My experience of Colour Blindness

Description: Estimates are that 5 to 10% of the male population has some form of colour blindness. Amoung females it is rare - ... more

My experience of Colour Blindness ... perhaps less than 1% of the population according to some reports. The gene that causes colour blindness is hereditary through the female.

Newest Review: ... and also the more common form of colour blindness. When I got home feeling a bit despondent, (utterly devastated actually), and needing a bit of comfort the first thing my father said to me was 'You didn't get it from me'. [Well tough dad, red-green colour blindness usually comes from the mother, but blue-yellow can come from either parent.] What do I see:- I'm not ... more

... completely colour-blind, everything looks coloured to me, I just see colours differently, what may be bright to other people (especially red) may be duller to me, I can distinguish between red and blue and yellow and green and most other primary colours; ...more

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My experience of Colour Blindness: The World is Grey - my experience of Colour Blindness (566 words)
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Until I was seventeen, I had a perfectly normal life, then one day at school, I was given a medical, which included an Ishihara Colour Test, (which involves looking at a lot of coloured dots, some of which have numbers through them) although the nurse did not say anything to me I could see she was puzzled about something. A few weeks later, some other people arrived at the school and gave me the same test, again they look puzzled, and kept repeating the tests, (presumably to see if I was giving them wrong answers). Eventually I was told that I was colour blind, but not only the standard red - green variety, but blue - yellow as well. The numbers that I had observed in ... Read the complete review

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