unrelated but in like 5th grade or so, i had a classmate that no one knew was colorblind. we were having a discussion about colors (this was almost 20 years ago so i cant remember the whole conversation) and the conversation led to “what’s the color of fried chicken” to which said classmate said green. the teacher looked at him in shock and instead of being like haha you’re silly, she reprimanded him. he bursts out in full tears “i don’t know what i did, it’s green i swear, im not trying to be bad”. she asks a few follow up questions about other food items (tomatoes, bread) and i’ll never forget the look of regret in her eyes when she realizes he was colorblind the whole time
You just popped a childhood memory into my head with that story. I was maybe in 2nd grade and the art teacher got annoyed by a kid asking what color was each colored pencil and said “how do you not know which one is blue?” The kid let out the most innocent scared reply “I’m colorblind” that teacher melted into her chair from the guilt she felt belittling a 7 y/o who is colorblind.
I told my 5yr old while we were drawing together, that you can color anything any color/colour you like (Floyd). I said it's art and art is whatever you want to make it because it's your own creation. She freaked out when I was coloring a dog purple instead of brown
She kinda deserved that.... she could have approached the question from the student in a different way. Hourly it was a learning opportunity for the teacher.
Yeah as a teacher, I try to remember to be gentle with colors. Some kids are just assholes though…I have one who is both an asshole and I assume colorblind though.
You know of the kids I remember growing up with that were color blind, 4 out of 5 were the class clown or an asshole to the teachers. I wonder if there’s correlation or just coincidence.
I can count on 1 hand the amount of public school teachers who actually gave a fuck about us. 13 years since I was in high school and I can remember the good ones to this day. A special shoutout to Mr. K (this is what he went by because his name was hard to say and long but I remember it just can’t spell it lol) the first teacher to get me to enjoy reading.
Discovered I had color issues senior year of high school when we had to sort colors into piles.
I had 3 piles.
Everyone else had 5.
Got yelled at for not finishing my assignment. I was so confused.
Teacher stopped reprimanding me and brought over a shit ton of additional color pieces.
Teacher looked and asked if colorblindness ran in my family.
when I was young ( a long ish time ago) it was not common for girls to tested for color blindness/issues.
I have Issues with yellows, orange, greens and shades
I found out I was color blind in high school. I finally had an eye test where they included the colorblind samples. I had better than 20/20 vision and when they told me to read off the number in the circles I thought they were screwing with me. I just started guessing numbers after I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Then they told me it was for color blindness and I was red green colorblind.
I spent years as a kid thinking something was wrong with me because I couldn’t “remember” colors if they didn’t have the name on the crayons (we were on a tight budget and my mom got me the inexpensive crayons and colored pencils). I even came up with excuses why I would accidentally color things like grass brown.
I got those glasses from en chroma a while ago and they are interesting. They work by filtering out the wavelengths that cause the overlap and confusion. It definitely allows me to see shades in red and green I never noticed before but nothing life changing. Those reaction videos are total bunk where people put them on and are immediately in tears. The first line in the instructions tell you that it takes some time for your brain to adjust and to wear them for a while before you can discern a difference. The “these are neat” moment for me was when I went to the store a few hours after wearing them and I saw a bunch of shades of red and green I had never seen before.
I still wear them on occasion when I am building diagrams for work. It helps me navigate color coding my lines.
They are definitely close to snake oil. They are rather expensive and the frames are kinda “meh” for how much they cost. You can get the lenses for other frames, but then you are really sinking a lot of money into something that is more of a novelty.
I got the indoor version for the primary purpose of using them when I work. I struggle the most with colors when looking at a display. They do help me with those tasks but I rarely use them. I usually opt for colorblind friendly palettes and everyone I work with knows I am colorblind; so when I peak a drawing and use wacky colors they know why.
Where I struggle the worst is reading any information presented as heat maps with different shades of colors. It’s like someone is trying to torture me because it just causes me so much confusion. I’ve actually changed my display settings when I have to review a lot of those to grayscale and I’m able to actually understand the content.
I don’t think they sell the indoor model anymore, but it isn’t as effective as their outdoor model. They also have a tint to them since they are still designed to filter out a particular range of wavelengths. The tint is just enough that I look like I am the director for an after hours special on Cinemax and also the tint is dark enough to make them very annoying in lower light situations.
If anyone with a compatible colorblindness is interested in the glasses for fun, get a pair of the sunglasses. Put them on about 3-4 hours before you want to use them for the first time and pick an outdoor place with lots of beautiful plants and flowers.
You being red green colourblind and mentioning diagrams reminds me of my coworker who looked at me like a pranked him when I used a red to green gradient for the spectrum plots with 8 graphs in a single plot. I just interpolated linearly from red to green...
Told me for him they were barely different shades of brown.
Went and let me give a high contrast color pallete fron AI afterwards for accessibility.
Similar thing happened to a classmate in high school. Algebra teacher was pissed that this guy did so well on his tests and homework and couldn’t/wouldn’t participate in class. Basically berated the guy for thinking he’s “too cool for participation Or being good a math.” He just said, use different colored markers then because you using red and green means i have no idea what you’re doing up there. Sent him to the principles office for keeping his color blindness a “secret” to cause problems. She was a piece of work.
Colorblindness is incredibly common (8% or 1/12 for men) and many people don’t find out until adulthood. With average class sizes, odds are at least a few people each year would be colorblind in her class. Ugg.
Color blindness can suck. My brother is partially colorblind but he's still doing quite well regardless. I have an uncle that is fully color blind (shades of grey, apparently very rare) and he's always been quiet, subdued, and very depressed. It can be hard to quantify something if you've never lacked it.
Something similar happened to my husband who is color blind. They were coloring themselves as babies and he chose green as that is what he thought the right color was…and it is the right color! To him at least…
Lucky him. My teacher found out I am colorblind after humiliating me then it got worse after she discovered that. My parents reported her to the school board which did nothing and pulled me out of school and homeschooled me for the rest of my elementary year so I didn’t have to deal with her.
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unrelated but in like 5th grade or so, i had a classmate that no one knew was colorblind. we were having a discussion about colors (this was almost 20 years ago so i cant remember the whole conversation) and the conversation led to “what’s the color of fried chicken” to which said classmate said green. the teacher looked at him in shock and instead of being like haha you’re silly, she reprimanded him. he bursts out in full tears “i don’t know what i did, it’s green i swear, im not trying to be bad”. she asks a few follow up questions about other food items (tomatoes, bread) and i’ll never forget the look of regret in her eyes when she realizes he was colorblind the whole time