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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]

[1]: https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/539/716



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




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