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10. Color Blindness is Defect in Light-Sensitive Cells
People who are color blind typically find they have a hard time adjusting to light when moving from dark to well-lit spaces. The person may squint or struggle for an unusually long time to adapt to the new lighting environment. This behavior is not uncommon in color blind people due to a defect in the affected individual’s light-sensitive cone cells.
Our eyes have “cones” that pick up color. There’s an “L” cone for picking up red colors and an “M” cone for sensing green color. People dealing with color blindness find they have issues with an overlap of the cones, causing confusion with detecting the correct color. The disorder can affect all the colors in the spectrum, painting the world as a different place for someone that’s color blind.
It might surprise you to learn that all babies are born color blind. It takes around six months for a newborn to develop the L and M cones sufficiently to detect color.