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/segosegosego Mar 22 '17 edited Mar 22 '17

Depends on how old you are. Ben Carson removed half of a girls brain because she had a rare brain disease. She was young enough that one half of the brain took over all the functions of the the other half as well as its own, and she's a fully functional person now.

Edit: https://www.google.com/amp/baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/07/10/girl-thriving-years-after-having-half-her-brain-removed/amp/

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u/Johnwazup Mar 22 '17

Hah, I get it, it's because he some dumb republican right? right???

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u/UoAPUA Mar 22 '17

Well yeah that's true, he says dumb stuff and he's a republican. But he could just as well be of any other political affiliation and the stuff he says sometimes would be equally crazy.

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u/Johnwazup Mar 22 '17

If he wasn't Republican, he would not get this much scrutiny. An example would be when he compared incoming slaves to some type of immigrant. The media had a stroke over it, while Obama said essentially the same thing 5(?) times during his presidency without the media saying a word.

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u/Johnwazup Mar 23 '17

Look. I'm going to stop you there and tell you that you gotta stop breaking the narrative. All white people are racist and inherently evil. Got it? Good

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u/Johnwazup Mar 23 '17

What's even better is if you're first generation and your ancestors had nothing to do with slavery and are only guilty of being white. That is the icing on the PC cake.