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We found out by chance that my husband is colorblind (feddit.org)
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My husband and I went to an exhibition about the solar system at our local natural history museum. There was also an exhibition for children about the human body with really good explanations how genes work, how our ear works, stuff like that.

We came to the part about the eyes and there was an explanation of colorblindness and the different forms together with the tests. You know - the circles with dots where you have to read the number. Anyway, I forgot why but he started reading out the numbers. And well, he got one of them wrong. Not the test for full-on red-green blindness, but he can't tell certain shades apart.

In hindsight I had noticed that he sometimes confuses names for colors apart from the basic ones or that he doesn't like it when I identify an object by its color (e.g. "give me the pink one"). But I'd always chalked it up to German not being his mother language.

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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's actually really interesting. My understanding is that colorblindness is one of the better accommodated deficiencies...? A colleague called me out once when I used a data visualization that wasn't particularly colorblind friendly, so it's something I try to accommodate as well. Would love to hear if he has experienced any other difficulties (or a lack of)

On this topic... I think the funniest way I saw was someone on Reddit asking why a video game dialogue refers to an anime girl as being green when her hair color is "gray"

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Data presentation software has safe colors option.

    Color blindness affects 8% of Caucasian males, very rare in females.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Color blindness affects 8% of Caucasian males, very rare in females.

    interesting, my gf is colour blind, white Caucasian.. Well ,I think she is, maybe I'm colour blind and she's bright purple ?.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago

    I guess it's pretty easy for him. It seems like he has a very mild form and can't tell certain shades apart. I think it was something like yellow and grass green or red and orange. So he hasn't had any noticable problems.

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