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Do you guys suppose Hellen Keller knew she was blind and deaf?

As I understand it, people communicated with her by signing on her hands. She presumably did not sign on other people's hands, because it would have been unnecessary to do so. So assuming they never told her she was deaf and blind, I think she would have figured out she was different from other people.
 
Originally posted by: her209
Or do you suppose she just assumed everyone was just like her?
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Considering she was taught braille, I assume someone had the courtesy to pass on the information. Plus, her condition didn't set in until she was 19 or so months old, so I imagine she retained even a piece of that memory.
 
Helen Keller was born at an estate called Ivy Green[3] in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, to Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army, and Kate Adams Keller, a cousin of Robert E. Lee and daughter of Charles W. Adams, a former Confederate general.[4] The Keller family originates from Germany.[5] Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it was not until she was nineteen months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain," which could possibly have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. At that time, her only communication partner was Martha Washington, the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who was able to create a sign language with her; by the age of seven, she had over sixty home signs to communicate with her family. According to Soviet Blind-Deaf Psychologist A. Meshcheryakov, Martha's friendship and teaching was crucial for Helen's later developments.
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Dante Hicks: Have you become so embittered that you now feel the need to attack the handicapped?
Randal Graves: What handicap? They guy's just in a wheelchair, it's not like he's Anne Frank or something.
Dante Hicks: Anne Frank?
Randal Graves: Yeah, Anne Frank. The chick that was all duhhh, till the miracle worker showed up and knocked some smarts into her.
Dante Hicks: You're talking about Helen Keller.
Randal Graves: No I'm not, I'm talking about Anne Frank. She was deaf, dumb and blind.
Dante Hicks: No she wasn't. Helen Keller was deaf, dumb and blind.
Randal Graves: Are you sure?
Dante Hicks: Yup.
Randal Graves: Then who the fuck's Anne Frank?
 
Originally posted by: Alone
Originally posted by: her209
Or do you suppose she just assumed everyone was just like her?
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Considering she was taught braille, I assume someone had the courtesy to pass on the information. Plus, her condition didn't set in until she was 19 or so months old, so I imagine she retained even a piece of that memory.
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I don't remember anything prior to being 4-years-old.
 
I don't think the sign she was carrying while picketing in front of the White House was done in braille. 😉 So yes, I think she realized that others had more forms of sensory input than those which were available to her.
 
Originally posted by: Alone
Originally posted by: her209
Or do you suppose she just assumed everyone was just like her?
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Considering she was taught braille, I assume someone had the courtesy to pass on the information. Plus, her condition didn't set in until she was 19 or so months old, so I imagine she retained even a piece of that memory.
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do remember when you were 19 months old?
 
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