Color for the Color Blind

Our business development manager for HDClear wanted to share a personal story.

Color blindness is one of weird genetic traits which passes from mother to son and from father to daughter. My wife’s color blindness is mild, but my son’s is more pronounced in that red’s and greens are gone and appear as a motley blend of grays.

For my son it has been a little unnerving over the years to watch him draw school papers in the wrong colors.   About once a year some type of embarrassment occurs because of this. My wife is a tough woman but even she occasionally feels the drawbacks of being red/green blind.

We watched a touching EnChroma commercial  and did some careful research. It seemed too good to be true. However, the adults videoed in the commercials were obviously not actors. To see grown men and women stop and stare at wall of color, to see a person stand at rail in perfect stillness and stare at the setting sun, to see silent tears…..this was enough for us.

We had my son take the color test to determine how bad he was – that night we bought the glasses.

He has a December birthday and we presented the glasses. The boy is 15 years old and he hugged us all night long. We had to teach him colors because he didn’t know what was really true. He could see Mahogany and Lime Green. It was especially touching as we drove to dinner, he could see Christmas lights. Oddly enough he was captivated with purple lights. It was a color he could never grasp. Even my wife, whom has a lesser degree of the disability commented that the colors where fuller and appeared to pop more.

The next morning my son walks in with a stack of Crayola markers – he could list all of them but one. There was one color he didn’t get. Grey had never been isolated before.

I sat my boy down to look at the HDClear sample book. My wife did the same thing. I was able to share work I took for granted. I am one proud husband and father showing off years of work to my son and wife.

In a few days, I will have my family look at the HDClear website Portfolio. I am waiting because they are still learning the names for colors they never saw. I can’t wait to show them colored smoke.

Our daughter is an artist and there years of art packed away – my wife and I will be going through them. It’s really neat when my daughter and I can share with my wife and son. Kind of brings the holiday season to whole new level.

Thanks to the EnChroma team

I want to personally thank the EnChroma team for helping my family see and if you know anyone whom is color blind….the glasses really work.

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