Paolo wrote: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:31 pm The problem started with a ball game 2 years ago when the boy came wearing one purple sock and one dark blue one. That was when we took him to the eye Dr.

This time, he picked out a pack of "rainbow" socks - red, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange...one pair of each. So far, he's blown it every time matching them up...

If he had a very bright light to look at the socks under, he might be able to match them better. If he had a bright light and a color lens for one eye, he would probably do a much better job of matching them. He would probably have to experiment with different color lenses to see which one was best for him.

Well I know someone who is red green color blind, our own Gem, now Gem and I do most all our shopping together and I always tell him when the light is red or green, ITS RED. well you get the idea. A week or so ago he was looking at towels, here is a nice set what color is this, Dark Red, Oh I dont think that would look good and this, Dark Green, no I think I like the red better. I wondered how he could tell if they both looked the same? Anyway some 30 minutes later he decided on the dark red ones. He was happy and so was I.

River

curious_guy (imported) wrote: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:01 pm So Paolo, what color of socks does a color blind child chose? My guess would be pink or maybe lavender.

Last year, his mom got a pack of ankle socks with pink cuffs around the top. They have the words "no nonsense" across the top of the toe area. He grabbed a pair of those one morning, running late for school, out of the clean-laundry basket. Needless to say, it was summer and he wore shorts, and the tormenting was ruthless! Good thing he lives within spitting distance of the school, as he can go home at recess and correct the sock problems.

His favorite shirt (other than the Minnesota Gophers shirt I got for him while at the MOM) is pink and says, "I only go to school for the girls."

As for stoplights, he can separate red and green well enough and knows that when the top bulb in the light is bright, it's "red". There won't be any problems there.

I had a friend when I was a kid who couldn't separate browns and greens. To him, grass and dead leaves all looked the same. It wasn't until fall that he could really appreciate trees. Camouflage clothing sort of had less meaning to him, too. Whenever we hooked up car audio stuff, he always had to have me tell him what color the wires were.

I once worked on the river with a pilot who was colorblind (scary, Isn't it). He did well enough in bright daylight but in the dark couldn't tell apart the colors of navigation devices so he usually invited guests to ride in the pilot house at night. The guests had to tell him if the reflectors were green or white. --FLO--

I made the mistake of hiring a color-blind guy as a service tech for my electronics business. When he got the customer's system all screwed up one day, we both discovered his problem. After that, I didn't dare let him work with color-coded cabling.

Yup UncleFlo, I know a seaman who gets the cadets to identify the lights as part of their training.

Back to socks. Socks are either white (for sport) or black (for everything else).

When holes begin to appear it's down to town and buy twenty pairs and relegate the last batch to gardening duty. Never a problem finding two that match.

Colour co-ordination? Everything co-ordinates with black!

Kangan (imported) wrote: Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:29 am I made the mistake of hiring a color-blind guy as a service tech for my electronics business. When he got the customer's system all screwed up one day, we both discovered his problem. After that, I didn't dare let him work with color-coded cabling.

I worked with a colorblind guy in computer support in university. When we reinstalled cabling in one of our labs, I tried to explain him how to crimp a CAT-5 ethernet cable...

After my lithany:white-green green white-orange blue white-blue orange white-brown brown (order of wires in ethernet plug), and stripping outer isolation from cable he looked at it and asked - and which is which? I tried to teach him... and haven't succeded.

But best thing were his color settings on computer - to me they were unreadable (and hurt eyes on prolonged viewing).