Lemur866, I haven’t read that book, but I will. It sounds pretty interesting. As for your sight, I’d say you are “slightly” color deficient (blind.) If those circle-tests are showing you different numbers than anyone else, than your perceptions are a little off. It sounds like you have (unconsciously?) compensated for it. I’ve had to do this in a variety of ways over the years. For instance, I know the sweatshirt I’m wearing is green (It’s a New York Jets Sweatshirt) so I can associate my sweatshirt with green. If something looks like my sweatshirt, I can (sometimes) guess that it’s green. If your abilities aren’t as impaired as mine, it’s possible you’ve done this kind of thing all of your life & never got one wrong…and also never thought about it.
capybara, Why thank you. I’m enjoying it too. If I were in your class, I would consider that considerate. I wrote a stand-up comedy routine about being color blind & one of the main points is how there is zero sensitivity to it as a disability. In this day of everything being PC, the color blind gets no respect. You wouldn’t go up to a person who’s blind and say “How many fingers am I holding up?” When people find out about my color blindness, the first question I get is “What color is this?” I’m used to it, and I kind of have fun with it. Speaking for myself, I wouldn’t be annoyed at all, but I can’t speak for the student that also yells at bad drivers or considers waiting on line at the bank to be inexcusable. I’ve never had a problem with laser pointers, as their light is usually pretty intense. I have trouble with certain highlighters though. A co-worker highlighted a route on a map for me once & the highlighting was invisible to me. It was a weird pink highlighter, and the map’s paper wasn’t straight white. The combination was just something I couldn’t see at all. That is a very rare thing to happen though.
Mirror Image egamI rorriM, I was once watching a sunset with a friend that I thought was magnificent, with millions of different illuminations & tons of rich, deep color. We used to watch sunsets from this spot somewhat often, and she was surprised that I was so excited over such a ‘bland’ sunset. Maybe that’s similar to what was happening in the book. Was I seeing little things that she couldn’t? Maybe.
LifeOnWry, I’m no quilter, but I know what you’re talking about. As for your husband, it’s certainly possible to be ‘a little’ color blind. Red-green are the preceptor cones affected, but it doesn’t mean that he has to confuse red & green. Have him look at the Ishihara circle tests I linked and see what he comes up with. Of course, when you’re talking about violets, plums & other subtle colors, he could just be a somewhat typical guy and not pay a lot of attention to them. I’ve watched my sister pick out nail polish & I would swear that she was looking at 10 different bottles of the same exact color. When I mentioned this to her fiancé, who isn’t color blind, he thought the same thing.
AskNott, Not a thing. I can’t fully appreciate Yellow Submarine either. I understand that the Blue Meanies are mean, but the rest is lost on me.
Broomstick, A few things are possible with regard to my doctor.
- He was just wrong.
- He was right when he said it & things have changed since.
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I, specifically am too messed up to be a pilot.
I never had any interest in being a pilot, so I never followed up on what I was told. He also said it was a bad idea for me to be a photographer, but here I am. So the hell with doctors telling the color deficient what they can’t do! I’ll do anything I want!
Except that bomb-squad thing…I’ll leave that to other more qualified people.