My Ridiculous Color-Blindness

If you know me a little bit you probably know that I am quite color-blind. Hopefully you know this because I told you and not because I proved it by wearing something that made me look like an asshat. When the topic comes up it always amazes me how few people remember taking the test to see if you are colorblind. I took it as a child and then again about five years ago. The reaction of the eye doctor was something like "wow - you're about as color-blind as they come".

So I was putting down a sandwich at lunch and for some reason I thought of this topic. A quick google search turned up several sites that had the colorblind test. I thought I would do a public service by showing you an example of color-blindness.

Example 1

I only see the yellow square. I'm told that you should also see brown circle.

Example 2

I see a yellow circle. The conspiracy against me says that there is also a square.

http://colorvisiontesting.com/boat.gif

Example 3

The conspiracy tells me that there is a boat in this pic. I know better.

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You may recall a recent blog where I had prepared a little speech for a couple of Jehovah's witnesses that were going door-to-door in my neighborhood.

We were at the park in Olcott last weekend and we spied a group of... superstitious... people going around from one group to the next. It appeared as though they were handing out literature. Who was the only group that they missed? You guessed it - Rebecca and myself. I really don't know why this is. My best guess is that we were the only people in the park that were reading and the superstitious type might have thought that we were less likely to be converted.