Molly Burke
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Dec
Molly Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Checkup with Doctor Mike · She Doesn't Want To Cure Her Blindness | Molly Burke · 12 Oct 2025
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I'm so known for being vulnerable and open.
And yet there was so much that I hadn't shared.
And I felt like there was topics that I would kind of just dance around.
Like if people asked, I would just give like the PR answer and not the truth.
Yeah.
I wanted to free myself of that.
And I held a lot of these secrets out of fear, fear of hurting other people, fear of retaliation.
I speak very openly about different like large institutions that hurt me along my journey.
And I know that I'm not sharing these stories to hurt those people.
I'm sharing this story to free myself.
But I know that that comes at the cost of potentially hurting people.
And I've spent so much of my life being bullied and being hurt by other people that I don't want to be the cause of someone else's hurt.
But sometimes in order to tell your story, you know that it is going to hurt people.
And that's really hard.
So that was one of the hardest parts is how do I tell this story in a way that honors my own truth but protects people even if they don't really deserve that protection?
When I was five years old, I became the face of a charity who was trying to fund vision research for a cure for my disease.
So as soon as I was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at four years old and my family was told she's going to go blind and there's nothing we can do to stop it, they were put in contact with a charity who was kind of...
considered our only hope.
And they told my family at the time that they believed I would be cured in 10 years.
That was 1998.
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