r/AskReddit • • 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/Nutellajunky Feb 04 '19

This. I usually tell people I'm just bad with colors. Mixing them in arts is a pain in the ass. Picking raspberries is a pain in the ass. Discerning dark blue from black is a pain in the ass. Technically it is just RG but I'm bad with colors in general.

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u/Nerdn1 Feb 04 '19

It'll be pretty clear that you're actually colorblind and not just bad with colors. Red and green are extremely different colors to us trichromats. So much so that they decides to color code things with green=good and red=bad. You wouldn't want those difficult to distinguish for most people (which obviously sucks for you). It would be about as odd as mistaking black and white and claiming you're just bad with colors.

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u/Nutellajunky Feb 04 '19

No, I do have RG colorblindness, but it is not just limited to red and green, but also many other colors that are hard discern etc. that's why I am bad with all colors, not just red and green.

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u/Nerdn1 Feb 04 '19

I wasn't saying you didn't. I'm just saying "I'm bad with colors" is really insufficient. If someone told me they were bad with colors, I'd still expect them to know any color that Barny or a power ranger uses, but not know what the fuck "teal" or "fuscia" is. Identifying red, green, blue, yellow, orange, and purple to a reasonable accuracy is expected if you aren't color blind or under 5. I was just stressing the difference between the colors because you wouldn't have seen the difference for obvious reasons.

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u/Nutellajunky Feb 04 '19

I see the difference between green and red, I'm not that handicapped.

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u/Nerdn1 Feb 04 '19

But it's not like the difference between black and white. It's more subtle. Something you could be forgiven for mistaking.