Deaf & Blind On The Internet with @MollyBurkeOfficial!

This was so fun. <3 I could have talked to you for HOURS! Thanks for doing this with me and I can't wait to do it again in the future! XO

It's so frustrating how teachers punish deaf and blind students- I'm neither, but my nephew was constantly punished for being "too loud". As it turns out, he not only struggles with tone because he's autistic, but he's also hearing impaired and DOESN'T KNOW how loud he's being. I love him so much and it's so frustrating to see that teachers are upset with him :-//

This is probably the first collab with Molly I’ve seen that doesn’t just call her “Blind Girl” in the video title or use her disability as clickbait. it’s so nice to see. Jessica is such a breath of fresh air.

“There’s no amount of fish oil that will revive these retinas” I want to cross-stitch that on a pillow.

The "you are too pretty to be blind" is so reminiscent of "you don't look autistic", and I really wonder what on earth goes on in people's heads when they say these things.

If I were to describe Jessica's voice with one word, I think I'd go with "cozy"

Molly: These retinas are dead and gone. There's not enough fish oil in the world that's gunna revive these retinas. I'm in stitches.

I am a straight woman, with no disability and I don't wear vintage clothes. I don't even remember how I end up watching a random video from Jessica's chanel, but I started to find the videos interesting, so I subscribed. Watching her videos made me realise even more that you don't need to be the main audience to be engaged to the cause. It opened my mind to the world of people that I never thought existed, so I love videos like this one.

Who else heard “guide dog” as “guy dog” and just rolled with it, cause yeah, that dog looks like a solid guy

I was three and half when my sister who was two and half was found to be legally blind. I remember our parents telling me she was blind. And I was just like um yeah. That's why I lead her everywhere. Parents are slow sometimes.

When I was four I had my eyes dilated for the first time. I am STILL mad that no one told me that the procedure would make it so I couldn't see for awhile because when your four, you think that's forever. I thought these jerks just made everything look like it was melting forever, not for the next three hours. Lying to people just fosters mistrust regardless of age.

the talk on medical anxiety after being a disabled child, my feeling all of a sudden feel valid

Honestly, I'm not blind, I'm autistic and have pots cfs and other things, but molly's story of how she was diagnosed and teachers and ptsd and panics over 'irrational' things, not believing her and stuff is basically my story word for word. Im so close to tears now because I suddenly realised that I'm not alone, but also that others have been through what I have, so now I feel terrible for her and them

Totally resonated with Molly when she said people say “You’re too pretty to be blind”. I’ve been told I’m “pretty for a black girl”, so I can see how frustrating and offensive that is. It really is NOT the compliment people think it is!!!

Knowing PTSD is not rational, but PTSD not giving a damn what you know...OMG, yes.

As a nurse, that's 1 thing I don't do, I'll tell you, this is going to hurt..this will be uncomfortable. I find that my patients handle what I'm doing much better than they do with nurses that say this wont hurt a bit. I take the time to explain exactly what I'm going to do before I do it.

As an overweight person, people don't offer to pray for me, but unsolicited weight advice is constant.

Molly's "they've never seen the disable creatures in real life"cracked me up.

Thank you Molly for talking about your medical anxiety. That cognitive dissonance of both being overwhelmed with anxiety, and knowing its not a logical reaction. What I find frustrating sometimes is having others (including medical personelle) trying to convince me to calm down, and that there is nothing to be anxious about. I'm like "I KNOW but this is happening anyways and you are not helping."

When Molly talked about being tested for learning disabilities, it made me think of when I was diagnosed with ADHD (which I actually do have) - my kindergarten teacher wanted to hold me back because I couldn’t sit still, but the district said she couldn’t because my test scores were too high. Ironically, this put my first grade teacher on alert, so she was able to tell my parents that I needed to be tested for a learning disability because clearly, there was something happening there. And, yup, mega case of ADHD over here! Because of a really terrible teacher, a really good teacher was able to help me. I then was denied for an Individualized Education Plan because my test scores were too high, never learned how to study, and had a bunch of trouble the first couple years of college, but hey, I still graduated!