Molly Burke is currently 24 years old, she was born February 8, 1994 in Toronto, Canada. She grew up in Oakville, Ontario. Molly is a very influential young woman. Molly has been diagnosed with “retinitis pigmentosa”. She started locally speaking about her cause in grade 11, but because of how rare her disease is she made her first appearance of speaking at just five years old, However it was not about bullying it was about her condition. When Molly graduated high school is when she began to branch out and speak in the surrounding areas. Currently Molly goes around to schools to speak out and talk to students about bullying, she lets them know that they are not alone and that others have been through the same struggle. Another way she is helping …show more content…
She also has created a youtube channel, there she makes all sorts of different kind of videos like silly challenges to informational videos about different misunderstood topics she also has a video all about her retinitis.

Molly’s story begins back when she was just a young girl, Molly had always struggled with her eyesight, as an article titled “Blind and bullied: She lost her sight and then things got worse” had stated, “she’d reach for a cookie and miss. She also bumped into things a lot and didn’t see well in the dark.” Her parents noticed other things about her vision such as her always holding things a little closer than most would. This doesn't concern them much until Molly was about age four an ophthalmologist noticed small dot like shapes on the back of her retina. This lead to the diagnosis of “retinitis pigmentosa”. This is a rare disorder that causes the retina to lose cells and slowly causes the person to lose their vision. She lost her color vision around age 13. After this happened the ophthalmologist did not know how long Molly would have her vision. When her class began french class she would be pulled into a separate room to start