As someone with aphantasia and no internal monologe it makes sense to me.
So many people tell me their brains just send them images and monologe without them “thinking” it themselves first. Like to me they are reacting to what their brain is telling them. And that’s what is required to be schizophrenic.
I have bipolar and it feels like my brain just tosses things at me. I get some really good ideas and I am quick with jokes because i don’t even think, my brain is an absurdity machine.
They also can learn to echolocate to the point the vision area of the brain process it.
When I was in grade school, we had a music teacher who was blind from birth. If someone was jacking around in class, she knew where all the students sat and could identify the culprit by relying entirely on her hearing. It was impressive.
I remember long ago, watching a show where a blind teenage boy used echolocation to skateboard around. I thought it was the coolest thing.
I had a cocker spaniel that went blind from glaucoma, and he got around much better than you would expect. I guess dog hearing is probably pretty good for that
You somehow forgot a whole word in the title.
my most common type of typo by far, and yet worse, it is usually words like “not” that I forget, resulting in funny although concerning miscommunications
Hehe and somehow you are the only person to let me know. Maybe everyone else missed it too. Thanks
So its the horrors we see that causes it.
We get frenzied when our insight is too high
That’s the most logical thing I’ve heard all year.
Maybe the blind schizophrenics just don’t ever know.
If they are hearing hallucinations, how would they know they aren’t real? It’s not like they can see that there’s nobody saying these things.
dude they’re blind, not stupid.
schizophrenics often can’t tell easily by themselves that they are schizophrenics, if a blind person comments about hearing things others might simply write it off as their (the blind one’s) acute and great sense of hearing that the blind developed through necessity that they (others non blind) don’t have and thus can’t hear
That implies that schizophrenic people ARE stupid for believing the things that they experience.
Which is much more offensive and disrespectful than what I said.
no, you said being blind would specifically prevent them from realizing their symptoms in contrast to seeing people.
Not “in contrast to”, but as an additional challenge.
how does what that person said imply that?
No it doesn’t.
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If you know you’re alone at home and then hear voices, that might be one way. There are ways to distinguish the presence of people beyond sight.
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Blindness is much more than total blindness, which only describes a minority of blind people. There are different definitions, but the World Health Organization puts the definition as less than 3/60 or a visual field of less than 10 degrees in the better-seeing eye. That basically means that if you need to be more than 20 times closer to an object to be able to see the same level of detail, or you have almost no peripheral vision, you qualify.
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Schizophrenia produces many symptoms other than hallucinations and causes profound cognitive and social dysfunction. Poverty of thought, delusions, and disordered thinking and speech among others. There would be signs others could see.
Well, asking someone else who is around would be a good way, for one thing.
How often do you check with others to confirm that something you just experienced was real?
Don’t be a moron.
The sighted schizophrenics don’t know their hallucinations aren’t real. It’s always an external diagnosis.
Not for everyone, I know my hallucinations aren’t real, and sought out help myself.
Oh, I know. I’ve spent years trying to explain to my brother that people aren’t actually standing outside his window yelling insults at him.
Wow, that is wild!
Cool! Maybe schizophrenia is when the visual cortex gets leaky and starts interpreting thoughts as sighs.
Relared to synesthesia, perhaps?
