How do deaf people think...?

Discussion in 'Mind Games' started by KatMil, Jul 22, 2014.

  1. KatMil

    KatMil Guest

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    My teenage daughter actually asked me this.... If someone is born deaf, how do they think? Or blind people for that matter..... How do blind people dream..??? I'm talking again about people who were born blind.....
     
  2. AceK

    AceK Scientia Potentia Est

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    I'm sure they think conceptually
     
  3. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    in spacial relationships and conceptual graphics, just like i do.
    the idea that you need words to think is nonsense.
     
  4. TooReal

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    Deaf people think and calculate and comprehend in the same manner all people do....we use visual and sensory data to represent thought.

    If a person is Blind....and always has been....we know know and have developed special clicking Echo Location as the Human Brain modifies itself as a form of sonar.

    TooReal
     
  5. TheGhost

    TheGhost Auuhhhhmm ...

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    I cringe at the thought of what you might have told your daughter.
     
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  6. pensfan13

    pensfan13 Senior Member

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    Deaf people learn to 'speak' in sign language just like anyone learns to speak their native language.
     
  7. KatMil

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    Haha! I told her that I can't be totally sure but they probably think in pictures and feelings :p No need to cringe :D
     
  8. ~Zen~

    ~Zen~ Ancient Mariner Administrator

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    Weird...!
     
  9. AceK

    AceK Scientia Potentia Est

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    sometimes i dont think in words, nor images .. just ideas
     
  10. SpacemanSpiff

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    it's probably easier for them to think without all this stupid noise we hearing people are cursed with.
     
  11. -Yggdrasil-

    -Yggdrasil- Einherjar

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    I'm not certain, but I think deaf and blind people still possess the human brain. I think.
     
  12. I'minmyunderwear

    I'minmyunderwear Newbie

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    deaf people don't think. they operate entirely based on instinct.
     
  13. thedope

    thedope glad attention Lifetime Supporter

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    in silence
     
  14. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    i don't know what paget was on, but words really have absolutely nothing to do with thinking. you don't absolutely need visual images either. the mind forms its own internal symbols and their connections, sequences and relations between them. we only thing we thing in words or visual symbols, because we use words to communicate our thoughts with others.
     
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