Autistic Lived Experience: When I Learned that Helen Keller Believed in Eugenics

• By: Sam Farmer Neurodiversity Community Self-Advocate, Writer, Author, and Public Speaker
• January 2nd, 2023
• actually autistic, advocacy, disability rights, eugenics, Helen Keller, heroes, Winter 2023 Issue
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To say that learning about this for the first time felt like a punch in the gut is a gross understatement. Though I heard it from what I consider to be a credible source (the PBS documentary series The U.S. and the Holocaust), I nonetheless could not bring myself to believe the truth because I...