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