[purplegiraffe1]

So i am autistic, and i also have synesthesia (sound-color/smell-taste). and i was curious as to how common this is with others on the spectrum. I'm also curious, if you do, what form you have.

[JoyDivision7680]

I don't think I have synesthesia, but rather something related to it. Or maybe is just a weirder type of intuition, oh well. I tend to feel a great yet indescriptible taste when thinking of (usually) a band/artist unknown to my ears yet. That's how I got to hear some of my favorite bands.

[rosska]

I haven't ever been diagnosed with it so I don't think I have it. Though I am very aware that when my senses become hyper stimulated by things such as loud noises, I am aware of the noise as a feeling on my body like every part of my skin is tingling or vibrating. Don't know if that's the same sort of thing or not haha.

[CrackFox]

I definitely have synesthesia.

Words/letters/numbers all have their own color and personality.

Music is very colorful and shaped different.

I like having it because I'm an artist and I think I can take in the beauty of art more than non artists.

[phaset]

I don't know if this is synethesia or not. I see flashes/pulses of white light when I hear a startling noise while relaxed. For instance the other night I was laying in bed and my wife's phone made a noise and the light flashed with the volume of the noise as it changed. I only realized that other people don't have this in university. It seemed perfectly reasonable while growing up.

[yelobird]

*raises hand*

I didn't know that is was unusual until college, I was working on a project with a psych major (I was in mathematics so her world was forign to me) and I mentioned that we should alphbetize it by color.
she almost had a coronary. it was aparently something she was deep into researching and from then on I'm pretty sure she was studying me haha.

for me:
Numbers and letters have color (usually extremely unique, except that 6 and R are exactly the same shade of yellow, so i'll get confused and say/write the wrong one.)
Music has color that changes with pitch and texture that changes with tone (cello is "fuzzy", violin is "spikey" although these are kind of rough descriptions)
Time has spatial orientation. Different moments in time are in different "places", everything that has ever happened and ever will happen is happening NOW, it's just not happening HERE, like i'm traveling through this chunk of time. When I go to plan something, or remember something, I feel like I come "out" of the timestream to look at it and get a perspective of that memory or appointment in relation to where I am right now.

Weird, right? Until recently I thought EVERYONE did this.

[yelobird]

Originally Posted by CrackFox

I definitely have synesthesia.

Words/letters/numbers all have their own color and personality.

Music is very colorful and shaped different.

I like having it because I'm an artist and I think I can take in the beauty of art more than non artists.

Personality? that's awesome!!!

[BelleCat]

I have found my synesthesia to be both inspiring, and annoying at times.

[tesseract49]

I have synesthia with days of the week.

[avlady]

Most artists are, i think, more creative than mathmatical.

[snickie]

Has anyone ever associated their hands/fingers with colors or personalities?

I've done this since I was a child, maybe as young as three years old. My index finger is blue and the "mother". My middle finger is red and the "father". My ring finger is a yellowish green, the "grandmother". My pinky finger is golden yellow, the "kid". And my thumb is a plum purple color, the "grandfather" (because process of elimination).

They don't bear any resemblance to my actual family, except that my pinky finger is shorter than all of my other fingers (obviously) so naturally I attributed the similarity of height to my own (I was three!).

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I also have grapheme-color synesthesia and mild pitch-chromesthesia (absolute pitch, though given how many pitches/keys are orange and green this is not the method behind my absolute pitch).

[HiCCup]

I am still trying to understand mine. My T had to explain what synesthesia was to me when I told her that blue and red were my favorite flavors. I experience both color projections and see color in my minds eye in response to certain things like sounds and textures. May I ask what yours is like? I have never discussed with another synesthete

[boydisappearing]

I have musical instrument/color synesthesia and some sound/color synesthesia.