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I hate cornflower blue. I don't mean to start another thread about the recent changes. (there's already one if you want to complain about that) I am interested in talking about color bias, or color prejudice.

Blue, especially light blue has always hurt my eyes, caused headaches and generally annoyed me. I can't stand it. I can't figure out why. Other colors do not bother me, why just 12 shades of blue?

Anyway, does anyone else have colors they hate, or that physically harms them? What are they?

Anyone with synesthesia? Color blindness? Any other color related mishaps, rants, questions, etc. are welcome.

I recently found out that I have some form of color blindness (http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/ishihara.html).

The first on the left hurts my eyes but I can see the number. I can't see a number in the first on the left, I see a faint pattern in the second on the right, and the last two are fine, I think.

It's strange to me that I made it through life with this ailment and nobody told me. :p

MY GOD! I'M COLOR BLIND! *Cries*

I *hate* blue, and yellow. When I say yellow, I mean as in the dull brownish yellow.

I hate colours that make my eyes bleed...

http://www.kycraft.com/Media/ArtGallery/blind_justice.jpg

Smunkie, You should feel special because very few women have colour blindness!

No sir, I don't like it.

I don't like this color blue, but I wuuuuuuuv dark blue.

Now bright red, there's a color I absolutely despise.


An another note, my music theory professor had sound synesthesia.

Couple of those numbers are a bit hard to make out, but I can read them. I also find the periwinkle blue offensive. I'll get used to it though.

I love all shades of blue, especially indigo. Most greens are lovely, except what I call vulture vomit green, aka institutional green (that's the green that looks dirty even when it's new). I like most shades of pink, red, purple and yellow.

I detest orange. The only place orange belongs is on oranges.

No sir, I don't like it.

Thank you, Mr. Horse.



I really have lost most of my hatred for certain colors. I used to detest orange and brown, but have grown to kinda like them

I hate colours that make my eyes bleed...

http://www.kycraft.com/Media/ArtGallery/blind_justice.jpg

OMG I CAN SEE HER NIPPLE!



Sweet.

I hate colours that make my eyes bleed...

http://www.kycraft.com/Media/ArtGallery/blind_justice.jpg

OMG I CAN SEE HER NIPPLE!



Sweet.

I can't deal with purple, and similar hues; lavender, mauve, especially "silk cut" purple. My friends have their spare room painted in lavender with darker trims and I can't even go in the room but prefer to sleep on the floor downstairs. I loathe it, find it very difficult to look at and become volatile and aggressive if I'm subjected to it for long. Ick.

I haven't met a color I didn't like in some context, though too much day-glo will make me ill (I think that's a pretty common reaction.)

Does anybody else find those Isihara tests really pretty to look at?

Font in light colors does tend to hurt/strain my eyes, but I think this is true of most people.

I hate the color orange. It took me until high school to buy anything orange, and I still don't wear it much. I like oranges themselves, but I dislike any orange-flavored thing, like orange soda or orange chocolate. I also hate the number 5, which is orange to me (I dislike most odd multiples of 5, too).

I had synesthesia when I was a kid, the typical numbers and letters-colors type, but when I found out it was abnormal (i.e. my friends didn't see it, and I didn't even know it had a name) I sort of... stopped paying attention to it. It's mostly gone now, though I still "associate" certain letters and numbers with colors.

I can't handle bright yellow. Hurts my eyes, gives me a headache, and as a result makes me snappy and ill-tempered.

Then again i'd say that alot of people can't stand bright yellow because it nearly blinds you lol.

Bright red.

Blame Chávez.

An another note, my music theory professor had sound synesthesia.

He's lucky. Synaesthesia is commonly coaxial with perfect pitch. That's because if each pitch produces a perception of color (and there's only 12 Western pitches and millions more colors), you can easily tell when something is out of tune. I have an ex who is like that. I'd sing in the shower, and she'd correct me if I was off even a few cents. Great for teaching music -- bad for casual humming.

Ironically, she's out of music now, and I'm a music professor (choir, theory, arranging).

I hate the color orange. It took me until high school to buy anything orange, and I still don't wear it much. I like oranges themselves, but I dislike any orange-flavored thing, like orange soda or orange chocolate. I also hate the number 5, which is orange to me (I dislike most odd multiples of 5, too).
I love the color yellow, but I might not see it properly, my color blindness affects colors with a yellow hue in them. I like bananas and can't stand anything "banana" flavored. It's gross. Oh, and banana scented things, eww!

I love the color yellow, but I might not see it properly, my color blindness affects colors with a yellow hue in them. I like bananas and can't stand anything "banana" flavored. It's gross. Oh, and banana scented things, eww!

Yeah, banana-scented things are gross. It doesn't seem natural.

Our freshener spray is this organic citrus stuff my mom insists on, and it makes me nauseous all on its own, so combined with any gross odors it's pretty intolerable.

I think my hatred of orange stuff also stems from being forced to take orange-flavored dramamine a lot as a kid, because I threw up in just about every car ride over 30 minutes... except the dramamine made me throw up, too. I don't know if it made me sick because I hate orange flavors or vice-versa, but just thinking about that stuff too long makes me ill.

Yeah, banana-scented things are gross. It doesn't seem natural.

Our freshener spray is this organic citrus stuff my mom insists on, and it makes me nauseous all on its own, so combined with any gross odors it's pretty intolerable.

I think my hatred of orange stuff also stems from being forced to take orange-flavored dramamine a lot as a kid, because I threw up in just about every car ride over 30 minutes... except the dramamine made me throw up, too. I don't know if it made me sick because I hate orange flavors or vice-versa, but just thinking about that stuff too long makes me ill.

:(:( my dramamine was "cherry" flavored. It gave me stomache aches.

I don't think it's wise for people to claim fruit flavoring. Fruit is good, either use that or call it "disgusting sugar corn syrup flavored".

He's lucky. Synaesthesia is commonly coaxial with perfect pitch. That's because if each pitch produces a perception of color (and there's only 12 Western pitches and millions more colors), you can easily tell when something is out of tune. I have an ex who is like that. I'd sing in the shower, and she'd correct me if I was off even a few cents. Great for teaching music -- bad for casual humming.

Ironically, she's out of music now, and I'm a music professor (choir, theory, arranging).

Yeah, he was pretty awesome. All of us wished we had his type of synesthesia, because ear training would be very easy instead of ridiculously hard.

I love the color yellow, but I might not see it properly, my color blindness affects colors with a yellow hue in them. I like bananas and can't stand anything "banana" flavored. It's gross. Oh, and banana scented things, eww!

I always knew when my ex was cleaning his guns, it smelled like artificial banana scent. Oh, the memories *shudders*

Interesting, though, how smell more than any other sense, evokes memories. For instance, I smell that stale creamed corn smell and immediately think of Fremont Elementary School.

The color orange has always annoyed me for some reason.

Yeah, he was pretty awesome. All of us wished we had his type of synesthesia, because ear training would be very easy instead of ridiculously hard.

Understood. It's hard to teach, too. About 80% of teaching it is imploring your students to actively listen and practice. You understand harmonies and progressions much better when you hear them in music that is familiar to you.

I always knew when my ex was cleaning his guns, it smelled like artificial banana scent. Oh, the memories *shudders*

Interesting, though, how smell more than any other sense, evokes memories. For instance, I smell that stale creamed corn smell and immediately think of Fremont Elementary School.

Peaches remind me of summers at my great grandmothers, except one year I got thrown into the pit of overdate canning stuffs, so it now makes me nauseous.


In case anyone didn't grow up around canning, they had a root cellar that was full of canned fruits and veggies from the farm, at some point (3-4 years) it was "overdate" or what normal people call rotten. Since my great-grandparents never wasted anything, or tried not to, they would dig a hole in the ground and dump the jars of overdate foods into it, kinda like a smushy compost I'm sure. It smelled horrible, except for the peaches, which still smelled peachy so they put those in last, it helped a bit with the overall stench. We children were then forced to wash the jars. My great-grandmother was certain that I was allergic to tomatoes so she told my cousins I didn't have to help wash the jars........so they pushed me into the pit of overdate smush. I broke out in hives.

The color orange has always annoyed me for some reason.

What's with all the hatred of orange around here? I'm actually fairly fond of it. That might, of course, be in part because I'm one of the few Caucasians on the planet who actually looks OK in orange and yellow. Most people end up with a blue-green tint to their skin and look awful.
I honestly don't understand why anyone would hate a color (aside from having some negative association from childhood), though I guess I do intellectually comprehend it once I realize that there are smells and tastes and sounds I hate; why wouldn't there be colors? But there aren't. Maybe I'm defective.

light purple has the amazing tendency to annoy me but a special circle in hell is reserved for the colour white (mostly because its not really a colour is it)

I have no colour blindness!

However, I loathe yellows, oranges, and golds, for the most part.

I also have synesthesia, though I didn't know it until last year. I figured it was normal and everyone saw numbers, letters, names, days of the week, and words in general in colors.

Monday - a dark periwinkle.
Tuesday - green.
Wednesday - a dark magenta.
Thursday - an orangish-yellow.
Friday - dark purple.
Saturday - silvery grey.
Sunday - a lighter yellow.

Just for example. :p Granted, I often wonder if at some point, when I was just learning these words, they were written on a chart at school in these colours, and maybe I just associate. Same with letters and numbers, really. If somehow, when I learnt them, there was some colour attached at the time and now it sticks.

light purple has the amazing tendency to annoy me but a special circle in hell is reserved for the colour white (mostly because its not really a colour is it)

I believe the proper term is "color" :p

Anyway, I hate anything orange or yellow. They're just bad colors and tend to irritate me.

What's with all the hatred of orange around here? I'm actually fairly fond of it. That might, of course, be in part because I'm one of the few Caucasians on the planet who actually looks OK in orange and yellow. Most people end up with a blue-green tint to their skin and look awful.
I honestly don't understand why anyone would hate a color (aside from having some negative association from childhood), though I guess I do intellectually comprehend it once I realize that there are smells and tastes and sounds I hate; why wouldn't there be colors? But there aren't. Maybe I'm defective.

I hate orange, because used in any large quantity it is ugly as shit (to my eyes). It only looks good when paired in very small amounts with black, dark blue, dark green or dark purple.

I hate red chiefly because I, like the rest of my family, am a Cal fan.

I have no colour blindness!

However, I loathe yellows, oranges, and golds, for the most part.

I also have synesthesia, though I didn't know it until last year. I figured it was normal and everyone saw numbers, letters, names, days of the week, and words in general in colors.

Monday - a dark periwinkle.
Tuesday - green.
Wednesday - a dark magenta.
Thursday - an orangish-yellow.
Friday - dark purple.
Saturday - silvery grey.
Sunday - a lighter yellow.

Just for example. :p Granted, I often wonder if at some point, when I was just learning these words, they were written on a chart at school in these colours, and maybe I just associate. Same with letters and numbers, really. If somehow, when I learnt them, there was some colour attached at the time and now it sticks.

Yes. That sounds more like association than synaesthesia.

One of my friends found out he was colour blind when he drew his family with green faces thinking that the light green crayon looked just like the peach one... his teacher called home to ask if anyone was sick and then they got him tested.

I can't think of too many colours I don't like offhand, at least not in moderation.