I know in reality it is way too early for me to tell if 20 month old DS could be colour blind, but I'm curious to know when other people, possibly with the benefit of hindsight, first spotted signs that their DC was colour blind. I do have a brother who is colour blind so there is some reason to wonder if DS is the same.
He is doing well with his language: he accurately uses some adjectives "big" and "baby" (i.e. small), "hot" and "cold". He can accurately identify "pink" and "purple" as colours, but describes all red, blue and green things as "green".
He will spontaneously try to identify colours but still names everything as "green". For example, the curtains in his room have green, red, yellow and white hedgehogs on them. He will point to both the red and green ones and say "green". Today, he saw a new toy which had blue and green blocks on it. He was pointing to both as "green".
I would be quite happy to be told this is all perfectly normal, but can't help wondering if he is genuinely struggling to differentiate the colours.
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When did you first spot signs of colour blindness?
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Thistledew · 09/04/2018 21:32
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