Deaf, blind and mighty: how Helen Keller learned to speak
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- To mark 50 years since Helen Keller's death, we take a look back at her remarkable story. At only 19 months old, illness left Keller blind and deaf. Yet she went on to become a powerful advocate for disability rights, women's suffrage and racial equality in the US. Her legacy is one of resilience and unshakable courage while her charity, Helen Keller international, founded in 1915, remains active across the world
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When asked if she was afraid to die, Keller responded, “Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” Rest in Heavenly Peace
Awfully eloquent for a person who never saw or heard language at any point in their life to come up with or express. I don't find the story believable at all unless 99.99% of her "quotes" were just Sullivan's.
@@hendo337 She could use a typewriter and a pen to communicate in written English, how is sight or hearing even relevant? What does "eloquence" have to do with being blind or deaf? Helen Keller wrote nearly half of her books in the decades after Anne Sullivan's death. Her political views and writing style did not change as she switched between multiple different caretakers in her life.
You're simply fundamentally close-minded, incurious, and unintelligent to the point that comprehending another person's experiences are beyond your mental capacity. Theoretical physicists and mathematicians have come to understand four-dimensional space for goodness's sake, a blind deaf person learning to communicate isn't even surprising. Today, it's both common and expected.
@@hendo337she had language, she spoke with her hands
@@hendo337
I don't buy it either.
Never have.
Aw to bad heaven probably isn’t real
Helen Keller was an AMAZING woman...She was definately NOT 'dumb' in any sense of the word!
ElleJ Bib Except she was lol. The word “dumb” originally was used to describe someone who did not speak, also known as a mute. It wasnt until later that “dumb” would come to describe a person of little intelligence.
@@TheE4999 but she clearly learned how to speak. She even said in the video she was "...not dumb anymore."
Augustine Daudu is that an r/whoosh or are you being serious?
Her views on abortion would have had her killed. Do some research not that great of a person in her later life
@@lanouek you mean her views on eugenics?
Now THIS lady deserves to be on a dollar bill. Just amazing!
Lil' Muffin I think they mean a dollar bill not the 1 dollar bill
weren’t they going to put a lady on money? Whatever happened to that?
Yes definitely
10 dollar bill. We use it enough to see her face and remind us to stay motivated as she did
alex exactly!
Let's give it up to the real hero of this story. Ms Sullivan.
YESSS why did nobody else think of this?
Life long companion! Now that's love !
@@sydneyprescott3374 well said
We all need teachers like her.
This is why it's necessary for people to care, because many lose hope in deaf+blind kids and believe they can't do much in life
I remember when she died. Its obviously impossible for those of us that are healthy and with our hearing & vision intact to know what people like Hellen Keller go through. I have a very sweet cousin that was born deaf. God bless ALL teachers for the deaf & blind, and of course God bless the deaf & blind as well.
Im deaf but I can lip read and do sign language Jsl and Asl and im from japan so I mainly use Jsl
U are specil
Hi thanks to whoever replayed and gave me a thumbs up please do more
@@ceoofme2771 poor dude you havent listened to music your entire life?
What?
the tEACHER SOUNDED SK ANGRY “W A T E R WATER IT HAS A NAME”
Imagine trying to teach someone that's deaf and blind
This sounded like she was desperate for her to learn because at any moment, she would have to leave by her parents if she doesn’t learn. She did not want to give up on her.
so funny XD
It's from the movie
she sounds determined
and that my friends is why we still speak of her today what an amazing woman
A perfect example of what a disabled person can do if given a chance
Shes disabeld. But in 1968. SHE GOT SHUT DOWN
@@d_data4409 bro ur not funny
You mean given a ridiculous and unproportional amount of resources?
She was disabled yes, but also very talented in other areas
Many are in her situation with the same amount of resources and are left helpless
And money. :)
I love the story tho about how she had no perception of time so somtimes she would wake up at 3 am and sit at the dinner table screaming until she was fed.
Watch Black 2005
@@rahulpoptani hahahaha no
A lot of blind ppl have problems with circadian rhythm (some non-blind ppl, too; I'm writing this at 3:29 AM!)
how was this possible i don’t understand
Kailee Amos tik tok?😭
It’s not they cappin
Kailee Amos it took years of teaching. Idk how this happened but anything is possible. Well, at least this is
period
Divine Thomas yessirrr
Yes, she was an amazing woman. I wish she was still alive, I would have loved to have a chance to meet her. RIP, Helen Keller. BTW, 5 dislikes, shame on you.
i have learning disability n at times it is hard
@@MsDisneylandlover hope u succeed
Marshan Thomas me too i have 3
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did
They probably just misclicked
now everyone on tik tok cancelling her i-
they just don't believe her, bc it's not possible
Are you guys joking-
@@threelotsofpoisonraine3709 nope
Saryi freeman well it is possible and it happened so idk what to tell y’all
@@threelotsofpoisonraine3709 there's also a possibility that it didn't happen so idk what to tell you
What an amazing woman and person.
I can't imagine her life to be so dark and so quite but she can make a light by her own.
She was a world wonder. Imagine the person inside of her that she couldn’t bring out until her epiphany. She was clearly intelligent her parents knew that because I think she started talking at six months or so. The woman she grew up to be and all because she finally realized a word meant a specific thing. One of the most inspirational and goosebump inducing stories of human history.
"the best and most beautiful things of this world cannot be seen, or even touched, but must be felt with the heart"
Certainly, Helen Keller overcame immense obstacles; but, I was always more impressed with Anne Sullivan. I believe Patty Duke, as a child, played Keller as a girl in one movie; and, as an adult, played Sullivan in a later movie.
Keller became a lifelong political radical and IWW member.
You're right. I forgot about that. I still believe Sullivan was the wind beneath Keller's wings. Without Sullivan, Keller would have been institutionalized.
@@silverwhistle So? She was also a mystic.
@@natalyv84 Possibly. They say that in the film, but I doubt it.
There are those that brings destruction to the world and there are those who brings HOPE to the world. Helen, what a journey that you had endured and the hope that you gave to the world, your legacy will never be forgotten.
I’m not trying to be mean or anything and I know it’s not very respectful but there’s just no way she’s real.
bro that’s how i feel, there’s no way this is possible
0:26 like how would she know to shake her head
i know right it makes no sense
Are y’all joking or-
Three Lots Of Poison I just don’t understand how she knows what words mean
I think it’s pretty cool that she kinda had the same old-timey accent as the people that she learned to speak from, even if it was just by feeling their mouths
I watched a video of a woman that is deaf that has a Brooklyn accent because growing up around there she picked up on how people moved their mouths when they spoke and she did the same thing
Yeah, I noticed that too, that’s amazing, I wouldn’t have expected her to have any accent!
@@wingsofhope3789 Accents lie in the ears of the beholder. She didn't think she had an accent. If you're from a place and ppl speak that way all the time, is that an accent?
I just came from a Tik Tok that a dude was saying how Helen Keller wasn’t a real person. Like bruh, she was real! It was a miracle that she could do anything!
Me too and hes so horrible
Mia Maria I came from that video too. I don’t think she’s not real, just some things don’t add up for me
Some of you have never met a deaf person and it shows
One of my closest friends is deaf. She speaks better than him and has an accent! Some of you don’t think for yourselves and it shows
She will always be an inspiration.
What great commitment of the teachers to stay with her for so long
For sure Helen Keller is a figure to admire and remember, but I think there has been little justice given to her teacher... I think she deserves just as much recognition! Pity we don’t even know her name...
Anne Sullivan - just as spectacular as Helen Keller 👍
wasnt the teacher semi blind too or something?
Thats Cute yes
Talk for yourself, Maia. The rest of the world knows her name. It was even mentioned in the video.
Her first teacher was named Anne Sullivan. During her life she had a series of live in female companions who helped her with daily tasks , getting from place to place, and translating her speech.
Helen Keller is such an inspiration, just like Superman.
Superman is more real than you’re brain
@@brendanlaven1697 YOUR brain doesn't exist, grammar please?
What a beautiful outcome, Anne was a real inspiration, and through that Helen became a gift.
From a linguistic point of view, I think this is brilliant! I don't know who came up with this system, the hand placement, but it's absolutely brilliant. Complete genius.
A monk, the Abbe de 'L'Eppe.
I did a report on her in second grade and I learned to spell out her name in sign language. This woman was incredible!
I thought Sign Language didn't exist
That's the least of it. I can spell out my name in Sign, too: it's not that difficult.
This two minute video helped me on an essay, I got a 100! Helen Keller is the biggest inspiration for most people!
She is a legend
Believe it or not, Helen Keller is one of my great ancestors from my father's side of the family! I just recently took interest in her.
It also explains my name. Sullivan. I was named after Anne Sullivan because of that.
Are you blind
@@tannerbryan9315Well, I typed this message
@@tannerbryan9315 lol that gene about being deaf and blind must had faded away, since, that's alot of generations to go through
@@wlfp2327 it wasnt genetic lol but i understand what you're saying
Ngl Thats really cool
I cannot possibly imagine how you can ascibre meaning above the simple tangible concepts like "water" to someone who is deaf and blind, let alone a book full of grand ideas on humanities and inspirational quotes. Hell, I can't even write a full-length book. This is the most OP person I've ever seen, the most inexplicable story and the most inspirational character.
Just because someone is deaf/deaf-blind doesn't mean they don't think. Why wouldn't they know what water is?
She understood words which were spelled out on her palms? How? If she never learned how to read or write? Am I missing something?
You learn understand and speak a language before reading or writing.
She did read and write, braille
For example, Sullivan would spell "water" into Keller’s hand while running water over her hand. This created a connection between the tactile sensation and the concept of water. over repetition and persistence hellen began to associate with whats being spelled in her hand with the objects in the outside world. Helen Keller would also touch peoples faces and their mouths to feel the vibrations and movement their mouth was making, and emulate that. humans can learn through associations, and touch
Whomever came up with the process of teaching her speak and sign, even though she lacks the organs to understand both outputs, Was a genius
Such a remarkable woman. She lived a full life, and lived the best she could and didn’t have excuses like so many of us do. She was determined and intelligent
True but she did support the eugenics movement, promoting the euphanasia of children with disabilities.
Oh wow. I heard of Heller Heller but I knew little to nothing about her. I don't recall ever being taught about her which is a shame because she should be the symbol for how anyone can accomplish anything if they try hard enough. All I knew was she was deaf. I don't think I knew she was blind. I didn't know she was deaf and blind at a young age but still learnt to speak. That is incredible! Like I saw someone say in these comments, she deserves to be on a dollar bill.
Wow I’m just up late watching these people learn it’s so amazing how they learn being deaf and blind you can do anything if you put your mind to it.
i read all about her she is awesome
Her story is amazing. I love how she was a advocate for people with disabilities. I have 3 disabilities myself and one disorder.
She accomplished so much given her disablities, kinda puts things into perspective and makes me think I am a super lazy sloth who complains too much.
As a kid in Australia this was my most favourite book 50 yrs ago. Helen Keller's teacher :)
So she can translate a vibrator?
LMFAOAIAHAHVA BYE
YOU DIDN'T JUST 💀😭
ELECTRIC CHAIRRRR
Get out of here😂😂
The vibrators back then were steam-powered and quite cumbersome to use. Next came the gasoline-powered models, and then finally the handy electric appliances in use today.
Lord have mercy 🥺🙏I can't imagine living like that!!!she was soo strong, may she rest in peace
she is my inspiration
This is amazing. Every time I hear her story, it puts me in awe.
the most amazing woman
She is such a wonderful inspiration for the whole humanity. Great exemplary character set by him.
Imagine living in a world of darkness with absolutely no sound, just deafening silence all the time. Helen Keller was an absolutely legendary woman.
This woman is such an inspiration to us all
My grandma was 18 when Helen Keller died
I love Helen Keller, dont get me wrong, but the Norwegian Ragnhild Kåta was actually Helens teachers inspiration. Ragnhild Kåtas teacher, Elias Hofgaard, actually came up with the idea of letting deafblind touch mouths and learn language through touch. Helen will always be an inspiration because of her many books and her work towards deafblind people's rights, but Ragnhild also deserves praise.
That's interesting! I knew about Laura Bridgman and Perkins Institute and all that, but not about Ragnhild Kata. Though now that you mention it, it's coming back to me, so perhaps I did read that, a long time ago. Thank you!
Some of you are incredibly ableist and it’s showing.
So? I'm lowercase d deaf
How can you teach someone who is blind and deaf what it means you try to say?
I dont get that part.
i mean, how can you explain what you are trying to say to someone who is deaf and blind?
For Hellen kellers cause, she felt your mouth movement
@@robowisanveithasung6022 Ok, she can feel your mouth move.
BUT, if she is born deaf and blind, how will you be able to explain what the movement means???
@@bertjesklotepino she learned it with Brialle maybe? I don’t know much about her to be honest
@@robowisanveithasung6022 i do not know much about her either sir.
But think about what you just said please.
Consider you are blind and deaf from birth.
You can not see anything.
You can not hear anything.
So nobody can teach you with sound, and nobody can teach you with vision.
Sure, you can feel Braille, but how is the person teaching you Braille going to explain what the dots mean?
You can't have em listen to Morse code. You can't have em look at letters.
They won't hear you speak.
You can not use sign language.
And so, introducing braille, how then are you going to explain what it all means?
Helen was the woman that inspired people! She learned to speak when she was blind AND deaf!
How can she hear any words if she deaf?
@@azkaranaufathal-qirafa4140 As the video showed she put her hand to other people's mouths, and felt the different vibrations that all the letter sounds make. Then she just tried to copy them, and was able to speak for herself. Pretty amazing really.
Deep inside we can all tell she was a wonderful woman in life wish we could all meet her♡
I read her book the story of my life, and the way she described things i almost forgot that she was deaf and blind. :))
It's almost like someone else wrote it all and said it was hers for money, it insane
@@kingmenelaus7083 you literally are blindly believing something without any evidence to support you’re claim.
@@kingmenelaus7083 I’m not going to believe what you say unless you can prove it
Her teacher just rehearsed everything to her word for word, one cannot just talk when they are deaf and blind. There is a level of perception that a person needs in order to be able to communicate and understand their surroundings.
Were you perhaps dropped on the head as a newborn?
@@raet6375 maybe they broke their neck
@@giiselleuk nah, then they’d understand disabled people
@@raet6375 probs
It was extremely hard .. but not impossible :)
Her story is just utterly inspriational.
Literally the people in this comments section are so dumb. “HoW iS tHis PoSsiBle- She cAnt heAr???” So because she doesn’t know the English language- she can’t speak? How do you suspect bilingual people learn to speak? Or babies? Or how dogs learn to do tricks? Living beings can be taught to do things idk why that’s such a hard concept to grasp.
Thank you!
When Helen says the word "now" and smiles, you can tell she truly believed in herself.
Amazing..moving
I’m reading think and grow rich and her name was mentioned. What a remarkable woman. No one has any excuses for success!
PKA says hi
I learned this at school for homework
Me too
How can somebody with the perception of a Vegetable write 19 books?
How can someone without hands paint and write? See the similarity?
Brings a tear to my eye.
hmm... i’m just not buying it
Are you joking or being serious lmao
Three Lots Of Poison i’m being serious like i think she was just made up so teachers could tell their students that anything is possible
Incredible how there are so many uneducated people nowadays..
dude...so you don’t believe that deaf blind people can exist or smth ?
At first i thought this was a joke
Anne Sullivan such a beautiful soul and how she dedicated her life for Helen
She truly is a remarkable and inspirational figure. I hope her legacy continues to inspire us today. She beat the odds and learned to speak, this person can inspire those who are deaf to let their voices be heard, despite not being heard by themselves.
Yea, she was a huge inspiration, almost as much as Batman is.
@@bobnetwork5883 Batman is almost as real as you’re brain
Deaf and blind published 12 books, a 10 year old would laugh and see right through this
Abelism at its finest
Tik tok?? Haha, how about common sense
@@fjordbear3050 keep telling yourself that
deaf with a british accent 😂😂😂
Ever heard of Braille?
A very blessing story from Mrs. Keller, thank you
There’s no way she’s real I don’t mean to seem ableist but there’s physically no way she would know what life was. She was literally in a black void like how would she know what a word was. HOW ARE THE SCHOOLS JUST GOING TO TELL US SHE WROTE A BOOK.
Go read her book
You should read about her life to really understand how magnificent she is!!!
It was from Anne Sullivan i watched the movie of her today
I just read about her story, it's really amazing..
On Wikipedia they say that she could read LATIN, greek, german and french. What about the cure for cancer?
Wat
How can she right and explain for a book if she’s blind and deaf????
She was taught by her teacher Anne Sullivan. She learned how to read braille and fingerspell words. When she went to college, Anne Sullivan will fingerspell in Helen's hand while the professor is lecturing. Her teacher stayed with Helen Keller until the teacher's death. Watch the movie Miracle Worker or read her autobiography. She is a fascinating woman.
Dominika Juliette bro it was just a joke no need to attack me bruv. I know she’s amazing chill. ♥️
Shadowen _
how in any way was your comment a joke?
If you feel unmotivated watch this. What a beautiful powerful woman
I look up to Helen Keller
Patience and compassion is what this world has ended ….
The whole story is mesmerisingly amazing, and Anne Sullivan deserves eternal praise for her efforts- she too was a truly remarkable person.
What an incredible thing! All this was remarkably portrayed in the story of my life as well! It was totally the same! Thank you for this!❤️
How tf she know what she's saying when no one can tell/show her what it means
Of course can
READ THE STORY BEFORE AAYING ANYTHING!!! Come on
@@pufflehuff608 speak English
it explains in the video 😭
@@Waterbottl66 oukhei ai cän spiik inglish tuu
@@Waterbottl66 not everyone is a native English speaker, you know. Also, there were like, two mistakes, wdym
Without Anne Sullivan, none of these would have happened. She didn't have to do it, but she chose it and did it all her life.
If someone can direct me to another case where a blind deaf person learned to communicate in this way then maybe I'll Be a believer.
Mate, nobody actually cares about your abelism. You can do your own research, completely for free. She’s not the only deaf and blind person who’s lived a normal life.
@@raet6375 whatever you said has nothing to do with my post
@@raet6375 read it again and get back to me
@@Canislupes7 Ok?
@@Canislupes7 Ok
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, then alone in the light" - Helen Keller
how'd she know how to pronounce words if she was deaf
James Smith they said she felt vibrations
@@yuzu-ade but pronounce though, its different
@@nkwwu it took her a while to learn how to speak corrctly but she would feel the mouth shapes and how they move their tongue and lips to make a sound (then she learned how to recognize words from the combined syllables)
Some deaf people are able to talk, iirc
She is deaf not mute
okay come for me if you want, but she published books ? i mean come on, i understand she can feel vibrations of certain letters or words but how does she comprehend and learn what those words mean if she cant even hear or hasn’t even seen a physical definition of the word. like here is a quote from hellen keller “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence”. how does she understand and know what optimism is let alone how to use that in a sentence if nobody could ever explain it to her. all she’d know is the word, not how its used, she’d have to have her own definition of optimism because all she’d know is the word and the vibration and the way it sounds to her. idk, i just personally think hellen keller is a fib because some things do not add up.. 🤷🏽♀️ ?
It doesn't matter if she was actually deaf and blind. She did so much for the disabled community
I read a book bout her life, but I just simply still can't believe her!
Funny how there's never been another deaf-blind person who could do the same thing. Funny how Helen Keller's political and religious views were The same as her teacher's. Is it not impossible she was taught to do a few things as a performance?
There are so many deaf blind people who learnt to speak! U live under a rock or in US
@@vloggermum LOL Helen Keller was born in Alabama USA.
Other deaf blind ppl have been educated; perhaps, not to that degree. She did NOT have the same views as her teacher. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan was an atheist. Helen embraced the Swedenborgian faith.
why do I keep seeing mean videos of her in tiktok this is amazing
In fact Helen Keller was a radical socialist, an admirer and comrade of Eugene Debs, and her work on disability rights, women's and racial equality were all part of this wider struggle for a more just society on the basis of a more rational economic system. Plenty of biographies of her airbrush this out, including the one above. Google "Helen Keller politics" to find out more.
She would definitely have been a Bernie Sanders supporter, put it that way.
@@southwarkmomentum3311 Ah yes supporting the poor and disabled! What a crime!
Really I came here from the movie called black it's just awesome
inteligent women . I inspire you
ok first of all: *intelligent
*you inspire me
lol learn grammar.
She's so awesome and admirable!
I like her now, I wish I could meet her... :(
In school I listened the Helen Keller story
I still think this is cap
Close-minded