The beautiful moment when a colorblind man sees purple for the first time

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Ethan Scott is colorblind. When his boyfriend James gave him a pair of corrective glasses from EnChroma for his birthday (which allow for people with colorblindness to distinguish different colors) without telling him what they were, Ethan's reaction was totally priceless.

Ethan was finally able to see purple for the first time ever, and truly experience the colors green and pink. Even seeing the grass outside was a new and revelatory experience. "It's so beautiful," Ethan says, as he looks out on the lawn. "This is really overwhelming."

"I was honestly just shaking, and I couldn't comprehend what I was seeing," Ethan tells the camera after the experience.

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