Deaf girl hears her voice for the first time.

Musashi said:
1. would hit.

2. when people who are deaf suddenly get to hear, they go crazy over the slightest sounds, such as a whirring fan. We've had hearing all our lives and have learned since childhood to filter out sounds and focus our hearing. They have no filtering mechanism in their brain so everything comes at them in a rush. Some cope, others can't. I hope she copes.

3. would definitely hit.
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Yeah we take for granted the sounds around us and have learned to tune them out...
What interests me is that most of us can hear our own voice in our thoughts, we dream with voices and sounds, we can even conjure up the voices of people we know or have heard when thinking, deaf people don't, as far as I know that portion of language processing doesn't happen for them.

It would be weird to all of a sudden think in sound.




:spineyes:
 
jammonbond said:
so how exactly do deaf people think?
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In thoughts? Do you think of the word "B I R D" when you read "bird"? Or do you have a subtle image of a bird of some sort in your head?

That's a thought, and it has very little to do with your capacity for language except in relaying it to others.
 
but if your counting the numbers of windows on an office building for example - you'll say each number in your head.

with people born deaf they'll usually sign the numbers in their head.
 
Wowbagger said:
The same why a lot of us do already: visually and symbolically.
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yes but what I was getting at...

when you read do you sort of 'hear' the words in your head
If it's like a novel you read it sort of out loud in your head and hear your own voice and make up your own images of what these characters look like. If it's a novel of a movie you have seen then you sort of hear and see the actors.

when you think of someone you know and you think of something they said you almost 'hear' them saying the words in your head instead of your own voice saying them.


I good deal of my thinking processes involve both 'movies' in my head and my own or other voices I have heard. (no, not like schizophrenic voices)

I was just wondering what it would be like to live in a brain that had never heard a sound and only relied on the other senses to form thoughts.

:spineyes:
 
Evidently in speed reading you're not supposed to 'recite' the words in your mind as you read, so I presume deaf folks could read like that with the same positive result as those with hearing. I'm just wondering how much of a pain in the ass it was to A. Find a tattoo artist who knows ASL, or B. How tedious it was translating said sign language to describe/discuss what she was gonna get tattooed.
 
MaxxCarnage said:
Evidently in speed reading you're not supposed to 'recite' the words in your mind as you read, so I presume deaf folks could read like that with the same positive result as those with hearing. I'm just wondering how much of a pain in the ass it was to A. Find a tattoo artist who knows ASL, or B. How tedious it was translating said sign language to describe/discuss what she was gonna get tattooed.
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Or should could have drawn it and gave it to the artist and pointed at her arm.
 
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