How I (color blind person) see the world!

This web designer discovered that he sees the world in a different way than all others see it. I can relate.

[...] do the green fields which i love look red to normal people?! do normal people see orange like my blue?! when you are born your parents teach you colors, they point to that box and tell you “this is green” they point to this red circle and say “this is red”. To them it is green box and red circle but they don’t know how you see it! you might see that red circle as what they see blue! so you will point to every blue color you see and say RED [...]

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  1. I have the exact same problem. Before I moved out to the U.S, I was offered a really well paying job as an electrician in the biggest airport in Ireland (great benefits, flights, great pension, lifetime job). So after jumping through all the hurdles, IQ tests, interviews, selection processes, I was offered the job, out of 1500 people I got it. I was delighted, but then I went for my physical and found out I was color blind using that exact test. Apparently it’s dangerous to offer Electrician jobs to color blind people. “No, not the blue…. BANG”.

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