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My kindergarten teacher basically beat me with their voice for not being able to get my colors correct. Two years later during art class, I was sent to the school nurse to find out I was colorblind. However, they never told anyone, not even my parents.

It really should be a part of general screening upon admittance to primary school. Then again, this was 30 years ago, so maybe it is now.



In grade 6, an adult came in to class to do a colourblind test on everyone.

Projection screen was lowered, lights turned off, and a series of multi-coloured dots on many slides were displayed one after another on the screen.

In the dots, there were numbers / letters in colours different from the general background colour of the slide.

Adult: "Can everyone see the number?"

Almost everyone: "YESSSSSS."

One boy: "Ummm - there's no number on the screen!"

Pregnant pause.

One boy: "Oh yeah. Now I see it."

Almost everyone turns their head to look at that one boy.

Test continues.

Afterwards, the one boy was selected for further consultation...




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