Negative Effects Of Color Blindness

A two-year old boy walks into a toy store with his mother by his side. He watches eagerly as his mother gestures toward the toys he can get. Narrowing down the options, he decides to get a toy truck. “Which color do you want young man,” the owner asks him politely, looking down at the boy. On the upper shelf, lies a series of shiny, lustrous, and beautiful toy trucks ranging from orange to blue. The boy gazes up and looks confused, staring blankly at the shelf of toys. There are barely any colors to choose from. It’s almost like he is seeing the same colors, only in different shades and “the blue one,” he says while pointing to the purple truck. The owner seems confused, assuming that the boy still doesn’t know his colors, crouches down at eye level with the boy, and tells him “This truck is blue.” The boy is adamant and replies that the truck is blue and that he knows all his colors, but the continues his attempt to tell the boy the act color. Yet, the problem isn’t that the two-year old boy doesn’t know his colors rather, along with 8 percent of males, he suffers from color blindness.

While 99% of individuals experience different effects from colorblindness, not all colorblind people see the same things. To place it into perspective, there are nearly 300 million individuals who experience visual impairment as a result of color blindness each day. Notwithstanding its deceptive name, just few of the human population are actually colorblind and can only see in high