I need this answered.

Whatever language they learn to read in

This fucked me up.

I'm sure they think in motion/actions until they understand sign language. So pretty much how we learn to speak - but they speak with their hands not voice.

*cries in the corner*

Did you know you can change the language you think in if you use another language a lot?

I've wondered this since I was five.

I'm pretty sure they think in whatever language they either learn to read or sign. Helen Keller learned sign language which is a universal language, so she might have thought in motions/gestures. They probably pronounce if and/or any words they learn by however they are said(like how the dictionary gives the pronunciation)(if they are blind also then they could get a dictionary for the blind and that would tell them)

How do they know how to pronounce words? As you learn to read with the sounds of the letters/words don't you? *brain melts*

Mind *Blown*

sign language

My brain hurts so so much.

if they were deaf and blind then in feelings (the coolness of water), sounds and smells of objects

What I think is that they would make up their own language, and assign names to things.

Yes i think thinking without language is much more powerful and much faster. Apes also think in pictures, feelings and emotions. Something like that. And Apes are much faster in remembering orders of number than students.

IT DOESNT NEED A LANGUAGE TO THINK

goodbye everyone, ill remember you all in therapy

this is fucking up my brain

My uncle is deaf, and he said that he thought in images, until he learned sign language. Then, he thought in sign language.

Well, science time. Theoretically, a thought is a pulse of energy pushed through certain lobes of the brain in order to create the notion of an internal voice. So a deaf person having never heard a voice or understanding any form of spoken language would think in sign language. No, they would not see the elaborate hand gestures in their vision, instead they would feel the movements in there hands, much like the way the brain tricks you into 'hearing' your inner voice. I hope this was helpful.

I'm deaf. I think in English.

They think in sign language.

Mmmmmmmm bsl

The same language you thought in before you learned how to talk. The same language primates use to figure out how to use tools. The same language your dog thinks in when it learns how to flip the latch to the gate. You don't have to think in words to be able to think.