Misophonia may be a form of synesthesia
It turns out that misophonia might be a form of synesthesia. This makes sense as my extra auditory response to specific sounds ranges from fight or flight to sensory pleasure. The sound of thick water gurgling over rocks creates a rather difficult to quantify feeling - its subtly intoxicating.
I have indeed, especially in childhood, had sounds that, while I couldn't say I SAW particular colors or sensed something else other than hearing, I would vividly imagine particular colors with particular sounds. Not sure if I should count that as synesthesia...
Speaking of which, sounds (and looks lol) to me like a little synesthesia with music would be an awesome thing! I can just imagine: seeing colors related to the mood of the notes.
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Your Aspie score: 98 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 103 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits
AQ: 33
Thank you for that information, can I have the original link please?
Has there been further study extending past the point of a hypothesis to connect the two?
Although for many years I have read and heard this statement, I have not seen a solid connection. (I am happy to be proven wrong on any of this however as I would love a clear connection to be made). Statements such as this are the first step towards research into what the condition is and what it isnt which will bring us one step closer to a solid cure. But I have also seen arguments for there being a connection for bipolar, add, ocd, or psychotic episodes, others say that there is a clear connection between PTSD or the food we are eating or that it is just a learned behavior.
I encourage as many different minds and appraoches to the subject as possible as I strongly believe the more people we have working on this the better the chance of finding a cure. I like so many others am over the condition and the constrains it brings.
Richard
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