Welcome to part three of my mini-series on Helen Keller. I took a Disability in Literature class in Spring 2022 that focused heavily on her legacy. In this class I’ve learned that the idea we have of who Helen Keller was is not entirely accurate. A lot of people either see her only as the seven year old at the water pump, a scene made famous by the film The Miracle Worker. Or, they see her as this elderly woman who could do no wrong and only wanted to help others, that is the image the American Foundation for the Blind and other similar charities and organizations popularized.
In this post I’m going to be discussing some of the controversies surrounding Keller–because there are a lot. Some of these are well known and publicized, and others have been brushed under the rug.
It is important to discuss the controversies around Helen Keller, particularly how internalized ableism can impact a person and disabled communities. I wanted to share this video by Deaf and disabled creator, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, in which she discusses the topic of internalized audism and eugenics from a Deaf perspective. I tried searching for things that discussed her privilege more in depth and found this that includes the following:
“Helen Keller was a socialist who believed she was able to overcome many of the difficulties in her life because of her class privilege – a privilege not shared by most of her blind or deaf contemporaries. “I owed my success partly to the advantages of my birth and environment,” she said. ” I have learned that the power to rise is not within the reach of everyone.”
I wonder if the other part includes people like Anne Sullivan, part of the community who helped her, which was, in the end, afforded to her through class and white privilege because her family was able to afford to find and pay Sullivan in the first place.
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The idea that neurodivergent people, specifically those with ADHD or ASD, need neopronouns because their neurodivergency affects their ability to “understand the concept of gender,” is so incredibly damaging.
Transgender neurodivergent people already struggle heavily with being taken seriously for being transgender. Having our own “allies” make these claims makes our lives so much harder as trans people. Because of this dumb ass performative activism bullshit, the idea that we’re just confused and aren’t transgender because we just don’t know what we’re talking about has been reinforced. It’s so hurtful and makes our transitions so much harder.
YES YES YES
Especially because lots of people with ADHD also have other learning disabilities like dyslexia which makes it 10x harder to read with neopronouns!!!!
My brain physically cannot comprehend the usage of anything other than he/she/they idk what they expect I’m a certified
I hope you dont mind me adding this but this is that same electror*t*rd piece of shit and I’m pretty sure they run multiple of the same accounts cause they were using this url and loveangelwalmartbaby at the same time (loveangelwalmartbaby I think got deleted finally) so be suspicious of that avatar on boibortion’s current blog, it looks like this:
And this Chun Li one:
in conjecture with any of their also recycled URLs cause they use either avatar every time they remake. I’ve blacklisted some of their old URLs and it has been able to catch some of the revamped ones if they’re similar enough. Here’s some they’ve listed themselves; trigger warning for the r slur ahead:
You guys know about rule 34? It states that if it exists, there is porn of it. So being the curious person I am, I search “genderfluid”. Guess what? No results! Genderfluid does not exist, you can’t switch genders at will… That’s retarded. Even as I’m typing the word “genderfluid” my auto correcting keyboard is telling me it’s not a word.
