Colorblind boy receives EnChroma glasses at a Reds game & is awed to see red:

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[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. I wonder how it looks for someone not

Colorblind looking through enchroma glasses?

[Laha]

5. I found a pair once

Some of my friends didn't see any difference, others saw a slight over saturation of the colour yellow.

I saw a magical world of fluorescent rainbows that I had no idea existed before.

Those videos of people putting them on for the first time and bursting out in tears are real.

I didn't know what I had found until I walked past a bed of flowers and it stopped me dead in my tracks. After taking them off and putting them on a couple times I burst out laughing and crying at the same time.

Unfortunately I lost them a little over a week later. Easy come, easy go.

[rurallib]

2. Looks like he went to a place that would have lots and lots of Red

Cincinnati Reds baseball

[Retired Engineer Bob]

3. The kid looks amazed

I will need to educate myself regarding those glasses.

I still remember getting my first pair of glasses at age 10 or so. I was amazed that vision for “normal people” could be so clear.

[3catwoman3]

4. I got my first glasses when I was 9 - really nearsighted.

We picked the glasses up at night. 61 years later, I still remember how astonished I was to be able to read the neon signs in store windows, and see stoplights and car taillights as something other than fuzzy blobs. As is typically the case, I hadn’t known I couldn’t see well, so had no idea what I was missing.

[Retired Engineer Bob]

6. I hadn't known I couldn't see well, so had no idea what I was missing

Exactly. I thought blurry vision was normal.

[Beartracks]

10. I didn't know it was all blurry... until it wasn't.

I was 8. Had no idea. Then... super amazed!

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[susanr516]

8. Yeah, I got glasses right after my 10th birthday

I'm very near-sighted. I remember being amazed to see every blade of grass and individual leaves on trees.

[YoshidaYui]

7. Ah man!!! I MISS my Giants!!

[wnylib]

9. The way he takes off the glasses and puts them

back on to compare the difference reminds me of how I reacted after my first cataract surgery on one eye. I kept covering and uncovering the good eye to compare the difference. It felt like a miracle had happened. Even colors were more distinct.

I can relate to the wonder that this boy must have felt.

[Retired Engineer Bob]

11. When did you have your surgery?

My grandfather had his in the mid 70’s. He spent a week in the hospital recovering.

I had mine done 2015ish. Hubby drove me to the hospital in the morning, we left that afternoon, two trips, one eye each time. The eye doctor evaluated my interests weeks before surgery, he ended up asking me if I wanted to be farsighted, or nearsighted once the lens implants were installed. The other option was one eye farsighted, the other nearsighted, apparently the mind adjusts and makes sense of what you are seeing. I choose farsighted. Still wear glasses, but they are progressives that allow me to read, but give 20/15 at distance.

People that pine for “the good old days” are nuts.

[wnylib]

13. My surgery was 2 years ago.

I went in at 7:00 am and was on my way home by 10:00 am for the first eye. Second eye was a couple weeks later. Went in at 9:00 am and was home before noon.

I was mildly farsighted to begin with. I remember waiting in the doctor's office the next day for a follow up checkup after the first eye and being amazed that I could read the newspaper without glasses. Prior to the surgery, I needed my glasses AND a magnifying glass to read.

I have a prescription for glasses that I have never filled. For most activities, I don't need them. Even my slight astigmatism seems to have cleared up. If the lighting is good, and the contrast between the print and background is good, I can read amazingly small print without glasses. I bought some dollar store reading glasses for times when the lighting and contrast are not good enough.

I also still have a very old pair of bifocals from 20 years ago, before the cataracts developed. Occasionally I use the upper portion (not the stronger reading area) to read material in places where the lighting is bad.

Several years ago, when I first got bifocals, I tried progressive lenses and hated them. They made me feel dizzy and nauseated. I adjusted very well to line bifocals and really didn't care if people saw the lines.

[3Hotdogs]

12. I wonder what it is like to see "normal." But I'll never know.

I was born blind in may left eye. Somehow, I compensate for depth but I don't know what I'm missing.