Yep that’s right! And he can barely see at night, especially while driving! I wonder if that has anything to do with his color blindness? Now he’s not 100% color blind BUT he does have a lot of trouble with blues, greens, purples, …and red …and yellow – yep just about all of them! 🙂
I first noticed it when we were dating; Just little things here and there. As we’ve gotten older, it seems like it has gotten worse. The vision while driving at night especially! Yet he still insists he doesn’t need prescription eyeglasses. He’s almost as bad as my dad standing firm on not needing a hearing aid!
My husband needs to go to have an eye exam and see if he could benefit from having a pair of glasses, even if they’re just for night driving or reading or whatever. I was fortunate enough to be blessed with good eye sight! *Knock on wood*
I think the main issue he has is the term “glasses”. It just sounds nerdy! Luckily now they offer options with very stylish eyeglasses frames! Who knows, he might look really hot with a new smart, librarian look!
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*Color Blind Test Answers: 7, 6, 26, 73, 74, 45
My husband couldn’t see any of them except for the “26” BUT he thought it said “86”.
Disclaimer: This is a paid post for which I was compensated by GlassesUSA.com. However, my husband really is color blind and these views and opinions are my own!
Visiting from the blog hop. Interesting about being color blind – ever since I learned Mr. Rogers is (my first color blind awareness) I was so sad for him!
Oh wow I didn’t know Mr. Rogers was color blind! My sister’s old boss was completely color blind! His wife had to coordinate all his clothes for him!
Gasp, I didn’t know Mr Rogers was color blind! I am ‘color confused’according to my eye doctor (have trouble with blue & green colors) but hate driving anyway so I’m not too bothered otherwise.
Yeah maybe that’s what my husband is, “color confused”
I’m not color blind (I could read all the numbers) but my husband seems to think I mix up blues and grays sometimes. I do have a hard time with night driving and wear glasses just for that.
Do you really?! I was wondering if they made glasses just for driving! 🙂
I’ve been lucky enough to not have color-blindness. It’s really sad to think that some people have difficulty really ‘seeing’ the beautiful blues, greens and purples, or other colors for that matter. I am curious as to how it affects night driving though.
Personally, I suffer from astigmatism, which for years caused me to yell and cuss at people for having their brights on at night (because that’s what it looked like to me) when they actually didn’t. That does make driving at night difficult because the lights just appear brighter and then they kind of look like starbursts which is rather distracting.
My husband has mentioned that he thinks he has an astigmatism! That’s probably his night driving issue! I didn’t know it made the lights appear brighter!
I understand there are different kinds of color blindness ~ not everyone is color blind to the same colors. And, only men are color blind.
I have a friend who is color blind and he also has trouble driving at night!
My name is Anh Ly and I'm a student at Manor New Tech High School near Austin, TX. I am studying about color blindness. I would like to know more about your life with color blindness. I would also like to know about your history with color blindness and the challenges you face. If it doesn't cause much trouble, it would be very helpful for me to know about your family tree to learn more about inheritance patterns. Thank you for your time.
Please send your reply to anh.ly@manornewtech.org
Sincerely,
Anh Ly
Just pulled up this site to show a patient what a color wheel test for color blindness looks like and saw your comments. There are several types of color blindness, Red-green is the most common. Men are not solely color blind- there are women who are too. It is an X linked recessive trait, so a woman would have to have an X from mom and an X from dad with color blindness. Whereas a male only gets one X, so it’s probably in the 90% male range, but there are women with colorblindness. just thought I’d clear that up…
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