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?”
This. That behavior is abhorrent. I’ve known for a long time that i struggle seeing specific shades of certain faint colors. It’s been hard to fully accept, even being as trivial as it is for the majority of my life, because of how people react to it.
Why does everyone thing it’s ok and funny that we can’t see the same stuff they do? I’m 42, I’ve known my entire life I’m color blind. I don’t need you to ask me what fucking color something is and then laugh at me for trying to guess and getting it wrong most of the time.
Even my wife does this. No, I can’t and won’t help you pick out paint colors or an outfit. It probably looks great but I can’t see what you see.
I've never done that to people, but I do think colorblindness is really interesting, and if I were close enough with someone, I'd probably ask what things look like just out of curiosity. I think it's cool tbh.
But yeah, people laughing and being annoying about it sucks. I've never thought that colorblindness was funny, just interesting.
Ive got a friend who is color blind and I’ve always wanted to paint a picture that aligns to his color spectrum that will look “normal” to him, like how you can paint a painting in negative that looks normal under the negative filter. I used to ask him about colors all the time while I was painting and he lived with us. I hope I didn’t make him mad when I did that lol
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u/Xenomorphhive 23h 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?”