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Comment by jawns

I have grapheme-colour synesthesia (a strong, consistent association of letters with colors). Back in college, I wrote an article for my campus newspaper describing synethesia, and I included the full mapping of letter-color associations in a sidebar.

I rediscovered that clip about ten years later and, without looking at the sidebar, jotted down all of my letter-color associations. They were remarkably consistent!

I tend to also associate letters and numbers with a particular gender, even though the concept of a grammatical gender doesn't exist in English. There isn't anything about the shape of the letters or any similar pattern that explains why I associate "H" with female but "I" with male. I'm not sure that counts as synesthesia, though.

parent jawns 11 years ago

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