Being colorblind is annoying, but if you were the only one who could see color in a colorblind society, you would probably be a complete outcast.
Being colorblind is annoying, but if you were the only one who could see color in a colorblind society, you would probably be a complete outcast.
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Na I think you just wouldn’t know. Societies evolved more words for colors as they advanced, some view green as a shade of blue for instance and don’t have a word for green (or whatever it was). It’s like the thing about how my blue might be your red but you use the same word so we assume we see the same thing.
I believe it would be like being able to hear in a mostly deaf space. They can see you reacting to certain things that they can maybe observe (feel vibrations, or observe physical reactions/changes), similar to how I can understand that a person with synesthesia can perceive sensations that aren’t present in my life.
I have tetrachromia and an artist and pretty much growing up I didn’t know how to talk about certain colours and when graphic programs like Photoshop came out I’d get into stupid arguments with my brother about how many colours were missing or you couldn’t make, then I went to an optician and was told I have it
Like there’s a colour in the sky near sunset and when I see it in paintings or games it comes off as a warm grey but in reality what I see is an orange-blue but it’s not the same as if I tried to mix it with pigments or in a program
And no I wasn’t outcasted for that, it’s just something that rarely comes up at all
Just touched on the plot of “The Giver” highly recommend the book
I’m friends with 3 people who are also visually impaired and I’m only one of us who can see in color.
They often message me to ask me what color something is in a pinch. They sometimes ask strangers in public and they’re typically met with the nervous “are you serious or joking?” Laugh.
She also has an app but sometimes just not accurate.
I have a pair of meta raybans and I’ve been encouraging them to get a pair because the AI can describe colors and give detailed descriptions.
Yea but you’d be a best selling musical artist and a multi millionaire so what’s wrong with that ?
I don’t understand your reasoning behind this. Why?
Well partly it depends on what kind of colorblind you’re talking about.
Take deuteranopia (red-green), the most common kind of colorblindness. Unlike what a lot of people seem to think, it’s not like there’s a color they can’t see. They can still see red and they can still see green, it’s just that they lack the ability to reliably distinguish these colors. So in a society where everyone was color blind, they wouldn’t have different names for red and green. Instead, they might refer to grass as being “light bluish-green” while blood might be “dark green” or something. And you might wonder why light bluish-green and dark green looked so different to you, but lacking the context to describe what you’re seeing, I think it’d mostly just get passed off as being weird.
Hardly something that’d get elevated to the level of outcast.
You should watch Pleasantville
That’s like… the standard for everything. If someone is bad at something and you’re good at it, you’re automatically an outcast. Easy example, nerds—even the ones that don’t try to one-up others, just consistently score much better than others are not included as part of the in-group.
I feel that is a generalisation which you found a good specific to apply.
The first couple of times you talked to people about color you’d be confused. But I think you’d pick up that you can’t use the same names for colors that you’re used to using anymore. Pretty quickly you’d learn what names people give to what colors and you’d just use that system and live a normal life.
The discussion of color blindness always gets me because who decided what “blue” actually is. How do we know the blue Im looking at is the exact same “blue” you see? Even if you’re not colorblind we will never know if we both are seeing the exact same shade of a color.
Not really, there are people who see more colors than others, and they’re aren’t outcasts at all, I even saw an interview with someone who has that condition, she was teaching a college art course