How Did Helen Keller Contribute To The World

Helen Keller was an extraordinary woman. Who grew to do many wonderful things. She showed even with disabilities, she could accomplish what she wanted. She was another person who showed anything is possible no matter who you were. Helen Keller was an inspiration to disabled people around the world. Helen was one of the many people who showed that even if you are disabled, you can accomplish the same things as regular people. Helen Adams Keller was born on June twenty seventh, eighteen eighty eight in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen was born with the ability to see and hear. Helen just at six months old started walking, and at one started speaking. At nineteen months old, she was struck by a fever at the time they called it, “Brain
Fever”. Only a few days after she caught the fever, her mother, Kate Keller noticed that Helen didn’t seem to hear the dinner bell ring. When she waved her hand rapidly in front of Helen’s face, Helen made no reaction. That’s when they knew how the fever actually affected her. It made Helen Adams Keller, deaf and blind at only one and a half . As a child learning was difficult for Helen, because of her illness no one could communicate with her, and she couldn't advocate what she was feeling or wanted.
Some things that many people knew like greetings, she had no idea they even existed. For some of her childhood, she was oblivious to many things that surrounded her. Since Helen couldn't see she had to feel for things instead. Her relatives were so disgusted manners that they started calling her the, “Wild Child”. A little while later Helen, with the help of their cooks daughter Martha Washington they made their own way to communicate with each other using signs they made up. By the time they were around seven years old they had made up over sixty signs but around that age Helen had become wild. She would kick and scream when she was angry, and laugh uncontrollably when she was happy she had mood swings very often. She started to torment Martha, and threw raging tantrums for no reason at all. Most of her relatives felt she should be institutionalized. The reason Helen acted like that was because she didn't know that was the wrong way to act. She thought what she was doing was ok because no one ever told her it was not and even if they did she didn't
understand. In eighteen eighty six, Helen's mother Kate had heard about the Perkins school for the blind in Boston.
Kate wrote to the school asking for a teacher for Helen. They sent over Anne Sullivan a recent graduate, and their star student. She arrived March third , eighteen eighty seven the day Helen Keller's life changed forever. The day she arrived, she started by teaching Helen finger spelling she would also bring in the item so Helen would understand that there's a name to a certain thing. Helen would get frustrated and sometimes refuse to participate, but when she did participate she couldn't understand. About a month later, Anne put Helen's hand under a water pump while signing the word water into it and in Helen's mind it just clicked. She then understood everything had a meaning and a name. Anne Sullivan was the miracle worker who impacted Helen's life the most. In May eighteen eighty eight Helen along with Anne went to Perkins school for the blind. Helen became very popular and had many friends, but the reason she enjoyed it was being around other kids like her . In eighteen nineteen, she wrote a story she called The frost king for Anagnos birthday. He was very happy and decided to publish it in the Perkins Alumni magazine. A little while later he was informed it was very much like a book that was already published. Helen shocked remember that a few months earlier she read the original and somehow rewrote it though she thought it was her own creation.
Even so Helen and Anne were hurt and decided to leave Perkins. Helen and Anne helped develop new ways for blind and/or dead people to learn and communicate. In her later years She and Anne went to over thirty nine countries to help develop organizations for people with disabilities. Even though in her early years she didn't realize it, but as she grew older she showed the world more and more that someone with disabilities could do the same things as anyone else in this world. Helen Keller in her childhood she had no idea all the things she would get through life being deaf/blind. She didn't think that even being deaf/blind she could do all the great things she did. She didn't think that she'd be doing all these things with Anne Sullivan. Even if she failed she changed the world for the better, “ The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs.