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11925397 No.11925397 [Reply] [Original]

You don't live in the ghetto do you anon? Your local library does have books in braille, right?

>> No.11925402

Was this supposed to be a new thread?

>> No.11925510

>>11925397
I actually do live in the ghetto.

>> No.11925540

You don't live in the ghetto do you anon? Your local library does have books in cuneiform, right?

>> No.11925544

You don't live in the ghetto do you anon? Your local library does have books in my ass, right?

>> No.11925587

>>11925397
The Helen Keller we know was a fabrication and is more fiction than fact. Children deprived of sensory experience have developmental disorders. The lack of sight, sound and experience causes the brain to physically atrophy.

She either 1) was not nearly as blind, deaf or mute as commonly purported ,or
2) actually was but her near life long handler was the author of all her works.

It is impossible and painstakingly slow to be taught everything through tactile feedback alone. You'd be lucky to get 5 words a minute in. Read the essays and accomplishments attributed to her as young as 9 years old. It's impossible. Nobody wants to say anything because they'll look like a jerk.

>> No.11925615

>>11925587
Also, forgot the add what was most important to the thread. Building on the limitation of tactile input, English Braille wasn't fully developed until the early 1900s and books and instruction in English would have been exceedingly rare. If she was taught Braille, it's not like she would have had access to many books. Maybe a copy of Genesis and the Gospel of Mark. That's it. Not like she would have had access to the library of knowledge she claimed to have learned by her assistant tediously tapping away at her, in an arbitrary language she invented.

It's totally absurd the Hellen Kellar story. It got so P.T. Barnum like toward the end her aid taught her how to speak, she explained by feeling the vibrations, to which there are some recordings and videos. This is better than many deaf people