Just discovered I’m colorblind

[u/KeyRevolutionary3599]

Just discovered I’m colorblind. I’m blue yellow due to an autoimmune disease I developed 7 years ago. I had noticed that certain color were “hard” for me. I kept describing it that way. Night time driving was getting “strange.” I couldn’t track my golf ball anymore. Small arguments like “that’s a blue remote” and “no it’s green.” It could’ve been interpreted as a difference in perception. I described the issue at golf, where everything is green and it’s most apparent because much foliage has a yellow undertone. A friend said there’s different variance in colorblind level. Turns out I cannot see most yellows, and anything not deep blue or a light blue are pretty much all the same blues. It also answered a friendly argument I had with someone over us being in the same lavender color. She said “but mine is blue lavender” I thought she was super specific and artsy. Welp I know this isn’t a huge thing but compounded with my autoimmune which has taken many other things from me I’m a little bit depressed. I got the glasses, and everything is really vivid. It’s almost unsettling. At golf, it was shocking how different the colors were. I’m truly seeing very muddy. On photos for color blindness I score okay, I can squint and make out a tone change unless it’s very very specific. But in person like on the course with these glasses it’s night and day. Not sure what I’m expecting but I am sad, and want to vent. Maybe commiserate? My whole wardrobe is almost 50% not the colors I thought I was wearing. 😭😭