimmes: brake lights are usually horizontal to one another, and red. If you're driving towards bright white lights, or they are vertically aligned, something has probably gone wrong... This type of pattern matching is frequently how I go about navigating the world.
whamlastxmas 7y ago
I've heard (it could be total BS) that color deficient snipers have an advantage because they can spot artificial camo more easily. It makes sense if you're used to not relying on color as much and look more for patterns and motion

throwaway35784 7y ago

I think envy is instinctual in gregarious animals. It's a mechanism for social balancing. You can't stop the feeling except to be at the top of the social hierarchy. You can control your behavior when you feel it though. You can practice by surrounding yourself with people better than you. Play games with people better than you. Find mentors. Grow as a person so you love yourself rather than envy others. Recognize that almost everyone has something you don't. Better than you at something. Reflect on the great things about yourself. Remember who you are. Where you started. Be good. Be true to yourself. Develop your moral code. Treat all with respect and love. Including you with all your imperfections.

andrewl-hn 7y ago

Like the other commenter I too am partially colorblind. I don't know how my exact condition is called, but it's very minor. In those online tests with many-many reddish, greenish and yellowish dots I fail to read the symbol or a number in about 1-2 cases out of 20. So, in real world I can see most reds and greens, and it's not a big deal for me. However, due to my condition and her abilities our differences in color perception come up a lot more often than one might think. Surprisingly, we found out about it after about 2 years of being together :D Of course I envy her, but I mostly just happy that she can experience some aspects of our world better than most other people. It's like with talents: the fact that someone has a particular talent or skill that you lack doesn't make you hate this person. Instead you ask them to show it off, they do, you "Oo-ooh!" and "Aa-aah!", they feel really good about themselves and you're both happy. Sometimes she is sad I can't appreciate something she sees, but we don't dwell on it. She would often describe the shape or a pattern she sees and I try to picture it and say something like "Oh that's neat!". Also, there are some clothing items I never combine, and I always ask her for advice when I select my cloths, or colors for my presentation or charts. Colors are very cool. I wish we could have some kind of tech that would allow us to see colors like some birds or aquatic species do. These days there are glasses for colorblind people to give them some extended color perception, so the tech is making some baby steps.

mark-r 7y ago
Have you read about how those glasses work? It's kind of cool. It turns out that many color-blind people have the normal distribution of cones, but the spectral response is similar enough that the brain can't differentiate. By putting an optical notch filter in the overlap region, the difference is accentuated and the brain starts picking it up normally.

pochamago 7y ago

There are always tradeoffs. I understand that men get better hand eye coordination for their lack of color distinction