The Colorblind "Quiz"

[@jeffvoight6586]

I keep a pair of those old-school red/cyan paper glasses in my laptop bag. As soon as I get the colorblind quiz, I pull out those glasses, tell the person to put them on and close one eye. Doesn't matter which eye. Then, I pull up a color picker wheel and tell them to click on the color of my shirt/their shirt/that wall/that thing over there. Then, take off the glasses and see how they did. It usually solves the colorblind quiz.

[@JanPBtest]

0:48 I've been thinking a bit about that and it's probably because everyone knows right away what being short or being blind means. OTOH colour blindness is this complete unknown for some reason. Everyone and his great-great-grand-uncle knows what near-sighted means and even the more exotic conditions like astigmatism are very common knowledge. But CVD is virtually 100% nonexistent in the popular culture so it immediately flummoxes everyone [I like that word] and excites curiosity for the exotic.

[@Chromaphobe]

I broached this subject with a blind girl just yesterday. I believe that it is easy for anybody to self-simulate being short or blind (most people have tried walking around their house with their eyes closed), but its not possible to self-simulate or even imagine what the perception of a colorblind person is, so they pretty much have to ask. Plus I imagine their first reaction is that it can't possibly be disabling in any way, so it's fair game. It's funny that it's so common yet still considered exotic, just because it is so invisible. You can spend years with a CVD person and never realize it.

[@guiorgy]

@@Chromaphobe I realized a friend had a CVD only because he had trouble differentiating our board game pieces by color (dark green and brown if I remember correctly), something like 5-6 years after we met, so yeah, if not for that board game, I'd never even notice! PS. On a side note, I notice that generally most of the comments on your videos seem to be by people similarly with CVD, so kinda curious what the proportions are for your viewers. I thought "normies" would be more interested with the information on your channel, but maybe I am the odd one here?

[@mgsquared5204]

Wait you’re color blind? What color’s my shirt?

[@moneyswagluigi8413]

some of my classmates think im lying cuz i told them i see green and red normally. iv got tritanomaly

[@melasintesi2126]

Man that sucks, usually I find showing them a simulator of what you see can usually get rid of most non-believers, or show them one of these videos. I hope they’ll come around, it sucks that CVD is such a non-talked about disease, there should be more awareness surrounding it.

[@moneyswagluigi8413]

@@melasintesi2126 i showed them the simulation and they said “no thats teal”

[@nickbrasing8786]

Thank you so much for this! I've often used the same "dance monkey dance" comment when asked to take the test. Though I didn't even come out until my 40's so no one really knew. Much like you I assume, it wasn't a really big part of my life. We learn the cheats as you said (bring me the blue socks. Well one is black and one is blue so I bring them both since they look the same to me, and hold them out and simply say I forgot if they wanted the blue or the black for example). And this is almost never an issue in our lives. I have to tell you a funny story though. My girlfriend is an artist so it's a big part of our lives. She always asks what I think of a new painting and I'm always honest with her. She knows I'm red/green color blind, and is sometimes surprised I don't like a painting at all. Especially one. I found a simulator online and she was able to look at it as I see it and literally said, "Oh my God, no wonder you hate this painting!". Lol. But the one I remember the most was just recently. I'll draw her a bath multiple times a week, and she likes the little scented and colored bath balms so I always throw one in. When it was ready I looked at the water and it was the color of urine. I literally thought to myself how stupid the company was to make a balm that colored the water to look like pee. I mean how stupid could they be right? I told her I was sorry the bath looked like pee and when she was done she came back downstairs. Where she promptly informed me that the water was green, not yellow. I'm in my late 50's now and I never even knew that green could look like yellow to me. I spent an hour asking her if she was being serious before I would believe her. But now I know. Which is weird and nice at the same time. I'm sure you can relate. Anyway, I thought it would be nice to hear from someone that completely agrees with you. It's really very very very rare that you find yourself in a situation that you have to admit you don't know the color of something in your life. You get pretty good at the cheats. It was after university at work that I had to do it the first time. It's just not a big deal. And you're right to say, we don't make it one. We're not freaks. Hell, we're not even that unique if you look at the stats. So thanks for the video. I enjoyed it a lot. And related to it even more!!

[@Chromaphobe]

Thanks for the story. Green and yellow is a bad one for me. I didn't even know that was a confusion pair for me for the longest time since forest green is much more common then 'fluorescent' green and 'fluorescent' yellow is much more common the 'forest' yellow (mustard?). Anyway, you can empathize with me hating using names for colors ;)

[@nickbrasing8786]

@@Chromaphobe I never knew I even had a problem with yellow until that incident. But I totally agree with you on the nuances of colors I hear. Frankly I just ignore them. Green is green, red is red, blue is blue, etc. Some of the rest I can see, but most? Not so much. It's like turquoise or purple. Purple I think I know some, but turquoise? Not sure I've ever seen. Not sure about you. And crayons were always a total cluster.... But not until I had my artist girlfriend that I really started thinking about it. That's when I did my first (and only) test, and found people like you. Do you have the glasses? I've thought about it, but never pulled the trigger. To scared they won't work I guess. I'd rather have the idea that I could see correctly than the knowledge that I never will be able to. But that's just me.

[@Chromaphobe]

@@nickbrasing8786 Nope, no glasses. I am a dichromat, so the fundamentally cannot work for me. I talk about that in my recent EnChroma video. I would if I had protanomaly... if only for people to trust me when I explain how they work...

[@klikkolee]

the comparisons to dwarfism and blindness honestly strike me as being in bad faith. A question like "what color is this" immediately strikes me as trying to learn what your disability is through practical or relatable lenses -- which lets people develop intuitions of how to interact that they wouldn't get from an abstract description, even if that abstract description is a thorough description of your specific colorblindness. Asking a dwarf if they can reach a high shelf is a question with an obvious answer. Asking a dwarf if they can reach a moderately-low drawer is an informative question -- it helps you develop an intuition for how their specific situation affects what is a sensible way to interact. If you need something from that drawer, does it make sense to ask them to grab it? It's not clear if they can comfortable reach it. Similarly, if someone just says they're "blind", that probably means totally or near-totally blind, so "can they tell how many fingers I'm holding up" has an obvious answer, but questions about how they navigate the world are informative, and if they had said "legally blind", even that "how many fingers" question can be sensible because people who are legally blind but not totally blind can determine some things visually, and it often differs from what most people would assume if they asked no questions and looked up their specific condition. perspective: I have a non-obvious disability that significantly affects how people should interact with me, and when I mention it, I very rarely get any kind of questions. It feels like people are conditioned to not ask questions and let me monologue. Coincidentally, my disability impedes my ability to effectively describe things off the top of my head -- it's a cognitive disability. Because people rarely ask pointed and practical questions about my disability, they often end up not changing the way they interact with me at all -- which leads to a ton of uncomfortable situations where I feel like people aren't being considerate. Answering the same questions often can be irritating, but personally, having to interrupt things myself and say "we can't do things this way because of this aspect of my disability" feels worse in every way.

[@VariantAEC]

What cognitive disability do you have?