Sensory Compensation Quotes

I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

I think sighted people let their eyes cheat them out of certain things. People who can see don't have a great sense of smell because they don't use it.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.

I couldn't connect with people so I developed other senses. I had no other option.

I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.

'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.

When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself - you're either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself.

There's a disconnect between my mind and my heart, but I feel the truth. They say when people lose their vision, their hearing comes sharper. I've lost part of my memory but maybe my intuition is stronger.

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

I am a visual person, given that I am deaf.

I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!