Nov 18, 2025
you're like a radio: i'm tuning into you.
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you're like a radio: i'm tuning into you.
When you point out how neurodiversity affects whole areas of the brain, not just what we see as the presentation symptoms, it seems so obvious. I've known that many neurodivergent conditions have high rate of co-morbidities, but haven't thought about what that would mean. I really liked your explanation of what else dyslexia affects, it made me recategorise some of my sister's mom behaviours. I see time blindness, some executive dysfunction, organisation difficulties and go, yup, I've got that too, it's normal, and forget that most people don't struggle with that (I've suspected I have undiagnosed ADHD for years, but never got checked for it, since I suggested it my dad freaked out, insisting there was nothing wrong with me. I really should though)
May I ask how your synaesthesia manifests for you? I'm always curious about how neurodiversity manifests in people and how it affects them, because there are so many minor and major things not talked about. I apologise if that question makes you uncomfortable, you don't have yo answer it.
Anyway, thank you for your explanation! It made a lot of things click all at once for me.
If you want lots of examples of how my synaesthesia works, I have a tag you could trawl here. But, I have a few different types; the common numbers-have-colours one, but I also get textures and sensations and feelings, and about... literally everything. Numbers, words, people's voices, names, personalities, the plots of media, images, everything.
Soooo, yeah. Sensory overload is the big impact; trial and error over the years has shown me it's primarily auditory, so if I can wear earplugs I can cope for longer in 'busy' environments. The other thing is that it really does a number on my mathematical ability, though, because, I shit you not, the colours get in the way. When I was a small child I was shown that 3 + 5 = 8, and my brain went "Yes, orange + pink = brown, got it" and ever since then if I see a 3 and a 5 together in a sum it DOES NOT MATTER what the operator is, I immediately assume the answer is 8. 3 plus 5? 8. 3 minus 5? Also 8. 3 times 5? Buddy you'll never guess. But it's 8.
It takes conscious effort not to do this T_T
The other thing is that I really, REALLY suffer from this thing where someone goes "Hey, we should watch Program X" but the problem is, you see, the problem is, I cannot stand the sensation I get from the name Program X, and therefore I will not watch it out of disgust that is totally unrelated to the actual show. This applies to all media, places, human beings, etc. (It is obviously a thing I have to be careful of when it's human beings.)
I think everything else I have is ADHD-related though, so that's probably everything I can put down to the synaesthesia.
so erm i have mild synaesthesia and the voice actors in wtnv all have VERY strong colours so take cecil, carlos, and kevin’s voices!!
CECIL:
the first is his voice like,,, normally, his voice is a very VERY nice colour and i like it.
the second is when he’s happier, especially when he’s talking about carlos. it gets brighter and lighter, plus sort of pink. it’s very mmmmm
the thrid is specifically when he’s like “STEVES CARLSBURGG >:(“ or otherwise angry :}
CARLOS:
the first one is pre-throat spiders :} it’s a a lot,,, dustier?? i have zero clue how to describe it. still very nice:D
the second is post-throat spiders. it went from green to like blue and purple. its very pretty. seems edible:}
third is when he’s talking about stuff he’s passionate about/dorking out. it doesnt to nearly as noticeably lighter, like cecil’s does, but it does go purple-er
KEVIN:
since kevin’s voice stays like,,, mostly one tone, i used his pre, during, and very post strex voices from episode 73 triptych (which destroyed me)
pre — his voice is almost sand coloured, it’s much warmer :D
during — it’s gold, but artificially so—like plastic gold. it’d definitely also have that texture too, like a cheap plastic coin. it’s still nice to listen to, but the colour isnt as nice. the actual colour i managed to get doesnt show it nearly as well
post — his voice is like drained of colour and has the texture of drywall or a popcorn ceiling. it also has some blue mixed it, but it’s not super noticeable. (ough my baby</3)
(obligatory @mjshortformcjesus tag)
Ok so. Fun little fact about me. I have synaesthesia, meaning I can taste/smell sounds. This also includes voices. So..... this is what my favorite wrestlers rn taste like =] I know they seem weird but synaesthesia is weird soooo yeah
Danhausen: lemon, petrichor, leather
Speedball Mike Bailey: boston creme donut, specifically what it smells like when you go into a Dunkin Donuts
MJF: oak, cologne that smells like bourbon and orange
Hook: strawberry vape smell, those sour candy strips you get at the dollar store
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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do you trust this guy's face? yessss do you enjoy making art, for the simple joy of it because it feels good? do you have synethesia? do you have a complex dissociative disorder? would YOU find learning about synaesthesia in a neuroscience lens helpful for your art creation too? 👀📊 🎨
(I hope this is right terms) solidarity is me and my partner realising we both have weird synesthesia with colours (not the classic ones but with colours themselves) and comparing our 'associations' i wanted to share it because it was cool and i hope it is okay.
This is solidarity!
I honestly think more people are synesthetic than people realize! Mainly because people don't know what synesthesia actually *is.*
This gives me the opportunity to share not only the synesthesia tree [link], which is a very cool website, but also my rundown of the main types of synesthesia!
I'll put it below the cut, if anyone wants to read it!
Synaesthesia is when a person has a brain that triggers an atypical secondary response to sensory input. This secondary response could be the activation of another sense, or it could be the activation of a specific thought process.
A person who has synesthesia is called a Synesthete.
It’s not quite what you’re talking about, but the way mints “smell” changed for me when they became a migraine trigger. They used to mostly smell cold, even in tea, but now all of them smell like pain for lack of a better term. But not that I am in pain, just that they and a few other scents now have an additional scent note to them that smells like the way pain feels, even when they haven’t actually triggered a migraine
I wonder if this is your brain trying to warn you of danger? Or even maybe some kind of classical conditioning happening? Some people feel intense anxiety before having a seizure. I've also read that people who have received a blood transfusion of the wrong blood type feel a sense of impending doom. Love that the brain is often an absolute black box mystery even to the person operating it.
