This is what Helen Keller, a famous American blind woman writer, said. Helen Keller suffered from a strange disease when she was only 19 months old, which caused her to be completely blind and deaf. For the next five years, she could not communicate with others. Later, a teacher named Anne Sullivan came from Boston to help her. Miss Sullivan was once blind. She tried to teach people to live like everyone else. She taught Helen how to use her hands as a tool for talking. Miss Sullivan took Helen to explore human beings and nature in the forest. They also go to circuses, theaters and even factories. Miss Sullivan explained everything to Helen in the language that Helen and Helen used together. The language between them is the language of hand and finger contact. Helen also learned to ride horses, swim, row boats and even climb trees.