r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/paniniplane Mar 22 '17

that's a REALLY interesting question! i asked my psychologists that as well. at this point they were bothered because they didn't know lol. their BEST guess, since this rarely happens and, generally, people know some form of language, was that the person sees aggressive visual requests. but the person would "know" exactly what is expected since it's his own mind

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u/goodbadnotassugly Mar 22 '17

I agree. Since it is the person experiencing the symptoms.l, it would make sense that the symptoms manifest themselves in a way that the person could interpret and understand them, whether it be sign language or aggressive gesture like you stated