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

Is there ever a scenario where you would take them up on that offer?

No way.

Do you think they're intimidated by you?

But I think.

Well, I mean, like you're technically way more experienced than them, not just because you have the condition, but because you've been living this state of dealing with researchers, doctors, how they're talking about how they're not talking about it.

So do you think they feel some type of way?

All right, now I'm gonna give you a devil's advocate right here.

If they, through marketing, use the ableist language that you just described, life-changing, devastating condition, et cetera, and they're able to raise...

a hundred X more money by pulling on those ableist heartstrings and therefore potentially create some sort of improvements in our medical knowledge or treatments, or they do it more empathetically and therefore basically guilt those who are ableist less and therefore they raise less money.

Which one do you choose?

I want to seek to understand more about the fact that you've seemed determined at this stage of your life to not want the cure.

Is that because like the driving force behind that, because you're so comfortable with where you are in life, that there's no added benefit to a quote unquote cure?

Is it because this is part of who you are in your identity and you feel comfortable in this identity?

Or is it something that I'm not referencing?

I know you can't speak for the blind community as a whole, but obviously you're more well-versed of that community and what they think.

Do you believe that most would feel in a similar way as you feel about the concept of a cure?

Or do you feel like your situation is very individual to how you feel?

How does your family, how do your parents feel about your decision on the current cure of things?

If we were to, the condition that you were diagnosed with, in medicine, we would call this a pathology because we have physiology, which is how the body functions, quote unquote, at normal.

And then pathology, if something goes wrong with a body part.

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