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05 Aug 2013, 7:17 am

I was wondering, does anybody recognize this really weird and bizarre phenomenon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Because i do! And i was wondering if there are more people with autism who are synaesthetic

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05 Aug 2013, 9:12 am

sister has it,she is an aspie in her thirties and only recognised it had a name and not everyone has it; when she was twenty odd.

have heard many times it is most commonly found in ASD families,which woud make sense with ours as self,dad,sister,dads brother,mums sister and a bunch of cousins of mine are all on the spectrum to differing levels.

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05 Aug 2013, 10:02 am

I have Synesthesia! I taste words, but the tastes of the words are like colours. Numbers also have personalities, but I am not really clear on whether or not that is synesthesia.

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05 Aug 2013, 10:56 am

I have that similar thing called ideasthesia. It makes me great at memorizing things.

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05 Aug 2013, 11:25 am

To some degree, I perceive sound as light. If I'm not focused on anything else, I can close my eyes and really have a show.

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05 Aug 2013, 11:44 am

do you mix icecream with your food? Doing something with your food that other people would think is bizzare?

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05 Aug 2013, 12:11 pm

Me? The one who tastes words? :tongue: I do have a couple of pretty strong taste aversions, but I will mostly try everything once (at least). I like mustard on my fries, fruit with salt, and some pretty strange other things like putting cinnamon on a cheese burger. Do you have the same kind of synesthesia? Stalk?

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05 Aug 2013, 12:58 pm

I have both synesthesia and ideasthesia. And I have ASMR too. It's very difficult for me to verbalize, but I feel like it's due to the combination of all of those things. It makes listening to music or reading a really enjoyable experience.

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05 Aug 2013, 1:32 pm

ParaSait wrote:

I have that similar thing called ideasthesia. It makes me great at memorizing things.

Interesting, I've never heard of ideasthesia before. Does this mean that so-called "associative synesthesia" is really ideasthesia then?

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05 Aug 2013, 2:30 pm

LAlien wrote:

Me? The one who tastes words? :tongue:

I do have a couple of pretty strong taste aversions, but I will mostly try everything once (at least). I like mustard on my fries, fruit with salt, and some pretty strange other things like putting cinnamon on a cheese burger. Do you have the same kind of synesthesia? Stalk?

I don't have synesthesia, but it is indeed interesting reading about it. I only saw a documentary about it once. This guy, in the documentary, enjoyed eating ice cream with his chicken because of the colours he experienced. I was wondering what other combinations are out there. And why people would experience that.

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05 Aug 2013, 3:04 pm

I can see the color of letters and mubers. Musical notes are colored for me too. Or sometimes a melody or a whole song has its own distinctive palette.

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05 Aug 2013, 3:57 pm

Only when I hear or say or read a word do I taste or see a color. I don't see a color when I taste a food. what documentary? Astera? Some songs or books have their own tastes and colors. If I do see a color, I might regognise it as a taste and associate it with a word, but it will not evoke the same "synesthetic" response that hearing the word will. It sucks, sometimes. I wear earplugs a lot because I can't always handle what is going on in terms of sound, anyway, but they also help to block out the colors and tastes.

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05 Aug 2013, 4:19 pm

LAlien wrote:

Only when I hear or say or read a word do I taste or see a color. I don't see a color when I taste a food. what documentary? Astera?

It wasn't me who mentioned a documentary.

As for me, I see the color not of the word as a whole, but of its constituent letters or sounds. For some reason, all vowels are pretty much the same to me, but almost every consonant has its own color.

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05 Aug 2013, 4:51 pm

I have had synesthesia since I was a kid, though it was much stronger and more distracting when I was younger. My mom has it too, though she is NT.

The ones I've recognized are all colour based - number/colour, person I know/colour, month/colour, and day of the week/colour. If I am on any kind of sensory-altering drug, I can get other combinations - sound/taste, sound/colour, and shape/colour/taste are a few I've noticed.

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05 Aug 2013, 5:03 pm

Oops... That makes me feel kind of dumb! haha, sorry Astera! I meant Stalk. I also can't figure out how the Quote function works..

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05 Aug 2013, 5:13 pm

All I could find was this link
http://www.harding.edu/gclayton/Color/T ... hesia.html

However the youtube link in there is broken.
The guy's name is Shawn Day, he is the guy that eats a unusual combination of food because of the colours.

My self, I like to mix food that others wouldn't consider doing, but I just think that is a quirk of being me.

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