Can you be a little bit colourblind?

[InAPrettyCabinet]

I know that sounds daft. I guess I posted in aibu because my husband said this the other day about me with complete conviction!
We've always been the opposite sides when it comes to those photos of 'the dress' or the more recent trainer photo.
I have a pair of trainers that I'm convinced are orange yet everyone else thinks they are pink.
Neighbour asked what colour I would paint her shed and I suggested beach hut type colours like blue, pink, yellow.
She's painted it a lovely shade of blue. Except everyone else, her included, refers to it as grey.
Husband said to me during the conversation 'but you know you are colourblind don't you?'
I replied that I can see colours (in the summer our garden is a riot of colour) And he commented the title.
I always thought people who were colour blind had a limited amount of the colour scale that they could see and that it was very much 'grey scale'

Anyone?

You might be better off asking google rather than asking if you're being unreasonable.

Have you tried doing a test like this op? You don't have to put your email address in at the end by the way, Just click "no thanks" .
enchroma.com/pages/test

Yes you can be. My dad is fully colour blind but my brother partly. He mixes up colours lyk red and orange. Green and blue. Can't tell the difference. My dad just can't see any colours

I always thought people who were colour blind had a limited amount of the colour scale that they could see and that it was very much 'grey scale' There's different types of colourblindness - red/green confusion is the commonest, blue/yellow is another one. The wikipedia article is quite good at showing the range of colours seen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

And even people who are not considered colourblind will disagree about what a colour is - the green/blue interface is one that generates a lot of arguments.

Wow, peoplearepeople, that test has got some tricky ones, hasn't it! I had to look quite some time at the lilac and grey, and sea green and grey patterns.

Yes you can.. found out recently that my DS has a variation of being colour-blind. He can see the single colours fine but can’t see them merging.. for example when a tomato is ripening he will either see fully green or fully red but not the mix in the middle.

Yes ds is partly colour blind so can't apparently join the RAF etc when he grows up....

I suspect I am also because I struggle with blue / grey / purple apparently

It's much less common in women though

yes. It's a spectrum.... pardon the pun... of any part of the colour spectrum

Inapretty , maybe you see more colours than some people, a super seer (how the heck to you spell see-er). You see the hues in the grey and notice the blue, the others only see grey. How did you get on with People's tests?

Yes, I know two (unrelated!) men who both are somewhat colourblind. They can see all colours but some greens look grey to them and reds look brown.

@PestyMachtubernahme I did that test and got normal colour vision but constantly disagree with people about the colour of things especially things like, to me our car is very dark green. To dh it is navy. We have a quilt which is 100% purple to me but to everyone else it is dark blue. Also our hallway is lilac- everyone else says it's grey.

What colour?

I think we all see colours slightly differently and our eyes will pic out tones that change the colour. I see blues and purple in greys to make them not become grey, when others just see grey. I think that's why Ambulance's and police cars have yellow on them because we all see yellow as yellow, if that makes sense?

There are different types as pps have said. This pic is helpful to show types (although if you are colourblind I don't know if it will be useful to you!)

Yes,14yo will never be allowed to be a pilot as she is ‘a bit colourblind’ direct quote from the optometrist 🤣thank fuck I say as she certainly doesn’t have the nerve for it!

Beware if taking that test on a phone. If you have a night mode which changes the colour you may get the wrong result, it told me I was mildly colourblind, I turned off night mode and I had normal vision!

DH seems to see a little less distinction in colours than me. He seems to struggle with pink/ purple and distinguishing more subtle tones. Clothes getting or having that washed-up grey tone doesn't seem to bother him. He was eyeing up a shirt in a shop today that was that off-grey which looks like someone's put it in too many mixed washes already

I wish schools shared information on colour blind pupils. A few times I've done map work, come across some atrociously coloured map and it turned out that the poor kid didn't have a chance at following the instructions because they couldn't see the distinction in colours. Once it was known, I could set the colours out for them.

Yes I'm a little colour-blind in my left eye. I believe it's since I damaged it in an accident. Never seemed to have problems before that.

I have always understood that only men are genuinely colour blind. Nothing funny intended. I thought It was some genetic thing

Sometimes I think it’s a description thing, as much as anything? The words we use for certain hues?

My pet hate is when people describe varieties of what I know to be green as blue though

I don’t think I’m colour-blind, OP, but like you I seem to disagree with people on what colour things are sometimes. I took the test above and it came back that I have normal vision.

The most common one for me is blue vs purple. Often things I’ll describe as purple other people will refer to as blue. It’s usually when it’s the really deep, dark colour that I disagree. Same with blue vs grey, like your example and sometimes pink vs purple when it’s more purpley or blue vs green when talking about colours that are sort of teal.

So while I don’t think I’m colour-blind I do know what you’re saying! No answer for you, though. I’ve wondered about it myself.

5foot5 If a woman’s father is colourblind and her mother also passes on colourblindness then yes, a woman can be colourblind. It’s on the sex-linked pair of chromosomes which is why it is expressed in men if they carry the gene, but not always in women. My brothers are colourblind and I have a 50% chance of carrying the gene, but I’m definitely not colourblind as my father isn’t

My family are always telling me I see colours 'wrong' so I am glad to know I am not alone.
Some blue/green colours and colours that are black/navy are different for me.

@PestyMachtubernahme I think I'd call that a very dark purple