The world we live in is full of colors and our eyes has the capability of seeing 2 million colors in the visible spectrum, and every color having their own unique hue. Without colors the world be a boring place to live in oranges won't be orange and apple won't be red.
But for some of the people it is reality, the go through a rare disorder of color blindness. This is Now You Know and in this video we will tell you about what is it like to be color blind.
Color blindness is known as color vision deficiency is not a disease but a decreased ability to see colors or difference in color. Approximately 1 in every 12 men and 1 in every 200 women are affected by it.
There are 4 types of color blindness the first one being Deuternaopia. The people affected from it see the world in greenish yellow hue and it is the most common form of color blindness as 4.63% people suffer from it and in most of the cases they don't even realize it.
Protanopia is another less wide spread type of color blindness affecting 1% of men. In this type all shade of green and red appears somewhat faded and blue and yellow remains unchanged.
Whereas Tritanopia seems a unique type of color blindness which impacts both the genders to an equal small degree. The people who suffer from it the world in greenish pink tones.
The last type is total color blindness, it is hard to imagine but it exists however only a small percentage of people are affected by it approximately 0.0003% of the world's population. In this case the color spectrum doesn't work and they see everything in complete black and white.
So, next time if your friend say that apples are green don't make fun of them just understand their condition. For much such exciting video keep watching Now You Know