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

And so I understand when I say that I don't wanna be cured, that that's really hard for sighted people to understand.

Because when somebody suggested, dare suggest it to me, I thought they were crazy.

So I get it.

And I can say it took me years

to understand and to not just understand social versus medical model and the disability rights movement, but to unpack my internalized ableism and to learn to love and accept who I am and to get to a place where truly I am good as I am.

And that doesn't mean life's easy.

And that doesn't mean I don't still grieve.

My life is harder because I am disabled.

That is just facts.

But my life's not harder because I am a problem.

My life's harder because society hasn't cared.

And I'm doing everything I can to change that.

I think it needed to be as direct as it was because what I had been told my whole life is you need to be heard.

And so I needed to hear the very opposite, but that didn't mean I understood it, right?

Like I was like, what are you saying?

My whole life society, whether they're saying it directly or indirectly, what I'm being told, the messaging I'm receiving from society is that I need to be able to see, to live a fulfilling, successful, happy life.

And so somebody suggesting that I could do everything I've ever wanted and be blind didn't make sense to me.

But it opened the door and I'm so glad it did because wanting to be cured did not free me mentally.

It kept me trapped in hating myself and in pursuing something that may or may not ever happen.

But opening that door to explore that perhaps the cure is self-acceptance and is learning to move forward and not stay stuck.

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