In this informal, livestream‑style YouTube video, a group of friends and family gather to present Matthew Fulton, who is red‑green color‑blind, with a pair of EnChroma color‑correcting glasses. The participants coordinate a group photo, discuss the logistics of the gift, and encourage Matthew to wear the glasses for an extended period. As Matthew puts the glasses on, he reacts emotionally, repeatedly expressing amazement at finally perceiving reds, pinks, and other hues he has never seen before. He explains his lifelong experience of missing colors, recounts past misunderstandings (e.g., teachers thinking he was being a "smartass"), and shares how his mother used to point out color errors in his clothing. The video captures spontaneous banter, supportive comments, and visual cues (balloons, trees, hair) that illustrate the newfound color perception. Throughout, the group celebrates the moment, thanks Matthew’s parents, and emphasizes the community’s role in making the experience possible. The tone is conversational, enthusiastic, and heartfelt, highlighting both the technical aspect of the EnChroma glasses and the personal, emotional impact of seeing color for the first time.
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Headed outside. By the way, this is not Linda.
It will, it will, it will shave super funny. I think probably like blinded. Yeah, why don't we do a shave so we're not squinting? All right, I think this is good right here, right? Yes, yes, we have a couple levels. There's the like naturally curved things that we're trying to get a group photo.
The knees.
Linda, do you want to coordinate the picture? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, um, yes, I think Linda should coordinate. She's good at it. Why don't you come here? Oh yeah, she loves to coordinate. Go look it up. Oh. Everybody get in line. Okay, everybody get in there. So, um, all right, you know, all the trees are beautiful green, and my friend who's an accountant, um, who's colorblind, he always opens up colorblind, right? We— some of his really close friends, we all chipped in and we got you the EnChroma glasses so that you can see color for the first time. And we wanted— and let me tell you one thing, his mom I wanted to— we wanted to send these to Riverside so his mom could be there, and she selflessly, like, said, no, I want him to do this with his friends. So your mom is on Facebook Live because we've got it going on my page.
You're just tired of me joking about it.
We have to put them on. You have to wear them like 10 hours. There's a whole thing of directions, so just don't take them off. And it takes a little bit of time. And then I mentioned to Miss D, so she Look at Missy's mess!
There's something in my eye.
Stop crying. Can you see through the tears?
So I'm actually about to put on rose-colored glasses.
Yes.
It takes like, it takes a little bit of time.
No, they work.
Wow.
So I am red-green deficient, which means like reds You have a red rod, a green rod, and a blue rod, or whatever it is. My red rod is shorter, so I normally can't see anything with red. Now I just need to show Google color code so I really still understand.
And pink, like pinks too. You've never seen pinks, right? No. Wow.
I don't know how to explain it because I've never seen it any other way. Who's got really good eyes? Who else can look through these for a second?
Thank you, guys. Well, to correct something that you don't have, so probably— Yeah, it wouldn't work for me. They just look like beautiful rose-colored glasses for me.
Yeah, it— what it does.
So, Baravi, Seth, I'm not hoping everybody— your mom and your dad, Sarah, me, Sarah Prevost.
Thank you, guys.
We love you. We love you.
All right, everybody line up for hugs.
Now I can see how bad my lips are. Thank goodness! That was how I would call you and say, did you really want to have that red thing on the bottom of your page?
You don't know how many times, like, Linda will message me and she'll be like, um, I don't think you know, but the text, only the first paragraph of the text is red for some reason. I'm like, really? I thought it was black. Or the shirt I wore the other day that I thought was gray, but it wasn't. So now if I'm wearing pink, I actually have to own it.
I love that your mother says, what did you do? I told you, do not wear that shirt. Did you know it's pink?
Sorry.
You look good in it. You look good in it. You look good in it. Put that shirt back on again.
I know.
Rock that pink.
Thank you so much, guys. Like, this is— ever since I was a kid, I've always kind of— I literally almost got held back in first grade because I couldn't see colors and they didn't know I was colorblind. It wasn't until—
They just thought you were a smartass?
No, they thought I was colorblind.
Also, those you can wear inside. They should— they're dark. I think they turn. Oh, wow. Yeah. I got you sunglasses too. Inside.
How do they look though? Are they stylish?
They are Matt Fulton approved.
Um, wow, there's some like burgundy trees. There you go, that's what you look like.
I even like the color of the lens. They're different.
Yeah, yeah, nice.
I don't know what color they are, but they're good looking. Wow, thank you, thank you everybody. Thank you for being here for this moment. Thank you to my parents.
This was more important than main stage. Come on.
I know.
Yes. Oh, and they gave us balloons. If anybody wants to blow up a balloon.
Oh, so now I may have to redo my part.
All the colors so you can see all the colors. That's probably what they— yeah. Go outside. I'm gonna do some more with the red. Let me take one.
Linda, Matt, orange.
Here you go. Do you want to make my book screen? Horribly. Okay, don't move because I'm gonna get more. Okay, I can do it. I love it. Squeeze, squeeze. Ah, this is not in there. Can you see the colors of the balloons? They said not to do that though. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to just keep them on.
No, you keep them for a while.
Oh, and it has a hole. Yellow. Oh no, oxygen. I need more oxygen. Defective. Is that still on live?
Uh, yes, that was Seth David, for those who are wondering who dropped the F-bomb.
Is she still there? Hopefully not.
I can't tell who's there.
Oh, overstimulation.
Um, that's Debbie. Debbie's mom.
Yeah, yeah, she's— Mom, we love your son. He's so important to our community. We love everything that you contribute to. We hope that you're part of this, and if you're not, we have tons of footage to share with you afterwards.
Remember when I said I was going to be one of those guys who didn't cry when they put them on?
Look at your purple! Look at your purple! Look at her hair!
Here's the hard part.
Oh yeah, check out her hair!
Actually, I need you to go into the sun please so I can see your hair, cuz I— we were at lunch and I—
it took just a little—
yeah, this side, definitely.
Perfect!
Oh yeah, I could not see that when we went to lunch the other day, I could barely, barely tell. And now I can actually completely see his name. Thank you so much.
And you look good on pink, my friend.
So now, I— this video needs to be hidden in case I run any red lights. This takes a big excuse.
Well, I think it's going to be shared.
I gotta do the blue.
It is actually— it's crazy is that the colors are becoming more vibrant over So it really does take—
It's like 10, uh, 20 minutes.
Yeah, it's getting— wow, so vibrant. That's awesome.
It looks awesome.
It's a really nice glare. Yeah, they're nice glasses.
Yeah, they look good.
I'm stoked.
Thank you, Mom. Thank you, Dad. They wanted to— I always told them I'd be there with them.
