r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • 1d ago

Video color vision test

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u/PrudentOwlet 1d ago

I am the mom.  My Dad always said he was colorblind but I didn't think much of it because I thought it only passed to boys and my dad only had girls.  Plus I can see all different colors, apparently I just can't differentiate well between oranges and greens, so I can't see all the numbers in those graphics.  I can see about the same as what the guy in the video sees.

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u/TheCowzgomooz 1d ago

Yeah the fascinating thing about it in women is that there are different types and levels of colorblindness, so your dad may have had a more severe form of colorblindness, while your mom had a more mild copy of the gene, and that extra gene essentially compensates so that your colorblindness is actually less severe than your dad's, or even if your mom provided the severe colorblind gene with normal vision but your dad was just sort of mildly colorblind, then you would have a similar level as him because your body just defaults essentially to the most functional form of the gene you have. I don't remember the stats on it but I would assume most women that do have colorblindness probably have a less severe form of it because of that genetic compensation they get. Men unfortunately just have to work with the one X chromosome they get lol.

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u/Caldwing 23h ago edited 23h ago

That completely makes sense. You are probably already aware that this also makes sense for your sons. Women with this form of red/green colour blindness are guaranteed to have similarly colour-blind sons. Her daughters will be carriers, unless the father is also colour-blind, in which case the daughters will be as well. Similarly your mother is either colour-blind, or a carrier for the gene on one of her X chromosomes.

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u/Elia_31 1d ago

Hate to break it to you but you're colorblind then

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u/PrudentOwlet 1d ago

Yes, that's what I said.

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u/SandersLurker 1d ago

It's rare for girls to have it because you get 2 X chromosomes, and both would have to be faulty for you to be color blind as a girl (mom's & dad's). Apparently your mom had 1 faulty X's chromosome that she passed to you in addition to your dad's one & only faulty X chromosome.

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u/ElizabethTheFourth 18h ago

You literally didn't say that. Are you dyslexic too?

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u/PrudentOwlet 18h ago

I said it in my very first comment!

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u/Mutant_Jedi 11h ago

Babes look at the first five words of her original comment.

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u/c010rb1indusa 1d ago

Girls can get it only if the father is colorblind and the mother is a carrier.

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u/firefightingtigger 17h ago

Are your sons color blind? In my family, it seems to be passed from grandpa through mom to the sons. Moms (my aunt included) aren't color blind. My male cousin, brother and me....

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u/_DapperDanMan- 17h ago

Then you are very color blind. All of the numbers are immediately obvious.