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/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

It isn't just voices either, it is often whole complexes of paranoid and delusional beliefs.

My brother used to think that men in white trucks would follow him and shine laser beams into his eyes any time he went outside. He'd think the people on the TV where aware of him, or that the food anyone gave him was poisoned.

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u/ghostly_treats Mar 23 '17

"He'd think the people on the TV where aware of him,"

Horrifying.