helen keller

i was just watching an episode of south park where they put on a play about helen keller. it was pretty weird, but it got me thinking about ms. keller (i'm assuming she's a ms., i mean who would ever marry her?)

anyway, her whole deal was that she was blind and deaf from birth, but somehow she managed to learn how to write and communicate and live and drive a car. ... alright i made up the part about the car, but the rest is true (subtle reference right there).

i'm sorry, i just don't buy it. imagine being blind and deaf your whole life. how would you even know who the fuck who were, or what you were, or what a human is, or what anything is? you'd be completely clueless forever. it's not like someone can tell you, hey you're blind that's why you can't see any of us, because you're deaf. and people couldn't motion to you that you're deaf because you're fucking blind.

i was gonna say i'd wanna kill myself, but the thing is, even if she did want that, did she know what death was? she's just a blob sitting there. i'm sure she felt pain and all, but no way she could've figured out the concept that lots of pain leads to death. how sad.

and another thought just crossed my mind. was she the only person ever who was blind and deaf? there have to have been others. imagine how much life sucked for these guys. not only are they blind and deaf, but their whole lives they're being compared to helen keller, who was clearly more kickass than any of them ever will be. she was the most successful one of their kind. and it's not like they can even use her story as an inspiration, cause how are they gonna even know who she was and what she accomplished?

alright well this blog is sending me straight to hell, if it wasn't already decided.

EDIT: i just discovered that she was actually perfectly healthy until she was 19 months old, making this entire blog pointless. probably shoulda researched before writing this. oh well. and now that i think about it, i lost some respect for her. she was fine for a year and a half. helen keller = overrated.