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TIL Schizophrenics who are born deaf will hallucinate disembodied hands signing to them, rather than hearing voices. [Source]
PubMed Central (PMC)
The Perceptual Characteristics of Voice-Hallucinations in Deaf People: Insights into the Nature of Subvocal Thought and Sensory…
The study of voice-hallucinations in deaf individuals, who exploit the visuomotor rather than auditory modality for communication, provides rare insight into the relationship between sensory experience and how “voices” are perceived. Relatively ...