a different colored lens

The colors of the rainbow

TheDad — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:36 +0000

From top to bottom, here are what colors my son sees when he looks at this picture. What colors do you see?
dark brown
orangish
light brown
dark brown
light blue
darkish blue
purplish

Free eBook: Color Blind Essentials

TheDad — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:58:57 +0000

Daniel at Colblindor has written and released an ebook FOR FREE called “Color Blind Essentials.” It contains some great information for anyone dealing with colorblindness either in themselves or family. Click this link to get to his site and download it! Free eBook: Color Blind Essentials

Stuff we’ve noticed

TheDad — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:09:52 +0000

He told his little sister “take that pink egg” she said “no that’s orange!”
He was asked to put the yellow paper back in it’s bin. Later we found it in with the pink paper.
He just asked if Ahsoka’s skin was green. It’s brownish red. (Star Wars)
He asks for help picking out the green colored pencil, holding it up with the brown one.
He asked “Do you like these purple Mentos?” It was pink.

What color is this? What about this?

TheDad — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:01:46 +0000

I’ve heard that a lot of times when classmates hear that a child is colorblind, they are mystified by it, and constantly ask the child about it.

“What color is this lunchbox?”
“What color is the sky?”
“What color are my eyes?”

Can you imagine being frustrated by a trait that you have, being different from everyone else, and having that constantly be pointed out to you? It sounds like experiences that many of us have had in school. Maybe it was our weight, or a stutter, or the fact that we wear glasses. At least with color-deficiency, the difficulty children face isn’t immediately obvious as a physical trait.

That’s why we’ve never really told anyone except for our son’s caregivers that he is color-deficient. He’ll have to deal with all of the questions as he grows up, but we want the decision whether or not to tell people about it to be his own to make.

So, thank you for keeping it to yourself, dear reader, and remember the difficulties that your own children may be having in other areas of their lives.

There’s No Such Thing as Color

TheDad — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:56:00 +0000

The great transportation/colorblindness blog “Grey Means Go” posted a fantastic, short video documentary about colorblindness from an adult who’s lived with it his whole life. When he was in kindergarten, it was mistaken for an emotional disorder. They found it on colblindor.com, who in turn linked to it from nosuchthingascolor.com (both worthwhile colorblindness sites.)

Click below to watch it…

“Color is an artifact of perception.”

What color is that?

TheDad — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:17:11 +0000

When our son’s teacher tested him for color blindness, she also noted that he could name all of the colors she asked about. The other day he was playing with Paint on the computer, and had to ask multiple times what colors he was using. Apparently, there really is a big difference between printed colors and on-screen colors. We were like “Well, scratch ‘web designer’ off the list of future careers.” Who knows, maybe he’ll send me his ideas, and I’ll tell him what looks good.

Color blindness spectrum images

TheDad — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:40:33 +0000

How the rainbow looks to a person with deuteranopia

This Wikipedia page has some great graphics that give examples of what your colorblind child sees. (See the link at the bottom of excerpt, or click on the image at right.) Although it’s not the most scientific method, you can also see a similar effect if you have a TV with composite color (a red channel, a green channel, and a blue channel.) If your TV will let you, unplug one of the colors and watch for a while. My TV won’t work without the green channel connected, but it will still work with the others unplugged.

Based on clinical appearance, color blindness may be described as total or partial. Total color blindness is much less common than partial color blindness.[7] There are two major types of color blindness: those who have difficulty distinguishing between red and green, and those who have difficulty distinguishing between blue and yellow.[8][9]

via Color blindness – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Superpowers

TheDad — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:41:48 +0000

As it turns out, colorblind people have a leg up on us normal people in a couple ways. More or less, they have superpowers. They can see in the dark better, and because of their coping mechanisms, their brains develop the ability to see camouflaged objects better then everyone else. Pattern recognition and reasoning skills have been shown to be more advanced in color-deficient people as well.

We told our son that because he sees colors differently, he has superpowers, and that he’s part of a special group of people who do. Since then, we’ve actually seen those things for ourselves. Just the other day we walked into a dark room and couldn’t find the light switch. He did.

So that’s why…

TheDad — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:25:17 +0000

We didn’t know what to expect from our son when we told him that he sees colors differently from most people. As it turned out, it explained a lot of things for him as well. Almost the first thing he said was, “So that’s why the rainbow looks blue and yellow to me. And why your red blanket looks orange.”

It’s cleared a lot of things up for him and us as well.