How Do People Who Have Been Deaf From Birth Think?

[Captain_BluTac]

Okay I know this is bizarre, but how does deaf peoples consciousness work, because I think it's true for most people, my consciousness tends to involve me using words in my head I.E me thinking "I wanna go make a sandwich", but someone who has been deaf from birth will never have developed the same language skills so how do they have the same thoughts or does their physical disability give them a mental disability keeping them in an almost infant state for their entire life?

 

[Omega Wizard]

I think there are a couple deaf people here, maybe they can explain.

I would like to know as well.

 

[Mee]

They have hamsters planted in their brains, with mini-super computers that transmit thoughts and impulses to their brains.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

I think there are a couple deaf people here, maybe they can explain.

I would like to know as well.

So I'm not the only one who wondered.* sigh of relief*

and SAMWELL!

 

[Omega Wizard]

So I'm not the only one who wondered.* sigh of relief*

and SAMWELL!

What what?

 

[Rando Aces]

u bring up a good point.

 

[Shlee]

I know that deaf people obviously learn to read. So I think they think to themselves the same way we do, it's just that maybe the way they pronounce words in their heads is different than the way we do. I could be wrong, however, as I'm not deaf.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

What what?

Should I drag myself down to saying "in the butt" I say okay.

IN THE BUTT!

 

[Captain_BluTac]

I know that deaf people obviously learn to read. So I think they think to themselves the same way we do, it's just that maybe the way they pronounce words in their heads is different than the way we do. I could be wrong, however, as I'm not deaf.

But being deaf they would have no concept of sound, so saying the words to themselves in any manner would be beyond there grasp.

 

[Alex The Great]

They have hamsters planted in their brains, with mini-super computers that transmit thoughts and impulses to their brains.

my entire world has been shattered

 

[Eggyman]

The brain's an amazing thing - if it can't do something one way, it'll try and find another way of doing it. So some of its sensory input doesn't work, so maybe the thought process in visuals?

I was recently reading a book that touched on this subject: Stephen King's The Stand. In it there is a character called Nick Andros who is a deaf mute. There's a passage that touches on whether he'd be able to fully realise a thought if he was unable to put it into words with his pad and pen. Is a thought fully realised without articulation? Well I think that people articulate in different ways, or can do if need be - it's just that we're all so used to doing it in one particular way that other ways seem unlikely or less advantageous to the outcome.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

The brain's an amazing thing - if it can't do something one way, it'll try and find another way of doing it. So some of its sensory input doesn't work, so maybe the thought process in visuals?

I was recently reading a book that touched on this subject: Stephen King's The Stand. In it there is a character called Nick Andros who is a deaf mute. There's a passage that touches on whether he'd be able to fully realise a thought if he was unable to put it into words with his pad and pen. Is a thought fully realised without articulation? Well I think that people articulate in different ways, or can do if need be - it's just that we're all so used to doing it in one particular way that other ways seem unlikely or less advantageous to the outcome.

Well the only other option would be visual, but considering the only way to fully realise an audible thought is to stop listening to everything else, so wouldn't the same be true for a visual thought, the only difference is sight is more vital than hearing making it pretty unpractical.

 

[Alex The Great]

well, he can't listen...so....maybe he can.....

 

[Eggyman]

Yeh, i can't see it being visual actually. I guess they'll just have their own internal language that none of us could describe. Well, maybe some of us. Just not words as we know of them, but similar and to the same ends.

I'm getting confuzzled.

 

[Morg]

Okay I know this is bizarre, but how does deaf peoples consciousness work, because I think it's true for most people, my consciousness tends to involve me using words in my head I.E me thinking "I wanna go make a sandwich", but someone who has been deaf from birth will never have developed the same language skills so how do they have the same thoughts or does their physical disability give them a mental disability keeping them in an almost infant state for their entire life?

I'm deaf and have a voice in my head. A lot of deaf kids/babies learn to 'talk' by sign language so asking for a sandwich means we sign it just not say it and that saying deaf people can't hear sounds is flat wrong, we feel vibrations pretty good. Hell I always stay right next to the speakers in a concert so I can feel the music being played

 

[Morg]

But being deaf they would have no concept of sound, so saying the words to themselves in any manner would be beyond there grasp.

oddly enough deaf people do dream in sounds, I do so we do have some concept for sounds and we can feel the sounds with our hands/fingers

 

[Nirvana]

oddly enough deaf people do dream in sounds, I do so we do have some concept for sounds and we can feel the sounds with our hands/fingers

Oh wow. That is pretty interesting. Learn something new everyday

 

[Eggyman]

Wow that's like the Matrix kinda

But completely different at the same time.

 

[Omega Wizard]

I'm deaf and have a voice in my head. A lot of deaf kids/babies learn to 'talk' by sign language so asking for a sandwich means we sign it just not say it and that saying deaf people can't hear sounds is flat wrong, we feel vibrations pretty good. Hell I always stay right next to the speakers in a concert so I can feel the music being played

Why would you go to a concert if your deaf?

I know you can feel vibrations, but what about lyrics?

 

[Morg]

Why would you go to a concert if your deaf?

I know you can feel vibrations, but what about lyrics?

what about them? I can read lips and mlost of the time I know the lyrics to the songs, most of the mods know I'm a LeAnn Rimes fan and been to several of her concerts.
Deaf people like to 'hear' music, we may not always hear it fully as hearing people but we do appreciate it

 

[Carcharodon]

You guys are blowing my ****ing mind right now. This was definitely the wrong thread to come into completely stoned.

 

[The Geek Vault]

Where's Speedball? I thought he mentioned his boyfriend being deaf. But I have a Sign Language teacher who is deaf. I could try asking her this?

 

[Morg]

Where's Speedball? I thought he mentioned his boyfriend being deaf. But I have a Sign Language teacher who is deaf. I could try asking her this?

I'm deaf too

 

[Eddie Brock]

I'd rather know how blind people dream.

 

[The Geek Vault]

I'm deaf too

Were you born deaf?