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8:14am July 11, 2014
astrangemishap asked: Er, if you don't mind me asking, how do you experience synesthesia? Like do certain words have a taste or color or something else? I am just curious. Sorry.

Letters and numbers have colors, so do days of the week and months of the year.  Sounds can have colors and textures, but it’s not as clear-cut – it’s not like each note has a color, it’s the overall sound and it’s complicated.  And I also get what I call sensory bleed-over, which is almost like a temporary synesthesia during sensory overload – I’ve talked to other autistic people who get it, and it seems different from regular synesthesia in several key ways.  Namely, it’s temporary, and it can be different every time.  I also may have some sort of thing where concepts and personalities map onto colors and shapes.  The only reason I’m hesitant to call it synesthesia is because I’ve met other people who map things in such an exactly similar way (same colors, same textures, same shapes)… and synesthesia is different and unique for each person, so I don’t know what to make of that.

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