Ok, serious answers only please....? Question about red/green color blindness!?

Question

Please only give serious answers, as I see so many young people leaving silly, dumb answers to questions. Yahoo answers is meant for serious inquiries about real topics. It is not to be used for entertainment puposes of any kind. My question is....if you are red/green color blind like my son is, how do you see the colors red and green? He said a green jeep appears to be silver to him. Is this how you folks really see red and green? And yes, I realize it was my genes that made him this way. I'm just looking for some answers from colorblind folks. Serious answers only, this is not some sort of silly game!!Thanks to all who help me!

Answer 1

Serious answer, I have no idea.  My brother-in-law was color blind and we would have to tell him which category his pie piece landed on for Trivial Pursuit for certain colors, I can't remember which ones.  I'd ask him, but he is dead; my sister sort of killed him.

Answer 2

I am not colorblind, but my grandfather was and he reported seeing whatever color he was blind to as just greyish.  A friend of my brothers could not see green and it appeared to be grey to him.

Answer 3

Unless it's a rare odd form of colour vision anomaly, it's only your genes if you're his mother (you've given no definitive gender clue that I've seen.)

In Protanopic Red/Green  defects red tends to be seen as a very dark colour.

in Deuteranopic R/G defects this doesn't hold, but both share the same main range of confusion Red/Yellow/Green

Someone with marked Deutan difficulty will be picking strawberries by shape: they are effectively the same colour as the leaves.

It's difficult to explain that most people see simply one colour (red/green) where we see two distinct shades.  This is why on some colour tests the numbers can disappear: the foreground number and the background *are exactly the same colour* to the person with the anomaly.  There's no answer to: "Are they seeing pink or grey?" when pink and grey are, to the viewer, two words for the same thing.

Answer 4

Oh your poor son can't watch the red green show:(

My grand pa and my brother are both color blind, but they can spot a dye job a mile away!?