Poll: Are you colorblind?

[silverhawk100]

Yes. I can't see green. But then again, I can. Forests have colors for me, I just can't recognise them. And I can see bright green. On the other hand, I have great difficulty with dark tints of brown and red too, though tests show I can see these colors.

Weird.

Spot diagnosis by untrained internet armchair physician: Your brain is probably trying to fill in the gaps. You look at a tree and the whole back part of your brain is saying "that's a color, I know it's a color. I don't know what color it is, but it falls into the category of colors I don't know what color it is and so must be that color." You can't see green, but you can see 'must-be-green.'

I knew someone with monochromacy who was able to tell you colors down to a pretty good accuracy if you gave him one of the colors. He could then extrapolate "if this is yellow, that color is this much darker than that one, so it must be red, and that makes this green, etc." Brain plasticity, yay!

 

[Eldarion]

I'm color blind, got it pretty bad in fact. Gets annoying.

It's either you are or you aren't.
You can't have it "pretty bad"
unless it's only one form of it, then explain.

There are a number of different forms of color blindness. Look it up yourself.

I know, I was asking which you had.

Well, I only say "pretty bad" because its not the only vision related problem I have. I'm red green color blind combined with a pretty nasty astigmatism.

My eyesight is crap lol.

Sorry if I snapped at you.

 

[no space]

My Aesthetics/Art Theory professor is colorblind - red/green, I believe. Seems a little ironic, but, what can you do.

I never understood what the rhesus types actually do. Does the negative matter for whether you can get transfusions or not?

Yes, it's another antigen, just like the ABO's. If you're negative, you can't take Rh-positive blood/organs. It can also cause pregnancy complications (erythroblastosis fetalis, I think it's called. Been a while since I took that class.)

 

[silverhawk100]

As an aside we also have a really rare bloodtype that anyone can use but we have to have the same one. Wierd.

So... O then?

0 rhesus negative. I think its kind of rare.

I never understood what the rhesus types actually do. Does the negative matter for whether you can get transfusions or not?

If you are negative, you can't get positive blood, but if you are positive, you can get negative blood. That's why O-neg is called the universal donor whereas AB+ is called the universal recipient.

 

[PatSilverFox]

I'm color blind, got it pretty bad in fact. Gets annoying.

It's either you are or you aren't.
You can't have it "pretty bad"
unless it's only one form of it, then explain.

There are a number of different forms of color blindness. Look it up yourself.

I know, I was asking which you had.

Well, I only say "pretty bad" because its not the only vision related problem I have. I'm red green color blind combined with a pretty nasty astigmatism.

My eyesight is crap lol.

Sorry if I snapped at you.

Awww it's okay. Yeah that sorta hurt a bit :'(
But its fine. People are pretty mean to me.
I have astigmatism and -4 eyesight.

 

[crudus]

I am totally blind so in a way I have monochromacy.

(not really. I can see colors and things just fine)

Hey, who's the guy/gal with monochromacy?! That's very rare...

I know I guy who got selected by the draft in one of the wars(WWII I think). His wife was really worried but he said "Pfft, I am completely colorblind. They aren't going to draft me". A month or two later he was at the front of a plane pointing out squads in the woods. Apparently one benefit of having monochromacy is camo doesn't work on you.

 

[Bloodstain]

Nope, above-average perfect vision. But I think my hearing os not that bad.

 

[Jonluw]

As an aside we also have a really rare bloodtype that anyone can use but we have to have the same one. Wierd.

So... O then?

0 rhesus negative. I think its kind of rare.

I never understood what the rhesus types actually do. Does the negative matter for whether you can get transfusions or not?

If you are negative, you can't get positive blood, but if you are positive, you can get negative blood. That's why O-neg is called the universal donor whereas AB+ is called the universal recipient.

I see. I knew O has all the antigenes and AB has none, but I didn't know the rh type affected stuff.

As an aside we also have a really rare bloodtype that anyone can use but we have to have the same one. Wierd.

So... O then?

0 rhesus negative. I think its kind of rare.

I never understood what the rhesus types actually do. Does the negative matter for whether you can get transfusions or not?

I'm not sure I think I have to have that exact type though, for myself.

Well there you go.

 

[lolandrew4]

I'm red green colourblind, and I found out when I was 13, I was in such dismay, everything I knew was a lie. and oddly enough so is my girlfriend.

 

[Chemical Alia]

The Gamecube is blue, not purple.

But no, I'm not.

 

[hyker]

yes
I have a hard time telling the difference between the shades of orange and green, so if you blend them together I'd say it's green while it's orange with greenish shade

never really affected my life, except that they wouldn't let me be an artists or bomb and electrical specialist (not like I ever wanted to), though it was kinda cool how everybody in my class acted like I had 30 days to live at the first 3 months

 

[Uszi]

Question for colorblind people: Do you have problems with contrast? Like, if a background and a font color are in two different colors that you have trouble with, do you have a hard time telling the words from the background, and thus being able to read it?

You mean like this? [http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/fuck-the-colorblind]

I can't read that, which is the whole joke of course.

I see a circle filled with green circles... And maybe some red or brown ones.

I can figure it out from the description of the shirt though

The way I explain it, imagine that red and green aren't separate colors but different shades of the same color. That's how the world looks to me.

 

[Tharwen]

I seem to be slightly blind to red in my left eye, but I have to be concentrating to notice it.

 

[SckizoBoy]

You mean like this? [http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/fuck-the-colorblind]

I can't read that.

I see a circle filled with green circles.

And maybe some red or brown ones.

I can figure it out from the description of the shirt though

The way I explain it, imagine that red and green aren't separate colors but different shades of the same color. That's how the world looks to me.

LOL, 'cos (and this will reflect poorly on me) all I saw were a series of overlapping dicks!

God I hated those Ishihara tests...

 

[Uszi]

This is a pretty good explanation for all you color normal people out there:
http://colorvisiontesting.com/online%20test.htm#demonstration%20card

 

[NicolasMarinus]

Yes. I can't see green. But then again, I can. Forests have colors for me, I just can't recognise them. And I can see bright green. On the other hand, I have great difficulty with dark tints of brown and red too, though tests show I can see these colors.

Weird.

Spot diagnosis by untrained internet armchair physician: Your brain is probably trying to fill in the gaps. You look at a tree and the whole back part of your brain is saying "that's a color, I know it's a color. I don't know what color it is, but it falls into the category of colors I don't know what color it is and so must be that color." You can't see green, but you can see 'must-be-green.'

I knew someone with monochromacy who was able to tell you colors down to a pretty good accuracy if you gave him one of the colors. He could then extrapolate "if this is yellow, that color is this much darker than that one, so it must be red, and that makes this green, etc." Brain plasticity, yay!

That's exactly how I experience it. I have to think about what color it is. In any case, I enjoy a walk in the woods as much as the next guy, so I'm not troubled by my handicap. Thanks for the explanation!

Fun to know that there's no difference between limited and full monochromatic color blindness.

 

[NightmareTaco]

The Gamecube is blue, not purple.

But no, I'm not.

That's purple, lol.

 

[Uszi]

The Gamecube is blue, not purple.

But no, I'm not.

That's purple, lol.

I thought it was blue?!
Are you shitting me? It's been purple this whole time...

 

[Uszi]

I think that's a slightly better test.

III looks exactly like I to me. I have no idea how that looks to other people.

I assume that ths bars in II are green and the bars in V are grey... But they look like the same color to me. Are they both green?