Can you be a little bit colourblind?

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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'

I mix up green and blue sometimes. Traffic lights look pale blue but grass is definitely green.

You can be "shade blind" I think to different shades of colours eg pink/red/orange or blue/green/purple

Women can be colour blind, it's just that red/green is more common in men.
Lots of cour blindness in my family.
It doesn't seem to be absence of colour, more difference in seeing shades, or sometimes seeing two colours as the same e. g. my sister seed dark blue and maroon or white and turquiose as the same colour.
Traffic lights Dad and sister can see which one is on, but not which colour, so look for top middle, bottom, not red, Amber, green.

@PestyMachtubernahme I see that as a charcoal grey. But I’m interested to know what it actually is!

I know that screens aren't great for testing colour perception because the screens can vary so much.

Colourblindness runs in my family so I am used to being aware of it.

Recently though I have found my boyfriend and I disagree a lot about shades which are bordering between two colours. He swears he has a grey t-shirt and a faded green shirt. I see them as a faded brown t-shirt and a grey shirt.

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Ooh, do me too, @PestyMachtubernahme I see it as navy-gray.

I have the green/blue problem with 3-year-old DD. A lot of what I think is green, she thinks is blue. I don't know if she's colour blind like her Dad, or if I've just done a bad job of educating her about Colours.

@PestyMachtubernahme thanks! I’ve discovered that I really should take the Night Shift function off my phone before trying to look at colours. I seem to have had it enabled full time

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Argh, sorry i missed these replies. I've not been back on. I'll have a look through the links in the morning as I've got my screen on night mode. I'm awake with a sore throat and waiting for some painkillers to kick in.
Seems I'm not alone and everything I've read here makes sense.
Thank you all.

It's called colour deficiency op. Females it's far less common to have as you have to pick up the genetic from both parents. I'm one of those people!! I see colour but not quite the same as everyone else, like what you describe and if 2 colours on my deficient spectrum are close together I have difficulty distinguishing between them :)

Yes, sadly you can.
As I discovered when I bought some apparently khaki cushions for a grey sofa

I’m not convinced the Enchroma test works as I have done it a few times in the past with different results.

I do struggle with shades of blue and grey but only realised when it’s been pointed out by others. Nothing major.

Pesty I would call that dark blue. But I see it as a grey ish shade of navy, and I can also see why people would call it purple, as it does have that spectrum in it.

To me, that is one of the problems. Green can be so many different colours, yellowy greens, bluey greens, bright apple green, fluorescent green (or is that yellow?) and soft grey greens, and it would help if we used more words to describe it.

So the pp who said her hall is lilac and others said grey, yes of course, a colour can be on that border, and switch according to light and shade, daylight and electric light, even summer and winter

A few years ago, I put a pair of trousers into the menders, and promptly lost my ticket for retrieving them so I had to describe them - dark green cropped trousers, size x, label y... The woman in the shop kept telling me she had no trousers matching that description but she did have a pair of brown trousers which came very close. After an eternity of each of us arguing that the trousers in question couldn't be the right ones because I was looking for green and she had brown, she brought the "brown" trousers out. They were my green ones. This prompted the woman to yell across to a colleague that her job was difficult enough without stupid customers who can't even describe their own clothes properly.

I had assumed the issue was hers but reading this thread has made me realise that I've often had the lilac/grey mix-up and wonder if I've had a problem all along. If so, apologies to the woman in the mending shop (although she was rude - and yes, I know the problem stemmed from me losing my ticket in the first place...)

My son is partially colourblind. Not strong enough that most people would notice but it was picked up at an eye test when he was five so we've been aware of it for a while. The first time it properly presented was last week (he's eight now) when he asked me about a green light on my car dashboard that's actually orange. Apparently he inherited it (along with his eye colour and hair colour) from my dad! He thinks it's very cool and was desperate to tell everyone in his class, especially as the optician who spotted it has a boy in his class.