I once saw a deaf patient fingerspelling off to the side to “feel out” the word they were trying to write the same way you might “sound out” a word. Blew my mind. Also the time we had a schizophrenic where the translator couldn’t make heads or tails of their signing so we tried BSL etc with similar results but eventually they got medicated and it turned out it was ASL just the ASL version of “word salad” (common symptom of psychosis). Like I know it’s just a language like any other but it’s always cool to see the different ways it can manifest the same functions and dysfunctions.
I have known a some deaf people and from what they and their family told me, mos of them thought on images until they learned some kind of language.
Am I taking a meme to serious? Perhaps lol
I once saw a deaf patient fingerspelling off to the side to “feel out” the word they were trying to write the same way you might “sound out” a word. Blew my mind. Also the time we had a schizophrenic where the translator couldn’t make heads or tails of their signing so we tried BSL etc with similar results but eventually they got medicated and it turned out it was ASL just the ASL version of “word salad” (common symptom of psychosis). Like I know it’s just a language like any other but it’s always cool to see the different ways it can manifest the same functions and dysfunctions.
No, this is actually a really interesting topic regarding cognitive development, neuroscience, and ‘what even is consciousness?’
Like, apparently, around a 1/3 to 1/2 of ‘normal’ people… don’t have an inner monologue.
They don’t have an experience of their own inner thoughts as … semantic sentences, an inner voice.
Presumably, such people would literally not be capable of thinking in detail about what they say, before they say it.
Or, maybe there is some… other kind of inner langauge of some other form?
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