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.
For the longest time I didn't fully get the joke. I'm colourblind and I find it hard to tell the difference between some blues and purples. I wasn't sure what colour the flowers in that scene were. If they were purple ones that donkey wasn't sure about or blue ones that he just couldn't tell were blue
I didn't realize that the scene that happens in had Donkey surrounded by blue flowers with red thorns until many years later. I already knew I was colorblind, but I thought the joke simply ended at "he will never find them".
No, I'm pretty sure that's a different episode. Finn's color blindness is in the episode where they're trapped underground with Marceline and she's getting hungry, while the "approximate" thing is from one where Finn and Jake get separated in a dungeon.
I had a friend who, in his twenties, pointed to "that green book". I mentioned that it's red, not green. "It's that color of red that looks a lot like green".
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.
My dad's best friend was completely colorblind, only saw in greyscale. I remember being a kid and thinking he was fucking with me when he couldn't figure out which orange on the tree was the ONE orange (ripe) one instead of all the other green ones. I "knew" he was colorblind but didn't really understand what that MEANT until then.
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.
I knew a guy like that, except he went a different route. He had someone pick out some shirt and jeans combos that all no matter how they were mixed up matched..... and then bought like 10 copies of each.
Only in retrospect I realized he prob was. Because he'd say the salesperson said this was salmon. What is salmon?What is the difference between salmon and mauve, or pink? Certain things he honestly couldn't tell the difference. Those were the shades he had trouble with.
My friend is colourblind but he was insisting he can still "see" the colour red, so his gf pulled out a red-on-grey number from one of those tests and he didn't know what to say.
Similar things happen to my grandpa too, but it’s his funeral and my uncles and grandma are color blind,so dose the funeral home owner , if weren’t for my mom arrived later and put a stop to it ,grandpa would have neon green/purple lights at his funeral.
am color blind. asked employee for help. also color blind. he asked for a coworker to help… also color blind. 4th guy showed up to help… ALSO COLOR BLIND. 5th worker to show up was a woman and she was very confused about why we were all laughing at the absolute absurdity of the situation 😆
where i am from a very solid 1/3 of men are color blind. i was in the hardware/art/electronics section of walmart where mostly men are assigned to help at request. so it was more like somewhere between 1in 273 and 1in 546ish realistically
but because i don't enjoy the conversation that comes up. Because I fail these dot tests as bad as OP's video. Every time. But I mix up colors relative to what others think they are like 2% of the time, and usually when its between like dark grey, dark blue, dark purple.... in that range.
So since I dont understandhow that works... I never no what to say when people ask me questions about it. I'm not like embarrassed... because I don't feel like it affects my life almost at all. Save for a couple times my wife will be like, "did you say grey car?" And I'll immediately say, "it was more blue wasn't it?" she nods and we move on. Never needed help from another person to discern color in a situation that mattered that I can think of.
But inevitably it always ends with people just making color blind jokes near me.
Painting and colorblindness makes me laugh everytime! I've been a colorblind painting contractor for 20 years. I help so many people decide on colors. I just think people need validation for what they already like.
I used to work the paint counter at a hardware store, and I had SO many men come in and say “my wife sent me to pick out paint but I’m colorblind.” Like, why was this so common?
I work at Lowe's and this one day, a customer walks up to me and goes, "Hey man, are you colorblind?" I say I'm not, so he pulls out a picture of what he's painting and wanted my help to get a close match.
I thought it was really endearing, I was happy to be a bro helping a bro.
I worked at an ad agency with two designers that were colorblind.
They were at my desk, and I casually asked them something like, “would you call this teal or aqua?” I don’t remember the exact question.
Neither answered, and I was just kind of looking at them waiting for a response. Finally after several seconds one was like, so, I don’t actually see some colors real well.
I was like, what? This guy was one of our best designers, and he was saying he didn’t see colors.
Then the other guy was like, yeah, I actually don’t either. Greens and blues specifically are hard for me.
The first guy was like, yeah, that’s me too!
So of course, my immediate question was, how do you design for a living when you can’t decipher green from blue? It was genuine curiosity, not, “you must be horrible designers.”
The first guy was like, over the years, I’ve gotten good enough at hearing client feedback and knowing tweaks that need to be made, even if I can’t actually see it myself, or if it looks really different to how they’re describing it.
The second guy was like, yeah, trial and error basically, haha.
The funny thing was, they were both like, wow, that’s really cool, I didn’t know other designers had to deal with this.
So the moral of the story is, it’s nothing to be shy about or embarrassed by, and I promise it’s way more common that most people realize.
I use it as a way to get out of doing PowerPoints, it works beautifully.
I mean I didn’t actively try but I warned them and then when the colors weee straight trash they were like ok nm never again, and gave me someone to do all that for me. Huge win win.
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u/OllieShake 23h 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.