Colour Blind

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My 7 year old still struggles with the colours blue and red, every other colour is fine just these two he mixes up. I dont know if this is a form of colour blindness. I do remember teaching him these colours when he was about 3 and finding it difficult, he seems to have learnt all the other non primary colours without me teaching him, so I am wondering if it is down to my teaching methods.

Hi there - I havent taught either of my children their colours but they know them, certainly by age 7 if there are no other special needs.

My son is very colourblind but never mixes up blue and red, though he does mix blue and some shades of purple or pink.

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There are different forms and degrees of colour-blindness, though I have never heard of confusing red and blue. My son is colour blind - he has no trouble with bright primary colours but cannot tell the difference between different shades, especially of more muted colours.

It is a medical condition, so you could ask for your DS to be tested to rule it in or out.

Academically he is fine in everything else and he knows all the different shades, like pink and purple, he just seems to have a block when it comes to blue and red! It could be just one of those things, I still struggle with left and right as I managed to learn it the wrong way round when I was young...

My DH is colourblind - as are his father and brother. He has trouble when the colours (mostly red and green but some blues and pinks) are next to each other - so multi coloured bar charts are something he can't read!

A lot of the times he thinks things are grey or brown or green

Luckily our DD seems to not have the condition - but as a girl she is less likely to have inherited it than if she was a boy

Hi, just take him for an eye exam and mention it to the Optometrist. There's a very simple test they can do. Its very common about 1 in 10 males have some trouble distingushing between certain colours, usually in the red/blue spectrum

I'm a colour blind female - rare because the gene is carried on an x chromosome, if you have 1 good chromosome & 1 bad, you are NOT colourblind, just a carrier. I, therefore, have 2 faulty x chromosomes. DS was guaranteed to be colourblind, DD guaranteed to be a carrier (DH is not colourblind so she has a normal x chromosome to over ride the dodgy one). Hope that makes sense!

I second getting a test at the opticians. They do it as a mater of course I think - certainly in Boots. I did some googling for colour blind tests once in an effort to find out how bad I am. Some even said I'm not! (I def am and so is DS). Beware though. There is a test I came across that freaked me out. All seemed normal enough and then, just before the end, something hideous flashed up & screamed at me! I would hate for you & your DS to stumble across that!

dizzy, i think im right in saying your dd will 100% be a carrier of colourblindness as it is carried only on the female gene and if your dh is colourblind it will be on his x chromosome therefore your dd will 100% have dhs colour blind x chromosome plus your normal x chromosome which will make her a carrier

You really do need to arrange an eye test.

Only then can you know what you're dealing with and what to do for the best.

I am colour blind, neither of my parents are - it's one of the side effects of having MS. It's truly weird, and until about 4 years ago I could see colours perfectly. Now oranges and greens are difficult if they're next to each other, although it's also not constant and sometimes everything is fine.

I'd definitely ask for it to be checked out - you may find it needs a referral to paeds eye clinic, though it's worth asking the optician first.

Good luck!