Hello everyone! :)
I just want to tell you that I am new to this topic, but I spent the last 2 weeks obsessed with understanding how this works since I have "Normal" color vision. Why?
I've been lurking here ever since I realized my son 3,5 year old is color blind. It runs in my wife's family, but I did not think of it until we played some color games that some colors/shades he mentioned always was a bit off.
Like:
Purple = blue,
Bright green = yellow,
Darker reds = brown,
Some pinks = light blue
etc.
So I tried the enchroma test for kids (with shapes) even tho he is a bit too young and I made it a fun game like "Let's see if the shapes are hiding from us or if we can spot them!" and he could never see the red-ish against specific dark backgrounds. So the result was "100 blue, 100 green, 0 red".
It might not be super precise, since he is young but he clearly has some sort of deficiency and all pointing towards protanomaly, moderate to severe I guess.
So I tried all kinds of online simulations to get a feeling of what he sees. And the standard google pictures you get when you search for the different types I feel is kind of bad because they are static and does not show/portrait the whole feeling. Like when you record a video and say "you can never capture the real feeling through this camera"-ish.
So I downloaded some apps that can simulate colorblindness and I pointed the camera to the colors he was mentioning and increased/lowered my settings to match as close as I could to what he was describing.
After that I downloaded some colorblind-filters for World of Warcraft so I could try playing games with simulated Colorblindness.
I changed between different types but focused on protanomaly and protanopia. And I kept playing with that for the last week and after a while I did not even realize that I played with limited colors on. I had as much fun as without the filters.
And what have I learned through all of this?
It's not bad at all! I might have been bummed when I learned about this for my son because I knew nothing about color-blindness, but now I feel relieved :)
Maybe a bad take but I think of it like back in the days when we had smaller tv's. In today's world we would never buy a small TV like that because it's size is "limiting". But when watching a movie on a small screen or a big screen, the movie is the same, the feeling is more or less the same when you're adapted to it.
And I love that my son often says randomly when we are outside: It's so pretty here! So wonderful. Because indeed it is, no matter the range of colors.