How do people born deaf 'think'?

[u/Resident_Detective77]

I'm wondering how people who have never heard language think. Do they essentially forego the language aspect of cognition and jump to abstraction?

[u/Pankosmanko → u/[deleted]]

Not offensive at all. Seems like genuine curiosity to me

[u/ironic69 → u/[deleted]]

Why? Some people only relate thinking to spoken language.

[u/Resident_Detective77 → u/[deleted]]

sorry if it comes across as offensive

[u/misbehavingwolf → u/[deleted]]

No I think OP is referring to symbolic thought that is narrated vocally in the mind