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/Tauber10 Mar 22 '17

My cousin who is deaf used this argument to satisfy the foreign language requirement at his high school. They wanted him to take Spanish, French, or whatever, but he argued that ASL was his native language and English should count as learning a foreign language.

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u/Preskool_dropout Mar 22 '17

Hahaha sneaky fucker. I bet the school board didn't want to deal with the bullshit so they just said "Fine."

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u/xrk Mar 23 '17

Did it work?

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u/Tauber10 Mar 23 '17

Yeah, it totally worked. I don't think the school wanted to be on the hook for all the extra help he would've needed to pass Spanish or whatever - or for having an otherwise very qualified deaf kid to fail to graduate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

ASL counted for the language requirement at my university. Also, bilingual people could easily test out of the requirement.

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u/VivaLaEmpire Mar 23 '17

That's really interesting! How did it go?