Firstly, I must make it clear that I have no medical knowledge on this subject, it is written purely on my experiences only.
I first learnt that two of my sons were colourblind when a routine eye test picked it up.
When the option told me that my eldest son was colour blind, my response was that he couldn’t be because he knows all his colours. It was explained to me that he knew colours as he saw them, for example, if I told him that a colour was green he learnt what green looked like to him even if everyone else saw it as blue. He then went on to tell me that being colour blind didn’t mean that you couldn’t see colours at all, the world wasn’t seen in black and white only, it was usually shades of colour that children who were colour blind may struggle with seeing.
Once I took in this information it made sense to me. The option said that the condition was often heredity, being passed from a child’s father.
During their childhood my children didn’t appear to have any issues with being colour blind: One of my sons is colour blind to the colour red and the other green, but I can never remember which son has which colour blindness!
On speaking to my now grown up sons about being colour blind, my eldest told me, that he wasn’t aware that he was colour blind, so it obviously hasn’t impacted on his life and my middle son was aware that he had the condition ( he remembered being told about it as a child) but said that it hadn’t hindered him at all at any stage of his life.
It is important to get your children’s eyes tested as the test can detect other medical issues.
As always questions and comments are welcome.
Until next time.
Karen
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I was lucky enough to not have this problem with my children but I guess it’s more common that we think as it doesn’t seem to be a much of a problem. A very interesting subject Karen.
Maybe because you have daughters, Pearl, I believe that colour blindness tends to be in males, rather than females, but I could be wrong
That’s an interesting point that children learn colours as they see them and that what we perceive as being green may not necessarily be seen as the same colour as we see it by others. Glad that your sons’ colour blindness hasn’t caused them any issues. #MischiefandMemories
Thanks, Louise and for all your comments, it is appreciated
Good that it hasn’t caused any problems – but it makes you think. Is my green the same green as everyone else – thanks for sharing with #PoCoLo
Thanks, Stephani
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing your experience with this issue! I didn’t know that a child could have color blindness with certain colors rather than all. And, it’s interesting to me that the heredity is from the Father.
I’m coming to you from the #ALittleBitofEverything link party.
I hope you have a lovely day!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Renee
My brother in law is colour blind and didn’t know until, as an adult, he went for his captains licence for sailing yachts and he couldn’t get it as you cannot be colour blind and a captain #MischiefandMemories
Oh, that must have been so disappointing for your brother in law, thanks for sharing
I have never come across anyone who is colour blind so this was personal account was interesting to read. Thanks for linking up with #MischiefAndMemories
Thanks for having me as part of the linky, Laura
That really is interesting to read about your experience of your sons colour blindness. It’s also great to hear that it didn’t effect them in any way – so very reassuring to new parents who may be experiencing this for the first time. Thank you for joining us for #mischiefandmemories
Thanks for your kind words, Annette and for having me as a part of your linky
It was no fun. I can’t see shades. Like dark blue looks black to me and stuff like that. When I was in school I would get into trouble for that.
Oh, that sounds awful, thankfully my boys didn’t suffer a similar fate