With Blind Eyes, and Deaf Ears

The Inspiration Behind My Writings

This image was found on Wikimedia commons page, and is in the Public Domain in the United States, Circa 1904, Photographer unknown

I never met Helen Keller of course, she died over a decade before I was born, but learning about her in a sixth grade classroom. I did not know at the time, that her story would impact the kind of author/writer I would become and would ultimately become a catalyst for my decision to use my platform to advocate for those with disabilities. I, myself have a disability, so of course that too plays a part in it.

This image was found on Wikimedia commons page, and is in the Public Domain in the United States..Photo taken of Helen Keller, Holding a Doll, with Anne Sullivan Macy 1888

Helen Keller was born on June.27.188, and for the first nineteen months of her life, she was a happy healthy baby. But at nineteen months, an illness took both her sight and her hearing. She would learn to communicate through home signs, until she was seven, when Anne Sullivan Macy began working with her. She would receive education in both specialist and mainstream schools she would go on to attend Radcliffe College, a college affiliated with Harvard University. She would ultimately become the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelors of Arts degree.