Love Is Color Blindness
See that picture? It's supposed to have the number 49 in it. I say 'supposed to', because I can't see it. Yes, I'm color blind. It's a funny thing to have, as I see the world just a little differently than others. At a stop light, the green light appears a greyish-white. When playing Uno, the red and green colored cards will look identical. And if some T-shirt has some brilliantly colored design on front, it could look dull and bland or really awful to me. It does have some disadvantages and I've never heard of any advantages in being color blind, except maybe you can really say that graphics cause don't matter, because it'll look crappy with all of the dull colors you see (ok, bad example). But overall, it's nothing to get upset about, really only hampers the little things, and is nothing to fret over, except...
It can have a frustrating effect when playing certain video games. Take for instance Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo for the PS1. Years ago, I was looking forward to this as something both the wife and I can play together. When we started playing against each other, she was wiping the floor with me, as she kept beating me over and over again with ease. She then wondered why I was placing these red gems with the green ones? I asked, "Wait, that's green?" Next match, same question from her, but now questioning the greens and yellows together. My response? "I thought that was yellow!" Game was unplayable for me, unless I changed the tint of the television set to where it made the four colors more distinguishable to me, but at the same time, it made the presentation of the game in general, butt-ugly.
Then there are other action/platformer type of games, where everything is fine, until I come up to some sort puzzle that is color based. If it has any combination of red/green/yellow or blue/purple involved, then I'm screwed. Before, I have to get someone, like my wife, to tell me what this color is and that and try to move forward. Thankfully, it hasn't dampened my enjoyment on playing video games throughout the years and it's just something that comes around rarely, if at all.
Noah doesn't seem to be inflicted by it...so far, which is a good thing, cause if that one time that I get stuck due to color ever arises, I know he's right there, watching me play, and will be able to help me out with correct color identification.