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As a person with more severe color blindness/deficiency than most, I guess I'll ask the question: is it actually a big deal? I ask because for me, I really don

by kop316 5y ago

As a person with more severe color blindness/deficiency than most, I guess I'll ask the question: is it actually a big deal? I ask because for me, I really don't think about being colorblind, and colorblindness becomes an issue maybe a few times a year? But I'm also sensitive to the fact that I may be a bad example too (maybe I don't run into presentations where it is apparent? Or I just think the person made bad color choices and didn't realize it's my colorblindness?)

ljf 5y ago
While I fail most colour blindness tests, I rarely notice it in my like. My wife notes that I mistake dark green and brown, and also some shades of grey as brown. I also find that pink and light grey 'stobe' for me. But aside from failing colour blindness tests, I've never found it impacts my life. I can see traffic signals and can identify most colours, so my kids don't believe I really am colour blind.
- kop316 5y ago
  Heh, I have seem that strobing effect, but only in very specific shades of blue.
bradrn 5y ago
I’m mildly colourblind: I find it difficult to distinguish red/green, but can still do it under the right conditions. On the whole, I agree that colourblindness doesn’t really affect my life, in that for the most part it doesn’t cause me any significant difficulties. But I have a feeling that this is only because I’ve gotten used to it, and that it does affect me — just in ways that I don’t notice. Most relevantly for this discussion, I recall seeing a 3D chart which I was having trouble reading, until I noticed a link to a colourblind version replacing red/green with red/blue (or something like that), at which point it became almost trivial to understand. I had gotten so used to seeing non-colourblind-adapted charts I didn’t even realise they were impeding my comprehension. (The other major time I recall it affecting me was in first-year geology class — the instructor would say things like ‘this rock has huge red garnets which are easy to see’, and indeed everyone could see them except for me. Thankfully, colour mostly plays a very minor role in mineral identification.)
- kop316 5y ago
  > , I agree that colourblindness doesn’t really affect my life, in that for the most part it doesn’t cause me any significant difficulties. But I have a feeling that this is only because I’ve gotten used to it, and that it does affect me — just in ways that I don’t notice. Thats pretty much how I feel about it. It doesnt seem to affect me at all, but maybe its because i dont think about it and i am used to it.

by kop316 5y ago

ljf 5y ago

While I fail most colour blindness tests, I rarely notice it in my like. My wife notes that I mistake dark green and brown, and also some shades of grey as brown. I also find that pink and light grey 'stobe' for me. But aside from failing colour blindness tests, I've never found it impacts my life. I can see traffic signals and can identify most colours, so my kids don't believe I really am colour blind.

kop316 5y ago
Heh, I have seem that strobing effect, but only in very specific shades of blue.

bradrn 5y ago

I’m mildly colourblind: I find it difficult to distinguish red/green, but can still do it under the right conditions. On the whole, I agree that colourblindness doesn’t really affect my life, in that for the most part it doesn’t cause me any significant difficulties. But I have a feeling that this is only because I’ve gotten used to it, and that it does affect me — just in ways that I don’t notice. Most relevantly for this discussion, I recall seeing a 3D chart which I was having trouble reading, until I noticed a link to a colourblind version replacing red/green with red/blue (or something like that), at which point it became almost trivial to understand. I had gotten so used to seeing non-colourblind-adapted charts I didn’t even realise they were impeding my comprehension. (The other major time I recall it affecting me was in first-year geology class — the instructor would say things like ‘this rock has huge red garnets which are easy to see’, and indeed everyone could see them except for me. Thankfully, colour mostly plays a very minor role in mineral identification.)

kop316 5y ago
> , I agree that colourblindness doesn’t really affect my life, in that for the most part it doesn’t cause me any significant difficulties. But I have a feeling that this is only because I’ve gotten used to it, and that it does affect me — just in ways that I don’t notice. Thats pretty much how I feel about it. It doesnt seem to affect me at all, but maybe its because i dont think about it and i am used to it.