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Sunday, 8 April 2007

OMG HEY LOVELY PEOPLE:DDD
SORRY I HAVENT BLOGGED FOR A LIKE SUPER DUPER LONG TIME.
SO ANYWAY, HERE'S THE POST WHICH THE WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR!

okay okay.Today, we'll be learning about COLOUR DEFICIENCY!
Or in simpler terms, COLOUR BLINDNESS.

During primary sch medical checks, I remembered how i was asked to look and stare onto this piece of glass with multi colour dots and spot some random number within it. And i swear, it was HIGHLY AMUSING:D
And i remembered calling my dear friend stupid and blind cos she couldn't find the number thing. Then, i felt SMART cos i thought it was some intellectual test and I ACTUALLY SPOTTED THE NUMBER. However, now i feel really really bad cos the poor girl wasn't blind or stupid, she was simply missing some of her color-sensitive cones in her retina!

APPARENTLY, guys are more prone to being colour blind compared to girls. HOHOHO. No wonder guys have bad colour co-ordination. AHAHAHA.

So you see, the human retina consists of many many cone cells which see mainly red, green and blue. And other colours like yellow, pink pruple etc etc are simply mixtures and combinations of these. People who are colour blind lack in some of these colour-sensitive cones and therefore, these colours will appear DARKER in some cases.

And the reason why girls are less prone to being colour blind is because the genes for color vision are on the X chromosome, and because females have 2 X chromosomes, if one is deficient, the other makes up for it. Also,vast majority of color blind cases are hereditary. SO PRAY THAT YOUR MOM WAS NOT COLOUR BLIND.Females may be carriers of color blindness, but males are more commonly affected. Basically, there are FIVE types of colour blindness.APPARENTLY.

Protanomaly or usually referred as "red-weakness", causes the poor man to see less of the colour RED on any item he sees. For example, if the protanomalous observer spots a violet or lavendar object, he would fail to detect any from of the colour red and therefore simply see the blue component of the violet-coloured item.

Next big word: Deuteranomaly. It is when the guy is considered to be "green weak". The idea is similar to that of the case of PROTANOMALY, except, it is the issue of lack of green colour-sensitive cones.

Next next next is Dicromasy! It is a sad case whereby these individuals normally know they have a color vision problem and the sad SAD thing is that these people see no perceptible difference between red, orange, yellow, and green. All these colors that seem so different to the normal viewer, appear to be the same color for them.

The fourth case: Protanopia. It is the dimming of brightness on colours like red, orange and yellow. And therefore, these colours are usually confused with black or dark gray. OMG IMAGINE HOW PROTANOPES SEE SUNBURN PEOPLE. HAHAH. The RED would look completely BLACK.NYAHAH.

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT WE'RE DOWN TO OUR VERY LAST CASE:Deuteranopia!The deuteranope suffers the same hue discrimination problems as the protanope, but without the abnormal dimming.The names red, orange, yellow, and green really mean very little to him aside from being different names that every one else around him seems to be able to agree on. Similarly, violet, lavender, purple, and blue, seem to be too many names to use logically for hues that all look alike to him.

There is no form of treatment for color blindness, nor is it usually the cause of any significant disability.

However, a driver who suffers from colour blind is HIGHLY DANGEROUS when on the road.
He would easily misinterpret the traffic lights' colours and for all you know, he would hit the accelerator when he thought he sees GREEN but in reality its RED. OR VICE VERSA. Though it'd be quite entertaining to see such an act, it wouldn't be very safe.

Another problem these people would face is, GETTING THE RIGHT OUTFIT. Can you imagine the poor man decked in a barney-purple and mustard-yellow pinstriped suit thinking he looked handsome in the blue and black one?I would guarantee that he would have all eyes set on him, but not in a positive kinda way. What a tragedy.

Well anyway, I hope you have all been enlightened and REMEMBER. COLOUR BLINDNESS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER. There's no certain treatment to correct it so we should all learn to appreciate these SPEACIAL AND DIFFERENT PEOPLE(:

OKAY OKAY I'M OFF TO BED.
HOPE YOU GUYS FOUND THIS ENTRY ALRIGHT.

Good night(:

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