Color blindness

Just realized yesterday, at the ripe old age of 37 years old that I’m color blind. Long story short but it started from tracking a deer (first time I’ve tracked a deer blood trail that wasn’t in snow) and not being able to see blood spots on brown and green leaves that others were able to easily see.

It got me to thinking and I knew my nephew was color blind and I knew it was hereditary. So I decided to take several different online tests and they all came back with the same result – deutan color blind. Sent the same test to my brother and he found out he is also color blind (which makes sense based on the genetics). It got me thinking that I’m surprised standard vision tests don’t test for color at all. Essentially you’ll never know you’re color blind unless you somehow find out on your own. Pretty funny stuff.

Anyone else color blind here?

Here is one of the better tests for anyone else thats curious. It takes like 1 minute. Make sure you turn any blue light filters off and turn your brightness all the way up

https://enchroma.com/pages/color-blindness-test

I think Aaron Wiebe is color blind too isnt that why he has the different colored lenses?
Anyways, glad you found this out weird it took this long. What does a stop sign look like or any red sign for that matter?

I’m still trying to figure out what colors I am limited in being able to see. This picture is a good depiction of what limitations the different type of color blindness has. I have deutan, so I’d be upper right in this pic.

I don’t believe Wiebe is. I ordered those same sunglasses he has (one lens is red and one is green) and it has nothing to do with color blindness. They’re only that way for fashion or whatever you want to call it.

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Interesting. I certainly may be wrong about Wiebe, but I thought I remember him actually saying that once. I might have imagined it too.

Gitchi Gummi wrote:

Anyone else color blind here?

My youngest son is color blind. Quite severely actually. The entire male line of my wife’s family is color blind so it wasn’t exactly a surprise.

It is extremely annoying with children because so many school exercises are reliant on seeing color. This despite the fact that one in 12 males is colorblind. We routinely see exercises for example where it will say how many red and how many green of something are there? Well how the hell would a color blind boy know?

And despite constantly nagging the teachers they have about a 4 second memory. They just happily mark all these colored dependent exercises wrong and it never even occurs to them.

To be honest I have to suspect that if nearly as many women were color blind as men, it would be taking a lot more seriously. Everything with boys is instantly written off as inattention or ADHD.

To me blue and gray are the same color.

I once took a brother of a friend pheasant hunting and he shot a hen because he was colorblind. Coudln’t see the colors of the rooster for verification.

That was the one and only time he came with.

back in the day when i was welding stainless…….we where getting orders for stainless steel vessels that needed to be X-rayed……..that meant 100% weld penetration……….so we had to dye check them. it was surprising how many were color blind. they couldnt to the dye check.

my brother is color blind………i am not. at stop lights…he can tell what light is lit up and going by the order there in.

We were tested for color blindness in school by the librarian/nurse every year through elementary. Same time they tested our hearing.

Red Eye wrote:

We were tested for color blindness in school by the librarian/nurse every year through elementary. Same time they tested our hearing.

I remember getting vision tests every year in school but they were not color oriented at all. It was just reading small letters on various rows. I’ve had 20/10 vision for as long as I can remember but just was never tested for color blindness

gimruis wrote:

I once took a brother of a friend pheasant hunting and he shot a hen because he was colorblind. Coudln’t see the colors of the rooster for verification.
That was the one and only time he came with.

funny you say that because my core group of guys I pheasant hunt with is myself and 2 others. One of those guys is color blind (he is protan color blind – so different than mine) which means with my diagnosis, 2/3rds of our group is color blind. We’ve never shot a hen tho! Call em out when you see them and if you aren’t sure, you don’t shoot.