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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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[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