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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
I'm about half way through The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language. What an interesting book. [...]
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I had read briefly of Laura Bridgman when I read Charles Dickens'
American Notes, and then recently I read a Scientific American publication called
Unlocking Happiness, and one of the articles in that had:
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Helen Keller has written that before she learned language, she did not have self-awareness: “Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world . . .When I learned the meaning of ‘I’ and ‘me’ and found that I was something, I began to think. Then consciousness first existed for me.”
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I've been meaning to chase up more background on both their stories, so the book sounds particularly interesting to me.