Colour blindness

LegacyUser

Anyone else suffer from this ? I was recently diagnosed with red/green colour blindness , now i cant go for a certain number of careers that i was interested in ...gardai etc

strange thing is im fairly talented in art , doing sketching and painting etc ...just pisses me off and wanted to say that.

Kell

Dont suffer from it myself but a friend from way back did. If it's any consolation, he's a professional photographer and quite a good one at that. I wouldn't let it bother you too much.

MDR

I wonder if they test for it in the Garda Medical ?

Gaz

As far as i know they do , as they do for firefighters and electricians. Thats all i know for definite

Mossy Monk

i was diagnosed with it last year. it was a real pain in the arse because it limited my options

daveirl

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zenith

It's about 4 per cent of men, and half a per cent of women.

http://www.eyecareindia.com/subcontents.asp?subcontentid=41&sectionid=6 has a test.

Mercury_Tilt

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colorado

i was diagnosed with deuteranomaly (red/green) colourblindness when i was very young
it didnt affect me too bad as a child but there are some things i cant do now as an adult, for example i can never drive

p

Originally posted by colorado
i was diagnosed with deuteranomaly (red/green) colourblindness when i was very young
it didnt affect me too bad as a child but there are some things i cant do now as an adult, for example i can never drive

You can't drive.
I've never heard that colour-blind peopel can't drive.
That's the stupidest thing ever.

You can still tell that the traffic lights are on & off. And any other signs are design so colour blind ppl can see stuff fine

Or is there some reasoning i'm missing?

- Kevin

DapperGent

Originally posted by MDR
I wonder if they test for it in the Garda Medical ?

They do yeah.

A fella I know went for it and the medical was very through and stringent. He actually had to have that eye laser surgery thing done cos his eyesight was a teensy bit less than what they needed.

daveirl

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damnyanks

I can only make out like two of those numbers. Should I be concerned ?

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by unreg


strange thing is im fairly talented in art , doing sketching and painting etc ...just pisses me off and wanted to say that.

Mate of mine has it. Got his degree in art college and has great job in game design. Worked his whole life in graphics and design. As for discounting other careers while maybe it would be then again you might fail the exams for other reasons like thousands of other people. It used to be that you had to have perfect eyesight for many jobs including as a pilot. But now you can wear glasses (within reason) flying too. Its stupid rule. It will be gone in years to come.

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by zenith
http://www.eyecareindia.com/subcontents.asp?subcontentid=41&sectionid=6 has a test.

i got the top left and half the bottom left one. i thought it was 50. no surprise really

Winters

My brother is colour blind in red and blue or something like that, never stopped him doing anything. Though he was told that women cannot be colour blind or something like that.

p

Originally posted by damnyanks
I can only make out like two of those numbers. Should I be concerned ?

Well, it means you're probably colour blind.
So. eh, maybe, if you're planning on being a garda.

- Kevin

Victor

Originally posted by unreg
Anyone else suffer from this ? I was recently diagnosed with red/green colour blindness , now i cant go for a certain number of careers that i was interested in ...gardai etc

strange thing is im fairly talented in art , doing sketching and painting etc ...just pisses me off and wanted to say that.

This has some minor advantages, as colour blind people are more adept at picking out similar colours from each other. Armies use colour blind soldiers as spotters as they are less likely to be fooled by camouflage. AMy also be of use as a designer / paint company, etc.

KdjaCL

Im color blind too.
Had an apprenticeship with Fas to be an electrician on my 1st day in tallaght i got the eye test and was promptly sent home ,broke my little heart


The Japanese dont use coloured wires as such as most of em are color blind they use Nos on the wires.

1 is live etc:

Now why the fook cant the EU do something other than straight bananas and implement that over here.
And also make a time machine send me back in time 11 years and make me redo that eye test
kdjaC

Makaveli

If you are colour blind with regards to specific colours what colour do you see when you look at them? Grey?
Or can you see them, it's just when they are put together that you cant see? Like on that test what do you see just a load of dots?

Evil Jose

Im red/green colour blind n it doesnt make any difference to my life. Granted, there are some careers that you cant get into but they are few and far between. Most people dont understand how colour blindness comes across/ I can see the colour red and I can see the colour green. The only problem is that I just cant see them together. They blur n go a konda greyish browney colour. And Im dead special, cos only .4% of women in the world suffer this kind of blindness!!

Makes me feel special n stuff....

thedrowner

Originally posted by Winters
My brother is colour blind in red and blue or something like that, never stopped him doing anything. Though he was told that women cannot be colour blind or something like that.

in genetic, girls have an XX on one of their chromosomes and guys have an XY on one of theirs, thats what determines if youre male or female. If one of the x's gets affected, females have the other x as a backup, whereas guys dont, coz their other one is a y. so its far more likely for a guy to have this kind of genetic defect than a girl-red green colourbindness is a sex linked trait. (its the same as haemophilia, except when a girl gets it the foetus usually abosrts itself)

amen

you can driver if you have colour blindness
also go visit your local opticians. depending on your colour blindess you can get glassed that correct the problem

Caesar_Bojangle

i blame it on genetic science