My colour blind sister...
kept confusing red and green. Give her a pack of fruit pastilles and its fun for her and a worry for mum and dad.

appointments are made, specialists are called.

one day my mum was chatting to the neighbour, and I had to come clean.

mum: "I'm really worried, she keeps saying that leaves are red and the kettle is green."

Neighbor:"oh noes. have you made a doctors appointment?"

mum:"yes shes going into hospital tomorrow"

me:" shes not really colour blind"

mum:"what?"

me" (little brothers name) taught her that red was green and vice versa for a laugh"

He as about 6 years old at this point and was already knew enough about eye tests to know just what would worry my parents the most. The little shit kept up with his 'tutoring' right up to the point when my sister was about to be prodded and poked in the eyes by the doctors.


I don't want kids, they might turn out like him.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 20:07, 19 replies)

You evil, evil person. I approve.
(Big D, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 20:19, closed)

TEDIOUS FACT: women can carry the genes for hereditary colour-blindness but will not display any symptoms.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 20:35, closed)

Trufax part deux
In most cases the female will be only a carrier, but it is certainly possible for a female to display the symptoms of genetic colour-blindness, if she inherits a full set of wonky genes (scientific term there).
( Ghoti Fingers, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 20:39, closed)

I was about to say this
Gene is carried on the X chromosone so if a girl has 2 dodgy ones she'll have it. Just less likely to have it than a boy.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 20:40, closed)

not true...
50 out of 10,000 women are colour blind, 800 out of 10,000 men are.
I think you're thinking of that blood disease, y'know. Ra ra Rasputin and Tsar Nicholas the Two
(lordy lordy, Sun 11 Mar 2012, 8:39, closed)

Bad Gene
is carried on the X chromosone, just like haemophilia. So if a boy has a dodgy X, he only has one as the Y can't take over, so he will have it. Girls, however, have 2 Xs, so if they have one dodgy X they won't have it as the good one will take over. If a girl has two dodgy Xs she'll have it. It's twice as likely she'll only have 1 dodgy one than 2, if *both* her parents are carriers. For a boy to get it, only one parent needs to be a carrier. Hence much more likely for a boy to have it. The reason females are even less likely to have haemophilia despite it being carried in the same way is that she needs both parents to carry a specific gene each which is very rare.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Sun 11 Mar 2012, 18:03, closed)

on a windy day a muslim woman is is colour blind and can in fact only see black

( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Sun 11 Mar 2012, 10:12, closed)

To be fair, hardly "prodded and poked"
More like "given some pictures to look at". Diagnosis would have been that she wasn't colour-blind, just a bit gullible.

I'm surprised that couldn't have been sorted out down the GP or in your local opticians.
( Ghoti Fingers, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 20:36, closed)

She was about three years old at the time

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 21:55, closed)

Fair Pontiac.
Predictive text served us well there
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 10 Mar 2012, 0:04, closed)

Everything is in accord here.

( Ghoti Fingers, Sat 10 Mar 2012, 6:52, closed)

And three-year olds can't look at pictures?
"One of these pictures has a boat in it. Which one is it?"
( Ghoti Fingers, Sat 10 Mar 2012, 6:51, closed)

Doesn't really matter
They tend not to prod and poke in the eyes unless they have to. I have Duane's Syndrome, and I spent a lot of my early years having my eyes examined. Most of the time I had to look through goggles and do the random number of dots tests, identify colours tests and read letters off a poster on the wall... basically all the stuff you do at the opticians.

They only started poking and prodding in my eyes when they decided an operation was necessary, and I was put unconscious for that...

...except I woke up during it. Bloody hell the nightmares I had.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sat 10 Mar 2012, 11:30, closed)

You're the Duke of Dork?
Blimey...
(The Luggage is haunted..., Sat 10 Mar 2012, 14:52, closed)

Smeg!
I've been rumbled!
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sat 10 Mar 2012, 16:27, closed)

So....
traffic lights?
(yourmumonastickwithmintsauce, Sat 10 Mar 2012, 19:41, closed)

Now you've lost me

(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sun 11 Mar 2012, 8:48, closed)

Did poking your eyes
do anything to fix the bowl haircut and buck-teeth?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sat 10 Mar 2012, 21:14, closed)

Suck my thermos

(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sun 11 Mar 2012, 8:50, closed)