Eleuthera said:
I'm colourblind, first thing people ask when I tell them: "So... what does this look like to you?"
This gets on my nerves
sooo fast. Especially since in my case it wasn't genetic. When I was little I had perfectly normal color vision, but thanks to a little bit of "boys will be boys" rough-housing with one of my cousins I ended up with an eye injury that caused it. So now my color vision is all sorts of messed up.
For me, pretty much every color is just a little bit...
off. I occasionally confuse blues and purples, reds and browns, yellows and greens... and I almost always have trouble when it comes to various shades of colors. Large color palettes and gradients
always are a nightmare to me. Back when I tried to play that MMO
Tabula Rasa, I had to set all of my character's color options to white, because you chose the colors on a gradient and I had no idea what the hell I was looking at. To be honest, I don't even know if I chose white. Sometimes white and lighter shades of pink and gray all look the same to me.
So inevitably, the first question someone will ask me is what color something in the immediate vicinity is. If I get it right, they almost always give me a look of disappointment, then point to something else. And they'll keep freaking doing it until I get something wrong, then they'll act like it's some kind of sideshow attraction. Fuck you, people. Seriously.
Even worse is when they find out I wasn't born with it, because then they have it in their mind that I have a frame of reference as to what
NORMAL people see. So then the questions start to pour in about that. Nevermind that I was like four when the injury happened, and I can only vaguely recall
anything from that far back. So I really
don't have that frame of reference, which also will inevitably get me looks of disappointment, and the occasional asshole that thinks I'm lying to them for some reason, like I'm selfishly keeping some kind of mystical secret of the universe all to myself.
The worst is that they seem to think my entire life revolves around it. They sometimes even treat it like it's a major disability. Not really, guys... I can still make due just fine. Just because I don't see colors the exact same way as you doesn't mean I can't see colors and learn to associate certain colors with certain things. You have no idea how hard I want to backhand the morons that ask me what color the sky is.
THE SKY IS
BLUE YOU MORON!