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[schoolnight]

i've been thinking about this article i read in LIFE magazine when i was nine years old, about this girl born deaf & blind & mute, a helen keller type, but not famous. how since her hands were meant to speak with and sign with and spell with, she hardly used them to identify things with touch

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[chocnut]

a life experienced through oral sensation? that girl's lucky she's alive at all

[schoolnight]

not completely -- she used it to distinguish small differences, like telling one kind of fabric from another. stuff you'd usually use your eyes for.

it never occurred to me when i was 9 to wonder if she'd put anything poisonous in her mouth. haha.

[yesisaworld]

HEY I LOVE THIS POST.

ily too, always and forever, in general and particular.

but yeah. this post, ftw.

[schoolnight]

LOLOLOLOL WHY?

ARE YOU A SECRET FAN OF HELEN KELLER.

[yesisaworld]

I AM A NOT SO SECRET FAN OF YOU.

[schoolnight]

hahaha, secret fan? oh dear.

yes of course, i'll add you back & let you in.

don't be a stranger! :)