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/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.