problem identifying colors

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I'm not color blind, I've been tested. However I have a lot of problems identifying colors like yellow vs. orange, blue vs. black. Does anyone else have this issue, or is it just me? For example, I've been told that a school bus is yellow but to me a looks orange. Same with the lines in the middle of the road.

I am not color blind per say. I have a trichromy main axis disorder ish (forgot technical diagnosis name). It is weird, and not commonly tested for, you actually need a specialist because it not a straight inheritance, nor commonly asked about. I confuse like colors (red/orange/yellow), I hate yellow (hard to see if lettered), but I have trouble distinguishing things in the purple blue range especially.

There are a few online color vision tests here.

Sometimes my mother and me argue about the colour of my clothes. Eg.: she says that my dark green pants are brown.
I'm not color blind and I'm sure I'm right.

Maybe color agnosia?

I know I'm not colorblind but for some reason, everyone wants to argue with me on what color something is. The only difference between me and the people arguing with me is they wear contacts or glasses, and I don't, so maybe the lenses have something to do with the distortion of color for them? I don't know.

I'm not colour blind, but I don't always know what all the colours are. Except for the main ones.

School buses look orange to me too. A lot of pale colors that other people will call "beige" or "ivory" or "off-white" look to me like they are yellow or pink. I think I see more color saturation than other people do.

I've actually had argument with people over orange and pink. I just can't distinguish them sometimes.

What most people understand as color blindness is that the person cannot see one color (green,red,yellow,blue) or can't see color at all.

That's not the case. Those are extreme types of color blindness.

Color is detected in the eyes through 'rods' and 'cones' that are sensitive to red/blue/green/yellow & light (aka black and white). The extreme color blind types are those whose rods of any one (or two or all) colors just dont work at all.

Then there are the 'in between' color blind types. Like myself.

You can have cones/rods to detect a color...say, green... but not AS MANY as a normal person would. There is also the deficiency in light detecting rods which can affect color tone discrimination.

For example, I can see all colors fine. But out of every color I can see only a limited range of hues/tones of it. The color grey has 42 tones between very light grey and almost black. I can only see about 12 to 14 of those tones.

The same happens for greens and reds.

I don't see 'Peach' / 'Salmon' color. For me its either yellow or orange or red in light/dark tones.

Pink cherry blossom petals I see as white. Because they are very light pink and I don't register such a weak tone of red.


Now, if you are female and you're seeing colors others do not agree with but they are related (school bus as orange rather than yellow) you may be a tetrachromat. This means your vision is 100% good color wise but you are very sensitive to UV portions of the light spectrum... so instead of seeing the 42 tones that most people see per color, you can see about 50. Tetrachromacy only happens in females.

Someone else on the spectrum (must have been here...where else would I have read a forum post by an autistic person?) said they also have trouble with colors. One example was something about a friend's car and the colors brown and red. He said the new car was a nice _________, and the friend looked at him strangely and said it was the other color. (Either it was really red and he said brown, or it was brown and he'd said red.)

We know there can be trouble with incoming sensory information. Must be that in some cases that can actually affect how your mind interprets colors?

I get olive green, gray and brown mixed up sometimes

School buses are definitely a very orange-y yellow. It's not like they're banana yellow. I think it's more convention than anything else to call them yellow (like saying the ocean is blue when it's often green or gray)- orange is a valid descriptor as well.