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I have a similar story. All my life the letters of the alphabet each had a color associated with it. D is green and K is blue, etc. One day for no particular r
by function_seven 3y ago
I have a similar story. All my life the letters of the alphabet each had a color associated with it. D is green and K is blue, etc.
One day for no particular reason I decided to pay attention to which color each letter evoked in me. And to my great surprise, it was a simple-ass repeating pattern! Up until this point, I had never actually noticed it. And when I did notice it, it sparked a new mystery for me.
I knew right away that this pattern meant my color associations must have come from some toy blocks or a set of magnetic refrigerator letters. But every single time I saw these toy blocks, or magnets, they never matched the colors in my head!
Finally, about five years ago, a friend of mine out of the blue sent me this link:
https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2013/01/fisher-price-synesthesia.html?m=1 https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2013/01/fisher-price-synest...
The colors in that link were the same as the ones in my head, and now I knew where I formed those associations. As a toddler playing with magnets on my fridge, that must have been this particular set.
The color association is still there today, and as strong as it ever was. And it kind of helps me recall peoples’ names when I can’t think of them right away. I’ll say goofy shit like, “oh, what was his name? David? Daniel? …It’s some green name.”