And I’m color blind
Tuesday, 2 August 2022 12:37![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekI've accepted the truth that I'm approaching my 40th birthday LOL (i mentioned it on this post) and went to get my stuff together to renew my driver's license.
I went to get new ID photos taken, because while I still had 3 available from the China-visa I applied 2 months ago (middle bottom), I looked like a prisoner LOL so I went to take again. I then found another ID photo I had from when I renewed my Austrian Passport a few years back (leftmost), but I didn't have 3 of the same photo. Well this new photo I took (rightmost) I don’t quite like because I was freaking smiling, and it's a Kermit the Frog smile LOL. The photographer kept saying “give me a smile!” I thought ID photos should be emotionless? But they knew I was taking the photo for drivers license, so I’ll leave it up to the bureau on Friday when I go there to submit the application.
This morning I also went to the company clinic to get my eyes checked. Apparently, I'm somewhat color blind. Honestly I'm not surprised. But the freaking test he gave me didn't make sense. It was one of these tests, and I know these are standard tests. I can see it's and 81 and 45. But the tests he showed me... I saw a distinct pattern, but it wasn't numbers. But he kept saying it's numbers. So I actually pointed out to him, I can clearly see that this dot is red, this dot is red, that dot is green, but I'm sorry, I can't see that these link up to show a number. Is that an alphabet? And he vehemently says this book only has numbers. So I flip the pages a bit and there was one image very obviously having the words CHINA because the colors were a pale blue against a deep red. He then says "that's too easy so it doesn't count!" But I countered with "this is proof this book might use alphabets as well."
Then he said "oh, but anyway, you can tell the colors apart, so it should be fine." So I passed the color test LOL. Then it was the directional E things, and I pretty much squared that according to my current astigmatism levels, so I passed that as well. Can drive with glasses or contacts.
I also booked another Chiropractor for this afternoon, I've heard good comments about this one, so hopefully he can find out just what is wrong with my wrist.
I went to get new ID photos taken, because while I still had 3 available from the China-visa I applied 2 months ago (middle bottom), I looked like a prisoner LOL so I went to take again. I then found another ID photo I had from when I renewed my Austrian Passport a few years back (leftmost), but I didn't have 3 of the same photo. Well this new photo I took (rightmost) I don’t quite like because I was freaking smiling, and it's a Kermit the Frog smile LOL. The photographer kept saying “give me a smile!” I thought ID photos should be emotionless? But they knew I was taking the photo for drivers license, so I’ll leave it up to the bureau on Friday when I go there to submit the application.
This morning I also went to the company clinic to get my eyes checked. Apparently, I'm somewhat color blind. Honestly I'm not surprised. But the freaking test he gave me didn't make sense. It was one of these tests, and I know these are standard tests. I can see it's and 81 and 45. But the tests he showed me... I saw a distinct pattern, but it wasn't numbers. But he kept saying it's numbers. So I actually pointed out to him, I can clearly see that this dot is red, this dot is red, that dot is green, but I'm sorry, I can't see that these link up to show a number. Is that an alphabet? And he vehemently says this book only has numbers. So I flip the pages a bit and there was one image very obviously having the words CHINA because the colors were a pale blue against a deep red. He then says "that's too easy so it doesn't count!" But I countered with "this is proof this book might use alphabets as well."
Then he said "oh, but anyway, you can tell the colors apart, so it should be fine." So I passed the color test LOL. Then it was the directional E things, and I pretty much squared that according to my current astigmatism levels, so I passed that as well. Can drive with glasses or contacts.
I also booked another Chiropractor for this afternoon, I've heard good comments about this one, so hopefully he can find out just what is wrong with my wrist.
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Date: 2022-08-02 16:15 (UTC)Er... the first one is 74, not 81. Just to make sure, I googled to find a sample Ishihara Test, and took it (https://www.colorlitelens.com/ishihara-test). It consisted of 12 such examples, and the first one was that one on the left. I entered 74 and it was correct.
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Date: 2022-08-02 23:12 (UTC)What I don’t get is, I can see where it’s green and where it’s orange. I just don’t see the number.
I went to that website and did a test (they had a different set of numbers) and I still scored a 91%. So it shouldn’t be too severe.
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Date: 2022-08-04 10:38 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-06 02:51 (UTC)I guess it's like that ongoing joke about men seeing only purple whereas women see lilac, magenta, fuchsia, violet LOL
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Date: 2022-08-06 22:20 (UTC)Meanwhile I'm kind of the inverse of you. I have really good color acuity, but my night vision is terrible because of a couple of health issues. I don't drive because I'd hate to have me on the road.