Meeting A Blind Artist and His Guide Dog! Ft. Paul Castle - Blind Leading the Blind Ep. 4 (part 1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2023
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I'm Molly, a typical sushi, makeup, and fashion loving millennial girl who just so happens to be blind! I was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa at just 4 years old and began public speaking at age 5. I started just doing motivational speaking, but now I make videos and even model! Even though I can’t see, I know that there are bright spots in everything we face. Let’s find them together. 💕
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Molly!! Thank you so much for coming to Seattle to spend some time with us. We had an amazing time and cannot wait for the next collab! Mr Maples sends guide dog snuggles to Sir Elton John!!
Can’t wait thanks Molly LUV U ❤
Question for you, Molly!! If you have no visual memory...how do you experience dreams? Just curious and hope it's ok to ask! 💛
Oh Molly, you're always amazing but this video gave my heart so much joy and my mind immeasurable peace. I'm just an old woman going blind naturally (& with help of medications I literally can't live without) and my biggest fears are loosing the ability to use my hands & eyes to create Art. Now I'm not afraid. You and Paul showed me that there will always be a way for me to create no matter what happens with my health! THANK YOU, and PAUL too for teaching an old woman that the creative part of me will always find a way to let my creativity thrive! ❤ to you both!!
If Paulie and Molly had a podcast called, “Blind leading the blind”… I would listen to it. 😍
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“Just because I can’t see it doesn’t mean I can’t see it in my mind”. Thank you both for making me, a fellow RP person (usher syndrome here) feel normal!!! I am a highly visual person too with straw view. I love art and I love this so much in that y’all make me feel like I have permission to love art and appreciate it and etc even if I don’t have my full vision. May God bless you both Molly and Paul.
I remember those ridiculous comments asking things like "If you're blind, how do you know when you're eating soup and not drinking a beverage?" Blindness awareness really has come a long way over the past decade.
The very first thing both of my brothers said when I told them I was watching a blind lifestyle youtuber was that she must obviously be faking it, because of how she would not be able to edit and upload videos on TH-cam. That was the year of our Baphomet 2023.
That’s so wild like…. The taste???? The chunks of meat and veggies??? The lack of ice or whipped cream??? 😂
I think that Paul's art changing as his vision changes makes it more interesting and valuable. He has a collection of art at different points of his life.
This is so touching. I didn't get diagnosed with autism and adhd until I was 42!!! And yet, I have always been autistic/adhd. So I grew up thinking I was weird and often friendless. When I got a diagnosis it was like how Paul described. I had a name for why I am the way I am. It's been SO liberating. Truly. I'm so thankful for my diagnosis.
I'm 43 and been on a waiting list to see a autism/ADHD specialist to get it officially diagnosed. When I was younger my mother had this humongous list stuck to the kitchen wall which listed every single E number. Everything I ate, all meals/packed lunches/snacks, even when I went to friends houses for tea. I remember once going to the woods with a few mates. Their mum stops at the corner shop to get treats for when there. They all got opal fruits ( which now called star bursts), and I got an apple! Famile couldn't be bothered to check the Ingredients for Easter eggs, so while they were eating chocolate and sweets, I'm sat there with, I think I e year ot was socks and bird seeds! As adha didn't exist back then, I was always the hypo, naughty and highly spirited kid. Ask anyone and it's completely obvious I have ADHD, I didn't feel the need to be officially diagnosed, im doing it now more as a way of sticking 2 fingers up to my extended family, old teachers and friends who not only dont think ADHD isn't something adults have, and to say..look, told you not give me anything green or orangina! I still have to avoid both to this day lmao
YES. And then when we realized I also definitely have the PMDD along with dysmenhorrea I finally got my meds right and I can get out of bed more! Shoutout to all the women who share personal details on the internet, you helped me know what to discuss with my doctor because I thought I just sucked at pain management and life in general.
I’m heartbroken for Paul’s journey of love for visual storytelling and finding out he was blind - I’m so impressed how he’s overcome things- so inspiring - so TALENTED!
I love how you both recognize the power of knowing and belonging. I have been struggling with multiple chronic physical complaints throughout my life, and because there is no definitive diagnosis it is so easy to feel like you do not belong with other people who have a certain condition, or like you have to toughen up and act normal, since there is no diagnosis…when paul said his diagnosis was a relief, and you actually diagnosed him somewhat more during the filming of this video, that really resonated with me. You two have found each other as ‘one of your people’ with similar experiences and feelings, and i just love that for you!
ME TOO! I have a similar issue of undiagnosable things and it can be so isolating 😩 happy for them that they found community with their diagnoses 🫶
Me too! I didn't get diagnosed with my congenital spinal disorder until I was well into my 40's! I have had severe chronic back pain since I was a child and even suffered a ruptured disc at 27, and no doctor diagnosed me properly. I found out after decades of pain when i had an mri for another reason. And also I discovered if I had had surgery to fix it as a child, I wouldn't have experienced all these years of agony. It's very bittersweet to finally know.
I’m fully sighted but I have no visual memory when I’m awake, its called aphantasia and I always thought people were being metaphorical when they talked about seeing things in your mind. Even though I dream vividly and with images when I’m asleep. Vision is complicated and interesting…
I also have aphantasia, I thought the idea of ‘seeing images’ was just a movie/story troupe.
I like the reddit community. I also have no inner monologue and I have SDAM. SDAM is very common with aphantasia.
@@lijohnyoutube101 so interesting! You made me look up SDAM which I do have and I’m so relieved. I thought I had some horrible hidden trauma causing me block out my past memories turns out I just can’t remember a damn thing about myself. SDAM!
I do have a non-stop inner monologue though, which leads me to lose track of conversations I’m meant to be having in the rudest way.
Paul and Mr. Maples are such a joy! 🐶❤️
As someone who has worked at an art studio & gallery for disabled people by disabled people, this video is an absolutely wonderful example of the persistence of passions despite the health challenges one might have. I may not be able to stand for more than a few minutes, or make a straight line, but I can still make beautiful things within the world as I experience it :)
Kept hearing this popping sound and realized it was a dog happily chewing on a bone in the background and it made me giggle. It's so sweet how they just vibe with their humans. Meanwhile, you two are sharing vulnerable experiences and it made me a tear up. Thank you for sharing your experience
Hearing Paul and Molly explain their forms of blindness to each other was mind blowing. Because I got the sense that the other knew kind of what the other was saying (but maybe not perfectly?), meanwhile I truly had no idea what they were describing. The closest analogy one of them used that made me sort of understand was Paul saying his vision is like looking through a straw.
It just harkens back to Molly’s TH-cam short she posted awhile back saying making comparisons to try to relate to her when you’re genuinely not a legally blind person isn’t very helpful. And I understood it then but seeing two blind people talk and feel engaged really reinforced that in my brain.
It’s wild how different they see and describe the world to each other in ways that makes sense to them and likely only them (or their family who have likely done extensive research over the years). It’s very humbling to watch.
I knew this “Polly” collab was coming after Paul and Matthew uploaded some of Their content too! Looks like You all had so much fun together!
This was such a beautiful conversation. I LOVE how Elton John absolutely made himself a part of the conversation. For those who can’t see the video, there was a significant portion of the video where Elton was just tongue out looking at Paul like hello new friend. I really enjoy your voice.
YES HE KEPT DISTRACTING ME BUT I LOVED IT
I absolutely love this friendship… I’ve been following both of you forever and dreaming of the day y’all got together. I’ve been watching it on Paul and Matthew’s channel wondering when it would pop up on yours. Can’t wait for more of this friendship, it’s the friendship the world needs to experience!!! Love it!!!!
This has been such an encouraging video. As a water color artist diagnosed with macular degeneration (several years ago) i am learning to paint differently as my central vision fades. But you two have shown me how much hope there is to continue my art. i love your indomitable spirits. thank you thank you!
12:50 the relief of diagnosis is such a real thing that able-bodied people don't understand.
Yes and no. Just because you're not "disabled" doesn't mean you're never going to get an illness that may take some time to diagnose. There is a relief when you've been sick for a long time and you finally get an answer as to what it is, even if it's not curable.
@@GeeEee75 Isn't a long lasting illness a disability tho?
Finally getting my fibromialgia diagnosis after over 10 years of joint, pain, memory and some other issues and being called a hypochondriac was such a relief just putting a name to it and being validated for what I had been feeling for years.
I‘m glad you were able to get a diagnosis! That must be a huge relief.
I have the fibromalgia diagnosis and went to a specialist to take over care and get lots of test done. Then get the rhurmatoid arthritis diagnosis
I love that he has a children book. There isn't near enough disability related children book!
I am not blind but have multiple vision issues. I don’t know anyone else who has vision issues (other than just needing glasses) and your channel has made me feel less alone. I know our conditions cannot be compared but I appreciate learning about the blind community, and thank you for making me feel less alone.
Hi! What's your eye condition if you don't mind sharing?
Hi there! I have Meesman’s Corneal Dystrophy, astigmatism, and visual snow, which can make it harder for me to see clearly in an environment that’s not bright, because things are “snowy.”
@@ILikeBigCatsAndICannotLie thanks for your answer! I just looked up the symptoms of meesman's. I do have visual snow sometime and have noticed my vision declining (I used to be 20/20 and now can't read signs or even kinda big lettering from a distance of the back of a classroom for example. I also get excessive watering, and stinging sometime. I have ME/CFS so i think that might just be another weird symptom from it but I dunno...
@@allister.trudel Hey, might be worth asking a doctor about if you can. If it's something else, could be treatable or at least have something to help it, in case it's serious or deteriorating.
The only thing I could think about when Molly was asking Paul if he would continue to create art as his vision loss progressed, is that Beethoven continued to write music as he was loosing his hearing and was comply deaf by the time he wrote his 9th symphony. Artists are going to find a way to put their art into the world.
I’m completely blind, and I visualize things by feeling them too. I thought I was crazy.
Molly, I could watch you and Paul all day! I love how similar y'all are and how excited you get being able to relate to one another. Two really kindhearted, optimistic and stylish people. :)
A few videos back when Molly said she was in Seattle for work I instantly thought, and HOPED, it would be this collab!!! I love these two together!! As someone who has full vision currently but macular degeneration runs heavily in my family, I love watching these two to help me understand my family that has lost their vision, and the comfort I find in them if I were to ever be diagnosed as well❤
I have been waiting for this collab! I love how Elton John and Mr. Maple got along so well!
I’m blind myself and this is so interesting to hear different blind people visions👌🏽🥰
ok but when she says she can’t see things in her mind but she can feel them… molly is the first person i’ve heard describe their imagination the way i do!! my bf has been calling me crazy 4 it. i wonder if molly would still think in that way if she was sighted
Out of curiosity, are you blind, or do you have aphantasia?
I believe that's called Aphantasia
A delightful , funny, education and totally enjoyable video from 2 of my favorites. Ever since I found Paul and Matthew I have kind of been waiting for this friendship to bloom.
I don't like most modern art, but Molly's drawing is actually REALLY pleasing to my brain.
Molly your art looks like neurographic art Love it!
Okay I love Paul and I love the friendship you two already have! You both seem really comfortable around each other! Seems like you've been friends forever tbh lol Can't wait to see the other video(s) with you two 🥰
the way i was stalking molly’s page for this video 😂 im so excited !!!
Molly I have been following Paul and Matthew for awhile now ,and I think that it is wonderful that you have finally met in person, you have so many similar interests and experiences including both having guide 🐕 dogs. I can't wait for the next part of your conversation.
I wish you’d show more blind moments on regular social media, not just Patreon. As someone who’s lost a lot of my sight, it’d would help me to feel that it’s not just me that has those blind lady moments. I only know 3 other blind people and none are local to me.
I am so excited this video is out! I have been thinking that Paul and Molly should meet for so long then I saw the first short and I was so excited! I hoped there would be a full video and sure enough! I'm so happy you guys finally met. ❤
Yes!!! I have been waiting for this video. With all the freaking teasers on other social media, I knew it had to be coming.
I love how at 13:30 when Paul is talking about his emotions at the blind group and breaking down into tears, Mister Molly comes up to check on him and make sure he is ok. Such a good doogy!
This was so fun to see you guys together and can't wait for part 2! I already have my notifications on! 🎨🖌️❤️
i love matthew and paul omgggg im so glad you got to meet them!!!
For a long time I wanted you and Paul to meet up with the puppies and it finally happened! What a great video and I can't wait to see Part 2!
I love you two together. I had tears in my eyes. It's wonderful that both of you live such full lives, despite your disabilities!!
Yesss! I love both of you and seen tiktoks and shorts and was hoping this was coming soon 😊😍
I love Paul SO much 💙 I’ve followed him & Matthew on TikTok for awhile. I’ve even tagged you in some of his videos LOL You guys need to be the best of friends. Your chemistry is phenomenal! Such a great video. I loved seeing you with someone who can so closely relate to you.
Your channel is so very amazing! I could just sit and watch you for hour and hours. Thank you for sharing your life as a blind person because it helps me to understand more and more how your creativity continues to grow!
I love the dogs only loving guide dogs, i love Molly describing it as a superiority thing, but I can imagine it more as “um…you can’t be trusted”
You guys have teased us so long with the shorts and then Paul's videos came out first, I've been waiting so long to see your videos of this collab!!! And I've been wishing you guys would collab.
I wonder if paul put a light box behind a canvas if it would make it easier and more enjoyable for him to paint traditionally again
I'm so excited for this video, y'all have such fun energy together ❤
So excited 💙
I am so glad and happy to see you collabbing with Paul!! ❤💜
oooo excited for part 2!! such a good time
What a cool interview! His art is really neat. Yours definitely was good, too! You two are peas in a pod!!
When I saw them posting reels on IG with you I was so excited, ive just been binge watching videos from both of your channels. IM SO HAPPY THIS IS ONLY PART 1 🥳
Wow I love you both!! So fun to see how you guys understand each other and to hear your stories and learn from you. The message at the end really is for every human, that no matter how great the things are that hinder you, you can find some way to live out and enjoy your passion in life❤
This is the collab I've been waiting for!!! The first blind creator I ever found on youtube was you Molly but the second was Paul and I love you both and your content. To have you both in the same place is so awesome! It's so interesting to see how you have the same disease but you are so different in what you can see and visualize
What a delightful meetup😊
Omg I thoroughly ENJOYED this video and can't wait to see the others
The collab we all neeeeeeeded!!! 😃🎉
Always excited to watch you're video's molly love you're channel you both have two amazing guide dogs you and so many other's are poineers for the disabled community
Omg, I loved this new friendship of yours. I hope you keep making content together.
On my end, having amblyopia made applicators turn me down from my dream job as a flight attendant (even when I don't really think this condition affects me at all and I've lived normally all my life using regular glasses). It has been hard to face the grief and accept that I may have to choose a different path. But hearing you talk about not giving up and looking for alternatives in your careers makes me feel better. I'm now studying digital design and have been learning about accessibility and ergonomics and my goal is to implement all that I know in future projects and companies I take part in. Trust me, Paul. New technologies, such as ai, will keep evolving and you won't have to give up on being an artist.
Lots of love, Molly. ❤
It's amazing how molly got the chance to teach as well as meeting someone she was so excited to meet and both of them enjoying art despite their vision loss shows how important art is
YES!! A part 2! ❤😄
I love this crossover!! ❤
Love watching both your channels, so this is the best collaboration ever 😄✨
Hunted this because I’ve heard Paul and Matthew, and now you. Just wanted to send much love and say thank you. This content is a reason to be happy. The best people are those you hear and love, not see and judge!
I totally enjoyed this! Thank you Molly. I actually found you through Mathew and Paul. 💕Who knew I would learn so much more today about them and you both. It was nice seeing/hearing from another point of view.
Looking forward to part 2 💕
I love Paul!! And it was really nice to get to your content Molly! You’re so lovely!!
I climb with a blind rock climber who does comps worldwide. In my dreams Molly sees this comment and wants to come all the way over to the east coast to learn rock climbing from him, and I get to meet Molly lol. I feel like she'd be so good at it, since she's so athletic. Plus she already has short nails! (If you know you know).
This has helped me so much. I am not visually disabled, but physically disabled and have had to change my art as my disease progresses. Hearing Paul say that he stopped when it was no longer fun really hit me. That is so true. It takes away the whole reason for the creation of it in the first place. Trying to find a new way for the creativity over here. Thank you for sharing!
The Charles Bonnet syndrome sounds a lot like when I have seizure auras and migraine auras. Fireworks is a great way to describe it. So interesting! Love this series so much, Molly!
You are who you are. Being blind doesn’t change the inner you. 💕
This is so cool you guys are so adorable and Paul is so right, Molly you are an inspiration for a lot of disabled creators, it was seeing your content that made me want to do TH-cam, I already had the idea but you're one spied me to talk about my disability, because I was scared to Scherret, I didn't know how people would react to seeing disability and my disability is a very different to yours where it's all brain related and the function of it is very different because the amount I can see changes depending on how I'm feeling since it's brain related and not a lot of people can relate to that, I've still found it very hard to find people with my condition and I'd love to be able to do something like this on my channel meeting other creators, I also recently started watching Paul and Matthew too, A couple of months ago I stumbled across One of their TH-cam shorts and just started watching a couple of their videos, not only are they a cute couple but they're also great representation for the LGBT community, showing that whether you're in a straight or gay relationship there at exactly the same, reminds me of heart stopper but grown-up and American, just wholesome vibes everywhere.
I love seeing the representation for the RP community. While also learning a new term/diagnosis of the reason behind why I have static in the squiggly white, blue, and sometimes purple lines that appear on random rotating in circles, or splitting off into two. I think it is a part of most people who have RP or just a vision disorder that decreases over a period of time to be stubborn of going from being able to only need a white cane at night and bad weather to not leaving your home without the cane by your side as you at the begining have that feeling of losing your independence and having to relay co-dependence from others. You don’t want to use it as it is a sign to the able community that yes I am losing my vision and the white cane is being used for my own safety.
the doggos watching so close 🥹
your sweater looks so cute, molly! looks very soft!
Y'all have such good chemistry. I'd love to see more collabs from you two!
Molly I'm so excited to see what art you create in the next video! I think the idea of putting filming lights underneath a canvas and then painting with watercolors could be cool because you'd still be able to see through them unlike with acrylics. I had a toy when I was younger called a Lite-Brite which was like a canvas made of light which you could put colorful pegs into to "paint" things. If you enjoy this sorta thing, I think that could be super fun! Or you two could maybe do some form of sculpture together! that way you are replicating something based off feel instead of vision, that could be fun
Absolutely love Molly and Paul ❤
I'm still only at the part where you two are discussing how your vision looks but I'm so glad that the two of you found someone else who sees the same fireworks as each other! It must be really nice to feel your community grow.
This converstation is so meaningful to me. I am 18 and was dianosdd with RP at The start of The year and i am an artist. Seiing that i can continue to do it with Paul is so inspiring (sorry i know disabled pepole dont like being called inspiring but i cant think of a Getter way to say it)
Molly saying that she cojld picture things in her head warmed my heart. ❤. I am not blind but I do have afantasia (when you dont have "mind eye" and I always thought it was me alone when I was young, but now, I do and it makes me so happy. Some people hate labels, but I crave them.❤❤❤❤❤😊
I LOVE THIS COLAB!!!! Since I found Paul, Matthew and Mr Maple, I was like PAUL NEEDS TO MEET MOLLY AND MR MAPLE NEEDS TO MEET ELTON JOHN!
I love Paul and Matthew so much. I know they are so jokey and funny, but their love is obv❤❤❤. You two meeting was charming.
I've been waiting for the day you two would make a video together
You young folks are so impressive1 I love that you follow your passion.
omg I have come across their videos on ig, love that you are collaborating together :D this is wonderful!
Sighted person here. I 100% get the calming effect that having a diagnosis gives you. Recently diagnosed with adhd. I didnt persue a diagnosis for meds. Just to know. Meds are pushed to me all of the time though. Thats not what i wanted though.
Hi Molly and Paul!!! I love this video and I’m glad you’ve both met. I have RP as well and I’ve done a degree in fine art. I really resonate with all that you both discussed in this video.
I am a highly visual person just like you. Also, I feel that my personality is so similar to you and Paul, it must be a RP thing, LOL.RP gang!!!🎉🌈❤️😄
Love you both ❤ super inspiring thank you for sharing
I usually don't react on videos but I really wanted to say thank you both, Molly and Paul, for your openness and for coming together. I have been diagnosed with a hereditary type of optic neuropathy called LHON and, fortunately, it has only made me legally blind for 6 months or so, now I'm just in between 10/10 vision and bad sighted, haha. Ofcourse I am also really stubborn, have been riding my bike at all times (I am an independent woman!). But I do have a lot of eye pain the way molly described it. I always call it "eye-headache" in Dutch (I'm from the Netherlands), because for me it feels as annoying as a crazy headache but then behind or inside my eyes. I also wear glasses to improve what's still there, just like Paul! But many people have said to me: why are you still wearing your glasses when you have a nerve disease? By the way, I am also really visual in my mind, although I often call it perfectionism, haha. It's nice that I am not the only one!
Great interview. I love your energy and being positives help so much.
18:42 listening to you want an audio track for life. I think this is one reason Joy and I get along so well. I have Aphantasia and so no visuals in my mind. I'm also Autistic and a verbal processor. So I'm constantly processing my environment outloud. I turn it up for Joy, because even though she's blind she loves seeing everything in her mind! It sounds like you have Aphantasia too Molly.
At first I thought no way can this be true. I enjoyed this video so much. It was so interesting and informative. Can't wait to see what happens next😊
I adore that sweater on you!
The collab of the century.
Fascinating and fun.
You two are twin flames!
I could listen to this duo talk all day - definitely agree that you could have a joint podcast. I’d be listening for sure!
I would love to see you two try sculpting one day!
been waiting for this video since i’ve seen them together on tiktok