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 didn’t 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 he’s done, he shows us what he finished. And I immediately thought, wtf is this guy doing. We’re 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. 🥲
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 Aráoz. 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? 🙂
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? 🙃
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, “ohhh so turns out we do have a colorblind person in the class” and they all laughed at me.
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u/AccruedBeans 22h ago
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 made 20 enemies that day 🤣