Molly Burke

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1,048 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 21 Dec

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When I was 16 years old was the first time that I was told by somebody, you don't need to be cured.

And when it happened, my school had promised that they would do a fundraiser for the Vision Research Charity.

And then they changed their mind and decided to do the same fundraiser they had been doing for over a decade, which was for cancer.

And I was really hurt.

I was really upset.

And I was venting to my special education teacher about how much this hurt me.

And she was like really probing, like why is it hurting?

Like why does that bug you so much?

And I was going on and on about how like, no, I'm not terminally ill, but like I had to grieve the death of myself.

I had to lose myself at 14 and discover a whole new person and a whole new way of living and build a new life again.

And like, I, I want to be like everybody else.

I want the easy path.

I want to be able to see.

And it had never, not a single person in 16 years of my life had ever felt

told me that A, I don't need to be cured and B, I'm fine as I am.

And she was like, you know, you don't need that.

Like you can put all of that energy you're putting into finding a cure into accepting yourself.

And to be honest, that made me really mad.

I thought she was crazy.

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