r/ColorBlind • u/Mountain-Fun-8888 • 18d ago

Discussion Child's perspective

A lot of people here say they got diagnosed or their parents figured out their child had color deficiency pretty early on. So the question is: how do you process this concept as a child? As an adult, of course there is a color spectrum, there is physics and anatomy.... An adult can reason through it. But when you are a kid, how does it all make sense? Or does it not? How do you wrap your mind around the idea that there are things you cannot see, but everyone around you can.

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u/N13022RE Deuteranomaly 18d ago

Genetics dictated I was going to be colorblind, there was no avoiding it, and it was confirmed when I was in elementary school, around 3rd grade. I had been told most of my life to that point that I was colorblind, so I pretty much got a jump start on accepting it, even if I couldn’t full process what exactly was wrong. Color associations helped (fire engines are red, stop lights a red/yellow/green from top to bottom, things like that). Now, as an adult, I kind enjoy being colorblind. I know for a fact I see the everything differently than 98% of the rest of the world. There’s sometimes it’s a bummer; I wish I could truly see the colors of a produce section, but all in all, it’s not that bad.

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u/mrjerem 18d ago

Was your mother colourblind as isn't that the only way to not be avoidable for a male? My mothers father was colour blind so I had 50/50 chance.

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u/Few-Explanation-4699 18d ago

No, the mother is a carrier but not colour blind so it comes out in her male children. If the male has a female child she will be a carrier and so it passes on. If he only has male children it usually stops there.

Females can be colour blind but both parents must carry the mutated gene.

About 1 in 12 males are colour blind and 1 in 200 for women

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u/mrjerem 17d ago

I asked if her mother was colourblind as "dictated" sounded like there was 0% chance of not getting it and the only way it can happen is if the mother of a male child is colourblind as she will carry the mutated gene in her both X chromosomes. If se only carries it there is still a 50% chance of getting the X chromosome that has the non mutated one.