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Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880 Helen Keller started off a joyful life. Being reported by her mother, Kate Adams Keller, at six months, Helen had been able to pronounce, “How d'ye" and "tea, tea, tea." By then she also knew the meaning of the word "water," which she pronounced "wah-wah.". When she was a year old, she took her first steps. Her eyesight was perfect as it's noted that she could find “needles and buttons on the floor that no one else in the family could find”. Overall, for almost the first two years of her infant life, Helen Keller was just as normal as any normal infant. In February 1882, Helen, then 19 months old, contracted some type of disease, which is now believed to have been Scarlet Fever. The family were on constant fear of Helen dying in any day, but soon enough the fever subsided. Followi