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Colorblind!
Balgair
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It was revealed to me at my last eye appointment that I'm colorblind. I forgot exactly what kind it was, but I know it's most apparent when I try to discern similar greens and greys. I know it shouldn't, but it bothers me quite a bit. I'm a relatively visual/artistic-minded person, and photography is one of my greatest passions. I've always felt like I've had a kind of intuition regarding color schemes and visual design elements as well. My girlfriend always says my clothes are well-matched. Yet, when I look at some of those fucking cards of color dots, I can't make out the damn numbers that I know are there. It's very frustrating, and I fear the potential career-ramifications, though I'm unaware of what they are.
Anyone have any advice? Like, what will I not be able to do in the future?
And could there be any advantages?
Bear in mind, I'm not broken up over this or anything. It's not like my quality of life is in any way diminished by something so trivial. It's just hard to shake this feeling that I'm suddenly unsure of my interpretation of my environment.
Anyone have any advice? Like, what will I not be able to do in the future?
And could there be any advantages?
Bear in mind, I'm not broken up over this or anything. It's not like my quality of life is in any way diminished by something so trivial. It's just hard to shake this feeling that I'm suddenly unsure of my interpretation of my environment.
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You can use this as an awesome conversation starter.
You can tell your girlfriend her clothes are ugly, and then say that it's only because you're color blind and that you're sure she looks so hot to everyone else.
I'm color blind, extremely, and it doesn't effect your life much, except when you get the idiots who don't understand it, and constantly ask you "what color is this/that?"
Not really that big of a deal. I'm incredibly color blind myself, there is only one real negative; telling people you're colorblind. Since 99% of people are dicks, 99% of the time a persons reaction upon you telling them is they will say, "Oh, yeah? What color is this? What color is my shirt?" Fuck off.
UGHHHhh
From the way you describe it, it sounds very minor. Especially since you are aware of it. You can see the patterns well enough to know they're there, but just can't quite make out the number, right? They engineer those things so that a 13 has enough ambiguous dots to make it look like an 18 if you're slightly colourblind, and completely illegible if you're completely unaware of it.
I am very slightly red/green colourblind - or as I was told by the optician at the time, I have a 'colour defect'. What it boils down to is that I'm right on the cusp - I can't usually tell close colours apart, but because I'm aware of it, I can take another look and determine what I need to. Does this mirror your experience?
What I've found is that it's never worth the trouble to tell people that I'm colourblind. I've never had the douchey "so how do you know if a stop-light is working" stuff, but when I was working for a company doing 3D art last year, when I said I was colourblind in conversation it definitely affected the work that I was given - even though I was doing fine beforehand.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
In short, it basically amounts to being a cool factoid you can tell people.
most annoyence in your life will be people missunderstanding the problem.
if you had to pick somthing to be up with you. you could do a lot worse than a colour defect.
nothing to lose sleep over and dont get sucked into any internet quacker cures etc.
also if you have troble with computers alot of games and programs and deasktops are comming with a colourblindmess mode now. witch can speed your work up
My point here is that this was an artistic activity, and without knowing that Dan was colorblind, we just assumed he was smarter than us, perhaps using some kind of symbolism, or allusion to the blue ox or some shit.
GOD THIS IS SO ANNOYING
Yeah, it's not a big deal. People have no way of noticing, so you don't even have to put up with the "what color is this" stuff if you don't tell them.
Just know that the way we see the world is right. Everyone else is color-hyperactive.
try having no sense of smell. Zero. No one ever believes me. They try testing me in secret all the time
Fuck, if anything you should be more proud of your color sense, and think "Shit, I overcame something I didn't even know I had"
This is not even the worst one.
"What do you do at traffic lights?"
"Oh, y'know. I just blow right through them without looking."
I'm colorblind, but it hasn't really affected me too much unless I'm playing a game where there are greens and reds close together (Puzzle fighter for example). Red lights and green traffic lights look VERY different so I don't know why this question comes up so much. It's not as if we see monochromatic. Also, my degree is in electrical engineering so don't worry too much about wire colors. The downside is they won't let you fly a plane or be in the bomb squad. Oh and sometimes I have to be careful when I eat something if I know it's been in the fridge for a while, green and brown can be tricky in the wrong light.
Don't get hung up on it, it's not a huge deal.
When they ask me to cut my steak open to see if it's done, I have my wife take a look.
Not...not really
I mean, I'm pretty R/G colorblind and it didn't affect my enlistment opportunities much
Maybe you had a different experience though FGM
You also can't work in air traffic control. Though I'm not sure why you would want to.
I spent nearly a decade of my life fighting the urge to punch every person who asked me that in the face.
Traffic lights actually do hang me up a bit, if its late, I sometimes can't see if its yellow or red. not a big deal unless they're flashing
You ought to be fine with photography. It's more value based anyways.
You can't be infantry (or other things) without a waiver if you're colorblind now. Haha
Didn't matter, I wanted to be 68w all along. My colorblind brother, on the other hand...
This is very true.
In fact, these guys have an easier time learning how to paint, because they see values right off the bat instead of colors.
Yeah, I definitely wouldn't want to be assigned as infantry in any tropical environment. I have trouble spotting camouflaged paintball players, I can only imagine if they were holding real weaponry.
I have trouble differentiating different shades of red/green and blue/purple. I get the same questions from ignorant people ("How can you tell the difference between traffic lights?" "The green on a light isn't really green, and I know my top from my bottom, dumbass.") and professors who think it's fascinating. Really, it hasn't affected me too negatively except when I have to bring someone with me to the clothing store to make sure I get the right shade of blue shirt.
I also know my top from my bottom, but that doesn't help me when I drove to Wisconsin and found these:
I still have no idea if I ran any red lights on that trip.
Colours help, but in my experience framing and lighting result in far better photo shots. Regardless the richness of the two colours are probably very similar anyway so it wont affect the shot regardless.
The only thing you will be terrible at is indoor rock climbing. As the people that set the routes are typically not colourblind and often mix easily confused colours on the same wall. This is fixed my your belayer constantly telling you not to grab the wrong coloured grip.
Satans..... hints.....
Green is always on the right, red on the left. They should be easy to differentiate unless they're blinking, but maybe you have more trouble than I do.
It's about time this thread came along. I forget how many of us there are.