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8% of the male population has some form of colorblindness (for women it’s around 0.5%). I have deuteranomaly colorblindness. If you search for images on the internet related to that type of colorblindness you’ll find representations of how we see color and how we see the world.

It is not a fun condition to have, and leads to lots of problems in my everyday life. This blog post accidentally accentuated that issue, since the colors are (to what I can understand) very similar looking to me as a colorblind person.

1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women go through the same sorts of experiences, and it’s worth it, if you aren’t color deficient, to try out some of the colorblindness sites and see the world as we do.

https://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/colour...

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> 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women go through the same sorts of experiences,

Almost everyone to an extent loses some colour definition in their vision as we age, even those lucky enough to have excellent colour vision to start with, some lose a lot more than others and it is gradual so mostly not noticed at first. The is one of the reasons many grandparents have the saturation oddly high on their TVs (the other main reason, of course, being they've just never changed it from the default that is picked to make the display “pop” under bright show-room lighting conditions).

There is an app for that, too: https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/

It has a little window you can move over the screen to simulate a few varieties of color blindness.

Most color blind men are mildly color blind, plenty even go through their lives without noticing.

Yours is on the much stronger side of the things.

A cousin of mine found out in his late 20's that he is red-green color blind.

Had one of those happen in high school — science teacher talking about colour blindness and shows students the colour blindness tests, one student assumes he’s being trolled and that one of the test images was a solid colour.

Thank you both for sharing your lived experience as well as concrete examples for understanding. I, like I am sure many others, live a richer life knowing what others are going through and how I can make tiny adjustments, even if it's just awareness, to account for how others different from in one way or another go through life.

>1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women go through the same sorts of experiences, and it’s worth it, if you aren’t color

Not the same, it's a gradient.

Some people lack in vision, some lack in reading and some lack in stopping themselves to reply to comments misunderstanding others.

Does anyone know of a study done on depression/color blindness.

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