Colorblind People, What have been your biggest “Oh I Fucked Up” moments due to your condition?

I once painted a forest red and presented it to class

I nearly dropped microbiology lab because as I went from station to station to look through the microscopes I could never see what they were seeing or talking about.

On the test, the first station was spores. They’d been stained so you could see two types. One pale red. One pale green all intermingled in the slide.

I finally called the proctor over and said I thought the slide was messed up. We went back and forth. Finally said. Wait here.

He found a colorblind test. Turns out my troubles were because I can’t tell the difference between reds and greens. At least in the paler shades. I’m color deficient.

I had dressed my niece for school one morning and apparently her shirt didn’t go with her yellow pants. I wasn’t aware the pants were yellow.

There’s been a few. When I was in kindergarten my teacher sat down with my parents to discuss what they thought was the beginnings of a learning disability because I struggled with colors. My mom started making sure that all my coloring pencils/crayons were labeled with the shades going forward.

So she long suspected I may have been colorblind (or a bit slow, lol). Sure enough, when I got older I wanted to apply to the RCMP here in Canada (a federal police service). Aced the test, then I went to get my eyes tested. Colorblind. The cranky old doctor told me to find a different career, but at least I was finally diagnosed after years of struggling with basic colors.

Since then my color issues have mostly affected me in regards to clothing blunders. Buying shirts that I thought were white or off-white, to find out later that they were a pale pink. Wearing socks I thought were blue but they’re purple. Being completely unable to match basic outfits when buying dress clothes in the store.

For some reason I can’t distinguish mold on bread. Made my SO toast one day, served it to her and noticed she was only picking at it. Sure enough, it was covered in mold and she was trying to be nice. I straight up couldn’t see the mold spots.

Long story short, I was kicked off the bomb squad.