How often do you go for an eye checkup?

"I am not the problem. It's not my fault that I am blind. And life wouldn't necessarily be better if I was sighted. Life would be better if the world was made accessible. And that's what's important is that the world is not accessible, not that I am blind." This is such an important message, Molly. And, as a woman with a disability (born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus and a wheelchair user), I appreciate this message so much. Thank you for your videos.

“My retinas are getting their school photos.” -Molly Burke, 2019

My brain made up a funny situation when I read the Title. The eye doctor: "what's the smallest line you can read?" Molly: "no"

Seeing that semicolon tattoo behind your ear, really hit me in the heart.

Molly never wearing her seatbelt properly or at all is forever giving me anxiety.

Molly: gallop you’re next to get your retinas done! Me: *works in a veterinary office alongside a veterinary ophthalmologist that does retina surgery on dogs*

I'd have thought that one of the advantages of being blind would be getting to skip going to the eye doctor. This was very educational.

I just got diagnosed with RP a few months ago, at the age of 26. My sister and I have been watching a bunch of the videos on this channel to kind of know what to expect. It's making things a little less scary, so thanks for putting your videos out there and generally being awesome.

Molly: “do I have a beautiful eye” Doctor: “such a nice photo”

Can you show a photo of your eye and a “healthy” eye so we can see the difference? Very curious to know what your disease looks like.

My eyes started watering in sympathy when she got her eyes dilated

“so you guys probably can’t see anything cause this room is dark, so we’re in the same boat now” Hahahahah

“My retinas are getting their school photos” ❤️

I legit thought you were gonna be like, "by the way this video is sponsored by audible" right in front of the healthcare professional.

Nobody: Not a single soul: Molly’s intro: 👁👄👁

6:30 “so you guys probably Can’t see anything since the room is dark, so we’re in the same boat now“ I adore your humor.

I used to be a sign language interpreter. Many deaf people feel the same as you do - the emphasis from healthcare professionals shouldn’t be on “disease” and “cure” - but on what can be achieved when the world is accessible. We all need to advocate for accessibility.

Molly wear ur seatbelt!!! >:(

Molly: Do I have a beautiful eyeee Doctor: It’s so.. it’s such a nice photo..

Honestly being in a dark room listening to an audio book with a Starbucks in hand just relaxing would be great

I’m going for my annual appointment soon and I know my vision has gotten so much worse😲😵. This helped me so much just knowing people go through this like I do. I’m not blind, I have cone rod dystrophy but this calmed my nerves. Love you Molly, you’re so inspirational!☺️☺️☺️

I just want to make a suggestion to others: please help deaf and hard of hearing viewers by clicking the toggle on the screen, then Subtitles/CC, then "Add subtitles/CC" and help contribute by transcribing what's in the video. This is a long video and the more people do this, the sooner accessibility is possible. Those of us whose hearing varies need captions, but Molly doesn't hire someone to caption videos before they are uploaded (which would give instant inclusion for us), so a lot of us have to wait to be part of her community of fans. I can hear enough to understand what was said mostly, but not everyone can. Thank you for reading!

Molly: “Do I have a beautiful eye” Doctor: “Great picture”

i love hearing molly's mom talking. I love a good ol irish accent

Ok, you’re right, I should book a checkup soon too.

"Life would be better if the world were made accessible" as a disabled person this almost made me cry.

Hearing Molly talk about cure-based talk was really interesting. It is important to make the world accessible to all kinds of people.

Everyone 2 years ago: “phhhhhtttt she’s not actually blind. Molly: makes a video in a eye clinic

When they put the eye patches on you, I was instantly brought back to my childhood. I was born with two lazy eyes. When I was very young I wore an eye patch to correct it. We'd just rotate which eye we put it on each day. My Mom always let me pick out a sticker to put on top of it so I'd be okay with wearing it.

Lol love how your the only 24 year old at a kids hospital getting a check up😂its the cutest thing😂❤

“My retinas are taking their school photos today.” Molly’s the cutest I swear ❤️🥰😍

why did I read " pictures of my deceased retina " Title changed, its still in the thumbnail doe 😗

ever since following Molly, I learned so much about the community and I'm so happy to be learning so much. Thank you, Molly for being such an inspiration to me and everyone else! :,)

The part about not focusing on a "cure based community" resonated sooooo much to me because when I was diagnosed at 19 with a incurable blood disorder, I felt hopeless and broken. Such disappointment each time I went to the doctor and there was no answer for myself and my family. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on health and mindset.

So interesting that you get "freezing drops" prior to the dialating ones Here in germany we only get the dialating ones and have to deal with it 🙈

Why did I mentally FEEL the drops going into MY eyes?

I have autism and Molly’s videos always makes me feel so empowered.

At my last eye appointment they tried to test me for glasses Uhm I'm completely blind, I don't think that's going to work

I had a kid when i was in kindergarten that had to wear an eye patch and i remember he always had very colourful ones with little images on them

“It’s not my fault that I am blind” Why am I crying?

nobody: molly burke’s intro: 👁👄👁

Get your eyes checked kids! I was 24 when my retinas spontaneously detached. After six surgeries I ended up losing everything in one eye. Your vision is important!

I had a lazy eye as a kid, and had to wear patches. My mom used to draw on them so they were pretty. I had to have surgery twice to fix it

Well, no one can say Molly isn’t blind anymore since she’s actually been to the eye specialists

Did anyone else hold their eyes open when she was getting the pictures taken? 😂😂

I ironically got an add for “See” before this video.

Doctor: shaking her head no to molly Me: is she actually gonna say no? because molly can’t see, doctor knows that

I did every test you did and more this year too (twice) omg, my doctors can’t find my diagnosis yet but you give me such calm and peace because even though my eyesight is rapidly decreasing I have hope that whatever happens, everything is going to be ok. 💕

I was once told by my ophthalmologist that my retina reminded him of 90s disco music because of my nystagmus... I took it as a compliment

being a visually impaired person who needs their eyes to be dilated at every appointment my eyes had PTSD watching you get yours dilated-

I love doctors like these. When it's a personal relationship. It's professional but with such an amazing personal touch. I totally love it. ♥

When you wanna scroll through the comments but youre so early theres none😭

I love how your doctor made eye contact with you, eventhough you couldn't see that. She must be an amazing doctor!

When I was a kid I remember having to ware eye patches because I had a lazy eye and it kinda fixed it but now my eyes don’t combine what they see into one picture, therefore I have no depth perception.

As an almost blind girl, in a very small country and society, its hard to be blind. People dont understand that there is so much I cant see, and I´ve struggled mentally so much for yeats since I lost my vision due to hydrocephalus, but following you here and hearing how to handle it yourself, has helped me so much the past year. I´ve been inspired to do more than what I dared to do before. Your so amazing and such an inspiration for people with all kinds of disability.

Omg I feel you My condition is so rare so I haven't "aged out" to a new doctor So it's always me sitting in a waiting room with coloring books with spongebob playing 😂

I just recently went ffor a checkup and new glasses prescription and my eyes have reached a -11 diopter, which is really bad. Basically I cant see clearly more than bout 2 inches from my face without glasses. Well apparently now I am in the danger zone where I have a moderate risk of retinal detachment occurring. Videos from you and you being so inspiring helps calm my fears of going blind one day

I went to the eye doctor the other day i go yearly and now im legally blind with the possibility of going blind :

To say that your life wouldn't be better because of a cure, that it would be better if the world was more accessible... that was so eloquent. I'm not crying, you're crying. Love you Molly ❤️

Molly has gone through so much. I'm glad that now she feels better about herself.

It had been 7 years since I had got an exam, 7 years using the same prescription. I failed to go because, well I became an adult and I was too scared. I finally went a few months ago, yay me. I can finally see and no more migraines!

I literally just had my last sickkids appointment on Thursday, they are transferring me to the other "adult" hospital lol

I just wanna say you are one of the most inspiring human beings EVER

You have such a relaxing voice

I just got my eyes checked for the second time this year a week or so ago. I was born with a rare child eye tumor called Lymphangioma. I have the orbital type if anyone even knows what tumor I’m referring to. I finally upgrade to an adult doctor because my eye sight has been doing well and my tumor is benign. I’ve been going to the children’s hospital since I was a baby. My tumor goes into my cheek as well. I’ve never been able to talk about this part of me because I felt ashamed of it. I have a small eye and a normal size eye. I have visible tumor fat around my pupil. Over the last 2 years I’ve grown and been able to talk about this “unique” side of me. I essentially use one eye but I do have some vision in the tumor eye. The new doctor actually was impressed with my vision in that eye and told me it was because of the patches and follow doctors orders as a kid. So please if you’re dealing with patches don’t be stubborn! It makes a difference well in my case it did. I have to go to the doctor once a year to get checked because my vision changes yearly. It’s interesting reading about everybody else’s eye problems! I have yet to find someone with my tumor though! Maybe one day. I had my surgeries all at 2yrs old. I have a metal rod holding my eye lid up and had my tumor debulked from eye. I do still have flare ups but not as bad anymore! (Flare ups = eye bleeding into itself and/or swelling due to allergies, sickness or stress). I’m so glad I found Molly’s channel and thank you for showing your life to the world

Molly 🥺 when you were talking about a cure it totally hit home with me. My boyfriend of 5 years was diagnosed last week with multiple sclerosis. He has a lot of difficulty walking and it gets worse by the day. It really helped me understand the best way to be there for him in accepting his new condition where he may never walk again. Hoping for a cure has keep our hopes higher but I wouldn’t want to get to a point where we’re holding onto that if it may never happen vs being genuinely happy in his new way of living. Thank you 💕

I was born premature, and therefore legally blind. So I grew up with my condition being stable and I was used to it, as much as you can be. Of course, I was bullied at school but had friends too. I knew not to expect a "cure." But what I wasn't ready for was when my vision got worse around 40, and it's dropped since then. It really freaked me out, privately. I am still adjusting and trying to get through the bureaucratic process to get help, but man is it discouraging, and I am not putting in the effort on it I should be. No matter what I do, my vision won't improve to anything better than my previous level, and as time goes on, my chances get more risky. It is tough to deal with this as someone on his own without enough support. So I can understand how tough it feels and how it can be too tempting to not deal with it, to set it aside and only act on it in spurts. Anyone with low vision and vision loss can surely relate to the private worry / fear we feel, and to how much we react badly to negative things and problems, yet how much we also try to be independent and bluff our way through things. Hmm, and how often people don't get it, whether we present well or not. This tells me I need to get to work on things again and push through to get it done. Thank you, Molly, for sharing, so sighted people might know what it's like and so impaired / blind folks can feel empowered and know more too, and know they (we) are not alone in this stuff.

When my sister was a kid, my parents and her were at lunch at long john silvers. They didnt know that she had touched some form of a hot pepper. She rubbed her eyes then started screaming. My dad figured out what had happened and snatched her and ran her into the bathroom and started rinsing her eyes and e everyone in LJS thought my dad was abusing her and called the cops 😂😂😂 I wasnt born yet but I totally would have loved to have seen that 😂😂😂 oh yeah.... you are so incredibly wise and your insight is so amazing!!!! You're an amazing motivational speaker!

I like that the ad before this video is for “See”

“I am not the problem. It’s not my fault that I am blind, and life wouldn’t necessarily be better if I was sighted. Life would be better if the world was made accessible.” - Molly Burke Thank you for speaking out on behalf of not only the mind, but the disabled community as a whole. Love, Jacob - a wheelchair-user in Michigan.

I'm near sighted, whenever I go to the eye doctor is SO uncomfortable, I can't even imagine what it's life for u omg so many tests

I felt every drop and my eyes started tearing just watching you wipe off drops... worst feeling ever

Girl ! SEATBELT ON ! I was worried for you !

My daughter was born with a cataract so we have been going to the eye doctor a LOT since she was a few months old. Sometimes I feel like we live at the Ophthalmologist. She's two now. It's so terrifying when you're a brand new mom and you have to rely on a doctor to help your child. I really feel for your mom. It must have been terrifying for her, especially in the beginning. Thank you for sharing this experience.

Hi Molly! I’m a certified ophthalmic technician... children are usually given much stronger dilating drops because their eyes still have ability to accommodate a lot! As you get older, you lose that accommodation ability because your lens weakens with age. So basically, with children, we have to use the stronger drops to break that accommodation and get the most accurate measurements. That’s likely why you stayed dilated much longer and were more sensitive when you were a kid! 💜💜 love watching you!

Wow, what you said about being sighted vs being blind in an inaccessible world is so profound! I have a chronic condition that I recently have been cured of. I feel really lucky b/c cures are just developing. But I was so desperate for a cure because I felt I couldn't survive in the world as it is with my condition! I'm only now realizing the bottom line cause for that feeling was inaccessibility to care I needed, to the world, and the life I wanted to live. Thank you for helping me realize that I'm not the problem.

Hi Molly! I have a little request for your editor that I hope can be taken into consideration. After you were at the black room, the next scene was in a white place and it was very painful to the eyes. I’m watching this video in a tv and it literally hurt going from pitch black to white. So maybe, for future videos, there can be some type of transition or a warning that the lightning is going to drastically change. I’m sure a lot of people with sensitive eyes will appreciate it. Thanks!! 💕

“My retinas are getting their school photos” -Molly Burke 2019 😂

I feel so much compassion for you. You are living in victory, doing the very best for a person without sight and then reaching beyond and soaring. You are an incredible inspiration. I too try to soar. I was diagnosed with a very rare cancer and after a 17 hour surgery now suffer from post surgical pain. People around me often think I use pain as an excuse or that I am just addicted to pain meds and in denial. Well, that is just not true. How can I show people I am not faking? How can you show people you are not faking? They are not able to experience our bodies from the inside. So glad you did this video. And tell whoever assists you, they have a great sense of style! The very things that make you feel good (clothes, hair, makeup, jewelry) are being used by others to bash you. For every one of the haters, there are a dozen people you are inspiring.

I need to go have a eye checkup it’s been years

Every 3 months I go to the eye doctor. I'm a type 1 diabetic. I've had it for 23 years. So I have a lot of vision problems. My last eye doctors appointment was 2 months ago. I had a tear/cut in my right eye. I couldn't see out of it. It was one of the most terrible things that I've ever gone through! I couldn't go out in the light. It made my whole head hurt! It's better now!! And I can actually see out of it!! Love you Molly! ❤ I really loved this video!!

She is like once on 100000000000000000000000000000 because her disease is so rare and her attitude towards life is soo rare and those combined makes her literally super human and a huge role model towards other people.

16:00 “ I would have been more anxious if I cared”😂

Molly: they would have had to put a string in my eye Me: wtf, is that even possible!

That red light to the normal light transition killed my eyes

Omg my eye appointments are like 20 minutes

Love how informative ur videos are... ur beautiful inside and out girl... a true inspiration to both people going thru the same or similar things to people just going thru a rough patch in their lives... get it girl

Is Gallops paw ok? when you were in the dark room it looked like it bothered him. Love you guys

I feel the whole “cure“ thing because I am blind in my right eye and my vision is getting worse and worse in my left eye and I get people saying to me “isn’t there a cure or surgery?” Like. No there isn’t lmao. And I hate that when you tell people something about you they immediately go for a cure thing. I have had people tell me in the future that there could be a cure but like, I doubt it, at least for me because it has to do with my optical nerve not a disease. -_-

This is really neat to watch what is truly going in with your eyes! I love your videos and Gallop!

I remember wearing my eyepatches as a really young kid and you’re right the patterns are such a good idea 💖

I immediately clicked on this video when it popped up!!! I love watching your videos and learning so much about the blind community. It is fascinating to me.

I really enjoyed this episode, as I am an Optometry student. I am glad that you feel more comfortable with your vision state now and that you are still able to enjoy daily life with the vision you have left.

you are a true inspiration for people going through this. I don’t know how I came across this Channel and I’ve never heard about this condition but I’m definitely very inspired by how positive and wonderful molly is.

I have a bunch of bizarre, rare, eye conditions and I related so hard to this video and the freakin’ extensive difficult eye exams with eye drops!! Thank you so much for sharing this.

I just adore you Molly! You're such a bright light in this world and so inspiring

This is the first video that I see of your channel, but I already understood that you whit this channel are doing great and beautiful things. So thank you for share your experiences❤️

Molly thank you for sharing this. I can relate all to well with the stresses of health conditions and creating more stress within the mind. I have Uveitis and Crohn’s and I love you for saying an overall healthy body is so important!!

Thank you so much for making this video! I'm studying to become an optometrist, so this is very educational. Plus it's nice to see how the patiënt, in this case you, experiences the tests and everything.