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The book Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law is written by Haben Girma. Deafblindness spans a spectrum of vision and hearing loss, from the man who squints at conversations signed three feet from his face, to the woman who taps the pavement with her white cane as she scans the sounds of traffic through her headphones. I was born deafblind. At twelve years old he could walk into a room and see the blurred silhouette of a person sitting on top of the elongated, blurred shape of a sofa. That image fades more and more each year.Now walking into a room is like walking into an abstract painting of blurred formations and splashes of color. Communities designed with only one type of person in mind isolate those of us who defy their narrow definition of personality. This book takes...