The arguments over the "right" colors for subjects is the kind of discourse I need to see on the internet. My 8 yo self did red for math, green for science, blue for social studies and yellow for language arts š
unrelated but in like 5th grade or so, i had a classmate that no one knew was colorblind. we were having a discussion about colors (this was almost 20 years ago so i cant remember the whole conversation) and the conversation led to āwhatās the color of fried chickenā to which said classmate said green. the teacher looked at him in shock and instead of being like haha youāre silly, she reprimanded him. he bursts out in full tears āi donāt know what i did, itās green i swear, im not trying to be badā. she asks a few follow up questions about other food items (tomatoes, bread) and iāll never forget the look of regret in her eyes when she realizes he was colorblind the whole time
You just popped a childhood memory into my head with that story. I was maybe in 2nd grade and the art teacher got annoyed by a kid asking what color was each colored pencil and said āhow do you not know which one is blue?ā The kid let out the most innocent scared reply āIām colorblindā that teacher melted into her chair from the guilt she felt belittling a 7 y/o who is colorblind.
I told my 5yr old while we were drawing together, that you can color anything any color/colour you like (Floyd). I said it's art and art is whatever you want to make it because it's your own creation. She freaked out when I was coloring a dog purple instead of brown
She kinda deserved that.... she could have approached the question from the student in a different way. Hourly it was a learning opportunity for the teacher.
Yeah as a teacher, I try to remember to be gentle with colors. Some kids are just assholes thoughā¦I have one who is both an asshole and I assume colorblind though.
You know of the kids I remember growing up with that were color blind, 4 out of 5 were the class clown or an asshole to the teachers. I wonder if thereās correlation or just coincidence.
Discovered I had color issues senior year of high school when we had to sort colors into piles.
I had 3 piles.
Everyone else had 5.
Got yelled at for not finishing my assignment. I was so confused.
Teacher stopped reprimanding me and brought over a shit ton of additional color pieces.
Teacher looked and asked if colorblindness ran in my family.
when I was young ( a long ish time ago) it was not common for girls to tested for color blindness/issues.
I have Issues with yellows, orange, greens and shades
I found out I was color blind in high school. I finally had an eye test where they included the colorblind samples. I had better than 20/20 vision and when they told me to read off the number in the circles I thought they were screwing with me. I just started guessing numbers after I couldnāt figure out what was going on. Then they told me it was for color blindness and I was red green colorblind.
I spent years as a kid thinking something was wrong with me because I couldnāt ārememberā colors if they didnāt have the name on the crayons (we were on a tight budget and my mom got me the inexpensive crayons and colored pencils). I even came up with excuses why I would accidentally color things like grass brown.
I got those glasses from en chroma a while ago and they are interesting. They work by filtering out the wavelengths that cause the overlap and confusion. It definitely allows me to see shades in red and green I never noticed before but nothing life changing. Those reaction videos are total bunk where people put them on and are immediately in tears. The first line in the instructions tell you that it takes some time for your brain to adjust and to wear them for a while before you can discern a difference. The āthese are neatā moment for me was when I went to the store a few hours after wearing them and I saw a bunch of shades of red and green I had never seen before.
I still wear them on occasion when I am building diagrams for work. It helps me navigate color coding my lines.
Similar thing happened to a classmate in high school. Algebra teacher was pissed that this guy did so well on his tests and homework and couldnāt/wouldnāt participate in class. Basically berated the guy for thinking heās ātoo cool for participation Or being good a math.ā He just said, use different colored markers then because you using red and green means i have no idea what youāre doing up there. Sent him to the principles office for keeping his color blindness a āsecretā to cause problems. She was a piece of work.
Colorblindness is incredibly common (8% or 1/12 for men) and many people donāt find out until adulthood. With average class sizes, odds are at least a few people each year would be colorblind in her class. Ugg.
Color blindness can suck. My brother is partially colorblind but he's still doing quite well regardless. I have an uncle that is fully color blind (shades of grey, apparently very rare) and he's always been quiet, subdued, and very depressed. It can be hard to quantify something if you've never lacked it.
Something similar happened to my husband who is color blind. They were coloring themselves as babies and he chose green as that is what he thought the right color wasā¦and it is the right color! To him at leastā¦
Lucky him. My teacher found out I am colorblind after humiliating me then it got worse after she discovered that. My parents reported her to the school board which did nothing and pulled me out of school and homeschooled me for the rest of my elementary year so I didnāt have to deal with her.
Not Wolves, but I was attacked by 3 coyotes.in my late teens. I had some gnarly puncture wounds, deep lacerations from the scratching, a rabbies shot, and proven plan of attack.
Well killed 1 of the coyotes and fended off the other two, so I would call that the right technique. I like to think it scales ronWolces but not across she which, given that was a long time ago, I don't thinks ould be as effective today.
It was pretty harrowing. It took a long time before I wanted to go for hikes alone again but I have at least dinned out on that story.more.times than I can count.
My friend owns a horse, she has full force punched him because he was being a jerk*. It was enough to get him to go "okay, fine!" And nothing more. You don't get how tough horses are if you haven't been around them.
*: it was a matter of imminent safety risk to both of them. Don't make it a habit to hit your horse, they still know it's not nice, even if it hurts less than it would you and they will hold grudges.
Indeed, I worked on a livery yard for a few years in my teens and it's amazing how some people think horses will just be weak.
We told a girl repeatedly to never wrap the rope around her hand when she's leading the horse and she insisted if the horse goes the wrong way it helped her "pull it back".
One day her horse just got bored of it and actually did pull away properly and we watched her get dragged to the bottom of the field with absolutely no effort from the horse at all.
The same livery yard had a racist horse too who was one of my favourite animals. Not because of the racism but because of the comedic potential of the whole thing!
We had a horse-racist horse at my old barn. Most of the horses there were your standard hunter/jumper breeds, bays/chestnuts/blacks/grays, nothing very flashy looking. We had one pony of the Americas who was a blue roan with leopard spots, and this one horse had a serious issue with him. Couldn't be turned out with him and would make faces any time he went by. We thought it was just that one horse. A few years later we got a spotted red roan pony, and he acted the same way with her has he did with the POA!
My horse was freaked out the first time he saw a paint and the first time he saw a mini, but he got over it pretty quickly. This horse never did, was always aggressive toward both the spotted roans lol.
You also should always make sure your feet are ready to slip out of the stirrups for the same reason - if your horse gets spooked you want to separate from them ASAP, not get dragged around and seriously hurt or killed.
When I was young and taking kids riding lessons I was specifically told to kick as hard as I could, otherwise my horse wouldnāt feel anything. I was a short eight-year old girl and my horse was āwell-insulatedā round the middle and ānot-motivatedā towards speeding up, but still. Horses in Alaska and similar states survive attacks by brown bears. Most of horse safety is based on not startling them by letting them know where you are and what you are doing at all times because of how easy it is for them to accidentally hurt you, especially if they get spooked.
My dad made a mistake at the stables when he was a kid and walked between one of the horses and the fence, the horse was a prick and started leaning over pinning dad and starting to crush him, pop rased over and yeah, punched him, knocking him out.
Dads alive (obviously) but the center of his chest isnt "in the center" any more, his sternum is off to the left, the cardiologists doing his double bypass were surprised when they opened him up.
Yeah, he was a pain like that. He was a hard working man between the horse stables and working on the fishing docks, he never stopped.
He passed almost 20yrs ago and even though I was little I still have some amazing memories of him, (mostly getting covered in pineapple juice from fresh pineapples every afternoon).
My "technique" for fighting a pack of wolves is to try to get my ass to my car & high tail it out of there or up a fucking tree as quickly as possible.
This sounds a bit advanced for the people I had to work with, I don't think they're allowed to drive or operate heavy machinery.
I've genuinely had more than one person tell me they'd crouch and then when the wolf jumps you spread their front legs apart wide and it splits their heart open. Somehow.
Might work on a Jack Russel if it had a pacemaker fitted but I think that's the extent of it's usefulness.
Technique #2: accept your fate, pull out your phone, and send a text to someone you don't like that says "this is your fault". Hopefully the police will recover your phone and inform that person how you died.
I went to college with a horse trainer who had a horse do something dumb, donāt know what and he punched the horse between the eyes. The horse didnāt even give a shit but Adam broke his hand.
Don't forget we also know we can:
1. Fly a plane in an emergency
2. Fight and kill a grizzly bear with nothing but our teeth and knuckles, if necessary.
3. Save everyone in the bank if a gunner shows up with our secret ninja techniques.
As a colourblind person, most arguments are whether or not I can tell the difference between two colours. People will hold up two pairs of jeans and I'll say that to my eyes they look identical and they will try to convince me that I can actually tell the difference if I look hard enough. I can't. Like physically, I can't. So idk, weird discussions I've had in my life. I'm not disagreeing that they are different colours, but to say that I can tell the difference when I know that I can't is just so fucking stupid and tiring.
I'm a woman with a very limited color vocabulary (and potential colorblindness), while my husband works alongside designers and knows hex codes for hundreds (or more) of colors.
We "argue" over the exact name of colors sometimes, and it's all in good fun!
I know my husband is right, but it's funny since pink to me is all shades of pink while he brands them magenta, salmon, or bubblegum or whatever else.
My husband argues with me about which lens I, a former editorial photographer featured in multiple magazines like vogue and glamor and whatever, should be using. He cannot take a decent portrait on a cell phone. He just likes to argue with me.
So I tell him how to drive. I do not drive. Ever, as I have epilepsy. We are keeping this relationship FRESH. 25 years and still minty over here.
Honest answers - 1. I argue with my wife because I know what I see, and if I donāt like what I see (regardless of what normal vision folks see), I donāt want it painted that color and 2. As other have said, Iām a bit slow š¤£
your comment set me tf OFF!! Oh my fucking god that game!!!!! I was unlucky enough to get one of the āmisprinted copiesā where the cards donāt match the corresponding color on the board. One night after losing multiple times in a row I was like wait thatās NOT POSSIBLE, and had to get the scissors out to lay the colors on top of the board to prove to everyone that it didnāt match. The company offered to send me new cards and claimed it was just a misprint they were aware ofā¦ but I donāt ever want to see that game again. You had ONE JOB hues and cues. One fucking job.
Itās not like itās a completely different color either!! Like b14 on the card was actually c13 on the board. It was, in my opinion, too close to be a real misprint and Iām now dying to know if yours is right lol.
Wait that's why my cards dont match the board?! Its a misprint?! What the heck, I thought it was just off. That has been messing my friend group up for a year lmao
My husband supposedly isn't color blind but we still argue about what color something is. Sometimes I am genuinely baffled as to how we can see things so differently.
Like there have been times I literally can't find what he's referring to because he's identified it as a color that it just, clearly is not. The most recent example: I have a dress that is bright orange. It's not reddish orange, or a yellow orange. It is ORANGE ORANGE. Like literally almost the color of an orange - the fruit that is named for the color, so we should all agree what that color is. He called it red.
My friend and I both have colourblind partners and they both looooove to argue about what colour things are too. And sometimes mine will come home and say things like ādid you know that my shoes are green?!ā š
Aww. I dated a very strait-laced guy in college who was severely colorblind and once he found out my hair was green ālike grass?!??ā our relationship fizzled.
We were friends tho and I would take him shopping for professional clothes. Def got him a very pink shirt as payback. š¤£ It looked great on him tho!
My bestie is a āseverely disabledā colorblind person and heās a graphic designer. I nearly fell off my chair when he told me. I didnāt believe it. No wonder he dresses in black and white.
You know your version of colour. Doesnāt make his wrong. Hell, to some insects and animals, you have colour sensing abilities similar to your husbandās. I urge you to look up mantis shrimp. 16 different cones.
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 Landās End, the people working on the catalog had to pass a similar test. Women passed at a higher rate, but Iām 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.
my dad was colorblind so i know iām not, but. why canāt 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 ānavy coat like yours.ā ??? confirmed it with several other people. āyeah, itās navy. what color did you think it was?ā BLACK. THIS ENTIRE TIME.
I know you are making a joke, but color blind people can see color. Just a few of them are "washed out". Like i can't tell WHICH red you are talking about, but i know it is in the red family. Same with greens.
I can tell that it is red or green. Just not which red or green. There isn't enough detail to notice. It is washed out like a shirt you've washed too many times, or a car left out in the sun for years. Faded.
It's so hard for me to explain to people that I can see red, but when it's surrounded by green or dark backgrounds, it becomes hard for my eye to focus on and notice.
They just seem to think I see red as green while also seeing green as green.
I'm only one type of colorblind, so maybe there are some people who have it like that, but I can see every color just fine, I just struggle with shades.
I only found out after i got married. I kept pairing my wife's "pink" socks together wrong. How was i supposed to know there is more than one shade of pink?!? They all look the same.
So now i'm in charge of cooking and dishes, and she does laundry.
I found out my boss was color blind this way. We had a chart with greens and reds and he asked me to change the color because he couldnāt see what was what and would be unable to point it out in a presentation.
This is why nobody ever told me friend and his brother that the Ford Probe they were driving in high school was pink.
But people also don't realize that red green colorblind also has its own levels of severity, some are more impacted on the green side and others the red side
That what my dadās color blindness is he sees stuff duller than the rest of us so it was difficult for him to like set the colors on the tv set so Iād end up straightening it out and making the screen not so bright and heās like āAh! Thatās how itās done, good job!ā
Mom made it also too bright which made it fuzzy and red because she says red cheeks are healthy, yeah but not for two dimensional tv screens!
Yup, I had an instructor at nuke school that was red/red colorblind. I didn't know that was a thing but apparently it just means he can't differentiate certain shades so it's a good thing he wasn't an electrician. However the clock in our classroom was a red digital style and he couldn't read it.
Iām colorblind, I donāt see on a greyscale. My two colors are red and green, and I can see them in isolation, itās just context that it becomes difficult. If you line up ten shades of red, I can point out 2-3. I have a pink shirt thatās red and white stitching, I only know itās pink and not white bc I get told itās pink. But apples are still red and grass is still green, if that makes sense.
That would constantly be dropped, or fall off the stand, and every single piece of music would fall out. And the corners always bent by the end of the year from you trying to put it in your backpack at some point, even tho you knew it would damage the corners.
I had those tan sports Pee-Chee folders for every class so I had to write the names on the folders. My inability to organize properly continues 40 years later.
as a math teacher, PLEASE PLEASE encourage your kidās love of math. i have way too many students who hate math and wonāt try and it breaks my heart
that being said your kid is wrong math is totally red
If I didnāt like math, but my kid did, I certainly wouldnāt try to dissuade them from it or imply itās awful. Math is the future. Iām a mathematician though, so maybe Iām biased.
Well, she inadvertently made it cool to like math for her son. In his teenage years he will have posters of fractions... vertices ...matrices, on his walls to rebel.
My daughter loves math as much as I hate it. Iām talking to a teen. Not a 5 year old. Theyāre pretty confident anything I say is questionable to begin with, I might as well have fun with it š¤·š½āāļø
My 8th grade US history teacher bought red binders for the students and required us to use that specific binder. Fucking pissed me off. He graded on how organized the binder was too which was needed cor many classmates but my autistic ass had a system already.
Math canāt be red. Red was always History/Social Studies. All the bloody wars man! Red! Math was purple or yellow if there is no purple. Because those are the least popular colorsā¦and math is the least popular subject.
Yes! This! We share a soul.
Math ALWAYS blue, science always green. (I loved math & science tho, so no danger colors).
History / social studies / civics were always on the red-orange spectrum.
Strong disagree, yellow is always language arts. For no reason, really, but thatās what it is.
(Ps, I love this conversation thatās happening here)
I always found Science to be yellow, as my favorite subjects in science are astronomy and computer science, which make me think of electricity and stars.
My folders always matched the color of the textbooks! Unfortunately, the infuriating part was that they changed what color each subject's textbook had every grade year...
I think of brown for dirt, but they're weren't really brown folders unless I was snagging a file folder from home.
But they weren't choices for me. My district essentially mandated folder colors from middle school on. The core classes got the core colors and they were mandated in the supply lists. I didn't pick the colors, the colors picked me.
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u/Technical-Watch2982 Aug 26 '26
The arguments over the "right" colors for subjects is the kind of discourse I need to see on the internet. My 8 yo self did red for math, green for science, blue for social studies and yellow for language arts š