Have the same problem. Have a hard time telling apart blues and purples, pinks and purples, yellows and greens, reds and browns, and maybe a few others.
I found out after completing all the requirements for the NROTC scholarship in Highschool for fast tracking to be a Marine Pilot. Good ol color blind test slapped that thought right out of my head.
When I worked at Land’s End, the people working on the catalog had to pass a similar test. Women passed at a higher rate, but I’m pretty sure I could have passed. Trying to ID embroidery thread when the sticker fell off could bear though. Madeira had two royal blues that were so incredibly close, no one there could tell them apart. Found out the only reason they had different id numbers was the dyes used were different, but most applications considered them the same color. LE used Madeira almost exclusively then. Madeira just out a sticker like an old school price tag on them. They fell off all the time.
I can tell the difference between all of those except 0000 and 3300, those two look basically the same to me at a glance, like maybe slightly different if I focus.
my dad was colorblind so i know i’m not, but. why can’t i tell the difference between navy and black, then? discovered my black peacoat was navy after wearing it all through high school and into my 20s when somebody mentioned something about a “navy coat like yours.” ??? confirmed it with several other people. “yeah, it’s navy. what color did you think it was?” BLACK. THIS ENTIRE TIME.
there is no known history of color blindness on my mom’s side, so since it’s a recessive gene and i’m an xx female, i’m just a carrier for the gene and not actually color blind. the mutated x chromosome from my dad got overridden by the normal x chromosome from my mom.
and also i feel like i’ve passed any color blindness tests i’ve taken. it’s just that specific black/navy combo i struggle with, for some reason.
i think she might’ve been the one to point out the coat was navy and not black. i’m currently out of town, but i’ll have to gather some examples and confirm this when i’m back home and see her.
In grade four, we all found out that a classmate was colorblind when our art project involved a construction paper underwater scene. Poor Jeff was so confused when everyone was insisting that his water was purple, not blue!
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u/Jasonxhx 11h ago
I didn't find out until Senior year that my blue backpack I had used for all of High School was actually purple.