Wichita man sees color for the first time (+video)

For Nathan Rose, who was born color-blind, a green light always just meant the white light on the bottom of a stoplight.

But on Thursday, Rose slipped on a pair of EnChroma glasses for the first time, and everything changed.

Rose, 18, asked his mother, Aleta, for a pair of EnChroma glasses for graduation. They arrived this week. EnChroma glasses, developed in 2012 and more widely available in the past couple years, allow people with color-blindness to see colors they may not have seen before.

Surrounded by family and friends, Rose slipped on the glasses for the first time at his mother’s house Thursday. Vivid colors flooded his vision, along with tears.

Rose said the first thing he noticed was his girlfriend’s curly, red hair.

“I always loved her hair, I knew it was red, I just didn’t know what red was,” he said.

“My favorite color used to be black,” he said. “My new favorite color is the red-orange of my girlfriend’s hair.”

This story was originally published July 22, 2016 at 6:21 PM with the headline "Wichita man sees color for the first time (+video)."