Comments on: Stop Asking! – Top 5 Questions You Should Never Ask Your Colorblind Buddy

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:25:11 +0000

Heh. I has sometimes occurred to me that being asked “what colour is that?” every time someone finds out I’m colour blind could be like a mild version of asking someone in a wheelchair to run down to that corner and back.

“Wow, your legs don’t work? Show me!”

Personally, I don’t mind the question that much, though it does get tiresome. When I get asked about traffic lights I explain how the green has a strong blue component and so on. I have a better understanding of colour theory than most people outside of a University physics department (not the art department – those ignoramuses wouldn’t understand colour theory if you painted them mageneta and taught them subtraction)

But what really annoys me is when people who know me correct me. When I call a towel blue, and my wife tells me it’s actually purple I often snarkily respond “same thing.”

I live in a world where there are two colours – warm and cold. There are some words that people have arbitrarily made up to describe certain shades of some of those colours. That’s fine, do what you want, but don’t expect me to play your silly game. If I want to call the blue thing blue, just bite it and play along.

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By: John

John — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:15:19 +0000

Traffics lights:

the green one is white,
the yellow one is yellow and
the red one is off!

That’s the way I see them.

By: Sveta

Sveta — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:24:24 +0000

I liked your post. As a deaf individual and an advocate for web accessibility, I understand how questions like those upset people with disabilities.

My biggest pet peeve about my hearing loss is when people ask me if I can lipread after I hand them a paper and pen and ask them to write down what they want to say to me.

I had the question about driving a car asked to me sometimes, too, by those concerned that I cannot hear the signals.

Your posting gave me an idea to write “5 (or whatever number) top questions you should never ask your deaf/hard of hearing buddy” :0)