Deaf People

[potterfan3]

How does someone who has always been deaf think? If you are english you think in english, if you are french you think in french. Do deaf people visulise a pair of hands in their head or something? (I know this is a stupid question)

[hopalong]

Why don't you ask a deaf person?

[potterfan3]

because I don't know any and even if I did I don't know sign langague

[mycats]

It's not a stupid question potterfan! I asked a question ages ago about people who are deaf AND blind, because I could not get my head around how people managed to teach them to comminicate, still cant understand lol

[ludwig]

yeah, why don't you ask a deaf person - don't you realise deaf people never use the internet, so it's pointless asking the question on here.

[turboped]

Isn't it funny that some people have perfect hearing and yet they are deaf. And also deaf people hear more than most.

[smudge]

Why wouldn't deaf people use the internet then ludwig?

My nephew does!

[ludwig]

smudge - of course they do. That was my point. Aimed at hopalong's unnecessarily curt reply really, no offence intended.

[Space]

thinking and language are different things. You don't need words to think.

[smudge]

Okey, dokey ludwig, no offence taken. ;o}

I did wonder if it was meant for hopalong!!!!

[noxlumos]

Just had a word with my son Danny whose deaf, who looked at me as if I was mad and said he "just thinks", presumeably like everyone else.He sees no difference in the way a deaf person thinks and a hearing person. He reads English, Irish and some French and German and he signs but informs me that signing varies extensively amongst the deaf community and that it's far harder to understand sign language if you can't see the person's face whose talking.When say the tone of someone's voice is expressed in a book he says he generalises that to be more like texture of their personality so he has something he can relate to, but to him thought is the same as hearing people and so is language, he just can't "hear" words but he understands their meanings in the same way.Hope this helps, it's a bit garbled.Lol