Originally Posted By wendebird I have long suspected color blindness in my oldest daughter. On our last annual visit to the eye doctor, I asked him about it. He told me girls don't get it, it's predominately male. So I shrugged it off. Over the course of the year, I really noticed more & more that she has a problem with color. Asking her to get me a purple pencil or a blue shirt. She'd always come to me with the wrong color & ask me if it was purple. Which is normal for a toddler, but my daughter is 9. So long story longer, today was their annual check up. I insisted he check her for colorblindness today. He gave me the normal, girls can't get it, blah, blah, spiffy, blah, but I'll check her anyway. Well guess what? In the whole book of numbers, she could only see the numbers on 2 of the pages. I just gave her another online test & she's predominately red color blind, which explains the purple/blue thing. Anyway, it turns out, if the mother carries the colorblind x chromosone & the father is colorblind, the daughter can be colorblind as well. It happens in only 0.64 percent of American Girls. And yes, my father is extremely colorblind & my husband is red-green colorblind. I just thought this may help someone else out there. I know I felt a little put off by the doctor today & thought it might encourage others just to have something checked out that didn't quite sit right with them.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Good for you, Wendy, for being assertive about your suspicions with the eye doctor! So what will this mean for your daughter? How inconvenient or problematic is it to have this form of colorblindness? I know it may be different for her than for them, but how have your father and husband dealt with their colorblindness?
Originally Posted By peeaanuut <<He told me girls don't get it, it's predominately male.>> That seems a little contradictary from the doctor.
Originally Posted By LPFan22 Wow Wendy, how interesting. Glad you were persistent with the doctor! =)
Originally Posted By disney pete my eldest so is red/green colour blind he was given a list at school a couple of years ago to tell him what jobs he couldnt do.
Originally Posted By mickeymeg I think its a little extreme to tell someone what jobs they can't do. The beauty of being human is we can learn to adapt to whatever abilities we have. being colour blind (or any kind of blind) should not stop you from accomplishing whatever you want in life. =)
Originally Posted By RangerPooh I'm glad that you were able to recognize it and were persistent. A friend of mine is slightly colorblind and I can remember him asking me for help when picking out things to wear as he would get colors mixed up.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 My grandma (dad's mom) and my dad were both color-blind. I have two females, besides your daugther now that are color-blind.
Originally Posted By marshmallow What a good lesson about the virtue of being assertive in medical care! My husband is has problems with colors also. I have to confess the meanest thing I ever did to him. One morning he really ticked me off so when he dressed for work I did not make a comment. I let him go to work in a pair of dress pants with purple tones and a turquoise polo shirt. That was almost 20 years ago and I still feel guilty.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom While I was on vacation last month up in Washington DC and riding on the metro. Some guy asked me what train he should get on as he was color blind and could not tell between blue and orange. The blue and orange trains basically run parellel to each other. You would have thought something like DC's subway system would have taken color blindness into account when they came up with these color trains.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<That was almost 20 years ago and I still feel guilty.>> Let it go, Marshmallow. It's okay.
Originally Posted By Labuda "I think its a little extreme to tell someone what jobs they can't do. The beauty of being human is we can learn to adapt to whatever abilities we have. being colour blind (or any kind of blind) should not stop you from accomplishing whatever you want in life. =)" I don't want a color blind pilot. No way, no how, UH UH.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder my dad was color blind, I did not know until one day when I was 7 years old. He was trying to install a 4 track cartridge tape player [yes I said "4" track] in his car, he was showing me the wires asking questions like... "is that a red wire?" and "am I connecting this to the blue wire?" well I thought he must have been joking around, of course it was a different color, cant he see that? So I figured I'd play around back with him and had him connect the wrong color wires. Well there was smoke and electric smell and ultimately a messed up tape player as a result. So we took it to a shop, and they said "you have the wrong wires connected, that's why they are color coded" My dad looked at me and said "I asked you if it was the right color... why didn't you tell me?" I said "I thought you knew? they were obviously different colors" he said "I am color blind son, I cant see colors like you, that's why I ask" I felt so bad that I caused a problem. That's how I found out he was color blind, I always thought it was kinda sad, to me that's like not being able to hear music.
Originally Posted By wendebird <<He told me girls don't get it, it's predominately male.>> >>That seems a little contradictary from the doctor.<< You're right nuut. He said girls don't get it. I added in that it is predominately male. There are things she won't be able to do. Things like being an electrician where you have to know the colors of the wires, jet pilot, things like that. My youngest has a problem with her peripheral vision, so there's a few things she won't be able to do either. I talked to my Dad tonight & he said he's learned shades. He just has to be careful of very light colors he knows to check on. Light yellow & pale pink look white to him. My Dad has an extreme case of it though. >>So what will this mean for your daughter? How inconvenient or problematic is it to have this form of colorblindness?<< So far for Rachel, I only notice problems with blue & purple and green & brown. I feel bad that the poor girl can't see purple! She'll be fine though & I will have a little more patience when I ask her to wear a blue shirt & she comes out with a purple one. (You just never know with kids, I thought it was a rebellious thing)
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden When he was younger, a good friend of mine who is color blind, worked in the paint department at Sears. If he had to mix paint, he'd always excuse himself to the customer and find the nearest employee to see if the paint he just mixed was "green enough" etc. Further proof that you can accomplish anything no matter what hardship you need to overcome.
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden Great story Big Thunder. I hope your dad didn't work for the bomb squad.
