Doctor Mike (host, DM Operations Inc.)

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike · She Doesn't Want To Cure Her Blindness | Molly Burke · 12 Oct 2025 podcast

but we're not good at that as a society.

And you mentioned something about that earlier where you said, I'm under no illusion that I have a disability and that it sucks, but I'm also happy that I have it.

Or some, I'm paraphrasing obviously exactly what you said, but you're almost like happy with the disability, but also you would not want someone to have this disability.

Those two things seem like they can't possibly coexist together in one's mind, but you're obviously an example in saying how it happily coexists in your mind.

And I think it's good for the audience to continually see examples of that.

Because whether we're talking about politics or health, those situations arise quite frequently.

And as you said, issues of lack of understanding, issues that we were raised with ableism and pity for those who have disability.

I remember even when I got invited to this MIT conference where the purpose of the conference was leadership in the digital age.

And when I got the invitation, I was excited to go because I want to be a leader in the digital age.

But what I didn't know was it was a disability conference.

So I was the only one without a disability and everyone in the group assumed I had an invisible disability.

And it was a very awkward conversation on day two where I had to say, hey, look, I'm a doctor and I'm hoping to bring my knowledge of what I pick up during this week to my medical community, to my following.

But that was awkward.

I felt like I didn't belong.

So I could only imagine how those who are disabled feel in a situation.

Feel every single day.

Exactly.

And we made small changes as a team after that.

Before we said, why would we pay for captions?

We have the Google automatic captions.

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