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

How did your family support you through this or go to bat for you?

Or perhaps I'm missing part of the story there.

I'm really curious about your relationship with the word cure because in the disability community, I feel like there are different opinions and feelings on it based on people's experiences, based on how they feel about their disability, based on how they identify themselves with their condition.

I remember even watching a movie and I'm curious on your take on that movie called The Sound of Metal.

the drummer who lost his hearing.

And they were discussing cochlear implants.

And there was judgment from the community, the deaf community saying that we don't need to be cured.

We're part of this community.

As an able person, able-bodied person, to me, that's confusing.

Can you help me better understand that?

Cure everything.

Yes.

And try to fix, yeah.

I frequently get into a conversation with the behavioral psychologist in my medical practice where we talk about bullying and he says, similar to your message of how

Children that are bullied don't need help with resilience.

They don't need to take a Taekwondo class.

They don't need that.

We need to approach the situation systemically.

We need to make sure that there's a reporting system in place, something that the teachers can do to act upon bullying, to change how we discuss bullying in society in general.

To me, I think those are very valuable.

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