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MY COLORBLIND STORY
My kindergarten teacher used flash cards to teach us the colors, numbers, and letters. I learned the letters and numbers quickly, but I had a lot of difficulty learning the colors. I didn't understand why something that came so easy to the other kids was so difficult for me. My teacher noticed my frustration and pulled me aside to teach me the colors one-on-one. She noticed that I was getting a lot of the colors right but there were a few that I would mix up: green and brown, blue and purple, orange and red. She quickly concluded that I must be colorblind. She told me that it's okay that I was getting some colors wrong because there were some colors my eyes just couldn't see. It wasn’t my fault. She let my parents know her discovery and my mom said that her father is colorblind and so I must have gotten it from him.
Luckily for me, my colorblindness is not very severe. I grew up and went through school like a normal kid. Sometimes I would use the wrong colors and draw a tree with brown leaves and a green trunk, but usually I did a good job of asking a friend or a teacher what color something was if I wasn’t sure. To this day I pick colors based on their names or RGB codes instead of how they “look” since I can’t trust my eyes to tell me the right thing.
In high school I took a color vision test online. Color vision tests consist of a bunch of dots on a screen where certain letters or numbers are visible or invisible depending on what type of color vision you have. Based on what things I could and could not identify in each image, the test concluded that I have deuteranomaly, meaning that I can see green but not very well. Basically I can see 100% of blues, 50% of reds, and 25% of greens.
I would like to get Enchroma color vision corrective glasses so that I can see greens and reds better. I would love to see how vivid green grass really is. I would love to see the deep red color of heart emojis. I want to see a rainbow in full color for the first time. That is why I need your help to raise money to get the Enchroma glasses. Please contribute if you can. Every little bit counts!
WHAT IS ENCHROMA?
Enchroma glasses are an optical assistive device; they are not a cure for color blindness. Results vary depending on the type and extent of color vision deficiency per individual. The glasses are estimated to be effective for 4 out of 5 cases (80%) of red-green color vision deficiency – prospective users are encouraged to take our online color vision test to assess the likelihood of efficacy. Enchroma does not endorse use of the glasses to pass occupational screening tests such as the Ishihara test. For more information please read the FAQs , learn about the Enchroma technology and story , or contact customer support .
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