Re: [DMCForum] color-blindness??

[Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@xxxxxxx>]

Can anybody take a joke?

OK, forget it.

Fine. Have it your way. Dry, boring conversation.

Martin, and everybody else, be happy. No more sarcasm or any other form 
of humour from me. I'm outta here.

--Farrar

Martin Gutkowski - DMUK wrote:
> Farrar
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> What you have just written is something I take issue with. Darren is as 
> knowledgable on optometry as you are on something you work with every 
> day of your life and in this particular case should not be mocked. Why? 
> Because what's being discussed here is a disability - and what you wrote 
> is just plain insulting. Take the term "colour-blindness" with the same 
> gravity as "paraplegic" (sp?) and you'll see where I'm going with this.
> 
> Although not deficient in colour recognition, I have a sight disorder 
> which makes my vision extremely impaired were it not for specially 
> fitted contact lense, but the nature of the disorder makes that fitting 
> extremely difficult and inevitably a compromise (being related to 
> deformation of the cornea). The result is I spend a lot of my time in 
> serious discomfort (especially during the summer) and more often than 
> not essentially blind in my left eye (in which I experience the most 
> discomfort and frequently rely solely on my right eye).
> 
> I would take serious issue with anyone talking glibly about my disease 
> and welcome anyone with the knowledge explaining things from an educated 
> perspective.
> 
> My late brother also was born with a detatched retina in one eye and was 
> insensitive to colour in the other.
> 
> Don't take the piss.
> 
> Martin
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