Guys, something insane happened to me today. I am on a text chain with my teenage nieces and nephews along with my mom (their grandma) and today my mom asked them if they knew who Helen Keller was... And their response was that Helen Keller was a fraud who didn't exist.
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At first I thought they were trolling grandma, which is admittedly fun. But after awhile it was clear they weren't joking. "How could someone be deaf and blind and learn how to write books?" My nephew admits she probably existed but was probably only one or the other.
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I still thought I was getting trolled so I asked if I was getting trolled and they were adamant -- Helen Keller was a fraud. So then I did some Googling to find out some relevant information to prove her existence and found this: https://medium.com/@isabellalahoue/the-generation-that-doesnt-believe-helen-keller-existed-e14d5945013c …
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This is like a real thing. "Well how do you know she's real if you weren't there to see her?" "Cause I've seen THE MIRACLE WORKER. Do you think Abraham Lincoln is real even though we didn't see him?" Then they sent me an eye-rolling emojii.
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are you playing the caricature of someone with an utterly child-like naivete in this one?
"I saw a movie, it must be true!"
Usually these stories have the children be the credulous ones.
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