Molly Burke

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

Oh, my God, this is awful.

We have to stop it.

We have to do anything we can so that this isn't going to happen.

But it happened.

The reality is I think we'll never know how life would have been different if from the moment I was diagnosed, I was empowered and I was told that I'm wonderful as I am and I'm good enough and that look at all of this accessibility and look at this amazing community of blind people that you're joining and we'll never know how that would have changed my trajectory.

But what I can say is when society is telling you from the moment that you have any kind of concept of yourself that you need to be changed, it's hard to feel good enough as you are.

I was just going to say inspiration porn, yeah.

So I think the majority of the world is ableist and I don't think they're doing it intentionally.

I think society has always been ableist.

And so we just continue the cycle and you have to unlearn.

And a lot of, I always say the way in which we are lucky as disabled people is that where things like racism and homophobia are rooted in hatred, ableism is rooted in ignorance.

And ignorance is much easier to combat than hatred.

We just have to combat it with education.

But because, I mean, we live in a world where the ugly laws were in effect not that long ago, where disabled people who looked different were literally not allowed to leave their homes.

We live in a world where it is still legal in this country to pay disabled people less than minimum wage for the same work.

We live in a country where people were institutionalized and segregated for decades, removed from their families.

And so the world hasn't had an opportunity to learn about disability.

And when you have no access to learning about disability and the only place you're learning about it is through media, which to this day, we have 3.1% representation of disability in media.

And the majority of that is written, directed, and played by non-disabled people.

So they continue to perpetuate stereotypes, tropes, and misconceptions.

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