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I tried contact lenses for colour blindness as a kid (No idea if they were made by EnChroma).

They made everything seem so much brighter and more colourful, like someone dialed the saturation notch right up.

I didn't like it. Everything was so colourful it felt like it was giving me a headache. I guess I could probably have gotten used to it if I'd kept with it, but I just didn't believe it would make me able to recognise colours correctly - I mean, surely my brain was already pretty much hard-wired to comprehend course a certain way? And I remember they were expensive, and our family wasn't exactly well off, so I declined.

Anyway, as a middle-aged man now, I don't feel like it's been significantly detrimental to my life. For the occasions I need it, I use apps to check the RGB values of things, and I can roughly figure out colours, but in general, yes, it's an impairment, but just doesn't feel like it's a big deal.



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