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Color Blind is an annoying term that needs to die. It doesn't happen so much anymore as I and those around me get older, but when i would say i'm colored blind
by TrapLord_Rhodo 4y ago
Color Blind is an annoying term that needs to die. It doesn't happen so much anymore as I and those around me get older, but when i would say i'm colored blind they would take it at face value.
"You can't see any color at all?!?"
Then i'd have to back track and say "No the word should be "Color Different/ difficient". I have 3.5 cones that choose where color lies on my spectrum, where you have 4."
One might say, i don't get the various hues and brightness of color in losing that .5, but i would say i see entirely different colors than you. There's no way hues and brightness can lead to the conversations i've had about whether that color is red or green, blue or purple, yellow or green.
What's funny is there is almost no way to truely understand the difference in consciouss awareness of the world, even as something as simple as color.
- cjak 4y agoI use an analogy with perfect pitch to illustrate colour-blindness to those with regular colour vision. People with perfect pitch can be played a note on a piano, and identify it sight-unseen. "That's a C-sharp", they'll say confidently. Most others can tell if a note is higher or lower than another, or can pick an interval. Regular colour vision is perfect pitch for colours. Most folks can identify a blue or a green in isolation, but some like me can only see relationships between colours (one is "bluer" or "greener" than another).