Poll: Do You Feel Handicapped by Your Color Blindness?
- Posted by Daniel Flück on September 17th, 2007 filed in People
As we know, color blindness is very common among men. Approximately every twelfth men is suffering from some type of color vision deficiency, most often some form of red-green color blindness.
And this group of colorblind people—including the colorblind women among us—can be split into two parts: On one side you have the persons who don’t think that their color blindness is an obstacle for them. They don’t really feel handicapped through it and often forget about it in everyday life.
On the other side we have colorblind men and women who feel in some way uncomfortable with their color vision deficiency. Now and then there are situations coming up where their color blindness handicaps them. It’s not all the time but they think more of their deficiency as a burden they have to carry.
To which side are you belonging to?
Please join in the poll and share your answer. You can also find the poll on the sidebar where you also can get a glance at the results of the ongoing poll on a daily base.
The poll will be running for ten days. So I’ll post and comment the results September 27th on Colblindor.
It would also be very interesting to know in which way you feel handicapped or if not, why not? Please add your thoughts in the comments section and share it with other colorblind visitors.
September 27th, 2007 at 7:34
I have been a soccer referee for some time now and have always had to keep my red card in my back pocket and my yellow in my front. if they are in the same pocket i can’t tell the difference without taking them both out (either that or i go for the shades but sometimes even that can be hard). reds and yellows are hard for me to distinguish, i also have a problem with identifying those blue flowers in green trees unless i am close. it’s like donkey from shrek but do i have the right to say “man this would be easier if i wasn’t colorblind”?
October 10th, 2007 at 23:10
I was active duty Air Force than in the National Guard for a total of 11 years. I was a munitions systems specialist dealing with explosives and related items and never once was there ever a problem. There was no real test for color blindness then but now that I want to reenter the National Guard they tell me that I can’t come back into my old career field because I failed the Ishihara test for red/green color blindness. I can see them but I guess not well enough to pass the test. It just kills me that all of a sudden I’m not capable of doing my old job.