son diagnosed as colour blind and worried about effect on future career

looby75

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Interesting. Very rare for girls. I presume that her father and maternal grandfather were both colourblind. (And even then it's still a 50:50 chance.)

her dad is colour blind, I don't know about my dad as I had very little to do with him. My uncle on my mums side is colour blind so my grandmother must have had the gene (who passed it on to mum who passed it on to me)

JimmyTheWig

looby75 wrote: »

her dad is colour blind, I don't know about my dad as I had very little to do with him. My uncle on my mums side is colour blind so my grandmother must have had the gene (who passed it on to mum who passed it on to me)

Yes, I hadn't thought of that path. So no, nothing to do with your dad.

looby75

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Yes, I hadn't thought of that path. So no, nothing to do with your dad.

the ironic thing is I also have a son who isn't colourblind lol

JimmyTheWig

looby75 wrote: »

the ironic thing is I also have a son who isn't colourblind lol

With a colourblind dad and carrier mum, all children have 50:50 chance of being colourblind, regardless of sex.
Non-colourblind daughters will be carriers.
[There's no concept of a non-colourblind male being a carrier.]

gyromain

I am colour blind and also my eldest daughter. So does this means my wife and two younger daughters are carriers?

My wife was praised by our GP for spotting my daughter's colour blindness at 5 years old. This GP has a son who was not diagnosed by this father with colour blindness until he was 13.

happy35

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

OP, we found out about my colour-blindness when I was about 5. I don't remember it, now, but aparently at the time I wasn't fussed at all but my mum was particularly upset. Almost in the same breath that she was told that I was colourblind they rattled off a list of jobs that I wouldn't be able to do.
My main problem green/brown, which is quite unusual. (Not my only rare gene, as it happens!)

No use blaming yourself. It's not something you had any control over. I guess the only thing you can say is if you had known, would you have terminated? I'm sure the answer is "no", in which case concentrate on the intelligent, hard working son you have rather than on his disability.

However, I would question the fact that he passed the test previously and has had no problems since. There are some tests on youtube that you can google. I've just tried a couple and failed dismally. [There's still a little bit of me that thinks people have been tricking me all this time with these tests and there's no numbers in there!] Get him to try one of those before bothering with getting other professionals involved.



I tell you, that's the most annoying thing about being colourblind.
Especially as people always ask you the most obvious colours.


Interesting. Very rare for girls. I presume that her father and maternal grandfather were both colourblind. (And even then it's still a 50:50 chance.)

Hi, there is no way I would have had a termination even if I had known before he was born. I just think that I could have helped him to choose a career path that would have been suitable for him from the beginning.

I am considering taking him to a Vision Clinic at a Uni for an assessment of how much colour he can see, they also look at whether a coloured lens will improve what he sees.

I have looked at a couple of the tests with him and it would appear that he has difficulty between very pale pink and very pale lilac and very pale blue and very pale grey.

I did consider whether he was colour blind when he was very little as he struggled with the difference between grey and brown but he was only about 3 at the time. I had forgotten about this until my mam mentioned it, never thought about it again as he passed the test

DS has come to terms with it, some of his friends have tried the test and they cant see the numbers either, they also never knew they were colour blind. I think the main difference is the test for younger children appear to use brighter colours than the one used for older children, it used objects rather than numbers as well

looby75

gyromain wrote: »

I am colour blind and also my eldest daughter. So does this means my wife and two younger daughters are carriers?
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your wife is definitely at carrier and of course your colour blind daughter is too (btw if she has a boy they will also be colourblind) your two younger daughters may or may not be carriers, there is a chance they haven't inherited the gene.

littlerat

Colourblindness runs down my Dad's side of the family (grandad, dad and brother) - all have progressed as they got older, didn't actually know this was normal, no doctors/opticians have ever said it's not normal. I guess maybe it's just a side effect of natural eyesight deterioration?

My Uncle (Dad's older brother) is not colourblind, but 1 of my 4 cousins is - more severe than Dad or brother though. Grandad was RGB, brother is RG as is Dad (although may have some problems on . I have non genetic in 1 eye due to my eye problems.


Anyway, some places use the ishihara test (the main one, the numbers with dots thing), others will do it on your ability to differentiate, so some jobs he may pass a colourblindness test if his is relatively minor - which if he only has problems with pastel colours, may be the case.

Dunroamin

looby75 wrote: »

your wife is definitely at carrier and of course your colour blind daughter is too (btw if she has a boy they will also be colourblind) your two younger daughters may or may not be carriers, there is a chance they haven't inherited the gene.

My father was colour blind and so am I. My husband is also colour blind, so thank heavens we didn't have children!

LondonDiva

tea_lover wrote: »

I wouldn't worry about contacting them at this stage. Employers are not allowed to discriminate on the grounds of health conditions during recruitment. The exceptions to this are where a condition could have health or safety implications (eg. electrician or train driver in the case of colour blindness).

If your son is successful at this stage of the selection process, the employer can then ask him for relevant health information. The company has to be able to demonstrate that what they are asking is relevant for the position, and again they are not allowed to discriminate in any way.

For more info you could try searching for "post offer health information", "pre-employment health questionnaires" or "equality act".

They are also allowed to discriminate on grounds of health if the disability means that the candidate would be unable to do the job even with reasonable adjsutments.

The key is 'reasonable adjsutments' and the ability to deliver the job description.