Colour blindness

[Mister James]

Anyone else here suffer from colour blindness of any sort?

I was diagnosed with just about every different variety of this when I was younger, which caused me huge amounts of grief because all I ever wanted to be was an officer in the military.

When I finally joined the RN, they said that my colour vision was so poor that I could only be an Engineering or Supply officer. I duly took the Admiralty Interview Board for Engineering, and when I passed and was sent for my medical, I told them not to bother with the colour test as I was effectively as blind as a bat. They said they had to do it anyway, and so I took the 'Lantern Test' (2 tiny little lights on the other side of a dark room, they turn various colours to represent ships's running lights on the horizon at night) and passed it 100%.

"Oh, I hope that doesn't affect your career choice".

Arse biscuits - I had to take the AIB all over again for warfare - which is a much higher pass mark.

Anyway, since then it hadn't even crossed my mind, until 10 years later (last week) when I had to take a medical for a job that - against all the odds - I had got through to the final stages of recruitment for. Nothing on the advert had suggested colour vision was required - I suspect that it's rare enough that it's not an issue for most people?

Needless to say, I flunked it - and the company have no job-specific tests, so I have to wait and see whether they will make 'reasonable adjustments' to the role to allow me to take up the position.

It's all made doubly frustrating by the fact that - to all intents and purposes in every day life - I'm not colour blind! I can see red/green/blue quite clearly, spent 3 years of my RNR career navigating ships at night, have never accidentally jumped a red light, etc etc etc!

The job specification involves reading train signals in tunnels with no weather and at short distances - which I'm perfectly capable of doing, especially as I could previous read ship's lights at distance in all conditions, from a moving deck!

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Edit: People with normal colour vision beware - I'm considering a purge.
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[Itchy]

Yes , whenever I go out riding I constantly see red (psychologically) , (its a Y chromasome thing) probably why women don't get it

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Hold on you are getting sick of being a screw and you are going elsewhere? , maybe you should get that cheaty phone camera java app which tells you in words what colour things are I forget where it was and gave even less thought to it since I'm not colour blind.
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[Scotch Bonnet]

Mildly Red/Green here, never enough to cause a problem in day-to-day thigs, but i'll have trouble reading red text on a green backround, for instance.

Never been an issue for getting a job, but it did mean that school was fun, with a seemingly endless stream of people picking up red things and saying "so, what colour's this then?"
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[Mister James]

I'm bored and frustrated where I am, and the pay is pretty dreadful for what I do. I applied to this job on a slow rest day, with no real intent to follow it up - but as work got worse and I got further down the line of the assessments, I actually started taking an interest!

I'm looking to join the police at some point in the future, but even if they pull their finger out I'm looking at a 12 months wait - this job looks more interesting than what I do now, pays far more, means less hours and more benefits, etc. A change is as good as a rest, and all that. Once I finish training, it will mean around £900 extra in my pocket every month - for 7hrs a week less work!
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[silky666]

there is a bloke at work that sees in greyscale - now that is proper colour blindness.
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[Mister James]

Aye - thankfully, that is the only bar to joining the police, and I don't have it.
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[st3v3]

There used to be colour blind test you could get to check these things.......

https://colorvisiontesting.com/online%20test.htm#demonstration%20card%20answer

https://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html

Interesting..,plus I already knew I weren't.
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[Handsome]

All my life, I find it hard to tell the difference between some Blues and Purples, some Greens and Browns and some Yellows and Oranges, shades I mean...

Pisses me off when some idiot doesn't believe you and asks what colour so and so is, fucks sake I could just obviously lie if I wanted...
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[Visitor Q]

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[Skudd]

I've never understood colour blindness. If you look at some grass and you see it as red then you know red is green so next time you see red you know it is green so you don't know red is red as it is really green. Red might be blue but you see blue but have been told it is red so blue is red.
So no matter what colour your mind sees it is the correct colour for whayt you are seeing.
I think I have explained what I was thinking.
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[Teaman]

Red green here,

I just get on with life and try and accept the fact that anyone who doesnt have it will never understand it.
you get oblivious to the questions of
"what colour is this?" Red,
"what colour is this?" Green,
"Well your not colour blind are you"
you can slap everyone.
I know its not a full on dissability but you do get your fair share of peoples ignorance to it.

I find that I dont really have much difficulty in life and get added bonus things like getting out of selecting what colours everything in the house should be cos some pinks loo blue, some greens are brown and what the F****ng hell is mauve?


I wonk on the pricipal that most colours to me look better and the crappy ones just merge into drab
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[queen of string]

my OH is colour blind, doesn't matter much day to day, just means he never does electrics, occassionally asks me " what colour is this (waves thing) exactly?" and it's completely pointless to ask the question "which of these shades of cream paint do you prefer?" . Likely answer " how should I f ing know?". Carpet choice is also interesting, he gets to choose on texture while I do the colour bit .

EDIT just see the above post, i didn't realise he was on the other puter
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[J0Al1]

I want to know what the world looks like to a colour-blind person.

https://colorvisiontesting.com/what%20colorblind%20people%20see.htm

Interesting.

[ram_doom]

In school I took a test and they advised me never to be an electrician due to colour blindness but have to say, I never have a problem with shades etc.

Is there a free test available online? The ones I'm finding required payment guess I could always look at GSXR mick's leathers and answer the question; "would I wear them?"
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[Skudd]

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[Mister James]

For most of us, I suspect it's not a huge issue. I honestly don't notice it in day-to-day life, I know what's red and what's green. I assume that there are sometimes situations where I miss certain shades of either, but it's not noticeable in anything but the tests.
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