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From: david1@aluxe.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: colorblindness
Message-ID: <403@aluxe.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Sep-83 15:59:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 30 15:59:32 1983
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To n.d.mcburnett:

I'm posting this to the net only because I can't figure out the path
name to mail you this response.

     In response to your response, I'm a dutan.  I  have  trouble
with  the  red-green  part  of the spectrum.  However I also have
trouble with brown-green-red distinguishing.

1) I never got a headache from the lense that I  know  of  and  I
didn't have any "wandering eye" problems.

2) I use a terminal alot and I'm glad you brought that up.   Most
of  the  time  I  use  a  Tektronix 4051.  With the lense on, the
printing looked somewhat lit up or fluorescent.  When  I  stopped
wearing  it  I  was  surprised at the difference.  I thought that
what I had been seeing was normal.

3) I haven't thought about using any other type of tinted  lense.
I  guess I'll continue to live not knowing what colors things are
supposed to be.  However  I  think  that  we  are  members  of  a
genetically superior group.  Who else could have an object change
colors right before their eyes when going by  it.   It's  like  a
visual doppler effect.

4) A word of warning if you get the lense.  Be extremely  careful
when  putting  it  in  and  removing it.  I scratched mine when I
popped it out and it went flying.  Also you shouldn't fall asleep
with it in, it can damage your eye.

5) As you must have discovered by  now,  having  a  color  vision
problem can be entertaining.  People always enjoy laughing at you
when you can't tell the color of something.

                                             aluxe!david1