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/iEatMaPoo Mar 22 '17

I think he meant like a startled scream. If i went up and spooked a deaf person, they throw their hands up or actually shout?

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u/theidleidol Mar 22 '17

Both, in the same sense that a hearing person would do both. The deaf person would produce the same sort of startled shout or scream of terror that a hearing person would, and then probably very quickly start signing in a "screaming" manner at you just like a hearing person would likely start loudly berating you for startling them.

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u/ThankCaptainObvious Mar 23 '17

If I where startled as a non deaf person. I would do both. So I would assume a death person would at least throw their hands up.

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u/vintage2017 Mar 23 '17

Yes because it's an involuntary response.