Top Ten Things People With Synesthesia Are Sick of Hearing
Synethesia is something I have. If you haven't heard of it, that is because only, like, 2% of the world has it. Basically it means you associated stuff with colors, or one sense triggers another. For example, for me 3=green, 1=red, etc. This took a lot of courage to post. It's actually been a draft for a while. I might start telling people in my real life, or I might not.The association is immediate. When I smell a certain smell, yellow immediately appears in my head. When I think of "p" I think light violet. Since I've learned what the letter p was.
I can't help thinking of the color orange when I see the number 5, or the color pink when I see 6 or 9.
I think everyone makes associations with colors, smells, and sounds to a certain extent. Also, I'm pretty sure synesthesia is actually really common. Like 1 in 250 if I remember.
Nope. Grapheme-color synesthesia is a real thing, and it's somewhat linked with autism (which I also have).
Actually, it's neurological. Not a mental disorder, because you can't treat it.
Nope. Immediate. I can't just start associating 4 with pink, when it's sky blue.
I bet you wouldn't be saying that if your brain worked the way mine does.
Nope. It will always be that way. It would be nice to stop during math class, so not everything is a heap of colors.
Maybe you should but out of my life.
People always ask me what color certain letters or numbers are when I tell them I have it.
Part of the reason I've never told any peers is because I don't need to be interviewed