Helen Keller
Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880 Helen Keller started off a joyful life. Being reported by her mother, Kate Adams Keller, at six months, Helen had been able to pronounce, “How d'ye" and "tea, tea, tea." By then she also knew the meaning of the word "water," which she pronounced "wah-wah.". When she was a year old, she took her first steps. Her eyesight was perfect as it's noted that she could find “needles and buttons on the floor that no one else in the family could find”. Overall, for almost the first two years of her infant life, Helen Keller was just as normal as any normal infant. In February 1882, Helen, then 19 months old, contracted some type of disease, which is now believed to have been Scarlet Fever. The family were on constant fear of Helen dying in any day, but soon enough the fever subsided. Followi
Enriched with so many thoughts and words, Helen started writing. Her writings include The Story of My Life, The World I Live In, Out of the Dark, Midstream-My Later Life, Let Us Have Faith, Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy, and The Open Door. Her achievements in life and dedication in helping the Blind and Deaf were credited to her by her life being the subject of a movie, The Unconquered, and by a play, The Miracle Worker, which was later turned into a movie in 1962. Helen served as one of the greatest inspirations for other disabled people and will never be forgotten. ng the fever, Helen fell in a 'deceptively' quiet sleep and from this the Keller's believed Helen was cured. Helen's eyes, however, continued to pain her. She later recalled that they felt “so dry and hot” and that she kept them turned “to the wall, away from the
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