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Is color blindness considered a disability?

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virtueixi

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I have been having problems in chemistry lab specifically reading chromatography paper and titration, I was wondering if I should report it to the my college? Thx.
 
If you're doing an activity that involves colors and your colorblind, more then likely they will provide assistance for you. In Physics last year, we viewed the color spectrum with certain gases and I was not held responsible for the color part, the teacher gave me the answers.
 
Originally posted by: eakers
do it!
they love to give out money and things to students that have "disabilities"
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It really has nothing to do with money. I lost a decent amount of points on a lab excercise because I didn't identify a dye in a chemical. I am assuming this is because I didn't see that shade of yellow on the chromatography paper.
 
Originally posted by: Vortex22
I find it funny that your avatar is red and green.
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Then you really don't know what common red/green colorblind is. For example if his avatar had dots of red and green in a circle, he wouldn't be able to distinguish the red transitioning to the green. I know, I also have red/green colorblindness.
 
I never realized color blindness was so common....in fact, the man I bought my car from two weeks ago apparently is color blind too, now that I think about it. :Q
 
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I didn't realize color blindness was so common....in fact, the man I bought my car from two weeks ago apparently is color blind too. :Q
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Real color blindness is really rare. I mean where you can't any colors. Red/green is fairly common (20% of population) it just means you don't see certain shades/transitions. Really not that bad, shouldn't effect your life drasticly.
 
Originally posted by: virtueixi
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I didn't realize color blindness was so common....in fact, the man I bought my car from two weeks ago apparently is color blind too. :Q
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Real color blindness is really rare. I mean where you can't any colors. Red/green is fairly common (20% of population) it just means you don't see certain shades/transitions. Really not that bad, shouldn't effect your life drasticly.
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This is obviously a foreign concept to me as I'm not color blind myself - but, at the risk of sounding stupid - when you have something like red/green color blindness, what do you see? Do those colors both appear the same, like some combination of the two, I guess?

😕
 
Originally posted by: virtueixi
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I didn't realize color blindness was so common....in fact, the man I bought my car from two weeks ago apparently is color blind too. :Q
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Real color blindness is really rare. I mean where you can't any colors. Red/green is fairly common (20% of population) it just means you don't see certain shades/transitions. Really not that bad, shouldn't effect your life drasticly.
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Yeah, I'm red/green too.. hardly ever really notice it. Just in cases like the one described above. Had a geography teacher that was completely color blind in high school though, that must be really rough. Black - White - Gray.. ick.
 
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Originally posted by: virtueixi
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I didn't realize color blindness was so common....in fact, the man I bought my car from two weeks ago apparently is color blind too. :Q
Click to expand...

Real color blindness is really rare. I mean where you can't any colors. Red/green is fairly common (20% of population) it just means you don't see certain shades/transitions. Really not that bad, shouldn't effect your life drasticly.
Click to expand...

This is obviously a foreign concept to me as I'm not color blind myself - but, at the risk of sounding stupid - when you have something like red/green color blindness, what do you see? Do those colors both appear the same, like some combination of the two, I guess?

😕
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The colors do appear the same except for certain shades/transitions. For example, I might confuse orange and green and such, depending on the exact color.

 
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Originally posted by: virtueixi
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I didn't realize color blindness was so common....in fact, the man I bought my car from two weeks ago apparently is color blind too. :Q
Click to expand...

Real color blindness is really rare. I mean where you can't any colors. Red/green is fairly common (20% of population) it just means you don't see certain shades/transitions. Really not that bad, shouldn't effect your life drasticly.
Click to expand...

This is obviously a foreign concept to me as I'm not color blind myself - but, at the risk of sounding stupid - when you have something like red/green color blindness, what do you see? Do those colors both appear the same, like some combination of the two, I guess?

😕
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Acording to the guy I work with that is color blind (I share your curiosity and have quizzed him extensively), green looks gray to him.
 
Originally posted by: Vortex22
I find it funny that your avatar is red and green.
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It does? :shocked:

j/k

My last manager was red/green blind.

It seems I'm slowly developing a problem with green. This last year I found myself putting on what I thought were gray socks which were actually my green ones - same as my greenish slacks, I thought they were my green ones. There was one instance in high school (8 years ago) where I put on my brother's coat by mistake, which was a slate black, and I had the dark green one. Didn't realize it until getting it out of my locker at the end of the day (we had same kind of coat). It's getting really bad in the morning, but after a few hours I'm okay.

I'm practically night blind. I have trouble seeing anything past my headlights on roads without street lights. Almost hit a deer a few weeks ago, it's a good thing my wife freaked out so I could slow down, it wasn't but 10 feet in front of me before I could see it. The last time we went camping we were walking a trail back to our tent without a flashlight. Sometimes I could make outlines if there was enough contrast - I asked my wife if she could see the texture of objects, which she could. On the flipside, I'm also getting really light sensitive. It hurts to see bright sunlight (not directly looking at the sun).
 
Originally posted by: rahvin
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Originally posted by: virtueixi
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I didn't realize color blindness was so common....in fact, the man I bought my car from two weeks ago apparently is color blind too. :Q
Click to expand...

Real color blindness is really rare. I mean where you can't any colors. Red/green is fairly common (20% of population) it just means you don't see certain shades/transitions. Really not that bad, shouldn't effect your life drasticly.
Click to expand...

This is obviously a foreign concept to me as I'm not color blind myself - but, at the risk of sounding stupid - when you have something like red/green color blindness, what do you see? Do those colors both appear the same, like some combination of the two, I guess?

😕
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Acording to the guy I work with that is color blind (I share your curiosity and have quizzed him extensively), green looks gray to him.
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For me, it's more like one shade of green looks exactly the same as another.
 
Originally posted by: virtueixi
Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
yes, it is covered under the ADA. I get a nice laminated note from my college to take around!
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OMG it's laminated? I'm in the club b!tches. lolol
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Yup, I get to show it to all my professors when they use crappy maps like this one: http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_s...ural%20communities.jpg on tests where I can't tell the difference between some of the regions.
 
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