{"id":602,"date":"2011-04-01T07:30:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2011-04-01T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T14:30:25","slug":"through-deaf-eyes-seeing-the-world-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/01\/through-deaf-eyes-seeing-the-world-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"Through Deaf Eyes: seeing the world differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/28-peaceful.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-603\" title=\"28.peaceful\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/28-peaceful.jpg?resize=490%2C386\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I said on Monday, my son and I are taking American Sign Language (ASL).\u00a0\u00a0 We are on our second semester; one of our requirements this semester is to \u201cbe deaf for a day\u201d.\u00a0 We are required to wear earplugs all day and only communicate through sign and writing.\u00a0 Wearing earplugs of course doesn\u2019t really simulate being deaf, it is more like being very hard of hearing because a fair bit of sound gets in but never the less it takes you out of your comfort zone and into a place of hyper awareness.\u00a0 I was feeling a bit sheepish that I wasn\u2019t testing myself enough because much of my day needed to be spent alone in my studio.\u00a0 I soon found out that even being alone and \u201cdeaf\u201d was a challenge for me. I didn\u2019t realize how much turning on the radio and listening to NPR was a part of my routine, and not having that background sound made the voice in my head very loud indeed.\u00a0 That voice, was my next striking revelation.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, voice.\u00a0 I talk to myself constantly, and when I think thoughts and weigh options there is literally a voice speaking inside my head.\u00a0 When I read, I read in a voice to myself in my head.\u00a0 There is a voice!\u00a0 Then it hit me, if one is born deaf then one has never experienced thoughts through auditory sound and word. How, then, are thoughts revealed, how does the inner \u201cvoice\u201d show itself? Do thoughts come as visuals images flashing by or seen in the language of signs?\u00a0 As I said most of my thoughts are in a voice in my head, but there are a few instances where I problem solve in images. One distinct example is this, when I think about the path I\u2019ll take driving or walking, I don\u2019t speak the directions in my head like \u201cturn right on East street, then right on Tucker\u201d when I think those thoughts I actually see those corners and streets.\u00a0 The same when I think about hiking a familiar path I visualize the turns and forks that I will choose along the way.\u00a0 This gives me a small window into what it might be like to think in the deaf mind.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t hear then your other senses would take up the slack.\u00a0 The visual input part of the brain must be buzzing and bright, the tactile senses tightly tuned.\u00a0 When I think about it that way I begin to see why my teacher is so adamant that she does not want to be hearing, she does not need \u201cfixing\u201d.\u00a0 I begin to see the deaf way of experiencing the world is matchless and marvelous, why <em>would<\/em> someone want to give that up? 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