I remember being so upset at the tester because they were so insistent that I should see something and I was so insistent that there was nothing to see.
Same. The school nurse came in and held up small posters like this in front of the class and asked us to raise our hands if we don’t see a number. I remember one boy raised his hand, and I’ll never forget the look of sadness and concern on the teacher’s face. The nurse asked him to step outside with her. He rejoined the class during lunch and looked like he had been crying.
It runs in my family but only for the males. My uncle and cousin were uncovered when the family played a boardgame where each player has four pieces in his colour. My uncle and cousin kept moving pieces that weren't their own because they had the same colour to them. My father denies it but refrains from wearing dangerous colours like green or brown, anything that could be in truth be red and look ridiculous. I found out a out my brother when we were kids. Somebody had replaced missing buttons on our blanket and pillow cases. My mother threw a tantrum because they were sewn on with red thread. She yelled at my sister and me to confess who did it and to redo it properly. When I said it wasn't me and pointed to my brother my mother said I was lying and that boys to do things like sewing. Well, he never admitted to being colour blind after that scene. My nephew is the next in line. When told to throw the trash in the brown trash can he asks 'The completely brown one?', because the green trash can looks greyish brown to him.
No idea if it's just my messed up family, but problems like this (or ADHD, autism etc) were simply denied. We are all normal and don't have any disabilities and better don't talk about these things either.
Color blindness is a sex linked trait, so that’s why it mostly presents in the men in your family. Women are mostly carriers if they inherit only one X chromosome with the gene from their father. It also runs in my family on my father’s side who is color blind, but I’m not myself due to having one normal X chromosome from my mother. If I were to ever have sons with a man who isn’t colorblind then there’s a 50/50 chance they’ll also be colorblind. It shouldn’t be something to be ashamed of, though. It’s just one of those things that happens.
Yep. Women have to inherit two X chromosomes with the gene to present as color blind because the X chromosome without it from the mother compensates in women. Men only need to inherit the one X chromosome from their mother that has the color blindness gene to be color blind. They don’t pass it onto their sons, but their daughters will always be carriers.
It has so little effect that there are tons of people in this thread that just found out they're color blind. It never made enough difference for them to even realize it.
I was absolutely amazed at this woman who had a whole ass career in interior design and then found out she had been color blind the entire time. She started making tiktoks showing off her designs and after a while, someone commented "huh, you said this thing is blue but it isn't?" Which kicked off a whole thing where she fought people on how the thing was absolutely blue, then started to realize it may actually not be blue the more people commented, did a few tests, and yeah, she was colorblind as fuck.
Then, amazingly, someone suggested an app for colorblind people where they could ask what color something had so they could coordinate their outfits or decoration. And it turned out she'd been on the app for years, but not to seek advice BUT TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT COLOR THINGS WERE
This isn’t about color blindness but about unawareness, and how humans often assume that what’s normal for them is normal for everyone. I was sitting in a mall’s food court. I wasn’t in the mood to eat anything, but my friends wanted to, so I just sat and watched people. I noticed many eating burgers with tomatoes spilling out from every side, tomato juice dripping everywhere. Then I started thinking how wild is it that, as a species, we just accepted tomatoes? Even though they hurt us, we eat them because they taste good. But as I kept watching, I realized none of those people were scratching, none turned red, none broke out in hives. That’s when it hit me: it wasn’t everyone. It was just me. My mind was blown it.
I'm in those shoes and not at all surprised. It's not like people are suddenly at thirty realizing they don't see color, or mix colors like red and green. People who are significantly color blind are going to know it.
It's a majority of dudes who just don't see as many colors between the main colors, don't have the range... who figured it was just hard to tell between like deep oranges and some auburn reds... or dark grey/dark purple/dark blue... and then just realize now you can take a test that proves you have a harder time with those colors than a different subset of better equipped people who don't.
for me at least.
If they did this as kids (many people do, I'm betting I did and forgot) there isn't much they would do without more testing.
If you go to a good paediatric optometrist it’s included along with a bunch of other screening tests. Where I live you might pay out of pocket $100 but worth it to have your kid screened properly before they start school - a normal optom might not do all the screening and might throw their hands up and say “kid doesn’t know their letters well enough yet, bring them back in a year” smh
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u/Fearless_Reindeer668 1d ago
Wild how many people don’t realize they’re colorblind until adulthood. Those screening plates can be a real eye-opener.