Synesthesia!

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Anyone else have this? What are your experiences like?

Also...in your opinion, if one has synesthesia but nothing else (or synesthesia and, say, ADHD), does this automatically remove them from the NT category?

I have synaes thesia. When I wsa a kid, I associated A with green, E with blue, I white, O yellow and U brown/purple. Nothing serious though, and it hasn't affected my life much.

Not sure about your question. Neurotypical are people without mental "conditions" or whatever, but synaesthesis seems to be treated by mainstream society as "normal". ADHD I think is not NT.

Heh...the one time I tried to tell my parents about synesthesia and that I had it, they sure didn't treat THAT one as normal. I learned to watch very carefully who I mentioned it to lest they think I was doing drugs.

I don't know if this is synesthesia - when I listen to solo classical music, like Rampal on flute, it registers as a physical touch in various parts of my body, in addition to hearing of course.

Yes, there are multiple threads here about it.

I laugh when I think about it today because my quack knew I had it Long before I knew not everyone did. Though at the time he was dealing with other Hierarchy issues. When we finally got around to it, I was saddened at first for those who don't have it, later became envious of them, it can be confusing to others when not understood. - I don't require any assistance in that department.

Some Aspie's are blind, some NT's are death - irrelevance prevails.

Additionally, a quick Google will reveal the multiple varieties and severity of this so-called disorder. For me, it's not that acute or debilitating, only expanded visual haring and other unusual senses are hardwired. Problem is, it's not switchable too on or off.

i had a psychiatrist tell me i had it but i don't know for certain.

rachmaninov;s cello sonata 19 makes me think of yellow, amber and brown.
The piano concerto 2 and symphony 2 makes me think of blues and greys.
Examples, anyone?

I smell people's faces. For a long time I thought I was just smelling people but then I realized that I could smell the people on TV, too. But the faces have to be moving. Still photographs barely have any smell at all - very subtle scents. It's the moving face that I smell and I'm repulsed by people whose faces smell bad, not matter how conventionally attractive they are.

The smell of a face is one of the clues I use to recognize people because I have some degree of prosopagnosia otherwise.

I like music that looks purple to me. Purple is such a nice color.

Wow, that is so cool!! Can you tell who was in a place after they've left like that? That sounds like a super power to me.

For me, days and certain letters have colours. I also get the impression of textures when I experience certain unrelated things. Like maybe someone entering the house triggers a flash of the image of peeling paint on iron, or dew on grass, etc.

Seeing music and smelling people's faces sound awesome.
One time I saw somebody rub their left arm, My right arm started tingling. I guess I have that mirror touch kind.
Even the mention of vaccinations and my arms start hurting.

No, it only happens when I'm looking at the face. I've tried imagining a face and not only can I not get a clear mental image of the face, I get no smell. It would be more fun if people's faces smelled better -- like fresh-cut flowers or something. Some smell awful. Most are slightly bad. The best smelling face I've ever seen is somewhat reminiscent of cheddar cheese (and she is not the most physically attractive face I've seen. There is no correlation between physical beauty and acceptability of smell.)

If it's consistent and something you don't deliberately will...very possible indeed.

For me, I perceive music (or any sound)--or in my case, each specific instrument that makes up a song--as its own shape that moves and changes according to pitch, timbre, reverb, and all sorts of other information. Pretty much any effect you can create, I can see it visually as well as hear it with my ears. Unlike a lot of people who have that kind of synesthesia, though, there is absolutely no color information whatsoever. What I see is greyscale shapes. That might sound bland, but it's not...it just means I have a different aesthetic. (Which means I can even understand what a person who has NO color vision at all might find attractive and interesting. Things with a lot of contrast, with a lot of patterned movement, can be very beautiful when you don't see color.)

We used to have a flashing red light at work. This alerted the production manager that a rush order was about to come out. The first time the light started flashing, I put my hands over my ears, yelled "TOO LOUD!" and went running from the room.

Is that synaesthesia??! !
I get that a lot but i always assumed it was a trigger for reciprocating body language. I also get itchy even on non mirroring body language responses. like sometimes my hip will itch so i have to scratch it and display body language showing i am "threatened" or my neck will itch if i'm attracted to someone.

I'm not sure i'm describing the same thing. any ideas? thanks

I can taste certain sounds- they are specific sounds. Like the tinkling of chimes or small bells makes me taste lemon. A certain scratchy noise will make me taste pimento cheese spread (how random is that?). I see people as colors in my mind. If I recall them in a memory- like recall a conversation, they are a certain color. The same person will always be the same color- it isn't a mood thing. I also have graphical representations of time lines. When I have to think in terms of days, weeks, months, they are not words like "Tuesday" or "May". They are a box in a certain space. It is difficult to explain, but it is a form of synaesthesia. The forms I have are not the most common, but are discussed on the synaesthesia research website.

I had ADHD too- to answer the OP question. I wonder if any NTs would have it. It is not typical neurology, so I would not class that as part of the NT mind, but I am only a layman.