Deuteranomaly, A Type of Color Blindness
December 15, 2020
A person who is color blind has the reduced ability to see certain colors. Today I am going to talk about the most common type of color blindness, Deuteranomaly.
Deuteranomaly is the most common red-green color blindness. Deuteranopes can see two to three distinctive hues, while one with normal vision can see seven distinctive hues. This happens because the medium wavelength sensitive cones in a deuteranope’s eyes are completely missing. This medium wavelength, are known as the green cones in the eye. This wavelength in a deuteranope’s eye detects too much red light and not enough green light. As a result, greens turn to beige and sandy color, red and dark orange turn into a golden brown, some orange and green hues seem to turn yellow, and blue and purple stay the same except for the fact they have a gray tint that glosses over them.
Misha Speede is an 8th grader in Glasgow Middle School. She is currently growing up in a very diverse and multicultural family; her mother is Chinese and she is African American. She can speak Cantonese and Mandarin, and she really enjoys eating all of the Chinese delicacies. Besides speaking three languages, she also enjoys writing, especially poetry and fantasy. She also really like reading, if she could live in a book fandom, she would live at Camp Half Blood. She is also in orchestra at Glasgow, and she plays the violin.
