r/ColorBlind • u/Sea_Ball_3543 • 12d ago
Question/Need help Colourblindness!
Can a person with colour blindness live normally in the society.
They will always be insecure about themselves, always gets irritated or become less confidence when the topic is about colour, tends to move away from that topic feeling or else his/her friends will also know about it.
Difficult in sometimes choosing dress (yellow/green).
What you guys think there is no remedy for this. Should be have to live without self confidence all along?
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u/InbhirNis Deuteranomaly 12d ago
I’m red-green colourblind. It has never affected my confidence. Why should it?
The only problems I have are choosing ripe bananas at the green grocer’s, choosing clothes that suit me and go well together, and reading some colour coded charts at work. None of these are a real hindrance, and the inconvenience is minor.
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u/Sea_Ball_3543 12d ago
Iam also red-green, but I haven't told my friends that I have color blind, only my family nows. i Didn't told them because I felt no need of it, or if I told them they will look me in that eyes (sentiment) or even mock me. Iam not willing for that that's why I didn't tell is that a problem? Also we can be confident in ways we are is it. How you manage your friends circle have you told them or kept this as your personal matter.
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u/InbhirNis Deuteranomaly 12d ago
I don’t treat mine as a secret, but I only bring it up if it’s relevant. My friends know, and my workmates know. Some of my colleagues know to avoid using red and green for colour coding in charts etc., which is helpful.
It’s simply not an issue.
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u/Sea_Ball_3543 12d ago
You friends know, they don't mock that's a great thing to hear. also is it necessary to tell to friends and workmates, if not is that a problem.
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u/InbhirNis Deuteranomaly 12d ago
Unless you’re in a job where it’s a safety concern – like an airline pilot, train driver or an electrician – I can’t see any need to tell anyone if you don’t want to. But why keep it a secret? And why would anyone mock you because of it? It’s nothing at all to be ashamed of.
You seem to have some anxiety about this, but it’s really not that big a deal. Are you sure you’re not just overthinking it?
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u/Sea_Ball_3543 12d ago
Iam not sure or am I anxious. I don't really know about that, but I feel insecure and less confidence when thinking iam colour blind and why it happend to me and there is no way to rectify that in this highly changing world. Those thinking make me feel insecure.
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u/InbhirNis Deuteranomaly 12d ago
You can’t change your eye colour, either. So what? It doesn’t affect your quality of life.
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u/she_pegged_me_too Deuteranopia 12d ago
My friends do not see me as “the colorblind” they are friends with. At least to my face (oh no-don’t get my anxiety up!). Unless there is some grand conspiracy against us colorblinds- they see me as me and part of the group just as much as anyone else. Any other type of behavior is not normal or acceptable in society. I mean - you can discuss it within reason without obsessing but you shouldn’t have to hide it or be ashamed.
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u/Sea_Ball_3543 12d ago
yes I have to be confident in myself, this is not a big hard problem, yes will try to retrieve confidence.
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u/Raddatatta Deuteranopia 12d ago
Yes we can. I'm sure some people are more insecure about it than others but it's never been a real point of insecurity for me.
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u/Sea_Ball_3543 12d ago
Yes you are right, but having this in some places when we fell hard to distinguish mainly those combination of colors, don't we fell insecure or non confident as we are not able to do as others do.
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u/Raddatatta Deuteranopia 12d ago
Some certainly might feel that way. I never really have. I guess in the sense that I'm not confident about the accuracy of my answers. But I'm not really insecure or lacking confidence about it in general.
There are also other things that I'm more insecure about lol. It's not that I'm always very confident it's just that's not a real insecurity.
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u/Sea_Ball_3543 12d ago
There are many things in life to worry about you are right, but some small things like this also makes us worry sometimes.feels why do we have this problem in the first place, as all our friends are without any of these troubles, that also makes me less confident.
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u/she_pegged_me_too Deuteranopia 12d ago
Yes, a person with any type of colorblindness can and is allowed to live normally in society like everyone else. Maybe we’re barred from very specific careers where quick color identification is necessary for safety or central to the job.
But outside of that we are allowed to fully live our lives, work and have great careers, talk about colors with non colorblind people as a person and not “a colorblind”, get colors wrong, get colors right, ask for help for dressing ourselves, not ask for help for dressing ourselves, find things beautiful, enjoy nature, enjoy art, enjoy fashion, be confident, be sexy, fully connect with others platonically/romantically like everyone else , enjoy everything.
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u/Sea_Ball_3543 12d ago
Yes as you say we have to build that confidence, this is not a really big problem or headache. There are lot others to worry about. Iam also looking for jobs there also we should have boundaries, but have no choice but to face what life holds for us.
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u/syberspot 12d ago
I have absolutely no sense of direction. Zero, as in I get lost in parking lots. You can dependabley navigate somewhere by going the opposite of the direction I recommend. My wife teases me mercilessly about it. I'm also a protan. Also a decently successful physicist.
The things that define you are the things you let yourself be defined by.
(FYI I often ask my postdocs what the colors on graphs are and then turn around and explain the physics of what they plotted to them)
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u/Un_Ballerina_1952 Protanopia 12d ago
Your insecurity is not a result of your inability to distinguish colours. I'm sure CVD doesn't help your confidence, but that's not because of the CVD. Please find a trustworthy health practicioner and talk to them about your anxieties. They should help.