Is anyone here colorblind? I suspect my two year old daughter is as she seems to confuse red and green. It is hard to say because when she thinks I'm testing her she will sometimes say the opposite of what she thinks I want to here just because. And she is fairly young and still learning her colors. But if I show her something green and then ask her to point to something else green she will often point to something that is red. So, if you are colorblind, how early did you find out? Is it particularly difficult? What makes it easier to live with? Have you tried the colored contacts (I heard that helps a little)?
Still too early to tell. My parents though my little brother was color blind, and turned out that he wasn't. My two year old seems color blind, but I doubt he is.
Thanks, maybe she isn't. Over the last couple months it keeps coming up but she could just be confused about the colors. It is frustrating to test someone that young because she won't say whether she sees a circle amoung the dots, for instance. Sometimes she just shrugs and continues doing whatever she was doing.
We should all aspire to be colorblind Mrs. Valdez. Congrats to you for getting your kid to that point so early in life. Spoiler In all seriousness, I don't know how old you are supposed to be able to confirm one way or the other at. My mom thought my brother was colorblind when he was that age and he isn't.
Judging from what he was wearing when I met him, I'm going to say yes! OH SNAPZ! But seriously, I know two people who are colorblind. There is a simple test where they show the person in question a picture and if they can't see it, they are colorblind.
Nope. No one on either side of the family is colorblind, as far as I know. But there are a couple of types of colorblindness and some of the more rare forms are not X linked. I know that the more common form would require JV to be colorblind and one should expect that at least one of my four brothers would also be colorblind.
I have found this information on several sites. "All girls whose fathers are colorblind will at least carry the gene for colorblindness. In order for a girl to actually be red-green colorblind, she must have a mother who is a carrier AND a father who is colorblind. This happens in only about 0.64 percent of American girls." Hopefully she's not colorblind. I also read that colorblindness is something they evaluate at their 4 yr check up, as humans continue to develop their eye sight and vision of colors as they get a little bit older.
My girl just turned three, and she seems unable to care about colors. sometimes she gets them, sometimes she doesn't, and sometimes she seems to just start naming colors off the top of her head when you ask her what color something is... as if it's a game with no rules. She enjoys the game more than I do.
It is also possible to be completely colorblind or to be blue/green colorblind or to have varying degrees of red-green colorblindness. I think the blue/green one is actually dominant but extremely rare. But hopefully she just suffers from a stubborn insistance on not answering what she might view as an obvious question.
Thanks for the reminder that every kid is different With our older daughter, Lydia, she really likes to be able to answer questions correctly. Very early on she liked to show off how much she knew. But Gaby sometimes will give me a number when I ask for a color. Maybe she just doesn't care.
We were worried about the same hting with our daughter (just now 2). She would always switch red and green. But now she has them right so there must just be somehting about those two that is harder for kids to pick out. I knew she wasn't (I have color theory background and the like) because she understood yellow and purple and red and green don't look alike to a colorblind person...but it happened so often it felt as if there was something going on. So, yeah, if she only has problems with red and green but not purple vs blue or yellow vs green, no biggie.
My graphics professor told me once he had a student of 25 yrs. old find out that he was color blind in his class. He kept failing the same assignment because of using the wrong colors.
