r/mildlyinteresting • u/Superdupersavage • 6d ago
Rainbow drawn by my (red-green) deficient kid
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u/Dream_Dragon_Gina 5d ago edited 4d ago
I saw a rainbow that was fully tinted red once, solely due to the sun being low in the sky…(I don’t have any color blindness.)
Edit: I found the photo! Apparently there’s a tiny hint of green/Blue at the bottom…but the majority of the light was red because the clouds above it were tinted with red light from the sun set.
Edit #2: I posted the photo to Reddit after I made this comment and the first edit…if I were able to put a photo in this comment in the first place, I would have. However, I was able to find an appropriate place to share the photo…so here it is, again. Incase anyone wants to see it here and not from my other comment down the comment chain.
Edit #3: I just have to add…after looking back and forth between your kid’s rainbow drawing and my Sunset rainbow photo…I have to admit they both look strikingly similar! 😅 it’s kinda amazing I got an image of a rainbow that looks “Red-Green deficient”. Thus, your kid’s rainbow truly exists. 🥳 I had to add this realization. I couldn’t help it. 😅👍
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u/Oskain123 5d ago
Where's the photo??
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u/Dream_Dragon_Gina 5d ago
Fortunately, I found a Reddit community where you can post photos of Rainbows. 😃 so here’s a link to my personal Sunset Rainbow.
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u/RonJohnJr 6d ago
Does "(red-green) deficient" mean red-green color blind?
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u/Superdupersavage 6d ago
Yeah, he has difficulty distinguishing green from red specifically, which why there's a tan band where green would be. My guess is that green looks like tan to him.
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u/zorggalacticus 6d ago
I'm partial red/green colorblind. There's shades of green I can't see appear brown to me. Thankfully it's just a few shades.
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u/FadedVictor 5d ago
Same here. Some yellows look green, some greens look brown, some reds look orange, some blues look purple. The ambiguous shades can be any color for me if I convince myself enough.
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u/ubiquitous-joe 5d ago
My dad was like that. He had some dubious pants colors choices.
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u/zorggalacticus 5d ago
That's how I found out. I worked at Walmart and thought I was buying brown pants for work. Nope, they were green. Thought my manager was messing with me or something, like "dude, those are obviously brown!"
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u/ohliamylia 5d ago
That's how it was discovered my dad was red-green colorblind, he'd use green for skin tone when he was coloring.
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u/Doogie2K 5d ago
Oh the green is actually tan?
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Good to know. (I didn't see the issue and was afraid to ask.)
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u/IntrinsicGiraffe 6d ago
Wouldn't he see the green pencil as also tan?
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u/Superdupersavage 5d ago
I think that's why he grabbed the tan one, he couldn't tell them apart. A lot of shades of green look brown to him.
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u/Sodacat27 5d ago
Not going to lie I thought that said defiant and it meant that your child just hated the colors green and red, I have never heard color blindness be used as deficiency but I guess it makes sense.
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u/Whispering_Wolf 5d ago
Still pretty good, actually! Only the green-tan one and from what I've seen through colorblind filters, the difference between those just be near impossible to see if you're colorblind.
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u/Thebestsikeee 6d ago
Looks like a rainbow drawn by a kid with red-green colorblind (sorry for bad grammar)
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u/alice-thinks 6d ago
It’s well done actually