 Why would knowing all that about her when you were a little girl have helped or what would that have given you? It would have given me an actual role model. So I know we need to stop for today, but let's just imagine this is a stop in a Radiolab episode. What's coming up after the break? How Helen Keller is not all bright and shiny. Once I started doing research, I discovered that there was a dark side to Helen Keller that I was going to have to deal with too.