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[beetiger]

This is a long shot, but do any of you have direct experience with yellow-blue color blindness? We think Rhys might have it, and I'm trying to get a handle on what things might look like from his perspective, and what might be helpful or unhelpful ways to talk to him about it when he misassigns them all the time.

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[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Not the same, but I have blue-green color blindness. It took folks years to notice it--when I look at things in that color range I see them as sweatshirt-gray. I just assumed that it was New England drabness.

[akycha.livejournal.com]

Wow, Oaken, I never knew that!

Other than Oaken (who never mentioned it :) I don't have any direct experience, I'm sorry.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

You obviously need to do the "20 Things Nobody Knows About You" meme and include this!

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I don't have direct experience with colorblindness, and even less familiarity with tritanopia, but I just found this kinda nifty site:

http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

That is very cool.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I wish I dated when I had the same problem with Finbar, asked my friend's list about it. I think it was blue/green but might have been blue/yellow. Red wasnt involved, I remember that much.

Turns out it wasnt the case, but he really had us going for a while. Maybe 2 years ago? Three? Before we moved and before he went to school so he had to be 2 or 3 years old.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

That's interesting. So he had initial trouble distinguishig them, but then he settled it out?

Rhys is a smart, smart kid; part of the time I wonder if he noticed that I started having a reaction to him calling yellow things blue, and he's teasing me or something.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Yes, he even had a name for blue or green. Breem.

*holds up blue thing* "What color is this?" "Breem"

*holds up green thing* what color is this? Breem. (So i guess it was blue and green now that i remember)

I was VERY concerned, but by time his next checkup rolled round, he stopped.

Is he calling blue things yellow, too?

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

I have an unusual color-blindness, but it's not yellow-blue. Basically, it's kind of there's an added reddish-pink tinge to everything; all but the purest whites look like pale lavender, blue and purple look to be two shades of the same color, and dark reds and greens are an identical shade of brown.

The effect is exaggerated closer to dusk, to the point that at twilight asphalt turns the color of raspberry candy. (This is how I figured out what was happening.)

As to the effect it's had on my life -- well, I got scolded a lot in school for coloring the wrong way, and I have people double-check my outfits for me. More importantly, it makes me ineligible for a commercial driver's license for no reason I've been able to fathom. Overall, though, if you've got to have a disability, color-blindness is a pretty good one to pick.

I don't know how much of this applies to yellow-blue color-blindness, which I had not previously ever heard of. It's the limit of my experience, however.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Email wggthegnoll if you have his address - I don't want to give it out without permission, and he doesn't use his lj much anymore. I think he's blue-green, but I know he has some info on this because we've talked about it.

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

I, like 10% of the male population, have a mild protoanomaly. It's the kind of color blindness where you can't see the stupid little numbers, but otherwise your color vision is fine.

And from _my_ perspective, I just wish people would stop treating me like I'm a cripple because I saw a '7' instead of a '53'. No, I'm not going to crash into you because I thought the stoplight was green instead of red. Gimme a break.

Of course, I assume you're pretty sure about Rhys' condition; otherwise you wouldn't have posted, right?

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, I'm not sure at all. He seems to get yellow and blue confused a lot, both in things like crayons and cups, and in regularly telling me things like bananas and lemons are blue.

I'm trying to correct him without giving him a complex about being wrong a lot. He may just have a slight anomaly and be settling out how to tell them apart more easily, the same way that he's never quite sure about whether that lowercase letter is a 'b' and 'd' or a 'p', which I figure he'll figure out eventually.

I suspect if no one minds occasional drawings of blue bananas, it's not a big issue. I was mostly just curious to get some first-person perspectives.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I was told that children get d and b regularly confused until at least kindergarden, and to not be concerned about it...this came up in a parent teacher conference last year. :D

Oh god i just opened a bag of lard potato chips, i wasnt expecting that. o.O

[jareth-atian.livejournal.com]

Well, *I* have no personal experience...but my Dad is an Optometrist and my Mom has a doctorate in developmental psychology. I'll be visiting with them this weekend, I'll ask their opinions/advice. :)