* Loss of touch; there are rare cases of children who have no
      sense of touch. Unfortunately, they don't typically survive
      into adulthood. Burns, broken bones, all meaningless to
      them. Bad stuff.

      Being 1/2 blind, 1/2 deaf, I've straddled both worlds while
      attempting a semblance of 'normal'. I've managed fine. Fully
      deaf? We'd manage. Fully blind? We'd manage.

      Deaf and blind together would be trickier. That would result
      in a greater change of society. Our sense of "Where I am
      right now" and also our sense "How my body is positioned at
      present" would likely be heightened, as our mental maps of
      the areas would be much sharper and clearer as we couldn't
      rely on backup senses of hearing (echolocation) or vision.

      Sense of heat/cold would also increase, which would allow us
      a greater sense of where others are in relationship to
      ourselves. Our "personal space" bubble would be a keen sense
      indeed. I have a very keen personal space sense; I'm
      assuming its a sense of infrared changes, "seeing" the color
      of infrared with my skin as it were... which is why I know
      when someone's behind me and such, and I know when someone
      is looking at me because more heat is escaping from their
      open eyes, causing me to feel the slight temperature
      differential with my skin on the back of my head.

      Blindsight would increase as well. Our synthesthesia would
      likely be even more keen than it is at present, and the
      nature of language and communication would change.

      I wonder if a fictional author has pursued 'deaf-blind
      society'? That would be a good read, if it was hard sci-fi
      (the kind that tries really hard to be as scientifically
      accurate as possible) - not the sloppy sci-fi which I can't
      really stand [unless there's Time Travel. Then they can be
      really sloppy and I'll still enjoy it]
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      [5]Kenneth Udut I may be wrong about the infrared + eyes
      thing. I'm thinking it's more to do with blindsight / sense
      of body-space-in-relationship-to-environment+positioning
      rather than strictly infrared.



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