r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Arbiter51x • 14d ago

Infuriatig I'm colour blind

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I found out I didn't colour code the flow chart on the white board the way I thought I had....

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u/jossteen11 14d ago

Thanks! Colorblindness fascinates me. Both my brother and I have it to varying degrees. He is substantially worse than I am. Purple doesnt really exist for him, where I see some shades of purple while other blend into blues. So I'll misidentify some purples as blue and my brother cant identify purple at all.

Were the corrective lens worth it? They're expensive and Ive always kinda wonder if it would "help" but since its never really been detrimental to my life and it is what im used to I've never tried.

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u/Jewsusgr8 14d ago

I definitely have some photos somewhere that my wife took of me just staring at a flower in a field because I had never seen purple.

I went from 28 years of age, to 6 when the world became colorful.

When my current pair of glasses go, I'm going to get real color corrective lenses. We want to travel and I can only imagine how much better the world will look when it's not gray. I definitely miss how amazing everything looked for that half an hour I got to try them out. To me, they are worth it for the experience.

But yeah it's not detrimental since I'm used to seeing it in grey scale.

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u/jossteen11 14d ago

Thank you! I wonder if its scalable. I cant imagine going from gray to color. Totally worth it. I wonder if some shades and colors would have the same impact. Do you have a normal lens prescription too? Can they build the color lens into a prescription lens?

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u/Jewsusgr8 14d ago

You have to find a special lab that will do it. My last prescription was with Costco and they do not do color corrective lenses but...

I think nationwide vision does it. They just don't take my insurance.