Found somewhere to talk

Hello, everyone (or no one, as the case may be)

I have found a forum on synaestheia! http://www.mixsig.net/nexus/index.php
I can talk to people with synaestheia! yaayyyyy! I'm not alone!

Anyway, I have found out I have another type of syn I hadn't noticed before. North, south, east west, have a kind of map to me. North is about a foot directly in front of me, east is about a foot to my right, south is about a foot behind me and west is about a foot to my left. They have colors, as well!
North
South
East
West

Well, enough of being happy. I have exams tomorrow and I am really not looking forward to them. I've got 3 sciences, Spanish and Latin. Aren't I a lucky girl. I should really be getting back to my revision now, anyway.

Ciao!

~melly

Told someone

Hello, again!

I'm back! Today I finally told someone about my syn. This boy at school, called Kade (Kade, but sort of swirly/marbled) I asked him if he though letters had colors. He said 'ohh, what's that called? that's synaestheia, isn't it? i saw a program on it'. And then it all sort of came out. It turned out that he may have sound-->taste synaestheia. But maybe not. Anyway, he promised not to tell anyone. If people knew, they'd call me a freak. The Girl with the Colors. That's sort of what happened in the book 'A Mango Shaped Space'.
I don't know what to do. I feel so alone. I wish I could talk to someone else who has colors. I don't want to lose them, but I wish I could talk to someone else about them. If anyone who has synaestheia is out there reading this, I would love to talk to you.

~melly

Starting Off

Hello! My name is Melanie (you can call me Melly) and I am living with synaesthesia. Umm, what's that? you ask. Simply, synaestheia is the mixing of the senses. Colored alphabets, numbers with personalities and color, seeing color when music is played or sounds happen are just a few different types of synaestheia. I'm not going into detail, but try googling it and you'll get a more full explanation. Sound familiar? You can take a test to see if you've got it at http://www.synaesthesie.ch/Startsprache.html

Anyway, now introductions are out of the way, I'm going to tell you a little about moi. (But not enough to do the crazy stalker thing). I'm thirteen, I live in ... well, that's not important. I speak English (obviously) and I have synaestheia. My alphabet is colored:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
And so are my numbers:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
They also have personalities e.g
1 Nice, popular, male
2 could be popular, but is too busy trying to keep everyone from fighting, v. nice, female
3 mean, snappy, not popular, male
4 quiet, but mean if you speak to him, male
5 nice, but brisk, very independent, takes pity on 6, female
6 quiet, but nice, male
7 want to be popular, big mouth, friends with 9. male
8 average, nice, but extremely popular, female
9 "queen bee", thinks she's better then everyone else, popular, female

I also see colors and shapes in my mind's eye when music plays or certain sounds happen, e.g. violins have a scratchy red color with scratchy lines.

I have to go now, but I would love it if synnies or non-synnies, wrote back to me. thanks!

~melly