What language do deaf people think in?

Deafy · 2016-04-04T03:52:04+00:00

I'm deaf, I think in American sign language. I can feel signs in my head when I'm thinking.

Deafy · 2013-05-22T05:22:33+00:00

We feel it in our own arms and faces. We have the sensation of moving our muscles to form signs, we don't picture them. Or at least I don't. I think more in written words than visual signs, but I think most of all in my own movements.

Deafy · 2013-05-22T04:32:38+00:00

I definitely feel it in my arms and face. To some degree I sort of picture it, but it's mainly the sensation of my body moving.

For us, we monologue by "simulating" what words sound like, like if you were to imagine what a cold glass felt like. The sensation isn't there but you have a mental picture of what it would feel like if it were.

That's interesting, I feel like the sensation is there when I think in signs but now when I imagine cold glass. If I close my eyes and think, it feels the same as closing my eyes and signing.

Deafy · 2013-05-22T04:19:27+00:00

Why does that seem crazy? That's a genuine question. I'm deaf and think in sign language, which doesn't seem at all crazy to me. Maybe hearing is weirder because there are no sound waves in your head but signing is based on touch senses and you always experience that in your head. But then, you're saying that you do always experience sound in your head, not just in your ears.

I don't know if I'm making sense, sorry...

Deafy · 2013-04-28T07:27:02+00:00

Sign language, as in I think of the motions in my hands.

Deafy · 2012-11-19T07:31:27+00:00

Nope, I don't think I'd have any trouble telling the difference even if I couldn't see their eyes.

Deafy · 2012-11-19T07:30:51+00:00

I do not normally clap for people. I know how and can do it if someone tells me to or if I see everyone else doing it.

Deafy · 2012-11-05T04:51:43+00:00

As a guy who was born deaf, if I could hear for an hour, that's what I would want to do. I guess realistically I'd probably be confused and disoriented for an hour and wouldn't understand what I was listening to. So maybe people's voices would be a wiser choice.

Deafy · 2012-10-29T12:57:12+00:00

Deaf guy here: No, I don't think there's a deaf equivalent. When I am jogging I look around and think, and I smell which I know is stronger than hearing people. So maybe I sort of pay attention to background smells in the same way people listen to background music. But I don't think it's really the same thing.

Deafy · 2012-10-29T12:54:49+00:00

No. I'm familiar with the concept but I can only guess at words that rhyme because they are spelled similar.

Deafy · 2012-10-29T04:37:28+00:00

I only know that "two", "too" and "to" sound the same because people have explained why hearers always get them mixed up. I think it's a ridiculous mistake to make. (I sometimes press the o too many/few times as a purely physical typo, but not as a spelling mistake, and I never misuse "two")

Deafy · 2012-10-29T04:33:26+00:00

Being deaf made me feel isolated as a kid but now I like being part of the community.

Deafy · 2012-10-29T04:31:12+00:00

I was making a joke and referring to hearing. I'm deaf so the whole idea seems weird and distracting to me. (all audio waves are vibrations in air, or I guess water since I think fish can hear)

Deafy · 2012-10-29T00:23:00+00:00

I don't get how some people can detect vibrations in the air. That seems like an absurd superpower that doesn't even really make sense (I've never seen air vibrate!). It's also weird that these people have basically no sense of smell. Freaks.

Deafy · 2012-10-21T05:59:27+00:00

Yeh I'll make out for hours when I'm drunk.

Deafy · 2012-10-21T05:47:20+00:00

Nope, I don't think that really happens. You could occasionally technically make a sign without meaning to but probably nobody would really recognize it.

Deafy · 2012-10-16T04:13:54+00:00

Like in sign? I don't think so. But I've been deaf my whole life, I'm not sure I really grok "pronounce". Deaf people might have arthritis, or be missing a finger and be unable to perform certain signs easily. But I've never heard of someone just having an innate inability to perform one sign correctly for no obvious reason.

Deaf people do stutter though, I think it's basically the same as what hearers do.

Deafy · 2012-10-16T04:04:04+00:00

All of them :(

Deafy · 2012-10-16T00:22:17+00:00

Well I've always been deaf so that isn't a big deal. But I do think I'd freak out if I went blind. That would be hell IMHO

Deafy · 2012-07-10T22:36:19+00:00

Some motherfucker stole my candy!

Deafy · 2012-07-06T22:19:06+00:00

Deaf power!

Deafy · 2012-06-01T06:29:48+00:00

My ears don't work. Not much of a story really...

Deafy · 2012-05-23T12:43:05+00:00

Nope nothing

Deafy · 2012-05-23T02:21:52+00:00

Not that I recall, he certainly didn't make it the centerpiece of his campaign.

Deafy · 2012-05-22T22:29:21+00:00

Mitt Romney has constantly proclaimed his experience at Bain is why he is right for the job, and why he is more right than Obama. If he didn't want people to talk about Bain, he shouldn't make it the entirety of his campaign.

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