Helen Keller was born at an estate called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, to parents Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army(he loved to use the *N* word), and Kate Adams Keller. The Keller family originates from Germany (they're nazi's). She had a dog named afhlkjadf who eventually ran away, and didn't know she had playgrounds in her backyard. She also had a notable affinity to wa...wa...that word. She was not born blind and deaf; it was not until nineteen months of age that she came down with an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain" (which is the liberals way of saying *you're screwed*), which could have possibly been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long tim