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

looby75

Dunroamin wrote: »

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

Why? As I said my daughter got to 17 without noticing, it's not caused her any problems.

It was only during a routine eye check that the option overheard dd and I talking about her OU course and strangely enough how the colour blind gene was passed down. He asked if my son was colorblind (he only got the tail end of the conversation) and I said no but their dad is, so he tested them both.

The look on dd's face when she realised she couldn't see some of the plates was priceless, she was totally shocked. What was even funnier was the look on her face when her brother flew through them all with ease :rotfl:

Dunroamin

looby75 wrote: »

Why? As I said my daughter got to 17 without noticing, it's not caused her any problems.

It was only during a routine eye check that the option overheard dd and I talking about her OU course and strangely enough how the colour blind gene was passed down. He asked if my son was colorblind (he only got the tail end of the conversation) and I said no but their dad is, so he tested them both.

The look on dd's face when she realised she couldn't see some of the plates was priceless, she was totally shocked. What was even funnier was the look on her face when her brother flew through them all with ease :rotfl:

Because I assume (perhaps wrongly) that having two colour blind parents would not only increase the chance of colour blindness in their children but also increase the likelihood of the condition being more severe.

Mild colour blindness is no more than an inconvenience to most people but nobody would want to go through life seeing everything in shades of grey!

(Another job you can't do is to be a tomato picker and I often have to ask for help when buying mine!)

looby75

Dunroamin wrote: »

Because I assume (perhaps wrongly) that having two colour blind parents would not only increase the chance of colour blindness in their children but also increase the likelihood of the condition being more severe.

Mild colour blindness is no more than an inconvenience to most people but nobody would want to go through life seeing everything in shades of grey!

(Another job you can't do is to be a tomato picker and I often have to ask for help when buying mine!)

apparently it doesn't work like that. Yes any child of yours would be colour blind but it doesn't mean they would be very badly colourblind. (this comes from dd who did a human genetics YASS OU course and who is going to start a biomedical genetics degree in September)

Poster_girl

gyromain wrote: »

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

looby75 wrote: »

your two younger daughters may or may not be carriers, there is a chance they haven't inherited the gene.

Sorry this is not correct. Because the gene is found on the X chromosome which is passed on by a father to his daughters, all daughters of a colourblind father would inherit the gene but they will only be colourblind themselves if they inherit a second gene for colourblindness from their mother.

looby75

Poster_girl wrote: »

Sorry this is not correct. Because the gene is found on the X chromosome which is passed on by a father to his daughters, all daughters of a colourblind father would inherit the gene but they will only be colourblind themselves if they inherit a second gene for colourblindness from their mother.

Yep you are right, sorry my mistake, dd baffeled me with science lol

Poster_girl

No worries

looby75

Poster_girl wrote: »

No worries

this is the reason she's going into medical geneticaly stuff and I haven't ....she understands it and no matter how hard she tries to explain to me I don't lol

duchy

As if anyone would consider termination for something as minor as colourblindness-What an awful thing to say !

I've learned in my current job just how common colour-blindness is -and some of the stratagies to deal with it-For example I'll ask a customer if they have a yellow or red light on their BB router and will be told "I think they are all green" I've learned now that usually means they have some colour problems and usually at that point ask if they have difficulty between red and green or whatever. Quite often I use the "do all the lights look the same colour?" as usually they can see one looks a different shade even if they see it as the same colour. Like most disabilities lots of people manage very nicely by finding ways around their difficulties -someone once told me he had more difficulties with his left-handedness than his colour blindness

JimmyTheWig

duchy wrote: »

As if anyone would consider termination for something as minor as colourblindness-What an awful thing to say !

I thought that someone might take offence at that.

It wasn't meant as a serious suggestion. The fact that the question was so ludicrous was supposed to illustrate that there was nothing for the OP to feel guilty about.

duchy

Not much point-we mothers are programmed to feel guilt regardless of whether it's anything we have control over or not !!