Synesthesia is when two senses combine with each other and form relationships. For example, I have the most common kind: grapheme-color synesthesia. Mine looks like this. The only one that’s supposed to be black is “1”. Otherwise, the ones in black have no color associated with them.

  • JollyRoberts@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My wife does. Hers is super useful. She sees time/the calendar as kind of an oval floating in front of her vision. Makes it easy for her to keep track of sh*t all year long.

    Also she can draw a word in the air and it glows if its spelled wrong. She won a lot of spelling bees in her youth, lol.

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      1 year ago

      I have a similar thing for checking spelling! Don’t write it in the air, but if I need to figure out the spelling of something, I just write it down and see if the colors are right. Works better in my native language than in English, especially because for some words the colors are “right” for American spelling, and for others it’s the British…

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    1 year ago

    Numbers and vowels have colors for me. 1 white-ish, 2 red, 3 yellow, 4 green, 5 brown, 6 dark red, 7 blue, 8 gold-white, 9 dark green, 0 black, A green, E orange, I white, O black, U brown, Y turquoise. Some consonants “feel” like they have color, but far less pronounced.

    Also sounds have colors and shapes but that may just be association.

    Edit: does synesthesia qualify as neurodivergence? Am I neurodivergent? What does this mean??

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      Oh I don’t know whether it counts as neurodivergent in the commonly understood way, but I wasn’t sure where else to post it. I’m new, so I don’t know all the communities on here yet.

      I find it interesting how only vowels and numbers stick out to you! I hadn’t heard of that before.