Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Famous Color Blind People

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:29:37 +0000

poeple allways ask me “what color is this” “what color is that” and I’m so sick of it I just want peace and quite and I went to this website and it was awesome I saw a lot of famous colorblind people (helps later in the year)and I know that I could be famous to even though I was taken out of my wana be job an astronaut I still know I have a chance at something

By: dennis

dennis — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:12:55 +0000

Science fiction writer (and scientist) Greg Benford is colorblind (as is his twin brother Jim Benford).

By: Amos

Amos — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:59:53 +0000

Christopher Nolan, director of Inception, Dark Knight, etc., is also color blind.

By: rakesh

rakesh — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:42:41 +0000

hi.i am so sadddddd about this people, they not get good jobs even nice qualification…..i am also colour blind

By: Oren

Oren — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:03:36 +0000

I’m colorblind. It’s nice to know that i’m not alone.

By: Stina

Stina — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:15:34 +0000

In Quebec, the traffic lights are horizontal also, but each light is a different shape. Red is square, yellow is a diamond and green is round. Also, there are two red lights – so a red square on the far right and far left. It makes it a lot simpler for colorblind people I’m sure!

My friend, who is r/g colorblind, thought peanut butter was green until he was 16 years old. It was a memorable moment that we still talk about to this day.

By: Bert

Bert — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:25:06 +0000

I’m with john – though I’ve known I’m partially r/g colourblind since I was about three. Eventually you learn tricks to cope with what you can’t figure out on your own. I too can see the “normal” shades of colours just fine, but dark green/brown, pink/purple, and yellow/greens really give me troubles. Traffic lights are distinct enough that they don’t cause me problems though, and I generally don’t have issues dressing myself (in fact, I often get compliments on how I’m dressed).

To add fuel to the fire – I have never once been able to see a Magic Eye, and I have excellent night vision. I haven’t spent any time in the military or hunting, but having grown up in the country I find I can see animals and other things much more easily in the bush than some non-colourblind folks I know. So go figure.

And yes, that damn question has been one of my pet peeves for twenty years, mostly because they inevitably pick something that’s obviously red, or blue, or green. I love the responses I’ve seen here though, I think I’ll have to borrow the “plaid” one.

By: bikrchik42

bikrchik42 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:20:38 +0000

Night vision: I’m pretty sure that cats (and dogs and cows, BTW) have an extra membrane in the back of the eye called a “tapetum” that gives them a reflective retina and helps them see better in lower light. I would be surprised to hear that color-blindeness and night-vision were related….

By: john

john — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:20:08 +0000

I’m a R/G colorblind male. I only recently became interested in figuring out what kind of colorblind I am, since I got through all my elementary school color stuff fairly easily and could easily tell primary/secondary colors apart then. I’d done a few online tests with the dots and I usually get about halfway through the test before I stop seeing the numbers and just see dots. I finally got diagnosed with it for sure last year (on my 23rd birthday) when I went in for a routine eye exam and they told me that I had a partial colorblindness to R/G. I’m surprised they hadn’t done it before, but then again it was my first time going to this particular eye doctor. I had always thought I was ok, since I could always distinguish between, say, blue and green, or yellow and orange, blue and purple–but then again, only with 100% certainty when they were positioned right next to one another. It’s when it gets to shades of colors where I get pretty lost, like bluegreen is really confusing, and so is teal, aqua, burgundy, maroon.. Don’t get me started on maroon! I say red when I see it, but some people will say “No, that’s more of a purple.” Oh, and green and brown?–I’ve totally given up on trying to tell shades of those apart haha. Shades of dark green come across as brown to me. And anything that looks like it could be light brown I generally chalk it up as “tan” or “khaki” unless someone corrects me! =]
Through the years I’ve developed a system of figuring colors. I mean, as far as clothes go, if you keep up with fashion at all, you know what colors are in/out for the particular season, and 90% of the clothes you see are going to be certain common colors (for guys anyway, we wear a lot of either very cool colors like navy, green, gray, or warm/flashy colors like reds.. it’s really very easy to dress up as a guy). I mean, the only time you really deviate from the set of colors is when it’s explicitly in-style/fashionable to go with strange colors. Then you’ll find some purple, or if there’s a brown/orange fad going on, you might find a rack of that. I end up being a shopping assistant for a lot of both girl and guy friends when I’m at the mall, and really they’ve all got their colors straight, but still ask me for my opinion in terms of how things look, because they generally regard me as someone who dresses well and matches the colors on my clothes well also.
Tips for colorblind fashionistas: just read up on the latest fashions/trends, and MEMORIZE THE COLOR CODES for your favorite clothing designers (because it really helps give you that 100% confidence in your choice) and just go out there with some confidence! If you really don’t wanna do that, just go with black, white, and shades of grey, cuz classy never goes out of style!! =]
Really no one in my life KNOWS I’m colorblind. Even my mother, who has always had a creeping suspicion, can never put her finger on it. She’ll ask me one day what color something is and I get it wrong, but the next day ask me another and I’ll get it right.. And she’s also pretty blind in general so it doesn’t give her a lot of faith in her own ability to distinguish anything ahahahaha.
I find it very strange that people who are colorblind gravitate towards interests that they cannot reasonably pursue. I have a friend very colorblind that wants to get into graphic design and advertising, and I have a cousin who loves art. I even at one point had similar interests, but decided finally that if I was to become truly great at what I do, I would need to be able to do my job with conviction and authority. I don’t want to have to rely on someone confirming the color scheme on my print ad, or have a girlfriend pick out my paints for my artwork.
When people ask me what my favorite color is, I just say grey, because I really love how it goes with any and every other color (slate is my favorite shade), but has more character than say, black or white. And when you put it like that, no one can really argue with you!
And for Texas folks, the positioning of our traffic lights is so logical: Green is on the right-hand side, because green gives you the right-of-way! If you grew up and live in Texas you’d know, we like everything real simple, but I’m all for the adding of tinting to the traffic light colors. It’s just not safe for people to be on the road not knowing as they approach an intersection whether to go, slow down, or stop.

By: Kathi

Kathi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:41:01 +0000

I, too, am a color blind female, whose grandfather was also color blind. And like Melissa, I didn’t realize it until I was 15 years old and was shown a color blind test in biology class. I am the mother of three daughters. They still help me to choose my clothes wisely.

I’m glad to learn some tricks for the “What color is this?” game. I hate that!

My biggest problem is at Christmas when there are so many lights on the streets. So confusing.