Did any of these surprise you? What other blindness related videos do you want to see from me in the future that I haven't done already? PS. Follow @mollyburkeofficial on TikTok for daily content!
Tiktok’s moderators actively suppress lgbtqia+, “ugly”, black, asian and other minorities of people to “clean” the fyp and make it “perfect”, it’s probably not the best that you’re on tiktok molly, ofc you do as you like but it’s very dodge xx
I really hate when people tries to rank struggles, it's all relative anyways. What some might consider a slight bother could cause real pain to someone else.
"Just because somebody carries it well doesn't mean it isn't heavy." 🥇 I have no idea who said/penned this quote, but I love it. We all struggle with something - sometimes you can tell when a person is struggling, sometimes you can't depending on how well they carry themselves despite the weight of their challenges. Every person is different.
I have always been bothered by the fact that it is nothing behind me. It has bothered me that I don't even see black, just nothing. My mind has always been confused about this
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it. I'm just wondering why I haven't found any folks who started out sighted then ended up blind explain it, for some ignorant reason, I feel like that would answer everything
My mom told me a story once that when speaking to a blind person, someone asked them what they could see and if they just saw blackness. The man responded by saying, "What can you see out of your elbow?" and when the person said nothing, they said "That's what I see out of my eyes." I'm not sure who that story came from exactly, but it really stuck with me when I heard it as a kid!
For the record I’m a blind person who does art...one of literally the most visual things ever. Y’all being blind has literally 0 impact on what your eventual career may be. My only limits are other people’s perceptions of me.
One of my best friends is blind, when she was pregnant she had her ultrasound printed in 3D so she could feel her baby’s face and body. Cost a pretty penny lol but she still has it and it’s so amazing ❤️
Yes Molly, I’ve been blind for four years now and not anyone that sees me knows, strokes made I feel movement I feel like me lose my vision I had to stop driving
In my country you only need one eye to drive, which is good because I'm only legally blind in one eye and can see with glasses with my other eye. So I can drive a car even though my mum was so against it to begin with 😅
Hehe, remember though, there are people who are still legally blind even with glasses. Glasses just help correct as much vision as possible. I'm not legally blind but am partially blind. My corrected vision is 20/160 and 20/140. Thus where I am confused now about if I'm part of the blind community or not...
I am legally blind and wear glasses, just because they help a little with the blurriness and my near sightedness. If I didn't wear glasses I wouldn't even be able to type this on my phone cuz I wouldn't be able to see any of the letters on my keyboard to type. It would be too blurry
I go insane if I became NLP blind and probably commit suicide. The only way I can imagine being able to live with it is if you're born that way. Vision is our most vital sense.
I’ve had a blind person ask me to feel my face. I said yes since she was a friend. But I think she asked because I told her about my own disability and facial deformities so she probably wanted to feel the difference.
I've seen blind people on the subway with the stick and glasses and whole 9 yards, but I've also had a man accidentally nudge me a bit on a subway car and then ask what stop we're at, and I only realized he was blind when I looked at him to respond and saw he wasn't quite making eye contact. (Then I also felt stupid when he said thank you and as usual I just went mhm and nodded so he was like what?). I'm always astounded by people who can navigate non-accessible areas alone-- especially the chaotic nyc subway system! When I get lost my main thing is always just "read the signs" so I can't imagine not having those visual cues and not always being completely lost, and in addition having an invisible disability so people aren't inclined to help or be kinder to you (in the sense that a blind person with a walking stick usually gets a perimeter of people giving them space to walk comfortably without bumping into them, etc.)
@@UnsightlyMuse Learning is a process and a journey. At least they're here making an effort to learn. Let's encourage that instead of tearing people down for not knowing every little detail perfectly their first time.
My mom is legally blind, she is somewhat on the beginning of the blind community. For this reason she does not use a cane, so when she bumps into people and she says ‘sorry, I have low vision’ the response she gets the most is ‘ HAVE YOU EVER TRYED GOING TO THE EYE DOCTOR?’ ... like whaaat? No thank you, really, NEVER thought of that. By the way I love your content so very much, and your will to raise awareness on the community and on misconceptions. ❤️
Considering that she is bumping into things, has she considered using a cane for her safety? I feel like whether or not you use a cane doesn't need to be dependent on how much you are "in" the community, but rather your own needs.
@@jaydashnine Sometimes people need to come to terms with their needs tho. It took 2 years of living on my own and several near miss accidents crossing the street to realize “ ok maybe I go need a blind cane” because I’m so used to being in the sighted community even tho I’m low vision. It’s this weird purgatory of “ I can see but I can’t see" My cane is mostly for show because people don’t understand how my eyes work. I look like I can see and I act like can see because I can see but still can’t see. The most irritating thing with my cane is when I’m around people I’ve known for years and either think I’m faking or think my vision is getting worse. And any questions I have are directed towards my friend (who after years of explanation gets it because the only difference from then and now is I have a stick I can whack him with if I get annoyed lol) fortunately he has been a wonderful advocate for me and just tells them “she’s right here you can ask her yourself”
People would never understand low vision. It sounds like she just needs glasses so it is normal for people to react that way. It may better for her to say legally blind.
I know a blind dog, (yes blind humans and blind dogs are different but this is a wholesome story so shh) and he’s very old and just went blind a few months back. Whenever I go to the owners house they ask me if Bozworth (the little blind pug mix) every bumps into a wall, just lightly put your hand on him and lead him to the living room, or the room he was trying to get into. They suggest the living room because that’s the room Bozworth knows best. Even though he can’t see, he’s still super playful and doesn’t even act like he’s 10 years old. 😭❤️
I watched a film the other day called 'hear no evil see no evil' and it was basically about these two dudes, one of them was blind, one was deaf and they basically lived their entire lives without telling people of their disability and when they meet they go on this whole adventure using the others sight/ears to work together.
I love how easygoing molly is and how she doesn’t get angry when people are rude or do something disrespectful because of her disability and she instead decides to educate them, thanks for being amazing Molly! Keep it up!
Just because she educates us via RUclips videos doesn't mean she doesn't get angry at the rudeness or disrespect people give her. Anger is a natural and healthy thing - it's good that she chooses to make educational content on the internet, but that doesn't mean she educates every person who interacts with her, and it doesn't mean she doesn't get angry about the ableism, either.
I am a fellow blind person, and I’m surprised you didn’t cover the heightened senses myth. We don’t have heightened senses, we just have to use our other senses more.
She did in other vidéos. I think it's hard to just choose five from all there is.. Hopefully you didn't have a horrible experience because of heightened senses misconception
I mean, I never understood heightened sense in a sense that you genetically or physically have better sense than a sighted person does, but rather that your other senses are more trained than mine for example to make up for the lack of sight. I can not read braille, nor could I even make out the amount and shape of dots by just touching it. With enough training I surely could. I also cannot necessarily tell the difference between people by their smell, but the fact that I can in some cases with stronger smells proves that I could if I trained it. But as I simply never need it because I can tell the difference between people by the looks and letters by their shape. Apart from sight we have the same set of senses, just that you train them more to work around the lack of sight
I had a cousin who was born blind who would feel faces, and when I was little my mom made me let her feel my face. It did freak me out since I was so young and couldn’t understand, but now I know that was just her way of finding out what I looked like and she probably only did it because I was a family member. She has since passed 💔 but that was my first memory of encountering a blind person so for a long time I assumed every blind person felt Faces, so thank you Molly for always educating people like me who may have misconceptions about the community.
Me- *legally blind* Friend- You need to be able to drive. I’m gonna teach you how to drive Me-Trust me, NO ONE WANTS THAT. Friend-What if there was an emergency, and you have to drive? Me- Then you especially don’t want me driving! Friend- I’ll teach you Me- I CAN’T SEE!!! THAT’S A MORAL NO-NO!
Laila Magdy Ragab Me either LOL 😂 Crazy thing is she won’t ever drop it! Keep in mind, in addition to not being able to see, I’m on at least 20 different medications, (I have awful health) so still not a good idea even if I could see!
Black. I see black. That's why this doesn't make sense to me. And I get the feeling it's why Molly said "no sighted person will ever be able to really understand it". Because no one so far has explained it to me in a way that actually helps.
As a teacher with sighted students, I'm constantly struggling to communicate why I look sighted, wear glasses, etc. This explains it all SO WELL! Thank you!
There's a continuum. My current job has made me extremely aware of just how little I use my eyes for much of anything. I'll have people pointing at things a couple feet from me and struggle to recognize them. I'm lucky in that everything up to the last bit works, I just don't always recognize what I'm seeing.
I have a friend from Estonia who has the absolute zero vision, not seeing anything at all. Our discussions about his experiences have been very interesting and have slayed most of my misconceptions about blindness. I actually found your channel before I met this guy, and eventually ended up recommending your channel to him. He found it intersting listening to someone who is closer to his level of blindness than most other people and he ended up thanking me for the recommendation. I love the work you do for the blind community, while also really enjoying the videos of you just being you. As a person on the autism spectrum, I am very used to misconceptions flying around constantly, especially since I am very non-stereotypical for that spectrum. Thank you for everything that you do Molly. I am so happy that I found this channel
I have diabetic retinopathy after 30 years with type 1. You are so helpful I just have to state it because before your videos I was getting depressed thinking about more potential vision loss... I can still see quite well but there could be a time were my vision will become impacted. You're such a breath or fresh air
Hey I'm not trying to be a jerk, I don't know if you know or not you could be young and don't know this. With a singular subject it's "is" and with pleural subject it's "are" so braidS would be "are"
i have a video idea for when quarantine is over. you should do a video with your brother about growing up with a blind sister. maybe a q&a or something else idk it’s just an idea 💛 #earlysquad
When you explained that it is "Nothingness" and not "blackness" my brain just couldn't handle it! If I could see what it was like to be blind for at least a few minutes I'm sure it would help my brain from hurting. It's like when I think about space... My brain just gets overwhelmed with the wow factor, and being in awh!
I’m an autistic fan, and our top 5 stereotypes are: 1.) We’re nonverbal 2.) If we’re not nonverbal, we scream all of the time 3.) We flap our hands 4.) We have severe noise sensitivity 5.) We fidget all of the time The first one is only severely low functioning autistic people, the second is also low functioning and it’s also pretty severe, as is the third one, the fourth and fifth ones are true for most autistic people, but not for all, so there are people on the spectrum that don’t have noise sensitivity, and fidget, but it’s uncommon. The difference between the autism spectrum and the blindness spectrum, is that the blindness spectrum would be like a very flat area, while the autism spectrum would be a very mountainous area.
The worst one I have heard is that people with autism don't have feelings. I have heard that a lot and it always makes me really sad that people actually believe that. Whenever someone says that I give them a 30 minute autism awareness talk.
Well i sometimes just don't talk or my voice stops. And fidgeting can be done pretty sleek have no one notice. And walking around with say headphones pretty norman
I’m a sighted person who prior to watching you really had no idea about the blind community and the misconceptions created by poor representation in media. Thanks for the education Molly ❤️
This is the best way it’s been told to me: Close one eye. With that eye, you don’t see black, you see nothing. You just don’t see. Apparently that’s what being blind is like?
Sean Leyshock interesting so for context I have breathing problems one night I was really pushing it staying off my ventilator longer than usual and my weaker eye just.. stopped working. I could not see. Like my eye was open I could not see. It was total blackness. I knew what the problem was, I wasn’t getting enough oxygen(sure enough once I got on my ventilator and was getting oxygen to my brain my sight returned- also I have slight visual impairment the eye that went black is the weakest) . ANYWAY all I saw was blackness out of that eye. I FREAKED out. That had never happened before I was so scared, luckily i was able to resolve it. Also as I’m typing this I keep closing one eye and I do see a color I just can’t describe it. It’s like grey and tan but it’s not.
A friend I had in college was totally blind, no light, no shadow. She used a cane, since she was allergic to dogs. She also had perfect pitch and was a beautiful soprano! She had this really upbeat and can-do attitude that I really loved, kinda like you, Molly. I lost contact with her, sadly, since she really didn't like technology, but I think about her a lot. Anywho, thanks for the video, Molly! Wonderful as always! (e)Hugs and love from NorCal!
Thank you for busting these myths, Molly! To add to what you said about being legally blind (I’m an ophthalmic assistant), a person’s best corrected vision in their BEST eye needs to be 20/200 or higher to be considered legally blind. I have many patients whose vision is 20/200 or higher in one eye, but their vision in the other eye may be a perfect 20/20. Also, a person can be considered legally blind if their central visual acuity is no more than 20 degrees (in other words, they have no peripheral vision).
There’s actually some people that are aware of the fact that any kind of interaction is helping the channel and do not want to save the video in their liked playlist but still want to support the channel and that’s why they do it
Be happy and thank the haters. They are part of the notification squad. A new video, they come over as quick as possible. For RUclips that means that this is a video of interest and could be interesting to more people. They also vote. That's interaction with the video and for RUclips it means that this video can start discussions. They help spreading this video on RUclips to people who aren't subscribed yet. So to all people pressing the thumbs down just because you don't like Molly, I say: Thank You. And please, get a life.
My dad is blind... And he swings his blind stick at my ankle level... Don’t slow down in the stores... I learned that the hard way. I got whacked in the ankle...
Could you do a video on how to be most helpful to a blind person who needs assistance? There are blind students at my college campus and in my neighborhood. I would like to learn to be helpful without being rude or getting in their way. I have been approached for directions more than once and each time I felt that I was less helpful than I could have been. For example, is it better to offer to take someone all the way to their destination or does that come across as pushy? Is it rude to touch someone to help guide them or is it better to allow the blind person to find my arm on their own? Obviously some of this is individual to each person, but I'm wondering if you can speak about this.
I think it's great u want to help i personally believe it's personal preference I personally don't like people helping cause they tend to overdo it but that's just me I would recommend asking cause in my experience people really apreacoate it and will tell u what they need hope this helps
The answer to these questions is pretty much always ask. If they want or need to be touched to be guided they'll say so, but it's probably not needed. A verbal warning in cases of trip hazard is likely sufficient. You'd be surprised at how effective the ears are at locating people and things in space.
It's better if I take us all and get us the hell out of here LOL THIS IS WEIRD plane of existence where blind people get superpowers of physical and psychological abuse all up and down the - Is it too rude to touch someone or help them guide? - YEP IT IS NOW - society has changed lmao - TIME TO GO * shuffles the blind kids into the back of Mrs Frizzles School Bus *
Legal blindness girl here and it’s amazing how well these all fit me too. Wild, that I’ve been blind my whole life but have never had a community. Thanks for being here molly! We all adore you.
I saw this video (I haven't watched any videos from this channel) and I couldn't tell that you were blind. It's honestly amazing how some blind people can figure out where things are, know their way around, etc. so easily that it looks like they aren't blind. Definitely going to be watching more videos from you.
All of the “legally blind” facts totally make sense thank you for explaining it! I’m always excited to be more educated so I can inform others who are spreading false information 😊❤️
I love your description of blindness, what it is and what it isn't. I've tried to explain it to people for most of my life, and no, I don't think most of them could understand. I have to admit though, that I pass whenever I can, so I'm not the best blind ambassador. Great video!
Just found your videos today from a blind friend, and it's been so interesting. I myself use a cane and have no vision whatsoever and have never known about the percentages. Thank you so much for sharing all of this.
Hi Molly! Just now when you were describing not seeing black and used your hand at the back your head as a prop - made me think of Neverending Story, the book. I found this piece in it (below), but I think it's a great enough book to listen to :) I'm 29, still think it's awesome. Here goes the quote “Something has happened in Moldymoor,” said the will-o’-the-wisp haltingly, “something impossible to understand. Actually, it’s still happening. It’s hard to describe-the way it began was-well, in the east of our country there’s a lake- that is, there was a lake-Lake Foamingbroth we called it. Well, the way it began was like this. One day Lake Foamingbroth wasn’t there anymore-it was gone. See?” “You mean it dried up?” Gluckuk inquired. “No,” said the will-o’-the-wisp. “Then there’d be a dried-up lake. But there isn’t. Where the lake used to be there’s nothing-absolutely nothing. Now do you see?” “A hole?” the rock chewer grunted. “No, not a hole,” said the will-o’-the-wisp despairingly. “A hole, after all, is something. This is nothing at all.” The three other messengers exchanged glances. “What-hoo-does this nothing look like?” asked the night-hob. “That’s just what’s so hard to describe,” said the will-o’-the-wisp unhappily. “It doesn’t look like anything. It’s-it’s like-oh, there’s no word for it.” “Maybe,” the tiny suggested, “when you look at the place, it’s as if you were blind.” The will-o’-the-wisp stared openmouthed. “Exactly!” it cried. “But where-I mean how-I mean, have you had the same. ..?” “Wait a minute,” the rock chewer crackled. “Was it only this one place?” “At first, yes,” the will-o’-the-wisp explained. “That is, the place got bigger little by little. And then all of a sudden Foggle, the father of the frogs, who lived in Lake Foamingbroth with his family, was gone too. Some of the inhabitants started running away. But little by little the same thing happened to other parts of Moldymoor. It usually started with just a little chunk, no bigger than a partridge egg. But then these chunks got bigger and bigger. If somebody put his foot into one of them by mistake, the foot-or hand-or whatever else he put in-would be gone too. It didn’t hurt-it was just that a part of whoever it was would be missing
On Instagram I came across a post about a blind professor where I saw sooo many questions about how he teaches etc and I left a rather informative and lengthy comment about accessibility features, my own experience going through employment and independent living training and preparation, ways he could make things easier for himself etc and all the things that are available to help us do what we want to do in life. I myself am a fire performer, play harp and piano as well as taught myself how to sew. Everything I’ve learned I’ve taught myself despite having ROP. And out of all the fantastic comments I received from Disabled and nondisabled people, on my birthday someone comments “then how did you read this post?” And I won’t lie, I let it be known that this wasn’t something I was going to let slide. Not only is it hard to tell if someone’s just being a troll online but it also made me feel like EVERYTHING I’d said went completely ignored. So trust me I feel this whole damn video deep within my soul.
This video was so fun to learn from! In middle school I lost my sight briefly due to an allergic reaction to my contact solution. I’ve always explained that time as seeing nothing!
That one about „you can’t see it“ is so so true. My father can’t see well, he is between 5-10% years ago when his vision was even better then now my mom tried out a pair of glasses at the doctor that showed her kind of what my father could see than and she said she wouldn’t find the door with these glasses on. But my father adapted really well to that and play football ⚽️ as a hobby. No one who played with him would have guessed he is close to beeing blind. He can do nearly everything on his own, expect reading tiny text.
You’ve made me aware about blindness and how different every blind person experience is. As a fysiotherapist student this has really help me understand how to help this community in the best way possible. Thans you so much for educating us! Lots of love from Belgium 🇧🇪❤️😊
Ok the non-existence concept makes me think of what my daughter says when driving to a new city. She says that the streets, the land marks just don’t exist in her brain map. Not until she’s driven there and explored the town that it begins to ‘draw’ itself along with what you already knew. Hopefully that wasn’t too confusing. Hugs.
I had a 4th grade teacher who was fully blind in one eye and legally blind in the other. She had an amazing guide dog named Olympus and she was my favorite teacher I’ve ever had
Yeah, I would challenge any sighted person to be blindfolded and asked to feel someone's face then tell what they look like. I bet they couldn't even identify someone they know.
@@MollyBurkeOfficial The only time I've ever seen anyone who was blind actually feel someone's face...was when you did James Charles makeup. And I think that's the only context it makes sense in.
If you look at an object and close one of your eyes, what do you see from that closed eye (while still looking at the object)? Nothing, it is not black, it is nothing. That's the easiest way I can try to understand it for myself!!
Here's how I think of it: Try and see something behind your head without moving your eyes and head. In other words try to see through the back of your head.
Jackeline Morales but if you close both eyes you see black, or darkness... or is that just because we already know what black looks like? It’s so confusing
@@JessicaSmith-sc7vc That's right. We can see color because of our cone cells (or cones), these are "activated" with light, when we close our eyes the light is blocked so our eyes cannot see any colors. Since our eyes are functioning, they never actually stop seeing so we see darkness (or black as we all say) as our rod cells (which work with dim light) are the only ones "working" at that moment. The best way I could comprehend it for myself was closing an eye while still focusing my other eye on an object, I see nothing with my closed eye. Trying to see through the back of your head as the last person commented is also a good way to put it.
@@jsophiamm Thank you for clearing that up it was driving me crazy knowing I close both eyes and see black I was like I don't understand at ALL 😩then I was putting my hand on the back of my head like she mentioned I almost went crazy
I always find this so educating. The closest I ever came to understanding seeing nothing as a sighted person. Is to close 1 eye... what do you see from your closed eye? Nothing.
Molly thank you for speaking up, thank you so much for educating and being a voice. My 5 yr old son is being tested for ocular albinism, he has nystagmus and papalidema, i have poor vision in one eye but i can see so I dont know my sons struggles but YOU are making this journey easier for me as a mother to advocate for him, and to empower him. He currently has some vision but they believe it may degenerate later in life. His school sees him as a struggle, because of his ADHD aswell, and i want to educate them, but first i have to educate myself. You are helping me and others like me every day 💜 continue what you are doing love, you are amazing!
I appreciate #5 so much! I am sighted but I suffer from migraines that make me temporarily blind. It was because of these migraines that I started realizing that I always used to think that blindness was seeing black. During these episodes, I don't see black. I see nothing. It's so hard to explain but I'm glad this was addressed! I have this argument all the time with people I know. It's difficult to explain to people who haven't experienced it.
5:24 So I’m legally blind, and actually, I had this one time in grade 4 when I was coming back from speech therapy, and I was wearing thick rubber gloves. Don’t ask me why, I just was. Maybe it was cold, idk. I walked into the classroom, which had no windows, by the way, and the lights were off because my teacher had the projector on. It was near the start of the school year, so I wasn’t comfortable enough with asking her to turn on the light. So I just walked into the room with my improper bumper hands, and after waddling forward a few steps, I felt something. Being a curious little 9-year-old, I moved my hands around it, wondering what it could be. Remember, I had gloves on, so I couldn’t feel the texture of what I was touching. Then I heard my friend’s voice: “Zara, you’re feeling my face.” So yeah that was funny and embarrassing. A few people giggled but not in a mean way. Also, since that was the school year that COVID hit and we didn’t have that much time in person, it’s probably one of my fondest memories from that year, though the friend whose face I was feeling doesn’t remember it at all. This was a complete accident, by the way. BLIND/LEGALLY BLIND PEOPLE DO NOT FEEL EACH OTHER’S FACES (at least not intentionally lol)
There's some person on Reddit with a deleted account who explains true blindness perfectly; Complete nothingness. It's like not experiencing a tail you don't have. When you look at an object, you'll be able to find the edges of your vision. At some point, you can't look at the drawer to your left for example, because your eyes simply aren't pointed at it for light to come in. Anything 'beyond' these edges of your vision, is nothing - your brain may fill it in a bit but it isn't black. You don't see black beyond the edges of your vision, do you? Exactly. People born blind don't have vision at all so all they experience is what we would experience beyond the edges of our vision: Not. We wouldn't, we don't experience it at all.
Doesn't make any sense to me. If you mean my peripheral vision, I can see things pretty well there. What's "beyond" my peripheral, is the end of my eye and I can't see behind me, at all. When I close my eyes it's dark with random spots or funky 'images', which is probably why people think blind people just see darkness.
Let’s get this girl to 2 million she deserves the world she has helped to many blind people and people with a disability! My mom works with disabled people and sometimes she puts on one of your videos because they are so amazing! Sorry I’m not part of the early squad I hope you still enjoy this comment! I love you Molly! ❤️❤️
I have a blind brother, he was blind from birth and has what molly was describing earlier in the video as foggy eyes. His pupil looks shattered and his eye color is a foggy greyish blue. This video was so informative and even i learned a few new things, i did not know that only 2% of blind people use canes because my brother is one of that two percent but its pretty cool seeing how you described the blind spectrum because before stumbling upon your channel, i would've never thought that every blind person's perspective of vision is different since i thought for the most part they were all one and the same.
I am blind and also in a wheelchair. We were on Beale street (Memphis, Tn) once when a woman came up to us and asked if I wanted to feel her face. I told her no thank you, but she grabbed my hands and placed them not only over her face but all over her body too! I tried to pull my hands back, but she was really strong and I couldn't. She only let go when I started to cry. DH didn't think I would be so upset, but I don't want to touch some stranger much less the body of a stranger!
About that face feeling thing... when I was like 7/8 years old our teacher proposed an activity where we had to be blindfolded & try to feel a random classmate’s face and guess who it is. She said it was the way blind ppl did it and I’m pretty sure I thought that was actually accurate. Also I’ve never in my entire life had a blind colleague anywhere, not in grade school, not in high school, not in university, so there’s inclusivity for ya. So good to finally learn properly from someone like Molly.
You said exactly how i am. I cant see a thing but pure blurring without my contacts but with my contacts i can see perfectly. Some days i have to wait for my contacts to come in so i cannot see for those few days and i respect you so much you're so brave everyday. The fact that you put a smile on everyday is beautiful. You're such an inspiration to alot of people and i cant imagine what you're going through everyday. Your mother is just as amazing as you are. You both are def a dynamic duo 💞😍💜
I recently heard a great comparison about seeing nothing: When you close one of your eyes, this eye doesn't see black - it sees nothing. So it's kinda like that. Idk if it helps, put it made sense for me
But it does see black. At least to me. I literally see black when I do that. I don't understand why people keep using that as a comparison. maybe you're just not noticing the black, because you're focusing on the eye that CAN see? Because I can understand why you'd say that when you're focusing through the eye that can see. But when I focus through the eye that's closed, I see black. That's not "seeing nothing", that's just you not paying attention to what that eye is seeing.
I’m sighted and I just started watching the show “In The Dark.” A murder mystery where a blind girl finds her friend dead, but when his body disappears nobody believes her because she didn’t technically ‘’see the body’’ I thought: Oh, probably going to be a few misconceptions thrown in there. The main actress isn’t blind, so she can’t perfectly play a blind character. I didn’t really expect to have to pause the show a few minutes in, to rant to my family about how she wasn’t even using a blind-cane properly. Don’t you know how little research you have to do to know how to use a walking cane whilst playing a blind character bruh 😭 show-runners, what are you doing, man ?!
This misuse of the white cane is kinda part of her character. She struggles with her vision loss and hasn’t really come to accept it. You’d be surprised at how many people who are blind don’t use cane techniques 100% properly. It’s super cringey watching as someone who is visually impaired, who has gone through O&M training, and who is in an O&M program now taking classes under blindfold to teach these skills. If you really want to see some cringe worthy content, check out Apple. It’s a movie about a miniature guide horse... they got a lot wrong.
yeah, there's some missteps here and there. There's a ton the show gets right though. And that's something that really surprised me. In more than one moment I felt like the writers watched Molly's channel.
This was an interesting video. I stumbled upon it as a recommendation on my channel. I'm not blind, but have psychological disorders that are commonly misunderstood. (ex: Anxiety Disorder does NOT = Stress! It's actually the body's inability to handle stress appropriately; it's NOT stress in and of itself. "But you don't LOOK disabled!" Is freaking annoying!) It's eye opening to see how someone with a physical disability copes with the public. Definitely things I wasn't aware of about the blind community! Thanks for sharing.
I’m a sighted person and for some reason I understood the fact that “totally blind” people see “nothing” immediately (at least I think and hope so). I think it’s cuz whenever I close my eyes I don’t see black and I’ve had many people tell me that they see black so I kinda get it. P.s: not tryna offend nobody this is just my input and how I understood things 🙃
Shahad Almousawi I also see ‘nothing’ if I close my eyes, but if I focus on my eyelids, I can see black. So you can try that as I think that’s what people mean when they say they see black.🙂
I love how inspirational u are. It is so interesting learning about the blind community and learning about u. Thank u. I am so glad u made this RUclips channel. I can believe it’s been 6years!!! I’ve watched u for 3.5 years at the least. I love u so much and I hope u are staying safe 😘😘❤️❤️
As a sighted person who suffers from migraines with visual auras, I think I can understand the concept of seeing ‘nothing’. I’m not sure of the medical term, but when I have a migraine, I lose half my vision. So if you imagine putting your hand in front of your face and moving it side to side, but keeping your eyes fixed ahead, you can still see your hand in your peripheral vision, even when it’s quite far to your side. During a migraine, my hand will disappear somewhere just after the halfway point, as will everything else on that side. There’s no darkness, it’s just like that side of my vision is gone, no longer exists. Not sure if I explained that well, but thanks for the video, really informative as always.
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Did any of these surprise you? What other blindness related videos do you want to see from me in the future that I haven't done already?
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Can you do a video of you talking about growing up blind? 🙂
Molly Burke hi molly thank you for showing me your great outlook on life
Can you do a video about how different people in your life reacted when they found out you were blind?
Tiktok’s moderators actively suppress lgbtqia+, “ugly”, black, asian and other minorities of people to “clean” the fyp and make it “perfect”, it’s probably not the best that you’re on tiktok molly, ofc you do as you like but it’s very dodge xx
I already follow you on tik Tok and I really don’t know what RUclips would be without you
"It doesn't make their struggles less difficult than mine. It makes theirs' different." Say it louder for the people in the back!!
I am going to add that to my list right beside, "Just because I am in pain does not give me the right to hurt others."
I've said this to many people who think their issues can't be that bad cause mine are worse. we all go through stuff. You said it, Molly!
I really hate when people tries to rank struggles, it's all relative anyways. What some might consider a slight bother could cause real pain to someone else.
The people in the back: YES, SAY IT LOUDER BECAUSE WE CANT HEAR YOU, RIGHT? (This is a joke)
"Just because somebody carries it well doesn't mean it isn't heavy." 🥇
I have no idea who said/penned this quote, but I love it. We all struggle with something - sometimes you can tell when a person is struggling, sometimes you can't depending on how well they carry themselves despite the weight of their challenges. Every person is different.
When she explains the concept of “seeing Nothing” it just freaking blew my mind
Same here. I've never heard blindness explained like that before. It's mind boggling!
I have always been bothered by the fact that it is nothing behind me. It has bothered me that I don't even see black, just nothing. My mind has always been confused about this
Same. Someone once described it as trying to see out of your elbow and that also blew my mind lol.
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it. I'm just wondering why I haven't found any folks who started out sighted then ended up blind explain it, for some ignorant reason, I feel like that would answer everything
It’s legit freaking me out so much!
As a sighted person, I really like learning about what it’s like being blind so thank you ❤️❤️ also love from england
Same here, but from the US.
Same, from Australia
Same,from Sweden
Am from Newcastle in the uk
Same here, and hello from Germany
My mom told me a story once that when speaking to a blind person, someone asked them what they could see and if they just saw blackness. The man responded by saying, "What can you see out of your elbow?" and when the person said nothing, they said "That's what I see out of my eyes." I'm not sure who that story came from exactly, but it really stuck with me when I heard it as a kid!
That’s actually super smart way to explain it. I usually say, what would you see if you didn’t have eyes?
That's how I explained it to my little brothers lol. I'm blind in my left eye so I can only see out of my right eye - it's like I'm a cyclops.
For the record I’m a blind person who does art...one of literally the most visual things ever. Y’all being blind has literally 0 impact on what your eventual career may be. My only limits are other people’s perceptions of me.
Art is so much more than visual. Art is an experience and you experience it in whatever your reality is ❤️
You are such an inspiration!
no limits huh? ok go be a marine.
Im intrested in seeing your art. Do you post it somewhere?
@@wapiti7151 Have you ever joined the army?
No? So shut up 😉
One of my best friends is blind, when she was pregnant she had her ultrasound printed in 3D so she could feel her baby’s face and body. Cost a pretty penny lol but she still has it and it’s so amazing ❤️
Ashley wow!!
Damn I didn't even know you could do that
Molly: It’s not safe for blind people to drive cars
Also Molly: Drives multiple RUclipsr’s cars 😂
Yes Molly, I’ve been blind for four years now and not anyone that sees me knows, strokes made I feel movement I feel like me lose my vision I had to stop driving
But shes assisted though 💕
In my country you only need one eye to drive, which is good because I'm only legally blind in one eye and can see with glasses with my other eye. So I can drive a car even though my mum was so against it to begin with 😅
I couldnt imagine being forced to touch someone's face lol
#awkward #cringe
Omg Molly plz reply
seme here i agree
I can. I can only imagine it must be similar to someone forcing you to hug or at a drag club someone grabbing your head and humping your face ya know?
Really tho, and like how much would you even be able to tell lol
I used to wear glasses and someone asked me if I was blind and I was like “no because then glasses would be useless...” also lover ur videos
Hehe, remember though, there are people who are still legally blind even with glasses. Glasses just help correct as much vision as possible.
I'm not legally blind but am partially blind. My corrected vision is 20/160 and 20/140.
Thus where I am confused now about if I'm part of the blind community or not...
Lol remember when Molly wore a pair just for fashion
My dad is blind and wears glasses. I think he's used to having them on. His blindness was progressive.
I am legally blind and wear glasses, just because they help a little with the blurriness and my near sightedness. If I didn't wear glasses I wouldn't even be able to type this on my phone cuz I wouldn't be able to see any of the letters on my keyboard to type. It would be too blurry
There are blind peopke who wear glasses
Trying to explain the “seeing nothing” concept to sighted people is extremely frustrating, so I’m very glad you gave that hand comparison.
I go insane if I became NLP blind and probably commit suicide. The only way I can imagine being able to live with it is if you're born that way. Vision is our most vital sense.
As a blind person all of these are so true and I mean all of them Like I don’t feel faces when will people learn
As a blind person, I understand all of this too.
I’ve had a blind person ask me to feel my face. I said yes since she was a friend. But I think she asked because I told her about my own disability and facial deformities so she probably wanted to feel the difference.
me to she should do a QandA with Gallop
Jessica Beggs That’s understandable though but I just don’t like it when people force me to feel their face
The painting behind Molly makes it look like she has cat ears 😹
Yaaah now i can't unsee it
Oh yeah
😂🐱
I can't stop seeing it... why did you do this...
I want Molly to wear cat ears in her next video now
I've seen blind people on the subway with the stick and glasses and whole 9 yards, but I've also had a man accidentally nudge me a bit on a subway car and then ask what stop we're at, and I only realized he was blind when I looked at him to respond and saw he wasn't quite making eye contact. (Then I also felt stupid when he said thank you and as usual I just went mhm and nodded so he was like what?). I'm always astounded by people who can navigate non-accessible areas alone-- especially the chaotic nyc subway system! When I get lost my main thing is always just "read the signs" so I can't imagine not having those visual cues and not always being completely lost, and in addition having an invisible disability so people aren't inclined to help or be kinder to you (in the sense that a blind person with a walking stick usually gets a perimeter of people giving them space to walk comfortably without bumping into them, etc.)
I'm not sure "walking stick" is the correct term, though.
It is not a stick, it is called a cane.
It’s called a cane. A walking stick is something you use if you are hiking in the woods. :-)
Uhhh, it’s called a “Cane”,
You’re watching a Visually Impaired RUclips, & you seem to not have learned anything...
@@UnsightlyMuse Learning is a process and a journey. At least they're here making an effort to learn. Let's encourage that instead of tearing people down for not knowing every little detail perfectly their first time.
My mom is legally blind, she is somewhat on the beginning of the blind community. For this reason she does not use a cane, so when she bumps into people and she says ‘sorry, I have low vision’ the response she gets the most is ‘ HAVE YOU EVER TRYED GOING TO THE EYE DOCTOR?’ ... like whaaat? No thank you, really, NEVER thought of that.
By the way I love your content so very much, and your will to raise awareness on the community and on misconceptions. ❤️
Considering that she is bumping into things, has she considered using a cane for her safety? I feel like whether or not you use a cane doesn't need to be dependent on how much you are "in" the community, but rather your own needs.
@@jaydashnine
Sometimes people need to come to terms with their needs tho. It took 2 years of living on my own and several near miss accidents crossing the street to realize “ ok maybe I go need a blind cane” because I’m so used to being in the sighted community even tho I’m low vision. It’s this weird purgatory of “ I can see but I can’t see"
My cane is mostly for show because people don’t understand how my eyes work. I look like I can see and I act like can see because I can see but still can’t see.
The most irritating thing with my cane is when I’m around people I’ve known for years and either think I’m faking or think my vision is getting worse. And any questions I have are directed towards my friend (who after years of explanation gets it because the only difference from then and now is I have a stick I can whack him with if I get annoyed lol) fortunately he has been a wonderful advocate for me and just tells them “she’s right here you can ask her yourself”
People would never understand low vision. It sounds like she just needs glasses so it is normal for people to react that way. It may better for her to say legally blind.
I know a blind dog, (yes blind humans and blind dogs are different but this is a wholesome story so shh) and he’s very old and just went blind a few months back. Whenever I go to the owners house they ask me if Bozworth (the little blind pug mix) every bumps into a wall, just lightly put your hand on him and lead him to the living room, or the room he was trying to get into. They suggest the living room because that’s the room Bozworth knows best. Even though he can’t see, he’s still super playful and doesn’t even act like he’s 10 years old. 😭❤️
Molly is so pretty and kind hearted. Who wouldn’t love her
She is also very very funny!! And yes I love her!!
Trick question. No one
People who do not see her true beauty.
Molly is an inspiration to us sighted people on how to be kind hearted in many situations
❤️ her example
This look she created for this video is spot on! So awesome! High five!
molly’s fit and hair looks so cute ahhh
Aw, thanks!! :D
Ikr!
True
Fit?
She has a Wednesday Addams look going on
"Don't squish bugs; that's mean" is Molly's entire demeanor and I love it lol
I watched a film the other day called 'hear no evil see no evil' and it was basically about these two dudes, one of them was blind, one was deaf and they basically lived their entire lives without telling people of their disability and when they meet they go on this whole adventure using the others sight/ears to work together.
“idk what’s going on with this hair either” girl the dark roots look is CUTE and the braids?? you’re adorable, hush
I literally love Molly so much, she is such a queen, and she is a really kind and genuine person.
Yep, queen bee!
Dawn you are either gay/lesbian or really like drag queens
She never saw that
@@lonedoeseverything1744
Haha how'd u know?
I love how easygoing molly is and how she doesn’t get angry when people are rude or do something disrespectful because of her disability and she instead decides to educate them, thanks for being amazing Molly!
Keep it up!
Just because she educates us via RUclips videos doesn't mean she doesn't get angry at the rudeness or disrespect people give her. Anger is a natural and healthy thing - it's good that she chooses to make educational content on the internet, but that doesn't mean she educates every person who interacts with her, and it doesn't mean she doesn't get angry about the ableism, either.
I am a fellow blind person, and I’m surprised you didn’t cover the heightened senses myth. We don’t have heightened senses, we just have to use our other senses more.
She did in other vidéos. I think it's hard to just choose five from all there is..
Hopefully you didn't have a horrible experience because of heightened senses misconception
I think that myth started from media like Marvel’s Dare devil ,Yomi from Yu Yu hakusho , Toph from Avatar, etc
@@justasentientmclarenp1879 and Jayfeather from Warriors
I mean, I never understood heightened sense in a sense that you genetically or physically have better sense than a sighted person does, but rather that your other senses are more trained than mine for example to make up for the lack of sight. I can not read braille, nor could I even make out the amount and shape of dots by just touching it. With enough training I surely could. I also cannot necessarily tell the difference between people by their smell, but the fact that I can in some cases with stronger smells proves that I could if I trained it. But as I simply never need it because I can tell the difference between people by the looks and letters by their shape. Apart from sight we have the same set of senses, just that you train them more to work around the lack of sight
I started getting real anxious when she described how totally blind people see.. nothing? It's too mind boggling
I had a cousin who was born blind who would feel faces, and when I was little my mom made me let her feel my face. It did freak me out since I was so young and couldn’t understand, but now I know that was just her way of finding out what I looked like and she probably only did it because I was a family member. She has since passed 💔 but that was my first memory of encountering a blind person so for a long time I assumed every blind person felt Faces, so thank you Molly for always educating people like me who may have misconceptions about the community.
My personal favorite is when somebody asked me if I know sign language!
ha ha ha ha ha hahaha!!
Or when they start talking loudly and slowly!
I have a deaf friend who’s been offered the Braille menu any number of times.
Me- *legally blind*
Friend- You need to be able to drive. I’m gonna teach you how to drive
Me-Trust me, NO ONE WANTS THAT.
Friend-What if there was an emergency, and you have to drive?
Me- Then you especially don’t want me driving!
Friend- I’ll teach you
Me- I CAN’T SEE!!! THAT’S A MORAL NO-NO!
I can’t believe someone will would think to say that 😂
Laila Magdy Ragab Me either LOL 😂 Crazy thing is she won’t ever drop it! Keep in mind, in addition to not being able to see, I’m on at least 20 different medications, (I have awful health) so still not a good idea even if I could see!
Sounds rough to deal with
Dear friend of yours: r u crazy!?
Did you see the Mythbusters episode where they had a blind guy drive by verbal instructions of a passenger?
WE GOT OVER 2 MILLION!!!!! Congrats Molly!!
I once heard someone explain that "nothingness" like this: Close (only) your right eye, what do you see from it?
Woah that's cool!
I see light through my eyelid. Nearly everyone does.
@@juniper617 only close one eye and look out with the other eye. Dont close them both
Woah
Black. I see black. That's why this doesn't make sense to me. And I get the feeling it's why Molly said "no sighted person will ever be able to really understand it". Because no one so far has explained it to me in a way that actually helps.
As a teacher with sighted students, I'm constantly struggling to communicate why I look sighted, wear glasses, etc. This explains it all SO WELL! Thank you!
There's a continuum. My current job has made me extremely aware of just how little I use my eyes for much of anything. I'll have people pointing at things a couple feet from me and struggle to recognize them.
I'm lucky in that everything up to the last bit works, I just don't always recognize what I'm seeing.
Is anyone else getting serious Dorothy from wizard of oz vies from molly's hair and shirt.
Yes so cute!
Yesssss!
Not till I read your comment
Me: laying in bed sad and sick
Molly: *uploads*
Me: 😊😊
Love you Molly 💕
Aw
@arandum Hufflepuff well. You can hear a smile in someones voice
@@dutchik5107 how can you hear a smile?
@@Isabelle-xp7qb You just do
@@Isabelle-xp7qb Dunno - I'm Deaf :)
I have a friend from Estonia who has the absolute zero vision, not seeing anything at all. Our discussions about his experiences have been very interesting and have slayed most of my misconceptions about blindness. I actually found your channel before I met this guy, and eventually ended up recommending your channel to him.
He found it intersting listening to someone who is closer to his level of blindness than most other people and he ended up thanking me for the recommendation. I love the work you do for the blind community, while also really enjoying the videos of you just being you. As a person on the autism spectrum, I am very used to misconceptions flying around constantly, especially since I am very non-stereotypical for that spectrum.
Thank you for everything that you do Molly. I am so happy that I found this channel
I have diabetic retinopathy after 30 years with type 1. You are so helpful I just have to state it because before your videos I was getting depressed thinking about more potential vision loss... I can still see quite well but there could be a time were my vision will become impacted. You're such a breath or fresh air
omggg molly in braids is the cutest thing ever!
Hey I'm not trying to be a jerk, I don't know if you know or not you could be young and don't know this. With a singular subject it's "is" and with pleural subject it's "are" so braidS would be "are"
@@personincognito3989 oh god ! Chill ! 😂
Person Incognito but that doesn’t make sense, because he’s talking about molly with braids, not the braids
Okay but the braids are actually hella cute tho! 💜💜
I'm feeling a Dorothy/Wizard of Oz vibe myself :)
i have a video idea for when quarantine is over. you should do a video with your brother about growing up with a blind sister. maybe a q&a or something else idk it’s just an idea 💛
#earlysquad
i know you don’t live by your brother but maybe the next time you see him or something
As a sibling of someone with a disability, I would love to see that represented on a platform as big as Molly's! Great idea :)
wait, she has a brother?? why did I not know that hahah
They could do a zoom q&a!
That would be awesome! I hope she sees your suggestion because I think that would make for a very educational video
When you explained that it is "Nothingness" and not "blackness" my brain just couldn't handle it! If I could see what it was like to be blind for at least a few minutes I'm sure it would help my brain from hurting. It's like when I think about space... My brain just gets overwhelmed with the wow factor, and being in awh!
same
harrietyes same
I’m half blind right now, optical neuritis, been thinking of you a lot in the last couple days because of it, you are an inspiration for me
I’m an autistic fan, and our top 5 stereotypes are:
1.) We’re nonverbal
2.) If we’re not nonverbal, we scream all of the time
3.) We flap our hands
4.) We have severe noise sensitivity
5.) We fidget all of the time
The first one is only severely low functioning autistic people, the second is also low functioning and it’s also pretty severe, as is the third one, the fourth and fifth ones are true for most autistic people, but not for all, so there are people on the spectrum that don’t have noise sensitivity, and fidget, but it’s uncommon.
The difference between the autism spectrum and the blindness spectrum, is that the blindness spectrum would be like a very flat area, while the autism spectrum would be a very mountainous area.
My friends brother is autistic and he has 2 out of 5
I’m autistic and I have 1 kinda 2 of those. A great book written by a young autistic girl is “Can you see me” by Libby Scott. 💜
The worst one I have heard is that people with autism don't have feelings. I have heard that a lot and it always makes me really sad that people actually believe that. Whenever someone says that I give them a 30 minute autism awareness talk.
Well i sometimes just don't talk or my voice stops. And fidgeting can be done pretty sleek have no one notice. And walking around with say headphones pretty norman
I used to work with an autistic child and only the last 2 applied to that child. So annoying that stereotypes are a thing nowadays...
I’m a sighted person who prior to watching you really had no idea about the blind community and the misconceptions created by poor representation in media. Thanks for the education Molly ❤️
Blind people don't see black they see nothing
Me: well everybody just imagines blind people seeing black because we can't see "nothing"
I have a theory of that but I doubt is correct
Try closing one eye... see how your brain doesn’t see anything through that eye? There’s no image, not even blackness
This is the best way it’s been told to me:
Close one eye. With that eye, you don’t see black, you see nothing. You just don’t see.
Apparently that’s what being blind is like?
Sean Leyshock interesting so for context I have breathing problems one night I was really pushing it staying off my ventilator longer than usual and my weaker eye just.. stopped working. I could not see. Like my eye was open I could not see. It was total blackness. I knew what the problem was, I wasn’t getting enough oxygen(sure enough once I got on my ventilator and was getting oxygen to my brain my sight returned- also I have slight visual impairment the eye that went black is the weakest) . ANYWAY all I saw was blackness out of that eye. I FREAKED out. That had never happened before I was so scared, luckily i was able to resolve it.
Also as I’m typing this I keep closing one eye and I do see a color I just can’t describe it. It’s like grey and tan but it’s not.
@@seanleyshock3842 I see blackness. Cause you still have your eyes, they just see the eyefold closing down, so blackness sort of
A friend I had in college was totally blind, no light, no shadow. She used a cane, since she was allergic to dogs. She also had perfect pitch and was a beautiful soprano! She had this really upbeat and can-do attitude that I really loved, kinda like you, Molly. I lost contact with her, sadly, since she really didn't like technology, but I think about her a lot. Anywho, thanks for the video, Molly! Wonderful as always! (e)Hugs and love from NorCal!
Thank you for busting these myths, Molly! To add to what you said about being legally blind (I’m an ophthalmic assistant), a person’s best corrected vision in their BEST eye needs to be 20/200 or higher to be considered legally blind. I have many patients whose vision is 20/200 or higher in one eye, but their vision in the other eye may be a perfect 20/20. Also, a person can be considered legally blind if their central visual acuity is no more than 20 degrees (in other words, they have no peripheral vision).
It’s been 2 minutes and this video already has one dislike. How do people hate on this? Molly’s a queen!
Haters have their notifications on 😉
There’s actually some people that are aware of the fact that any kind of interaction is helping the channel and do not want to save the video in their liked playlist but still want to support the channel and that’s why they do it
Like Molly the BLIND QUEEN gives no fs. And hates just jelly. 🤣
Be happy and thank the haters. They are part of the notification squad. A new video, they come over as quick as possible. For RUclips that means that this is a video of interest and could be interesting to more people. They also vote. That's interaction with the video and for RUclips it means that this video can start discussions. They help spreading this video on RUclips to people who aren't subscribed yet.
So to all people pressing the thumbs down just because you don't like Molly, I say: Thank You. And please, get a life.
Molly actually talked about that in her last video.
My dad is blind... And he swings his blind stick at my ankle level... Don’t slow down in the stores... I learned that the hard way. I got whacked in the ankle...
Could you do a video on how to be most helpful to a blind person who needs assistance? There are blind students at my college campus and in my neighborhood. I would like to learn to be helpful without being rude or getting in their way. I have been approached for directions more than once and each time I felt that I was less helpful than I could have been.
For example, is it better to offer to take someone all the way to their destination or does that come across as pushy? Is it rude to touch someone to help guide them or is it better to allow the blind person to find my arm on their own? Obviously some of this is individual to each person, but I'm wondering if you can speak about this.
I think it's great u want to help i personally believe it's personal preference I personally don't like people helping cause they tend to overdo it but that's just me I would recommend asking cause in my experience people really apreacoate it and will tell u what they need hope this helps
The answer to these questions is pretty much always ask. If they want or need to be touched to be guided they'll say so, but it's probably not needed. A verbal warning in cases of trip hazard is likely sufficient.
You'd be surprised at how effective the ears are at locating people and things in space.
It's better if I take us all and get us the hell out of here LOL THIS IS WEIRD plane of existence where blind people get superpowers of physical and psychological abuse all up and down the -
Is it too rude to touch someone or help them guide? - YEP IT IS NOW - society has changed lmao - TIME TO GO * shuffles the blind kids into the back of Mrs Frizzles School Bus *
look up Joy Ross.
she does videos where she goes to the store and asks for help u could learn through them
Legal blindness girl here and it’s amazing how well these all fit me too. Wild, that I’ve been blind my whole life but have never had a community. Thanks for being here molly! We all adore you.
I saw this video (I haven't watched any videos from this channel) and I couldn't tell that you were blind. It's honestly amazing how some blind people can figure out where things are, know their way around, etc. so easily that it looks like they aren't blind.
Definitely going to be watching more videos from you.
Before this video, I got an ad for glasses that started with "can't see?"
That's just unlucky
Princess Faith 😂
All of the “legally blind” facts totally make sense thank you for explaining it! I’m always excited to be more educated so I can inform others who are spreading false information 😊❤️
I don’t know how Molly manages to look so cute all the time! I can’t manage it with 20/20 vision!!!
I love your description of blindness, what it is and what it isn't. I've tried to explain it to people for most of my life, and no, I don't think most of them could understand. I have to admit though, that I pass whenever I can, so I'm not the best blind ambassador. Great video!
Just found your videos today from a blind friend, and it's been so interesting. I myself use a cane and have no vision whatsoever and have never known about the percentages. Thank you so much for sharing all of this.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate what a beautiful woman Molly is? 😍💕 #earlysquad ♥️
THANK YOU!! So kind.
Molly Burke ♥️♥️♥️
Omg the pigtail braids!! SO cute, definitely gonna copy that
OMG,molly you have helped me so much my sister went blind slowly and she doesn't like talk about it but it is different to each person tho
I love how Molly always speaks her truth!
It's the only way to live!
Amen!
Hi Molly! Just now when you were describing not seeing black and used your hand at the back your head as a prop - made me think of Neverending Story, the book. I found this piece in it (below), but I think it's a great enough book to listen to :) I'm 29, still think it's awesome. Here goes the quote
“Something has happened in Moldymoor,” said the will-o’-the-wisp haltingly,
“something impossible to understand. Actually, it’s still happening. It’s hard to
describe-the way it began was-well, in the east of our country there’s a lake-
that is, there was a lake-Lake Foamingbroth we called it. Well, the way it
began was like this. One day Lake Foamingbroth wasn’t there anymore-it was
gone. See?”
“You mean it dried up?” Gluckuk inquired.
“No,” said the will-o’-the-wisp. “Then there’d be a dried-up lake. But there
isn’t.
Where the lake used to be there’s nothing-absolutely nothing. Now do you
see?”
“A hole?” the rock chewer grunted.
“No, not a hole,” said the will-o’-the-wisp despairingly. “A hole, after all, is
something. This is nothing at all.”
The three other messengers exchanged glances.
“What-hoo-does this nothing look like?” asked the night-hob.
“That’s just what’s so hard to describe,” said the will-o’-the-wisp unhappily.
“It doesn’t look like anything. It’s-it’s like-oh, there’s no word for it.”
“Maybe,” the tiny suggested, “when you look at the place, it’s as if you were
blind.”
The will-o’-the-wisp stared openmouthed.
“Exactly!” it cried. “But where-I mean how-I mean, have you had the
same. ..?”
“Wait a minute,” the rock chewer crackled. “Was it only this one place?”
“At first, yes,” the will-o’-the-wisp explained. “That is, the place got bigger
little by little. And then all of a sudden Foggle, the father of the frogs, who lived
in Lake Foamingbroth with his family, was gone too. Some of the inhabitants
started running away. But little by little the same thing happened to other parts of
Moldymoor. It usually started with just a little chunk, no bigger than a partridge
egg. But then these chunks got bigger and bigger. If somebody put his foot into
one of them by mistake, the foot-or hand-or whatever else he put in-would
be gone too. It didn’t hurt-it was just that a part of whoever it was would be
missing
On Instagram I came across a post about a blind professor where I saw sooo many questions about how he teaches etc and I left a rather informative and lengthy comment about accessibility features, my own experience going through employment and independent living training and preparation, ways he could make things easier for himself etc and all the things that are available to help us do what we want to do in life. I myself am a fire performer, play harp and piano as well as taught myself how to sew. Everything I’ve learned I’ve taught myself despite having ROP. And out of all the fantastic comments I received from Disabled and nondisabled people, on my birthday someone comments “then how did you read this post?” And I won’t lie, I let it be known that this wasn’t something I was going to let slide. Not only is it hard to tell if someone’s just being a troll online but it also made me feel like EVERYTHING I’d said went completely ignored. So trust me I feel this whole damn video deep within my soul.
This video was so fun to learn from! In middle school I lost my sight briefly due to an allergic reaction to my contact solution. I’ve always explained that time as seeing nothing!
That one about „you can’t see it“ is so so true. My father can’t see well, he is between 5-10% years ago when his vision was even better then now my mom tried out a pair of glasses at the doctor that showed her kind of what my father could see than and she said she wouldn’t find the door with these glasses on.
But my father adapted really well to that and play football ⚽️ as a hobby. No one who played with him would have guessed he is close to beeing blind.
He can do nearly everything on his own, expect reading tiny text.
You’ve made me aware about blindness and how different every blind person experience is. As a fysiotherapist student this has really help me understand how to help this community in the best way possible. Thans you so much for educating us! Lots of love from Belgium 🇧🇪❤️😊
Ok the non-existence concept makes me think of what my daughter says when driving to a new city. She says that the streets, the land marks just don’t exist in her brain map. Not until she’s driven there and explored the town that it begins to ‘draw’ itself along with what you already knew. Hopefully that wasn’t too confusing. Hugs.
I had a 4th grade teacher who was fully blind in one eye and legally blind in the other. She had an amazing guide dog named Olympus and she was my favorite teacher I’ve ever had
Like how does touching a face let you know how someone looks like lmao 😂
IT DOESN'T! -.- lol
Maybe if a person was a portrait sculptor before hand 😂
Yeah, I would challenge any sighted person to be blindfolded and asked to feel someone's face then tell what they look like. I bet they couldn't even identify someone they know.
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The only time I've ever seen anyone who was blind actually feel someone's face...was when you did James Charles makeup. And I think that's the only context it makes sense in.
@@pillylamb only if they peeked and cheated
Please do a video on the differences between “visible” and “invisible” disability’s.
“It’s not black, it’s just nothing”
Me: 🤯 idek how to comprehend that
If you look at an object and close one of your eyes, what do you see from that closed eye (while still looking at the object)? Nothing, it is not black, it is nothing. That's the easiest way I can try to understand it for myself!!
Here's how I think of it: Try and see something behind your head without moving your eyes and head. In other words try to see through the back of your head.
Jackeline Morales but if you close both eyes you see black, or darkness... or is that just because we already know what black looks like? It’s so confusing
@@JessicaSmith-sc7vc That's right. We can see color because of our cone cells (or cones), these are "activated" with light, when we close our eyes the light is blocked so our eyes cannot see any colors. Since our eyes are functioning, they never actually stop seeing so we see darkness (or black as we all say) as our rod cells (which work with dim light) are the only ones "working" at that moment. The best way I could comprehend it for myself was closing an eye while still focusing my other eye on an object, I see nothing with my closed eye. Trying to see through the back of your head as the last person commented is also a good way to put it.
@@jsophiamm Thank you for clearing that up it was driving me crazy knowing I close both eyes and see black I was like I don't understand at ALL 😩then I was putting my hand on the back of my head like she mentioned I almost went crazy
I always find this so educating. The closest I ever came to understanding seeing nothing as a sighted person. Is to close 1 eye... what do you see from your closed eye? Nothing.
Molly thank you for speaking up, thank you so much for educating and being a voice.
My 5 yr old son is being tested for ocular albinism, he has nystagmus and papalidema, i have poor vision in one eye but i can see so I dont know my sons struggles but YOU are making this journey easier for me as a mother to advocate for him, and to empower him.
He currently has some vision but they believe it may degenerate later in life.
His school sees him as a struggle, because of his ADHD aswell, and i want to educate them, but first i have to educate myself. You are helping me and others like me every day 💜 continue what you are doing love, you are amazing!
I’ve learned so much about blindness and disabilities in general from molly.
I appreciate #5 so much! I am sighted but I suffer from migraines that make me temporarily blind. It was because of these migraines that I started realizing that I always used to think that blindness was seeing black. During these episodes, I don't see black. I see nothing. It's so hard to explain but I'm glad this was addressed! I have this argument all the time with people I know. It's difficult to explain to people who haven't experienced it.
I cant stop thinking about her baby Elephant tattoo!!!! It sooo cute!!!
I love the way you described legally blind, I have a friend who is legally blind but they still see shadows and light
5:24 So I’m legally blind, and actually, I had this one time in grade 4 when I was coming back from speech therapy, and I was wearing thick rubber gloves. Don’t ask me why, I just was. Maybe it was cold, idk. I walked into the classroom, which had no windows, by the way, and the lights were off because my teacher had the projector on. It was near the start of the school year, so I wasn’t comfortable enough with asking her to turn on the light. So I just walked into the room with my improper bumper hands, and after waddling forward a few steps, I felt something. Being a curious little 9-year-old, I moved my hands around it, wondering what it could be. Remember, I had gloves on, so I couldn’t feel the texture of what I was touching. Then I heard my friend’s voice: “Zara, you’re feeling my face.” So yeah that was funny and embarrassing. A few people giggled but not in a mean way. Also, since that was the school year that COVID hit and we didn’t have that much time in person, it’s probably one of my fondest memories from that year, though the friend whose face I was feeling doesn’t remember it at all.
This was a complete accident, by the way. BLIND/LEGALLY BLIND PEOPLE DO NOT FEEL EACH OTHER’S FACES (at least not intentionally lol)
There's some person on Reddit with a deleted account who explains true blindness perfectly;
Complete nothingness. It's like not experiencing a tail you don't have.
When you look at an object, you'll be able to find the edges of your vision. At some point, you can't look at the drawer to your left for example, because your eyes simply aren't pointed at it for light to come in. Anything 'beyond' these edges of your vision, is nothing - your brain may fill it in a bit but it isn't black. You don't see black beyond the edges of your vision, do you? Exactly. People born blind don't have vision at all so all they experience is what we would experience beyond the edges of our vision: Not. We wouldn't, we don't experience it at all.
is this written in english?? i'm so confused
@@cholec9230 it makes perfect sense.
Me and my sighted brain are so stressed trying to make sense of this
Just imagine all you see is the outer edges of your peripheral vision
Doesn't make any sense to me. If you mean my peripheral vision, I can see things pretty well there. What's "beyond" my peripheral, is the end of my eye and I can't see behind me, at all. When I close my eyes it's dark with random spots or funky 'images', which is probably why people think blind people just see darkness.
The first thing I thought at the start of the video is “wow, her hair looks so cute!!” ❤️❤️
Let’s get this girl to 2 million she deserves the world she has helped to many blind people and people with a disability! My mom works with disabled people and sometimes she puts on one of your videos because they are so amazing! Sorry I’m not part of the early squad I hope you still enjoy this comment! I love you Molly! ❤️❤️
M O O D I E S T wish granted lol.
I have a blind brother, he was blind from birth and has what molly was describing earlier in the video as foggy eyes. His pupil looks shattered and his eye color is a foggy greyish blue. This video was so informative and even i learned a few new things, i did not know that only 2% of blind people use canes because my brother is one of that two percent but its pretty cool seeing how you described the blind spectrum because before stumbling upon your channel, i would've never thought that every blind person's perspective of vision is different since i thought for the most part they were all one and the same.
I am blind and also in a wheelchair. We were on Beale street (Memphis, Tn) once when a woman came up to us and asked if I wanted to feel her face.
I told her no thank you, but she grabbed my hands and placed them not only over her face but all over her body too!
I tried to pull my hands back, but she was really strong and I couldn't. She only let go when I started to cry. DH didn't think I would be so upset, but I don't want to touch some stranger much less the body of a stranger!
The nothing thing is freaking me out but im glad i learned about it
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I literally forget molly is blind half of the time because she is so happy all of the time and just is so inspirational! 💕💝😊
You’re absolutely right, it’s very normal for partners to have a hand on each other’s face. It’s like a way of showing affection
About that face feeling thing... when I was like 7/8 years old our teacher proposed an activity where we had to be blindfolded & try to feel a random classmate’s face and guess who it is. She said it was the way blind ppl did it and I’m pretty sure I thought that was actually accurate. Also I’ve never in my entire life had a blind colleague anywhere, not in grade school, not in high school, not in university, so there’s inclusivity for ya. So good to finally learn properly from someone like Molly.
The hand thing was crazy, I never thought about it that way but it makes so much sense
Just like the comment and pretend I wrote something funny
DONE.
Molly Burke OMG THANKS I NEVER GOT A ❤️ BY CREATOR BEFORE!! 🥰😱☺️
Awww!!!
Lolll
Omg ur sooo funny! Best comment everrrrr!😁 was that good?!😂
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You said exactly how i am. I cant see a thing but pure blurring without my contacts but with my contacts i can see perfectly. Some days i have to wait for my contacts to come in so i cannot see for those few days and i respect you so much you're so brave everyday. The fact that you put a smile on everyday is beautiful. You're such an inspiration to alot of people and i cant imagine what you're going through everyday. Your mother is just as amazing as you are. You both are def a dynamic duo 💞😍💜
Molly- the painting in the background makes it look like you have cute kitty cat ears. I’m living for it.
I recently heard a great comparison about seeing nothing: When you close one of your eyes, this eye doesn't see black - it sees nothing. So it's kinda like that. Idk if it helps, put it made sense for me
But it does see black. At least to me. I literally see black when I do that. I don't understand why people keep using that as a comparison. maybe you're just not noticing the black, because you're focusing on the eye that CAN see? Because I can understand why you'd say that when you're focusing through the eye that can see. But when I focus through the eye that's closed, I see black. That's not "seeing nothing", that's just you not paying attention to what that eye is seeing.
@@LordofFullmetal I don’t see black when I close one eye. I see nothing. My son said the same. So it depends on the person.
Molly looks gorgeous "Hey excuse my hair"
Me: has hair that is still in a pony lol 😂😂
I’m sighted and I just started watching the show “In The Dark.” A murder mystery where a blind girl finds her friend dead, but when his body disappears nobody believes her because she didn’t technically ‘’see the body’’
I thought: Oh, probably going to be a few misconceptions thrown in there. The main actress isn’t blind, so she can’t perfectly play a blind character.
I didn’t really expect to have to pause the show a few minutes in, to rant to my family about how she wasn’t even using a blind-cane properly. Don’t you know how little research you have to do to know how to use a walking cane whilst playing a blind character bruh 😭 show-runners, what are you doing, man ?!
This misuse of the white cane is kinda part of her character. She struggles with her vision loss and hasn’t really come to accept it. You’d be surprised at how many people who are blind don’t use cane techniques 100% properly. It’s super cringey watching as someone who is visually impaired, who has gone through O&M training, and who is in an O&M program now taking classes under blindfold to teach these skills. If you really want to see some cringe worthy content, check out Apple. It’s a movie about a miniature guide horse... they got a lot wrong.
I want a collab video with Molly Burke and CinimaSins.
yeah, there's some missteps here and there. There's a ton the show gets right though. And that's something that really surprised me. In more than one moment I felt like the writers watched Molly's channel.
This was an interesting video. I stumbled upon it as a recommendation on my channel. I'm not blind, but have psychological disorders that are commonly misunderstood. (ex: Anxiety Disorder does NOT = Stress! It's actually the body's inability to handle stress appropriately; it's NOT stress in and of itself. "But you don't LOOK disabled!" Is freaking annoying!) It's eye opening to see how someone with a physical disability copes with the public. Definitely things I wasn't aware of about the blind community! Thanks for sharing.
I’m mind BLOWN 🤯 thanks for spreading awareness
I’m a sighted person and for some reason I understood the fact that “totally blind” people see “nothing” immediately (at least I think and hope so). I think it’s cuz whenever I close my eyes I don’t see black and I’ve had many people tell me that they see black so I kinda get it.
P.s: not tryna offend nobody this is just my input and how I understood things 🙃
Shahad Almousawi I also see ‘nothing’ if I close my eyes, but if I focus on my eyelids, I can see black. So you can try that as I think that’s what people mean when they say they see black.🙂
I love how inspirational u are. It is so interesting learning about the blind community and learning about u. Thank u. I am so glad u made this RUclips channel. I can believe it’s been 6years!!! I’ve watched u for 3.5 years at the least. I love u so much and I hope u are staying safe 😘😘❤️❤️
So much no with touching someone’s face!! “Oh hi nice to meet you! Now let me rub my hands all over your face!” Yikes!!
Molly, I don’t know what you’re talking about! Your hair looks amazing!
As a sighted person who suffers from migraines with visual auras, I think I can understand the concept of seeing ‘nothing’. I’m not sure of the medical term, but when I have a migraine, I lose half my vision. So if you imagine putting your hand in front of your face and moving it side to side, but keeping your eyes fixed ahead, you can still see your hand in your peripheral vision, even when it’s quite far to your side. During a migraine, my hand will disappear somewhere just after the halfway point, as will everything else on that side. There’s no darkness, it’s just like that side of my vision is gone, no longer exists. Not sure if I explained that well, but thanks for the video, really informative as always.