[stylist] Thinking of words

[Anita Adkins]

Hello,

Yes. I always have.  The picture is one single unit for me rather than a 
letter-by-letter vision. It has color, and it is always in contracted 
Braille. Colors are associated with this picture because I have a different 
color for each letter. Perhaps, this is why I can also quickly jump through 
days or months when hunting for a future date in my mind because I can use 
color and counting at the same time on the journey. Interestingly, I have 
been able to identify colors on Uno cards before, but I would guess I am 
color blind since I couldn't tell you what color something is if you showed 
it to me. I imagine the uno card deal was because blue and green are smooth 
colors. With glasses, green was different-looking than blue. Red is dark and 
yellow is light, and both are grainy colors to me. So when I say I have a 
different color for each letter, I cannot identify these colors; however, 
they are varying shades of light and dark, smooth and grainy. And, if the 
book I am reading is interesting enough, I do not picture the words on the 
page at all, but the vision of what scene the words are portraying, for ex., 
a man walking in a dark alley or a bunch of children on a playground. I 
wonder how sighted people do that since they would both have to see the word 
and envision the scene. When I envision something, I am not sure, but I 
think my eyes are closed or squinting, at least. In fact, typing this email 
is an automatic process for me as I am not picturing the words I type, but 
the scenes that result from the words being typed, in most instances.
Have a great day. Anita

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "The Crowd" <the_crowd at cox.net>
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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 10:24 AM
Subject: [stylist] Thinking of words


> When I think of words I immediately think of their color. I have graphemic 
> synesthesia and my numbers and letters are in color, but secondly comes 
> the mind seeing of the word and sometimes mine are braille simbols, 
> sometimes printed letters and sometimes a mix of both.
>
> Anyone else do this?
>
> Curious now,
> Atty
>
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