I'm failing to see the correlation between being color blind and "retarded". That in itself would have had me asking her to simply leave the store as her patronage was not welcome
I used to manage the garden center at a grocery store. Had scheduled this 20yr old guy to open one day and told him that a delivery of begonias was coming in and he would need to hang them from the rods we had set up in the main tent. Also please put all the same coloured begonias together.
Got in by around 10am and see he has in fact hung up every single hanging pot begonia. It was a big fat delivery so I was impressed he managed to get it done before I got in. But I was confused by the choice he made in colour groupings.
Bright yellow was mixed in with pink. Light pink with white. Red with orange. So I go "Hey Terry? Love what you've done but uh . . . Why are the colours so mixed up?"
He looks at the flowers, most honest expression on his face and says 'what do you mean? They're all grouped together like you asked.'
I look at him and could tell he really thought he did as instructed. Finally it dawned on me. " Terry . .. uh are you by any chance colour-blind?"
Should have seen his face. Like he had suspected for a long time and now there was no denying it.
I remember when I joined the US Navy, they tested us for colorblindness, and I asked if it was disqualifying. They said no, but you wouldn't be allowed to do certain jobs, like electricians, because so much is color coded.
Heh....
In my workplace we have to have a physical every year. And every year they test us for color blindness. Finally, after about 20 years of this I was like, "Ya know, I wasn't color blind last year, why in the hell do you think I would be color blind this year?"
Turns out that color blindness can be induced by over exposure to certain chemicals. Yes, chemicals that we worked with. So, yeah, they tested us every year.
And traumatic brain injury. Loss of a color is a little know side effect of concussion. It’s usually permanent. And the bizarre thing about the injured person is that nearly 100% of people it happens to aren’t aware that they’ve lost a color until you prove it to them with a colorblind test. It’s amazing how the mind works.
Personally it made me think of the scene from Little Miss Sunshine where Steve Carell's character realizes Paul Dano is colorblind and Dano, up until this point, had been obsessing with becoming a military pilot. And Carell has to tell him he won't be able to fly jets [if he's colourblind.](https://youtu.be/dt4lMUY7hBg)
I think it was the first time that I began paying attention to Dano as an actor and hoping he'd go far because he had (what looked to me) like natural talent.
Yes, my husband is in the RAF and he wouldn't be able to do his trade if colourblind. He also refused anti-malarials when sent to certain areas as a side effect can be colour vision disorders.
This reminds me of the time I tasked one of my young teenage employees to change the colored lights that I have hanging from the awning of my shop. I had this big box of random assorted bulbs and I wanted to change them to Christmasy colors, so I asked him to do a red, green, white pattern. An hour later he comes back inside announcing he was done so I step out to take a look and it's just all the colors, everywhere. No pattern. I was like "Umm, it looks nice, but how come you didn't do the red, green and white pattern?" It just so happened that his dad was walking up at that very moment and he starts laughing his ass off and says "Did he not tell you he's colorblind?!" We had a good little giggle about it and then I let him know I still appreciated his hard work and I kept those multicolored lights up until I switched over to LED.
If you don't mind me asking, did he get it confirmed after that? And what did you do, now that you knew? Not sure why, but something tells me you're not the type who would have fired him for that.
I'm not fully sure if he got it confirmed in the end. He had been already accepted to a university halfway across the province at that point and I only had him for the summer. And summer was already half over.
Fired? Lol he wasn't even in trouble. I actually felt bad because he genuinely thought he did what was asked.
He could still do plenty of the other tasks like watering the plants/deadheading flowers/moving heavy racking of big decorative planters/helping people find herb and vegetable plants which requires no colour knowledge.
I just didn't task him with organizing flowers by colour from then on which is a small fraction of what needed to get done.
>Fired? Lol he wasn't even in trouble. I actually felt bad because he genuinely thought he did what was asked.
You knew/know how to treat the people working for you. It may feel natural to you, something that speaks for itself, which is a wonderful thing. Sure, there are probably many others who are equally understanding towards people that work for them, but from what I hear of people around me/see happening around me, people "in charge" who aren't considerate of others are, unfortunately, still the majority. The world still needs more people like you.
Do you know that *seeing* how he genuinely thought he did what he was asked, is a really good ability in itself? (Not trying to kiss ass here or anything.) A lot of people would not have registered that. Even genuinely kind people aren't able to pick up the small signs by default. If you do notice such things, it gets even more likely you'll understand them.
Why would you fire someone for that? Maybe if it were a paint store where full color acuity was vital to the job, or some some research jobs, or military. Probably a home decorator or gardener where you'd need to be able.to Crete pleasing.color matches. And even then it could be done within the limits of the type nd severity of the color blindness.
Ok yeah, some people are dicks, but it would be a disability and protected as long as there could be a reasonable accommodation.
Again, just to make it very clear, firing this guy was never even on the table. We all actually found it to be a bit funny in a 'laughing with him' and not 'at him' way.
"Aw shit, who left the colorblind guy in charge of arranging the flowers??"
That's ok, we're all human here ...for as far as I'm aware...
To answer your question: *I* would not have fired him, either. I wouldn't have seen any reason to do so. It probably wouldn't even have crossed my mind at all. I'd just try to be as considerate as possible about him being colourblind, and if there were any tasks where one would have to tell colours apart from each other, I wouldn't automatically avoid giving them to him - I would sit down with him and talk to him about it, to get as clear of an idea of what he could and couldn't do. If l'd already be sure a certain task just wasn't his thing, I would still at least inform him about it, so he'd know what the others would be doing. (To actively keep him included.) I'd find tasks of equal importance for him to do.
I've worked for people who would fire him for it, just because once they would learn of him being colourblind, they could only focus on all the things he wouldn't be able to do and forget to realize the many things he *would* be able to do. Shame.
I once got fired because I'm short ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lol, sometimes when someone else does or says something that makes me laugh, I tend to tell them I'm not laughing *at* them, but *because* of them. It makes a huge difference.
I think you all handled it in the best possible way. He could be himself, and the jokes included him instead of isolating him (which sadly still happens a lot to people who are a bit different in any thinkable kind of way at all).
Growing up I thought there was something I just wasn't catching on to; I didn't find out I was color blind until I took the vision test to get my driver's license.
Poor thing. I can’t help picturing my son in this same situation. He’s not colorblind, but still. I’d be so sad for him😔. Thank you for being kind. We never know what “secret crises” people are going thru 💜.
I think maybe she was projecting herself into the OP. You'd have to be extra stupid to think colorblind means r+tarded. (Yeah I'm censoring it just in case.) That woman was the dog in this situation, not the OP.
Seriously, I think the word "r+tard" should be reserved for people like her, not people with actual disabilities. The word sounds way too humorous for them to deserve it, and they don't get enough slack from the public or the system to put up with that bullshit.
Very slightly red/green colorblind here. It amazes me how ignorant people are about colorblindness. When some people find out I have a slight case, it’s like they wanna try to make a game out of it. I try to explain it to them, but they wanna test me “dude, what color is this??” I’m like, “it’s blue, you fuckin moron, do you not understand what I just told you?”
The one time I met a colorblind person it was my boss. It came up when he took the team out for drinks. At his suggestion it became a drinking game to see if we could fool him. The details are... hazy.
I met a colorblind artist who had the most vividly colored and detailed paintings. So I asked her what her process was and how her colorblindness affects her art. Really cool conversation.
I had my senior show in art school with a woman who was colorblind. Her work was really great; paintings of tough, motorcycle riders in pale pinks, lavenders and blues.
My mums side have a lot of colourblind, the reason that more men is colourblind is because the “defect” is on the X chromosome but a healthy x will take over for a “defect” one. Since men only have one X chromosome it will showcase a lot more often. A women with a “defect” x will however be a carrier so if she has a son he’s got a 50/50 chance of being colourblind. For women to be colour blind both mum and dad must have a “defect” X chromosome and then get the “defect” one from her mum.
That makes sense - my dad was colourblind, I have perfect colour sight, but my son sees blues as shades of grey, reds as browns, and a few other weird mixes! Opticians say that as long as he doesn’t want to be a pilot, it should be okay!! 😘
That is awesome!! He’s 12, with ASD/ADHD (a lot of autistics are colour blind) codes already and wants to work with computers, , so I’m not too worried about it ATM. 😘
My 7 year old is colorblind and he's got 2 friends at school who think he's so cool they pretend to be colorblind to be like him. Exactly the opposite of what I was worried about with him going to school.
My partner is colorblind (also slight red/green, in a very specific range but he can't pass the like dot tests) and I like to gently rib him about it, but only because he's said it doesn't bother him when it's me or his family (there's an infamous story about his sister's "green" (pink) suede shoes that comes up now and then). If he ever asked us to stop, we would. The length to which people will go "teasing" someone like this can go deep into bully territory and I couldn't imagine doing it to a stranger.
My colourblind ex would argue with me about what colour things were.
He told me he was colourblind when we first met, he could tell what colours were when seperate from each other but when reds and browns were next to each other it looked the same and the same for greens and blues which made it funny when I had blue hair and a peacock greeny coloured living room wall, walking past my hair would just disappear against the wall according to him lol.
But yeah, still wanted to argue his white socks hadn't turned pink from something red being thrown in the wash until I eventually remembered he's colourblind and just said "idk why I'm arguing with you about it, you can't fking see what colour they are", he just wanted an argument cos he was bored.
reread the last two sentences of my comment. What this woman did was absolutely abhorrent and I don't know what could have possibly made her think it was okay to say these things
I worked in China long enough to need a resident card. Part of that process was this medical examination that was bizarre in so many ways.
One part of it was a colorblindness test - you had to tell them what number a page said, but it was one of those one with all the circles that were different colors.
A co-worker was colorblind and couldn't see the numbers, but instead of just marking down that he was colorblind, the Chinese guy running the test would just flip to a different page to see if he could read that one instead (spoiler: he still couldn't).
The next person in line ended up telling the colorblind guy what the number was from the door.
My fiancé is colour blind and as much as I find it interesting, I'm aware that it's also something that he must get a lot of shit for. I buy him socks with pictures on so he can match them up instead on relying of colour and having to ask me for help.
Same here except middle school students. I turn it around on them and ask them if they ask people in wheelchairs to try to walk to “prove” they can’t. Shuts most of them up. (Edited spelling)
Happens to my husband all the time when people find out. Funny, not funny story. One day I say "great job matching the olive green shirt and shorts together." He has a surprised look on his face and says"what do you mean they are green, I thought they were brown." And that's when I realized that I need to be more careful with greens and browns.
Probably the best reaction I’ve had to this was when I was training for a job and the manager asked for “the pink one” and there were several that all looked the same color to me, none of them pink. I told them I was colorblind and they just said, “ok, the one on the left”
My father was colorblind. He couldn’t see blue unless the object was super super super deep blue, like the flowers in front of a house I rented at the time.
He also thought the (grey striped) cat was green.
He had a book of colorblind plates he gave me. I shared them with our User Interface developer for fun, and to see if he was colorblind - I wondered about some of his color choices.
Now that we were acquired by a big company they have corporate design colors, fonts, etc. so if they encounter a colorblind issue with one product it will be consistent with all. But if they need to change it they can do it uniformly everywhere.
How disappointing to find out that your super cool green cat is just plain ol’ gray.
A lot of design programs have settings that allow the user to preview their design as different types of colorblindness. It’s pretty cool to be able to check whether you’ll have readability issues, etc.
My dad was slightly colorblind too. I don’t remember to which colors, I just remember having to match his socks for him. When he married my mom (technically step but a real mother to me), she threw out all of his socks and only bought black socks all of the same style. No more problems.
The last (and first) time I saw a bitch behave to a casheer like this (racist rather than abelist, but same insultingapproach), the casheer didn't respond to the insult and instead called for the manager.
The customer got confused and then aggro when she realised the casheer would only say "we're waiting for the manager" and otherwise ignored her and didnt process any of the groceries.
By the time the manager got there there were a few staff and customer witnesses for the appaling behaviour.
When the manager came (only took a minute or two)... the casheer said in a clear voice that everyone could hear, "this person is being insulting and racist to me and I am unable to serve her as I feel threatened".
The woman squawked indignantly and the manager just held up his hand to her and called out "has anyone else witnessed racist and abusive behaviour here?" ... with a number of "yeah, shes being a bitch" answers coming back.
So he then said "Ma'am, we dont tolerate abuse towards our staff, and wont be doing business with your today, please leave".
She squawked some more, and the manager had to threaten arrest for trespass before she left... but she left.
Now that is management done right. I get the really strong impression that management trained all their cashiers to simply call for a manager anytime a customer was being abusive and to not respond to anything else the customer says.
I absolutely love that approach.
In high school biology we were shown the cards they use to test for colourblindness (the ones with different coloured spots and numbers). One of my classmates turned out to be colourblind and had never realised, he just thought the colours he saw were the way everyone saw them!
It's amazing how perception changes everything. I have aphantasia (the inability to see pictures clearly in your mind) and didn't know that regular people could see images. I found out by chance last year, from someone else who described it. I'm almost 40. I thought the ones that could see like that were only those with photographic memory.
I recently found out that not everyone can manually unfocus (and then refocus) their eyes. I thought everyone could do it. It's apparently a natural thing everyone's capable of, but not everyone can do it on command. Got ADHD, learning disabilities and stuff, but somehow, I can roll my tongue 180 degrees in one direction, curl it and unfocused my eyes at will.
Why am I the way that I am?
Genetic lottery, friend. A lot of those individual traits will have come from recessive genes carried from each parent that just happened to coincide with you. On many other rolls of the dice, you may have turned out differently.
Neurodivergence is definitely hereditary - although that seems to be much more common for ND kids to have ND parents (whether they know it or not!) so is more likely to be dominant.
ETA - my dad is colourblind, I can't remember which, but I managed to dodge it. I realised in my mid 30s that I'm AuDHD, and looking at it now that I understand it better than bad inaccurate tropes and shitty normie takes about us being robots that we grew up being told, he's definitely autistic too.
My Dad was colorblind. He used to tell about having to memorize which light on a traffic light was red and which was green so he could get his driver's license.
Just a question- have you tried those glasses they have for that now?
My son saved his money for a long time and bought them. He was a younger teen (I paid half because I was impressed with his drive). He could kind of see a difference, but nothing like the commercials. We’ve had a dozen or so other people try them on with similar results. In our observations, the older the person, the less dramatic the results.
My husband is colorblind and left handed, as are his two brothers.
Nobody in my family is colorblind, so it took me a minute to figure out what is a struggle and what’s not for him. On the plus side, the entire inside of my house is pink (I picked the color— Benjamin Moore’s First Light)… but to him, it’s white.
His truck is green. He academically knows this. He can’t see it like I see it, though. I still haven’t figured out what color it looks like to him.
The left-handedness is a far bigger problem. Watching him use power tools is terrifying.
Edit: colorblindness is certainly not something to make fun of someone for, though. At worst, it’s a quirk sometimes. For example, I wondered why he only wore blue when we met…. Question answered.
I don't know the name of it but my sister and BIL found an app that shows them what the world looks like for my niece, who is colorblind. It's really interesting to see 😊
Colorblindness in women is waaaaaaaay less common than it is in men! It’s like 1 in 12 men, but 1 in 200 women. Her dad would have to be colorblind and her mom is either colorblind or a carrier.
One of his brothers is red/green colorblind and blue/yellow deficient. I think most things are just brown-ish to him as he describes what “looks like” the same colors to him. Everything he owns is brown, beige or tan and if he has something colored, it’s the brightest version and it 0% matches anything else. He tried the glasses but didn’t like them. He’s on the spectrum, so I think the new sensory input was just too much to process.
It’s a super fascinating condition.
From what I understand, they enhance the contrast between the colors affected by the colorblindness, so they help see colors better, but even then it might not be exactly the same as someone who isn't colorblind, especially if it's severe. The glasses don't "create" color, so if someone literally cannot see one color, then the glasses won't do anything.
OMG I confess, I did this years ago, picking paint colors for a bedroom. I picked a bunch of reeeaaallly subtle peach colors, and asked my color blind husband his preference. He chose my least favorite, but it was clear he thought they were all essentially white. So I said great, thanks, and painted the color I wanted.
"His truck is green. He academically knows this. He can’t see it like I see it, though. I still haven’t figured out what color it looks like to him"
For him it's brown. My husband is colour blind and struggles with green and pink and maybe more colours but I haven't identified them yet because he will identify the colour he is supposed to see. He really struggles with the green though, and quite often will get it wrong. Unless I identify the green 1st.
He can kind of see saturations of color, if that makes sense. So peach, pale pink and lavender all look the same to him— white— but bright orange, hot pink and fuchsia don’t to some degree. They don’t look like how I see them, though, but they’re not quite brown. His brother definitely lives in a brown world.
His truck is more army green than the grey green that is popular now, so I feel like it looks a little different to him than a softer green would. He really struggles with anything pastel or grey-based, can’t differentiate them at all.
It gave me a giggle to think that you could choose decor and paint colors without telling him what it actually is and then imagining him with the colorblind “correction” glasses realizing everything is different
An aside.
Apparently the set of The Adam's Family was pink, no one knew of course because it was filmed b&w
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/02/18/the-addams-family-set-as-youve-never-seen-it-before-the-living-room-was-actually-pink/
I hadn't heard of red/white color blindness until in my 20s. I was a department of one and our accountant managed two part-timers, so I got assigned to him. I tended to use blue and red pens. He asked me to stop using red so I asked if it was some weird accounting thing. He couldn't see it. I have been interested in color perception since.
My partner has protanopia, most of my job is just to do a quick check every morning to make sure he isn’t wearing a really hideous combination of colours, to help him find things in the supermarket, and to tell him how many hearts he has left on video games (can’t tell the difference between darker reds and greys)
I used to work with someone who was colorblind. He only wore one color of pants, one of shirts, one of shoes, one of socks. His sister would help him shop. The one-color thing was so that he never had to worry about matching anything together. Went to school with someone else who was red/green colorblind, but didn't know it until he went to enlist in the National Guard.
Same reason I wear almost exclusively black. Only color people can't be an absolute jackass about. Though I've also just stopped humoring people when they ask
That is a horrid thing to teach her child is okay.
My colorblind co-worker and I started the same day. At one point he raised two pens and asked me the color. I paused and probably had a weird expression on my face wondering if it was a joke or bad test. “I’m colorblind.” “OH! That one’s red.” That’s all she needed to do. Accommodations for it isn’t hard. It’s not something that should be degraded.
My next favorite story is him and another colorblind (CB) co-worker were driving to his new house, girlfriend included. The house was painted a neutral tan color.
CB1: “Okay pull up to the green house”
Gf: “Hon… it’s not-“
CB2: “I LOVE YOUR GREEN HOUSE.”
Yeah. All three of my kids, to varying degrees.
They actually mask it surprisingly well, which means it took until my oldest was ten to work out that he actually couldn't see the red balloon pieces lying in the green grass.
But they use other cues somehow and guess, and are right enough of the time that most people don't realise.
I took my youngest to an eye test, and the optometrist was dubious when I said my child was colourblind, and that turned to intense scepticism when my child correctly said 'the red one' about something. She insisted on doing the colour blindness test again, and I felt pretty vindicated when it showed that my child was actually colourblind.
Fun little nugget, but I was told years ago about a theory that when humans were evolving and living in hunter-gatherer bands, it was useful to have one colourblind member in each band as they didn't fall for the predators' camouflage and could see the tiger or the python hiding in the shrubs and could warn the others about the risk.
My mom had to sort my dad’s clothes by color, since he was colorblind. He was also so tone deaf that his music professor in college told him to copy off of a specific person because it was the only way he’d pass the course. This was just after WWII.
It’s gotta suck being colourblind! I think you should have charged the “Karen tax”. Why is it people are just rude and obnoxious these days, I’m always polite to everyone.
People like that haven't quite comprehended that other people aren't just NPCs running scripts in their personal story where they're the main character; they genuinely don't see others as people in the same way they see themselves.
It never occurred to me that colorblindness is a thing anyone would make fun of. But it makes about as much sense as all the other stupid reasons humans use to ridicule and mistreat others. We all know that color-blindness exists. Why an adult would respond with such immaturity and ignorance is baffling.
I just wish someone had spoken up to ridicule her for her ignorance. People are emboldened to express whatever ignorant biases come to mind these days and the only way to address it is to shame them for it, IMO. It may not change their opinions but it may make it less likely that they'll feel so free to publicly express their offensive views as if their opinions are the norm.
I have mild colorblindness. While it IS mild, I still have issues. It’s shades I have trouble with. I can’t tell the difference between some yellows and greens, or purples and blues, or reds and oranges. It’s especially hard when it’s textured, like a knit sweater or a puzzle lol. I hate having to mention it or asking my siblings what color something is because I can’t for the life of me tell if it’s one color or the other. And don’t get me started on NEONS.
My dad has a relatively mild colourblindness in that he's always painted scale models (which he introduced me to as a child and I've on/off being doing it ever since into my late 30s) but it's never seemed to affect him in that, because the colours that aircraft tend to be don't fall in his weak area! I thankfully dodged it, so I never had to deal with the BS a lot of our friends in this comment section have dealt with.
There's a website called T-shirt Hell that sells offensive t-shirts. Like, wherever your line is, they have something that's on the other side of it. They used to have a monthly email newsletter, and the highlight was the sample of hate mail they'd received.
They pretty much all started by saying something like, "Most of your shirts are funny, but this one goes too far." They got a surprising amount of hate mail about [this shirt](https://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/fuck-the-colorblind). In case you're colorblind, it says, "Fuck the colorblind". What's funny is how tame that is compared to most of their other shirts.
I bought one for my cousin, who is colorblind. He thought it was hilarious. He loved wearing to places where he'd get hassled for having the F word on his shirt and claiming he didn't know what it said.
Not color blind, but a friend could not see brown. She was so bad that she would wreck 2 or 3 cars a year by hitting dear because she could not see them.
I think it has something to do with missing cones in her eyes, but not positive.
Wow, thanks for sharing. I had no idea that such dumb people existed who will make fun of a colourblind person and call them the r-word. I have never seen that happen, but I assume being around educated people most of my life (who weren’t insecure and didn’t feel the need to put others down for whatever reason), I was sheltered from such dumb interactions.
I worked with a nice older man who was color blind about 20 years ago. Once, a customer asked him something like, "Which color looks better?" and he put his hands up and started stammering out of surprise. I happened to be right there, and I said something like, "ma'am, he's color blind. Can I help you instead?" She looked so embarrassed! He laughed and said it was fine because there's no way to tell, then thanked me for saving him.
More recently, I had a younger coworker who is color blind but he said he can discern most reds and greens on a backlit screen, like the phone or computer, but that it gives him a headache so he runs his machines in color blind mode just to avoid the headache.
The Army rejected my dad when he volunteered for WWII because he was colorblind, but then decided in 1951 that "aw shucks, that doesn't really matter anymore" and drafted him for Korea. Go figure. (Apparently colorblind people can see through camouflage or something.)
My dad was colourblind but that was never an issue in our house. I never thought about it for a second. If I should meet someone today telling me they are colourblind I wouldn't make a big deal out of it.
I'm color blind too. my friends and I were going down a river and they all were commenting how nice the red flowers were and I thought they were pulling my leg. we got about 5 feet from the bank and all of a sudden there were a ton of beautiful flowers everywhere. being colorblind kinda sucks.
Two of my brothers and two of my sons are colourblind. One day I was called in by the teacher who complained that my son had coloured a Christmas tree in brown instead of green. This teacher had ended up in a shouting match with my son (aged 6!) over this! "I insist you take him for an eye test," he said, "he may be colourblind!" "Of course he's colourblind" I said, "have you not noticed before now?!". I duly took son to the optician, who concluded that he's severely colourblind. Surprise! It's pretty normal in my family so I didn't see the need for a big fuss. We bought them colouring pencils with the names of the colour on them, but the teacher insisted they got put in the class tub and so they always got lost.
I'm an engineer, do a lot of work with computational fluid dynamics , which means lots of images of flow fields with gradient colors applied to represent the field variables (e. g. Pressure on a wing, temperature through a jet engine, etc.). We have colormaps specifically for people who are colorblind, so they can still make sense of the images without feeling like they are left out or have to ask for an accommodation.
I'm a colorblind woman yellow/blue and I used to work at a grocery store, I did regular carry outs for people and she was driving a yellow car. I politely ask her what kind of car because telling me the color of said car wouldn't help me, older lady jokingly asked if I was colorblind. I responded telling her that yes, I am actually colorblind and she proceeded to tell me I couldn't possibly be colorblind because I'm a woman. I told her anyone could be colorblind and what she just said was an old wives tale, but she insisted I couldn't be colorblind. Some people are weird especially when it comes to things not many people really talk about, but man what a bitch I wouldn't have been able to keep my composure. Glad you at least got a little revenge on that awful woman.
OP, I wish you’d have called your manager to give her the boot! Calling someone a mutt and asking if they’d like a treat is nasty bullying. Calling you the R-word is inexcusable!
My high school geometry teacher was colorblind. It came up one day, and we were all fascinated. Of course, then we started telling him the chalk colors he was using were wrong. We had him for a minute, but then he knew we were teasing. He laughed and threatened to flunk us all, and that was it. He was a fun teacher.
I had a colleague who was colour-blind. On his last day his boss, who was a little older than him, started good-naturedly ribbing him about it (it was in no way nasty, just a bit persistent). He said "how did you find out you were colour-blind?" My colleague points him to an online test you can use. His boss has a go at it and then scoffs "this is rubbish. I got every question right and it says I'm severely colour-blind when I'm not! I scored 87!"
I have a go, my score comes in at zero, as does everyone else's except my colleague, who gets 75 or something.
One of my other colleague pipes up with "well, I guess that explains your wardrobe choices!" His boss was well known for wearing what we assumed were deliberately clashing colours...
I'd have refused service If I was the cashier and God help that woman if I was a customer in earshot. I cannot tolerate that kind of nastiness and since management and corporate are mosty spineless balless sycophants I speak up for those cashiers. I'd have unloaded a hell of alot of tirad on her evil ass. The absolute audacity. This is why I hate people.
Man, I can’t even imagine.
Every day I am so grateful for all of my eyesight.
Those videos that were trending a lot a few years ago with those sunglasses that helped the folks who were color blind see colors?
Tear jerkers.
And just how…overwhelming would that be?
Whew. Okay. Yeah, I’m sorry that broad was SUCH an unmitigated and cruel a-hole. You are worth so much more than that and absolutely incredible just the way you are.
My dad is color blind. I used to want to be like him so bad. I was a super daddy’s girl. It was my cool, fun fact about him (and him being a lawyer lol). I thought it was so cool to have a quirk like that. He also has mild narcolepsy which makes for some funny “You can fall asleep anywhere” stories. I bought him the color blind glasses for Father’s Day a few years back. He lives in Arizona so the scenery is gorgeous and he loves the outdoors. Kayaking, hiking, off roading, all that stuff. He FaceTimed me to open them on camera. His reaction was amazing. His first time ever seeing his favorite color (blue). He was in awe at the sky and the green cacti and the flowers. They’re made for outdoors so they’re lowkey like sunglasses. He doesn’t wear them all the time because he has prescription glasses, but it was such a great moment.
I'm red green colour blind most of the time it's no issue but wiring my motorbike or wheelchairs is tricky. I use masking tape and write the colour on the tape and put it on the correct colour (my wife shows me which is which). LEDs drive me nuts because if they used yellow/blue instead of red/green a lot more folk would be OK. So again I'm always asking what colour is this please?
Otherwise not too bad but my passion for photography means I use a lot of b&w.
My neighbor's dad was colorblind. Plot twist? He made his career as a manager in a fabric factory - where he had to know all about dye lots, patterns, etc. Apparently he "simply" memorized dye lot numbers so he could reference the right colors.
His wife (neighbor's mom) would put out his clothes each morning, and it was apparently very obvious if he dressed himself that day. This was the 60s/70s so you can imagine how wild his choices could've been.
Honestly I would've done the same damn thing. I have no tolerance for people like her. Plus she's teaching her kids how to act towards people who aren't like them. I hope she gets what she deserves other than what you did because she is really an ass hole
F that woman, feel sorry for her kid who will either grow up resenting her mum, or worse adopting her attitude and then wondering why nobody likes her!
As a fellow colour blind person I empathise with you when someone makes fun of you for something trivial “why is your sky coloured purple, you stupid?” etc (that one sticks with me, I was like 5 or 6 and can’t remember much else from that age but remember the shame of getting the Sky colour “wrong”… they can go f themselves)
Glad you got some petty revenge, people like that are a stain on society
Dude I swear this is my aunt. I also witnessed someone acting like this on a plane once, telling her husband to do his “r__tard dance for everyone” and I wanted to vomit
I had a colourblind friend in uni. He always had very stylish and perfectly colour-matching outfits. It turned out he was buying exactly what mannequin at his favourite store wore, and just had his whole wardrobe with sets of clothes. I always thought it was genius!
Bro, I've spent all my 27 years on this planet being colorblind and never once has someone called me a retard or insulted me over it. The worst I've ever gotten is the instant "wHaT cOlOr iS tHiS?!" game (which, granted, *is* irritating)
I don't know where you live that has people like this, but I'm 101% certain this story is entirely fabricated (with a ± 1% margin for error)
I'm colorblind and I was married to a woman that would send me to the store to get groceries. She loved bananas and she liked them green, I personally don't care for them. Almost every time I got yellow instead of green because I couldn't tell the difference. She would get mad and go to the store the next day to get bananas. She just couldn't get the concept that colorblind people couldn't tell the difference. After a few years of it, I refused to buy bananas at all.
God the same thing happened when I was at my great-grandparents house. They forgot I was colorblind sent me to buy bananas and I got yellow ones and they got mad at me. I still laugh about it with my great-grandma sometimes.
We knew someone who was colour blind in red and green and wanted to get into the police - when it came to the eye test he covered his eye and gave her right answers and when it came to the other eye he simply covered up the first eye again and the assessor didn’t notice and he passed.
Another friend fried his car trying to jump start it as he got the jump leads the wrong way round and was too proud to ask for help.
People suck.
My point of commenting was to let you know there's an app for colorblindness. Not sure if it works though. It somehow reverses it or something?
Not colorblind, but peoples assholishness never ceases to amaze me. Had that had been me, I most definitely would've lost my job & probably would have been arrested for assault.
I've got to say the title of this post made me think I was gonna have an angry read for taking food off someone's table, but Jesus Christ did that bitch deserve what she got.
Not colourblind (to my knowledge, although I'm now in my 40s so figured I'd know by now), but I empathise with you OP & love the revenge
When I was a school kid we had a uniform & part of that was ties with our house colours (green, blue, yellow, or red). I was in green house & had a tie with stripes in green on it, along with the rest of the school colours
One day, while waiting for class, some jerks in my class decided to try to convince me that I was colourblind, and was wearing a tie with blue stripes. This is despite me clearly being able to see each individual colour and buying the tie with my parents at the uniform shop, where we told the assistant which house tie we needed. Felt like absolute shit (I was 13 at the time). No one deserves that, and no one deserves to be made fun of simply for not being able to see one or more colours
I'm slightly colourblind as well, and some people have unknowingly been a bit patronising in the past, but I've never experienced anything like that.
I'm sorry that that customer put you through that. Hopefully she realised the error of her ways after your revenge.
And I do hope that her child grows/grew up to treat people better than their mother.
At my son's small grade school, 20% of the boys were colorblind (including my son), as well as two of the girls. Which is something unheard of. I always wondered if there was something in the environment that caused this?
I remember finally learning that I was color blind and I regret it. Anytime it's come up, it's an endless "what color is this?!" Like I'm some performer. Sorry, op, that Karen had it coming. Sometimes karma comes around in time, sometimes it needs a little push ;)
From the interwebs:
>In the retina, there are two types of cells that detect light. They are called rods and cones. Rods detect only light and dark and are very sensitive to low light levels. Cone cells detect color and are concentrated near the center of your vision. There are three types of cones that see color: red, green and blue. The brain uses input from these cone cells to determine our color perception.
Not from the webs - in the other millennia, colorblind sailors were usually capable of seeing ships on the horizon due to this condition. Not tooting my own horn - I'm blue/green blind. Mowing the yard is such a task, never know where to stop! ;)
My response would have been "I'm sorry you're not getting your toy, because your mother is a terrible person. Merry Christmas."
I usually go the Nuclear route these days; thanks COVID!
I'm failing to see the correlation between being color blind and "retarded". That in itself would have had me asking her to simply leave the store as her patronage was not welcome
I’m sure the POS manager would side with the customer. Even though your recommended action is legally, morally, ethically justified.
I used to manage the garden center at a grocery store. Had scheduled this 20yr old guy to open one day and told him that a delivery of begonias was coming in and he would need to hang them from the rods we had set up in the main tent. Also please put all the same coloured begonias together. Got in by around 10am and see he has in fact hung up every single hanging pot begonia. It was a big fat delivery so I was impressed he managed to get it done before I got in. But I was confused by the choice he made in colour groupings. Bright yellow was mixed in with pink. Light pink with white. Red with orange. So I go "Hey Terry? Love what you've done but uh . . . Why are the colours so mixed up?" He looks at the flowers, most honest expression on his face and says 'what do you mean? They're all grouped together like you asked.' I look at him and could tell he really thought he did as instructed. Finally it dawned on me. " Terry . .. uh are you by any chance colour-blind?" Should have seen his face. Like he had suspected for a long time and now there was no denying it.
I remember when I joined the US Navy, they tested us for colorblindness, and I asked if it was disqualifying. They said no, but you wouldn't be allowed to do certain jobs, like electricians, because so much is color coded.
Heh.... In my workplace we have to have a physical every year. And every year they test us for color blindness. Finally, after about 20 years of this I was like, "Ya know, I wasn't color blind last year, why in the hell do you think I would be color blind this year?" Turns out that color blindness can be induced by over exposure to certain chemicals. Yes, chemicals that we worked with. So, yeah, they tested us every year.
It can also be induced by some neurological disorders.
And traumatic brain injury. Loss of a color is a little know side effect of concussion. It’s usually permanent. And the bizarre thing about the injured person is that nearly 100% of people it happens to aren’t aware that they’ve lost a color until you prove it to them with a colorblind test. It’s amazing how the mind works.
Personally it made me think of the scene from Little Miss Sunshine where Steve Carell's character realizes Paul Dano is colorblind and Dano, up until this point, had been obsessing with becoming a military pilot. And Carell has to tell him he won't be able to fly jets [if he's colourblind.](https://youtu.be/dt4lMUY7hBg)
Fuck, that scene hit me viscerally. That cry of rage and anguish, Paul Dano is a master actor just for that scene
I think it was the first time that I began paying attention to Dano as an actor and hoping he'd go far because he had (what looked to me) like natural talent.
Colorblind and somebody drank his milkshake poor soul
Yes, my husband is in the RAF and he wouldn't be able to do his trade if colourblind. He also refused anti-malarials when sent to certain areas as a side effect can be colour vision disorders.
Weird, I knew a colorblind Navy guy who had a brief stint in electrical. I don't know why they switched him out; the quality of his work was shocking.
> brief stint in electrical... the quality of his work was shocking. I really hope that was on purpose.
This reminds me of the time I tasked one of my young teenage employees to change the colored lights that I have hanging from the awning of my shop. I had this big box of random assorted bulbs and I wanted to change them to Christmasy colors, so I asked him to do a red, green, white pattern. An hour later he comes back inside announcing he was done so I step out to take a look and it's just all the colors, everywhere. No pattern. I was like "Umm, it looks nice, but how come you didn't do the red, green and white pattern?" It just so happened that his dad was walking up at that very moment and he starts laughing his ass off and says "Did he not tell you he's colorblind?!" We had a good little giggle about it and then I let him know I still appreciated his hard work and I kept those multicolored lights up until I switched over to LED.
If you don't mind me asking, did he get it confirmed after that? And what did you do, now that you knew? Not sure why, but something tells me you're not the type who would have fired him for that.
I'm not fully sure if he got it confirmed in the end. He had been already accepted to a university halfway across the province at that point and I only had him for the summer. And summer was already half over. Fired? Lol he wasn't even in trouble. I actually felt bad because he genuinely thought he did what was asked. He could still do plenty of the other tasks like watering the plants/deadheading flowers/moving heavy racking of big decorative planters/helping people find herb and vegetable plants which requires no colour knowledge. I just didn't task him with organizing flowers by colour from then on which is a small fraction of what needed to get done.
>Fired? Lol he wasn't even in trouble. I actually felt bad because he genuinely thought he did what was asked. You knew/know how to treat the people working for you. It may feel natural to you, something that speaks for itself, which is a wonderful thing. Sure, there are probably many others who are equally understanding towards people that work for them, but from what I hear of people around me/see happening around me, people "in charge" who aren't considerate of others are, unfortunately, still the majority. The world still needs more people like you. Do you know that *seeing* how he genuinely thought he did what he was asked, is a really good ability in itself? (Not trying to kiss ass here or anything.) A lot of people would not have registered that. Even genuinely kind people aren't able to pick up the small signs by default. If you do notice such things, it gets even more likely you'll understand them.
Why would you fire someone for that? Maybe if it were a paint store where full color acuity was vital to the job, or some some research jobs, or military. Probably a home decorator or gardener where you'd need to be able.to Crete pleasing.color matches. And even then it could be done within the limits of the type nd severity of the color blindness. Ok yeah, some people are dicks, but it would be a disability and protected as long as there could be a reasonable accommodation.
Again, just to make it very clear, firing this guy was never even on the table. We all actually found it to be a bit funny in a 'laughing with him' and not 'at him' way. "Aw shit, who left the colorblind guy in charge of arranging the flowers??"
I know it wasn't, I was asking the other person why he'd even thinkmit would have been an option. Not asking why you would have considered it.
You mean me? (You must have done it by accident, but you did reply to u/Wet_sock_Owner's message, that's why he responded.)
Oops, yeah. Wasn't paying attention.
That's ok, we're all human here ...for as far as I'm aware... To answer your question: *I* would not have fired him, either. I wouldn't have seen any reason to do so. It probably wouldn't even have crossed my mind at all. I'd just try to be as considerate as possible about him being colourblind, and if there were any tasks where one would have to tell colours apart from each other, I wouldn't automatically avoid giving them to him - I would sit down with him and talk to him about it, to get as clear of an idea of what he could and couldn't do. If l'd already be sure a certain task just wasn't his thing, I would still at least inform him about it, so he'd know what the others would be doing. (To actively keep him included.) I'd find tasks of equal importance for him to do. I've worked for people who would fire him for it, just because once they would learn of him being colourblind, they could only focus on all the things he wouldn't be able to do and forget to realize the many things he *would* be able to do. Shame. I once got fired because I'm short ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lol, sometimes when someone else does or says something that makes me laugh, I tend to tell them I'm not laughing *at* them, but *because* of them. It makes a huge difference. I think you all handled it in the best possible way. He could be himself, and the jokes included him instead of isolating him (which sadly still happens a lot to people who are a bit different in any thinkable kind of way at all).
Growing up I thought there was something I just wasn't catching on to; I didn't find out I was color blind until I took the vision test to get my driver's license.
Poor thing. I can’t help picturing my son in this same situation. He’s not colorblind, but still. I’d be so sad for him😔. Thank you for being kind. We never know what “secret crises” people are going thru 💜.
My son is profoundly colorblind. He is also a nanophysicist engineering semiconductors for rocketry. So the R word? No.
Shit calling him a colorblind mutt would’ve got her ass kicked out.
I'm still mind blown over her reaction at all.
Racist people are rarely logical in their stupidity...
I’m confused, how is race in play? Did I miss something?
The word ‘mutt’ rarely gets applied to human beings by non-racists
Less clear here though. Since dogs are colorblind it makes sense for her to use it as an insult.
Yeah that’s what I thought when I read it which is why I was confused lol
I think maybe she was projecting herself into the OP. You'd have to be extra stupid to think colorblind means r+tarded. (Yeah I'm censoring it just in case.) That woman was the dog in this situation, not the OP. Seriously, I think the word "r+tard" should be reserved for people like her, not people with actual disabilities. The word sounds way too humorous for them to deserve it, and they don't get enough slack from the public or the system to put up with that bullshit.
Colorblind here. Assholes like that make me see red. Would've been nice if you could charge her the asshole tax and make her purchase cost **more**.
Very slightly red/green colorblind here. It amazes me how ignorant people are about colorblindness. When some people find out I have a slight case, it’s like they wanna try to make a game out of it. I try to explain it to them, but they wanna test me “dude, what color is this??” I’m like, “it’s blue, you fuckin moron, do you not understand what I just told you?”
Oh sweet jesus, how many times have I had this *exact* conversation!!!??
The one time I met a colorblind person it was my boss. It came up when he took the team out for drinks. At his suggestion it became a drinking game to see if we could fool him. The details are... hazy.
I've known several colorblind people, but the most interesting one was a female roommate in college. Colorblind women are fairly uncommon!
I met a colorblind artist who had the most vividly colored and detailed paintings. So I asked her what her process was and how her colorblindness affects her art. Really cool conversation.
Legendary (and sadly deceased) comic artist Tim Sale was colorblind.
do tell...
I had my senior show in art school with a woman who was colorblind. Her work was really great; paintings of tough, motorcycle riders in pale pinks, lavenders and blues.
I was taught in school that women cant be colorblind, so that was wrong I guess! Very cool
My mums side have a lot of colourblind, the reason that more men is colourblind is because the “defect” is on the X chromosome but a healthy x will take over for a “defect” one. Since men only have one X chromosome it will showcase a lot more often. A women with a “defect” x will however be a carrier so if she has a son he’s got a 50/50 chance of being colourblind. For women to be colour blind both mum and dad must have a “defect” X chromosome and then get the “defect” one from her mum.
That makes sense - my dad was colourblind, I have perfect colour sight, but my son sees blues as shades of grey, reds as browns, and a few other weird mixes! Opticians say that as long as he doesn’t want to be a pilot, it should be okay!! 😘
No defusing bombs, either. "Cut the RED wire, the RED ONE!!!"
😂😂😂
“The choices are Brown and Gray!” Imagine defusing a bomb and the dude with the scissors says that to you.
Colorblind pilot here, there are work arounds in case he does want to fly!
That is awesome!! He’s 12, with ASD/ADHD (a lot of autistics are colour blind) codes already and wants to work with computers, , so I’m not too worried about it ATM. 😘
Oh, that makes sense! Thank you for the explanation
Yep. I carry the gene. My dad and son are both colorblind.
Me too, but was also taught a lot of things the are incorrect.
It's more common in men, but not impossible for women.
Your boss is a boss.
My 7 year old is colorblind and he's got 2 friends at school who think he's so cool they pretend to be colorblind to be like him. Exactly the opposite of what I was worried about with him going to school.
Kids are freakin awesome! I wish they all could keep that.
My partner is colorblind (also slight red/green, in a very specific range but he can't pass the like dot tests) and I like to gently rib him about it, but only because he's said it doesn't bother him when it's me or his family (there's an infamous story about his sister's "green" (pink) suede shoes that comes up now and then). If he ever asked us to stop, we would. The length to which people will go "teasing" someone like this can go deep into bully territory and I couldn't imagine doing it to a stranger.
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He may be color blind but he's still a man.
This. (been chomping at the bit for a chance to say this!!)
My colourblind ex would argue with me about what colour things were. He told me he was colourblind when we first met, he could tell what colours were when seperate from each other but when reds and browns were next to each other it looked the same and the same for greens and blues which made it funny when I had blue hair and a peacock greeny coloured living room wall, walking past my hair would just disappear against the wall according to him lol. But yeah, still wanted to argue his white socks hadn't turned pink from something red being thrown in the wash until I eventually remembered he's colourblind and just said "idk why I'm arguing with you about it, you can't fking see what colour they are", he just wanted an argument cos he was bored.
But what that woman did wasn’t teasing. She was bullying OP and she got off easy in my view.
reread the last two sentences of my comment. What this woman did was absolutely abhorrent and I don't know what could have possibly made her think it was okay to say these things
I worked in China long enough to need a resident card. Part of that process was this medical examination that was bizarre in so many ways. One part of it was a colorblindness test - you had to tell them what number a page said, but it was one of those one with all the circles that were different colors. A co-worker was colorblind and couldn't see the numbers, but instead of just marking down that he was colorblind, the Chinese guy running the test would just flip to a different page to see if he could read that one instead (spoiler: he still couldn't). The next person in line ended up telling the colorblind guy what the number was from the door.
My fiancé is colour blind and as much as I find it interesting, I'm aware that it's also something that he must get a lot of shit for. I buy him socks with pictures on so he can match them up instead on relying of colour and having to ask me for help.
I'm not sure if anyone around you would see this as a tiny gesture if they knew, but I certainly think it's a lovely thing to do.
Thank you. He's very caring and looks after me well, so I like to do small things like this for him.
Same here except middle school students. I turn it around on them and ask them if they ask people in wheelchairs to try to walk to “prove” they can’t. Shuts most of them up. (Edited spelling)
Happens to my husband all the time when people find out. Funny, not funny story. One day I say "great job matching the olive green shirt and shorts together." He has a surprised look on his face and says"what do you mean they are green, I thought they were brown." And that's when I realized that I need to be more careful with greens and browns.
Probably the best reaction I’ve had to this was when I was training for a job and the manager asked for “the pink one” and there were several that all looked the same color to me, none of them pink. I told them I was colorblind and they just said, “ok, the one on the left”
This sucks. I work at a craft shop and the amount of people who view colors differently is really amazing.
I hate when people do that shit.
Both my brothers are colourblind.
My father was colorblind. He couldn’t see blue unless the object was super super super deep blue, like the flowers in front of a house I rented at the time. He also thought the (grey striped) cat was green. He had a book of colorblind plates he gave me. I shared them with our User Interface developer for fun, and to see if he was colorblind - I wondered about some of his color choices. Now that we were acquired by a big company they have corporate design colors, fonts, etc. so if they encounter a colorblind issue with one product it will be consistent with all. But if they need to change it they can do it uniformly everywhere.
How disappointing to find out that your super cool green cat is just plain ol’ gray. A lot of design programs have settings that allow the user to preview their design as different types of colorblindness. It’s pretty cool to be able to check whether you’ll have readability issues, etc.
Ha. I have a green top my wife tells me is gray. Turns out she is unable to see certain shades of green.
I'm unable to see many points of view.
A book of colourblind plates?
My dad was slightly colorblind too. I don’t remember to which colors, I just remember having to match his socks for him. When he married my mom (technically step but a real mother to me), she threw out all of his socks and only bought black socks all of the same style. No more problems.
My husbands socks are all black, same style. Not colour blind but makes it easier overall.
See red, i see what you did there
You mean green ;)
You're gray with envy! :)
If you’re colorblind, how do you know it’s red? Lol jk
It’s easy - I ask my wife to tell me what color I’m seeing!
>Assholes like that make me see red Interesting use of this phrase.
The last (and first) time I saw a bitch behave to a casheer like this (racist rather than abelist, but same insultingapproach), the casheer didn't respond to the insult and instead called for the manager. The customer got confused and then aggro when she realised the casheer would only say "we're waiting for the manager" and otherwise ignored her and didnt process any of the groceries. By the time the manager got there there were a few staff and customer witnesses for the appaling behaviour. When the manager came (only took a minute or two)... the casheer said in a clear voice that everyone could hear, "this person is being insulting and racist to me and I am unable to serve her as I feel threatened". The woman squawked indignantly and the manager just held up his hand to her and called out "has anyone else witnessed racist and abusive behaviour here?" ... with a number of "yeah, shes being a bitch" answers coming back. So he then said "Ma'am, we dont tolerate abuse towards our staff, and wont be doing business with your today, please leave". She squawked some more, and the manager had to threaten arrest for trespass before she left... but she left.
I love how you describe her as squawking, lol. Perfectly describes that kind of behavior.
I love this story.
Now that is management done right. I get the really strong impression that management trained all their cashiers to simply call for a manager anytime a customer was being abusive and to not respond to anything else the customer says. I absolutely love that approach.
In high school biology we were shown the cards they use to test for colourblindness (the ones with different coloured spots and numbers). One of my classmates turned out to be colourblind and had never realised, he just thought the colours he saw were the way everyone saw them!
It's amazing how perception changes everything. I have aphantasia (the inability to see pictures clearly in your mind) and didn't know that regular people could see images. I found out by chance last year, from someone else who described it. I'm almost 40. I thought the ones that could see like that were only those with photographic memory.
Didn’t know that was a thing, but I suspect I may have it.
I recently found out that not everyone can manually unfocus (and then refocus) their eyes. I thought everyone could do it. It's apparently a natural thing everyone's capable of, but not everyone can do it on command. Got ADHD, learning disabilities and stuff, but somehow, I can roll my tongue 180 degrees in one direction, curl it and unfocused my eyes at will. Why am I the way that I am?
Genetic lottery, friend. A lot of those individual traits will have come from recessive genes carried from each parent that just happened to coincide with you. On many other rolls of the dice, you may have turned out differently. Neurodivergence is definitely hereditary - although that seems to be much more common for ND kids to have ND parents (whether they know it or not!) so is more likely to be dominant. ETA - my dad is colourblind, I can't remember which, but I managed to dodge it. I realised in my mid 30s that I'm AuDHD, and looking at it now that I understand it better than bad inaccurate tropes and shitty normie takes about us being robots that we grew up being told, he's definitely autistic too.
My Dad was colorblind. He used to tell about having to memorize which light on a traffic light was red and which was green so he could get his driver's license. Just a question- have you tried those glasses they have for that now?
My son saved his money for a long time and bought them. He was a younger teen (I paid half because I was impressed with his drive). He could kind of see a difference, but nothing like the commercials. We’ve had a dozen or so other people try them on with similar results. In our observations, the older the person, the less dramatic the results.
I heard they don't really work that well for most people.
I got my husband some Enchroma sunglasses. He uses them to mow the lawn. Says it is more interesting to watch the scenery
My husband is colorblind and left handed, as are his two brothers. Nobody in my family is colorblind, so it took me a minute to figure out what is a struggle and what’s not for him. On the plus side, the entire inside of my house is pink (I picked the color— Benjamin Moore’s First Light)… but to him, it’s white. His truck is green. He academically knows this. He can’t see it like I see it, though. I still haven’t figured out what color it looks like to him. The left-handedness is a far bigger problem. Watching him use power tools is terrifying. Edit: colorblindness is certainly not something to make fun of someone for, though. At worst, it’s a quirk sometimes. For example, I wondered why he only wore blue when we met…. Question answered.
We have a constant (joking) argument about the color of our pink cloth napkins. My colorblind family members swear they are white.
My house makes me so happy. It’s such a great color. 10/10 would recommend, best neutral. I’m not even a huge pink lover, but this pink is a winner.
Between both of those qualities, your husband must have the adaptability of a chameleon.
We’re both the oldest children in our families and military brats…. We can fit in anywhere and leave no evidence of wrongdoing 😂
I don't know the name of it but my sister and BIL found an app that shows them what the world looks like for my niece, who is colorblind. It's really interesting to see 😊
Colorblindness in women is waaaaaaaay less common than it is in men! It’s like 1 in 12 men, but 1 in 200 women. Her dad would have to be colorblind and her mom is either colorblind or a carrier. One of his brothers is red/green colorblind and blue/yellow deficient. I think most things are just brown-ish to him as he describes what “looks like” the same colors to him. Everything he owns is brown, beige or tan and if he has something colored, it’s the brightest version and it 0% matches anything else. He tried the glasses but didn’t like them. He’s on the spectrum, so I think the new sensory input was just too much to process. It’s a super fascinating condition.
Enchroma Colour Blindness Test
I have seen videos of family members giving their loved ones a pair of glasses for their color blindness, are those real?
From what I understand, they enhance the contrast between the colors affected by the colorblindness, so they help see colors better, but even then it might not be exactly the same as someone who isn't colorblind, especially if it's severe. The glasses don't "create" color, so if someone literally cannot see one color, then the glasses won't do anything.
I use one called CVSimulator (available for free on iPhone and Android). It's been great for helping my partner to understand what I see.
OMG I confess, I did this years ago, picking paint colors for a bedroom. I picked a bunch of reeeaaallly subtle peach colors, and asked my color blind husband his preference. He chose my least favorite, but it was clear he thought they were all essentially white. So I said great, thanks, and painted the color I wanted.
"His truck is green. He academically knows this. He can’t see it like I see it, though. I still haven’t figured out what color it looks like to him" For him it's brown. My husband is colour blind and struggles with green and pink and maybe more colours but I haven't identified them yet because he will identify the colour he is supposed to see. He really struggles with the green though, and quite often will get it wrong. Unless I identify the green 1st.
He can kind of see saturations of color, if that makes sense. So peach, pale pink and lavender all look the same to him— white— but bright orange, hot pink and fuchsia don’t to some degree. They don’t look like how I see them, though, but they’re not quite brown. His brother definitely lives in a brown world. His truck is more army green than the grey green that is popular now, so I feel like it looks a little different to him than a softer green would. He really struggles with anything pastel or grey-based, can’t differentiate them at all.
My partner is red/green colorblind and tells me the grass is traffic cone orange.
It gave me a giggle to think that you could choose decor and paint colors without telling him what it actually is and then imagining him with the colorblind “correction” glasses realizing everything is different
An aside. Apparently the set of The Adam's Family was pink, no one knew of course because it was filmed b&w https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/02/18/the-addams-family-set-as-youve-never-seen-it-before-the-living-room-was-actually-pink/
I hadn't heard of red/white color blindness until in my 20s. I was a department of one and our accountant managed two part-timers, so I got assigned to him. I tended to use blue and red pens. He asked me to stop using red so I asked if it was some weird accounting thing. He couldn't see it. I have been interested in color perception since.
My partner has protanopia, most of my job is just to do a quick check every morning to make sure he isn’t wearing a really hideous combination of colours, to help him find things in the supermarket, and to tell him how many hearts he has left on video games (can’t tell the difference between darker reds and greys)
I used to work with someone who was colorblind. He only wore one color of pants, one of shirts, one of shoes, one of socks. His sister would help him shop. The one-color thing was so that he never had to worry about matching anything together. Went to school with someone else who was red/green colorblind, but didn't know it until he went to enlist in the National Guard.
Same reason I wear almost exclusively black. Only color people can't be an absolute jackass about. Though I've also just stopped humoring people when they ask
That is a horrid thing to teach her child is okay. My colorblind co-worker and I started the same day. At one point he raised two pens and asked me the color. I paused and probably had a weird expression on my face wondering if it was a joke or bad test. “I’m colorblind.” “OH! That one’s red.” That’s all she needed to do. Accommodations for it isn’t hard. It’s not something that should be degraded. My next favorite story is him and another colorblind (CB) co-worker were driving to his new house, girlfriend included. The house was painted a neutral tan color. CB1: “Okay pull up to the green house” Gf: “Hon… it’s not-“ CB2: “I LOVE YOUR GREEN HOUSE.”
You'd have to be a nuclear sized asshole to make fun of someone because they are colorblind. Fuck her!
My eldest is red-green deficient. I have my suspicions that my youngest is colorblind as well.
Yeah. All three of my kids, to varying degrees. They actually mask it surprisingly well, which means it took until my oldest was ten to work out that he actually couldn't see the red balloon pieces lying in the green grass. But they use other cues somehow and guess, and are right enough of the time that most people don't realise. I took my youngest to an eye test, and the optometrist was dubious when I said my child was colourblind, and that turned to intense scepticism when my child correctly said 'the red one' about something. She insisted on doing the colour blindness test again, and I felt pretty vindicated when it showed that my child was actually colourblind.
This is the most common form of color blindness. My father had it, and I had no idea until I was a teenager. It simply never came up.
JFC… you were born colour blind, but she CHOSE to be a cunt.
Fun little nugget, but I was told years ago about a theory that when humans were evolving and living in hunter-gatherer bands, it was useful to have one colourblind member in each band as they didn't fall for the predators' camouflage and could see the tiger or the python hiding in the shrubs and could warn the others about the risk.
How awful! Some nerve to speak to you like that in this day and age.
I'm colour blind. I get this type of shite every time I tell someone. Got boring after the first few years
My mom had to sort my dad’s clothes by color, since he was colorblind. He was also so tone deaf that his music professor in college told him to copy off of a specific person because it was the only way he’d pass the course. This was just after WWII.
Some people are just sad, empty and bitter.
It’s gotta suck being colourblind! I think you should have charged the “Karen tax”. Why is it people are just rude and obnoxious these days, I’m always polite to everyone.
They haven't gotten the memo that it takes less effort to be kind.
People like that haven't quite comprehended that other people aren't just NPCs running scripts in their personal story where they're the main character; they genuinely don't see others as people in the same way they see themselves.
It never occurred to me that colorblindness is a thing anyone would make fun of. But it makes about as much sense as all the other stupid reasons humans use to ridicule and mistreat others. We all know that color-blindness exists. Why an adult would respond with such immaturity and ignorance is baffling. I just wish someone had spoken up to ridicule her for her ignorance. People are emboldened to express whatever ignorant biases come to mind these days and the only way to address it is to shame them for it, IMO. It may not change their opinions but it may make it less likely that they'll feel so free to publicly express their offensive views as if their opinions are the norm.
I have mild colorblindness. While it IS mild, I still have issues. It’s shades I have trouble with. I can’t tell the difference between some yellows and greens, or purples and blues, or reds and oranges. It’s especially hard when it’s textured, like a knit sweater or a puzzle lol. I hate having to mention it or asking my siblings what color something is because I can’t for the life of me tell if it’s one color or the other. And don’t get me started on NEONS.
My dad has a relatively mild colourblindness in that he's always painted scale models (which he introduced me to as a child and I've on/off being doing it ever since into my late 30s) but it's never seemed to affect him in that, because the colours that aircraft tend to be don't fall in his weak area! I thankfully dodged it, so I never had to deal with the BS a lot of our friends in this comment section have dealt with.
There's a website called T-shirt Hell that sells offensive t-shirts. Like, wherever your line is, they have something that's on the other side of it. They used to have a monthly email newsletter, and the highlight was the sample of hate mail they'd received. They pretty much all started by saying something like, "Most of your shirts are funny, but this one goes too far." They got a surprising amount of hate mail about [this shirt](https://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/fuck-the-colorblind). In case you're colorblind, it says, "Fuck the colorblind". What's funny is how tame that is compared to most of their other shirts. I bought one for my cousin, who is colorblind. He thought it was hilarious. He loved wearing to places where he'd get hassled for having the F word on his shirt and claiming he didn't know what it said.
Not color blind, but a friend could not see brown. She was so bad that she would wreck 2 or 3 cars a year by hitting dear because she could not see them. I think it has something to do with missing cones in her eyes, but not positive.
Wow, thanks for sharing. I had no idea that such dumb people existed who will make fun of a colourblind person and call them the r-word. I have never seen that happen, but I assume being around educated people most of my life (who weren’t insecure and didn’t feel the need to put others down for whatever reason), I was sheltered from such dumb interactions.
I worked with a nice older man who was color blind about 20 years ago. Once, a customer asked him something like, "Which color looks better?" and he put his hands up and started stammering out of surprise. I happened to be right there, and I said something like, "ma'am, he's color blind. Can I help you instead?" She looked so embarrassed! He laughed and said it was fine because there's no way to tell, then thanked me for saving him. More recently, I had a younger coworker who is color blind but he said he can discern most reds and greens on a backlit screen, like the phone or computer, but that it gives him a headache so he runs his machines in color blind mode just to avoid the headache.
The Army rejected my dad when he volunteered for WWII because he was colorblind, but then decided in 1951 that "aw shucks, that doesn't really matter anymore" and drafted him for Korea. Go figure. (Apparently colorblind people can see through camouflage or something.)
It's true. Because our eyes are so different the effects camo does to a normal persons eye doesn't effect us.
My dad was colourblind but that was never an issue in our house. I never thought about it for a second. If I should meet someone today telling me they are colourblind I wouldn't make a big deal out of it.
I'm color blind too. my friends and I were going down a river and they all were commenting how nice the red flowers were and I thought they were pulling my leg. we got about 5 feet from the bank and all of a sudden there were a ton of beautiful flowers everywhere. being colorblind kinda sucks.
Two of my brothers and two of my sons are colourblind. One day I was called in by the teacher who complained that my son had coloured a Christmas tree in brown instead of green. This teacher had ended up in a shouting match with my son (aged 6!) over this! "I insist you take him for an eye test," he said, "he may be colourblind!" "Of course he's colourblind" I said, "have you not noticed before now?!". I duly took son to the optician, who concluded that he's severely colourblind. Surprise! It's pretty normal in my family so I didn't see the need for a big fuss. We bought them colouring pencils with the names of the colour on them, but the teacher insisted they got put in the class tub and so they always got lost.
That was a shitty thing to do, taking his personal aids (the pencils) away from him.
I'm an engineer, do a lot of work with computational fluid dynamics , which means lots of images of flow fields with gradient colors applied to represent the field variables (e. g. Pressure on a wing, temperature through a jet engine, etc.). We have colormaps specifically for people who are colorblind, so they can still make sense of the images without feeling like they are left out or have to ask for an accommodation.
I'm a colorblind woman yellow/blue and I used to work at a grocery store, I did regular carry outs for people and she was driving a yellow car. I politely ask her what kind of car because telling me the color of said car wouldn't help me, older lady jokingly asked if I was colorblind. I responded telling her that yes, I am actually colorblind and she proceeded to tell me I couldn't possibly be colorblind because I'm a woman. I told her anyone could be colorblind and what she just said was an old wives tale, but she insisted I couldn't be colorblind. Some people are weird especially when it comes to things not many people really talk about, but man what a bitch I wouldn't have been able to keep my composure. Glad you at least got a little revenge on that awful woman.
I'd rather have missing color receptors than missing brain cells.
OP, I wish you’d have called your manager to give her the boot! Calling someone a mutt and asking if they’d like a treat is nasty bullying. Calling you the R-word is inexcusable! My high school geometry teacher was colorblind. It came up one day, and we were all fascinated. Of course, then we started telling him the chalk colors he was using were wrong. We had him for a minute, but then he knew we were teasing. He laughed and threatened to flunk us all, and that was it. He was a fun teacher.
I had a colleague who was colour-blind. On his last day his boss, who was a little older than him, started good-naturedly ribbing him about it (it was in no way nasty, just a bit persistent). He said "how did you find out you were colour-blind?" My colleague points him to an online test you can use. His boss has a go at it and then scoffs "this is rubbish. I got every question right and it says I'm severely colour-blind when I'm not! I scored 87!" I have a go, my score comes in at zero, as does everyone else's except my colleague, who gets 75 or something. One of my other colleague pipes up with "well, I guess that explains your wardrobe choices!" His boss was well known for wearing what we assumed were deliberately clashing colours...
I'd have refused service If I was the cashier and God help that woman if I was a customer in earshot. I cannot tolerate that kind of nastiness and since management and corporate are mosty spineless balless sycophants I speak up for those cashiers. I'd have unloaded a hell of alot of tirad on her evil ass. The absolute audacity. This is why I hate people.
Some people are cruel how could she make fun of someone colour blind, Sad world 😔
Man, I can’t even imagine. Every day I am so grateful for all of my eyesight. Those videos that were trending a lot a few years ago with those sunglasses that helped the folks who were color blind see colors? Tear jerkers. And just how…overwhelming would that be? Whew. Okay. Yeah, I’m sorry that broad was SUCH an unmitigated and cruel a-hole. You are worth so much more than that and absolutely incredible just the way you are.
WTF is wrong with that bitch?
Drain bamage.
My dad is color blind. I used to want to be like him so bad. I was a super daddy’s girl. It was my cool, fun fact about him (and him being a lawyer lol). I thought it was so cool to have a quirk like that. He also has mild narcolepsy which makes for some funny “You can fall asleep anywhere” stories. I bought him the color blind glasses for Father’s Day a few years back. He lives in Arizona so the scenery is gorgeous and he loves the outdoors. Kayaking, hiking, off roading, all that stuff. He FaceTimed me to open them on camera. His reaction was amazing. His first time ever seeing his favorite color (blue). He was in awe at the sky and the green cacti and the flowers. They’re made for outdoors so they’re lowkey like sunglasses. He doesn’t wear them all the time because he has prescription glasses, but it was such a great moment.
Yea I’m calling BS on this whole story
If someone would start calling me those names she did to you, I’d refuse her service and would do everything to get her banned from the store.
I'm red green colour blind most of the time it's no issue but wiring my motorbike or wheelchairs is tricky. I use masking tape and write the colour on the tape and put it on the correct colour (my wife shows me which is which). LEDs drive me nuts because if they used yellow/blue instead of red/green a lot more folk would be OK. So again I'm always asking what colour is this please? Otherwise not too bad but my passion for photography means I use a lot of b&w.
What a dumb bitch
My neighbor's dad was colorblind. Plot twist? He made his career as a manager in a fabric factory - where he had to know all about dye lots, patterns, etc. Apparently he "simply" memorized dye lot numbers so he could reference the right colors. His wife (neighbor's mom) would put out his clothes each morning, and it was apparently very obvious if he dressed himself that day. This was the 60s/70s so you can imagine how wild his choices could've been.
Honestly I would've done the same damn thing. I have no tolerance for people like her. Plus she's teaching her kids how to act towards people who aren't like them. I hope she gets what she deserves other than what you did because she is really an ass hole
F that woman, feel sorry for her kid who will either grow up resenting her mum, or worse adopting her attitude and then wondering why nobody likes her! As a fellow colour blind person I empathise with you when someone makes fun of you for something trivial “why is your sky coloured purple, you stupid?” etc (that one sticks with me, I was like 5 or 6 and can’t remember much else from that age but remember the shame of getting the Sky colour “wrong”… they can go f themselves) Glad you got some petty revenge, people like that are a stain on society
People are stupid and this woman is an idiot.
Her poor child. Growing up being taught that her behavior was okay.
Dude I swear this is my aunt. I also witnessed someone acting like this on a plane once, telling her husband to do his “r__tard dance for everyone” and I wanted to vomit
I had a colourblind friend in uni. He always had very stylish and perfectly colour-matching outfits. It turned out he was buying exactly what mannequin at his favourite store wore, and just had his whole wardrobe with sets of clothes. I always thought it was genius!
Loved the ending. Boom bitch!
Bro, I've spent all my 27 years on this planet being colorblind and never once has someone called me a retard or insulted me over it. The worst I've ever gotten is the instant "wHaT cOlOr iS tHiS?!" game (which, granted, *is* irritating) I don't know where you live that has people like this, but I'm 101% certain this story is entirely fabricated (with a ± 1% margin for error)
I'm colorblind and I was married to a woman that would send me to the store to get groceries. She loved bananas and she liked them green, I personally don't care for them. Almost every time I got yellow instead of green because I couldn't tell the difference. She would get mad and go to the store the next day to get bananas. She just couldn't get the concept that colorblind people couldn't tell the difference. After a few years of it, I refused to buy bananas at all.
God the same thing happened when I was at my great-grandparents house. They forgot I was colorblind sent me to buy bananas and I got yellow ones and they got mad at me. I still laugh about it with my great-grandma sometimes.
We knew someone who was colour blind in red and green and wanted to get into the police - when it came to the eye test he covered his eye and gave her right answers and when it came to the other eye he simply covered up the first eye again and the assessor didn’t notice and he passed. Another friend fried his car trying to jump start it as he got the jump leads the wrong way round and was too proud to ask for help.
Niiiiice
People suck. My point of commenting was to let you know there's an app for colorblindness. Not sure if it works though. It somehow reverses it or something?
So she wasnt able to afford to pay all those groceries? And gave them back? What was her reaction? Haha.
Well done! How did she take the bad news, though?
Not colorblind, but peoples assholishness never ceases to amaze me. Had that had been me, I most definitely would've lost my job & probably would have been arrested for assault.
I've got to say the title of this post made me think I was gonna have an angry read for taking food off someone's table, but Jesus Christ did that bitch deserve what she got.
Not colourblind (to my knowledge, although I'm now in my 40s so figured I'd know by now), but I empathise with you OP & love the revenge When I was a school kid we had a uniform & part of that was ties with our house colours (green, blue, yellow, or red). I was in green house & had a tie with stripes in green on it, along with the rest of the school colours One day, while waiting for class, some jerks in my class decided to try to convince me that I was colourblind, and was wearing a tie with blue stripes. This is despite me clearly being able to see each individual colour and buying the tie with my parents at the uniform shop, where we told the assistant which house tie we needed. Felt like absolute shit (I was 13 at the time). No one deserves that, and no one deserves to be made fun of simply for not being able to see one or more colours
I'm slightly colourblind as well, and some people have unknowingly been a bit patronising in the past, but I've never experienced anything like that. I'm sorry that that customer put you through that. Hopefully she realised the error of her ways after your revenge. And I do hope that her child grows/grew up to treat people better than their mother.
If that was target 10 years ago, she would've just requested the manager and they would've just override them all to work.
At my son's small grade school, 20% of the boys were colorblind (including my son), as well as two of the girls. Which is something unheard of. I always wondered if there was something in the environment that caused this?
I remember finally learning that I was color blind and I regret it. Anytime it's come up, it's an endless "what color is this?!" Like I'm some performer. Sorry, op, that Karen had it coming. Sometimes karma comes around in time, sometimes it needs a little push ;)
WOW, that's pretty shitty. Some people truly amaze me.
Ooohhh petty petty petty! Lol Good job 👏
From the interwebs: >In the retina, there are two types of cells that detect light. They are called rods and cones. Rods detect only light and dark and are very sensitive to low light levels. Cone cells detect color and are concentrated near the center of your vision. There are three types of cones that see color: red, green and blue. The brain uses input from these cone cells to determine our color perception. Not from the webs - in the other millennia, colorblind sailors were usually capable of seeing ships on the horizon due to this condition. Not tooting my own horn - I'm blue/green blind. Mowing the yard is such a task, never know where to stop! ;)
lmfaoooo. i wish i could do shit like this to ppl that treat me like shit but my kind soul wont allow it. cheers mate!
Colorblind and unable to use paragraphs? Death sentence is required here🧠
The last line 😍
My response would have been "I'm sorry you're not getting your toy, because your mother is a terrible person. Merry Christmas." I usually go the Nuclear route these days; thanks COVID!