Comments on: Colors in Your Life

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:56:00 +0000

Interesting. Thanks for the info!

By: Daniel Flueck

Daniel Flueck — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:45:25 +0000

No, I’ve never tried this correcting contact lenses. It would be interesting to have them just for a certain time and see, what they really can do.

The contacts can only help you, if you are an anomalous trichromat (red-weak or green-weak). They’ll try to enhance differences which can’t be seen very well. But if some differences are widened, others have to be narrowed. So you’ll lose somewhere an other little piece of your color vision.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:37:54 +0000

Yes, I’m rare. ;)

My father is most definitely not colorblind and I have been all my life. I was always told it was my grandmother’s father, but maybe I’m wrong. I know it’s not my dad because he helps me with colors all the time.

One question. Have you ever tried the contacts? I would but I wonder if I would have to learn my colors all over again since I already know *my* colors the way they are. Know what I mean?

By: Daniel Flueck

Daniel Flueck — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:31:47 +0000

Interesting. If it is congenital red-green color blindness, your father has to be colorblind and all your sons will be colorblind (unless a gen mutation happened just in between two generations, which would be very very rare).

Anyway, being a colorblind women is very unique and not often seen.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:06:16 +0000

No, my grandmother’s father was. And we just found out that my 4-year-old son has the same type I have. It’s kinda cool to have another person see things the way I do instead of always being the odd (wo)man out.

So, I guess I was incorrect in saying that I didn’t know anyone in real life who is color blind. How could I forget my son? haha