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The Helen Keller Lie (self.Blind)
submitted by nycefm
OK I want to know does anyone really buy into the entire Helen Keller nonsense. After reading a book called the blind rage after 3 hours I'm starting to have questions about her level of knowledge. This is a letter to one of her writers saying how much she liked his work.
I thought you would be glad to hear that your beautiful poems make me very happy. Yesterday I read “In School Days” and “My Playmate,” and I enjoyed them greatly. . . . It is very pleasant to live here in our beautiful world. I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long. When I walk out in my garden I cannot see the beautiful flowers, but I know that they are all around me; for is not the air sweet with their fragrance? I know too that the tiny lily-bells are whispering pretty secrets to their companions else they would not look so happy. I love you very dearly, because you have taught me so many lovely things about flowers and birds, and people.
Now can someone tell me how a 9 year old could write this level of thought? So I'm wondering was the disabled population fed the largest lie in American history and are we all just looking up to someone who was nothing more than a frod?
I thought you would be glad to hear that your beautiful poems make me very happy. Yesterday I read “In School Days” and “My Playmate,” and I enjoyed them greatly. . . . It is very pleasant to live here in our beautiful world. I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long. When I walk out in my garden I cannot see the beautiful flowers, but I know that they are all around me; for is not the air sweet with their fragrance? I know too that the tiny lily-bells are whispering pretty secrets to their companions else they would not look so happy. I love you very dearly, because you have taught me so many lovely things about flowers and birds, and people.
Now can someone tell me how a 9 year old could write this level of thought? So I'm wondering was the disabled population fed the largest lie in American history and are we all just looking up to someone who was nothing more than a frod?
fastfinge 2 points 6y ago
This exact post also appears here: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=21170
It's possible this is a bot driving someone's ableist agenda. From Holocaust denial to disability denial. Quite depressing.
It's possible this is a bot driving someone's ableist agenda. From Holocaust denial to disability denial. Quite depressing.
cherry_vamp 2 points 6y ago
https://youtu.be/GzlriQv16gg
Fange_Strellow 2 points 6y ago
Don't be hatin'. For what reason could she not have written that? Children can be very smart. Learn to lose your cynicism or life is going to be very bleak.
johngreenink 1 points 6y ago
I'd have to read a lot more about it, but one thing that has always struck me is the level of self awareness that she had, sometimes it seems uncanny. Particularly when she compares her life to those in the sighted world. That's some seriously deep philosophical thinking that most of us never reach. It's hard to account for. I don't want to question her authenticity, but I agree that it's a level of abstraction that's exceptionally high.
angelcake 1 points 6y ago
I don't know if you'll ever get a answer on this but if you look at it in a different way, this was a girl who had no life except what was in her head, if all you had to do to entertain yourself was to think and process and learn perhaps you would be far advanced compared to your peers. I don't know this, I'm just guessing.
SideshowKaz 1 points 6y ago
I know when I was in school I was given a strong impression that she didn't permanently have a helper, could speak clearly to people and could understand people. One of the most interesting bits I remember is that she tried learning to speak and it went from experimenting with making the odd noise to conversations at dinner very quickly. I also kept being told she was completely blind and profoundly deaf. If she really could do all this then she was a genius. The rest of us at the blind school could never be as amazing as her. But we were all expected to be. And yes if I remember she was taught to communicate quite late. Hellen Keller must have been incredible even with all the best helpers. Or your right but no ones going to know.
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