So is anyone else on the forums color blind?

here's a spectrum comparison between normal vision and the three main kinds of red/green deficiancies.

and here's a little test, i'm gonna post two pictures, you should look at them with one eye at a time. If you can see the number 45 in the first picture and nothing in the second, you're ok. if both look the same....well...then you have a problem.

pic 2

and here's a full test http://www.flugbedarf.de/html/menu/Pilotenservice/colorblind/plate1.htm

I took the test and it appears I see normally. I can't imagine seeing the colours differently, and it must be much worse for those who have developed colour blindness having been able to see properly at one time 😬

well, you are a girl. aside from brain and/or optic nerve injuries, women have a statistically insignificant chance of being colorblind. I think it's something like 1:50 for men and 1:10,000,000 for women.

I passed with flying colors (Pun definitely intended)

i see colors Perfectly..mostly Blue

Originally posted by Darth Jello
well, you are a girl. aside from brain and/or optic nerve injuries, women have a statistically insignificant chance of being colorblind. I think it's something like 1:50 for men and 1:10,000,000 for women.

Soooooo .....How do Color Blind people do to pass their driviing test ?

How do they tell the difference between whats Red to stop and Green to Go ?

Is there discrimination towards their regard ?

you know the upper light is red, the middle orange and the lower green

So thats what they are thought right ?

if they seriously can't see it, then yes, they get taught that

well for men it's more like 1:50

i cant see colors properly from my right eye... but my left is fine...

the whole reasoning behind the whole thing is an evolutionary adaptation to fit a certain need in hunter/gatherer societies. more men are colorblind because every hunting party had at least one color blind person to act as a scout to spot prey by being able to see through camoflauge. Men functioned as hunters in these societies while women did pretty much everything else considering that every society up until about 12,000 years ago was matriarchal (probably from the time since we came down from trees. So naturally, certain traits that give advantages in hunting-colorblindness, left-handedness, increased muscle mass, emotional instability, are much more prevelant in men whereas traits needed to lead and protect-stamina, pain and tempurature tolerance, rationality, higher emotional and mental stability, are more prevelent in women.

cant tell the difference between red green brown in some cases, for me its especially annoying as Im an artisit, Portraits mainly. Have ot buy paint where the colour is written down on the tube. and Guess

Im color blind...and im a girl .....it kinda sucks cause i am in high school and for some reason we have projects where coloring is a huge grade and i cant tell the difference between most of the colors..mostly yellow and orange and red...and purple and blue..and green and blue...i always have a friend help me though, so its not that bad...i just wonder about when i get older and i dont have some one there all the time to tell me what the colors are... but im sure it will be ok....

It's a recessive gene that passed on to males by their mother's side of the family. And it's passed on by a female carrier, usually it's your grandmother on your mother's side of the family.

I'm red-green color blind. Like one of the above posters said I have the same trouble distinguishing between shades of red, brown and green.

I must be getting worse because I couldn't see anything in either one of those pics.

I'm glad someone already answered the typical traffic light question.

The lights to me look like this:

green = white
yellow = looks yellow
red = kinda orange

Anyone else see it this way?

It's usually not a problem but it's kinda of embarrassing when you have to explain it to people. One time I was required to buy a specific piece of paper that needed to be brown and obviously I really couldn't tell for sure, so I had to ask the cashier just to make sure. She gave me a look like I was either retarded or pulling her leg, so I was forced to go into the whole spiel about...'oh yeah I got this partial color blind thing, I just needed to make sure that it wasn't the red one'...blah..bla...blah

Aside from the traffic light question, I always get people pointing to this and that and asking me what color it is. One time this fool pointed to something white and asked me what color it was...idiot!

Can anyone read this?