Post #3175136

2026-05-10 00:20 UTC

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.

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@Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-10 00:35

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.

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@acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2026-05-10 00:41

The sighted schizophrenics don't know their hallucinations aren't real. It's always an external diagnosis.

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@pyre@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 09:46

dude they're blind, not stupid.

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@fiat_lux@lemmy.zip 2026-05-10 07:37

1. 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. 2. 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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@ripcord@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 09:27

Well, asking someone else who is around would be a good way, for one thing.

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