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What it's like to be color blind
- I am Judy Bufarro.
- Hello, I'm Patrick.
- My name is Andrew Hater and I am color blind.
Color blindness affects about 1 in 10 men,
and is significantly rarer in women.
- It's not that I can't see colors.
I can see most colors.
But it's that certain colors fade
into what I would call indistinct.
- The analogy I always use is that
if you have a pack of 36 colored pencils,
I can only see maybe 12 shades of those colored pencils.
- We're trying to do those dot tests
where they have the different numbers
and it's, like, in a different color.
But trying to do these, everyone will be like,
"Oh, it's a seven. Oh, it's a 62."
I'd be like, "There's, you're lying, you're all lying."
Apparently, there's one with a sailboat
and I've never seen it.
- [Andrew] I play soccer.
It may affect me on the field.
Our team is purple and the other team
was a different shade of purple
and I passed to the other team two times.
- I'll often be shopping for something
and just go up to a stranger and ask them,
"Is this black or is this navy blue?
"Is this red or orange?" That kind of thing.
- Like I can tell right here I'm wearing a green sweater,
but if you start, like, asking me what shade of green,
I'm the worst at it.
- [Andrew] So the stop, don't go hand
for crossing the street and the walk time to go,
I see the hand is red and I always thought
that the man was green, just be that
that's a context clue thing where I was like,
"Oh okay, one's red, one must be green,"
but someone told me the man crossing the street
is white.
I like to think that I have some sort of, like,
advantage by having a disadvantage.
- I suppose I may be missing out on things.
I guess I don't know what I'm missing out on.
- And it's kind of cool too
because I don't view it as very limiting,
but then when people are just always so intrigued
by like, what is this, like how does it even work.
Do I always see, like, black and white, like a TV show
or is it, you know, which is not true.
- Like last night, my friend asked me.
I was like, "I'm doing this interview
"about color blindness" and he goes,
"What color's the couch?" and it's bright red.
(laughing) It's kind of annoying
when people are like, "Oh well, what is this?"
It's not that big of a deal.
Music: Difficult Situation
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