Color blindness affects millions of people worldwide, with about 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women experiencing it in some form, according to enchroma.com.
Xavier McCoury has a rare subtype of color blindness called monochromacy, which causes him to see the world in shades of black, white and gray, according to wfmynews2.com.
The 10-year-old boy in Charlotte, North Carolina, was given for his recent birthday a pair of Enchroma glasses that are specially designed to enhance color vision.
In a video documenting this moment, Xavier has a big smile as he opens up his gift and holds it up for his family to see. When he puts the glasses on, he is immediately overcome with emotion as he looks around and sees bright, vivid colors for the first time. He then gets to see the colors of some of his favorite items, including a baseball, an American flag and a baseball helmet.
Do you think youre ever going to take (the glasses) off? a family member asks him in the video.
I dont want to," he says. Thank you, thank you, so much.
Xavier McCoury has a rare subtype of color blindness called monochromacy, which causes him to see the world in shades of black, white and gray, according to wfmynews2.com.
The 10-year-old boy in Charlotte, North Carolina, was given for his recent birthday a pair of Enchroma glasses that are specially designed to enhance color vision.
In a video documenting this moment, Xavier has a big smile as he opens up his gift and holds it up for his family to see. When he puts the glasses on, he is immediately overcome with emotion as he looks around and sees bright, vivid colors for the first time. He then gets to see the colors of some of his favorite items, including a baseball, an American flag and a baseball helmet.
Do you think youre ever going to take (the glasses) off? a family member asks him in the video.
I dont want to," he says. Thank you, thank you, so much.
