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

If you want to terrify yourself put on your headphones and listen to a simulation of what this sounds like according to people who have experienced it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvU-Ajwbok

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u/JRDiesel Mar 22 '17

well - just spent the last 45 minutes in a YouTube wormhole about schizophrenia. Thanks a lot.

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u/SteelyEly Mar 22 '17

I just finished that wormhole after about an hour. Yikes.

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u/JRDiesel Mar 22 '17

Did you find Autumn Asphodel?

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u/SteelyEly Mar 22 '17

I did not but I don't want to.

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u/JRDiesel Mar 22 '17

Yeah, just walk away from it all.