I am a 13 year old boy who may be colorblind. A while ago, I saw a green light that everyone else said was orange. I took some colorblindness tests and failed them. Apparently, I have some green- or red-green deficiency ( I can't remember). The colorblindness seems to happen sometimes, and not other times. Like a small light on my keyboard was yellow only an hour ago, even though I know it was green, and my dad said it was green, and now when I look at it, it is green. Is this in any way normal?

Yeah it seems to occur more in guys. I have known several guys with your color blindness.
You have to learn to compensate when possible. Sort of like a dyslexic.
Like you know trees are green, the green light is on the top of a red light, etc...

Normally it is not something that comes and goes, if it is doing that, you need to be checked. But it will keep you out of several job fields if you are seriously enough to fail certain color tests

If there is a issue, a full exam by your eye doctor would be a good idea

It does occur and it is said to run in males more than females.My friends son is color blind (he can see color but he wants his mom to make sure he puts on a orange or red shirt instead of pink!)

In time you will adjust.Just be grateful that you do have eye sight and be grateful that you don't have loss sense of smell/taste! I know a kid who does and I wouldn't be able to handle it.I love my aromatherapy:)

Only males can be colour blind. Shade's are hard to see and colours like red and green are reversed.. many males have this. Just make sure when you go shopping you don't accidentally walk into the girls section and start picking up shirts... (my ex used to do that ;) )

Color blindness comes in many forms.

What you're dealing with is called Deuteranopia. It's the inability to tell between green/red. It's a sex-linked recessive gene, and thus, about 1% of the male population have this. There's a good chance there's some history of this in your family... I'd check.

Good idea that you get this checked out at your gp or your optometrist... before you start running red lights ;)

Apparently it is passed down from the mother

Colorblind can run in familys.. mostly in the men.

My grandfather, my uncle, my because, and my brother all have it.

My because, has trouble with blue... but over time of being told he was wrong, he can recognize it.

Talk to your doctor about it. Its OK, its not bad. But it could affect when you go to drive.

Honesly, this is something that should be in the vision section.

Here is my advice, go to your eye doctor. There are tests that can be performed to diagnose colorblindness. And yes, it is predominantly males who have this.

My two year old son has issues w/ colors too and because he's really bright and has picked up #'s and letters, and is talking in short sentences, we know there's an issue w/ colors.

He see's the difference between pink, yellow, orange - he knows white and black but Blue, Green and Red (primary colors of each) - is where he has difficulties.
We'll have him tested when he's much older.

Mom