The band 3OH!3 ridiculed and sexualized her image with their song “Don’t Trust Me,” released in 2008, which featured the lines, “Shush girl, shut your lips / Do the Helen Keller and talk with your ...

It's baffled blindness researchers for years: why are Helen Keller jokes so funny? Also, they've wondered how some blind people, despite not being able to see, still have accurate circadian rhythms.

Helen Keller jokes were popular when I was in elementary school. The only one I remember asked, “How did Helen Keller burn her fingers?” The we-thought-clever riposte: “Trying to read a ...

One of the first viral videos I can remember watching was a clip from a community theater production of The Miracle Worker where the sighted actor playing the part of Helen Keller, who was blind ...

So I hated Helen Keller and I loved Helen Keller jokes and I, you know, told them with relish in the schoolyard. I started to wonder if I had been unfair to Helen Keller when I was a child.

For example, 3OH!3’s “Don’t Trust Me” includes the line “Hush girl/Shut your lips/Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips.” During an interview, the band discussed how that lyric aged.