By: Alex Zharovsky, Jesse Carpenter,Leonard Meirson, Jeremy Romano

Color blindness is a disorder when you can’t tell certain colors from another. For people who have color blindness, they think that the color red is green, blue is yellow, or the world is black and white.

Color blindness is caused by things you might not even think could causes. Here are a few:

Inherited from family Eye problems Injury to the eye Side effects of some medicines

There are many ways that you can tell that you have color blindness.

You may see many colors, so you don’t know that you see differently from others.

You might see few shades of a color, while others can see thousands of colors.

In rare cases, you may ONLY see black, white, and gray.

There are many ways to diagnose color blindness. These are the most common:

In one test, you look at a page with color dots, and try to find a pattern in the colors, usually a number.

Another way is to arrange a set of colored tiles according to how similar the color is. If you’re color blind, you will not do it.

Guess what number is in the circles.

KEY: XX – female, XY – male, C – unaffected, affected.

Xc Xc XC Xc XC - XCXc XCXc Xc – XCXc XcXc Y- XcY XcY Y- XCY XcY

XC XC XC XcXc- XCXc XCXc XC – XCXC XCXc Y- XCY XCY Y- XCY XcY

1 in 10 men have color blindness.1 in 100 women have color blindness.

You cannot determine if the fetus is colorblind while the mom is still pregnant. You can tell if the kid is colorblind by doing a colorblind test at age four.

There are new glasses that can help people with color blindness see more color.

These glasses are made for people with red-green color blindness which is the most common type.

The glasses make the green’s the red’s darker.

People with red-green color blindness cannot see red and green because they are too light.

Now you know all the things that come with color blindness like causes and how it can be passed down from generation to generation. Color blindness changes many peoples lives, but they live with it no matter what.