What a young Helen Keller looked like.

[dennilfloss]

They just uncovered a new pic of her.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Wo.../03/05/4919466-ap.html

Very touching.:thumbsup:

 

[dug777]

But where is her performing turkey?

Nice pic

 

[Kraft Single]

I'm always afraid of those kind of photos. It's like they can suddenly move and start staring you down.

 

[JRich]

01! 01!

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

There's a painting of a college-age Helen Keller at the Manhattan Harvard Club (apparently she went to Radcliffe). She was fairly attractive IMO.

 

[maddogchen]

who?

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
who?

Are you serious?

Anyway. Hellen Keller looks a lot like some of the actresses I've seen play her. As in, identical.

 

[Ika]

I did a double-take at the word "rare", thinking there was an "n", a "k", and a "d" in there... this is not good.

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: Aflac
I did a double-take at the word "rare", thinking there was an "n", a "k", and a "d" in there... this is not good.

You see what you want to see.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: Safeway

Originally posted by: Aflac
I did a double-take at the word "rare", thinking there was an "n", a "k", and a "d" in there... this is not good.

You see what you want to see.

Technically I didn't actually *see* it... I *thought* I saw it... tired eyes and all that.

 

[hiromizu]

Feeeelinngggs...nothing more than feeeeellingggs.

Cool pic.

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: Safeway

Originally posted by: Aflac
I did a double-take at the word "rare", thinking there was an "n", a "k", and a "d" in there... this is not good.

You see what you want to see.

Technically I didn't actually *see* it... I *thought* I saw it... tired eyes and all that.

You wanted to see it. :sun:

 

[Saint Michael]

"It's really one of the best images I've seen in a long, long time," said Helen Selsdon, an archivist at the American Foundation for the Blind, where Keller worked for more than 40 years. "This is just a huge visual addition to the history of Helen and Annie."

Do they make photos in braille now?

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

"It's really one of the best images I've seen in a long, long time," said Helen Selsdon, an archivist at the American Foundation for the Blind, where Keller worked for more than 40 years. "This is just a huge visual addition to the history of Helen and Annie."

Do they make photos in braille now?

Just because she works at the American Foundation for the Blind doesn't mean she herself is blind.

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

"It's really one of the best images I've seen in a long, long time," said Helen Selsdon, an archivist at the American Foundation for the Blind, where Keller worked for more than 40 years. "This is just a huge visual addition to the history of Helen and Annie."

Do they make photos in braille now?

Just because she works at the American Foundation for the Blind doesn't mean she herself is blind.

I heard her driver is blind, too.

 

[daniel1113]

So that's what a young socialist looks like. Intriguing.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Safeway

Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

"It's really one of the best images I've seen in a long, long time," said Helen Selsdon, an archivist at the American Foundation for the Blind, where Keller worked for more than 40 years. "This is just a huge visual addition to the history of Helen and Annie."

Do they make photos in braille now?

Just because she works at the American Foundation for the Blind doesn't mean she herself is blind.

I heard her driver is blind, too.

laughed because I thought of the movie, Gonna get you Sucka mebbe, bout the blind people driving with big old tappy canes.

<---goes and stand in line to the shortbus to hell.

 

[Steve]

I play pub trivia on Wednesday nights with some friends, and her graduation pic was in the picture round last night. I didn't even see that she was reading Braille in it, I just guessed it was her because she wasn't looking at the camera.

 

[gamepad]

Originally posted by: daniel1113
So that's what a young socialist looks like. Intriguing.

It's remarkable that she can even comprehend socialism, being blind and deaf.

 

[SAWYER]

I can not wrap my head around the idea of someone being born blind and deaf being able to learn. They have zero way to reference and comprehend, and compare things.

 

[chuckywang]

But does she play a mean pinball?

 

[NanoStuff]

1888

2008

 

[Engraver]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

"It's really one of the best images I've seen in a long, long time," said Helen Selsdon, an archivist at the American Foundation for the Blind, where Keller worked for more than 40 years. "This is just a huge visual addition to the history of Helen and Annie."

Do they make photos in braille now?

Haven't you ever seen Robinhood: Men in Tights? Where the blind guy Blinkin' is reading a braille-esqe dirty magazine. I can't find a clip of it though.

 

[EvilYoda]

Originally posted by: Sawyer
I can not wrap my head around the idea of someone being born blind and deaf being able to learn. They have zero way to reference and comprehend, and compare things.

I was just thinking the same thing...that's just amazing. what a teacher too.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda

Originally posted by: Sawyer
I can not wrap my head around the idea of someone being born blind and deaf being able to learn. They have zero way to reference and comprehend, and compare things.

I was just thinking the same thing...that's just amazing. what a teacher too.

Obviously they have ways to reference and comprehend, it's just different than what we're used to. We place a lot of emphasis on sight and sound, so trying to contemplate a world without them boggles our mind. But someone who never had a sense of sight or hearing has no reference to what they are missing. Helen Keller formed associations through the senses she could use; touch, smell and taste. Granted, it would be awkward if she had just gone around licking things to find out what they were like... But I digress. The point is she did have ways to reference, comprehend and compare, they simply weren't the same ones we use.

As for the OP: that is one sexy-ass blind deaf 8 year old. Am I going to hell for thinking "she'd have absolutely no idea you were sneaking up on her?" In my defense, I've been watching a lot of Drawn Together and South Park recently...