Comments on: Meet with other Colorblind Women

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 01 May 2010 18:56:37 +0000

I am a 17 year old girl, and today I was working a booth at a benefit selling candy for cancer. A little boy and his grandmother came and he asked her which suckers were the red ones. She looked at me and in a hushed tone said “he’s colorblind.” I smiled and said, “me too.” she quickly snapped at me that girls couldn’t be colorblind, and that she was right because she was a school nurse for 35 years. I know I shouldn’t have been but I was a little upset. I realize that she was obviously uneducated on the subject but I didn’t like the way she made me feel. Why would I be lying about being colorblind?

By: Faye Simmons

Faye Simmons — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:45:46 +0000

Hi there,
I am a colourblind woman and feel frustrated almost daily at simple things like make-up and wardrobe choices. I have never honestly seen a rainbow in full and get so annoyed when people first find out i’m colourblind.
They all seem to think that because I am colourblind, that they should test it themselves. They are not opticians and I am not a performing monkey. If someone told you they were asthmatic, you wouldn’t ask them to prove it by running on the spot!
What I find most difficult is knowing that when I come to have children, ALL my daughters WILL BE carriers, and ALL my sons WILL BE colourblind. This saddens me as I know how complicated it can make everyday, and this irritating condition will be passed down to even more generations.
However, especially because I’m female as well as colourblind, I feel apart of a select group that less than 2% of the world’s population can be apart of. This makes me special and so I try to embrace that as much as possible. Most people forget almost straight away once you tell them, so being teased hardly happens.
Hopefully by sharing my own thoughts about how I cope, they may help someone who really needs it.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:20:28 +0000

Iam color blind but never knew it until my son went to the eye doctor and they did the color blind test, he was diagnosed red/green deficient and was told that his dad is probably color blind but surprise not dad but mom. The thing is he does not have problems distinguishing reds and greens but put them in the dot test and forget it, I am the same way. My younger son hasn’t shown signs yet but he cant distinguish oranges and browns.

By: Lacey

Lacey — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:27:58 +0000

so i am color blind and i have known since like second grade.
i get blue and purple mixed up and red and greens and yellows
i dont know i can see some colors but like it depends on the shade.. i dont know if that sounds stupid .
but the one thing I HATE about it is my friends asking me what color somehing is !! that makes me more frustrated and annoyed than anything!! and its quite embarrassing. well thats all my time
peace

By: hussien

hussien — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:40:44 +0000

im 22 male n i have green-red color blindness… i dun feel bad hving des prob but some times i lose in snooker cuz i can’t differentiate between d red color ball n d brown i guess hehe… so ma frinds will start make fun of me hehe
i already used to it
bye