My Color Blindness
Finally, thanks to the Color blindness entry in the Wikipedia, I have been able to determine that my form of color deficiency is called “Deuteranomaly” which is a reduced sensitivity to green or a shifting of sensitivity towards red. It is the most common form of color blindness and I have seen figures between 5% and 8% of all males that have this type of issue. The only time I ever have trouble is when I try to do these special color blindness tests and when people send out Christmas cards where they have red letters on a green background (where the green and red are nearly the same intensity). To me it looks like the red is a blurred neon red and I have to look more closely to actually read the text. It’s interesting though because I always thought I didn’t see reds the same way as everyone else and that perhaps my issue was a Protanomaly (reduced sensitivity to red). This now makes sense to me since many reddish orange colors look like plain old red to me (see the Coast Guard — the stripe is supposedly “international orange”).