Who Is Helen Keller?
1. Illness Made Her Blind
Many deaf-blind people were born that way, while others became blind at some point later due to certain unfortunate events. Helen Keller fell into the latter category. She was born with no health complications but she fell quite ill when she was just 19 months old. We can’t be sure of what the illness was as medicine wasn’t as advanced back then as it is today, but it was likely to be meningitis or scarlet fever that caused her condition. In a sense, Helen was quite lucky because such illnesses were often deadly at the time, especially to somebody so young.
