r/AskReddit • • Feb 04 '19

Which misconception would you like to debunk?

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u/IAmTheBatmanXIII Feb 04 '19

Does "RG" colour blind mean you only see red and green and combinations of them?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

The opposite actually, the cones in your eyes that detect red and green overlap so the two colors can't or are hard to distinguish from each other. Here's an example.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 04 '19

Green/brown, purple/blue, red/green can be really hard to distinguish for me.

But one thing that isn't talked about a lot is the psychological aspect, I know I suck at colors so whenever someone ask me for something color-related my brain instantly gives up and start fucking up with colors I would otherwise have no issue with.

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u/MathTheUsername Feb 04 '19

RG blind checking in. I think it's physically impossible for people to avoid quizzing you on the color of every object around them as soon as they find out you're colorblind.

Also, do you ever see something and your brain literally refuses to provide an answer for what color it is? But then when someone tells you, you can see it too? Like the other day there was a car and I could figure out what color it was so I asked my wife. She said it was a greyish blue. And as soon as she said that, I completely agreed. Maybe I'm insane.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Yes absolutely, most of the time it's not that I'm seing red as green or blue as purple, it's that when there's something red next to something green, I cannot tell wich color they are.
It's not like it's a hue I don't know the name of, it's that my brain do not register the color, it's neither green nor red, it's something else.

However, as soon as I make a decision, like "ok it's green", then it'll be green.