synesthesia, numbers, and gender

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I know that previous posts have revolved around numbers and colors, but I'm wondering if anyone here sees numbers and letters in terms of gender constructions. I experience this in addition to color. For instance, 2 is greenish and feminine, whereas seven is bluish and transgendered-ish. Three seems pretty masculine and is very red. I've seen always seen letters, and more especially numbers, in this manner.

I feel really silly writing this. I explained it to a classmate, thinking it was normal, and was told quite pointedly that I'm crazy.

No, but that's great. It really is!
Colors I'll equate with gender, and with the exact same system as you even, but I don't include numbers or letters, and I don't actually see the colors.

Interestingly, the characters in the book "We" by Evgeniy Zamyatin have letters and numbers for names. Men's names are a consonant followed by an odd number, and women's names are a vowel followed by an even number.

Crazy and Weird are the usual dreary comebacks from NTs, when they don't recognize our awesome uniqueness!

What? I recall a paragraph about it in Tony Attwoods book, but if I recall correctly, it was made clear that it wasn't a symptom. It's more often misdiagnosed as Schizophrenia. Dr. Peter Grossenbacher, the leading authority in the US, told me that people with Autism wanted him to research that possibility, but he couldn't get the funding.

Is there research that links Synesthesia with Autism/Asperger Syndrome?

Here is the closest correlation I could find for current information on the subject. Is there more somewhere?

2007 Conference: Provisional programme and abstracts

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Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia and Empathy

Michael J Banissy and Jamie Ward

Department of Psychology, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

Previous studies have indicated evidence of a tactile mirror-system in which actual and observed touch results in activity in similar areas of primary and secondary somatosensory cortices. For some people, with ‘mirror touch’ synaesthesia, this can produce a felt tactile sensation on the observer’s body (Blakemore et al, 2005). Using a new behavioural paradigm we provide evidence for the authenticity of this form of synaesthesia and show that mirror touch synaesthetes score higher on measures of empathy. Participants were requested to detect the site of actual touch while ignoring observed touch (and the synaesthetic touch induced from it). Consistent with self-reports, mirror touch synaesthetes were significantly faster at identifying a site touched on their own body when observed touch to another person was congruent with their synaesthetic experiences compared to incongruent trials. Furthermore, mirror touch synaesthetes showed heightened scores on the emotional reactivity subscale of the empathy quotient compared to controls. These findings are consistent with the notion that we empathise with others through a process of simulation.

Blakemore, S. J., Bristow, D., Bird, G., Frith, C., & Ward, J. (2005). Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synaesthesia. Brain, 128, 1571-1583.

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http://www.uksynaesthesia.com/

Well, as long as I'm an awesome crazy, I suppose things aren't so bad.

I've never heard that it's a symptom -- just that those with autism/Asperger's experience it more frequently. And, to be honest, I haven't read research on it. Others have told me that I'm weird when I explain synesthetic perceptions, and I never recognized it as anything more than "I see things differently" until seeing threads about synesthesia in this forum.

Haha! Like the mist of green, and the ripple of yellow, as they lay on the edge of a crisp blue sea!

No, I have never seen numbers in that manner but I have had an attraction towards number patterns for example when you convert fractions to decimals.