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Hello everyone. My name is Tyler. I am colorblind. Being colorblind is not very much fun. Do you how much stuff is in color? A lot. I live by myself, which is very nice. Sometimes I like to cook, which is also nice. But I can't see how well-cooked anything is, that is not so nice. I think my cat might be able to see colors, but she is not very useful most of the time so I don't think I can rely on her to help me cook.
This is my cat, Juanita, who is cute, I'll admit, but not what I would call a team player.
Driving also sucks. If there's a blinking single light and I'm driving towards it I don't know what color it is. Sometimes I'm lucky and there's someone in front of me who will either drive through it or stop, and I follow their lead. But if I'm in the lead of a bunch of cars or by myself, what am I supposed to do? Most of the time I stop anyway, but if there's a car behind me when I think the light is a yellow and I stop for what they think is no reason, they get very mad and honk.
There are a lot of other reasons to not want to be colorblind. Some people have very pretty eyes, I can see blue ones and brown ones and that is it. I have dated some people with green eyes, and my mom has green eyes too. I'd like to be able to see green eyes.
Red is supposed to be a beautiful color, I'd like to see that too. I would also like to not have to answer questions from people about what color things are once they find out I'm colorblind. The answer to all of those questions is always: I'm not sure, I'm colorblind, please leave me alone. But apparently this is a rude answer to give, so I play along. I'd like to not have to do that anymore.
If I get these glasses I'll take a video of me wearing them for the first time so we can all feel good about helping a disabled person because helping disabled people is a really nice thing to do. Maybe I'll cry in the video because everything is so pretty. People cry in those videos a lot, you know? It'll be like an old man in a chair looking at some balloons and he'll get all teary-eyed and someone will say Awww from behind the camera and it's usually pretty cute. Plus, like I said, there are always balloons in those videos and I want to know if EnChroma sends balloons with the glasses, because that'd be pretty neat if they did, but I don't know.
Help me partake in capitalism by letting me see why red is used so much.
Anyway, if you all could give a few dollars to support a guy who would really like to know what the fuss is all about with colors, I'd much appreciate it. I'd like a pair of these things that are in my prescription so I wouldn't have to choose between seeing colors and seeing anything at all. That will run me $499 before tax. If I could not have to pay the full $499 plus tax I think that'd be pretty swell.
Thank you all and enjoy your day.
-Tyler
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