Here’s the story of a 66-year-old dad William Reed seeing colors for the first time
A bodybuilder William Reed, who was born with achromatopsia and had only seen the world in black and white for his 66 years, received the gift of color from a pair of EnChroma glasses that he received from his family for his birthday. Needless to say, he was completely overwhelmed with emotion by what he saw.
“He has a very hard tough outer shell so for him to break down and cry and get emotional, was pretty emotional to me and my girls,” his wife Pam said.
“When he put them on, it was extremely emotional for us all because we knew by his reaction, something changed for him in his sight because he described the colors as really, really bright and being neat!
“With the glasses he was able to see the different shades of the leaves on the trees,” she said.
In the video, Bill is clearly astonished after putting the glasses on and is unable to speak for a minute or so. Eventually, he starts checking the glasses against his regular vision and said: “I haven’t seen that forever!” – with Pam clarifying it was his first time seeing colors.
“We are excited to take him to Letch worth State Park here in NY for him to see the color of leaves changing, the brilliance of lights on a Christmas tree, and the aw of a rainbow across the sky. Many sights that most of us take for granted,” Pam said.
Sources:
- https://youtu.be/hqHlIRZnF38
- https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/daily/2017/09/16/news/here-s-the-story-behind-the-touching-video-of-a-66-year-old-dad-seeing-colours-for-the-first-time-1138629/
- https://laughingsquid.com/66-year-old-bodybuilder-sees-color-for-first-time/
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