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  • @matthewstroud4294
    @matthewstroud4294 9 месяцев назад +33

    As a pretty typical red/green deficient person, I find that doing jigsaw puzzles with other people that have normal colour vision is fascinating. I often have to be more shape-focused, simply because I can't distinguish the colours so well. Some part of puzzles are easy for me, like patterned foliage, sky, etc.

    • @KSHAWK
      @KSHAWK 9 месяцев назад +2

      Yes exactly shapes and patterns are what I focus on

    • @biyahenimark1234
      @biyahenimark1234 7 месяцев назад +2

      Same, It is very easy for me also to differentiate patterns. What is not belong or incorrect

  • @ragnkja
    @ragnkja 9 лет назад +47

    This is what I've been trying to tell neurotypical people about autism spectre disorders. Thank you for sharing how important diversity is to humanity as a whole.

    • @I_WANT_MY_SLAW
      @I_WANT_MY_SLAW Год назад +1

      You autistic people are so annoying. The world doesn't revolve around you. This is not about you. Stop trying to shoehorn your autism into everything.

  • @paulwright2141
    @paulwright2141 2 года назад +29

    Found out that I was colourblind in my early 30s. Just assumed that everyone found distinguishing colours of lights difficult at sea, so I found ways to adapt, planned ahead and never had a problem navigating. Did not alter the fact that I was barred from sailing professionally though, which still hurts all these years later. Constantly asked what colour I see things as...

    • @monokumasussy9685
      @monokumasussy9685 7 месяцев назад +3

      Why would they bar you based on that? That’s senseless.

  • @mitchlinnen2228
    @mitchlinnen2228 Год назад +26

    As a colourblind person, I have always found that I can see in the dark better than most people I have known. My eyes seem to adjust quite quickly to minimal amounts of light. Conversely, I have also found that it takes longer for my eyes to adjust from moving from a darker to lighter area.
    In similarity with being able to pick up on patterns quite easily and breaks in those patterns, I have always been quick to notice movement in my field of vision.

    • @vim_programar
      @vim_programar 8 месяцев назад +1

      This is so true! I've recently noticed that my night vision is a lot better compared to my wife and parents. Sometimes they would yell at me, "Why won't you turn on the lights?"
      I also struggle a lot with bright areas. I used to play soccer as a child, and my eyes were always almost closed due to the sunlight. This felt strange because I was the only one having issues with it. Kids often told me to open my eyes "normally," but I just couldn't; it was too painful.
      The movement thing is also something I've noticed recently. My eyes would often detect movement and danger a lot faster in video games and sports.

    • @Soothsayers_Crucible
      @Soothsayers_Crucible 3 месяца назад +2

      Kinda makes you contemplate more on evolution. If you can see things moving more easily in black and white, and your eyes are more sensitive to adjusting to light, I would think that plays really well with night time vision. Would be curious how that plays out in moonlight compared to a new moon. Good thing for both, predators and prey. I think it's due to modernization science has missed out a lot on some things it could've been studying that would've benefited more people if we stopped trying to make everything equated on a flat scale of normalcy vs acceptance of varying dynamics due to the wide range of different genetics and skills developed over time.

  • @GoneBuckWild-xd9mm
    @GoneBuckWild-xd9mm Год назад +21

    I never knew I was colorblind, until I was taking the physical to join the Air Force, at age 20. They showed me a series of circles with a bunch of colors on them and asked me what number was in each circle. I thought it was a joke, because I couldn't see any numbers. They informed me I am red/green colorblind. I always scored really high in weapons training, so according to your video, they should have made me a sniper! That was over 30 years ago, though, so maybe they didn't know that part back then?

    • @BPD1586
      @BPD1586 Год назад +4

      Same for me at age 17, went to MEPS to learn I was "colorblind". Job choices went from like 25 down to about 6. Wanted to fly...ended up behind a desk.

    • @TripleXMango
      @TripleXMango Год назад +6

      Colorblind troops were often recruited to be snipers in the Vietnam war

    • @Norah-tg1ih
      @Norah-tg1ih 11 месяцев назад +1

      The same thing happened to me but it was when I was around 12 I started to find it hard to tell the difference between some colors, in elementary school we always had someone either telling us the colors or they had a label on them

    • @shuaibraza6162
      @shuaibraza6162 6 месяцев назад +1

      Same with my daughter at the age of 17 when she was taking admission in aeronautical engineering I was unaware about her color blindness but she said she knew it and was not sure that it is that much serious

  • @karl2160
    @karl2160 9 лет назад +60

    In video games, people with camo stand out like night and day to me.

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 9 лет назад +1

      +Karl Mitchell Do you happen to be colour-blind?

    • @karl2160
      @karl2160 9 лет назад +4

      +Nillie Yeah, red green. Deuton is technical term I think.

  • @judymcgillbatchelor1555
    @judymcgillbatchelor1555 2 года назад +9

    As a colorblind female, I now understand why I always found Florida lobster that all the guys had just passed over. Loved the looks on their faces.

  • @artur124
    @artur124 8 лет назад +42

    Now it makes sense why I can spot coyote and deer hidden behind trees so easily.

    • @yawlo2029
      @yawlo2029 6 лет назад +4

      Artur Azizkhanian me too lol

    • @abcabcq313
      @abcabcq313 5 лет назад +10

      Haha same and camo too. I always thought the military had useless uniforms

    • @eoincostello4634
      @eoincostello4634 2 года назад +4

      Same as that the British army used to stand out like Christmas trees to me especially at night the Irish lads a bit better they wore drab green hard to beat the colour bind lads and a Lefty 🤪😂😂

  • @ashleywillenborg3838
    @ashleywillenborg3838 Год назад +4

    My family enjoys foraging for morel mushrooms in the spring. I have always been the best at finding them, found the most. Last spring our 5 year old son found nearly as many as I did. It was his first year to forage with us. He found a significant amount more than his older siblings. We found out yesterday that he is color blind! Makes since now why he is so good at finding morels. It is definitely about seeing patterns.

  • @lemonadelemon1960
    @lemonadelemon1960 4 месяца назад +1

    Fascinating. Didn’t know colorblindness could be so helpful. There’s this test “are you colorblind” on RUclips. And it gives you this series of numbers with various like colored backgrounds and if you can see the number, you’re good. And I made it all the way to the end and it came to the 3 to last question and it said only 10% of people could get it. Now, I’m thinking they can get it because they were just smarter than the rest. So I’m sitting there. Trying to figure the numbers out. My eyes are killing me! And in the end of 20 minutes I give up. And I press play. And the narrator says “did you get it? Probably not. The 10 percent of people to get this are colorblind” 🤣😭

  • @lorekeeperxvii2408
    @lorekeeperxvii2408 5 лет назад +16

    so i was actually right when i predicted that my colorblindness was why i could see camo bugs better?

  • @jacksonmullen2218
    @jacksonmullen2218 2 года назад +2

    no matter how colorblind i am.. my tears still feel wet. and my heart plays a violin song

  • @kytoaltoky
    @kytoaltoky 5 лет назад +28

    Who else among my color blind cohorts thought the 2015 internet controversy over “the dress” was hilarious? To that end, increased tolerance of some lighting temperature variation seems like an advantage (at least for me, a moderate protan). I also find that I have an easier time seeing slight variations in tints and hues (as long as the base color isn’t white) that many of my color-sighted friends miss or misidentify. I also feel I have a greater appreciation for B&W and sepia tone images having learned over 40+ years to differentiate color using subtle shade variations.

    • @DeMiTriDreams
      @DeMiTriDreams 10 месяцев назад

      I have a pretty mild protan too and have had more ease with differentiating certain shades those around me. It confused me at the time that colorblindness would allow me to see some colors better than trichromats.

  • @juhajaako5456
    @juhajaako5456 2 года назад +8

    I have deuteranopia, so I have dichromat vision. All males on my father's side are color blind except my brother. My maternal grandfather was also color blind. Being color blind does not bother me much. A common misconception is that traffic lights are a problem for a color blind; not so in my case: green light looks to me like gray or pale blue color, red and yellow look like orange to me. I also have an exceptionally good night vision; when other people stumble in the forest I still can see the path.

    • @teamblacksheep-
      @teamblacksheep- 11 месяцев назад

      Same for me with traffic lights, green looks light blueish and red yellow look exactly like orange. But I can hardly see in dark. Green cat eyes

  • @artnimatebohol592
    @artnimatebohol592 5 лет назад +5

    Now you inspire me as colorblind artist

  • @stephanieblackmore1461
    @stephanieblackmore1461 Год назад +4

    I am female, and I am completely colorblind. So is my sister. We were born without any cones in our eyes at all. None. Our doctor called it. ConedisGenesis. We have the normal number of rods, but I have noticed that my vision is very much Tuned into movement. I recognize people by their gait or their posture not their faces even though my vision is 20/200 so I can see I just don’t rely on those details. My hearing and observational skills are the same as everyone else’s, but I suspect that I have assigned more brain power to those Senses. In some ways, I feel like my sister and I have a superpower that we don’t know how to use. There are things that we find easy like recognizing actors voices in commercials or on voice. Other people don’t notice, but we do. I think colour often distracts people, especially when it comes to films and art.

  • @fatihtopcu5900
    @fatihtopcu5900 5 месяцев назад +1

    i don't understand, i am also deutan (red/green) colorblind but this doesn't makes sense because i can't notice if it is red or green, purple or pink, yellow or orange, grey or pink or blue, purple or blue etc. when they are really close tone. how can this give me advantage even when i can't notice the difference.

  • @davidgaudette1549
    @davidgaudette1549 8 месяцев назад +1

    I am color blind and I have always been very skilled at finding 4 leaf clovers. I always thought my colorblindness was the reason and now science has confirmed it.

  • @whostolehonno
    @whostolehonno 9 лет назад +8

    Those monkeys with rifles killed me.
    Interesting video!

  • @TheDarkever
    @TheDarkever 5 лет назад +6

    So my half-colorblindness is not only funny as hell to joke with friends, but it even has an evolutionary purpose! :D

  • @ajm5261
    @ajm5261 Год назад +1

    That’s is now answered my question. I always wonder ehy I’m always getting first to noticed the camouflage whenever we have a activity for finding camouflages things.

  • @LauraGYoung
    @LauraGYoung 6 лет назад +15

    Encouraging research. :) However this presentation makes it sound like only men are affected by colorblindness, when the truth is .5% of women have it, as well. It IS more rare, due to a woman needing both parents to have the genes, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

  • @as_him113
    @as_him113 3 месяца назад

    Just yesterday i was failed at army selection caz of colorblindness!!
    The thing was i saw that number color chart first time in my life and they say say the number and i said where is the number and they give me examples but still i can't see a single number at that chart and i ended up failed so what should i do so?

  • @agentorange543
    @agentorange543 6 месяцев назад +2

    My color blindness starts when i was i think 23 yrs old i guess.
    Before that i can see almost all the colors.
    I can differentiate red to green.
    My problem starts when one day.
    Suddenly color red and green starts to look weird to me.
    Alongside with that my sense of small suddenly became sensitive.

  • @Baghi108
    @Baghi108 3 года назад +1

    cheers to you Im a colorblind after watching this video Im on cloud 9, thanks for it youre doing a great job!

  • @TucsonHat
    @TucsonHat 4 года назад +2

    The DoD has done a few major studies on colorblindness, it's also advantageous to night and jungle operations

  • @Soothsayers_Crucible
    @Soothsayers_Crucible 3 месяца назад

    I always thought it was really cool. I knew someone who was color blind. They said they could only see blue. I wanted to ask a million questions. Mostly because I'm an artist so color theory fascinates me. I also wonder if I can see a slightly wider variety of colors than most. If so, how does that contrast from him? What monochromatic range of blue can he see compared to my potentially limited or wider range? How is it psychologically if color therapy is real? What adjustments could be made in real life that either could benefit by learning about the others limited spectrum of sight? Just lots of nerd questions that don't usually lead anywhere other than satisfying curiosity lol I never wanted to be rude or intrusive so I didn't. Only mentioned it to let them know I'm intrigued, but I won't overstep any boundaries if what I ask is TMI. Never wanted to broach it unless they did, which wasn't as often as I would've liked, but I took what I could get and appreciated the new perspective.
    He brought up possibly trying those glasses out to me once. He mentioned he could see better in the dark than most people who could see color. I thought his talent was amazing, and didn't see why using the glasses were a problem. He also mentioned using them may disrupt that particular talent. I think it's a shame to expect others to change to adapt to the majority. The innate anomalies that happen in the world deserve their own safe space. You shouldn't feel like you have to adapt to others when that majority also usually doesn't try to see things from the other perspective. Pros and cons to everything. Nothing in life is perfect, but that's what makes them beautiful and worth fighting for~

  • @antwanbench1518
    @antwanbench1518 10 месяцев назад +2

    Im colorblind and fortunately I never actually knew until I was like 25, meaning it never affected me much.
    I figured it out when I had class about perception and we had the classic tests "which number do you see?" and I couldnt see the numbers. Pretty mild, but still curious to as how different the world looks for me compared to people with normal vision

  • @dictionplacement5467
    @dictionplacement5467 Год назад

    wow i never would have thought this in my entire life if I didn't come across this video!

  • @trumansartwork37
    @trumansartwork37 5 месяцев назад +1

    I can hunt mosquitoes easier when there's not much light. Thanks for the info.
    I'm an artist who paints portraits and I hardly can see colors but I'm able to see the shades or tone better than normal.

  • @C_Castillo
    @C_Castillo 2 года назад +2

    I didnt know fire was red until last may, know wonder i can spot all the bugs on plants and no one else can
    [edit] also chemistry colour indicators dont work when mixing chemicals and the indicator is pink

  • @Katesharpandvoice
    @Katesharpandvoice Год назад +1

    More effective with the hunting aspect of a hunter gatherer society. The gatherers would have full color vision. In my experience selling sunglasses, hunters go for yellow lenses so they can see in tree and brush cover.

  • @erik_1953
    @erik_1953 3 месяца назад

    Couldn't do electrical work, work for the railroads, become a pilot (except gliders), become a painter or artist. So I became an engineer, 8 hours a day standing behind a drawing board, with white paper and black ink. AND THEN CAME AUTOCAD! All layers in colors. But, I survived. And, yes, during an army exercise at night, I was the first one to spot the "enemy". And driving my moped at night, I almost killed my brother, who was driving behind me, and didn't see a tree, because he was less color-blind.

  • @immigrantworld4899
    @immigrantworld4899 3 года назад +1

    I am color blindness, strong protan since birth. I’ve never experinced full colors since birth and waited the gene therapy since monkeys trial in 2009. I couldn’t cook well, see the sunset, trafic light, match the dress, get dream jobs, and etc. I am fully disable honestly althogh it is not threatining condition. But most scientists dont understand how broken I am. They would rather find the cure of AMD and RP than CVD. In Indonesia said “sampai kapan ini berakhir ya Yesus?” Or in english “till when it will end oh JESUS?” I want to be cured like You ever did for blind people in Yerikho.

  • @CariTauGan
    @CariTauGan 2 года назад +1

    it is very good to know i can see bugs that others can't

  • @immigrantworld4899
    @immigrantworld4899 3 года назад +2

    I am so weak brothers, I cant cook well, get jobs, distinguish green or yellow traffic light, match the clothes, and etc. Protan color blindness, is very big disabillity for me.

  • @HisDearMissK
    @HisDearMissK 3 года назад +2

    Thank you so much for this. My son has a color deficiency (his preferred description) and so this issue weighs heavy on my mind as I have often wondered if it was something I passed on to him. (guilt mom)
    He and his sister are fraternal twins. (proud mom)
    Not that it's particularly relavent to his color deficiency.
    Also I would like to find out if I may be a tetrachromat. I have odd/interesting abilities with colors, my father did as well.

    • @s6748-z5j
      @s6748-z5j 2 года назад +1

      most likely your father gave you the gene (you are a carrier, but not color blind yourself), and then you passed it to your son. Thats the most common scenario (maternal grandfather to grandson). Im color blind too.

    • @originalismisacrock166
      @originalismisacrock166 Год назад

      I have heard males in my mother's family refer to themselves as "color proof." As in, color can't trick them into not seeing something.
      Just did a couple of tetrachromat tests. As I suspected, I am one. The known female carriers in our family (i.e., the ones with color blind (or color proof) sons) have the same acuity.

  • @qwertykeyboardwarrior
    @qwertykeyboardwarrior Год назад +1

    Hey we are getting really sensitive in the future can we call it shape oriented vision and color oriented vision and give it a spectrum lol. I may be color blind but atleast I don't get tricked by camouflage

  • @flycourier2836
    @flycourier2836 7 лет назад +5

    so,cb peps are spotters!

  • @hajiilyasjalyawala9130
    @hajiilyasjalyawala9130 2 года назад +1

    Can a person suffering from Achromotopisa become a doctor surgeon

  • @glenpudney
    @glenpudney 7 месяцев назад

    Interesting. I’m legally blind,can’t see facialexpressions or body language and can only see up close and very large print, but I can tell the difference between red and green just fine, so if I was to hold a tomato up close, I can tell whether it is ripe or not just as easily as a fully sighted person. So ironically I’m blind but not colourblind lol.

  • @emmareading1475
    @emmareading1475 Год назад +1

    Im a female with colour blindness :)

  • @airfriedquadsbw
    @airfriedquadsbw 11 месяцев назад

    Color correcting glasses are fake. That is like saying black and white film can record color with filters. If a person can not see a color, then it doesn't matter what filter you use, they will not see that color.

  • @renukadevi151
    @renukadevi151 5 лет назад +7

    It sounds interesting and genuine. But military and airforce excludes colourblind candidates. I think they should study your research.

    • @themazzie8029
      @themazzie8029 5 лет назад +1

      Renuka Devi not necessarily but they do make you take a test in the air force and other flight related areas of the us military

    • @BrandonE30944
      @BrandonE30944 7 месяцев назад

      Restricted to a few jobs, not excluded

  • @whiskeyadams1863
    @whiskeyadams1863 5 месяцев назад +1

    Lol and tigers look green to animals in the wild. Why is it every1 teaching this wears glasses

  • @robertogarnica2034
    @robertogarnica2034 6 лет назад

    Predict?

  • @immigrantworld4899
    @immigrantworld4899 3 года назад

    Hahahahahaha i am very depressd and stresfull for being color blind. It ruined my dream jobs 😢😭😭😭

  • @johnnysparkleface3096
    @johnnysparkleface3096 2 года назад +1

    Yes! I love a brainy woman.

  • @Norah-tg1ih
    @Norah-tg1ih 11 месяцев назад

    It is true that most women have to have both parents genee in order to be color blind, but not completely true I am a female myself and am colorblind but both of my parents are not colorblind whatsoever

    • @Riaz-exe
      @Riaz-exe 11 месяцев назад

      Unless you developed it after birth there's absolutely no way your father is not colorblind and at the minimum of your mother Is a carrier

    • @Norah-tg1ih
      @Norah-tg1ih 11 месяцев назад

      @@Riaz-exe Okay thanks, recently I found out my dad was slightly color blind but he is less color blind then I am still the same type though

  • @megaxind16
    @megaxind16 4 месяца назад

    Maybe i am a monke

  • @hajiilyasjalyawala9130
    @hajiilyasjalyawala9130 2 года назад

    Suffering from Achromotopisa

  • @gabrielwelter2659
    @gabrielwelter2659 Месяц назад

    Yeah and I’m just partially colorblind so it’s just gay.

  • @TheRedQueeenn
    @TheRedQueeenn 3 года назад

    Sharingan

  • @immigrantworld4899
    @immigrantworld4899 3 года назад +2

    No benefit for being color blind. Note it!

  • @jessicamulder2306
    @jessicamulder2306 3 года назад

    It isn’t gender related. You can be a woman and be colorblind…

    • @HebroKeevin
      @HebroKeevin 3 года назад +1

      How can you say that its not gender related. Color blindness in women occurs in a rate of only about 1 in 200 - compared to 1 in 12 men.

    • @db_2408
      @db_2408 Год назад

      @@HebroKeevin as a colorblind girl, i didn't know it was that rare!

    • @Norah-tg1ih
      @Norah-tg1ih 11 месяцев назад

      Me too! I am colorblind also and female and did not think it was so rare, it is interesting to find these things out​@@db_2408

  • @darranwilkins4648
    @darranwilkins4648 Год назад +1

    Im colour blind and ya cant hide with camouflage from me