Deaf people have a difficult time reading. A lot of reading depends on knowing what letters and words sound like. The deaf rely 100% on the symbols and easily confuse words that hearing people would never confuse. For instance, I had a deaf acquaintance one time, keep asking me about "Crunch" on a white board. It took me awhile to figure out he meant Church and he was asking me what religion I was. Crunch and Church are virtually the same word to a deaf person but I have never heard of a hearing person mixing the two words up.
That's the stupidest shit I've ever heard. A deaf person can't tell the difference between "Crunch" and "Church" while reading? If that's the case, then they are also blind.
Deaf people have a difficult time reading. A lot of reading depends on knowing what letters and words sound like. The deaf rely 100% on the symbols and easily confuse words that hearing people would never confuse. For instance, I had a deaf acquaintance one time, keep asking me about "Crunch" on a white board. It took me awhile to figure out he meant Church and he was asking me what religion I was. Crunch and Church are virtually the same word to a deaf person but I have never heard of a hearing person mixing the two words up.
I can see that. They're close enough in text to see the mix-up.
It would be incredibly uncanny to instantaneously swap consciousness for a time with someone who was born deaf.
To not have my inner voice, my sense of self, my thoughts would be uncanny. It would be really weird. It's something truly hard to imagine.
I have read that those born deaf have an inner voice that is less parsed as audible and more parsed as gestural.
I would have some trouble with that for sure
That's the stupidest shit I've ever heard. A deaf person can't tell the difference between "Crunch" and "Church" while reading? If that's the case, then they are also blind.
Deaf people can read.