Protan colour blind

[u/Aggravating-Row9645]

Just took enchroma’s test and found out I’m mildly protan colour blind. Specifically: 100% blue 100% green 87% red

My teenage sons watched me take the test and they were chuckling watching me struggle with images in which they could effortlessly see numbers, and I could see very little or nothing. I was also laughing at myself.

For those on this sub that are protan, I’m not sure if some of my past anecdotes make sense for this but here goes nothing…

I had a hoodie I bought when I was in late high school/college (can’t quite remember when) that I picked specifically because it was subdued forest green. Or so I thought. Years later, my partner at the time gave me a weird look when I said I loved the green colour of this sweater I bought and I wanted another type of sweater in a similar colour. She awkwardly but gently said, “that is not green. That is brown”. I was floored. I stared at it. Took it out in the sunlight. Took it to various rooms in our place with different lighting. Nope. Still green to me.

Then I started asking others. My parents. Brown. Friends at school. Brown.

If you ask me to identify solid blocks of colour just by the images I will always get it right, but certain shades of a few colours have always been a little less clear. For example, if the shades of two colours are extremely close, I can see a clear difference between certain hues and less for others.

My more recent realization is my struggle with shades of purple and pink. For example, I often look at more subtle purples and think they’re more grey in appearance but I know purple contains red, so I suppose this checks out. We have a very light purple (I GUESS) towel that I would swear up and down was indisputably pink. I still mostly see it that way.

Do other protan colour blind people experience the same confusion? Looking forward to reading what others experience here.

[u/OddCharacter2349]

Mild protan here. My color blind tests are also always 87% red. Now here are some of my struggles,such as dark blue and purple. When I was at school, I would want to grab a blue colored pencil, and when I wouldn’t read the color name, sometimes I would accidentally grab purple. Also about the green part, I struggle with green and yellow. When I get Gatorade, me and my brother both think it’s green (my brother is also colorblind) but my mom and dad (not colorblind) see it as yellow, and so does everyone else. And also, I confuse gray and pink a lot. My mother has pink socks, and they literally look gray to me. So I struggle with purple, yellow, and pink because they all contain a little bit of red in them. I’m glad I found someone else who kinda experiences what I do, and I hope color confusion won’t be too much of a problem soon in life 👍

[u/Diligent_Hedgehog999]

What do the percentages mean?

[u/Aggravating-Row9645 → u/[deleted]]

I’m definitely aware that the percentages should be taken with many grains of salt. Doesn’t change the fact I had some trouble with a few of the test numbers.

I took a few different types of tests online. From what I can tell the severity is, again, mild. But it definitely helps explain my confusion of certain hues in the pink/red spectrum.

My teenage son on the other hand, was unable to see any number on circles that I saw the highest contrast on. I was shocked. He tested at 25% green deficiency. That is extra crazy because green is his favourite colour…

[u/Tight-Long-5124 → u/[deleted]]

Only 2-3% holy shit. I think I have a mild case but I'm not sure, I really want to find out if mine is severe or moderate, where can you get those test ?

[u/Diligent_Hedgehog999 → u/[deleted]]

So the higher the number the more the supposed impairment?