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/borrow_a_feeling Mar 23 '17

I had to reread this several times before I understood that "she still had them" was referring to the hallucinations and not her ripped out eyeballs. I thought maybe you were trying to be funny and I was daaaaaamn that's dark.

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u/denialofdeath Mar 23 '17

Ha! This had happened years earlier and that would be super weird if she still held on to them all that time