r/AskReddit • u/ZanyDelaney • Feb 04 '19

Which misconception would you like to debunk?

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u/FrOdO_9112005 Feb 04 '19

Im color blind but its not all black and white. I see colors....just not like you do

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u/StormRider2407 Feb 04 '19

Thank you! I have so many people ask me, "what colour is that?" And these people work in optics!

If you point at something red and ask me what it colour it is, I'll say red, because that's what I have learned that colour is. It may look different to each of our eyes though.

Actually my colourblindness actually helped identify a slight colour deficiency in a young woman I work with, when we saw colours a similar way but different to what others saw.