Comments on: Poll: Do You Feel Handicapped by Your Color Blindness?

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:21:34 +0000

Tell me about it, I’m MEPSing tomorrow for the air force. my dream job, TACP but I’m so worried about my color problem. I know colors and I’ve made it thirty years without a problem but one stupid test with dots that have squat to do with anything may very well decide my fate. Being color blind is a sick joke, I feel very descriminated against when I can see red or green in any day to day aplication but not mixed with random dots! God bless

By: zack

zack — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:04:21 +0000

I never realy knew that I was colorblind up until about a year ago. I don’t feel handicapped by it at all. Thats mostly due to the fact that I try my best to stay away from anything that involves art, or anything that has to do with descriminating colors. And because I am only moderatly colorblind, so it dosen’t effect my day to day life to much. The only thing that realy bothers me about my colorblindness is when my friends prank me. Oh well, I always get them back though =)

By: David

David — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:51:39 +0000

Since my young age, i have been excellent at art stuff but soon, my art teacher pointed out that my colors were mostly wrong. Therefore, I only practiced every art techniques non-related to colors as to prove that i could still draw.
Unfortunately I was not able to pursue my studies in Arts instead, I fell into programming.
However, today, I produce my own graphic stuffs [rather good] with the mere help of computer tools and some ‘perception’ of my parents or mates. It doesn’t anymore bother me, now i know how to manage it.

By: Geremy

Geremy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:46:32 +0000

I had a similar story to Mr. Miller Listed above, I spent my entire High School years in the Air Force JROTC program preparing for a career in the Air Force. I took my entry test, passed with soring colors, they came out with a list about a page and a half long and said I could have any job I wanted. I wanted to be an M.P. So a week before they sent me out to take my physical he hands me some cards with dots on it. I saw half the numbers and the others were just dots. Guess what…..he prints out a new job list and its literally only a 1/4 of a page long!!!! I couldn’t be a M.P. so I got up and left. It’s a Handicap as far as Im concern.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:41:54 +0000

As Donald McIntyre comments in ‘Colour Blindness: Causes and Effects’, colour blindness is the forgotten handicap. Colour blindness has made me realise that seeing is not believing! Having found my own interpretation of a scene so anomalous to others’, (for example a field of red poppies looks like a field without red poppies to me) leads me to wonder how much I’m actually missing in what I do see. Other than have my perceptual errors embarrassingly pointed out,there is no way to compare what I see with what normal people see so I can only speculate what constitutes true colour perception. Of course ignorance is bliss but once one is aware of a fundamental sensory flaw, one which moreover there is no cure, how can one blindly (!) trust the evidence of one’s senses?