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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
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?
???
My 18 year old cat has gone deaf over the past year and I still tell her I love her. I also tell her to fuck off when she gets on the table and tries to eat from our plates but she no can hear.
She can probably still feel the vibrations if you’re close enough or loud enough. She might just ignore you when she’s stealing your food though.
The saddest thing about one of my old dogs going deaf was that she stopped doing this characteristic playful “bark.” It wasn’t really a bark, more of a cute little howl that came out sounding like, “Roooooo.” I used to “talk” with her by making that sound and she’d “roo” back at me. But when she lost her sense of hearing, she couldn’t respond to my “roo” anymore and stopped making the sound entirely. :(
