#synesthesia

[rarrrrhhhhhhh]

it's so funny as an aphant who has a friend with synesthesia because like. what do you mean you can see shapes and images when listening to music

I always love listening to her talk about those things though bc I've always loved seeing how people perceive different things.

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fuck it. shout out to "high functioning" neurodivergents

the ones who can mask easily, the ones who can get social cues, the ones who have managed to go most of their life not even knowing they were ND because they didn't present as the stereotypical ND person.

the ones who can pay attention in class, understand social etiquette, who understand societial expectations

the ones who don't feel neurodivergent enough bc they don't struggle in the same ways/areas a lot of NDs do, or they can't relate to other NDs' experiences because they always understood these things easily

the ones with high empathy, the ones who DO get the joke, the ones who are constantly told that they can't possibly be neurodivergent because they don't act like what you'd expect a neurodivergent person to act like.

you are neurodivergent enough. you are valid, and so are your experiences. not struggling as much as others do in some places doesn't mean you dont struggle at all. your condition and diagnosis is valid. your symptoms are valid. YOU ARE VALID. not checking all the supposed boxes doesn't mean you aren't neurodivergent. you are enough. you are valid. you are loved. you are valued. you matter. you belong in neurodivergent spaces, you deserve to use whatever resources are available to you, you are allowed to take up space in these communities. and i am so, so proud of you.

feel free to, and actually, i encourage you to reblog this with your experiences. we belong in this community as much as anyone else. please also tag this w/ any neurodivergent conditions i may have forgotten 💙

since this is getting lots of notes I'd like to add, even if you're undiagnosed or maybe self diagnosed, for whatever reason, (i.e. can't get access to a diagnosis, not being taken seriously, or just not wanting an official diagnosis, etc.) this still applies to you. actually especially to you folks. don't think for a second you're not valid just bc you don't have the paperwork or whatever to say it

[genderqueerdykes]

wish more ppl used it/its for me. I have synesthesia (letters have colors). I like neos because they have different colors! For me, he/him and she/her are both an off-white yellow. It/its is my favorite because those are light blue and that's my color. On the hunt for some lavender pronouns rn

(BTW equinox is yellow and blue-violet. Very cool!)

synesthesia is so neat to me! i've read about how there is a link between schizophrenia and synesthesia, while i don't know for sure if i experience anything else, i do experience misophonia, which is suspected to be related to, or a form of synethesia! sounds produce emotions for me

that's so cool! they sound like very pretty colors. there's lots to choose from out there, so i'm sure you'll find some nice lavender ones soon! i'm glad you can have that extra level of joy brought to you by your pronouns- that's so beautiful and wholesome.

oh i love the color yellow, and blue-violet is my favorite shade of blue! how cool! thank you so much for sharing, i really enjoyed reading this! i love hearing about how other people experience neurodiversity!

[sketchinfun]

The other day I was discussing my synesthesia to my family members since I had never told them that I had it, or how I perceive numbers and sounds/music. I decided to make a quick little write up thing explaining my experience with synesthesia, even though it's one of the more common types.

[johannesviii]

Synesthesia drawings of personal favorite hit songs - 2007: “Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance

This one was so hard to draw, there's so much stuff going on

[that-1-url]

so something I've noticed within a lot of fandoms is that people will post their "neurodivergent" headcanons. which is fine ofc, however when they say "neurodivergent" they are typically only referring to autism or ADHD. maaaayybbee ptsd if the character(s) are "traumatized enough" (by that I mean, there's typically one who everyone uwuifies and infantilizes because their trauma is most prominently on display within the media). a common headcanon that often fails to address the trauma of other characters, or that trauma doesn't always manifest itself as PTSD/C-PTSD.

point being, while there's nothing wrong with headcanoning characters with these (autism, adhd, ptsd), maybe...do research? branch out more? imagine how nice it would be if suddenly large amounts of people were not only educated about other lesser-known forms of neurodivergence (ocd, did, npd, bpd, aspd, schizotypal disorders, etc.) but destigmatized them by giving these headcanons to well-loved, popular characters (rather than the villains or antagonists, or even just less popular or even hated characters). (and hey, if you didn't know, schizophrenia and autism can present similarly)

(that being said please do research before you head canon something stigmatizing or ableist.)

it could pave the way for real, genuine, non-stigmatizing or demonizing representation.

and this could probably be a separate post but I wanted to include it here as well:

POC CHARACTERS CAN BE NEURODIVERGENT. POC CHARACTERS ARE ALSO AUTISTIC, ALSO HAVE ADHD, OCD, AND MORE!! STOP LEAVING THEM OUT, STOP ONLY HEADCANONING THE WHITE PROTAGONISTS AS AUTISTIC.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, please feel free to add on

[outofpawket]

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR NAME?

Starting my own reblog game LET'S GO! https://synesthesia.me

Here's mine 😼

I do exude yellow and it's my favourite color

@rigormortizzz @honestloverboy @creep-u-out @gurokichi and open tags!!

[snazzystarlight]

I wanted to do a synesthesia painting of Chappel Roan's "Casual" but seeing how much fun her performances and videos are made me want to play!! So I made a physical synesthesia collage for the first time and had so much fun!

[yourfourthgradepetrock]

shout out to mr collins for being the first synesthesia rep I've ever seen. yeah it was murder synesthesia but

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Synesthesia

Synesthesia - a remarkable sensation: It involves experiencing one sensory stimulus through the prism of a different stimulus.

In other words, different senses intersect such that one sense is associated with another—a sound, a shape, a color, a taste, or a smell.

Hearing music and seeing colors in your mind is an example of synesthesia.

So, too, is using colors to visualize specific numbers or letters of the alphabet.

Scientists do not fully understand synestesia. Some researchers believe it stems from a neurological condition, while others believe that the vast majority of synesthetic sensory perceptions come from learned behavior.

How to Use Synesthesia as a Literary Device

You can incorporate the use of synesthesia as a rhetorical device in your own writing. If you can blend two of the five senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell—together in a phrase or a sentence, then you’ll be able to describe common forms of synesthetic perceptions. Here are some ways to do that:

Use colors to describe sounds. If you’re describing sad, sorrowful music, why not call it “blue”? If it’s perky, perhaps call it “pink.” If it’s dour, call it “black.” Or be like Oscar Wilde in An Ideal Husband and call it “mauve.”

Use temperature to describe sounds or images. Temperature-based synesthesia examples include “a scorching guitar solo,” “an icy gaze,” and “lukewarm wallpaper.”

Use sensory words to describe emotions. Take a cue from romantic poetry and use all five senses to describe the feelings of love and desire.

Include synesthetic characters in your narrative. Write a character who experiences synesthesia as they consume art. Describe that person listening to music and synesthetic sensation of colors that swoops over them as each note is sounded. Or reverse the effect, and have a character experience synesthesia by hearing music as they take in the wonders of a large painting on a museum wall.

Use synesthetic idioms already familiar to your audience. For instance, think about the phrase “bitter cold.” Bitterness is a taste sensation. Cold is, of course, a touch sensation. Combined, these two sensations form an idiomatic term that makes perfect sense to the English language ear.

Examples of Synesthesia in Literature

In literature, synesthesia refers to an author’s blending of human senses to describe an object. Phrases like a “loud dress” or a “chilly gaze” blend our sensory modalities. Novelists and poets who use synesthesia in literature include:

Dante in The Divine Comedy (1472): “Back to the region where the sun is silent.”

John Keats in "Ode to a Nightingale" (1819): “Tasting of Flora and the country green”

Robert Frost in “Fire and Ice” (1920): “From what I've tasted of desire”

William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1605): “The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.”

Oscar Wilde in Salomé (1891): “Thy voice was a censer that scattered strange perfumes, and when I looked on thee I heard a strange music.”

Examples of Famous Synesthetes

People who routinely experience a form of synesthesia are called synesthetes. Famous synesthetes include:

Duke Ellington: The iconic jazz composer experienced chromesthesia, a type of synesthesia where musical notes evoke colors.

Franz Liszt: Like Duke Ellington, the Romantic-era Hungarian composer experienced chromesthesia.

Vincent Van Gogh: Van Gogh experienced chromesthesia, which is believed to have influenced his painting.

Vladimir Nabokov: The great Russian-American novelist experienced grapheme-color synesthesia, where words—and particularly vowel sounds—evoke colors.

Arthur Rimbaud: Rimbaud, a French poet in the nineteenth century, experienced grapheme-color synesthesia.

Billie Eilish: Eilish is a contemporary pop star who experiences synesthesia when writing music with her brother Finneas, who is also a synesthete.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[cluepoke-archive]

Actually just curious :]

SYNESTHESIA is characterized as a 'cross wiring' of senses in your brain

for example

tasting words

Numbers and letters having personalities

and having a consistent link between colors and numbers/letters etc. This can be fully visual (seeing aura simmialr to migrains when hearing noises) or internal (imagining bright colors or shape/ number associations to things in your 'minds eye')

Diffrent days of the week having a strong color connection

Alternatively days of the week and calender months having a specific mental layout or 'shape' and days of the week and month having a specific place om this mental map that shifts depending on where you are in time, simmilar to a clock or time table

I'm also curious on how this effects you so you can leave that in the reblogs if your comfortable!

For me personally my synesthesia effects my writing because I'll often mix up letters and numbers ( I write down 4 alot instead of G and vice versa, I also mix up 4 and 7 because they 'look' the same, I'm wondering if this is some sort of dyscalculia though, the same thing happens with A and 8)

[helpiexist]

i am so sick of people saying 'people think im weird when i say yellow, wednesday and triangle are the same😔' and then all the comments are like 'OMG EXACTLYY' or 'its like ive got synesthesia also you forgot the number three' like bro no it isnt weird no you are not crazy no you dont have synesthesia or whatever, you are making subconscious patterns, yellow is the third colour in the rainbow, triangles have 3 sides, wednesday is seen as the third day of the week these are just patterns. im mostly just sick of people saying its synesthesia or the other conditions where you equate things to other things

also applies to when people say certain days of the week are even/odd, these are just patterns

summary/TLDR: please learn to recognise patterns and stop saying you have things that you dont and know nothing about (do your research!)

[kujokomi]

please stop associating the term neurodivergent with JUST autism and adhd. like please. there are so many ways to be neurodivergent and it’s not fair to assume that it’s just about autism adhd.

[color-palettes]

reblog this and tag what color you think is most edible. bonus points if you describe the flavor

[johannesviii]

Synesthesia drawings of personal favorite hit songs - 2008: “Viva la Vida” by Coldplay I just noticed most of my fave songs of that decade were very blue and orange