Alan Owens, a sophomore at McKinley High School, discovered he was colorblind in the sixth grade. The test for colorblindness requires students to pick out a number from a page that is covered with two colors. For individuals who are not colorblind, this is an easy task. Owens has trouble recognizing blues, greens, browns, purples, and pinks. When driving, traffic lights appear to him as red, yellow, and white.
Some colorblind defects affect the way people dress.
Owens may not have the real idea of what some colors really look like. Matt List, also a sophomore at McKinley, is colorblind. He found this out when he took a colorblind test in the fourth grade. He could not find the pictures hidden in the page of colorful dots. List has trouble recognizing blue and purple, red and green, and gray and pink.