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In the 1970s, four young people without sight and hearing became participants in a Soviet experiment. It lasted for six years. Thanks to the enthusiasm of defectologists, all four were able to receive higher education on par with sighted and hearing people. But how? All information was sent only to the fingertips and palms. Our author Regina met with Alexander Suvorov, one of the participants in this experiment, to introduce you to the amazing universe of people whose experiences are so different from ours. 00:00 — Blind at 3, deaf at 9 00:28 — Zagorsk experiment 02:47 — How space feels 03:34 — I met Oleg on the Internet 04:18 — Happiness is when you have someone to rely on 04:54 — How communication works 05:36 — I rode the metro alone 06:06 — I was always happy to see my mother 06:46 — Notes as a way to navigate the city 07:53 — I went to the bathhouse on my own 08:19 — A scientific scout on the planet of deaf-blindness 08:45 — How deaf-blind Suvorov went to the mountains 10:17 — Chess for the blind 10:44 — The cause of deaf-blindness 11:33 — I learned what shorts are at 35 13:14 — Is it possible to recognize a person by touch 15:05 — How I imagine clouds 15:30 — "A man is blind and deaf, leading me through the forest" 16:15 — I traveled all over Moscow on my own 16:46 — "There was no other way to get a nurse" 17:19 — "Pronto" — a device for communicating over the Internet 18:20 — Deaf, but I feel music 19:36 — "Suvorov is such a shopaholic" 20:24 — Why a hedgehog 21:15 — Deaf-blind people from birth can neither smile nor frown 22:35 — Life after death 23:35 — "Despair is a peculiar form of egoism" 24:30 — Humanity needs to come to its senses 25:21 — What in the world do I believe in instead of God IG: / kollektiv_doc VK: http://vk.com/kollektiv_doc TG: https://t.me/kollektiv_doc