What language do deaf think in ?

If a deaf person is born deaf in what language do they think!? This question and a whole plethora of amusing and some downright ignorance I read online today. Personally I think our deaf command of English and spelling far superior to what I am reading here too !

Chojboco: Deafenese.

Prettyboi Floyd: Some are born death some become death and there language is sign language.

Mommy of 2: Don't be silly. There is no such thing as being deaf. It is all just a mere lie made up by people who want attention.

xxnight.: Well, obviously they don't think in a language. I would imagine they think of words, not there sounds, but there spellings.

Mommy of 2-You aren't serious, right ?

Fail Whale: Good question. I've never thought of it like that.
Usually people become more intelligent as their vocabulary increases. The more words you have at your disposal, the more you can think... I assume that a deaf person who was born deaf would think in sign, as they would have nothing to associate with sound.

LMF_Eddi... You just blew my mind o.o

Ann: sometimes they are born deaf but sometimes it happens later in life. They speak sign language but I don't what they think. Probably just think what they are going to sign.

Vera Gabriele: If they are born deaf, then their parents have to learn sign language. When they are old enough they can go to a school for the deaf and they can read books, so they can learn as many languages as they want.. it does not affect their intelligence.. once they can read they can think in the languages which they are able to read... sign language is international, so that all deaf people understand each other if they speak in signs.

I am sure it's not that difficult. Parents would learn it, after all they want to understand their child. They can also ''talk through body language and once the child understands words, a deaf person can write them down instead of talking... There are experts everywhere who speak sign language. A parent of a child that is born deaf would take classes and learn sign language...How do little kids dream before their words make sense? I am sure they still dream... a deaf person can see and think in pictures...the can go by all their other senses to think.. How does this smell, what shape is it, what colour is it.Probably easier than when a person is born blind and they learn to talk as their hearing is good and their sense of smell and orientation, and they read in Braille.

Marley Kidd: Not always. They don't think of a language, they think of images.


“Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion” Robert Burns...