How would you know if your kid is colorblind?

[Jalapeñomel]

Disclaimer: I do not think D is colorblind.

I'm just generally curious how this is diagnosed.

[tuck]

DH colored all the people green for every coloring sheet, and when his mom asked about it, he picked the green crayon and told her that's the one that's closest to skin tone.

[Deleted]

No idea but I'm interested to read the responses. My BFF thinks her almost 3yo son is color blind. She said he has always confused red and green (those are the most common, right?) when he knows every single color. She's going to bring it up at his well checkup next month.

[mainelyfoolish]

Same way they diagnose adults, I think. I remember DD getting the two colored dotted pictures shown to her at her eye exam and the eye doctor asking if she could see anything in the picture. I'm not sure if they'd be able to diagnose a kid who wasn't old enough to comprend that.

[curbsideprophet]

I am curious to know what age they can diagnose this. DS has a 50/50 chance since my dad is colorblind.

[faith194]

At DS' four year we'll check, he had to follow a line on a dot test, at first he was being goofy, but eventually did it.

[rugbywife]

When I was 8 I really wanted glasses so I tried to 'fail' the test...when I failed the entire colourblindness test the doc figured out what I was up to.

#unhelpfulanecdotes

[soozy87]

They found out for my brother when he was in kindergarten and couldn't see the red chalk on the green chalkboard.

[dr.girlfriend]

They can test as early as age 3 -- if the child can "point to the star," "point to the square," on a regular page, then they do the page where the figure is made of different color dots.

[auntie]

Colorblindness is generally passed down through the birthmother's family. It's unlikely if his doesn't have maternal relatives who have colorblindness.

[Jalapeñomel]

I wonder how strange it must be for a toddler who is colorblind to play with all those color sorting toys.

[mccallister84]

I don't remember how early my brother was identified as color blind but I know it was pretty early on - my mom will tell stories of his first grade teacher who forgot he was colorblind so would underline the directions that said "color -at words with a red crayon" when he would use the wrong color.

My uncle (moms brother) is color blind so it was probably on her radar as well.

[lurknomore]

DH got in trouble in kindergarten. They were doing a world ceremony of some sort and DH had to make the French flag. He did. The teacher accused him of trying to ruin the ceremony. Turns out to him blue = purple so he made a red white and purple French flag. He can mostly see the greens and reds but give him any shade of blue or purple and he's done. His favorite color has always been orange because it's the only one he can reliably figure out what it is.

[aprilsails]

My parents figured it out for my Brother at the beginning of kindergarten. He consistently identified the sky as the same colour as a purple crayon. My maternal grandfather is also colourblind so it was on their radar for sure.

The saddest day of his life is when our other Grandparents bought him a Colour Gameboy (which only had a red and green display) and he couldn't tell the difference.

[Jalapeñomel]

Aug 22, 2015 21:07:51 GMT -5 aprilsails said:

My parents figured it out for my Brother at the beginning of kindergarten. He consistently identified the sky as the same colour as a purple crayon. My maternal grandfather is also colourblind so it was on their radar for sure.

The saddest day of his life is when our other Grandparents bought him a Colour Gameboy (which only had a red and green display) and he couldn't tell the difference.

It all looked the same or did he have trouble actually seeing one color?

[aprilsails]

Aug 25, 2015 10:26:39 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Aug 22, 2015 21:07:51 GMT -5 aprilsails said:

My parents figured it out for my Brother at the beginning of kindergarten. He consistently identified the sky as the same colour as a purple crayon. My maternal grandfather is also colourblind so it was on their radar for sure.

The saddest day of his life is when our other Grandparents bought him a Colour Gameboy (which only had a red and green display) and he couldn't tell the difference.

It all looked the same or did he have trouble actually seeing one color?

He has difficulty differentiating red and green so the game boy was useless to him. He sees the sky just fine, it was actually the purple crayon he doesn't see right. Looks the same as blue to him since he doesn't see the red in it.

[whitemerlot]

My h is very colorblind. He mixes up green, brown, orange, grey, yellow, purple and red. He could not see anything on the tests for the colorblind glasses.

My ds was slow to pick up colors, but could see the images in all of the tests and is fine now. There are pictures with things like a butterfly hidden in a series of dots. My husband could never pick any of the pictures out.