A quick explanation as to why I try to do image descriptions

Some people have been asking why I “parrot” writing on images or describe a picture in some detail when posting it.  I don’t always do this (because sometimes I forget, quite honestly), but I’m trying to make a habit of keeping up with it.

Here’s a simple break-down as to why:

1) I have a friend who’s severely colour blind and can’t read text when it’s matched up in front of certain colour schemes.  Instead of giving him a migraine to end all other migraines, I describe the image so he knows what I’m “lol’ing” or “omg’ing” about without feeling left out in the cold.

2) As someone on the autism spectrum, there are times when images with people looking directly at the photographer make me anxious.  Apart from a few people with whom I’m entirely comfortable, I have difficulties looking people in the eyes.  This includes images, even if they’re drawings of people.  If you know me offline, I’m pretty darn good at hiding this after years of practice, and sometimes it’s easier for me to brush off than others. 

Still, it sometimes get the better of me.  I don’t know if other people have this issue as well, but just in case they do, I describe images that might be too uncomfortable for some to look at.

3) Some people have crappy internet connexions that don’t load images very quickly at all.  I can relate.  Thus, I describe.

Cheers,

Nic(ayal)

So I discovered, BY ACCIDENT, earlier today that I am partially red colour-blind in my left eye.

I am, understandably, slightly freaked out by this.
Let me give a circumstantial description of this occurrence and then I will try to show you all how I see the world.

I went out for lunch with my grandmother earlier today, on our way back we stopped to pick up groceries, as I was sitting in the car I looked down at my dress. I was wearing my teal coloured 1943 tea-dress with the fine off-white pin-stripe stitching on it, looking at the pin-stripe I noticed that there was bright aqua blue in it, I hadn’t noticed that before so I tried to look closer to the material but the pattern seemed to move, I thought that was odd and realising that the sun was glaring through the window I put it down to retinal refraction (causes the coloured spots you sometimes see), but just to be sure I turned my back to the window so the light was only on the dress, not in my eyes, and looked again, same thing.
Remembering that I am -6 in both eyes it wouldn’t have surprised me if I had missed that detailing considering my eye-sight goes out of focus at a distance of about 2.5ft
So out of a necessity for logical comparison I covered my left eye and looked at it with my right, the dress seemed normal, the colour was a slightly green teal colour with the off-white detailing. I then covered my right eye and looked at it with my left, the dress was more blue and the detailing was blue as well. I started to get concerned at this point.
I got out of the car and looked along the car park until I found a red vehicle, I covered my eyes one at a time like before and looked. With my right eye the car looked pillar-box red (that’s ketchup red for the Americans I suppose), but with the left it looked more blue, everything did.
I wandered through the car park trying it out on anything red or derived of that pigment, so yellow, orange, pink ect. and the same thing kept happening.
I did it the whole way home as well and now I can’t stop noticing it.
Let me attempt to show you all what I am seeing.

With my right eye the world looks like this:
 

But with my Left eye it looks like this:
 

Now, I either have had that since birth and never noticed until now (I’ve never had cause to look at red things with only my left eye before) or it has developed in which case one of my inner red retinal cones is damaged somehow.
Colour blindness is mostly in males since it’s sex linked through the X chromosome but it’s not un-heard of in females.
I’m sort of deeply amused by this discovery as well as troubled by it.