If someone is blind and deaf from birth, do they know anything?
Yes. They understand what they are from feeling hunger and sleepiness. They feel emotions just like everyone else. I know because deafblind people feel intense feelings of frusteration from not being able to communicate or navigate. In fact deafblind people even think like humans do. However they cannot think visually or linguistically, so they think cerebrally. This is a universal way of thinking that is thought in the purest form. Their existence is limited to touch. They can feel doorknobs and over time learn that there are rooms inside those doorknobs. They learn to grasp forks like everyone else, to flush a toilet, to run and skip. They still have the gift of movement. Movement is their way of expressing their thoughts and feelings while touch is their way of getting to know the world. Eventually they also become aware of the dangers they cannot see or hear. That must be more frightening than anything. Imagine the shock of a dog sinking its teeth into your arm without seeing or he
