[stylist] the synesthesia poem ... finally!

[Vejas]

I think I have it too.  For me, certain words remind me of 
certain foods.
I never knew the name until I read a book called A Mango-Shaped 
Space by Wendy Mass.  It is about a girl named Mia who has it.
When I was younger, I used to have 2 categories of names: salt 
names and sugar names.  The salt names reminded me of salty food 
and the sugar names of sweet food.  That was in first grade, and 
now I've learned a lot of new names and I haven't categorized 
them in a while.  There was no real reason why.
Some "salty" names are Clyde, Spencer, Claudia and Della.  Some 
sugary names are Matthew, Robert, Heidi, Emma, Melody and Evelyn.  
I remember in first grade I had a story where the teacher wanted 
to break the children into groups by "salt" and "sugar" names.
But like I said, now I know more names, and I actually haven't 
thought about this in a long time, until I read this.
Also, some names were neither salty nor sweet.
Vejas


 ----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara Hammel <poetlori8 at msn.com
To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 06:58:26 -0500
Subject: Re: [stylist] the synesthesia poem ...  finally!

Chris, my understanding is that only 10% of the population 
experience some form of synesthesia.  Until a couple of years 
ago, I never knew this had a name.  I just assumed that everyone 
saw things like this.
Barbara

Me

 On Oct 17, 2013, at 6:30, "Chris Kuell" <ckuell at comcast.net> 
wrote:

 Hi Barbara,

 Thanks for sharing your poems with us.  I really enjoyed the one 
on synesthesia.  I know a couple of blind people who describe 
letters and words as you do, and I'd love to experience it.  But 
it just doesn't happen in my case.  All I have is imagination.

 chris


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