How To Read & Write Braille + The History of Braille!

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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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I'm certainly no expert in Braille, and I haven't taken lessons since I was 14, but it's a language I continue to use and believe is incredibly important. I hope you enjoyed this video and if you want more like it, let me know!

PS. This video was filmed before I dyed my hair gray! It is not currently purple! :)

MollyBurkeOfficial
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“the big dog was big”
me trying to reach the word count on my essay

rk-wqwb
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The actual typing process is much faster than I had imagined.

emmeff
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Little Molly handing in her homework on patterned colorful braille paper is so cute

daisydottie
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I was born in 1989. haha
When I was a teen I wanted to read books after 9 pm, but mom would yell at me to turn off the light, so I went to the library, learned braille for about an year and bought with my savings books written in it so I could read them in the dark. Mind you, those books were not cheap, so I could only get 2 of them. I would read them at night to help me fall asleep better.
Mom never discovered them and she still doesn't know anything to this day. I am still thinking of a fun way to let her know.
I donated the books to blind kids after I moved out.
I still read the braille on painkiller med boxes when I'm too lazy to turn on the light to take them during night.
So braille can be sometimes as useful for sighted people as it is for blind people.

denisa_the_jedi
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I find it frustrating how expensive Braille equipment is.

icatstaci
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I still can’t get over the fact that the buses in my home town had signs in Braille PRINTED OUT ON REGULAR PAPER

SoKlGoldenHand
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I went to a restaurant the other day, and there was a sign that said, "braille menus available upon request." But the sign didn't have braille on it...

jessicamattes
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When she typed “the big dog was big”, it looked like she just typed random letters, like “ibduhvnydbhdnudnudnuemjdnud”

catebyrer
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As a linguist, I am here to remind people who may be confused: Braille is *not* a language. Braille is an orthography system, or a system of reading and writing.

greenwith_emv
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Molly: “Half the people here probably weren’t born until 2006” 😆
Me (1978): “oof!” 😅 ... I feel old Molly! 😂

lseh
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Molly, this might make you scream. Warning
In my school we have this super nice blind girl, she is a grade above me I think. But these guys hated her for no reason. So, they went to school after hours, with a hammer they started flattening all the braille signs at our school. They did it terribly, it is still pretty much legible but they were punished and they had to pay for all new signs.

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Her: "So, I'm gonna show you how quick I can type."

**INTENSE BRAILLE SMACKING**

Edit: OH MY GOD ON A DIFFERENT VIDEO FROM MOLLY I SAID 110 WAS THE MOST I'VE EVER AD BUT 400?! THANK YOU SO

leviathanmaxie
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I'm not blind, but when I was younger, I was obsessed with everything to do with braille. I would checkout books in braille from the library, I was dedicated to learning how to read braille, one year I even asked for a slate and stylus for christmas and I would spend hours sitting in my room writing braille and translating things into braille. It's so fascinating to me.

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This may sound crazy but I’d love to see you post a video on the history of Braille, you mentioned France and how they would make letters lifted before Braille came along. I’d love to know what you know about it and what you find fascinating about it!
Or even a historical time line of Braille the large events or movements that shifted the blind community in regards to Braille innovations

dakotasmith
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OH! I’ve always wanted to learn Braille can’t wait to watch!

kurakaiyami
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My aunt teaches kids who are visually impaired and she used to let me use her Braille typewriter to learn! I don’t remember much of it but looking back it was great that she always encouraged and helped sighted people learn more about the blind community

laurelwood
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Aren’t we going to point out how she looked up and proudly said “the big dog was big” in the funniest way ever

maeganconnolly
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When I was really young, I was playing at my great Aunt Bernice's house and discovered something I'd never seen before. I had never met her husband, but she told me that her husband had been blind and what I had found was his board and stylus. It was a wooden board with metal plate on top with tiny round indentations in groups of six, and a metal stylus, very heavy duty. She showed me the super thick paper that went with it, and let me play with it as much as I wanted to. I was so intrigued with that thing that I actually borrowed braille books from the library and taught myself the alphabet. I was a huge writer back then, and loved to write stories in braille. I would have to write the letters over each symbol, though, as I couldn't read the braille after I made it! I even took it to school for show and tell. That is probably my best memory of Aunt Bernice and I wish I had thought to ask about the board and stylus when she passed away. {I don't remember any of the braille alphabet now, but I wonder if it would come back to me if I tried it today)

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"Sighted people can't learn to tactile read braille" - why do I want to say challenge accepted?
My Mom is a mainstream school system primary grades teacher, and she incorporates braille into the curriculum when she can. The alphabet strips she puts up around the classroom have print letters, braille dots, and hands showing the signs. When she does units on braille and sign, she has a thumb tack alphabet puzzle the kids have to assemble.

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