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

And now I'm realizing I'm not going to be cured.

And I do actually have to live as a disabled woman.

But all I've been told my whole life is being disabled isn't good enough.

You need to be able to see.

We need to cure you, to heal you, to change you, to fix you, to fit society.

And I had to realize at 14, that's not gonna happen for me.

So how, when I've been told my whole life, the only way I'll be good enough is if I can see, am I supposed to feel good enough as a blind person?

So that was a really hard journey.

And it led me down a lot of really dark paths.

I became suicidal.

I was really badly bullied, dealt with severe depression, anxiety, complex post-traumatic stress disorder.

It really impacted my mental health, which ultimately impacted my physical health.

I really struggled with digestive issues from anxiety and depression.

I could hardly eat.

I lost a crazy amount of weight, lost my period, like really, really, really got physically and mentally impacted.

And so I talk a lot about that and all of the paths that it led me down, all of the harmful ways I was set up to that mindset of feeling not good enough led me to accept less than good enough treatment for a lot of my life.

Yeah.

In the book, one of the lines I talk about is how I believed their optimism because I was a child.

And you believe adults always tell the truth.

So I understand now that they were being optimistic.

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