![]() ![]() ![]() Myth: She wasn’t able to do anything until she met Anne Sullivan But beyond that simple fact, there’s a lot of misinformation out there. She was born-on this day in 1880-with the abilities to see and hear, but when she was less than two years old she contracted an illness–perhaps meningitis or scarlet fever, according to Daven Hiskey for Today I Found Out–that left her unable to see or hear. But her stature as a public figure has created myths that reveal as much about longstanding societal biases as they do about her real life.Īs schoolchildren learn, Keller lived most of her life as a deaf-blind woman. ![]() Much of it had nothing to do with her disability, though some of it did. Helen Keller got a lot done in her lifetime. ![]()
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