Do you know someone that is colorblind? How do this affect them and others that surround them such as family and friends? Plz tell in at least a paragraph or two.
2007-10-02 08:43:42 · 13 answers · asked by starshunda 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
For gods sake do your own homework
2007-10-02 08:46:24 · answer #1 · answered by woodenturkey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am color deficient which is what most people who are 'color blind' are. Very few people are actually completely colorblind and unfortunately, that means that they can't get a drivers license or work in many fields such as medical or chemistry. I had to give up on 3 different fields in college due to my color-deficiency including biology, soil science and topography. On the plus side, color isn't a distraction and they can see through camouflage better.
The biggest problem is that optometrists and ophthalmologists don't test girls for color blindness because it is uncommon. I had to fail chemistry and biology labs in college before I found out I was color blind. Would have been nice to know before I forked out thousands in tuition in fields where I could never compete.
2007-10-02 15:47:14 · answer #2 · answered by CarbonDated 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not as great a handicap as once believed. Remember the old digital watches with red LED's? Some color blind individuals couldn't read them in the daylight. The color deficient people I know have mild to moderate trouble with some warning lights on the dashboard. Traffic lights are usually not a problem. I read somewhere that green traffic light filters have some blue added to aid color deficient persons.
In WWII someone discovered that color blind individuals were preferred to read the then standard black and white reconnaissance photos. They were better able to detect camouflaged areas that persons with normal color vision missed. Go figure! Maybe that explains why the color blind person I know finds the most Petosky stones when we vacation in Michigan.
2007-10-02 16:00:34 · answer #3 · answered by greydoc6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, my dad is colorblind.
Do you know that beatle's song that goes "we all live in a yellow submarine"...well, we used to joke that we lived in a yellow submarine because he painted everything yellow. It was one of the few colors he liked. I don't think he saw it as yellow but it looked better to him or stood out more than most other colors. We also had to compensate. For example, we knew that if he asked for his brown socks we were to go get his green ones. Because green looked brown to him.
He was pretty easy to shop for though. He to this days wears the same exact pants and shirts and he always stick to solid colors - no patterns. That way he doesn't have to match anything up too much.
2007-10-02 15:50:55 · answer #4 · answered by RLW 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My boyfriend is 80% color blind. He can tell the difference between red, blue, etc., but if you put light blue next to dark blue, to him its just blue. He can't tell the difference. Otherwise he is a normal healthy man. There really aren't really any effects on his family or friends. He functions normally. Sometimes he needs a little help with shopping for clothes. I think the fact that he does not view it as a handicap, helps .
2007-10-02 15:51:34 · answer #5 · answered by Mai Tai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It only affected getting dressed and picking out colors for their home. So they got around this by asking others what looked good, it worked out fine. One person was a boss and the other was a friend.
2007-10-02 15:47:08 · answer #6 · answered by Angelina N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my friend, my tae kwon do instructor, and my science teacher are colorblind to some degree. as far as i can tell, it doesn't affect them much at all. i wasn't aware of it until (except my teacher's case) a few years after i met them.
just for your reference, colorblind doesn't necessarily mean to see everything in black and white. it just means to see colors differently than most people. more as shades. but they can still distinguish between them.
2007-10-02 15:49:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why a paragraph or two? I knew somebody who couldn't tell green from orange. Green and orange things just all looked green to him. People were confused when he complimented their shirts which he said were green, but were actually orange.
2007-10-02 15:47:08 · answer #8 · answered by gilgamesh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah.
He usually brings someone to the store because he can't pick up the right color of clothes.
2007-10-03 02:18:12 · answer #9 · answered by meetha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not personally, but in high school I had a teacher who was color blind. We knew when his wife was mad at him because his clothes didn't match.
2007-10-02 15:46:56 · answer #10 · answered by Softball Mom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋