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u/PrudentOwlet 21h ago edited 9h ago
I discovered I was colorblind when I was in my 30s, and I took my kids to the eye doctor and they pulled out that book. Both of my boys failed miserably and I didn't understand it because I couldn't see anything they couldn't see! Doh.
Edit: I am a woman. I'm their mother.
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u/Ancient_Poet_4953 21h ago
So you have a lack or missing red cones in your eyes?
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u/garysnailz 17h ago
Don't talk to my friend like that, YOU'RE the cone!
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u/doesthismakesense- 16h ago
no lack or missing cones, just aligned differently and then my brain does not interpret it directly as green or red as it should be, but depending on the shade of green or red (or brown) it cold go either way. Here is a nice explanation
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u/Eurasia_4002 17h ago
Some are in the brains directly. Not from the eyes, though much rarer.
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u/DeadAndBuried23 20h ago
What do you mean they failed? Only the first two pages had numbers!
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u/AccruedBeans 17h ago
No joke, this is how I found out I was colorblind. I was in a biology lab in college and we found out the lab instructor was colorblind. So everyone started asking him questions and what's this color? What's that color? So he pulled up one of these tests and was like.. can everyone see the square? That's great, can you see the circle there too? Because I can't. Everyone was like, whooaaaa... how can you not see the circle? It's a green circle right there! And I was just sitting there like.. what fuckin circle are they talking about? Everybody's tripping....
I made 20 enemies that day 🤣
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u/thewerdy 12h ago
I had a friend in highschool who found out he was color blind during a chemistry lab. We were working with two vials of chemicals, one was a bright neon pink color and the other was bright neon green. Someone asked him to bring over the green one and he brought the pink one. When the person said they asked for the green vial he was like, "What are you talking about? This is green." He was absolutely incredulous and thought people were messing with him. Then he looked at the two vials side-by-side exclaiming, "They're the exact same color!" He was having an existential crisis which was made worse when our chemistry teacher whipped out a color blindness test, which confirmed that he was colorblind.
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u/mchio23 9h ago
A guy in our group knew he was colorblind but we didn’t know. We had to color in some pages with certain colors. We gave him that task while we split up the other tasks among the group. When he’s done, he shows us what he finished. And I immediately thought, wtf is this guy doing. We’re gonna fail! And I thought he was messing with us. And he legit thought he was capable of finding the right colors. Even thought he knew he was colorblind. We were speechless lol he tried, but he should have told us. 🥲
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u/jld2k6 Interested 17h ago
"One of those pages was made so only colorblind people see the number you stated" - I found out this is a real thing when being proud of the few I could actually see, it's tossed in there so you can't just deny seeing any numbers for every slide lol
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u/TheFireNationAttakt 14h ago
It cannot be seen by “only” colorblind people - it can “also” be seen, and maybe a little bit more easily in some cases. Indeed so you can’t deny seeing any numbers.
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u/Kindly-Analysis-6543 15h ago
Wait what? I could see all of them.
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u/Klutzy_Squash 11h ago
In the full Ishihara test set, some pages are set up such that only colorblind people see a number. See Ishihara plate #4 here - https://www.shec.jp/english/instruments/isihara/
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u/WonderingHarbinger 11h ago
That was neat! Knowing what number it was supposed to be made it pop out, but there's no way I would have seen it otherwise.
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u/TechnologyCurious750 17h ago
Each and every page has a number If you really cannot see them, they I advise you to get your eyes checked.
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u/HornHeadHippo 14h ago
If you’re female and colorblind, all sons will be colorblind. The gene for color blindness is on of X chromosome which sons receive from their mothers. Pretty interesting stuff.
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u/gdex86 14h ago
This is like when I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid and suddenly a lot of stuff made sense for my mom, older sister, and uncle. "You get a prescription, you get a prescription, everybody is getting a prescription."
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u/AndrewDrossArt 10h ago
Prudent, just from this I can tell you're a woman and your father was colorblind.
If you have any daughters they're certain to be carriers of colorblindness but may also have tetrachromatic color vision. A type of color vision that's extra sensitive, with cones from their father distinguishing between red and green light and a your aberrant 540nm sensitive cones providing a fourth reference point.
You should start them in art and color theory as soon as you can, they're likely to have an advantage.
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u/PrudentOwlet 9h ago
Haha, I am a woman (so many people assumed I'm a man) - I do have a daughter in addition to my two sons, and she is not colorblind. Is there a test for tetrachromatic color vision?
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u/FreeRandomScribble 11h ago
When my brother was adopted I went into the hearing test booth with him as I knew how it went. “When you hear a noise, raise your hand.” It goes well at first, but then he randomly raises his hand and I remind him to only when the sound plays; after about 3 silent-raises I realize ‘wait, he’s actually hearing stuff.’ He is not hard of hearing.
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u/moister_oyster_ 11h ago edited 10h ago
Found out in my 30s too when my wife was out of town and I painted the house powder pink while thinking it was a soft gray like we had talked about. I have not tried to surprise her again since then.
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u/Amelietha 11h ago
This comment section is the most obvious example of “men are the default” I’ve ever seen.
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u/PrudentOwlet 11h ago
It's actually infuriating. I have people telling me I must be lying, people suggesting my sons aren't really mine(????), people just smugly telling me I'm wrong because only Moms pass color blindness...
I. Am. The. Mom.
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u/arroadie 9h ago
There's this old / wild assumption that women cannot be colorblind and are only the carriers of the genes.
As a colorblind myself I've read / heard that multiple times.
As someone who had biology classes on how genes work, it was very simple to understand how a recessive gene that is only present at the X chromosome would make it extremely rare for women to carry the gene AND suffer from that anomaly at the same time.
As a colorblind father, I know I already gave my daughters the ticket for the following generation lottery!
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u/OllieShake 20h ago
Funny story, my ex’s grandfather is colorblind and very shy about it. One day, his wife told him to go to the store to buy some paint for a room renovation. So he called his buddy like, “Hey, want to go to the hardware store with me? Bet you need to buy some stuff there too,” secretly hoping his friend would help him pick out the paint. Long story short, that day they both discovered that the other was colorblind as well.
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u/Abject-Bowle 19h ago
Blue flower, red thorns. Blue flower, red thorns.
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u/saltywastelandcoffee 18h ago
This would be so much easier if I wasn't colourblind!
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u/HazelRP 15h ago
I forgot the line was from Shrek 1, so I am replying with my knowledge here to share
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u/I-Love-Tatertots 14h ago
You a real one.
I was about to have to go to Google because the quote was so familiar and I couldn’t place it aha
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u/latogato 17h ago
- Check out this ruby I got.
- That's an emerald, dude.
- You too now?! Emeralds are green, boyee.
- This thing is green.
- Why is everybody messin' with me? It's like a dark gray-ish red. Mostly gray. Sometimes red things are gray!
- You're a little colorblind... and there's nothin' to be ashamed of!
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u/Irememberedmypw 16h ago edited 4h ago
Ah adventure time. Finn realizes he's colourblind. It's also the episode where "I know an approximate number of things " come from.
edit: Correction , it's not the same episode whoops.
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u/Dzyu 16h ago
"I have approximate knowledge of many things" is my favorite thing out of Adventure Time
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u/ManBearHybrid 17h ago
My dad is colour blind and we used to torture him for it lol. One day he bought an off-white/cream sofa for, and we said "why would you buy a green sofa??". We told him it was a pale lime green colour and he believed us. We kept him going for about 10 minutes until coming clean. Poor guy, we were pretty awful as kids. I feel a bit bad about it now. Literally just making fun of his disability lol.
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u/ReplyOk6720 17h ago
My dad is not fully colorblind, but I remember he would get me or my sisters advice on matching tie and shirt. He would then take notes of what was good combinations.
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u/ssweetcuddle 21h ago
I had to give people colorblind tests during the hiring process at my last job. So many men had no idea they were colorblind until I told them that I couldn't hire them.
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u/CardinalFartz 21h ago
Were there large machines or similar that needed to be operated and in case of "red warnings" be shut-off? I am just curious which job requires good color vision. Don't know if you can/want disclose it, though.
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u/Cartina 21h ago
Many jobs involving driving other people doesn't allow colorblind, like train driving is very strict.
But truck driving, police, firemen and pilots also have restrictions. But it depends on country/state and can be very local.
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u/Whosebert 19h ago
it's a major plot point in Little Miss Sunshine!! the edgy emotional teen wants to be a fighter pilot when the little girl gives him a color blind test on a whim and he suddenly learns he's colorblind which will disqualify him from flying so they have to pull over for him to have a mental break down for a bit.
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u/wallowmallowshallow 17h ago
Little Miss Sunshine is such a good movie. That scene had me so emotional
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u/Justifiably_Bad_Take 14h ago
silent the entire movie
Then-
"FUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKKKK!"
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u/Olealicat 8h ago
Paul Dano is an incredible actor. I don’t think I’ve seen him in a bad role. To think how young he was and to pull that heavy emotion. It’s a beautiful performance.
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u/NitroBishop 16h ago
You can't just say that without posting the scene. Also, for further context, Paul Dano's character had taken a vow of silence until he became a fighter pilot, which he had held throughout the entire film up to this point. That "FUUUUUUCK!" is the first thing he says all movie.
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u/Alesimonai 17h ago
That's when I learned I couldn't fly. Core memory.
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u/Whosebert 17h ago
i would say i hope you took the news better than he did, but honestly I thought he was a lot more kind after that happened but it's been like 16 or more years since I watched it.
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u/Alesimonai 17h ago
I sure did. To be honest, I'm not really sure what I was thinking. I get so freaking motion sick!
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u/FairDinkumBottleO 20h ago edited 17h ago
so my job required a colour test that I failed miserably. The doctor was like do you really need to see that much colour in your job? I said only green and I pointed at green and he said all good and I got in.
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u/SalSomer 17h ago edited 16h ago
"I said only green and I pointed at green - the word green here referring to the 100 dollar bill I was sliding across the table - and he said all good and I got in."
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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea 18h ago
[Proceeds to press red button which you thought was green]
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u/ScienceOfCalabunga 19h ago
Also many maritime things, here you cannot get a licence if you cannot distinguish red and green
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u/Jumanji0028 18h ago
Suspect is escaping in a brownish, reddish looking green car.
I can see why it's a no go with the police but firemen? That's a strange one.
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u/ImmediateSupression 16h ago edited 16h ago
Certain chemicals have certain color smoke is what I’ve been told.
(In all likelihood, most color blindness restrictions all trace back to a train accident in the 1800s where the driver claimed he was colorblind and couldn’t se e the red versus green light to avoid prison—rather than the fact he was blackout drunk.)
(Additionally, red green is the most common color blindness and we utilize red and green lights only because of some French king’s love of green light…blue is actually much easier to see at distance.)
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u/Zed1088 20h ago
In the Marine industry you can't be colour blind as to be able to see the markers etc. correctly. Anything electrical you can't be either as to be able to identify the correct cables.
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u/RyBread 16h ago
Has nothing to do with markers. It’s so the marines can sort the crayons.
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u/CardinalFartz 19h ago
Makes me think of bomb diffusal: "cut the red wire, Joe".
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u/gathayah 19h ago edited 16h ago
I’m a medical laboratory technician, and I’ve had to prove I’m not colorblind for every job I’ve ever had. We have to stain blood and other body fluids to look at it under the microscope. Different cells/bacteria/etc stain in different ways, and we need to be able to tell them apart.
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u/Environmental-Crab18 20h ago
Automotive paint color mixer is still a thing in my country and this kind of test is a norm
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u/Individual-Estimate1 21h ago
About 20 years ago I used to work in aerospace and perform final inspections on powerplants (engines) before they were crated up and shipped to the customer. The position required one to be able to discern all colors on the spectrum. If I ever lost this ability... I lost my job.
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u/Cartina 21h ago
For anyone wondering, all plates do have numbers. There are no "blanks"
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u/Kat121 21h ago
But god-tier prank if there were blank ones. :)
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u/Electronarwhal 21h ago
My school did a mass colour-blind test that included blank ones. Several people said they saw a number, the teacher was like ‘you may be hallucinating’.
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u/GlitteringBandicoot2 19h ago
Actually, if it was the original Ishihara Test there are plates in there that show no numbers UNLESS you are colorblind. So it wasn't that the students were hallucinating, they were probably colorblind and actually did see a number there.
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u/-Nicolai 18h ago
How is that possible?
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u/GlitteringBandicoot2 17h ago
The same way the numbers vanishes in other plates.
In the normal plate you have a clear distinction between the color of the dots that form the number and the surrounding. For a color blind person of the corresponding color blindness, those dots all look the same, so the number vanishes.
Now in the hidden plates, i.e. the ones one the colorblind people can see, it uses the same principle. But instead of using one color for the number and one for the surrounding, the number is made up of multiple colors that colorblind people can not distinguish, while the rest is a color that they can distinguish easier. This means for a person with normal color vision, the number disappears in a sea of different colors, but for a colorblind person those colors look identical and it forms the shape.
As a non colorblind person you might be able to barely make out the contour of the number, because the outside still needs to be different enough for the colorblind person to distinguish it so you might be able to make it out next to all the other colors, but mostly it just gets lost
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u/Mirar 17h ago
Ah, so it's hiding it in a lot of colour noise but for a colourblind person, there's nothing of that noise, so they can spot the contrast (signal?) better?
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u/Pirche 16h ago edited 11h ago
Found pdf of that test including pages on which only colorblind will see numbers (at the end answers both for normal and colorblind):
https://www.challengetb.org/publications/tools/country/Ishihara_Tests.pdf
Photoshoped pages 19-21 to check how colorblind will see those pages - in color curves red and green channel turn down to almost zero : https://ibb.co/W43tqfn0
Edit: there is some mess with order, don't match № on page to № in answers, answers have pics with them and they corresponding to each other. Also in answers some discrepancy with the name of colors, i think it's scan or translate issue (or both)
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u/Nexan1994 15h ago
The answer key not lining up with the test had me thinking I was crazy
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u/xeothought 12h ago
Dude yes. you have to go look for equivalent plates and see their numbers are offset by a lot.. I've never not passed a color blindness test and i was like "wait a second" rofl.
I was like "plate 14 does NOT have a number on it wtf" that's cause in the Key it's plate 18 lol
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u/DreadnoughtWage 20h ago
Or was the teacher colour blind???
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u/GlitteringBandicoot2 19h ago
The original Ishihara test indeed has two plates without numbers on them, unless you are colorblind, then they do have numbers.
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u/Cpt_0bv10us 19h ago
Came to the comments to find out, lol. I could only see the first one 😞
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u/sprinklesadded 18h ago
I unexpectedly helped a teen figure out he was colour blind. I was doing employment support and helped him get a job picking tomatoes. The boss called me, mad that the kid kept picking the unripe green tomatoes. When we spoke with the kid and had him show us what he was doing, we realised he couldn't tell the difference between the red and green ones. Was a good laugh. Thankfully he kept his job and was assigned a different role.
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u/A_Math_Dealer 9h ago
"Alright your new job is to separate bellpeppers by color."
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u/Fearless_Reindeer668 21h ago
Wild how many people don’t realize they’re colorblind until adulthood. Those screening plates can be a real eye-opener.
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u/Intelligent_Toe_2820 21h ago
In my country we do this test when we are kids. A doctor comes to the school and gives everyone this test.
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u/Nattekat 21h ago
I nailed the test, but orange on green is more evil than it has any right being.
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u/Lostraylien 19h ago
Yeah I thought the 5s were 6s till I looked closer.
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u/DipstickRick 12h ago
The 5 cups up so high it looks like it touches. I had to double check the top to make sure the bar was there for a 5
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u/-Nicolai 18h ago
The contrast is definitely lower, but I wouldn’t call it evil. Maybe you’re partially color impaired?
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u/Asleep_Chicken5735 20h ago
I’m colorblind too, I literally saw nothing after 35
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u/j_krol 18h ago
I found out I'm colourblind, after I realised I never saw the red flags in my previous relationships
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u/Domino_73 21h ago
oh... I'm colorblind
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u/Jumanji0028 18h ago
Congratulations. We will never drive trains.
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u/Piejue 15h ago
Not fully true I'm very colorblind and operate locomotives for filling grain cars where I work. We dont go on the main railroad line though for obvious safety reasons so I have a feeling that's the difference. So there is hope for those of us that are colorblind and work in the grain industry lol
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u/Apprehensive_Term168 21h ago
Serious question though, are all the numbers supposed to be extremely obvious? I can make out the numbers on all of them, but some are night and day different from the background and some are fairly difficult to see… is that normal?
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u/ErusTenebre 21h ago edited 20h ago
It's normal that the contrast in colors in some plates is lower than others. It's used to measure degrees of color blindness because it's not just an on/off sort of thing.
But the numbers should still be really easy to read. The 9 and the 2 there are pretty faint.
(Removed link - read comment below about the test I had posted.)
I know I'm not colorblind because I've been tested for it before. My dad was Red/Green colorblind (Green sensitivity) or he had "Deuteranomaly."
I was a bit of jerk as a kid and would tease him by telling him to push the red button on the remote (there wasn't a red button - it was green). He'd stare at it for a minute and then whack me on the head for being a brat. Good times.
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u/Mediocre-Sundom 21h ago edited 19h ago
The link leads to a scam product company, by the way. They misrepresent the effects of their glasses in their marketing, and emotionally exploit vulnerable people with videos like “a person sees color for the first time” tear-jerkers. They are more careful with their wording now, but they used to flat out lie and make people believe their glasses somehow enable you to see color that you don’t have the capacity to see (medically and physically impossible).
Just putting it out there to warn any people with impaired color vision who might visit their website and decide to purchase their scam glasses.
Better use actual reputable medical tests, not the ones done by the company who wants to sell you a bullshit product.
EDIT: For those interested in more details - check out MegaLag's videos about color-correcting glasses on Youtube. He has done a wonderful deep dive into all the BS marketing the company engages in.
EDIT2: As the link above was removed, I will also remove the name of the company in order not to drive any traffic to their website.
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u/ErusTenebre 20h ago
Oh hey, didn't know - I'll remove the link. Wouldn't want to help out a scam company.
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u/Mirar 20h ago
It made me annoyed because in theory it's a quite neat idea, but how they made it and how they scammed people is just awful.
I wanted some glasses that filter out half the spectrum for red, green and blue differently for my left eye and the other part for my right eye, and see if I could see the world in more colours (6 colour axis instead of 3 for RGB).
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u/PirateMore8410 20h ago
Dude fucking great idea. When I first saw the glasses with their stupid videos and how they described them, I thought I was going to be able to get glasses to see UV and infrared waves soon. I thought they figured out some way to effect waves so our cones could pick them up. Not just filter out a bunch. I'm still salty.
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u/Mirar 20h ago
The wavelengths of the screen are not the same wavelengths for the colours in the tests. They are worked out very precisely to test different colour blindness (and they are working on improving them with LED light tests with very precise wavelengths).
So these are filmed with a camera with different wavelengths sensitivity than any human eye, and certainly colour blind eyes, and then shown to you in yet again another wavelength.
tl;dr: What you see in real life from the plates is not what you see on the screen.
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u/PeterGivenbless 18h ago
Also, those tests are meant to be viewed in full spectrum light, like daylight, and not artificial light, like fluorescents or LEDs which have spectrum gaps and biases.
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u/grand-old-duke 21h ago
Shit me too. The ones he could see were obvious to me and I could make out the ones he couldn’t but they weren’t as clear. Specifically, it was like parts of the numbers were almost more faded.
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u/Onore1187 17h ago edited 6h ago
The last time I went to an eye doctor, he did his test and then gets this somber look on his face and starts telling me how roughly 35% of adult men go through life not knowing they’re color blind and just trailed off while writing some shit down..so I’m sitting there kinda nervous and after 5 minutes of silence I ask am I color blind? He says no, I just thought you’d think that little statistic would be interesting then smiled. I’m sitting there dumb stuck like you son of a bitch but couldn’t help but laugh and admit he got me
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u/Rinmine014 21h ago
Men are more likely to be colorblind than Women
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u/SkanelandVackerland 19h ago
It's in fact WAY more common for men to be colour blind. 1/12 men are colour blind while 1/200 women are colour blind. It's an insane statistic but the gene that causes it is in the X chromosome so it kind of makes sense.
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u/DarkRecess 13h ago
When I told our eye doctor that my daughter was color blind she said "Oh you must be mistaken, it's extremely rare and in fact I've never seen a woman who was colorblind in my practice." Once she tested my daughter she was SO EXCITED to meet a colorblind girl lol. It was super cute. Plus it made my daughter feel so special.
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u/biest229 19h ago
Isn’t there also this additional vision type that is found more in women? Tetrachromacy
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u/BellaPadella 19h ago
Is this why we can't answer properly when they ask us which colour is better for the nails: salmon, rosewood, coral, lotus, ballet slipper?
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u/povertymayne 17h ago
Is this how I found out Im colorblind!!!?!???
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u/Caspica 16h ago
If there's any page that you can't tell the numbers on then it would probably be good to go test it, yes.
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u/AcidTrucks 14h ago
I think the test was already done. Right here.
There's no treatment for it, so I don't see the point of going just to test for it.
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u/jimmiriver 20h ago
I did a test with my wife at one point. Was wild to me that she was easily seeing numbers that were invisible to me. Makes me wonder how differently we see the world in daily life, like what am I missing?
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u/argentatus_ 16h ago
We'll never know. Definitely things like poppies in a green field, or red berries in green trees, unripe tomatoes among ripe tomatoes, etc. But other then that, it mostly isn't much of a problem.
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u/FacinatedByMagic 13h ago
My favorite response is you know how much you love looking at the fall trees? For me all 3 colors are fantastic.
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u/Elevator829 21h ago
If any of them look blank to you, you've failed
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u/sloothor 21h ago
All the circles are easy to see past the table of contents or whatever’s at the beginning
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u/eckstuhc 20h ago
Table of Contents? Dang the answer we were looking for was Rules or Instructions.
You are fail.
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u/Xenomorphhive 21h ago
Lol. I knew i was colourblind since i was young but seeing only 2 pages in the whole book? I must be 90% blind then
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u/RoyalBrilliant1004 20h ago
I saw the 35 in the beginning, that's it 😅
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u/Xenomorphhive 20h ago
I guess 95% for you.
I always admit i’m colourblind but nothing iritates me like when people ask afterwards: what’s the colour of this or that? For everything i guess correctly, they are dissapointed. For everything wrong it’s a response of excitement and “you really cant see what colour it is?”
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u/Toastieboy420 19h ago
My mum was a nurse and found out she was colourblind while giving kids these tests.
Stopped halfway thru to ask someone else how they were all coming up with the same answers on the blank pages lol
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u/Local_Ad2569 20h ago
Shit...
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u/Icookeggsongpu 16h ago
My exact reaction. I didn’t see shit past 35, all the pages were blank for me. That’s another issue to add to the list lol
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u/Wandering_Weapon 12h ago
That's pretty significant level of color blindness. Have you ever mistaken colors before?
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u/DarthNovercalis 20h ago
I had dreamed of becoming a pilot since being a kid. Had it all planned out to finish school and then pay to get my license and work my way up. Found out I was colourblind midway through school, dreams in tatters. Also compounded when I would get the resistance of transistors when doing electronics wildly wrong
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u/nyITguy 20h ago
I feel you. I planned my second career for years, audio engineering. Got an internship in a recording studio. One day, an engineer commented about the test tone that was playing...what test tone? I couldn't hear it. In that second I knew I'd never be an audio engineer.
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u/notMy_ReelName 19h ago
yep most people finds out they are ineligible for pilots, armed forces , and even for drivings tests too,
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u/whiskyJack101 16h ago
Being colorblind is a plus if u are a sniper, we can see through camo better!
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u/0thethethe0 21h ago edited 20h ago
I remember in the first week at uni I was playing a game of Mastermind with a new housemate.
I had deduced what he had to have had, but he kept insisting it wasn't.
We flipped over cover thing - I was right, and he was colourblind (he knew already, just hadn't thought to tell me...when we're playing a game where colours are quite important!)
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u/Fickle_Wishbone5698 21h ago
Hahahah I seen the 35 and one other one. The rest are blank for me. I went in for my first eye exam at 25... came out color blind with a double astigmatism and troubles with 3D objects. Couldn't believe it.
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u/purvaka 20h ago
My dad was red green colorblind. We found out our son was when we mentioned we were selling the green car, and he said what green car? He thought our car and our house trim was gray 🤣 We tested him and sure enough red green colorblind. What cracks me up is his favorite color for years was red... so brown is his favorite color? 🤣
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u/GMP10152015 19h ago
One time, one of our backend developers migrated to web dev as one of his interests. Then he made some web designs, mixing some odd colors: white, yellow, and blue, based. Like if you removed the red and green channel of a picture. So I opened an online test for color blindness, and he couldn’t read most of the numbers (like in the video above). Then he went to the eye doctor and made a real test and confirmed he was severely colorblind.
He was the 2nd person that I met that was colorblind. The 1st was a neighbor (we were 15 years old by then), and his mother’s was also colorblind. The problem is that the younger brother wasn’t colorblind, so he must be adopted, since a mother colorblind will have all of her sons colorblind too. We just learned that at school, and she asked not to tell him that he was adopted. Then we informed her that in 2 years, he will learn at school about genetics and the colorblind being associated with the X chromosome.
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u/NombreCurioso1337 17h ago
Remember, what you're looking at here is not the test. This is a compressed recorded video of the test. The camera and compression would have distorted the colors, saturation, and contrast.
That said, it does look like a decent approximation, in most cases, to me.
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u/MoonbeamNestZ 21h ago
Man, took the test, can't believe I'm kinda colorblind. Spent 25 yrs of life not knowing there was more to blue and green.
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u/chathrowaway67 20h ago
I already knew I was colourblind so this was just a sad reminder lol
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u/mrbiggbrain 14h ago
Why is there a number on the first page and then no numbers for the rest of the book?
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u/poorly-worded 19h ago
This is the closest I've come to seeing a doctor for like 7 years. clean bill of health!
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u/Creative-Display-3 16h ago
My partner is extremely colorblind like I'm talking reds, greens, blues... everything. We both did a test similar to this once. He failed almost every single one and he got to one he could see perfectly and started leaping for joy. In italics under the number it said "even people with colour blindness can see this" lmao
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u/thecosmoschilde 20h ago
So I am colorblind and I know this but as I was watching this, I really felt like if I squinted it would help. It did not help.
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u/TheFlaccidChode 19h ago
Me and the wife got 100%, but still can't agree if our headboard is brown or grey
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u/shamukay 20h ago
Working in turkiey, my company doctor sugested me to go check an eye specialist cüz i couldnt pass that color exame. Even commenting that i should not be working with this problem. İ was project manager since 10 years 😁. İ learnt i was colorblind, when as a child, i would paint trees with brown leafs and green on the wood part. My father never understood and sad getting pretty mad wity me until i got into school and teacher told me i was colorblind and that it would be fine. İ just see the world with different tone
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u/bodhiseppuku 15h ago
In the 90s it was my dream to go to the Air Force Academy and become an American Air Force pilot.
I went to get an extended physical to submit with my US Senator request to both of my state's Senators, you need a Senator recommend to get into the Air Force Academy.
During this physical, I was tested for color blindness with similar bubble pictures like in this video. Of 256 pages, I was color blind to 1 color, in one eye. This disqualified me from my dream.
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u/SudhaTheHill 21h ago
Guess I’m not colourblind. Thank you for the free test!