What is it like to be colourblind?

Answer 1

I am colour blind and yet I can see colours, at least I think I can. Confused?, you should try it from my side. My problem is, I could ask you 'what is it like not to be colour blind'. Very few people are actually 100% without any colour vision, most have trouble in just one section of the colour chart. My own is red/green, now in my opinion I can see the difference in the stop/go of traffic lights or any other way.When I was a little boy in the UK at the end of WW2 a Labour government came to power and with it, social medicine. Free health for all. Various health people came to our schools and subjected us all to who knows what tests,prodded and poked like stock in a saleyard. With our Mothers in tow we went from one to another. I arrived at the room for eyes, I had A1+ vision,great. Then they produced a book with many pages of coloured spots and asked me to read out the numbers in the middle of each page.'What numbers' I said, confused and a little scared. My Mother looked at me in wide eyed wonder and began to prompt.'No prompting Mrs. Jones' said the man in the white coat. My Mum could have prompted 'till she went blue . I could see no numbers. So they put me down as 'colour blind'. In the last sixty years I have had that test a number of times, I never see any numbers and they always put me down as colour blind, and I never believe them. I still go around 'seeing' colours, or do I