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Synesthesia is definitely real, my wife has it. She sees numbers and letters as having colours. We'd been married a few years before either of us realised there
by Starwatcher2001 7y ago
Synesthesia is definitely real, my wife has it. She sees numbers and letters as having colours. We'd been married a few years before either of us realised there was something different about her, she just thought everyone saw the world as she did. I didn't believe her at first, then asked her go through the entire alphabet and tell me the colours she saw for each letter. To this day they've never differed.
Words written in coloured ink are difficult for her to read, and trying to read "rainbow" coloured text is virtually impossible as it makes her feel sick.
- Zenbit_UX 7y agoYour comment about difficulty reading colored text gave me an idea for diagnosing synesthesia early in children. To what end, I have no idea but it sounds like it could work.
- tuesdayrain 7y agoThere's a simple test for this. You can generate a page with tons of the same letter or number, and a few outliers. A person with synesthesia will be able to instantly spot the outliers while a neurotypical person won't. Something like https://www.synesthesiatest.org/blog/synesthesia-test-variations https://www.synesthesiatest.org/blog/synesthesia-test-variat...