#mirror touch synesthesia

[boldlyoptimisticduck]

Oh wow hi hello!!! I was curious what would pop up if I looked up mirror touch synesthesia and your post was one of the firsts!! I haven’t met anybody else who has mirror touch and it was quite nice to read your post, sorta like confirmation that it’s not all in my head / I’m not alone!! I hope you’re having a lovely timezone!! 💙 🐠

Oh hey! It’s so great to see that someone can relate to this (i posted it because god, this condition is so fucking isolating sometimes)!

Yk, when society uses the words “it’s just in your head” as a way to try and gaslight those who expirience odd shit it makes me lose my mind cause like-

YEAH OFC ITS IN MY HEAD- THATS WHERE MY BRAIN IS

ESP when it comes to neurological disorders cause like there’s something detectably physically different even if it’s not fully understood by science at the moment.

Science says that those with mirror touch synesthesia are 1 or 2 out of 100 but social stigma makes it feel like 1 in 10 million.

I really hope that one day mirror touch synesthetes can unite and form a strong community

Have a good time one as well!! 🫶🏼

[boldlyoptimisticduck]

Telling people you have mirror touch synesthesia and they, without fail, immediately go “so can you feel this?” and immediately start poking their own face or some shit even if I just told them not to test it out because I don’t like when people do that.

Like bro, I’m telling you because I trust you and you are using that information to go out of your way to do something that I specifically asked you not to do.

I’m not asking you to change anything you are doing, I’m just asking you not to test my condition like it’s a fucking party trick.

No, I don’t feel everything the exact same intensity as the person/thing my brain is mirroring.

No, I don’t understand how this works. I am just as confused as you are. All I know is that this is one of the ways my brain is fucked up.

Yes, I’m sure I don’t want you to poke your arms because you want to pay attention to how I react.

Yes, this is why i rarely tell anyone irl.

[just-a-persons]

Anyone on this website got mirror touch synesthesia? I'm pretty confident that I have it, but I'm curious about other people's experiences.

[cryptydz]

synesthesia culture is knowing you really shouldn’t watch gory content and still do it anyways even though you think you’re about to die

[amazinglyadequate]

My dream movie role is to be a final girl in a slasher which is so funny because due to my mirror touch synesthesia I probably wouldn't even be able to watch the finished product

[sentientsky]

me: [has mirror-touch synesthesia, which causes corresponding (albeit much less intense) pain in my body when i watch someone being physically harmed]

also me: i should watch a gory movie i think

[synesthete-culture-is]

Mirror touch synesthesia is loving spiders but feeling uncomfortable looking at them sometimes because sometimes when they crawl you can feel them on your skin by just looking at them 😖 not a great feeling

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[synesthete-culture-is]

synesthete culture is sending your platonic partner a song because it has very nice vibes and energy and it's a mood but it's about eating a computer piece by piece and you forgot your partner has mirror touch synesthesia so now u feel bad

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