If you’re out and about, you’re likely not carrying around measuring cups, spoons and scales with you… so portion size charts like this can come in handy =)
… but what if you have tiny baby hands, I’m pretty sure my thumb is more teaspoon-sized than tablespoon-sized cry
i actually get a little jealous of other synesthetes who get a lot of questions about their synesthesia because i dont really get the opportunity to talk about mine with people who dont write me off as batshit when i do
THE PEOPLE WHO THINK YOU ARE BATSHIT ARE REALLY SUPER BULLSHIT
I mean, the parts of the brain that govern sensory input are really complicated, and cognitive psychology as a field doesn’t understand nearly as much about them as we’d like to because they are capable of a TON OF AMAZING SHIT and synesthesia is part of that
but we know that even in a neurotypical brain they’re more interconnected than conventional wisdom would expect them to be
Like, there’s this one experiment you can do where you flash lights and play tones at people, and if it’s fast enough, and the tone and the light come from different directions, people will try to reconcile them as coming from the same place. Isn’t that awesome? But most people hearing that will think that it was another example of C-word. God fucking damn it. Also, there’s a specific part of the brain that, for example, connects vision with the perception of the passage of time; one that allows people to perceive the concept of “left”—the left side of their visual field, the left side of individual objects, whatever; one that governs the ability to name objects, which is separate from the one that governs the ability to interact with them, so that someone who had damage to the former wouldn’t be able to name a telephone if they saw it but could use it to make a call, and someone who had damage to the latter could name it but not use it. All evidence of these, again, many would term C-word. And all of these are integral parts of their own brains. Silly, isn’t it?
ill be honest with you im still generally amazed that a hunk of neurons transfering electricity between one another is the process behind higher functions like thought, so when it comes to the more complex inner workings of brains i take people at their word
if someone tells me they experience the world a certain way who am i to disbelieve them, even if it doesnt match my own experience? i mean, if i do that im acting like im the model human being and that’s a little bit too self-important for my liking
but i think most people are not groomed to think this way, which is why living with neurodiversity is such a pill to begin with
yeah, amen. I mean, it’s a little cliche to put it this way, but brains really are beautiful unique fucking snowflakes, no two brains develop the same way because they all have different forces acting on them, both genetically and during the process of forming and trimming connections. It’s amazing! Flat-out dismissal of the diversity of subjective experience is just. Maybe it’s a product of my background, but I really truly honestly believe, with no irony at all, that individual variance is what makes brains so beautiful and humanity so amazing. For everything I’ve struggled with in my chosen field of study, I would not give that up for anything.
It sucks that you have to deal with people who don’t understand and the prevailing culture that causes that lack of understanding, and I’m sorry.
Yeah that’s Loki’s actor.
OH GOOD, THANK YOU
I WAS ABOUT TO IM MY ROOMMATE AND ASK HER TO CONFIRM AND THAT WOULD HAVE ANNOYED HER
I GOT THIS APP CALLED I’D CAP THAT WHERE IT PUTS RANDOM CAPTIONS ON YOUR PICTURES. SOME DIDNT FIT IN THE PHOTOSET BUT OMG
PS- THE LAST ONE DOWN THERE IS MY FAVROTIE HOLY SHIT
…t-the last one ;^;
…sgdisfojgufie the one with the horse
yeah in layman context the i just see synesthesia as a mild novelty and also the reason why i continually confuse the numbers 3 and 8 for one anotherfdjisajgldf SORRY I DIDN’T MEAN TO IMPLY YOU WERE MISSING THE OBVIOUS OR ANYTHING but hahaha it’s awesome that you have synesthesia! according to current popular theory, that means you’re an early adopter of the next generation OS for the human brain. How does yours manifest, if you don’t mind me asking?
most of the normal (or common?) ways, the colourform type and number line, and also audio-tactile ?? (whatever word they have for processing sound like touch) and some mild taste-texture association with abstract concepts
the audio one is the strongest and the reason why i get really irritated when people talk to me when i dont want them too because even if theyre standing ten feet away it still feels like theyre violating my personal space
this is not something i can actually tell people without getting the c word thrown at me a bunch of times
auditory-tactile or auditory-haptic, I’m guessing? BUT MAN, THAT’S REALLY COOL, I’ve never read research on that particular one before, although I can… imagine how it would get annoying that way, yeah, augh. It sucks that people use the C-word on it, that’s ridiculous.
(The number/color one is the archetypical form, you’re right; I don’t know if it’s the most common but it’s the most studied, so it’s common enough that you can find enough participants who have it to run statistically valid studies with, and also it is the easiest to produce stimuli and crunch numbers for because it can be treated as two modalities of vision, which is the best-understood of the senses.)
yeah, and that’s the one i disovered first about myself, through meeting another synesthete
it would be nice if synesthesia was a more common knowledge thing. i remember being a small child and inquiring several people about what their number lines looked like, and feeling very out of the loop when no one understood what i was asking for :?
and it would be easier to explain WHY i like dubstep so much if people understood that what they percieve as noise feels like a brain massage to me, mMMmmm
Oh man, dubstep must be awesome to you, I can’t even imagine.
Brain massages totally count as an evolutionary advantage, that is excellent
i actually get a little jealous of other synesthetes who get a lot of questions about their synesthesia because i dont really get the opportunity to talk about mine with people who dont write me off as batshit when i do
THE PEOPLE WHO THINK YOU ARE BATSHIT ARE REALLY SUPER BULLSHIT
I mean, the parts of the brain that govern sensory input are really complicated, and cognitive psychology as a field doesn’t understand nearly as much about them as we’d like to because they are capable of a TON OF AMAZING SHIT and synesthesia is part of that
but we know that even in a neurotypical brain they’re more interconnected than conventional wisdom would expect them to be
Like, there’s this one experiment you can do where you flash lights and play tones at people, and if it’s fast enough, and the tone and the light come from different directions, people will try to reconcile them as coming from the same place. Isn’t that awesome? But most people hearing that will think that it was another example of C-word. God fucking damn it. Also, there’s a specific part of the brain that, for example, connects vision with the perception of the passage of time; one that allows people to perceive the concept of “left”—the left side of their visual field, the left side of individual objects, whatever; one that governs the ability to name objects, which is separate from the one that governs the ability to interact with them, so that someone who had damage to the former wouldn’t be able to name a telephone if they saw it but could use it to make a call, and someone who had damage to the latter could name it but not use it. All evidence of these, again, many would term C-word. And all of these are integral parts of their own brains. Silly, isn’t it?
yeah in layman context the i just see synesthesia as a mild novelty and also the reason why i continually confuse the numbers 3 and 8 for one anotherfdjisajgldf SORRY I DIDN’T MEAN TO IMPLY YOU WERE MISSING THE OBVIOUS OR ANYTHING but hahaha it’s awesome that you have synesthesia! according to current popular theory, that means you’re an early adopter of the next generation OS for the human brain. How does yours manifest, if you don’t mind me asking?
most of the normal (or common?) ways, the colourform type and number line, and also audio-tactile ?? (whatever word they have for processing sound like touch) and some mild taste-texture association with abstract concepts
the audio one is the strongest and the reason why i get really irritated when people talk to me when i dont want them too because even if theyre standing ten feet away it still feels like theyre violating my personal space
this is not something i can actually tell people without getting the c word thrown at me a bunch of times
auditory-tactile or auditory-haptic, I’m guessing? BUT MAN, THAT’S REALLY COOL, I’ve never read research on that particular one before, although I can… imagine how it would get annoying that way, yeah, augh. It sucks that people use the C-word on it, that’s ridiculous.
(The number/color one is the archetypical form, you’re right; I don’t know if it’s the most common but it’s the most studied, so it’s common enough that you can find enough participants who have it to run statistically valid studies with, and also it is the easiest to produce stimuli and crunch numbers for because it can be treated as two modalities of vision, which is the best-understood of the senses.)