Comments on: Can a Deaf Person Think? http://easysignlanguagelessons.com/can-a-deaf-person-think/ Learn Sign Language Lessons Easily and FREE Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:34:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Sousa Reincarnate http://easysignlanguagelessons.com/can-a-deaf-person-think/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 Sousa Reincarnate Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:44:28 +0000 http://easysignlanguagelessons.com/can-a-deaf-person-think/#comment-1210 If you ask something like this, you should SERIOUSLY consider phrasing the initial question differently. I clicked on it, prepared to get all angry psycho on your virtual butt, then realized that you had an actual question, so you get an actual answer. A good number of Deaf people are NOT mute, and simply choose not to speak because they are uncertain of how they sound. Often they have trouble making certain sounds, and it sounds like a foreign accent to me. Some Deaf people speak perfectly, and you'd never know they couldn't hear you. My friends say that they picture the words in their minds. After spending years immersed in sign language, I can see how visualizing the sign language is possible. If you ask something like this, you should SERIOUSLY consider phrasing the initial question differently. I clicked on it, prepared to get all angry psycho on your virtual butt, then realized that you had an actual question, so you get an actual answer.

A good number of Deaf people are NOT mute, and simply choose not to speak because they are uncertain of how they sound. Often they have trouble making certain sounds, and it sounds like a foreign accent to me. Some Deaf people speak perfectly, and you'd never know they couldn't hear you.
My friends say that they picture the words in their minds. After spending years immersed in sign language, I can see how visualizing the sign language is possible.

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