ShortHand: Helen Keller

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How does a child that can’t hear, and can’t see, learn to speak? And how, despite those setbacks, can they go on to write 12 books and get a university degree?

It’s time to meet the disability-advocating, socialist-sympathising, no-sh*t-taking miracle of human achievement that was Helen Keller.

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Sources:

‘The Story of My Life’, by Helen Keller (ISBN: 9788175994034)

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/helen-keller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSDpEY2VbU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbcoJ5V8Ow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptFJym8Kog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIQOxz9eIg8

https://deafblind.org.uk/myth-busters-understanding-what-its-like-to-be-deafblind/

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/ahoy-alexander-graham-bell-and-first-telephone-call