Comment by jmyeet
1 year ago
What a strange experience it must be to grow up capable of language but without it until someone teaches you. It's also interesting considering some people have an inner monologue/voice and some don't.
Oh and everybody knows the story of Helen Keller but it kinda stops there. Less known is she become a huge eugenicist [1]
The article said she briefly became a eugenicist, like other political radicals of the time, before going back on it. Not the "gotcha" you think it is.
I think it's the bigger story that she was very left wing. I never learned that in school and was unaware of the fact until reading some of the articles she wrote for my union, the iww