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18 Jun 2014, 10:57 pm

I am a hearing person, and when I think, I sense myself using a voice in my head, and I imagine various visual things.

If you are deaf and were born that way or can't remember a time when you experienced hearing, what are you thoughts like? I hear, so I imagine things being heard, so do you imagine things being signed? Do you imagine things typed/written? I assume for a lot of things, you can just visualize the image of things, but for things like abstract nouns and adjectives, do you think of them in signs?


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18 Jun 2014, 11:44 pm

Considering as how we are capable of communicating with deaf people through sign language and understand each other I would say their thoughts are just like ours. I would be more curious as to how blind people think, particularly about how the rest of humanity immerses itself in racism, bigotry and every other form of self degradation. Do deaf and blind people experience racism? If so, whoever is teaching them things like that should be imprisoned for life for crimes against humanity



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19 Jun 2014, 12:11 am

I was meaning how they just think to themselves in their heads. I have an inner voice. Deaf people don't hear voices. What do they do to think?


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19 Jun 2014, 12:15 am

When I think, I default to thinking in English. If I'm in a particularly strange mood, though, I don't even bother with trying to put words to my thoughts. I just understand. The thoughts that you're putting to a language are already there, and you already understand them if you're trying to turn them into speech.

Pretty sure it's just a social conditioning that we have to run thoughts through the speech centers of the brain.



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20 Jun 2014, 12:26 am

Deaf people still feel the sound vibrations I think, would be interesting to know what it would be like.



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20 Jun 2014, 12:29 am

rapidroy wrote:
Deaf people still feel the sound vibrations I think, would be interesting to know what it would be like.


As close as you can get is a good pair of earplugs and quality noise cancelling headphones. Best in darkness. I love silence but I don't know that I would want to be deaf, even as much as I dislike hearing the noise human beings create with their voices and devices.



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20 Jun 2014, 1:49 am

khaoz wrote:
Considering as how we are capable of communicating with deaf people through sign language and understand each other I would say their thoughts are just like ours. I would be more curious as to how blind people think, particularly about how the rest of humanity immerses itself in racism, bigotry and every other form of self degradation. Do deaf and blind people experience racism? If so, whoever is teaching them things like that should be imprisoned for life for crimes against humanity


Your comment on blind people and racism brought to mind that piece on The Chappelle show, where Chappelle plays a blind black man who doesn't know he's black (because he's blind and everyone else couldn't bring themselves to tell him he was black) and is a leading very popular member of the KKK!


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20 Jun 2014, 1:53 am

thats pretty funny. I remember seeing that before



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24 Jun 2014, 10:09 pm

We can't understand what we can't imagine. I have a similar question though. How do blind people know when they are done wiping their butts?


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27 Jun 2014, 3:38 pm

Azereiah wrote:
The thoughts that you're putting to a language are already there, and you already understand them if you're trying to turn them into speech.


This.