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
Oh and everybody knows the story of Helen Keller but it kinda stops there. Less known is she become a huge eugenicist [1]
[1]: https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/539/716