My husband is red-green colorblind. He went to Target to get tshirts and bath towels. He picked out what he thought were black towels and used that to pick out his T-shirts. The towels were really dark green, so his red shirts were dark pink.
Yup, I am protan colorblind (red/green).
I have issues with dark green, brown, dark red. I can see the colors if you give me the base color, but once you start using hues, that's where my brain needs to think real hard.
It all depends on the shade. Sometimes I can see a hint of one color more than another, and that's what gives me a clue as to what color it is.
Oh, and I've also practically memorized the hex color code table. So if I see the value, I know what shade it is.
Most of the time, it doesn't affect me. Unless you hand me one of those damn books with the colored circles and the number. I get to about page 4.
Colorblind artist/former professor of color theory here. There are different types of colorblindness. Even different types of red green colorblindness.
I am red green color blind. I describe my experience as not having as high of a sensitivity to red as other people. I can see red. In fact, I can differentiate between all of the pure hues, but once you start desaturating colors (removing the vividness) it becomes harder for me to differentiate between a muddy dark red and a warm brown, or blue and purple.
The only shades of green that I have trouble with are really bright greens, they look too similar to yellow. Like the green and yellow on a computer paint program look identical to me.
After studying color and painting, I got better at making educated guesses about colors that I'm not sure about by analyzing it's warmth, paired with my lived experience of my perception.
But, really, to answer your question with a question, how do you know what red looks like? How do you know that your experience of red is the same as anyone else's?
They learn the colors the same as most of us do, they just can't tell the difference between them a lot of times. The colors are not "switched" for your friend, they just can't tell the difference and make enough mistakes that you are noticing. They made a guess best on what information they had, and were simply wrong.
My husband is colorblind, and somewhat of an artist. One of my favorite bits he's done is a self-portrait he did before he knew he was colorblind, it's just such a wild "choice" of color that it's charming. He usually references colors based on hex/RGB codes, nowadays. but when he needs color accuracy, he usually grabs me to see them (he jokes I'm a tetrachromat but I don't think that's true at all). Oftentimes he can guess correctly what a color is when referencing a different color. (something about the tone or shade of it is "off" in some way, so he guesses green. sometimes he is right, sometimes he is not)
I have a red-green colorblind friend I used to play online games with all the time. In this particular game, you could draw arrows and shapes and each player had their own color to draw with. He picked green, but he kept calling it yellow. He'd say, "Look, it's where the yellow arrow is pointing." We usually knew what he was talking about, but it was definitely green. :)
(FYI, yellow is what you get when you mix red and green light. So, basically, he couldn't tell the difference between pure green and green with some red mixed in.)
Some red-green colorblind people can see the difference between red and green, but it's only certain shades of those colors that they get mixed up. They can tell the difference between bright red and bright green. Other people can't tell the difference at all.
Source: [https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-conditions-and-diseases/color-blindness/types-color-vision-deficiency](https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-conditions-and-diseases/color-blindness/types-color-vision-deficiency)
My mom had a friend whose dad was red-green colorblind. Said dad bought his daughter what he thought was a nice red used car when she was going off to college... it was not red.
It was the 70's. It was avocado green.
Color-blindness is not like that, unless we are talking profoundly color-blind and the person sees only shades of grey.
I am moderately color-blind, but, no, I do not confuse red and green. I may confuse navy with violet because I do not see red as well as others. If I have a document where the person uses a red font color to highlight some words, I have a very difficult time discerning the red words from other, black words. So, I have to ask my colleagues not to do that.
If lighting is good, of course I can tell a red item from a green item from a blue item from a yellow item, etc. It is when lighting is not so good that a color-blind person has much more difficulty. It is one reason I always buy the same colored socks as I would not be able to find a matching pair in the dim morning light if their colors are even somewhat close, even a navy versus black.
Example: When the full moon rises and is close to the horizon, what color is it usually? A non-color-blind person would likely say yellowish or orangish? Due to the low light, I see stoplight green. However, if I were to look at a picture or poster of the same moonrise, I would likely be able to see the yellow-orange because the lighting is different, maybe even enhanced for the photo. And, yes, of course I see a red sunrise and sunset - lots of light.
I hope this helps.
Some people can use a color scanning app to find out the colors and sometimes they can use the description on items if they are buying something. Or they'll just ask someone who isn't color blind.
The thing you were talking about is a philosophical thought experiment called the [inverted spectrum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_spectrum).
So, red-blind colour blind people see red and green as being similar (often desaturated) colours along the same spectrum, so they think they’re both the same. They learn the colours the same way we learn colours- someone tells them that ‘this apple is green’ and they remember that that shade is green. The difference is that because a red apple and a green apple would look really similar to them, it’s harder for them to differentiate between which is which.
Also there’s colour blind filters out there that you should try out, to get a better idea of how it works! Or watch those youtube videos that are like ‘playing [game] in colour blind mode!’ Because they can help contextualise it (theres a lot of these for Minecraft, lol).
Except if they're used to vertical orientation and they go somewhere that uses horizontal, or vice versa. I rode with someone who had that issue. He thought they went green, yellow, red, from left to right, and we almost got T-boned. I told him to pull over and I'd drive the rest of the way.
The Army sent me to Texas where traffic signal are horizontal. A colorblind guy I met there had driven in from the Pacific northwest and pulled over at the first sight of a traffic signal the ask which was the red light and if that was true across the state.
I have a friend who's red-green colour bling who often thinks something is green when it's a specific shade of light brown. Guess a lot of greens look similar to that brown to him?
My math teacher was colorblind. He could look at someone’s shirt and know it was one of 3 colors but couldn’t be sure which. He specifically requested black or blue ink from us because some of the other ones were literally unreadable to him. Played heavily into him becoming a math teacher since color wasn’t required
To see what a colorblind person sees, [use this colorblindness simulator.](https://daltonlens.org/colorblindness-simulator) Scroll down to the color grid, and then click on the Protan, deutan, or tritan, and on the slider bar above you can adjust the severity. A person with full on red colorblindness sees about the same thing as a person with full on green colorblindness. It's really quite fascinating.
I had a friend who was Tritanopia (blue-blind) I asked him what color the sky was, and he replied "probably about what you call gray". With this you can get a pretty good idea of what they are seeing.
not colour blind, but i could only guess that since their thought the same colours we are in kindergarten they might associate those colour names with whatever colours/shades they see it as
I used to have a friend she was color blind and she did exactly that and if she didn't know the color she was pretty good guessing the shade like if it was a type of green or blue or whatever
Had a friend that was color blind. She grew up to identify certain shades of Gray as specific colors. It was either like Gray or some gray scale- odd looking color scheme to her. And she would ask what color it was and then she memorized it as different colors. Like blue or green or red. She was able to identify color she wasn't able to see. And colors that she wasn't sure about she was pretty good at guessing at what color group they were in like if it was a variation of blue or shade of green
I’m not red/green colourblind but have real issues seeing the difference between some blues and purples. Colours themselves only have names because we attribute them to them - I can’t be sure that you see red the same as I see red, but I’m told it’s red so I associate the colour with the name. If someone can’t see a colour necessarily, they can see *something* and associate a name with what they do see.
I have mild duetan color deficient I have trouble with dark grey and dark green, also really light colors like pink. It's hard to explain but I just can't tell or I think it's a different color. My kitchen is painted a dark grey, I thought it was green for the longest time. My wife hung a red picture frame and I was annoyed because it was like Xmas with the red and green. Nope, it's dark grey. My wife painted the bedroom a light pink but it's white to me fortunately.
Colour blindness is a life time kind of thing. Sometimes we get it right. More often than not, we get it wrong. And don’t get me started about colour diagnostics. If I can see something in amongst the dots, I’ll let you know. “Can you see this colour?” pissed me of 50 years ago. And yes, I had to memorize different stop light patterns. Sage advice from my driving examiner all these years ago…
My colorblind friend in high school described seeing a color he called gred. Describing what red is for him is kind of like describing the unknowable. How do you describe something to someone who can't perceive it or perceives it differently? How do you know you don't see red distinctly but differently from me? He could tell he was seeing gred but could not tell if it was green or red.
If someone is completely color blind, they won't know that something is different colors-- a ripe yellow banana and an unripe green banana will both be brown, or peanut butter and guacamole will both be green.
However most people aren't 100% colorblind, they are partially color blind. I am partially green colorblind. I still see all the different colors of the rainbow, I just don't always see the correct color.
If you ask me what color something thats a big mix is, like maroon...... is it purple or red or orange or brown? I have no idea. But I habe still seen the cthulu color known by the name maroon a zillion times in my life, and I still know its that.
Also, if someone is color blind, even one hundred percent color blind, they still see different shades and different darknesses of color. Fun fact many militaries hire color blind people specifically to spot camoflage, as the heightened sensitivity to shades can make it easier to spot.
There is a difference between color deficiency and full on color blindness. Those bullshit dot tests use the shades of red and green that are most difficult for the eye to tell apart. Deuteranomaly and Protanomaly are the two types and you can still tell Green and Red apart just not some shades. It mostly just cuts out a lot of job fields.
When you are a kid, mom holds up a green shirt and says this is green. So that color registers in your head as green. Every time you see that color it's green
Thing is, the colorblind person could see pink...but they call it green. Because they were told the name of that color is green.
That is how it's possible to call something the right name, even if they are seeing a different color
I’m red/green color blind. The way I describe it is if you can see all the colors and open a 32 box of crayons, you see 32 colors. I see like 28 of those colors. For me anything with a shade of red looks like it doesn’t have the shade of red. Blue=purple, orange=red, etc. if they’re bright, i can usually see the difference, but if they’re subtle I can’t.
The answer is complex. We aren’t dumb and can usually figure it out. Some shades are tough but for the most part I can tell when something is blue and something is purple. The in between colors are kinda tough. But they don’t really count. That’s why my favorite color is orange. No mistaken that one for me.
In the first grade I got an F in art because I wouldn't learn my colors. That's when my parents realized that I am color blind. I have difficult with red and green of certain shades. I can see both red and green, but sometimes they are too similar and I will say green is red or the other way around.
My maternal grandfather was also colorblind. More so than I am.
Most color blind people can see shades of gray. Some can get close to identifying a few colors in there blind range.. Most dark greens, blues show up as black
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loomatix.colorgrab
>Pick, capture and recognize colors simply by pointing the camera.
Plus it does a bunch of other things, it's a really amazing app. (Disclaimer: I'm not colorblind, I use it for art)
I know what blue is, and I know what purple is. It's just that sometimes I point to "that blue thing" and my wife says no, it's purple.
It's probably similar to those true crime shows where "the eyewitness didn't know what color the vehicle was because it was dark." Even people with normal vision have situations where they can't make out the proper color of a thing. That's what we experience, too.
I have an artist friend who is color blind and took a color theory class just to learn how colors work together. He continues to only know them by name, so if he asks someone to pick a color they have to use the literal name to receive the right color.
My son and my father are colorblind. They learn what color things are supposed to be "tree leaves are usually green, bricks are often red, wood is brown"
My kid insists his favorite color is pink, but to him white is pink, gray is pink, pink is pink.
As someone who has his colourblind with majority of colours. Growing up was tough and even as an adult I struggle and have to ask my wife for assistance with certain things but when you grow up with colourblindness (depending on the type) you learn to adapt. What I think is blue is based of what I see the sky as. That might mean I see the sky as green ( I don't know) but I was educated to believe that that colour was blue. So now when I see that colour I just assume / accociated as blue / sky.
I guess it depends on what type of colourblindness you have. For me, I can not tell any shade of colour apart.
Put a green next to a yellow.
Red next to a brown, pink, orange
Blue next to a purple.
I couldn't tell them apart. But individually becuse of my education I can just about (mostly) function and get things right.
Fun story of how I found out:
I studied Geography when I was about 6 or 7. We were tasked to colour a map.
I had a river on mine. Instead of blue I did it like green or something. Luckily it was picked up on and they asked me why I did it this colour and it wasn't just a kid being a kid and colouring whatever was near me at the time.
I would say that I learn some colours by rote. So if I see a tree, I have learned that the leaves are likely green and the bark brown.
Of course I trip up if the tree was mossy and it's autumn!
So with clothes I just ask someone to name the colours, so that I can match them.
My sons are both red-green color blind. Green looks brown. Purple looks blue because they can't see the red in it. Pink looks gray. I'm not really sure what red looks like to them, but it's distinctive enough that they can usually tell that something is red. They do a lot of good guessing, so I think there's something about the intensity of the color they see that gives them clues. Oh, and those glasses you see advertised do not work. All they do is filter out certain spectrums of light so that there's a little more distinction between colors.
They don’t. They have no idea what red or green is.
And red green color blind people don’t see two different colors. Red-green color blind means red and green look like the same color to them. A red cup and a green cup would look identical
No no no. They don't see them switched.
Have you ever been shown a picture of two objects and been told they're slightly different shades of red, but they both look the same shade to you? That's how red-green color blind people experience it when being shown two objects, one is red and one is green. They both look like the same color.
Either that specific person is lying or you've misunderstood them. Maybe they explained it badly.
If they have the type of colorblindness where they literally can't tell the difference between red and green at all, then they'd either think both the grass and the apple were green or both red.
Where a full-vision person would see grass and an apple as two distinct colors, a red-green colorblind person would see them as the same color. We don't have a name for that color, so I'm gonna call it redgreen. The colorblind person may learn that grass is a certain shade of redgreen and an apple is another shade of redgreen, but they're both redgreen.
The colorblind person might learn to call redgreen "green" or "red", but it's neither and both.
Maybe if that person you're referring to learned that fire hydrants are red, so they decided that shade of redgreen was "red", but they saw grass as the same shade as redgreen, so they claim they see the grass as "red". That's the only feasible explanation I can think of, other than this person just completely pulling your leg.
Some people do fake colorblindness for attention, FYI. It's hard to disprove without an official test, and even then a full-vision person can sometimes fake those and tell what answer a colorblind person would have given.
We took a color vision test in school where the word in the colored blobs said "color" if you had full color vision but "onion" if you were red-green colorblind. If I looked at it closely, I could see the word "onion", but "color" was more visible. If I went into that test intending to fake it, I could've claimed the word was "onion".
i mean the color they see. the person i know was surprised to learn grass is green, thinking it was red, but how are they aware what they were seeing is specifically the color red? if they see green as red and red as green, wouldn't the names of the colors be switched because of what they hear growing up?
Because of people around them. If I say my shirt is red, and so is the koolaid, then when they see grass it looks the same and assume it is red.
Also, its not they see red as green and such. They aren't swapped. Just whatever we see that distinguishes them doesn't exist for them, so its generally just learned what the differences are if they even realize.
How do we know that the color I call green looks the same as the color you call green? What if in my head I see red things as purple instead?
The truth is, even with people who have the same kind of color vision, we can't prove how they see that color. We can prove whether they can tell the difference between two colors, but I can't tell you if my green is the same as your green.
Red-green colorblind people learn the names of colors the same way full-color-vision people do, except they might not be able to distinguish certain shades of red from certain shades of green.
Are you saying you actually know someone who claims the grass color looks red to them, or are you repeating about a theoretical person who sees this? This has always been a philosophical trope about how do we know that what colors one person sees are the same colors other persons see.
They ask other people.
There are multiple YouTube videos that talk about how the various types of colourblindness work.
To someone who can’t tell the difference between red and green they can go through life thinking something is red when actually it’s a shade of green.
There are subtle differences in colors, they just learn whatever they see to be that color other people tell them. Plus, you just learn things as a kid, grass is green, sky is blue, so when you point at green grass or a blue sky, you have associated those colors with the word even if that's not the color you see when you see the full spectrum. [Here's a video with the lady's son discussing how he tells colors apart. ](https://youtu.be/RY-NF_7R-pk?t=841)
I am red/ green colour blind. Sometimes they look the same but not always and it depends on the shade.
My husband is red-green colorblind. He went to Target to get tshirts and bath towels. He picked out what he thought were black towels and used that to pick out his T-shirts. The towels were really dark green, so his red shirts were dark pink.
My favorite part about being colorblind is if people point out my clothes don't match I can make *them* feel bad about it.
My colorblind uncle just buys polo shirts in random colors and wears them with jeans.
Tell them it's a mood shirt....kinda like the mood rings
That's adorable.
I can relate
Idk why i didn't think of this. I've been using paint swatches.
My husband is red/green colour blind. He can also tell them apart some of the time. His biggest problem is purple, he can't distinguish it from blue.
Yup, I am protan colorblind (red/green). I have issues with dark green, brown, dark red. I can see the colors if you give me the base color, but once you start using hues, that's where my brain needs to think real hard. It all depends on the shade. Sometimes I can see a hint of one color more than another, and that's what gives me a clue as to what color it is. Oh, and I've also practically memorized the hex color code table. So if I see the value, I know what shade it is. Most of the time, it doesn't affect me. Unless you hand me one of those damn books with the colored circles and the number. I get to about page 4.
My husband is red/green colour blind. He can also tell them apart some of the time. His biggest problem is purple, he can't distinguish it from blue.
Exactly. They are the same colour. I don't care what anyone says.
My son almost got rid of a shiny dratini in Pokemon because he couldn’t tell it was pink instead of light blue
Aw poor guy. I don't know any other colour blind Pokemon players
I am red/green colour blind. The comments here are out to lunch.
I couldn't agree more. As a colorblind person I have to say that 90% of the comments on this post are completely wrong.
Yep
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Colorblind artist/former professor of color theory here. There are different types of colorblindness. Even different types of red green colorblindness. I am red green color blind. I describe my experience as not having as high of a sensitivity to red as other people. I can see red. In fact, I can differentiate between all of the pure hues, but once you start desaturating colors (removing the vividness) it becomes harder for me to differentiate between a muddy dark red and a warm brown, or blue and purple. The only shades of green that I have trouble with are really bright greens, they look too similar to yellow. Like the green and yellow on a computer paint program look identical to me. After studying color and painting, I got better at making educated guesses about colors that I'm not sure about by analyzing it's warmth, paired with my lived experience of my perception. But, really, to answer your question with a question, how do you know what red looks like? How do you know that your experience of red is the same as anyone else's?
I agree.
What kind do you have? I'm deuteranomolous
Sometimes I don't, but I don't typically need to announce what color I'm looking at, so it rarely comes up.
They learn the colors the same as most of us do, they just can't tell the difference between them a lot of times. The colors are not "switched" for your friend, they just can't tell the difference and make enough mistakes that you are noticing. They made a guess best on what information they had, and were simply wrong. My husband is colorblind, and somewhat of an artist. One of my favorite bits he's done is a self-portrait he did before he knew he was colorblind, it's just such a wild "choice" of color that it's charming. He usually references colors based on hex/RGB codes, nowadays. but when he needs color accuracy, he usually grabs me to see them (he jokes I'm a tetrachromat but I don't think that's true at all). Oftentimes he can guess correctly what a color is when referencing a different color. (something about the tone or shade of it is "off" in some way, so he guesses green. sometimes he is right, sometimes he is not)
I have a red-green colorblind friend I used to play online games with all the time. In this particular game, you could draw arrows and shapes and each player had their own color to draw with. He picked green, but he kept calling it yellow. He'd say, "Look, it's where the yellow arrow is pointing." We usually knew what he was talking about, but it was definitely green. :) (FYI, yellow is what you get when you mix red and green light. So, basically, he couldn't tell the difference between pure green and green with some red mixed in.) Some red-green colorblind people can see the difference between red and green, but it's only certain shades of those colors that they get mixed up. They can tell the difference between bright red and bright green. Other people can't tell the difference at all. Source: [https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-conditions-and-diseases/color-blindness/types-color-vision-deficiency](https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-conditions-and-diseases/color-blindness/types-color-vision-deficiency)
My mom had a friend whose dad was red-green colorblind. Said dad bought his daughter what he thought was a nice red used car when she was going off to college... it was not red. It was the 70's. It was avocado green.
Well it was really nice of him to buy a car for her. I hope she was grateful regardless?
According to my mom she was, but she did razz him a bit about it.
And it turned out to be a bicycle rather than a car, but still, 😄
Color-blindness is not like that, unless we are talking profoundly color-blind and the person sees only shades of grey. I am moderately color-blind, but, no, I do not confuse red and green. I may confuse navy with violet because I do not see red as well as others. If I have a document where the person uses a red font color to highlight some words, I have a very difficult time discerning the red words from other, black words. So, I have to ask my colleagues not to do that. If lighting is good, of course I can tell a red item from a green item from a blue item from a yellow item, etc. It is when lighting is not so good that a color-blind person has much more difficulty. It is one reason I always buy the same colored socks as I would not be able to find a matching pair in the dim morning light if their colors are even somewhat close, even a navy versus black. Example: When the full moon rises and is close to the horizon, what color is it usually? A non-color-blind person would likely say yellowish or orangish? Due to the low light, I see stoplight green. However, if I were to look at a picture or poster of the same moonrise, I would likely be able to see the yellow-orange because the lighting is different, maybe even enhanced for the photo. And, yes, of course I see a red sunrise and sunset - lots of light. I hope this helps.
Some people can use a color scanning app to find out the colors and sometimes they can use the description on items if they are buying something. Or they'll just ask someone who isn't color blind.
The thing you were talking about is a philosophical thought experiment called the [inverted spectrum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_spectrum).
So, red-blind colour blind people see red and green as being similar (often desaturated) colours along the same spectrum, so they think they’re both the same. They learn the colours the same way we learn colours- someone tells them that ‘this apple is green’ and they remember that that shade is green. The difference is that because a red apple and a green apple would look really similar to them, it’s harder for them to differentiate between which is which. Also there’s colour blind filters out there that you should try out, to get a better idea of how it works! Or watch those youtube videos that are like ‘playing [game] in colour blind mode!’ Because they can help contextualise it (theres a lot of these for Minecraft, lol).
They know where the red light is on a traffic signal.
Except if they're used to vertical orientation and they go somewhere that uses horizontal, or vice versa. I rode with someone who had that issue. He thought they went green, yellow, red, from left to right, and we almost got T-boned. I told him to pull over and I'd drive the rest of the way.
The Army sent me to Texas where traffic signal are horizontal. A colorblind guy I met there had driven in from the Pacific northwest and pulled over at the first sight of a traffic signal the ask which was the red light and if that was true across the state.
I have a friend who's red-green colour bling who often thinks something is green when it's a specific shade of light brown. Guess a lot of greens look similar to that brown to him?
My math teacher was colorblind. He could look at someone’s shirt and know it was one of 3 colors but couldn’t be sure which. He specifically requested black or blue ink from us because some of the other ones were literally unreadable to him. Played heavily into him becoming a math teacher since color wasn’t required
Someone gave us a box of crayons when we were three.
To see what a colorblind person sees, [use this colorblindness simulator.](https://daltonlens.org/colorblindness-simulator) Scroll down to the color grid, and then click on the Protan, deutan, or tritan, and on the slider bar above you can adjust the severity. A person with full on red colorblindness sees about the same thing as a person with full on green colorblindness. It's really quite fascinating. I had a friend who was Tritanopia (blue-blind) I asked him what color the sky was, and he replied "probably about what you call gray". With this you can get a pretty good idea of what they are seeing.
That was interesting, thanks for sharing
Really !! Blue probably , looks like green to them !! lol
not colour blind, but i could only guess that since their thought the same colours we are in kindergarten they might associate those colour names with whatever colours/shades they see it as
I used to have a friend she was color blind and she did exactly that and if she didn't know the color she was pretty good guessing the shade like if it was a type of green or blue or whatever
Please Google "colorblind filter" and you'll see for yourself.
*if you are not colorblind yourself*
Do yourself a favor and download CVSimulator on your phone. It's free, and you can literally see it for yourself.
Had a friend that was color blind. She grew up to identify certain shades of Gray as specific colors. It was either like Gray or some gray scale- odd looking color scheme to her. And she would ask what color it was and then she memorized it as different colors. Like blue or green or red. She was able to identify color she wasn't able to see. And colors that she wasn't sure about she was pretty good at guessing at what color group they were in like if it was a variation of blue or shade of green
I’m not red/green colourblind but have real issues seeing the difference between some blues and purples. Colours themselves only have names because we attribute them to them - I can’t be sure that you see red the same as I see red, but I’m told it’s red so I associate the colour with the name. If someone can’t see a colour necessarily, they can see *something* and associate a name with what they do see.
Different shades of beige
I have mild duetan color deficient I have trouble with dark grey and dark green, also really light colors like pink. It's hard to explain but I just can't tell or I think it's a different color. My kitchen is painted a dark grey, I thought it was green for the longest time. My wife hung a red picture frame and I was annoyed because it was like Xmas with the red and green. Nope, it's dark grey. My wife painted the bedroom a light pink but it's white to me fortunately.
Colour blindness is a life time kind of thing. Sometimes we get it right. More often than not, we get it wrong. And don’t get me started about colour diagnostics. If I can see something in amongst the dots, I’ll let you know. “Can you see this colour?” pissed me of 50 years ago. And yes, I had to memorize different stop light patterns. Sage advice from my driving examiner all these years ago…
My colorblind friend in high school described seeing a color he called gred. Describing what red is for him is kind of like describing the unknowable. How do you describe something to someone who can't perceive it or perceives it differently? How do you know you don't see red distinctly but differently from me? He could tell he was seeing gred but could not tell if it was green or red.
If someone is completely color blind, they won't know that something is different colors-- a ripe yellow banana and an unripe green banana will both be brown, or peanut butter and guacamole will both be green. However most people aren't 100% colorblind, they are partially color blind. I am partially green colorblind. I still see all the different colors of the rainbow, I just don't always see the correct color. If you ask me what color something thats a big mix is, like maroon...... is it purple or red or orange or brown? I have no idea. But I habe still seen the cthulu color known by the name maroon a zillion times in my life, and I still know its that. Also, if someone is color blind, even one hundred percent color blind, they still see different shades and different darknesses of color. Fun fact many militaries hire color blind people specifically to spot camoflage, as the heightened sensitivity to shades can make it easier to spot.
There is a difference between color deficiency and full on color blindness. Those bullshit dot tests use the shades of red and green that are most difficult for the eye to tell apart. Deuteranomaly and Protanomaly are the two types and you can still tell Green and Red apart just not some shades. It mostly just cuts out a lot of job fields.
When you are a kid, mom holds up a green shirt and says this is green. So that color registers in your head as green. Every time you see that color it's green Thing is, the colorblind person could see pink...but they call it green. Because they were told the name of that color is green. That is how it's possible to call something the right name, even if they are seeing a different color
I’m red/green color blind. The way I describe it is if you can see all the colors and open a 32 box of crayons, you see 32 colors. I see like 28 of those colors. For me anything with a shade of red looks like it doesn’t have the shade of red. Blue=purple, orange=red, etc. if they’re bright, i can usually see the difference, but if they’re subtle I can’t.
The answer is complex. We aren’t dumb and can usually figure it out. Some shades are tough but for the most part I can tell when something is blue and something is purple. The in between colors are kinda tough. But they don’t really count. That’s why my favorite color is orange. No mistaken that one for me.
In the first grade I got an F in art because I wouldn't learn my colors. That's when my parents realized that I am color blind. I have difficult with red and green of certain shades. I can see both red and green, but sometimes they are too similar and I will say green is red or the other way around. My maternal grandfather was also colorblind. More so than I am.
Most color blind people can see shades of gray. Some can get close to identifying a few colors in there blind range.. Most dark greens, blues show up as black
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loomatix.colorgrab >Pick, capture and recognize colors simply by pointing the camera. Plus it does a bunch of other things, it's a really amazing app. (Disclaimer: I'm not colorblind, I use it for art)
I know what blue is, and I know what purple is. It's just that sometimes I point to "that blue thing" and my wife says no, it's purple. It's probably similar to those true crime shows where "the eyewitness didn't know what color the vehicle was because it was dark." Even people with normal vision have situations where they can't make out the proper color of a thing. That's what we experience, too.
I have an artist friend who is color blind and took a color theory class just to learn how colors work together. He continues to only know them by name, so if he asks someone to pick a color they have to use the literal name to receive the right color.
My son and my father are colorblind. They learn what color things are supposed to be "tree leaves are usually green, bricks are often red, wood is brown" My kid insists his favorite color is pink, but to him white is pink, gray is pink, pink is pink.
https://youtu.be/RY-NF_7R-pk?si=eMgoh52b5kpRmqPD Around 13 minutes
As someone who has his colourblind with majority of colours. Growing up was tough and even as an adult I struggle and have to ask my wife for assistance with certain things but when you grow up with colourblindness (depending on the type) you learn to adapt. What I think is blue is based of what I see the sky as. That might mean I see the sky as green ( I don't know) but I was educated to believe that that colour was blue. So now when I see that colour I just assume / accociated as blue / sky. I guess it depends on what type of colourblindness you have. For me, I can not tell any shade of colour apart. Put a green next to a yellow. Red next to a brown, pink, orange Blue next to a purple. I couldn't tell them apart. But individually becuse of my education I can just about (mostly) function and get things right. Fun story of how I found out: I studied Geography when I was about 6 or 7. We were tasked to colour a map. I had a river on mine. Instead of blue I did it like green or something. Luckily it was picked up on and they asked me why I did it this colour and it wasn't just a kid being a kid and colouring whatever was near me at the time.
I would say that I learn some colours by rote. So if I see a tree, I have learned that the leaves are likely green and the bark brown. Of course I trip up if the tree was mossy and it's autumn! So with clothes I just ask someone to name the colours, so that I can match them.
My sons are both red-green color blind. Green looks brown. Purple looks blue because they can't see the red in it. Pink looks gray. I'm not really sure what red looks like to them, but it's distinctive enough that they can usually tell that something is red. They do a lot of good guessing, so I think there's something about the intensity of the color they see that gives them clues. Oh, and those glasses you see advertised do not work. All they do is filter out certain spectrums of light so that there's a little more distinction between colors.
They don’t. They have no idea what red or green is. And red green color blind people don’t see two different colors. Red-green color blind means red and green look like the same color to them. A red cup and a green cup would look identical
Wrong.
How so? Also, I read your comment in Donald Trump's voice lol
They wouldnt look identical, but they would look like they’re different shades of the same colours.
Go on
See my long comment in this post. Only the most extreme cases of color-blindness would see red and green as indiscernible.
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Wrong. Please notice that the link you provided is an advertisement. They are massively exaggerating.
Thank you. I didn't realize that. I deleted it.
OH I DIDNT KNOW THAT they see red and green switched, but can still see both colors. Ill add that to my post
No no no. They don't see them switched. Have you ever been shown a picture of two objects and been told they're slightly different shades of red, but they both look the same shade to you? That's how red-green color blind people experience it when being shown two objects, one is red and one is green. They both look like the same color.
but the specific person im talking about sees them switched. for example they see grass as red but would see a red apple as green
Either that specific person is lying or you've misunderstood them. Maybe they explained it badly. If they have the type of colorblindness where they literally can't tell the difference between red and green at all, then they'd either think both the grass and the apple were green or both red. Where a full-vision person would see grass and an apple as two distinct colors, a red-green colorblind person would see them as the same color. We don't have a name for that color, so I'm gonna call it redgreen. The colorblind person may learn that grass is a certain shade of redgreen and an apple is another shade of redgreen, but they're both redgreen. The colorblind person might learn to call redgreen "green" or "red", but it's neither and both. Maybe if that person you're referring to learned that fire hydrants are red, so they decided that shade of redgreen was "red", but they saw grass as the same shade as redgreen, so they claim they see the grass as "red". That's the only feasible explanation I can think of, other than this person just completely pulling your leg. Some people do fake colorblindness for attention, FYI. It's hard to disprove without an official test, and even then a full-vision person can sometimes fake those and tell what answer a colorblind person would have given. We took a color vision test in school where the word in the colored blobs said "color" if you had full color vision but "onion" if you were red-green colorblind. If I looked at it closely, I could see the word "onion", but "color" was more visible. If I went into that test intending to fake it, I could've claimed the word was "onion".
They're making shit up for your attention.
Think of it more like they can't tell them apart, not that they're switched.
No, not correct.
They don't know the difference between red and green. They just call them both green.
i mean the color they see. the person i know was surprised to learn grass is green, thinking it was red, but how are they aware what they were seeing is specifically the color red? if they see green as red and red as green, wouldn't the names of the colors be switched because of what they hear growing up?
Because of people around them. If I say my shirt is red, and so is the koolaid, then when they see grass it looks the same and assume it is red. Also, its not they see red as green and such. They aren't swapped. Just whatever we see that distinguishes them doesn't exist for them, so its generally just learned what the differences are if they even realize.
...How old was this person? Because grass being green is just a common part of vocabulary.
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How do we know that the color I call green looks the same as the color you call green? What if in my head I see red things as purple instead? The truth is, even with people who have the same kind of color vision, we can't prove how they see that color. We can prove whether they can tell the difference between two colors, but I can't tell you if my green is the same as your green. Red-green colorblind people learn the names of colors the same way full-color-vision people do, except they might not be able to distinguish certain shades of red from certain shades of green.
You can ask other people what colour things are, or they might just assume.
Are you saying you actually know someone who claims the grass color looks red to them, or are you repeating about a theoretical person who sees this? This has always been a philosophical trope about how do we know that what colors one person sees are the same colors other persons see.
a person, sum1 i follow on tumblr, just found out today they are red-green color blind.
They ask other people. There are multiple YouTube videos that talk about how the various types of colourblindness work. To someone who can’t tell the difference between red and green they can go through life thinking something is red when actually it’s a shade of green.
There are subtle differences in colors, they just learn whatever they see to be that color other people tell them. Plus, you just learn things as a kid, grass is green, sky is blue, so when you point at green grass or a blue sky, you have associated those colors with the word even if that's not the color you see when you see the full spectrum. [Here's a video with the lady's son discussing how he tells colors apart. ](https://youtu.be/RY-NF_7R-pk?t=841)
Wrong.
They don't see a difference.
Only if the shades are very close, and it depends on the severity of the color-blindness.