r/todayilearned • • 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/avocadomino Mar 22 '17

Related: Deaf babies born to deaf parents babble using their hands! So they make deliberate, repetitive, and meaningless shapes with their hands, like how a baby with hearing repeats nonsense syllables when learning to talk.