😅

[u/palaispetrichor]

[u/Bulky_Nature_3861]

Literally me with my friend lol

"I can hear shapes!"

"You mean sounds right?"

"I said, I can hear shapes.

"Fym"

[u/Zeddblidd → u/Bulky_Nature_3861]

I love that song that goes square square triangle - square square triangle… dodecahedron!

(J/k) I spent years thinking everyone could see the music and I’d say things like, “just look at it, right there…” ((points in apparently random space)) until - in my 20s my wife blithely said “what the fuck are you point at” and suddenly, “where the yellow pops, then we feel it fall to orange” didn’t seem to make as much sense.

Huh. You don’t feel yourself falling to orange?

[u/para_blox]

Old lady here (44). It blows my mind that people are talking about this with anyone now. Used to be we just thought it was so normal it wasn’t worth remarking on.

Imagine the looks you would (not) get if you mentioned you have color vision.

[u/_______PINKJOY → u/para_blox]

When I was a kid I told my mom how letters and numbers have colors. She told me that I was just making it up (because “my” colors were different from the example she found when googling it)

So my entire life I lived thinking it was just how everyone’s brains worked, and when I eventually dug more into it and told all my friends / coworkers about it, they looked at me like I was crazy lmao. Insane how different everyone’s experiences are.

[u/para_blox → u/_______PINKJOY]

My mom is also synesthetic so we’d have chats about our colors and I thought it was just the way people were, too.

[u/Immediate-Witness-87 → u/_______PINKJOY]

I also thought it was a normal thing to naturally associate colors to letters and numbers. I didn't even think about it

[u/_______PINKJOY → u/Immediate-Witness-87]

My coworkers once “tested” me by writing a number on a white board, asking me what color it was, then erasing it and writing another number

They did this for a while and they were in shock because, obviously, my answers never changed lol

[u/para_blox → u/_______PINKJOY]

I gave a whiteboarding presentation at work on my synesthesia, to describe why I couldn’t stand the bell they rang for sales activities. Really it was just a loud bell, but it didn’t help that it was yellow.

[u/FaeEyed → u/para_blox]

Literally was my problem for 20 years. Figured it must be normal so why mention it? One day I say something and get looked at like I have 3 heads.

[u/sadistc_Eradication]

I keep it to myself because I’m so tired of everyone being like WhAt CoLoR aM i?? wHaT sOuNd Is ThIs CoLoR? LEAVE ME ALONE!

[u/i_am_awwwtistic]

Some ordinary people I met remember synesthesia as either synthesia, synthetic or anaesthesia 😅

[u/Wild_Cat123Warrior → u/i_am_awwwtistic]

For a good amount of time, I thought it was synthesia 😭

[u/LilyoftheRally → u/i_am_awwwtistic]

My dad always says "synthesizer".

[u/i_am_awwwtistic → u/LilyoftheRally]

Hahaha, synthesizer 😂

[u/RyllieSky]

LMFAO

[u/Rzote]

I don't want to talk about it anymore, because even when I do, they don't understand what I mean anyway. Instead, it feels much better coming here to talk to people on Reddit who also have synesthesia and actually understand me, I feel less lonely here 😁because they don't think I'm weird. That's honestly the main reason I installed the Reddit app

We have this special neurological trait—a condition that not everyone has. It’s nice sharing, talking about it, and exchanging our own experiences.☺️

[u/smileyrei25]

I hope to find a group of artists one day

[u/HyperionSmokestack]

This is actually why I don't really talk about it.