I think I would. Especially if I were automatically like this when I was born, and I've never been able to see or hear the beauties of life. Can you imagine that? Scary. (Yes, I know it's also called sensery deprivation, but that can be ended, but this can't..)
2007-03-22 03:46:23 · 11 answers · asked by ShadoCrytr 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
..Okay, maybe being born with it was a bad example. Say you were in some horrible accident, and then you went deaf, blind and mute.
2007-03-22 03:54:45 · update #1
What difference would it make if a deaf, blind and mute person had gone insane?
Sanity is only external. We only behave sane. Inside our minds we are all insane. If we weren't we would lose our imagination. So when a person goes deaf, blind and dumb he is reduced mostly into an internal existence where it is better to be insane.
2007-03-22 06:25:50 · answer #1 · answered by smartobees 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Helen Keller wasn't mute though. She learned to talk by feeling the vibrations of people's voice boxes. She understood! and copied so her voice box made the same vibrations and she was able to speak.
She also signed into Annie's hand and vise versa.
She was incredibly intelligent.
You'd adjust. Yes it sounds scary and debilitating. But if Helen Keller could excel as she did when no resources were available, think how much more so we could with so much available to us.
2007-03-22 05:07:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If someone is born that way, there is no way of knowing life can be different at first right? You probably wouldn't go insane living life like that, since it's the only way you know it.
2007-03-22 03:51:47 · answer #3 · answered by Emelie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But how would you know what you're missing if you were born like that. I'm sure those people are happy as could be in their own little world. Besides they still have touch and sometimes touch is stronger than any words or vision
2007-03-22 03:50:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't go insane, if that's the way I have always been. But yes, if I have experienced what it is like to see, hear, and speak...then I'd go insane, knowing that I don't have anything anymore. Hopefully, my optimistic nature, my family & friends, and other abilities to experience life....will keep me going :).
2007-03-22 07:40:02 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course I would go insane BUT Who would know it? You couldn't tell anyone you were insane. I'm sure my family members would be a lot more sane if I couldn't talk!!! lol
2007-03-22 03:50:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, Helen Keller didn't go insane, so it is not inevitable. I would find it incredibly difficult, though. How would you know when you were awake or asleep, for example?
2007-03-22 03:51:22 · answer #7 · answered by Phartzalot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd be very lonely, but if I could feel something and have that tactile reassurance, I'd be okay.
And if I was born that way, I'd never know the difference.
2007-03-22 03:53:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I was born that way I wouldn't know I was messed up...
2007-03-22 03:50:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn't know what you were missing in the 1st place.
2007-03-22 03:51:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋