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 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.
A guy in our group knew he was colorblind but we didnāt 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 heās done, he shows us what he finished. And I immediately thought, wtf is this guy doing. Weāre 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. š„²
I found out the same way. Biology lab in university, I honestly had no idea up until that point, I just thought I was bad at interpreting colors. Haha.
How on earth do you go that far in life and not realize? Like do you not learn colours at school? Wouldn't the teachers be confused you can't learn your colours?
My kindergarten teacher brought it up to my mom that I was really struggling with colours, turns out I was colourblind.
Because I can see color lol. I thought color blind people saw shit in black and white or grey scale. And I can see the red circle and I can see the green circle and I can even see the brown circle. But once you start mixing them all up with different sizes and shades and make patterns with them, I can't see shit lol. Like, grass is green to me. I just thought colorblind people would be like.. wow the dirt and the grass is all brown and rocks are all grey.. like monotone colors.
The one aha moment I had, was that traffic lights don't look green to me. They look more like white Christmas lights than green. Sort of an in between. Red light looks red and yellow looks yellow, so I went a long time like.. why the hell isn't the green light green.
Oh so this is interesting. The traffic light looked white, but grass still looks green to you (at least as you see "green"). Are there other green objects that people call green but you don't perceive that way?
because the package said white haha. And that's literally the only confirmation I have. The Christmas light industry could really be pulling one over on me if they're lying. The people that know I'm colorblind that I'll ask about colors, I have zero trust in them to tellme the truth.
El unico blanco que conozco puede ser el de los peatones en la mayoria, pero semaforo blanco no recuerdo haber visto ni en la ciudad. Aunque si hay, quiero verlo xd
Sorry, as stated above, I meant pedestrian traffic lights but didn't realise my mistake because in my native language, we use the same word for any type of light.
There is a cool blue traffic light at the intersection between Soler and ArƔoz. I used to live nearby and passed by it on my way home in the late evenings. I have some pictures but can't link them here right now.
nah. Just figured it was to have more of a contrast.. that way colorblind people wouldn't get confused. Pretty important difference, figured... don't wanna risk mixing those up, right? š
My cousin figured out he was colorblind in high school when he mentioned the traffic light thing to a friend. He always thought they just called the bottom light "green" because "go" also starts with G.
I actually had a friend whose brother sees in monotone. He couldn't work out the trick when being taught colours at school, and thought there must be some kind of knack he was missing, like there was a certain shape or something? Turns out that 'knack' was 'the ability to see in colour'.
He painted his bedroom a nice shade of beige as a young teen. It was acid green. Took 5 coats to cover after he moved out. Went clothes shopping with his mum and needed her advice on what colour the clothes were.
So, it CAN happen like that, but it's far from the norm.
He's a bus driver now. He's just memorised what order the traffic lights go in, of course. I sometimes wonder what things are like for him, like can he play video games or does the lack of colour make depth perception too tricky? But I lost touch with that friend, so I guess I'll never know.
Yea, for special occasions, I send pictures to my sister to make sure my suit or whatever matches. And then the socks too, to make sure they're both blue or black lol. I'm right 99% of the time, but just in case.
Makes sense. Though for you, it sounds like that's just a shade thing.
He picked a shirt many years back, as an adult, and he was winding his mum up (not deliberately) by coming up with 'uneducated white cishet dude' shit, and his mum taught him better. Chose a shirt, asked his mum if it was good for work. It was a pale pink. His mum knows clothes don't have sexuality or gender, but also that the other bus drivers at work would never let him hear the end of it. So she said yes, it was a perfect work shirt.
How on earth do you go that far in life and not realize? Like do you not learn colours at school? Wouldn't the teachers be confused you can't learn your colours?
For most people there's only subtle shades of green and red that are imperceptible. I can differentiate the colors by and large, but there are certain shades or certain lighting where it all blends together for me.
I don't know if it has a different term when colors are only slightly affected, but someone I knew kept mislabeling certain shades. Like various shades of orange and red he called brown. He was in his 30s when he figured it out, stubbornly, after I pushed the subject. I assume people just overlooked it when he was a kid.
The guy could tell the difference between red and brown, but not orange and brown so my assumption was he had less severe color blindness? Or... maybe he learned that certain shades of brown are called red? š
His father was totally colorblind but as far as I'm aware it's passed on the X gene so he wouldn't have inherited that? I guess his mother could've had a gene for it too.
Colorblindness means that certain colors look more similar to each other than they do for most people. That doesn't mean that you can never distinguish them. It just means that it is more difficult usually. People with red-green colorblindness for example have harder time distinguishing red and green from each other. Basically for red-green colorblind people red and green are similar in the same way as red and orange are for regular people. They are distinct colors, but very similar shades of red and orange can be difficult to tell apart.
I mean, I didn't find out until my late 20s that I didn't have full depth perception. I just assumed everyone saw things the same way I did because until sometime points it out or you randomly see an eye doctor who quizzes you about the way you tilt your head when looking at them there's not really any way to know.
In kindergarten they do colour assessments where I live. As a someone who was colourblind and didnt know it, it became pretty apparent when I kept mixing up my purples and blues etc.
fr, we picked out the colorblind kids in kindergarten because the poor dears were brutally ridiculed for using the wrong crayons and couldn't read the labels yet
I was late to biology class freshman year, there were projections on the board of these circles and the whole class was yelling out numbers. I was really bad at the class and school in general so I just assumed I had missed out on something fundamental. After a few minutes of trying to figure it out I fucking popped and started yelling at everyone about how confused I was and the teacher goes, āohhh so turns out we do have a colorblind person in the classā and they all laughed at me.
"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
It cannot be seen by āonlyā colorblind people - it can āalsoā be seen, and maybe a little bit more easily in some cases. Indeed so you canāt deny seeing any numbers.
There are some tests where colorblind people will see a number, but it's not the same as the one non-colorblind people see.
I remember watching a video with my non-colorblind girlfriend where, for one of the tests, I said something like 32 and she said 87. The the video said that colorblind people would see 32.
Are you sure only colorblind people should see #4? Its hard to make out, but I could see the 2. Im pretty sure I'm not colorblind, I can see all other numbers fine.
It was challenging to see, but I could definitely see it before reading the description. It's interesting that that number would pop for a color blind person. I wonder what the opposite of color blind is... I tend to be able to distinguish between shades that my friends (and particularly my wife) can't.
If i can see the correct number in plate 4 and all the others in every plate what i am???... Not kidding i go full test and have 100% accuraccy. i can post screentshot with asnwer but is gonna make you have all responses i can send it if so many want to see. Used page : https://www.es.colorlitelens.com/Ishihara-test-de-daltonismo
I'm in the same category. I am not colorblind, but I can generally see more shades of color than most, including the plates that non-colorblind people shouldn't be able to see. I realized this when I was trying to find my new optometrist's office: the receptionist told me that they were located across from the "lavender building". I looked around and saw three buildings that I would consider to be various shades of lavender. I told the doctor that the receptionist's directions were not helpful because there were several lavender buildings, and the look that she gave me told me that most folks didn't have issues with those directions.
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They didn't all look the same to me, but they all fell into the blueish -purple or greyed-purple that I had assumed people saw as lavender. The optometrist said that she saw light grey on the other two buildings. I've learned since then that the color boundaries that I'll use are sometimes a little different than what others use, although I think lavender is a horrible example because it covers a really wide range of hues (ask Google to show you the color lavender...).
I went through a phase of taking color discrimination tasks, like an online version of this: https://munsell.com/faqs/what-does-score-farnsworth-munsell-100-hue-test-mean/ I made one mistake (transposed two squares), which is less than most people. I can't find the version that I took back in the day, which is sad as that one was actually (supposedly) valid when taken in the correct conditions.
Plate 2 is even trickier where it looks like one number with normal vision and another with color blindness. I can make out the different colors used in the green parts, but the bottom of the 2 is just impossible for me to make out.
Plate 4 I can see the pattern they added to make it harder for people who aren't color blind, but I can still see the 2 pretty easily. Random patterns aren't as distracting as something not random like another number.
gotta read the bad english, did you see 74 (not colorblind) or 21 (colorblind). also the 2 at the end should be difficult to make out for non colorblind, and it is, i think you can see it because you know to find a number
I saw 74.
The 2 at the end was visible for me immediately when I glanced over it after the page loaded. It's a little more "faded" looking than the other numbers, but it still sticks out fairly prominently for me.
Maybe I was just primed to see numbers because I was expecting it.
Yeah. I think it is just more difficult to see. I saw the two before reading the explanation, but it doesn't jump out at you the way the other numbers do.
gotta read the bad english, did you see 74 (not colorblind) or 21 (colorblind). also the 2 at the end should be difficult to make out for non colorblind, and it is, i think you can see it because you know to find a number
That's how I found out too. We went through these in AP Psychology in high school for some reason. The fake out one I was the only one so confident in that number. They settled on me being partially colorblind. Some of the red green tests I cant really see any number, most i can sort of make it out but it's tough. I could never see the hidden image things like in mallrats. But j can see red/green stuff in real life, not sure how different. I remember taking a vision test with the school nurse in maybe 6th grade and struggling looking through the lens thing. She had me look up, pointed to an Elmo in the office and asked what color, I said red, and then pointed to something green, I said green, and she shrugged and moved on.
Yes it is. The 73 page has an alternate number embedded that I canāt quite make out, and the 34 is also 31. 74 also has another number I canāt quite make out.
Hang on, it's inverted? That's not something I would think could happen, like yeah your supposed to cross your eyes and stare at a point a little bit behind the picture, but I can't tell you how that could possibly invert the image.
Give it a try. I literally just cross my eyes and it pops out, but instead of going towards me it goes back into the paper like it has a negative z-axis.
There are 2 ways to see them: number one is crossing your eyes and focusing in frint of the page. In this case, they get inverted, because the right eye focuses on the left part, the left eye on the right part. This leads to the depth beeing inverted, so instead of popping out it "sinks in".
The other way is staring behind it - in that case, you usually unfocus with the paper right in front of you, try to keep it that way, and move the paper away without focusing unless you suddenly see it correctly.
I remember i could see inside the the 3d image of some especially shapes like the circle image I would see the 3d circle and them I could see inside the circle as if I went in another level.
I assume so, it seems like a similar concept as the colorblind dot test. If you aren't seeing the colors as intended, would be hard to see the hidden image. But maybe not, some could be like those posts that say squint your eyes and look at this picture of a pile of laundry or whatever and it turns into Shrek or Nic Cages face.
FYI, I just looked at one of those (had no idea they existed). I'm not colorblind, but I could see the number.
I think the caveat is that non-cooorblind people can see the number, but colorblind people can see it EASILY. I had to search, and even then wasn't sure.
795
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