Please Help!  My 7 year old did something with my display!

My son was using the computer and did something with the keyboard. This left my display with the areas that should be white...to black. My desktop image and ALL computer images have the graphic look of a "sketch" and what should be red, is blue. the apple logo is orange. When I use my mouse, it creates "boxes" around the icons. I have tried changing resolution, both in display preferences and in the safe mode. When I reboot the computer, I get what the display should be for a moment, then it changes. I have also tried calibrating. Please advise.
TIA for your time!

Open the Universal Access pane of System Preferences, click on Seeing, drag the Contrast slider all the way to the left and turn off the other options, except for those at the bottom.
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