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Your CAT 🐱💜 is so cute! I love you ❤️ Molly!

Yessss!!!

Thank you Molly for this. You're the best creator on KZfaq. Your content is creative, educational and very interesting. Thank you again for spreading knowledge.

I am blind and I learned something new

Same and I always forget names haha

I agree. Those tips would also help me. Especially mentioning the place we met or the conversations we had.

Same. I have poor short term memory so I am always forgetting names. I recognize people's faces and voices so I always feel embarrassed when I can't remember their name.

Same ! I am really bad at face-name recognition 😅 I'm gonna be like "I know that person. I know I know them ! But who are they ?" 😂😂

Yeah, I would love this. I often have to choose between asking someone's name the first dozen times we meet, waiting for someone else to use their name where I can hear it, or simply addressing them as "hey you".

AHAHA this is too real...

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And Molly, lint roll your nether parts!

@@harveyabel1354 or just lint roll the chair before sitting down. a lot easier :D

Love your vids Molly! I’m now a mum of 6 human kiddos and as a month ago 2 feline babies! Took me many yrs to convince my hubby to allow & now he’s a total sap and they love him best! it’s 100% hi “fault” we now have our beautiful wee Rosebud! I’m so glad, I feel so blessed to have been able to rescue my beautiful sweeties. ♥️🐈💜🐈‍⬛💗🌈☀️ Love; your very close 🇨🇦Neighbor hun. Your vids always make me feel happy. And humble when they’re the tougher ones. Xo distant 🤗 Molly.

when someone says " gave them my elbow" or "offered them my elbow" i picture someone detaching their elbow from their arm and just handing it to someone. i don't know why

@@rayray3236 bro you need a hand?

hey my names Nicola too!

Ellashae, that is a very good point.

That’s a brilliant excellent point thank you my friend

I mean... I think it would just be helpful for everyone if it became the norm to do that! haha

@@MollyBurkeOfficial I know!!! I’ve been legally blind since I was born and I used to think it was only me! Thank goodness for information but mostly the internet! I used to volunteer at the Braille Institute on my off days and I loved it. On Friday’s they would have blind and deaf students. I was assigned a lady who was blind and deaf in ceramics and it was so rewarding to show her how to make a coil pot. I love watching your channel. You’re very informative and funny and pretty too.🌸

@@MollyBurkeOfficial some people have neurological disorders that make it physically impossible for them to recognize faces.. maybe that’s what this person was getting at. But yes I agree it would be helpful for everyone!❤️

It would also be helpful for people who struggle to remember names to get a reminder every time

@@hannahk1306 Exactly! I know I don't have any good excuse but if I don't meet people very often I just can't remember their names

Sending you and your friends loving energy!

Isaiah 42:16 New American Standard Bible I will lead those who are blind by a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them And uneven land into plains. These are the things I will do, And I will not leave them undone.”

What advice would you give me if I have low vision can’t drive, yet fell ashamed of not being able to drive and be independent

It’s so good that you’re making websites accessible and I think that is a battle that all people like myself a visual impairment face with a weird screen reader user like myself with voice-over or simply using a low vision aid to help us navigate our websites on our smart phones

It's great but often times companies don't give you the time to make things accessible. Which pretty much sucks.

@@NoThankUBeQuiet true, but then it’s the creator or whoever is gatekeeping that content to MAKE the time to make things accessible and use tools to simplify the process (auto caption generators, etc). Yes, it takes me 20 minutes to describe our photos for the week, but it’s important to me that all of our content can be enjoyed by everyone!

@@SatelliteBeams you are awesome!💜 Thanks for doing that and hopefully it will be done more and more 😊

@@NoThankUBeQuiet Depending on where you get the images that you use they might have already been tagged with EXIF data containing description information. Most web browsers can't read that information, but you image editor software most likely can and can extract it for you. Last I checked the built-in image viewer in Windows can display it for you (but it isn't on by default) as well. I won't claim the image data always has an "alt-text ready" description (it can sometimes be really hard to do, given the conflicting ways that data gets used), but when it does that's one less thing you'll have to think about.

Wow, that’s great! I wish more schools did that. The only thing I *learned* in school about disabilities was when we read and saw “The Miracle Worker”, which... well, never mind. Anyway, as a blind student, I was utterly bored because the whole thing was poorly taught and my teacher had no interest in learning from me, an actual blind person.

i agree it would not just for blind or vissually impared people it just would be very helpful to evryone i am legally blind and if im not wering my glases and you say hi from acros the stret i may not see you i may not recognise your voice or face and i may not even know your talking to me so even since i can see if your far away its good to say hi cristi to me so i know that your talking to me sorry if my speling is bad

You know Lavender would still sit in the BIG chair, as she is the Queen!

What a lovely comment. I hope there will be more people like you. Your grandmother is lucky to have you. Anyone can lose their vision, and it’s often the social and environmental barriers that isolate people once they have a disability.

Aw

@@MollyBurkeOfficial yeah I know how hard it can be two and I love seeing your notifications pop-up it really makes my day at times especially on a Saturday Saturday night for me and Ellott

Hopes for a better day, friend :)

@@MollyBurkeOfficial 💛💛💛 thank you

Isaiah 42:16 New American Standard Bible I will lead those who are blind by a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them And uneven land into plains. These are the things I will do, And I will not leave them undone.”

Doctors are so good at giving unsolicited advice. It sucks knowing random doctors are trying to truck you into being their lab rat.

I know Twitter has alt-text, but does Instagram not?

@@jennas3212 no I don’t know how you find it on Instagram but it does have all text as far as I do now

@@jennas3212 yes, Instagram does have alt text. It’s auto generated but you can edit/add manual alt text in the advanced options on the screen prior to posting. A lot of people just have the auto alt text. The problem with that is it is not accurate. Most of the alt text looks something like this: Image may contain clouds, sky, and outdoor. Image may contain a person.

YES!!

Better late than never!

"The late solana" XD

Lavenders and the new feature in Molly‘s videos just like gallop

This comment made me a little teary-eyed, not because you are dating a blind man, but because of the obvious love and insight that you have. I’m a blind woman, and while I don’t mind educating people, sometimes I feel overwhelmed with sadness that people don’t get it, or want to get it. But then there are people like you who remind me that not everyone will shut disabled people down, that generosity and caring does exist.

Hi: I’m not Molly, but I’m also a blind woman. It’s great you’re adding alt text on IG; this is such a huge issue, and as someone who loves photography, I often find the Instagram experience frustrating due to things like lack of alt text. Then when I politely point it out and offer to help, I’m shut down. One person even blocked me from following her again... all because I said I did not understand what she was posting. Don’t worry that you didn’t do before; it’s fine not to know. It’s not okay to ignore it once one does.

I would say something before tapping them to alert them. If you don't know them, I would just say "excuse me," and then tap them so they know you're talking to them. If you're afraid of startling them by saying something, one thing I do to make people aware of my presence in a room (whether they're blind or sighted) is to sniffle. That way if I'm walking quietly and they haven't noticed me, that will subtly let them know that there's someone else there.

Tapping is fine. What will really scare most of us is grabbing. It makes us think somebody is about to attack us.

@@annasenk3754 ohhh that’s really smart thanks!

@@jamesdean6939 yeah 😭😭😭 don’t wanna scare someone

This is not a one size fits all, I personally do not like being touched in anyway, keep your hands to yourself, just be polite, excuse yourself introduce yourself, don’t touch people, it’s a good way to get a salted back😮

I feel that!!! If I tell ppl I’ve just met that I’m deaf they’ll always respond with “oh I’m sorry that’s so awful” or something along those lines. Like, it’s actually not awful it’s perfectly normal for me????

@@juliarunn5009 I love this thread. That whole sympathy thing is something I still struggle with as a blind woman. It’s especially annoying because I have gotten it from my family-ever since I was a kid till the last time I saw them a year ago. I’ve also heard other blind people have a similar reaction toward deaf or other disabled people, which I don’t get at all. Everyone has a different “normal”.

The one that gets me is that people always try to solve whatever they see as your problem as soon as you mention it. I will briefly explain my idiopathic hypersomnia to someone so that they have context for a story or for what I am doing and it frequently becomes a game of "Have You Tried [insert solution for normal sleepiness]". I know very little about blindness (I will be watching more videos on this channel in the near future) but I cannot fathom why anyone would think that someone who has a condition that affects so many aspects of their life would somehow not have heard of lasik or glasses or whatever. I had a class last semester on the image, and one of the "philosophical" questions that kept coming up was "what can a blind man know of an image". My friend (who has some severe vision impairment that I do not really know any details of) and I kept trying to point out that blind people exist outside of theory and that you could just ask a blind person how they experience images.

we live in a society buildt by sighted people for sighted people so it is great to help others and make everyday stuff more accessible for them

Emojis too, like typing out (smiley face)

No need to be hard on yourself!

@@why_oh_elle A society built by abled people for abled people, happy that's changing.

Meh. Matt Murdock can read by feeling the impressions of the ink on the paper! XD But serioulys, a good skill set.

That’s a good idea; but also, keep in mind that it can depend on the person. I’m blind, and on the rare occasion that I go human guide, if it’s really loud, I’ll just ask the person to repeat him/herself.

Aw

That’s so cute Omigosh 🥺🥺

Things like this are why there are Human Rights boards/tribunals.

I agree there is a reason why we have human rights in this world and you will qualify for the job and as far as I concerned why he did this discrimination you didn’t get the job because your visual impairment well - discrimination and I don’t care if they said they did the right things it’s still discrimination I need to stop and he is employers need to be held accountable there needs to be something in either you and Ciara PD or the 88 that says you can bring these people to court or you can make them accountable because I’m sick couldn’t get away with it and I’m blind and visually impaired as well I also have autism and I wanna fight for my fellow blind people so they’re never mistreated in this world ever again or made to feel that they’re powerless

I get that too. It’s unnecessary. God allowed me to see beyond my blindness. We don’t need a cure. We’re not broken.

Those are such senseless questions. I don't think the majority means harm by them, just very uninformed. Obviously, if Lasik helped, one would get it done. If you didn't need a cane, you would not use it. And so forth. I think some are asking out of curiosity, but the wrong way! They may want to know how the case helps a blind person, and instead ask if you need it. Many jumble up words, when asking things. I have mental health issues, I can't say how many people have said I should get demons exorcized. Or stay away from me as if it's contagious, or I may suddenly have a breakdown, leaving them not knowing what to do, forget me lol. Also in a wheelchair, get a lot of they whys and why don't yous , I will pray for you when there isn't anything more that can be done. I am accepting of how I am , and moved past it. Then of course anyone with a disability runs into mr or miss rude. Asking obvious personal questions they must seemingly know are inappropriate to ask anyone. However they ask anyway. Or the whisperer that assumes you can't hear, and look or point and say your this or that . Like look she's blind , feel like saying look she's a Moron..but I don't. They show their stupidity without me speaking for them , how I see it. You are so happy and upbeat, and positive learning from your videos, though just found them. Do you feel many maybe are inclined to stay back as deaf people have a culture of their own, wish to not have cochlear in plants put in, and often refuse help. I do signing, and involved with deaf communities, where this is often the case. As to Lasix surgery I am meaning, if you ask some deaf people of an implant would help, they will say or sign yes, and also they wish to remain as they are, and not get the implant..curious of your thoughts on that. I realize I write rather broken up, and skip around not always clear. Comes with my disorders. My apologies. Stay the sweet Molly you are love that name too..blessings until my next video.

Me too!

Sighted guide is useful for more than just people who are blind/visually impaired. You can also use it for anyone who you are trying to help find a location. If they aren't blind/visually impaired you probably don't need to say "stairs" but the elbow technique is useful. It's a way to guide someone so you don't get lost but it is also not super commitmental, so the person your guiding can let go at any time if they no longer need or want your help.

Aw, thank you

PREACH!

Chrome recently introduced live captions! Not perfect, mind you, but a start.

Cats are swell, Cats are great, Rated one to five, A cat's an eight.

@@harveyabel1354 That’s adorable!