Like the other commenter I too am partially colorblind. I don't know how my exact condition is called, but it's very minor. In those online tests with many-many reddish, greenish and yellowish dots I fail to read the symbol or a number in about 1-2 cases out of 20. So, in real world I can see most reds and greens, and it's not a big deal for me. However, due to my condition and her abilities our differences in color perception come up a lot more often than one might think. Surprisingly, we found out about it after about 2 years of being together :D
Of course I envy her, but I mostly just happy that she can experience some aspects of our world better than most other people. It's like with talents: the fact that someone has a particular talent or skill that you lack doesn't make you hate this person. Instead you ask them to show it off, they do, you "Oo-ooh!" and "Aa-aah!", they feel really good about themselves and you're both happy.
Sometimes she is sad I can't appreciate something she sees, but we don't dwell on it. She would often describe the shape or a pattern she sees and I try to picture it and say something like "Oh that's neat!".
Also, there are some clothing items I never combine, and I always ask her for advice when I select my cloths, or colors for my presentation or charts.
Colors are very cool. I wish we could have some kind of tech that would allow us to see colors like some birds or aquatic species do. These days there are glasses for colorblind people to give them some extended color perception, so the tech is making some baby steps.
Have you read about how those glasses work? It's kind of cool.
It turns out that many color-blind people have the normal distribution of cones, but the spectral response is similar enough that the brain can't differentiate. By putting an optical notch filter in the overlap region, the difference is accentuated and the brain starts picking it up normally.
Of course I envy her, but I mostly just happy that she can experience some aspects of our world better than most other people. It's like with talents: the fact that someone has a particular talent or skill that you lack doesn't make you hate this person. Instead you ask them to show it off, they do, you "Oo-ooh!" and "Aa-aah!", they feel really good about themselves and you're both happy.
Sometimes she is sad I can't appreciate something she sees, but we don't dwell on it. She would often describe the shape or a pattern she sees and I try to picture it and say something like "Oh that's neat!".
Also, there are some clothing items I never combine, and I always ask her for advice when I select my cloths, or colors for my presentation or charts.
Colors are very cool. I wish we could have some kind of tech that would allow us to see colors like some birds or aquatic species do. These days there are glasses for colorblind people to give them some extended color perception, so the tech is making some baby steps.