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[upandaway]

It comes up for me really every other day. So many times in everyday life that I rely on colors of objects to communicate about them and I get it wrong just as often.

Usually leads to everyone around me instantly freaking out and shaking uncontrollably. At this point I accuse them of being color blind, which makes them shake even harder (they're foaming at the mouth at this point). Following that is about 15 minutes of people taking turns asking me "what color is this" to every nearby object in the room.
It's all in good fun, sometimes I specify colors even when I know it's likely wrong. I always get someone when I flip the color blindness onto them, haha.

I don't think color blind people want you to feel "very sorry for" them. Also, never ask them "what color is this?". They get that shit all the time and it's somewhat insensitive.

It's completely crazy to me how this exact question with this exact wording and exact manner of speech gets asked every single time. At this point, I have to think that it's coordinated between all of humanity in secret shelters in order to troll colorblind people.

Good way to tease a colorblind person is just to ask him "what color is this", with no context and for no reason. He'll know you're messing with him but it'll still annoy him.

 

[The Shadow]

Being left-handed is a gift man, I would rather lose both my arms than be right handed.

It's a gift!

 

[flippedb]

See, that's pretty curious. We have given names and codes to colors, but do we really know if the world looks exactly the same for everyone? I mean, we all now grass is green, but maybe your green, is my red, so if I suddenly was able to see the world as you do, I'd say the grass is red.

Spoiler

I suck at explaining things. Sorry GAF.

 

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Sounds like he's missing the red receptor cones. Bit more severe than the color deficiency that most of us have.

Yeah red/green he can see certain shades of green though, I believe. Never really held him back from doing anything IRL, actually helps him in some games.

Most of his uncles on his moms side have the same thing, I think a couple of them may be more severe though.

 

[Mariolee]

OP is logicblind.

 

[DJ88]

Man watching Vinny call out the colors on the Xbox One dashboard during the giantbomb launch day stream made me really sad. The thing is, people who are color blind are generally fine with it because it's been that way their whole lives and it's impossible for them to see what they're missing. I wish there was a way to correct it and allow them to fully see color. I'm sure it would be life changing and they'd want to experience everything all over again being able to fully appreciate colors.

I had a similar experience when I was around 10 and got contacts for the first time after not being able to clearly see anything more than a few feet in front of me for years. Everything looked so new and incredible haha.

 

[Deleted member 13876]

It's a gift!

Joke's on you, we can transmute that graphite into diamond.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

An eye opener.

 

[JustHadToJoin]

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

don't take this unless you want a migrane. Mine is perfect.

http://color.method.ac/

these are interesting. scored 14 on the first one

 

[Chezzymann]

I see both a 35 and a 57

edit: of course I have perfect color vision http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=594261

Got a 7 dammit. I bet I could do better but the test is so damn tedious

 

[freenudemacusers]

It's a gift!

might I recommend a fingernail clipper

 

[Angelus Errare]

http://color.method.ac/

9.5 on this, my lowest was an 8 on complimentary because I was randomly moving the mouse around before I clicked to start, so it took me forever to figure out which slice on the color wheel my mouse cursor corresponded to.

 

[Zoe]

9.5 on this, my lowest was an 8 on complimentary because I was randomly moving the mouse around before I clicked to start, so it took me forever to figure out which slice on the color wheel my mouse cursor corresponded to.

I got 9's on all but the last two cause I couldn't figure out the wheel.

 

[speculawyer]

I bet there are people here that don't even realize they're color blind.

Can anyone not see this number (or whatever it is)?

I can vaguely see that there is some kind of pattern there.

But I can't see shit. But there are not very many of these tests and I learned to memorize the patterns in them at one point.

 

[Angelus Errare]

I got 9's on all but the last two cause I couldn't figure out the wheel.

Yea the wheel makes it hard to figure out what your mouse corresponds to so you end up spending most of your time figuring that out =\

 

[hardcastlemccormick]

Man watching Vinny call out the colors on the Xbox One dashboard during the giantbomb launch day stream made me really sad. The thing is, people who are color blind are generally fine with it because it's been that way their whole lives and it's impossible for them to see what they're missing. I wish there was a way to correct it and allow them to fully see color. I'm sure it would be life changing and they'd want to experience everything all over again being able to fully appreciate colors.

I had a similar experience when I was around 10 and got contacts for the first time after not being able to clearly see anything more than a few feet in front of me for years. Everything looked so new and incredible haha.

I got glasses about two years ago that gave me depth perception for the first time outside of 3D movies and the 3DS. I had minor trouble walking at first, but the end result was pretty incredible. (one of my eyes is much weaker than the other, the glasses force them to work together instead of one dominating)

I'm red-green color blind, potentially more than that, not sure. I wish I had access to further tests.

 

[TheExodu5]

Not so sure that color test means much as far as color blindness goes. Takes me a bit to hunt for the color, but it's usually easy enough to get things to match up.

 

[hardcastlemccormick]

Also, for anyone who really wants to know scientific information about vision:

The brain does a lot of conversion, even if you're lacking in particular biological items needed for full vision. The brain will expand the limited color range to fill all colors a human should see.

It's not like the brain says, "well, RED=0, too bad bro" it says, "uh, well, we'll work with what we have, so RED=GREEN+1" and obviously this lowers your ability to see smaller ranges in color between red and green but it still maintains dramatic shifts in color content. Smaller shades in colors are sacrificed to make up for physical limitations on the fly by the brain.

This makes it difficult to know when you are color-blind, because your brain is doing so much perception post-processing that it rarely ever comes up and is easily forgotten (or explained by stereotypes of gender or a lighting condition issue).

 

[demosthenes]

Games are never a problem?

Bioshock 2 was horrible. Lots of people complained so they patched in color blind mode and it was a god send. Starcraft 2 recently added color blind mode and it makes placing buildings much easier when you're trying to build near walls.

 

[Sixfortyfive]

It's a frame of reference issue.

I was 20 years old before I realized I had tinnitus.

I remember a conversation in which I brought up "that background noise you hear in a silent environment," or something along those lines, and when the person I was talking to had no idea what I meant, I thought about it for a moment and realized that I sounded fucking crazy.

One short inquisition later and I realized why I've had an awful time sleeping without white noise my entire life.

 

[Journeywalker]

9.5 on this, my lowest was an 8 on complimentary because I was randomly moving the mouse around before I clicked to start, so it took me forever to figure out which slice on the color wheel my mouse cursor corresponded to.

For hard mode, try doing this on a smart phone. Damn you pudgy opaque thumbs obstructing the color wheel. I got a 7 :-/