@kottke Interesting. My particular version of color blindness didn't affect me as much as I expected. I tend to perceive colors on this device as lighter (more white) than they are, though.
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@alicesutaren That's fascinating!
I have a very narrow problem based on yellow; I was conscious looking at these test colors that I had to work around that element (basically relying on cyan and magenta in print terms). It could explain why my guesses were lighter. I wish I knew what my grandmother would have seen given her complete color blindness.
@femme_mal Your score is pretty impressive! I have issues with red mostly, as I usually can't tell purple/blue, green/brown, light gray/light pink, etc.
Are you also a women assigned by birth? I am, it's funny if we are also both girls, first time I encounter another one but a man.
@alicesutaren Yup, I'm AFAB. I know we're outliers along with my grandmother.
My daughter may also have inherited it though it's not quite as pronounced as mine - at least I thought so until she gave me a seafoam green throw this Christmas and told me she thought it matched the blue in my living room. LOL Surprised I could tell the difference and shocked she couldn't.
@femme_mal Sorry for my clumsy english.
I have a son, he's 100% colorblind because of me, even if his father is not. And I have a daughter and she's not colorblind, because her father is not colorblind.
She is "porteuse saine" of the gene, I don't know how to say it in english. When I was younger, some people didn't believe me when I told them I was colorblind because to them it was so rare, it wasn't possible for girls to be. I realised I was colorblind in late highschool, when I met a friend (boy) who was like me, and we shared our experiences.
@alicesutaren porteuse saine = healthy (unaffected) carrier.
Your daughter may pass the gene onto her children as my mother did to me. I know it is the Finnish side that was the source as my grandmother was from Finland, but I wonder if the French-Canadian side of my mother's family may have ensured she was a porteuse saine, too.
*shrug* Who can say?
@femme_mal Thank you!
Yes, it's true, my mother was healthy carrier and passed it to me.
It's really interesting to track the source. It seems my grandfather has the gene, but not everyone in my family was affected. I have a cousin and my brother who are colorblind, but all my cousins girls, are not.
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