Is there any shame or stigma connected to colorblindness?

Only at stop lights.
You know some ass had to make that joke.
It’s fine. No stigma

It should not be a big deal. They should talk to their son’s doctor about it. Many men are red-green colorblind and work around it, (Using the position of traffic lights rather than the color for example.)

It appears that your brother has passed on the gene (from “your side” of the boy’s family) and his wife is unwilling to give up on the idea of a “perfect” child yet. Give it time.

According to some informal checking I’ve done on this, colorblindness occurs in about 8% of American males. It’s a predominantly male issue.

No stigma that I know of. In fact, a good friend of mind is severely color-impaired and is a successful professional photographer. My Dad was a bit of red-green impaired, and that only meant that he dressed funny sometimes. Knowing my Dad, he probably would have anyway.

@JilltheTooth That was great. Made me laugh when I really needed it.

No stigma that I know of.
I have often wondered if the color I see and call, let’s say blue, actually looks the same as the one you have always known as blue but I don’t know how you would actually test/verify this.

We had a kid on the same soccer team that my son was on who played goalie and for years I never knew he was colorblind until one day at a tournament when he said he could not see the lines that defined the box and field boundaries. The lines had been done in yellow instead of white and the yellow and green looked the same to him.

My guess is your relatives are irritated with the idea of anyone finding stuff with their kid since he’s so young, not even in school yet. I have a few friends with toddlers who get bombarded with inquiries of autism, add/adhd, all kinds of stuff to explain why the kids are basically just forming toddlers and they’re fed up more than in denial. They want to wait to see some peer on peer difficulties before taking the kids to get doctored.

Not that I know of, it’s a condition one can’t help, who would have a problem with it? Modern Warfare 3 (a video game) actually added a feature to help colorblind people play their game, so if anything, people are thinking about you and care :)

As far the people in denial, they don’t seem very smart.

It’s never bothered me, and I’ve never been teased over it.

My mother is always shocked when I tell her that browns and reds are pretty close on the color spectrum, in my eyes. Are they really that different?

@FutureMemory Sorry, huge difference. And if you start with the shades it’s amazing.

That’s what she says :). It sure would be interesting to see how the world looks to you non-colorblind people.

@FutureMemory Oh crap, you haven’t seen the leaves in the Fall. Oh that hurts.

@FutureMemory : There are advantages.

@JilltheTooth I got a malicious toolbox warning when I clicked on your answer.

@Adirondackwannabe : Really? That’s odd, it works for me normally. I’ll see if I can find it in another place.

Try this and scroll down a bit…

Checked again and didn’t get any warnings. Must have been the porn site I was on just before that.

I’m telling.

My people are oppressed :/

Sympathy for your plight abounds…

It might cause a person to flunk a military flight physical, or get denied a very prestigious government or engineering position in India.

Maybe the parents have extremely esoteric career aspirations for their son?

For some reason, I never got any updates about this question until now. Anyway, I think my sister in law is in denial about it. Her son is SIX btw, not a toddler. He got held back a year in preschool because he showed signs of immaturity. Not knowing his colors was one of the red flags (pun not intended.)