How to tell if you’re colourblind
The term colour blindness is misleading. A more precise term in colour vision deficiency (CVD). People who are colourblind can’t see some colours or see them differently from other people. Very few people who are colourblind are blind to all colours. The usual colours that people have difficulty with are greens, yellows, oranges and reds.
Colour blindness is most commonly a genetic condition. Some colour blindness is genetically inherited. Colour blindness can also arise as a result of trauma that causes brain or retinal damage, degenerative eye disease and other causes.
While you can book in to see a professional to investigate colour blindness, we’ve also compiled a list of questions for you and if you answer yes to one or more of the following questions, then you are most probably affected by some kind of color blindness.
- Do you sometimes miss a blossom of a plant in springtime because it doesn’t catch your eye at the first sight?
- Do find you find it difficult to separate things by their colour?
- Do you sometimes put on some clothes in which other people think they don’t match at all?
- Do you not like to go shopping for clothes because they do have so many different colours these days?
- Do you always miss the start of autumn because you see the coloured tree leafs only when others are already talking about it for weeks?
- Do you sometimes paraphrase a colour because you just don’t want to name it directly?
- Do you usually let your wife or husband make the decisions when it comes to colours?
In any case, to be sure if you are affected by some form of colour blindness make an appointment with an ophthalmologist.