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I ... sort of have it. I have always associated specific colors and genders with numbers and letters. Like, a B is pink, and an O is white, and a T is male, a
by jawns 14y ago
I ... sort of have it. I have always associated specific colors and genders with numbers and letters. Like, a B is pink, and an O is white, and a T is male, and a D is female. As far as I can tell, it has nothing to do with their typographic characteristics. It's just something that has always been the case for me, and hasn't changed over time.
I'm not certain it's true synesthesia, because gender isn't really a sensory thing in the same way that color and taste are, but I feel at least a kinship with synesthetes.
- friendly_chap 14y agoI think synesthesia is so weird that nobody is certain what is true synesthesia ;)
- firefoxman1 14y agoI wonder if there are different levels of synesthesia. I'd never heard of it before this article, but I've tried describing to my father how sushi and tomatoes taste "blue" where things like salami taste "red" ...he couldnt relate at all. That's not as strong as the sense as described in this article, and I don't see the colors, so I don't know what's going on.
- seivan 14y agoI gave numbers personality when I was a kid. "That Asshole #7"