#synesthesia

[rimpys-pinkeye]

I think I sometimes have something akin to synesthesia under stressful or unusual situations. I used to wear ear plugs while sleeping because the rest of the household were all insomniacs. If someone lightly bumped into the bed, it would register in my brain as a flash of white light. One time a car I was riding in at night accidentally ran over and killed a cat. I perceived the moment of impact as accompanied by a flash of white light. A lightning strike followed immediately by the clap of thunder over my camper van while I was sleeping registered as a red flash inside my brain (admittedly a bright light on closed eyelids does appear red). Long story short: I would never mock someone for claiming to see a loud noise.

How i look when I see a loud noise

[linka-r9-vysocina]

i am trying to figure something out

please reblog my weird poll

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

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fuck it. shout out to "high functioning" neurodivergents

the ones who can mask easily, the ones who can get social cues, the ones who have managed to go most of their life not even knowing they were ND because they didn't present as the stereotypical ND person.

the ones who can pay attention in class, understand social etiquette, who understand societial expectations

the ones who don't feel neurodivergent enough bc they don't struggle in the same ways/areas a lot of NDs do, or they can't relate to other NDs' experiences because they always understood these things easily

the ones with high empathy, the ones who DO get the joke, the ones who are constantly told that they can't possibly be neurodivergent because they don't act like what you'd expect a neurodivergent person to act like.

you are neurodivergent enough. you are valid, and so are your experiences. not struggling as much as others do in some places doesn't mean you dont struggle at all. your condition and diagnosis is valid. your symptoms are valid. YOU ARE VALID. not checking all the supposed boxes doesn't mean you aren't neurodivergent. you are enough. you are valid. you are loved. you are valued. you matter. you belong in neurodivergent spaces, you deserve to use whatever resources are available to you, you are allowed to take up space in these communities. and i am so, so proud of you.

feel free to, and actually, i encourage you to reblog this with your experiences. we belong in this community as much as anyone else. please also tag this w/ any neurodivergent conditions i may have forgotten 💙

since this is getting lots of notes I'd like to add, even if you're undiagnosed or maybe self diagnosed, for whatever reason, (i.e. can't get access to a diagnosis, not being taken seriously, or just not wanting an official diagnosis, etc.) this still applies to you. actually especially to you folks. don't think for a second you're not valid just bc you don't have the paperwork or whatever to say it

[that-1-url]

so something I've noticed within a lot of fandoms is that people will post their "neurodivergent" headcanons. which is fine ofc, however when they say "neurodivergent" they are typically only referring to autism or ADHD. maaaayybbee ptsd if the character(s) are "traumatized enough" (by that I mean, there's typically one who everyone uwuifies and infantilizes because their trauma is most prominently on display within the media). a common headcanon that often fails to address the trauma of other characters, or that trauma doesn't always manifest itself as PTSD/C-PTSD.

point being, while there's nothing wrong with headcanoning characters with these (autism, adhd, ptsd), maybe...do research? branch out more? imagine how nice it would be if suddenly large amounts of people were not only educated about other lesser-known forms of neurodivergence (ocd, did, npd, bpd, aspd, schizotypal disorders, etc.) but destigmatized them by giving these headcanons to well-loved, popular characters (rather than the villains or antagonists, or even just less popular or even hated characters). (and hey, if you didn't know, schizophrenia and autism can present similarly)

(that being said please do research before you head canon something stigmatizing or ableist.)

it could pave the way for real, genuine, non-stigmatizing or demonizing representation.

and this could probably be a separate post but I wanted to include it here as well:

POC CHARACTERS CAN BE NEURODIVERGENT. POC CHARACTERS ARE ALSO AUTISTIC, ALSO HAVE ADHD, OCD, AND MORE!! STOP LEAVING THEM OUT, STOP ONLY HEADCANONING THE WHITE PROTAGONISTS AS AUTISTIC.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, please feel free to add on

[snazzystarlight]

I wanted to do a synesthesia painting of Chappel Roan's "Casual" but seeing how much fun her performances and videos are made me want to play!! So I made a physical synesthesia collage for the first time and had so much fun!

[kujokomi]

please stop associating the term neurodivergent with JUST autism and adhd. like please. there are so many ways to be neurodivergent and it’s not fair to assume that it’s just about autism adhd.

[color-palettes]

reblog this and tag what color you think is most edible. bonus points if you describe the flavor

[paulmccartneyexplodingonstage]

“If we can’t be lovers we’ll never be friends…”

Mixed media, 22.5x30in, 28 hrs

(click for better quality)

One day I’ll sit down and give an extensive talk on my experience with synesthesia, but for now I’ll just say that for me, music has always been tied to my art. Inextricably. When I put on music as I paint it’s not just background noise, it’s actively informing the piece. This is an example of me taking that to the logical extreme, this entire piece was made and crafted by the music I heard as I painted it. Using Beatles (and solo career) songs from across their lifespan, the finished piece becomes a visual symphony of shared history between Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Everything shared, and everything left unsaid.

[autiebiographical]

Synesthesia is when senses get crossed. You may hear colours or literally feel music. With autistic people already having atypical brain wiring it makes sense that autistic people are more likely to experience synesthesia than the general public.

It's not something I personally experience, but there are plenty of autistic people who do.

[fairyhaos]

the colour of beomgyu, my synaesthesia is telling me, is a delicate, dark periwinkle.

he's soft and pale and fragile, like the quivering colours of a fairy's wings, warm against the shimmering blue of a river. like the velvet colours of tiny flowers in a green field.

like a shimmering unicorn horn, cruelly harvested from the animal for its magic healing properties, regarded as so revered and so precious that it's kept locked away in the dark for centuries to come.

(until a righteous warlock comes along, protesting the cruelty against unicorns and stops the extermination of their kind for good. the unicorns with their shining periwinkle horns are forces of unbelievable power, and should not have their magic snuffed out for the petty greed of mankind.)

beomgyu is unreal, mythical, a translucent purple-blue that is only heard of and never truly seen.

but he's also the grittily real colour of three day-old bruises, of veins visible through the thin skin of the wrists, of faded blue ballpoint on palms because your friends doodled on your hands that morning and the ink has yet to be fully rubbed away. he's the colour of life, of being lived-in, of proof that you're alive and have done things and you exist, you exist, you exist.

beomgyu is translucent purple-blue, grounded in reality not quite, the edges fizzling into something softer, more whimsical, like an impossibly thin silk cloth that drapes perfectly over your skin.

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comment below/ send an ask to be tagged in the other txt synaesthesia posts! <3

[cluepoke-archive]

Actually just curious :]

SYNESTHESIA is characterized as a 'cross wiring' of senses in your brain

for example

tasting words

Numbers and letters having personalities

and having a consistent link between colors and numbers/letters etc. This can be fully visual (seeing aura simmialr to migrains when hearing noises) or internal (imagining bright colors or shape/ number associations to things in your 'minds eye')

Diffrent days of the week having a strong color connection

Alternatively days of the week and calender months having a specific mental layout or 'shape' and days of the week and month having a specific place om this mental map that shifts depending on where you are in time, simmilar to a clock or time table

I'm also curious on how this effects you so you can leave that in the reblogs if your comfortable!

For me personally my synesthesia effects my writing because I'll often mix up letters and numbers ( I write down 4 alot instead of G and vice versa, I also mix up 4 and 7 because they 'look' the same, I'm wondering if this is some sort of dyscalculia though, the same thing happens with A and 8)

[sketchinfun]

The other day I was discussing my synesthesia to my family members since I had never told them that I had it, or how I perceive numbers and sounds/music. I decided to make a quick little write up thing explaining my experience with synesthesia, even though it's one of the more common types.

[bambiiis]

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[arthurbutus]

I'm so mad that UGM removed all their music from social media- this video was doing so well on tiktok 😭