Re: Let me simplify it for you...

Cally Soukup wrote:
Karl Johanson <karljohanson@xxxxxxx> wrote in article <oRYwk.154544$nD.5141@pd7urf1no>:
"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ga1a0s$qp9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mike weber <fairportfan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At least some of the standard "What number do you see?" colour-
vision test plates read multiple ways, depending on exactly what
departures from the norm your vision shows.
True. But if that test was self-administered,

My first test was when I was in kindergarten (I'd drawn a green cow eating brown grass). The nurse showed me a circle made up of pink dots & asked me what number it was. (There wasn't one & I thought the nurse must be an idiot.) She'd never tested anyone with colour vision problems before & kept

I never failed a color vision test in my life, but I've suspected for
some years now that my blue or green vision might be a little off. I
was finally pointed to an online test, and it appears I may have
tritanomaly. My husband could see the numbers, and I couldn't. So I
sent my identical twin the link. She couldn't see the numbers, but her
husband could. It's not definitive, of course, but it does seem likely.

Interestingly, I've been blaming my green cones all this time, and it
appears to be my blue cones. And it's not a sex-linked form of
colorblindness, but it is said to be very, very rare. Though I must
wonder how rare it really is if I've gone 44 years without being
diagnosed.

Here's the color square:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Colorblind5.png

There's supposed to be a sprawling two digit number faintly visible
there, in a bluish-purply color. Or so I'm told.


More pink than purple, and it's very "sprawling" indeed - though that might be my LCD monitor - because I've always been told by opticians my colour vision is good. In fact I've got good "shade" vision too. And a good colour memory - I can correctly match shades of colours for clothing or fabric without having the original swatch there for comparison. I get that from my mother. My father, OTOH, isn't "colour blind" - but is "shade blind" - he'll look at purple and see blue, look at orange and see red. Turquoise is green to him, not blue.

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