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Had a friend who was absolutely convinced we were all pranking him when doing a colorblindness test. We were all doing the test because about 15 minutes prior,

Had a friend who was absolutely convinced we were all pranking him when doing a colorblindness test. We were all doing the test because about 15 minutes prior, someone had asked him to grab a pink object off of a shelf and he came back with a green one in total seriousness

antognini 4y ago
My mom had me tested in kindergarten when we were learning the colors and I couldn't get pink right. I kept confusing it with white.
- bobmaxup 4y ago
  My kindergarten teacher basically beat me with their voice for not being able to get my colors correct. Two years later during art class, I was sent to the school nurse to find out I was colorblind. However, they never told anyone, not even my parents. It really should be a part of general screening upon admittance to primary school. Then again, this was 30 years ago, so maybe it is now.
  - canucker2016 4y ago
    In grade 6, an adult came in to class to do a colourblind test on everyone. Projection screen was lowered, lights turned off, and a series of multi-coloured dots on many slides were displayed one after another on the screen. In the dots, there were numbers / letters in colours different from the general background colour of the slide. Adult: "Can everyone see the number?" Almost everyone: "YESSSSSS." One boy: "Ummm - there's no number on the screen!" Pregnant pause. One boy: "Oh yeah. Now I see it." Almost everyone turns their head to look at that one boy. Test continues. Afterwards, the one boy was selected for further consultation...
therealdrag0 4y ago
What cracked me up is when tons of color blind people on Reddit discovered peanut butter is not green.