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The start of your story reminded me of a story my mother once told me. She had her eyes removed at the age of 1 from cancer, so she was blind her whole life. One year my mother and her 5 younger siblings were playing in their huge backyard when there was over a foot of snow on the ground. They all got called in for dinner and ran inside. My mother on the other hand, without anyone else noticing, got lost in the yard trying to find her way back. Everyone was pretty used to her being blind but would forget that snow made it nearly impossible for her to get around. Once my mom made it back inside, their father was pissed. After dinner he took all 5 of my mothers siblings out into the woods nearby and blindfolded them, told them to find their way home and if they peaked they would be punished. 20+ years later some of them admit to peeking. Just thought I would share this story. I'm not blind but I can understand where you come from having been raised by my blind mom. :)
Dizzy Taco good that he cared about your mom 🙂
Your grandpa is a very wise man.
how is it possible that teachers could have left a visually impaired girl alone in the snow? this is so irresponsible
I think sometimes the phase where there is some vision left is harder than when the student is fully blind. When you as the teacher know that the student has some vision, you sometimes aren't sure when to help and when to let the student be.
MsClarinut well they shouldn't be 'not sure', they should perfectly know the situation and maybe give her a full time support teacher
Skiir D With inncreaingly diminished vision situations, that can change. Her plan probably said she had some visual impairment and that she used a cane to help make up the difference. Normally, that's fine, but kids being kids, she ran trying to be like her friends. You can't blame schools for everything.
She had an extra instructor and help, but you don't want to smother a blind child with help and support. They have to learn how to become self-sufficient as well, as much as possible. These are important experiences and a child that is constantly drowned it pity and help will never become confident. I think they tried their best and it is for the better. She might have had a terrible experience, but I think it was a blessing that she never considered herself properly disabled up to that point. She got to grow up as normal as possible.
I can't speak for Molly but I think it probably would have been wise for the teachers to at least watch from a far.
i'm visually impaired and went to Walt Disney World solo a couple years ago.
All was great the first day.
All was great the second day until it wasn't lol.
I went to what was then Downtown Disney and now Disney Springs.
I went to the bathroom and when I was walking out I knew where I was headed so I walked with a confidence. Just outside of the bathroom is a shin height brick wall that jets out from the building fo what reason I have no idea. I didn't see it and tripped over it. I jumped up so fast and knew I was hurt but figured more like whip lashed hurt. No one saw it happen thank God but luckily there was a guy sitting on a bunch that I could see so I walked over and said "um I just fell over there and I think I may need help". He totally freaked out when he looked up and said "yeah you do you're bleeding a lot from your chin!". At that point I freaked out. He got a cast member for me and they got me paper towels to hold to my chin and they called paramedics. They were very nice and looked at my chin and said I definitely needed stitches. Disney was great because they gave me a Frozen t-shirt for free because at that pont my shirt was bloody. I was taken to urgent care and then taken back to my resort hotel. After all that I had not had dinner and needed to get up the next morning to go to a park for opening. It was a crazy experience but I would definitely go solo again.
I had also skinned my shins and had a terrible terrible bruise on my lower stomach from landing on the corner of the brick wall so hard.
Us blind peeps got some unique stories lol.
Not a physical accident, and I doubt anyone will see this, but a moment I truly realised how real my high-functioning autism I was was staying after school for drama practice. Emulating acceptable social interaction is normally exhausting and difficult for me so when I get home from school I sit and watch UA-cam listlessly, but that day I stayed longer, and then suddenly I felt a switch click in my brain and my capacity to read what minimal social cues I could turned off. It was a terrifying experience because I felt so helpless; I can’t fully explain but it felt like I had absolutely no way to know if what I was saying was remotely right or if I was doing everything completely wrong. I ended up having to excuse myself to leave, but that marked the moment when I recognised that I couldn’t do everything neurotypical people could.
"I was disoriented so i began to run"
Coyn11 same tho
Coyn11 mood
LMAO
Welcome to the mind of a child
Lmao
They should have called an ambulance.
i think ambulances are the only thing canadians have to pay for as far as healthcare
Americans have to pay a lot of money for an ambulance as well
why? in italy ambulances are driven by volunteers
its hundreds of dollars in the US $600- $1000.
+wonderfulmax ... damn it... poor guys. Ambulances are always free here. (Germany)
Why didn't they call an ambulance there is a blind child with her face pouring buckets of blood so much she left a trail through the hall. they called her mom but an ambulance might have been faster and would have been better because once the ambulance arrived they could started to help her right away.
I know right. And its not like she lives in the us, here in Canada healthcare is free.. that was dumb of the school.
Naomi Mann most schools are required to provide notification to the parents and ultimately it's up to the parent, and even though healthcare is free it could still take a long time for the ambulance to get there. So her mom probably figured going to go get her would be quicker
I mean, they should have, but I remember once I got sick in 5th grade and they had to call my mom because they need permission to do something like that. I believe the only time a school does not need permission is if it is life or death, like someone having a massive allergic reaction. I guess they didn't realize just how bad the cut was and figured they could clean it up and put a bandaid or something. Once they called the mom they should have said they were gonna call an ambulance but oh well.
When I was in 2nd grade I broke my leg at school and they called my parents to come get me.
Not all Canadian provinces include a ride in the ambulance for free (it's not part of the healthcare "package"). Many charge a flat rate anywhere from $45-400 for a trip.
I just found you from Shane Dawson's channel and instantly fell in love with you. I love what you are doing with what you have and continuing to stay positive. I'm sighted, but I suffer from severe anxiety and depression from PTSD from horrible trauma as a child. You make smile and remind me that I can get through this. You did it, I can too.
Thank you so much for being such a role model
Katie Marie I found her through Shane’s channel too and as much as I watch other youtubers I always find myself on Molly’s channel. It’s just something about her that I absolutely love and I can’t get enough of. I’m so glad she’s doing what she’s doing and using what she has to educate people on blindness. I hope to see her speak one day.
You are doing it too Katie Marie! Sending you lots of love!
Katie Marie I suffer from PTSD, depression and anxiety too and I love Molly so much. Its so nice not to feel alone in the world xxx
I could her from Rosanna pansinos channel I love molly
I found her through Shane Dawson also😂
I can see, but because of my Cerebral Palsy I only use one eye at a time. If one eye is looking at you the other will be off in space somewhere. This means I have no depth perception. We didn't know about any of that at the time of this particular accident, but I feel like that's probably why it happened. I was in third grade and at the time my main mode of transportation was a walker. I had just gotten out of school for the day and was walking towards the curb cut at the end of the sidewalk. I must have misjudged where exactly the curb cut was because my walker wheel went over the curb, I lost my balance, fell face first off of the curb and ended up with a gash in my head big enough that a rock got stuck in it. To this day I still hate being too close to curbs
I can see pretty well, and I ran into a Lamp post, broke my nose and ripped half the skin off my nose.
Yea, this can happen to other people too.
Don't ask me how that happened. I blacked out and have no memory of about five minutes before the accident.
Michi Lo ouch
Michi Lo That sounds bad.
After I attempted suicide by sleeping pills, I didn't die but the next day I was rambling and then hit my head on a door. I still have no memory how I led my mum to the psychiatric clinic. No memory of the rambling and hitting my head other.
Michi Lo ow.
Always love your blind girl storytime videos, but this one just made me cringe. That must have hurt so much, I can't even imagine. I hope you continue to do well, and that the ENT has good news for you. Hugs from Puerto Rico xoxo
Me to lol
I'm am 50% Puertorrican what a small world XD
I used to get anxiety stomach aches from my anxiety disorder. It got so bad i would sleep on the floor of the bathroom because i was afraid of throwing up, even though i knew it was anxiety and it never made throw up. Thats cool, ive never met someone else whos anxiety presented as nausea.
I use to sleep on the bathroom floor because I felt so sick I thought I was going to throw up from my anxiety too!!
Angela Smith I experienced this as well when I was younger. Nice to know I'm not alone. My anxiety is a lot less now.
I still experience this trust me I'm in middle school and I've gotten better but I used to scream and cry because I thought I was going to throw up because I was so anxious and my anxiety is literally the fear of throwing up😷
Lily Bee I have emetephobia too. It really sucks
When I was younger, I had really bad anxiety but I don't think I really realized it..? I would throw up almost every single day either before school or at school. Now I'm 22 and pregnant and I think the hormones have heightened my anxiety so my nausea is also worse at times.
she's wearing a not fully zipped up light blue sporty hoody where you can slip your thumbs trough the ends of the wristbands. and at the top you can see an edge of the black semi-transparent strap sports bra - nice outfit! and she's wearing a necklace with a small round pendant.
Annie Be not being rude at all, but what's your point? sincerely curious!
Amber d ty, someone described her outfit in a strangely wrong way which I dislike because it confuses blind visitors
Annie Be if there blind they can’t read it right?
Olivia Wauchope you must be new to this channel. Phones have accessible features where it can read things out for you. It’s really amazing how technology has made it so much more easy for the disabled community.
I also have ptsd and bipolar disorder and 3 years ago I had my very first hallucinations. It was triggered by yelling that triggered a ptsd panic attack. I was in the dark in my moms room at my aunts house. Then all these shadows that kind of looked similar to dementors started swooping around me and diving at me. They were basically cloaked hooded shadows that had no faces. I was basically phychotic for the next several months and that was when I realized that I wasn't just experiencing anxiety. When I ended up in the hospital that's when I received the diognosis of ptsd and a year later the bipolar. It is still one of the most terrifying experiences in my whole life. There is no better torture than your own mind... now I'm 20 and living in a group home and on SSI, but I have been stable for over half a year now. I too hope to get a service dog at some point to help me in public and if I were to ever relapse. My ultimate goal is to live on my own and be an artist.
God, hallucinations are terrible! I remember when I was in high school, I had auditory hallucinations (I was psychotically paranoid at the time) where I was convinced people were coming up with ways to kill me.
If you're open to it, hypnosis is a really useful way to get to the root of your anxieties, PTSD, and even mania episodes. My mom signed me up for hypnotherapy around the peak of my psychosis, and it's really helped me. I'm 21 now and am managing a pretty normal life. (My anxiety still spikes, but I'm not bound by depression, PTSD, or psychosis anymore!)
I actually can't see the scar on your nose. Your face is near perfect and you are incredibly attractive. Do you believe you are attractive? I'm sure you've heard compliments about your appearance your whole life but every girl (disabilities or not) is a bit insecure.
Treestump & Thunderarch you may not be insecure for the most part like some of us are, but if sure you still have your days where you may not feel your best and not as confident as usual. Even the most perfect seeming celebs say they get insecure sometimes so.....
Bambi c it's really strange to disagree with someone about how they feel and to imply they're lying about not feeling insecure. Like most people, my appearance has changed a lot over the years but I've always been completely content with my appearance and would never want to change anything folk would consider a flaw. Always been a very confident person. Some folk just aren't insecure about their appearance
Bambi c hahahahahahahahaha you sound mad 🤔
Oh dear hahahahaha bambi deleted her big rant
Treestump & Thunderarch most people say that but they half the time people just say that to make themselves feel better the body has one part of themselves that they're not completely happy with everybody even me I hate the way if you look at my nose at a certain angle it looks like it is broken but it's not and some people asked me did I break my nose and I'd say no it's just the angle I did when I was playingreally really young they ask me did you just break your nose do you need to go to the hospital but I didn't break my nose 👃
There’s a blind girl in my class she’s a joy to be friends with her name is Sala-joy she hasn’t been bullied for being blind
your makeup and eyebrows are looking 100! thumbs up
Is there a possibility a stitch got left inside? I have a lump in my thumb which keeps growing due to a stitch stuck in my thumb!
You might not be able to see ; but you have a great perspective/vision to look at the world ! That's what matters. You rock @molly ! wish you all the best !
That's hard core. You're tough to walk away from a fight with a fence like that.
Molly you’re such a beautiful person on the inside, and I’m so thankful you were able to share this video! And because i always keep my screen brightness on the lowest level because I get really bad migraines, I didn’t realize how stunning you really are until now!
I'm so sorry. I can hear the sadness in your voice still. Your parents sound like such good parents.
I can relate I had a few accidents that happened because of my eyes being shitty.
Somehow that moment you are talking about came to me when my mother missplaced my glasses. They fell of my bed while I was sleeping and she picked them up and put in her room. It sounds weird but I didn't realise how bad my eyesight was up until that day. I take my glasses of while I am showering and right when I go to sleep but that day I had to go without them for half an hour shearching for them using only my hands. I had such a freak out that I couldn't breathe. It happend about 5 years ago but the thought of it still brings that awful feeling back. I basically blacked out I don't remember that very well but at some point my mum came to my room. I was probably having a panick attack because I couldn't make a sound and felt like my lungs were colapsing. I was trying to scream for help. I knew my parents were only a room away but I coundn't move or say anything. It was one of the worst moments of my life. My mum didn't know what was happening but I guess she figured it out and gave me the glasses or showed me where they where I honestly don't know. It was awful.
This is so sad- your story about anxiety resonates with me. I wish you the best Molly! Love you ❤️
Ouch! That must have hurt like heck!
You’re stories are incredibly inspiring. I can’t imagine going thru what you have been Thru.
I can see and I have accidentally bashed my head. So it’s not a blind thing. It’s a human thing.
Thank you for being so inspirational! You are amazing!
when you're remembering stories from when you had more sight, do you remember visually?
I think she has another video where she says she doesn't. There's a limit on how long you can remember visually. It might be the "what I actually see" video, but if it's not let me know.
No she doesn’t really. Visual memory is very short term, so if you do not see something for a few years, you cannot remember it visually.
Mary Hines she said in Shane’s video that she doesn’t remember anything visual but she still has the memory of the other senses
@@MacMac548 does that apply for all people?
To add on what everyone else has said - she doesn’t even remember what her face looks like. Probably not her parents, either.
Your brain “gets rid” of the things they don’t need. Could be a survival thing. In saying so, memories that are not necessary for daily living are slowly sorted out and cleaned away, the less you access it. Since Molly cannot see it makes sense that she doesn’t access those visual memories anymore.
I've had a pretty profound experience about a year ago that completely changed how I live my life and how I see myself in this world. (After having written this it's very long winded but I needed to paint the picture, I'm a writer so...) I've had severe migraines all my life, connected to a medical condition I was born with that I've since grown out of but the migraines have remained, often coupled with dizzy spells that were considered vertigo (little did we know...) I started to get a hold of it and things were going fine, then out of the blue in my junior year of college (a year and a half ago) I suddenly passed out. I didn't listen to my system, and it went on to happen nine times in three months. That's bad enough, but what's worse is I kept going to class, and four or five of those episodes were in front of people. It got to a point where a friend of mine would walk me home (right around the corner) when I showed any signs of a migraine. For me, it wasn't about needing people around, it was the test of being a man. I needed to be there, I needed to have people know that I would be there and will never let them down. After the first three times in front of people, I was brought into one of my favorite professor's office. This guy is awesome, mid 60s soft spoken, warm energy, I call him a teddy bear type person. His office is full of Disney memorabilia and action figures, it's awesome. I'm in this scene, discussing the past couple weeks and he asks me- "Why do you feel you need to be there?" "Well, people need to know they can count on me." I said. And he looks me in the eye, calmly but seriously and says (and I'll never forget this as long as I live- "Ok, but how much can they count on you if you're laying on the floor?" That was what it took. While it has happened since, It hasn't been around people and I am paying much more attention to make it happen far less. (Sorry that was so long but I felt the need to share.)
Max Barr Sounds like me in HS. My best friend had to take me home and call my dad to pick me up. I say the chairs and desks floating in the air and in my mind I tried to manuever around them which I assume looked funny. Or I see bubbles or flashes of light and intense nausea. It was horrible. I kno migraines are very common but I hope they find a 'cure' for the condition.
They're on the way, actually. Botox treatments, which were introduced fairly recently are a significant help.
It felt really strange to "like" this video! It seems like the school was a little slow in getting you seen to; seems like paramedics should have been called right away. Even though your scars are not visible, it is good that you're getting your nose checked, you just never know, since you had a really bad injury there. My heart breaks for that poor little girl with PTSD!
I love Molly’s eyes. They kinda remind me of stars
Thank you for sharing your experience. I can't even imagine how horrible it must have been, especially at that age.
Aww, You poor thing!! I just want to give small Molly a hug. You are beautiful inside and out ❤️
When was in the 7th grade I legitimately thought that my math teacher was dying/going to die because she said something about it sarcastically. The class was driving her crazy and she must have said that they were going to kill her or something. So, after giving it much thought and (not consulting anyone) a few days later, being so very very concerned that my teacher was going to die I went straight to the principal of my middle school and said "Mrs. Waserman is awesome so you need to fire her" Principal Camble asked what I meant and I said "If you don't fire her she is going to die!" wherein I began to cry hysterically. After having the special ed coordinator and the 7th-grade guidance counselor come in and console me they finally figured out that I had taken something she had said probably in jest, sarcasm or exasperation literally. Then explained to me that she wasn't dying and that I had misunderstood. Mrs. Wasserman would be fine and I didn't need to worry. That was a time that really woke me up to just how literal I was and to a degree still am (I'd like to think I've made progress), as a result of my Autism Spectrum Disorder. It was a wake-up call and very emotionally impactful because it temporarily shattered the whole way I looked at and trusted the world. I could no longer trust that I understood anything that came out of anyone's mouth. It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that that is a difficulty of mine I just have to deal with and that with good friends I can trust I can live a good life. It also didn't help that I truly believed my teacher would die if she didn't stop teaching.
You are such an inspiration. I could listen to you talk all day. This story was insane! I'm so sorry that happened to you and it's not silly at all to be scarred by this. This makes perfect sense that it would cause ptsd. It would scar a sighted child, having an accident like that. With impaired vision, I feel like that would make those feelings of fear and anxiety so much worse. You'd be afraid to walk around at all, especially since you had your cane and that is your protection. So when in fails you, how can you trust it ever again. I'm so glad you have Gallop to guide you. Thank you for sharing your story. I used to be in a wheelchair and I hated people helping me do everything. When i lost my ability to walk at 13 years old, my independence was taken from me. I tried to do as much as I could on my own and I thought i could get down the steps of our back porch by just wheeling myself forward. Looking back I obviously see how stupid that was. But hey, I was on a lot of pain meds back then so I thought it would work I guess. It did not and I fell out of my chair and was laying in a crumpled pile on the sidewalk. That's when it hit me how different my life was going to be and that I did need help sometimes. And i also learned you can't drive a wheelchair down steps.
You're such a beautiful soul ❤️ second video I watch and I love watching you. Btw, your eyebrows are sooooo nice - literally my eyebrow goals. Cheers from a fellow Torontonian!
Girl, we love you so much. You're so strong💜💜
maybe sound ignorant, idk, i'm new to this, but i hope she knows how damn gorgeous she is! wow!
She knows that haha I would totally swipe right. Bind or not blind... fuck it. She's adorable.
That’s so sad I feel so sary for her. I feel so grateful. That seems like such a terrible thing to go through. You are amazing
Thank you for sharing your journey. You are a bad ass that that teaches those that have the pleasure to know you (or find your channel) that not only can they adjust to a "disability," but they can also live a fuller life than a lot of people that don't have any health hurdles.
It turns out that the only treatment for my life long illness/disability may be damaging my eyes. I have to make the decision on giving up the treatment or continuing to possibly lose more of my sight. I am thankful that you share your experiences to remind us that your way of living may have to change as your body does, but that doesn't automatically mean your quality of life will suffer. Thanks for BEEing you!
Hi Molly. Before I got my guide dog I fell down some concrete stairs whilst leaving my local train station. I fell down the majority of them and landed on my left arm. A few days later I had numbness down the outside of my arm and hand. I had this for a week. I had to have s operation on my elbow to release the nerve as I had trapped it. It's never been the same but much better than what it was.
Thanks for sharing this with us. Greetings from Algeria (Africa).
Your are such an inspiration to people every where I hope that I can meet you some day.
I’ve ran into those things so many times and I can see if this makes you feel better 🤷🏼♀️
I can see and I have run into plenty of things. When I was a child, about 10, I was at the movies and I ran right through a huge glass door. There was a wall of glass and some glass doors, they were so clean I didnt see it and I crashed right through the glass. lol. People freaked out from the noise and came running. Luckily I only got a few scratches from the glass.
This is a powerful tale, and it’s made me think of an incident that occurred to me when I was able bodied. I once was running in the heavy rain from a pub I’d been to with my friends, they all cut across a square of grass with a statue in the Center, there were posts all around but most were open with a couple having heavy ornate chains hung between them. They were at shin height and I ran into one, it whipped my feet from beneath me, and as I didn’t see it, it was a horrific shock, I damaged my elbow and was in agony for weeks afterwards. I felt shocked and upset afterwards, so I cannot imagine how terrifying it was for you as a blind person. Recently I fell out of my doorway into the soil, hurting and cutting my leg which is still swollen now. It upset and scared me. I tried to use my stick more, but after about 3 weeks I am building my confidence back up again. It’s hard to deal with the lack of control. I have rheumatoid arthritis and mobility problems related to it.
When I was a baby, my dad wasn’t really paying attention to me (I was a very well behaved baby so he didn’t really need to) and we had this glass table in our living room and I tripped and split the right side of my nose. I was fine but now I have this weird thing where when I blink my nose twitches
so true that the worst part of accidents or being hurt when your visually impaired is that horrible sinking feeling when you realize this happened because of your vision. It's such an upsetting sad feeling that can't even be described. And then there's the anger that every one else gets to have normal vision and you have to keep having accidents because yours sucks. I am blind in my left eye so I am constantly bumping into things on my left side and hitting my head. My right eye has a cataract and retinal issues so i have issues with glares, sight and depth perception.
trust me, being able to see doesn't prevent you from doing that shit. i am extremely clumsy. i ran full speed straight into a metal pole for a basketball hoop, because i am an idiot and wasn't paying attention to where i was going. but i didn't break anything (never have), just had a concussion. that was painful.
Kaylee Teagan , bless you . take care and be safe 😊
People running into clear glass doors can be an issue too. And being blind would actually eliminate that problem
No problem here with the lighting! Looks great!
Yikes, I could feel the pain just from your description! I remember riding my bike down a street and there was a small mound of dirt on it, and for some reason, I got hung up on it, and fell off the bike and ended up with a nasty sore on the bridge of my nose. Gosh, how embarrassing it was to go to school then! Now that I think of it, I think that injury is what made me want to stay on the level ground, b/c I do not like roller coasters where I am slanted or go upside down. I also remember hating doing parallel bars in gym class too!
Having an impairment making you more vulnerable is a deeply horrifying thing to come to terms with and I admire how outgoing you are, even having to face those feelings. I just want you to know that after watching many of your videos I feel equally as accident-prone as you are and this one confirmed it. This exact situation happened to me as a kid, but instead of hitting my nose I hit my lower jaw and it pushed my teeth through my tongue. I was running because everyone was waiting for me and it felt alarming and I guess I just wasn't paying attention because I can see and it still happened. This just makes me feel better about the fact that if I lose my sight someday, I'd probably manage about the same as I do now out in the world.
Firstly, MOLLY YOU'RE FREAKING AMAZING!!! Secondly, your outlook on life is extremely inspiring to me- a sighted person with a slight visual impairment- and really allows me to appreciate a simple thing such as being able to see even if it's a bit fuzzy without glasses. This video reminded me of an experience about a year and a half ago. So my mom and I had just entered a mall and were going up an escalator ( the moving stairs I hope I got the name right) and in front of us was a boy about 3 with his parents and he had no shoes on. So while we're going up suddenly this boy starts to scream and we all look like "what the heck?" And I looked down to see his entire calf is missing 🙈 the escalator had ripped out his calf and the wound was so clean I could see his bone, that was until his dad picked him up and sprinted towards the clinic inside the mall and blood just poured of his leg like a tap. So as we continue our day after ensuring this boy has gotten the proper attention and as we're heading out to leave the mall we had to pay for parking using a ticket you get upon arrival (note sure if that exits only in Johannesburg, South Africa🤔). So I had the ticket in my pocket and my mom and I were in line to pay and it was her turn. So she turns and asks me for the ticket and as I hand it to her my vision goes white and apparently I passed out. Turns out that my body was so full of adrenaline that by the time we were paying it went into shock and I blacked out. I woke up on the floor with people surrounding me completely embarrassed and my mom speaking to a store manager asking for water. So to this day I am deathly afraid of escalators and will avoid them at every cost. Sorry if that was a lil in detail but this video just reminded me of that.
I just noticed your claddagh ring and I love it! I'm getting mine soon (on my 16th b-day)
A little over 2 years and only 34 dislikes! That's awesome! 😂🤣
LunaMoona 0129 now it’s been 4 years, and only 55 dislikes!!
ParisianDollies ya so cool
I love your videos so much! Which part of Canada are you from?
When she said she didn't have a sleep disorder and there was an ad break I finished her sentence and was like shook to the core. Lmao
I love the feeling you give to me... like chill and nice talk. 🙆
I believe in you Molly. You are braver than i ever will be. You can get through these scary moments. You're awesome.
The thing that almost forced me to believe that I was almost blind was when my mum Ahmad to sit me down and tell me that I NEEDED a cane and to use Braille and I remember thinking to myself “wow I knew I lost a lot of vision but now enough to have to use a cane and Braille” it was really hard for me to mentally deal with that and it still is 3 years later and like a lot of visibly impaired people or blind people you don’t often have someone who understands what you’re going through and for me I never had the support from my friends and actually lost a lot of friends because I needed extra help, I felt alone and hurt and mostly angry at my body that it thought it was I’m it almost blind me (even though I know that your body can’t make that choice) but when I found Molly’s Chanel it really helped me get through it and made me feel less alone throughout the recovery.
THANKS MOLLY!!!!!❤️❤️❤️☺️☺️☺️👍👍👍
This was avery touching story hit close to home for sure.
Thanks for sharing your stories. This one has reminded me of several of my own. But the most latest one was only a few days ago. I was waiting for a bus outside my house, when it came and stopped for me, it stopped before it got to me. I ended up having to try to get myself to the bus door and in the process smashed my head on the bus mirror that sticks out from the side of the bus. I have a nice lump on my right forehead that is slowly going away.
I've never had it 100% figured out (and nothing to do with visual impairment) but I was in a very bad car accident in 2011 and afterwords my fear of driving tripled and my general anxiety went from "normal" ranges to excessive.
Love you Molly! Disclaimer, this is about my teeth and shoulder... I have had seizures for years now, not when I was young, only since my 20's. My first accident (Not first seizure) was at work in the parking lot, had a seizure and went face first on the concrete knocking out 2 teeth and chipping 2 others, requiring surgery and an implant in my upper jaw (Luckily didn't break my nose). The second was the most massive one where I dislocated my shoulder and required surgery on that as well. Thankfully I have been seizure free for some time now, and believe it is stress induced, so I try to stay calm and cool and it seems to be working so far.
Wen I was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 12. I could never drive a car or take baths only showers found out people can die from this disability if really severe memory loss so much more 😖😢
You've just reminded me of a time in 5th grade or sometime around then, we went out for recess and I was running to the playground, fully sighted, and ran into a huge metal pole, face first... not my proudest moment
I absolutely LOVE your make up!!!!❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕
That must have hurt - love your videos
Hey Molly big fan I also have a crazy story like that when I was younger, but I’m really sorry to hear the trauma you went through. Keep up the good work. Btw I am also visually impaired.
I remember when I was little and I had my first big asthma attack at school so vividly. It was winter which made it worse and I didnt have my inhaler. That's when I realized I could never go anywhere without my inhaler or just freely be out in the cold. I know my limits now but it was hard to accept that there were quite a few things I couldn't participate in.
i have physical disabilities and when i was young i would play sports. in this story t ball. well soon in i found out i had scoliosis to and it was really bad. so it meant that i would have to stop my sports which was my life at the time. the one thing that made me feel connected to able bodied kids and i had to have surgery. i knew then that things weren't gonna be the same and i still struggle trying to find what i can do despite my struggles. i know it won't stop me but it is frustrating that i can't do things that i used to do. i'm 29 now.
I can relate to anxiety and stress giving stomach pain so much, it happened a lot to me in high school, and started happening again recently.
As for having a realization about a disability,,, I have ADHD, and I didn't know until I was 17-18, at the end of high school, I went to doctor appointments in a clinic as a child, had tests done and a certificate, but I was never told I had a learning/mental disability, I tought I was a normal child, just very active (and in primary and middle school, I actually had good grades).
Then in the last years of high school a lot of things started happening (bad grades, difficulty to fit in, only really having my best friend to rely on (whom I still treasure a lot), and then coming out as non heterosexual AND being trans), I became depressed and finally, trough research and asking, I found out about my ADHD.
It took me a while to internalize it, so many things about my difficulties in class and socially started to click and I had to come to terms that I wasn't "normal", I was different from the others and I am in fact, disabled. It really took me a long time to accept it, and even now it does affect my daily life, on how I organize myself and struggle to do even the most basic stuff; like getting the table ready for dinner, or in the moring going trough breakfast and all, my routine takes almost an hour because I wander so much; if I don't have to worry about being late to school it can take even longer!
I still struggle to accept it sometimes, and wonder how different my life would be if I wasn't like this.
id say my defining moment was walking into a concrete lamp post after thinking i was still able to walk home unaaided this was around 3 to 4 years ago and its just been down hill from there accident wise i actually broke my nose about 2months ago by walking into the door frame to my kitchen i now realise my RP is definitly deteriorating and i too suffer with depression and anxiety with panic attacks so i know where your coming from xxx
I know what you mean about it 'tickling ' your nose when you touched the end or the side,a few weeks ago I lost my balance and hit the side of my nose pretty hard on the wall,it don't really do much damage,but for a few days after when I lightly pressed the part that hit the wall,it would tingle
I know this is an old video, but dang that does sound traumatizing! I'm not blind but I've worn glasses since 2nd grade, and I had that 'defining moment' when everyone in my grade had to get eye exams (not sure why they did that at school?) and I just struggled with every single thing I was supposed to read/see. I really had no idea that my nearsighted-ness was so bad until I realize that everyone else could actually clearly see the stuff that I couldn't really see at all.
Hope your ENT visit goes well. I have a deviated nasal septum and have had 3 operations on my nose to straighten the lining and cartilage do I can breathe better.
Hey, really like your perspective, this is my newest favorite vlog . The workout outfit made me wonder if you ever full out sprint on treadmills since you normally can't up and run? Can a service dog be trained to guide you while running?
I can relate to this in grade 1 I walked into a pole and broke my nose and I have a scar to remind me how clumsy I am and I am not visually impaired
I have anxiety and I relized that It can really make me vulnerable because one time we had a lock down and I was in second grade and I heard gun shots and I started screaming and crying. I cant do anything but scream when I am nervous or scared.
i am literally in tears hearing your story.. im sorry you had to go thru that. you are a inspiration and i am glad you are doing well.
I like molly burke I like her story time videos
I love that jacket! Where did you get it? Or at least link me too a similar jacket.
I'm not blind or visually impaired, but I totally busted up my lip in fifth grade when I ran right smack-dab into one of those gymnastics bars on the school playground, so I feel you somewhat, Molly.
I can't believe we both did the same thing. 😂 I was chasing my stepdaugter up a playground slide & didnt see that there was a pole above the side & broke my nose open on it. I was also uncontrollably bleeding from my cut & my nose... I still have a scar & I felt bad about it too & I'm not even blind! Glad you're okay. (:
poor girl. sounds painful
Wow that's amazing that you don't have any scars or anything (or at least what I see from the video) head and face wounds bleed ALOT, when I was little my brother (he was only a toddler but still XD) he threw a picture frame at my face and i bled ALOT, it left a scar on my nose. Your experience was much scarier than mine but I'm glad you're ok :)
Miracles I've experienced have been defining moments.
Omg I love this !!!
The emergency walk in clinic you talk about - we often call it Urgent Care in the U.S. if that helps anyone :)
I'm not blind but when there's snow on the ground it makes me feel like I am. Especially if it's sunny and not cloudy. My eyes water and I see absolutely nothing. Several times when I was younger I was stranded in the yard or on the playground because I couldn't see anything.
I also have a blind cousin who inspires me as much as u thanks
I’m blind in my left eye due to an aneurysm. I think growing up it was difficult seeing how easy sports came to all the other kids, especially when we had to use our hands like tennis, ping pong, or even basketball. I succeeded at soccer. I also have epilepsy and my seizures used to involve my right arm so that might have something to do with it also. I remember my sister wanted to see some 3D movie and it would be my first one. I didn’t realize it wouldn’t work for me. My family was saying this is awesome it’s like we are there and I could have just paid for the normal price ticket.
I relate to this because, although I have 20/20 vision, I find it really hard to see in the dark because my eyes won't really adjust that well to it. One time, I was walking my dog in the backyard before we went to bed, that way he didn't pee in the middle of the night. Well, he got off his leash and ran out if the yard. All of our lights were off and I started running in his direction and ran smack into a clothesline and fell backwards. I fractured the top half or my nose and got a black eye
I wouldn't call u different I would call u unique
That’s called seeing stars. Also, I love stitches. But they’re not good. And I also love ENT’s!
The necklace you are wearing in the video ( the gold circle pendant necklace with the letter g in the middle). Does it stand for Gallop?
Well first things first I just discovered you and I love you. Seriously you're so inspirational, you're just so great. Anyways, I have a funny story about my nose. So I was like 6 months old or something like that. I ran up some stairs and cut my nose open on a plastic ruler. How does that even happen?? Haha anyways, basically the tip of my nose down to the left hole in my nose was split open and like your story, there was blood all over my house. What a great time lol
Why didn't they call your mom in the first place?!?!
I had a cosmetic nose job 10+ years ago and i have the same split septum, and the same sensitivity on the side of my nose. maybe that's just a consequence of nose surgery? (Having said that, i'd love it fixed.. Thanks for the idea!)
I have like a weird split in the middle of my nose too but I never broke it or anything so I don't know how that happened.I don't know if its the same as what you were talking about but like if I press my nose in the middle like the 2 things split and it kind of goes flat...
Molly, has your mother made any videos giving advice for parents of children dealing with vision loss and/or anxiety? Or have you done an interview with your mom on how she felt when getting a frightening diagnosis for her child?