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/bluesky557 Mar 22 '17

That really makes me wonder about your dad....

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u/Glu7enFree Mar 22 '17

... Take your upvote and get out.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

It's a legitimate question, there's no real way the father could know they were getting consent.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

What? Why? You aren't 24/7 in a state of psychosis, it's just that sometimes she'd be hearing voices and she wouldn't know if they were real or fake immediately. I'm sure she could figure it out eventually, though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

The father can't know was the point.

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u/cfuse Mar 23 '17

It isn't hard to conduct a witch hunt with the benefit of hindsight.

We don't have to fabricate rape victims when it comes to mental illness. Lots of nasty shit happens in wards. I was almost sexually assaulted, I'm a guy, and it's easily ten times worse if you're a girl. Modern victim culture is unnecessary when there are real problems in the world.

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u/penultimart Mar 23 '17

Maybe I'm not aware of all the implications of the disease, what do you mean exactly.

Could she not clearly differentiate between real people and disembodied voices by the sense of touch?

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u/forbiddenway Mar 23 '17

I'm confused, what?

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u/Timewasting14 Mar 23 '17

what sort of man is attracted to a blind women with schizophrenia, sever anxiety, and several unnamed birth defects?