I was listening to the book Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson. He was talking about disability, what is and isn’t and how, exactly does that apply. What happens when your disability is your greatest asset. He gives examples, including one about a guest on a boat who was given a tour of the boat and afterwards wrote a beautiful, poetic thank you know. That guest was Helen Keller who was deaf and blind since before her second birthday.
How? How could she so beautifully conceive what she couldn’t hear or see? She learned to read and write and speak. She wrote books and lectured on subjects of her passion like disabilities, women’s suffrage and labor rights.
But how? Is my inability to see how she can do these things my own disability? Doesn’t that prove Tyson’s point? I think it might.