Mirror-Touch Synesthesia

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My senses are crossed between pain and kinetics.

Childhood memories that taught me this
-nails on chalk board didn't hurt my ears, but made my fingers curl
-watching my mother file her nails drove me insane as i felt pain in my fingers
-i laugh at pain (unless it is an apparent injury)

If a car engine has parts rubbing together I can visualize the parts with my mind, I will feel pain.


I also perceive taste by sight. I have a hard time eating mandarin oranges because the texture is that of a shrimp and shrimd and oranges just don't seem to fit together for me.

I perceive sound as waves. Not sure if they are colored waves yet.

My MTS is a source of great amusement to a couple of people who have discovered it. While I don't feel slight things, I do experience most discomfort-inducing actions I watch as if they were being done to me. The person being touched, hit, skin stretched, etc. might not feel any pain, but I feel it at the same level as if the action were being done directly to me.

It requires seeing the painful activity live. Talking about it, or even watching it in a movie or on television does not trigger an MTS response.

I do!

And it always confuses me, because I thought that, since my mirror-neurons don't work typically, I should be less sensitive to that sort of thing. I'm wondering if it's a matter of less sensitivity, or different connections. My experiences implies the latter.

Yeah I have it but sometimes it depends on which sensation...