 She was definitely a real lady. But the TikTokers were questioning that story we all know about her. You know, the story that she was both deaf and blind, totally cut off from the world until this lady, the quote unquote miracle worker Ann Sullivan, showed up and then using a technique called fingerspelling, taught her language, culminating in this dramatic moment by a water pump where Helen Keller finally understood the word water and then went on to write a dozen books, tons of articles and travel the world.