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 you find that?

Yeah.

Was there ever a moment during that time or perhaps earlier where unexpectedly perhaps you felt most seen?

Would it be hard to have that message land because someone else is saying it to you as opposed to you coming to the realization on your own?

I feel like it's different if an individual says you don't need to be cured versus you deciding to say, I don't need to be cured.

Someone else saying it is like, why are you making the decision for me?

And it takes that empowering feeling away from you.

So if that person, your special education teacher said, do you need to be cured?

Would that have been a better way to approach it?

Or do you think that it needed to be as direct as it was?

Do you feel like to get to the mindset that you're at now, you have to close the door on ever wanting or being open to the possibility of being cured?

I want to reference something that was mentioned on one of our previous podcasts where we were talking about research that looked at individuals who have lost a limb and they compared how they judge their quote unquote happiness level before the injury and how some people imagine if they were to lose a limb, what their happiness level would happen to it.

And then also asking people who have lost a limb, what their happiness level was.

And there was some discordance there.

People assumed that when they lose a limb, their happiness level would drop significantly or their joy in life would drop significantly.

And it didn't match what was actually happening in society.

First of all, I'd love your take on that.

And then second, when I presented that to one of my podcast guests, he said, sure, but you don't see people wanting to lose a limb.

So is it fair to say that when we're afraid to use the word disabled, we're really giving credence to being ableist?

Yes.

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