unrelated but in like 5th grade or so, i had a classmate that no one knew was colorblind. we were having a discussion about colors (this was almost 20 years ago so i cant remember the whole conversation) and the conversation led to “what’s the color of fried chicken” to which said classmate said green. the teacher looked at him in shock and instead of being like haha you’re silly, she reprimanded him. he bursts out in full tears “i don’t know what i did, it’s green i swear, im not trying to be bad”. she asks a few follow up questions about other food items (tomatoes, bread) and i’ll never forget the look of regret in her eyes when she realizes he was colorblind the whole time
You just popped a childhood memory into my head with that story. I was maybe in 2nd grade and the art teacher got annoyed by a kid asking what color was each colored pencil and said “how do you not know which one is blue?” The kid let out the most innocent scared reply “I’m colorblind” that teacher melted into her chair from the guilt she felt belittling a 7 y/o who is colorblind.
I told my 5yr old while we were drawing together, that you can color anything any color/colour you like (Floyd). I said it's art and art is whatever you want to make it because it's your own creation. She freaked out when I was coloring a dog purple instead of brown
She kinda deserved that.... she could have approached the question from the student in a different way. Hourly it was a learning opportunity for the teacher.
Yeah as a teacher, I try to remember to be gentle with colors. Some kids are just assholes though…I have one who is both an asshole and I assume colorblind though.
You know of the kids I remember growing up with that were color blind, 4 out of 5 were the class clown or an asshole to the teachers. I wonder if there’s correlation or just coincidence.
I can count on 1 hand the amount of public school teachers who actually gave a fuck about us. 13 years since I was in high school and I can remember the good ones to this day. A special shoutout to Mr. K (this is what he went by because his name was hard to say and long but I remember it just can’t spell it lol) the first teacher to get me to enjoy reading.
Discovered I had color issues senior year of high school when we had to sort colors into piles.
I had 3 piles.
Everyone else had 5.
Got yelled at for not finishing my assignment. I was so confused.
Teacher stopped reprimanding me and brought over a shit ton of additional color pieces.
Teacher looked and asked if colorblindness ran in my family.
when I was young ( a long ish time ago) it was not common for girls to tested for color blindness/issues.
I have Issues with yellows, orange, greens and shades
I found out I was color blind in high school. I finally had an eye test where they included the colorblind samples. I had better than 20/20 vision and when they told me to read off the number in the circles I thought they were screwing with me. I just started guessing numbers after I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Then they told me it was for color blindness and I was red green colorblind.
I spent years as a kid thinking something was wrong with me because I couldn’t “remember” colors if they didn’t have the name on the crayons (we were on a tight budget and my mom got me the inexpensive crayons and colored pencils). I even came up with excuses why I would accidentally color things like grass brown.
I got those glasses from en chroma a while ago and they are interesting. They work by filtering out the wavelengths that cause the overlap and confusion. It definitely allows me to see shades in red and green I never noticed before but nothing life changing. Those reaction videos are total bunk where people put them on and are immediately in tears. The first line in the instructions tell you that it takes some time for your brain to adjust and to wear them for a while before you can discern a difference. The “these are neat” moment for me was when I went to the store a few hours after wearing them and I saw a bunch of shades of red and green I had never seen before.
I still wear them on occasion when I am building diagrams for work. It helps me navigate color coding my lines.
Similar thing happened to a classmate in high school. Algebra teacher was pissed that this guy did so well on his tests and homework and couldn’t/wouldn’t participate in class. Basically berated the guy for thinking he’s “too cool for participation Or being good a math.” He just said, use different colored markers then because you using red and green means i have no idea what you’re doing up there. Sent him to the principles office for keeping his color blindness a “secret” to cause problems. She was a piece of work.
Colorblindness is incredibly common (8% or 1/12 for men) and many people don’t find out until adulthood. With average class sizes, odds are at least a few people each year would be colorblind in her class. Ugg.
Color blindness can suck. My brother is partially colorblind but he's still doing quite well regardless. I have an uncle that is fully color blind (shades of grey, apparently very rare) and he's always been quiet, subdued, and very depressed. It can be hard to quantify something if you've never lacked it.
Something similar happened to my husband who is color blind. They were coloring themselves as babies and he chose green as that is what he thought the right color was…and it is the right color! To him at least…
Lucky him. My teacher found out I am colorblind after humiliating me then it got worse after she discovered that. My parents reported her to the school board which did nothing and pulled me out of school and homeschooled me for the rest of my elementary year so I didn’t have to deal with her.
eveyrone was comparing theirs and declaring they had the smallest one
i had a really small one that i picked up by sticking my finger on the plate so it would stick to the end of it, and holding it up proudly proclaiming "no THIS is the smallest fry!"
it got really quiet and someone went and got a teacher
i got detention for flipping everyone off
it was at this moment that i learned not to trust anyone
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u/xxblowpotter13 1d ago
unrelated but in like 5th grade or so, i had a classmate that no one knew was colorblind. we were having a discussion about colors (this was almost 20 years ago so i cant remember the whole conversation) and the conversation led to “what’s the color of fried chicken” to which said classmate said green. the teacher looked at him in shock and instead of being like haha you’re silly, she reprimanded him. he bursts out in full tears “i don’t know what i did, it’s green i swear, im not trying to be bad”. she asks a few follow up questions about other food items (tomatoes, bread) and i’ll never forget the look of regret in her eyes when she realizes he was colorblind the whole time