Now that you know how deaf people think check out this video and find out How the Blind Dream: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dXqWtrudoJWyZMY.html

@thejoshmes258

5 жыл бұрын

We think like you we have a voice in our heads I don't need to express it if it's in my head because I am not I'm not another person and my reading age is excellent I'm 12 yet my reading age is 16

@HyperionaSilverleaf

5 жыл бұрын

Most of mine are visual, but since I do hear some I do narrate and monologue.

@technowey

5 жыл бұрын

Today I Found Out - Thank you for your great videos.

@preshisify

5 жыл бұрын

finally! thank you 🤗☕

@preshisify

5 жыл бұрын

now... I've heard and read that animals think in a series of photographs? 🤔 maybe another video? 🤗☕

Bonus Fact: It is now recommended to use basic sign language with infants, as it had been shown that it helps them communicate earlier. They can sign simple words, like milk, food, more, up, all done or help before they can speak them. This gives the Infant a means to express their basic needs at a very early age, resulting in much less frustration for all. Bonus Fact 2: Babies born to deaf parents have been shown to babble in sign language! They move their hands in ways not typical of babies of speaking parents, mimicking in a general sense their parents hand motions, even if the babies themselves are not deaf!

@DankoleClouds

7 жыл бұрын

Denis Ryan Thanks for this. My girlfriend is having a little baby girl in the next few weeks and I'm wanting to teach her sign language. I don't know much sign language yet, though. I'm hoping to learn online or take some classes.

@alienmechanic8696

7 жыл бұрын

elefant

@msjkramey

7 жыл бұрын

Denis Ryan I didn't know about the babbling! That is so, so sweet

@christopherscottb

7 жыл бұрын

Wow. Both extremely interesting. Thanks for those.

@colorbugoriginals4457

7 жыл бұрын

One of my sons is Autistic and was non-verbal the first few years of his life, he did not even say "mama." He would get frustrated not being able to express himself. So I started teaching him signs, since I learned ASL as a teenager, and it completely changed everything for him, he could tell us what was wrong, what he wanted or needed, and so forth. Imagine not being able to express these things even if your mind is fully functional, and it is not hard to understand why kids like that can have such violent meltdowns, it would drive anyone to the brink.

Hi. I'm Deaf. I have an answer. I think in either ASL (American Sign Language) or images.

@Nadia-rq9em

5 жыл бұрын

iNoahASL so if you are like in an ice cream shop ad you’re debating which flavor to get so you see the words (or signs) in your head or is there some other way?

@marccolten9801

5 жыл бұрын

Makes me think. I can hear so I hear words in my head. So what are the signs for "Kill them. Kill them all"?

@julrofe

5 жыл бұрын

How fast do the signs / images flash in your mind? Do you find you're quicker or slower at thinking than others who can hear?

@martinszmidt6121

5 жыл бұрын

so if you're deaf how did you hear what he said? checkmate t. atheist

@valerune192

5 жыл бұрын

Ive heard theres people that cant see pictures in their head. I wonder if deaf ppl that has this condition as well. How they think o-o

Omg I thought this was a joke... I had my Bluetooth speaker hooked up in the living room so no sounds were coming out of my phone. I thought it was a silent video to show how deaf people think

@josh88113

5 жыл бұрын

David Schartung I’m so glad you shared that lol.

@jamescarter3196

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao, I love moments like that!

@factsandstuff2832

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@SapeTuna8

5 жыл бұрын

lmao

@icecoldchilipreppers

5 жыл бұрын

Lololol

I'm the father of two deaf children. I was partly expecting to hear some inaccurate information in this video, because that's the internet, but I didn't. Everything you said about the benefits of sign language is spot on. We're going through this right now. Our two kids have cochlear implants, and we had been going about the oralist method. But now that our son has started school, we've realized that it's failed us. He is 4 and a half, and we can't even ask him his favourite colour. He just doesn't comprehend the question. We always dabbled with sign language, but now we're making a concerted effort to learn and teach them. In just the few months we've been doing this, we've been astonished by how fast they pick it up, and more so by how signs turn into speech! It's incredible. This summer, we're moving closer to a school for the deaf so our son can go there.

@jendjoyce

3 жыл бұрын

I'm slightly hard of hearing and been in the Deaf community for awhile. Yep, I agree. I was ready to be pissed, but gave him a shot. This was fair.

@pinkyslink84

Жыл бұрын

Z

please add CC. I very much want to share this with my wife who is profoundly deaf. but I cannot rely on the auto generated captioning to properly convey the information.

@oliveartistic4708

5 жыл бұрын

Its working fine to me

@normalguycraig

4 жыл бұрын

They added them now! Enjoy sharing this with your wife

@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828

3 жыл бұрын

aetherseraph Just in case, they added them

@ham1847

3 жыл бұрын

LETS GOOOOOOOO

@JordanPeterson.

2 жыл бұрын

The added them my nega

I am profoundly deaf and think in visual words and sometimes visual imagery. I use ASL (American Sign Language) and I can write/read English. I rarely use my voice to speak because I dislike speaking. It doesn't feel very natural to try to talk and I am comfortable using sign language because it's visual. I can't hear so it's natural to depend on my eyes for information I need to acquire through sign language, facial expressions, behaviors. When I am around hearing people, I use paper/pen to communicate or if available, chat programs or email like at work.

@jessicaolson490

5 жыл бұрын

Gw2 ftw. I also think in concept, vissually, and ad sensation with it being processed into English more like a second language. (I can hear though.) I always found sign language to be easier to grasp than spoken words.

@ikki-gaming8933

5 жыл бұрын

Thinking in visual words is a very clever thing.

@whiskylaplic7172

5 жыл бұрын

Hello there! I have some questions that i would like to ask you because i never met a deaf. 1. How can you exactly Know how to pronounce words? 2. Is it harder to learn grammar? (I saw a comment of a deaf and he couldn't speak properly and his name was English) 3.If you think with visual words or images, do you think kinda slower??? 4. Have you tried thinking with voices (like forcing your brain to create a voice of ur mind)??? If you respond to this comment i will be very thankful!

@barbarahouk1983

5 жыл бұрын

Voxann, I do not have two requirements to read sign language. This is bc sadly as an infant mother lost her breast milk and it was replaced with formula that he’d no iron in it. This was an error of ignorance in 1955. #1 requirement is speed of eye scanning/compression. Essentially I see much slower than the average person. #2 requirement is a retention buffer before going into long term memory. This is not the conscious working buffer that is 7+\- 2 spaces. First a typist reads a section of text and it is held in the working buffer. This secondary buffer is what a typist loads from the working buffer, then while the typist begins to type that section, s/he is reading the next section. I do not have the secondary buffer. This prevents me from typing any better than letters and spaces (exactly what is in working buffer and it cannot be rearranged). It prevents me from adding any shading to music. I did learn to write although it took forever and actual physical manipulation of my hand. Yes it is slow and I still have to monitor every letter. This did not keep me from becoming a physician with the speciality psychiatrist. Reading sign language requires more than just the hands. I have difficulty in facial reading (I am an undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome individual too). I love languages and have studied several. I am bilingual, German being my successful 2nd language. I dream in German. My spouse states in my sleep I can be talking in German, French or my native language English. For my deaf patients I insisted on a translator bc I needed to know what the individual thought. I knew my patients were far more comfortable speaking in a language they knew, just like any other of my patients that had a language I did not speak. Psychiatry uses psychotherapy and dangerous medicine. Communication is essential I think.

@hankbridges5055

5 жыл бұрын

So, why are you commenting on this video if you're deaf? Are you reading the comments only?

Thank you! My best friend is deaf and I have severe tinnitus and it's nice to see ACCURATE information about deaf people

As a deaf person in a hearing family, along with other factors, I retreated to literature. For many years my inner voice was closer to an inner literary monologue where the words appeared physically in my dreams. Not in thought or speech bubbles, but as actual objects that also reflected their emotional meaning to me, IE bullies words would form and often 'felt' painful as much as the words had in reality.

Now I want to know how blind people dream

@SmokesOnMe

7 жыл бұрын

Zachary Warnock probably hear things in their sleep if they were born blind. I'd guess that people who go blind would still be able to visualize things, but I wonder if your brain would phase that out over time.

@chillermiller3565

7 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, If you go blind later in your life the amount of visual information in your dreams is based upon how much you think about visual stimuli, how much visual memories you had before you went blind and for how long you have been blind.

@longforgotten4823

7 жыл бұрын

chiller miller well, I am blind. I will attest to the fact that those who are born blind do not have a concept of what light or colors are. However, my blindness got worse over the years and I can say that I have vivid dreams that can sometimes be more clear than my site is.

@njdotson

7 жыл бұрын

then how did you even read that comment?

@SmokesOnMe

7 жыл бұрын

Long Forgotten Checkmate "blind" guy. Lol jk

Simon, could you do a video about the etymology of when people started calling lovers "baby" and why?

@lovelove-jx9qt

7 жыл бұрын

yeeeesssss

@MacCoalieCoalson

7 жыл бұрын

jjramos46 pedophiles, simply.

@RickyVWorld

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe because babies are cute, so is your spouse (but in different ways) but you still refer to them as cute or a baby because it's cute, like babies (not that I think babies are cute, they look like frogs)

@KOTEBANAROT

7 жыл бұрын

frogs ARE cute tho... babies look like pink potatoes

@carolynmmitchell2240

6 жыл бұрын

it me what about black babies?

Deaf people dreams be like 🙌💪👆☝👋👉✌👈👈👇👍👎🖕👐✌✊👌👋👏👊👉🤜🤘👉👏🤜🖕👋🤘🤘👈👐🤙🤞✋✌✊👇👋🖕🤜🤛🤝🤚🖖👌🤞🖐🤘🤝🖖👋👏👈🖐🤚🤝🤙👐👏👋👉🤘👈👇👌🤜🤛👐☝👊✌👈🤞🤜🖕👐👋👈🖖👉🤙🤞👋

@DavidBrent2003

3 жыл бұрын

Bro they can still think in images 😂. A blind person's dream would be fascinating, however.

Deaf person: (getting angry about something) (mental sign laNgUAGE INTENSIFIES)

@jessicaolson490

5 жыл бұрын

Increased intensity comes with body language and facial expressions so yeah, not hard to picture. :P

@ceez4reez735

5 жыл бұрын

@@jessicaolson490 But like when you are cursing off someone (offensive mental sign laNgUAGE INTENSIFIES)

@AckSnus

2 жыл бұрын

@@ceez4reez735 I wonder if the scene from Spiderman 2002 is perticulary funny for deaf people… The scene on the roof when he tries to figure out what hand sign triggers the webb to cum out ”flyyy” (squeezes it just right) ”AAAAAAAH”

I've typed as a medical transcriptionist for over 30 years. I find myself typing conversations in my mind while listening, really odd

@shaun_rambaran

5 жыл бұрын

That's _really_ interesting!

@DasAntiNaziBroetchen

5 жыл бұрын

Are you the typewriter guy from the anime "Monster"?

@AckSnus

2 жыл бұрын

@@DasAntiNaziBroetchen I wish she would look it up and answer back, that reference is novel.

Man i love this channel so much! Just the facts and no messing. Doesn't treat everyone like idiots but explains everything in the greatest possible detail, while remaining interesting and engaging and not rambling on to make the video longer. maybe even my favourite channel right now!

@TodayIFoundOut

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@beepthemeep12

5 жыл бұрын

This vsauce/dong and curious droid are my 3 fave channels

My father in law has been deaf from birth. He can talk mostly normal besides the "deaf accent". He is now a manager of a walmart store and a very intelligent individual. The amazing thing is he dreams in sign, where everyone signs everything they say.

I knew a woman who was born deaf and also had schizophrenia. When she would self talk, she would use sign language with her hands to her sides.

do animals have different languages like dogs from France can't understand dogs from Spain

@pluransart1795

7 жыл бұрын

orio jules is that a fact?

@MadameRaven1

7 жыл бұрын

Vacso Kagazzle Laloobay Hoophorn Wacago Seiliu I think it was a question.

@rebeccamorgan4011

7 жыл бұрын

orio jules I don't know about that but I've heard that cows have regional accents.

@thoughtyness

7 жыл бұрын

orio jules I've never heard of that. I've only heard of dogs not being able to take commands from a person in a different language.

@AlexsAmazingIpad

7 жыл бұрын

Animals don't tend to have any kind of intelligent language whatsoever, they just pick up on signals from others based on body language or simple noises e.g. growling being an 'aggressive' sound, accompanying aggressive body language. Therefore dogs and other animals from all over the world should be able to 'understand' each other because their 'languages' are more behavioural (which is unlikely to differ massively region to region) than speech related. It's possible more intelligent animals like chimps could have primitive forms of language but nothing on the scale of human language where specific sounds correspond to specific 'words'.

I have read that deaf babies who are signed to from an early age are able to sign back appropriate answers earlier than hearing children learn to talk. Signing is apparently easier to learn at a very young age than speaking coherently. So it's like they learn their language younger than average or 'normal' babies. A hearing child may not be able to answer when you ask them why they are crying or what do they need, but a deaf child can answer it in sign. Some people even teach hearing children how to sign so that they can communicate their needs sooner than they could by speaking. this reduces their frustration. Like you have probably seen babies making babbling in the cadence of speech but it sounds like gibberish, and they get frustrated when you can't understand them- in their brain they know what they want to say , they understand the language, but just can't make the words yet. But their hands can make the signs before their voice can make the words.

Audible should have sponsored this

@crystallyen582

6 жыл бұрын

Soo true..

@beepthemeep12

5 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@mariaelmorsy4280

5 жыл бұрын

That would’ve been ironic..

@pradyunnaik2748

5 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 lol

@richard-gn3es

4 жыл бұрын

Audible with subtitles... a book

I'm deaf and I think in the written language. (3 year update: I completely forgot about this comment and lied lol. I'm not deaf.)

@carolynmmitchell2240

6 жыл бұрын

Morty look into the neurophone you can hear with it

@ashelpeabody7800

6 жыл бұрын

Morty I wish I could write Mandarin or Cantonese! 😀 I bet you've noticed the runic roots in English; imagine using Chinese glyphs in thought? (I actually wish I knew enough mumbo jumbo to shape my OWN rabblebabble lol)

@silverandexact

6 жыл бұрын

Morty well not all Deaf people learn to read and write fluently at an early age. How old were you when you learned how to read in English?

@afreshloafofgarlicbread6307

6 жыл бұрын

Morty Same. I’ve always thought in written text.

@giin97

6 жыл бұрын

Wow... That's trippy, lol.

next question. do blind people dream and how do they think or imagine things

@pluransart1795

7 жыл бұрын

they don't see the shapes of things like we do, but rather feel the shapes

@longforgotten4823

7 жыл бұрын

Vacso Kagazzle Laloobay Hoophorn Wacago Seiliu I am blind. I sometimes have more vivid dreams than what little bit I can see.

@eruyommo

7 жыл бұрын

+Long Forgotten. I suppose you're using a special devise to write here.

@TodayIFoundOut

7 жыл бұрын

Here you go kzread.info/dash/bejne/dXqWtrudoJWyZMY.html

@PongoXBongo

7 жыл бұрын

A "special device"...like a dictation app perhaps? And I would think that blind people could construct mental images of things, based on size, texture, etc. Their brains would render images much like a computer, based on geometric data, rather than displaying photos or playing back a film.

This was more informative than I expected. Well done.

I had long wondered about this. Thanks for the video.

This was awesome! I never thought about the need for an inner voice. It's something I've always taken for granted. I'm glad that educators are heeding the research and not forcing the old method upon those with auditory challenges.

Thinking about this question before watching the video blew my mind... I couldn't think without thinking with words!

Ive asked myself this question for years! Finally an answer!

The thing I like most about your channel is that you cover such a wide variety of subjects.

Thank you for starting a dialogue about the differences of language verses understanding.

Imagine if a deaf person has schizophrenia...all of a sudden they think they heard something and then they realize "oh yeah that's right I can't actually hear"

@Bug_H

7 жыл бұрын

Jason Armstrong I'm guessing they would have more visual hallucinations

@fantasyconnect

7 жыл бұрын

juicy0whoot Nah, it'd be kinaesthesia based hallucination

@man4437

7 жыл бұрын

juicy0whoot They'd see speaking. There would just be someone signing at them.

@quidnick

7 жыл бұрын

What about a deaf and blind schizophrenic.

@1001011011010

7 жыл бұрын

Jason Armstrong I wonder if deaf people get intrusive thoughts.

...let's...let's.... raise a child to think in a computer programming language

@rationalapeman

7 жыл бұрын

Jon Deal print("Hello")

@paytonl3485

6 жыл бұрын

Jon Deal that's actually a pretty good idea lol

@curtisbrown547

6 жыл бұрын

that's a VERY interesting experiment.. I don't know what to think about it ethically... but scientifically it's very very interesting.

@zayanwatchel8780

6 жыл бұрын

Import os Import sys while(True): os.system('start notepad') Fix the caps and run on windows. It's python

@nako2036

6 жыл бұрын

Woah

This sheds some interesting light on the connections between language, thought and consciousness.

I knew language was important but this just filled in the gaps in my knowledge in about 6 minutes. Excellent stuff. Keep up the good work.

As a speech-language pathologist and a hearing impaired person who works with children with hearing impairments, I enjoyed this video very much! Of course, largely due to the success of universal newborn hearing screening programmes in much of the industrialized world and the subsequent cochlear implantation of nearly all of those infants identified as being deaf, fewer and fewer persons develop language absent of speech and sound. Depending on the degree of hearing loss and/or the age of implantation, an individualized blend of sign language, cued speech, and/or oral language therapy/training, with the degree of emphasis on one method or another being driven by the given patient's skills and the like, is now the standard best practice. Would love you guys to do a follow up video on the development of cochlear implant. Thanks! : D

@PongoXBongo

7 жыл бұрын

You're the same person in the same culture, regardless of what your body can or cannot do. If you woke up tomorrow being/not being able to hear, would you suddenly become a different person? Your strengths and limitations do not define you, rather it's how you choose to deal with them that does.

@KristianWontroba

7 жыл бұрын

I was born with typical hearing and lost some of my hearing due to an infection as an adult. I'm not completely deaf by any means. Thus, the term "hearing impaired", which is what I choose to call myself (would you deny me that right?) makes the most sense for me. The children that I work with all have access to hearing via amplification/cochlear implants since a very young age and were born to hearing parents. For their families, the term "hearing impaired" is more accurate and comforting. Naturally, whenever I work with a family or a person who prefers the term Deaf, i.e. where there is a severe/profound hearing loss unaided and/or without implantation, and one/both parents of the child are also Deaf as such and wish to preserve their connection to the Deaf culture, then I use the term Deaf in such a context.

@TheRahsoft

7 жыл бұрын

hearing impaired is a term used by society and sometimes refers to those who are deaf after language acquirement( either by accident or natural causes) Deaf was a derogatory term used to exclude and persecute people. look up hadamar which was a T1 euthanasia program by the nazis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamar_Euthanasia_Centre I was as a child labeled both deaf and hearing impaired because society( or people) were incredibly ignorant and stupid about deafness, so you had to adapt to perceptions. Its up to each person what label they choose for society.

@TheRahsoft

7 жыл бұрын

"Oh god, being deaf is a cultural thing now? " seriously , you need to do some research cultural deaf is a group that the deaf have built up for themselves as many groups have in society based on a shared situation ( religion, race, place or origin etc). Its allows them to give support to each other and a stronger voice in society. this is how they choose to deal with their strengths and limitations and they are better for it.

@dustinsandage9387

7 жыл бұрын

Pongo: language and communication style is inherently an aspect of culture. People with certain sensory impairments will naturally develop an independent culture or subculture based on their means and methods of communication. Similarly a person who simply chooses to learn Sign and become active in that community will also find that they also will be influenced by the unique culture. As to the rest of the comment; in some ways yes... a person with that drastic of a shift in their sensory capacity would very likely find themselves developing in a noticeably different way than they had been previously. Also, your bit of "advice" at the end was simply patronizing. Nobody had asked for nor expressed a need for your advice, least of all someone far more educated and familiar with the topic at hand than you are. Why would you think you understood the situation well enough to "explain" to an expert something about a world he knows intimately?

i am legally deafblind with total deafness and only partial sight. I received a Cochlear Implant at 19 months and think entirely in speech even though I have some knowledge of signing but did not learn those until after i learned oral speech

@johncoleman1930

4 жыл бұрын

I lost my hearing at 3 and I had a similar situation as well!

Ive wondered this for years, thanks!

The most complete presentation on this topic I've seen so far. Thank you for clearing up a lot of myths and fallacies in this topic.

I don't know if you have heard of this, but I caught the end of a news article the other week, where I think, I heard that the UK government is seriously thinking about or making sign language taught compulsory in schools. I've been saying they should for years.

My mind was blown before the video even started

this is so crazy, I've often pondered what blind people dream but never asked myself how deaf people think or go over things in their heads. wow. great shit.

I have always wondered this. Thanks Simon!

you should have put subtitles and an interpreter doing sign with this clip. I'd like to know deaf opinions on this clip, but they can't view it without the translation.

@dingdong475

5 жыл бұрын

KZread captions settings auto generate english when no subtitles have been uplosded. Also this guy flaps his hands way too much. Super annoying.

@DarkAurora2002

5 жыл бұрын

The video has proper subtitles now

@dingdong475

5 жыл бұрын

@@DarkAurora2002 yes but what about his hands?

You should add English subtitles so I can share this video with my deaf friends :)

@suzanneguernier5352

5 жыл бұрын

There is closed caption(cc) it is a function that you can turn on your machine.

So interesting! Thank you for this video!

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for this video!

I am a hearing person and grew up normally, but now I've had a 46 year meditation practice and over the last ten or twelve years it became normal not to think in language first in meditation, and then later just walking around. When not thinking I still understand language, I just don't have an internal monologue going. I also develop memories just fine. I comprehend, I draw conclusions, I make decisions, all without a thought stream. I have a stronger focus on what people are saying because I'm not distracted by my own thoughts. I perceive more accurately because my thinking brain is always going to come up with some conclusion even if it doesn't know what it is talking about! lol. It would be cool if you did a Today I Found Out about the differences in how brains like mine work.

@nida_a_hashmi

8 ай бұрын

I am an educator and few students ( deaf) have approached me for education. I don't know sign language and i am for the first time in my life thinking about how deaf people learn things. Wow 👌 While I was reading your story, I was smiling with tears in my eyes. Thank you for writing about it and adding up a new dimension for my understanding.

@Welsh_Veteran_420_Z

6 ай бұрын

Very interesting, I also have no inner monologue, but I have never had one, just a very strong imagination since childhood. I have become interested in the topic as it seems 10% of population has no inner monologue but I wasn't aware of the ability of people to "transition". The fact that you made the inner voice quiet through meditation is incredible and could be the key to understanding the phenomenon of varied modes of cognition. Interestingly I am well spoken and articulate, but socially awkward I am slow at verbal comprehension but read exceptionally fast There is much speculation out there of "NPC" theory - that people think those with no inner monologue have "no soul" or are unthinking automatons or sociopaths. Funnily enough to my mind only being able to think in language is very narrow.. linear... and *loud*

This was the most interesting thing I've seen on this channel to date. Thanks. This concept begs the question, what role if any does the simplicity/complexity and structure of a language play on human intellectual potential?

I've been wondering about this! Thanks 🙂

Today I Found Out, I am really grateful for this video! Before, my impression about your channel is that it's just for trivial and fun stuff--which is a good thing. But now, I really appreciate your channel more. I really do. These information can really impact and educate the world. God bless you!

"driver for the brains hardware" This reinforces my idea that the language(s) you learn early on influences the way you see the world.

This video made me think if I ever had a kid that was deaf, I would want to fully commit to learning sign language just for him/her. What made me think that I don't know.

It's times like these I am thankful I can hear. I do not like taking my senses for granted.

I work with deaf people in Mexico, and fully agree with everything you explain here. Thank you for expressing everything so clearly!

0:13 - Hold this L bitch

@fantasyconnect

7 жыл бұрын

West Senkovec lol.

@sejason56

7 жыл бұрын

savage

@bobbobbybobberson3829

7 жыл бұрын

She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of in L on her forehead(Shhh).

@tangy1148

7 жыл бұрын

Get your game on go play....

@asgerk4837

7 жыл бұрын

Tangy hey now you're a rockstar

My inner voice sounds like Simon Whistler.

I love this channel. You cover so many interesting topics

Amazingly well done video. I learned so much in just a few minutes. Thank you for taking the time to help hearing folks better understand our deaf community.

Being autistic I don't think in words most of the time. When engaged in verbal language (such as reading, writing, and speaking ehen I am able to) thinking in words does happen but otherwise I think more visually and by feeling. This is not unlike learning a second language, when engaging with someone in your second language you think in that language but otherwise most people think in their first most of the time. English in this case is my second language, really verbal language has always been incredibly difficult to process or understand. An important distinction to made is that between language and communication. All things communicate uses their senses, it what senses they use to communicate that can differ. When it comes to mammals the majority communicate using primarily visually and secondarily verbally. It is not to say thet don't use their other senses to gather information, just they don't use those sense to express information. Perhaps you are thinking you have seen your dog sniff to gather information before. What they are doing if sniffing for pheromones, which humans do the same thing after shaking hands bit this isn't the same thing as expressing information. It is not common to see a communication model not like the one mentioned previously in mammals but some mammals do, such as humans. Humans flip what most mammals do and communicate primarily verbally and secondarily visually. Your commication model is something are born with and language is something you learn. Language is based on communication models, so all human languages you learn with primarily involve verbal components. Usually we don't involve visual communication in our language but rather use the same visual communication across our species and call this body language (which is a poor term as it isn't a language). There are some visual languages (such a sign language) but all of those languages are based upon the use of verbal language and directly translating that into hand singles or otherwise to express thought in the same way you do verbal language. Becuase some visual languages exist, we can and have taught other animals how to "speak" our visual languages, such as Koko the gorilla. We have a hard time learning other species visual languages because unlike ours they don't base their visual languages in a verbal like way. Can other species that share the same communication models communicate with one another. Yes, but not completely. While latin isn't a commication model but rather a language we can latin demonstrate a point. There are languages called romance languages with are based upon latin: spanish, french, portuguese, italian, romanian, etc. While all of the romance languages are different languages, because they are based on the same language they can use those different languages to express thought amongst themselves without having to know the other language but have difficulty expressing increasing complex ideas. Different species that share the same communication model have developed their own languages based on the same model and can express ideas amongst each other but the more complex the idea the harder it is to express it. Just like we can express ideas in english to someone who only understands japanese by using on simple level, but when we share the same language we express even more complex ideas. Why this is important when it come to autistic people is understanding our communication differences. Through my own understanding and experiences with communication as well as speaking to other autistic people it is my understanding that perhaps our communication model is much like other mammals being primarily visual and secondary verbal. Having a different communication model could explain our communication differences and sharing the same communication model as most mammals could explain we understand other mammals alot more easily. When thinking about how I express emotions, my emotes are not naturally my face (a demonstration of primarily using verbal communication up close as having facial emotes aids in verbal communication in a close range to demonstrate subtlety of language) but rather my stims using the rest body. Emoting with your body is something allistic people do to a degree but not much as their face, much like my primary emotes being with my body but there a few natural emotes with my face such as smiling when in uncomfortable situations (which other primates also use to demonstrate aggression and ward off others) but there a few stims I also do using my face but not as many.

@barrytheiguana675

4 жыл бұрын

Okay but you’re still scared of lightning

What about people who are blind and deaf? How do they think?

@Bananer

6 жыл бұрын

Lol that's true. Do they even know what they are?

@daemonCaptrix

6 жыл бұрын

Why don't you ask them?

@Petra44YT

6 жыл бұрын

Helen Keller wrote that she felt she was "slipping away" - until "Teacher" managed to make her understand the concept of language. Then, she did well and even graduated from college.

@somemusician3832

6 жыл бұрын

Tactile sign language

@carlhartwell7978

5 жыл бұрын

I'd imagine they think in braile, providing they had learned it.

Fascinating topic. Have always heard deafness impacts individual’s quality of life more than blindness, but until this video never understood why. Thank you for this!

I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT ABOUT THIS THANK YOU SO MUCH

We have up our memory for language. --Vsauce

I think mostly in pictures, so this question is very weird to me.

@funguseater3602

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Dee that’s weird af

@RobWright1981

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, me too. I never say words in my head.

@DinosaurNick

3 жыл бұрын

i hear my own voice in my head when thinking, or if i'm thinking of something someone else said or might say i hear it in their voice

by far one of the best videos on this channel

excellent and spot on. My daughter has a hearing loss and I am so glad she learned sign as well as spoken language.

Am I the only one that thinks Simon used to smile more and be more enthusiastic (than he currently is)...?

@_Piers_

7 жыл бұрын

Mrinmoy Dalal Brexit!

@JG-fg1ye

7 жыл бұрын

everyone has an off day, sure he'll bounce back next vid

@carolynmmitchell2240

6 жыл бұрын

he's on heroin, look in his how it's made video he has a bandaid covering his track marks.. why you think he always wear long sleeves normally?

I'm constantly hit with info I didn't even know I wanted, but always end up mad happy to have it. That's why I rock with this channel. Sometimes I've caught sketchy info. But it's usually not main points. Regardless, it's always a solid idea to check it out for yourself afterwards anyway! ✌ I actually started learning some ASL from an aunt who's mother or sister was deaf. Never figured it would be all that useful but still was curious. Picked up a little more from a woman I know who teaches "special needs" kids (yep, still called that here) and it's been mad useful on many occasions. I'm by no means fluent but can communicate some pretty basic stuff (if I can't remember or don't know it I can spell it out at least) and been really surprised at how many times I've been in situation where I've used it. A lot of non verbal autistic people use it as well as a number of others that aren't necessarily deaf. And the look of surprise and happiness on the face of a lotta signers I've met (even parents, siblings, significant others, etc) has been priceless. They always seem to appreciate that I know the little I do. Once I was walking in to a political rally a friend was working at and a group of kids in their early teens walked in front of me. I could see them signing as we walked and as one held the door for me I just signed "thank you" And her whole face lit up and before I knew it I had made a grip of new friends lol I sucked and they knew it but we worked it out. Can't recommend it enough. Ya don't realize how many people use it til ya learn it yourself and it's really not difficult. Just takes a little practice and staying up to date.

These "Today I found out" posts are absolutely fascinating and informative!

If a deaf person seeing this video with captions, they'd be pretty confused of why do people teach the death person sign language

@sambednar3351

7 жыл бұрын

acesofthesky KZread captions are awful

@acesofthesky

7 жыл бұрын

They fixed it by putting their transcript down!

@NyuuMikuru1

7 жыл бұрын

samantha bednar But comedic.

@gyldenhunig5591

7 жыл бұрын

acesofthesky smell lol

@houselightkell

6 жыл бұрын

acesofthesky so true.

I wonder if it's easier for deaf people to learn to read languages like Chinese or Japanese, because the characters are more visual?

@JayTemple

6 жыл бұрын

THAT'S an interesting question!

@FortisConscius

6 жыл бұрын

No. A written word, however it is composed, is a visual piece.

@Vitorruy1

6 жыл бұрын

Melissa0774 chinese characters are words we dont see/read them as pictures.

@silverandexact

6 жыл бұрын

Languages like Chinese, where characters represent words/ideas and not sounds, and some characters can be "built upon" to make a new but related word/idea, are more similar to American sign language than English is to it. I don't know how Chinese grammar is compared to ASL/other sign language grammar, though (ASL grammar is not the same as English), other than that verbs are not conjugated in either language.

@JK-ROSE05

6 жыл бұрын

No, not really.

That was absolutely fascinating.

I have always wanted to know this, thanks!

My mind is blown. I can't even wrap my brain around thinking in sign language. xD

Anyone else notice the chunks of Simon's head being taken out by his glasses reflecting the chromakey'd color? XD I can't unsee it.

@_Piers_

7 жыл бұрын

Trevor Kent It's always like that. He should probably buy less glossy frames next time he needs a new pair. :)

Thanks for the Video! I teach American Sign Language at a high school level, this is a great video to show and start a class discussion!

thank you for helping us understand that!

I was just thinking about the fact that people find the way that some people talk more attractive to others.For example, accents, tone and pitch of voice...what about people who are deaf? Is there a comparison?

@michaeldougfir9807

7 жыл бұрын

Belinda Cowell: As an observer, I would say there is the difference due to personality. My own signing is rough, halting due to lack of experience. Some people are more intense and know their companion well, so their signing is very fast, slangy and I have a hard time following it. I like signers that have a fluid motion, with consideration for others. Some seem almost to be singing, in a manner of speaking.

@cantbeleveitsnotnaru

7 жыл бұрын

Belinda Cowell totally!!! There's a deaf woman in my class and we have several interpreters. Every one of them sign differently. The way their hands move, the shape of their hands, how they use the signs. Definitely a difference from an outsiders perspective. I have a huge crush on the deaf woman in my class, so I really enjoy watching her sign.

@SapphiraMJ

6 жыл бұрын

I attended classes about the different usage of words across the country (USA) and how different communities and generations used different signs to mean the same word. Sometimes there can be mistranslations where a word that means a slur or insult in one location meant something positive and affirming in another. My ASL speaker of the workshop related an amusing account of where she nearly came to blows with someone because she thought they were insulting her in a horrible insult when the startled and taken aback person had just been using their dialect of a positive meaning for a different word entirely. They were able to laugh it off later but she shared it with us as an example of how dialects can evolve in language. Not to mention how different signed languages are across the world depending on the local spoken language differences. For example, French sign language is far more similar to American sign language (since that's what was originally taught to deaf people here), than American sign language ever is with British sign language. I think they even do some of the alphabet differently LOL! So yes indeed there are vast differences and even within the same community you still see people having a very distinct "voice" or style of signing that almost may be unique to themselves alone. Like a personal accent. I love the variations found here very much.

@heyyyitskat

6 жыл бұрын

Everyone has a different style of signing. I have a more flowy and feminine type of signing. And you can also start to tell people's emotions based upon how they're signing. I was signing a story to a friend today about an experience I had at work. As the story progressed and I was more agitated, my signing got "angrier" and more choppy looking. You could tell that I was extremely emotional about what I was talking about.

@carolynmmitchell2240

6 жыл бұрын

Katherine Q look into the neurophone by Patrick Flanagan, it will make you able to hear without using ear drums.. it's like 4 to 800 dollars but it's worth it to experience hearing

2:52 Deaf people should not use sign language and be forced to only use spoken word. The problem was, *_they're bloody deaf_*

@lizzy4827

6 жыл бұрын

BadassAlen it was basically reading lips and learning how make the correct mouth shapes for each sound...not saying it's good though...it must be torture to be forced to read people's mouth when many don't even articulate well

Your channel has grown so much, congrats!

Very true!! I grew up in the 80s and went to a school that did not believe in Sign language.. I was very lucky because I am hard of hearing. I wasnt left completely in the dark.. But seeing some of my friends who are completely deaf fate was not as lucky... I see them struggle even until this day... That's a price that many of us paid for being deaf and dealing ignorant people. Now its our job to educate the world about that.. Thanks for the video!! Its was very good!!

Recently, my voice has changed dramatically as a result of a neurological problem. I still think in my old voice. That's part of what causes my frustration at the change. It's as though I'm not the same person my brain is telling me I am because I *_sound_* different.

@_Piers_

7 жыл бұрын

David Buschhorn Ooh that must be very odd, it's bad enough hearing a recording of your voice and realising that no one else hears your voice the way you do.

@davidbuschhorn6539

7 жыл бұрын

It's so weird. I think in my old voice. The Steve Gleason Foundation gave me a nice Tobii Dynavox so when my voice finally goes completely, I won't be so isolated. I'm a writer so losing my voice isn't the worst thing that could happen, but losing the ability to walk and take care of myself while I'm also mute might not be so great. The Dynavox will let me talk even if I'm completely paralyzed and mute. As long as I can move my eyes, it'll let me communicate :-) It's pretty badass.

Do dogs think in barks?

@JayTemple

6 жыл бұрын

I once posed the question and partial answer, "Does (my dog) think? It depends on what level you mean. It's safe to say she'll never ponder a differential equation. Then again, neither will my mother."

@danardalin

6 жыл бұрын

JayTemple This begs for a "Yo mama" joke...

@daemonCaptrix

6 жыл бұрын

Dogs think in "Food? food food food foodfoodfoodfoodfood FOOOOOOD! naptime"

@gracegiven8875

6 жыл бұрын

If dogs could talk in a language they’d be more intelligent than us!! LOL

@MelB868

5 жыл бұрын

Animals think in pictures

Very insightful video. Thank you so much for making this. Your channel becomes more interesting and thought-provoking with each post.

Surprisingly I've thought about this a lot and it's crazy to know how important something so simple as hearing is.

"language is integral to how our brains work" I beg to differ. I'm autistic and barely use any inner language at all, and do just fine. For me its all abstract associations and visual representations. I just *know* when things fit together. I don't reason it out in my head with an inner voice talking to myself(or however that works for normal people. I wouldn't know).

@lizzy4827

6 жыл бұрын

Simone for you to be able to write this right know and understand what you just wrote you need inner language

@angelic8632002

6 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth V I formulate it in language yes. And I think about the words internally with a "voice". But I never said I couldn't. Just that I don't. Its too slow and takes a lot of extra effort.

@ReddFoxx1562

5 жыл бұрын

Language IS integral to how our brain works. He never said any specific language. Also, I've never read such an attention-grabbing jerkwad comment from someone before; you're literally using language to explain the things you use language for (apparently unknowingly) in order to explain how language isn't that integral to you? Get the FUCK outta here with that.

@CrowBag

5 жыл бұрын

Simone yes but you’re also not the AVERAGE person.

*WHAT!?*

@jasonarmstrong5750

7 жыл бұрын

Eric Brown "GOHAN I NEED YOU TO DO THAT THING THAT REALLY ANNOYS ME!"

@longforgotten4823

7 жыл бұрын

Jason Armstrong what? Oh, whistle

@fun-gq6zj

6 жыл бұрын

Eric Brown *WHAT!?*

was wondering this thing for 20 years, now I found out ^^ thanks dude :)

I have always wondered . Thanks !!

Um this completely ignores that not everyone has an "inner voice." All the research you cite is done exclusively on people who do. But there has been documentation of people who think without voice - usually thinking in images, but sometimes by other methods. I have a friend who is not deaf, is not "mentally handicapped" (other than that she, like me, has ADHD), and is in fact multilingual and a very good student. However, she has no inner voice and thinks in images. When I describe to her that yes I do have an inner monolog (and, personally, for me it is multiple layers of monologs and sometimes even a me-me dialog), its unimaginable to her. Since learning of this, I have learned to cross check the often very dated research that presumes inner voice is the only manner of thought, though I admit research that is more open-minded is severely lacking.

@archer9338

5 жыл бұрын

Thinking in images is common in some people who are dyslexic. Dyslexia is often misdiagnosed as ADHD.

my screen colour is fucked, can someone tell me the colour of the background in this video? I think it's normally blue whereas it's a dark green almost brown colour on my screen

@ThaDoode15

7 жыл бұрын

professortbag Yeah, looks like they changed it to a dark green/yellow thingie

@Wingedshadowwolf

7 жыл бұрын

It looks like an avocado.

@AbuYahya24

7 жыл бұрын

professortbag looks like bogies

@45rpm.

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, your screen is OK. The background is a sort of duck shit gangrine colour.

@elikarpinski2460

6 жыл бұрын

It's avocado colored

Fascinating, and makes complete sense to me as an early childhood educator. It has been drilled into me that the first five years of life are the most important for acquiring language. The larger the vocabulary a child has, the more successful they will be in school and life. One way to increase vocabulary is to learn another language. This is one reason, among many, that I teach my hearing children ASL.

Thank you for this incredibly enlightening video. I teach at a school for the deaf in West Africa. Every day I am confronted with the challenge of what to teach in order to equip my students self-sufficiency after their education. It is incredibly more difficult than it might appear on the surface. Add to that the palpable social stigma that the deaf are forced to surmount.

Does this mean that apes who know sign language have an inner monologue therefore consciousness therefore a soul?

@CryptoidEngine

7 жыл бұрын

Well, they have those things already; we just don't see it since, well... We can't if they can't communicate their thoughts to us in ways we understand. They have souls like we do; them knowing sign languages showcases their consciousness all the further. :)

@leykimayri

7 жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as soul

@ambrebadhippie

7 жыл бұрын

Fi Handley of course they do

Who is Jimmy, why does he crack corn, and why don't I care?

thank you for this video! i have wondered this for the longest time. and yep, certainly a great thing for children to learn super early.

Wow. This was fascinating to watch. Great job.

Imagine if you were deaf, blind, and couldn't speak.

@Naijiri.

7 жыл бұрын

Almost Helen Keller

@savannahherrera4591

7 жыл бұрын

Danex21 People whom are deaf/blind use tactile sign lanaguge

@emperorpalpatine4681

6 жыл бұрын

Pinball wizard

@JayTemple

6 жыл бұрын

I was going to go with a Metallica reference, but yours is good too.

@spankablemonkgorillamyname3642

6 жыл бұрын

I'd rather be dead

how do people think who where born blind and deaf where the only way of communication they learned is through beatings?

@nolovenohate

7 жыл бұрын

They learn by feeling; I.E touch.

@nolovenohate

7 жыл бұрын

Jamie Hood You can feel with more than just your hands.

I've watched a lot of your videos, and this one interests me the most. It really expands on something I had been putting a lot of thought into. Mainly, the thing that separates us from animals now, but not so much 100,000 years ago. One major difference is being able to communicate complex ideas back and forth, and I often wondered if part of the problem was that they couldn't construct complicated thoughts until they developed a language. There are examples of animals starting to bridge that gap, dogs can learn thousands of words, but it's mainly in the context of commands, and they can't talk back so they are limited on how they can respond anyway. Apes can use sign language, but even their minds seem somehow limited when it comes to exchanging complicated thoughts back and forth.

Really interesting topic and the video so well made- thank you!