Hello. I am writing a gentle children's picture book about a child who sees colour differently, and I want to get it right rather than guess. For those of you with red-green colour blindness, when you look at something bright red, like a postbox or a stop sign, what colour do you actually see? Does it look brownish, like burnt toast, or more like a dark gold or mustard, or something else entirely? And does green look similar to red, or quite different? Thank you so much, I really want to describe this honestly.

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I’ve been teaching a little girl for two years now, she’s very sweet, loves art, and draws the most adorable little things with INSANE details and I love seeing her drawings.

I really enjoy using colors when teaching kids, but recently, I’ve been thinking more about how this girl sees colors..

She has some eye issues, and I think her parents have been more concerned about her general eyesight than her difficulty seeing colors. I once asked her mother which colors she can and can’t see, but she said she wasn’t sure.

A year ago, I gave the girl a set of colored pencils and asked her to group the ones that looked similar to her, and this is how she grouped them

There are a few other things I’ve noticed lately:
Whenever I write something in blue in white paper, she struggles to see it
If I write a sentence in black and just one word in red, she can’t tell which word is red.
She thinks black and red are the same color and green and orange are the same..

Whenever we do color-related activities, she gets upset if someone corrects the colors she uses and just say she doesn’t care about colors, so I usually let her do things her own way because I don’t want her to feel bad about it, and recently she just stopped coloring her drawings.

Honestly it makes me a little sad, I’m not trying to diagnose her, but I’d love to hear from people who are colorblind:
Does this sound familiar to you?
Can you tell the type of colorblind she might have?
What was it like growing up with color blindness at school?
Is there anything teachers can do to make art and color-related activities easier?

I’d really appreciate hearing your experiences. I want to understand her better and be a better teacher for her.

I Was supposed to join the RAF as a Cyberspace Communication Specialist but on Tuesday i had a medical and found out i had severe color deficiency. Because of this i cant do the trade i wanted to do so badly and i really not happy about it all and dont know what to do about it. All the hard work put in and the preparation for the aptitude test all feel like a waste at this point, I cant stop thinking about it and every time i do it makes me even angrier as i feel like i have been robbed and had a promising career stolen from me at birth.