I hate being colorblind

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a little trouble with dark greys (slate color) looking like muted greens. grey, green, there's a line there that's not distinguishable sometime for me. i'll say something looks grey only to be told it's a dark green.

example

slate: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...rs/char1045_detail.jpg
muted green: http://www.jobsitesupply.com/i...ors/char820_detail.jpg


I don't think it's anything to do with a vitamin deficiency OP.

To me that looks like grey and dark grey.

that's what i'm talkin' about. yet, the bottom one is classifed as a green.

i think it looks green

Yeah. that definitely does not look like dark gray.

And the obligatory: Holy thread resurrection, Batman!

 

[Bibble]

I see no purple, but it seems you're not alone in your difficulty with colors.

I myself see certain objects (e.g. new road signs or minigolf balls) which are apparently yellow as bright green. I learnt this during my freshman year of high school when I used a poster which I saw as bright green in a presentation and put blue spots so it looked kinda like Earth (green land and blue water). I was showing it to my friend and he was like "Wait, what? You mean yellow not green." Now when I see it I know everyone else sees it as yellow so I just call it that.

 

[OCGuy]

racist

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: Savij
Men are more prone to have one or more receptors skewed (on wavelengths). This leads to them perceiving colors slightly differently when this occurs. It's different than color blindness, and usually not noticeable on solid primary colors. It has more to do with perceiving colors at the fringes when that set of skewed receptors is indicating more green (or red or blue) than it should be. Women are less prone to this problem since they have that extra x chromosome to override the bad gene.

I was going to post this but I've already done it. Good job, me from two years ago!

What's up with these old threads coming back up?

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: LS20

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
I have always had trouble with dark blues and purples. Most color deficiencies are in the red/green area for men though.

oh, thats convenient. the colors of traffic lights!

i had a classmate in school who was red/green colorblind. she just remembered that red was on top for traffic lights.

move to florida, and sideways traffic lights! 😀

 

[Sumguy]

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: LS20

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
I have always had trouble with dark blues and purples. Most color deficiencies are in the red/green area for men though.

oh, thats convenient. the colors of traffic lights!

i had a classmate in school who was red/green colorblind. she just remembered that red was on top for traffic lights.

move to florida, and sideways traffic lights! 😀

lol you mean they only have those here?

Anyway, I learned green is on the bottom for vertical lights and far right on horizontal ones.

Edit: Yes I'm colorblind for red/green

 

[Squisher]

<--colorblind

4 year old granddaughter (see sig) was getting frustrated when we were coloring yesterday which culminated with her saying in the most patronizing sing-song tone, "It's GREEN grampa."

I had to laugh.