Blind and Visually Impaired Community
↑
14
↓
Do my blind bruddas accept the colorblind as visually impaired? (self.Blind)
submitted by gtkaiboi99
zosobaggins 19 points 3y ago
If your vision is impaired, your vision's impaired! We're all slaves to the rods and cones and damn anyone who would exclude someone if it's "not blind enough."
Vision and blindness isn't an on/off thing, it's a spectrum - pardon the pun - and if the literal spectrum isn't available to you in some way, then welcome home, fella.
Vision and blindness isn't an on/off thing, it's a spectrum - pardon the pun - and if the literal spectrum isn't available to you in some way, then welcome home, fella.
CloudyBeep 13 points 3y ago
Because I'm not 100% sure what you want to know:
Very few posts on this subreddit are about colorblindness. There may be a more appropriate subreddit for colorblind people.
Colorblindness is also not usually considered to be a visual impairment from a legal standpoint because it affects neither visual acuity nor visual field. (However, in some countries full colorblindness (just seeing in black and white) was considered visual impairment in the past.)
However, I don't think anyone will delete your posts if you post here; I just don't know how many other colorblind people browse this subreddit.
Very few posts on this subreddit are about colorblindness. There may be a more appropriate subreddit for colorblind people.
Colorblindness is also not usually considered to be a visual impairment from a legal standpoint because it affects neither visual acuity nor visual field. (However, in some countries full colorblindness (just seeing in black and white) was considered visual impairment in the past.)
However, I don't think anyone will delete your posts if you post here; I just don't know how many other colorblind people browse this subreddit.
80percentaccurate 6 points 3y ago
Actually Acromatopsia, more traditionally known a color blindness, is known to cause reduced visual acuity and photophobia in individuals. I worked with a student with it who needed large print materials and tinted glasses at all times because he was so photophobic. A bright sunny day outside was also a real mobility nightmare for him.
pterofly 2 points 3y ago
There is r/colorblind
OP posted there yesterday.
OP posted there yesterday.
DrillInstructorJan 7 points 3y ago
It's not a club, nobody's checking ID at the door.
Interesting thing about colour blindness is that it's reputed some of the most prominent movie cameramen in the world have terrible colour sight, and that's why they're so good at creating big bold images in specific palettes.
Interesting thing about colour blindness is that it's reputed some of the most prominent movie cameramen in the world have terrible colour sight, and that's why they're so good at creating big bold images in specific palettes.
laconicflow 4 points 3y ago
I'm almost 100% blind. I can see a little light and a little shadow, but it isn't enough to prove useful more than once a year. To me, that's blind. Everyone else, with more vision just has bad vision. I mean, a lot of people say they're blind when they are actually legally blind. Being just straight up blind myself, I'd see merely legal blindness, or colorblindness, as vast improvements. So the TLDR is the only people I think are blind are people who are actually blind.
DrillInstructorJan 5 points 3y ago
I am sufficiently blind that there is some question as to whether I can see any light whatsoever. I think I can but it's not something I can ever use. Do I qualify!
laconicflow 1 points 3y ago
Yes! Not like I'm the authority on who quallifies, but yes. My thought is, if you can see things like trees and faces and colors and, well, you know, stuff, you have bad vision, but aren't blind. Being blind's different. And it isn't like I don't feel bad for people with awful vision, I do, but it just isn't the same, which was my only point.
Real-Primary 3 points 3y ago
If you have vision correctable to 20/20 with lenses, I’d say colorblind isn’t visually impaired as it doesn’t have a significant affect on daily life functions. Compare that to someone who can see with best correction 20/200 or can’t see at all, maybe, that makes sense? I’m losing color receptor cells along with my rods (non-RP rod cone dystrophy) though so if it goes along with another disease that progressively impairs vision, then maybe it would be visually impaired.
_Night_Wing 1 points 3y ago
We don't gatekeep.
Real-Primary 1 points 3y ago
I wonder what the NFB stance on color blindness as a standalone condition is?
CloudyBeep 2 points 3y ago
They wouldn't count it as a visual impairment because it doesn't require the sufferer to use the alternative techniques of blindness.
Real-Primary 2 points 3y ago
Makes sense! Thanks!
(I’m a member of NFB and ACB lol.)
(I’m a member of NFB and ACB lol.)
This nonprofit website is run by volunteers.
Please contribute if you can. Thank you!
Our mission is to provide everyone with access to large-
scale community websites for the good of humanity.
Without ads, without tracking, without greed.
scale community websites for the good of humanity.
Without ads, without tracking, without greed.
©2023 HumbleCat Inc • HumbleCat is a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Michigan, USA.