Synesthesia

I think a certain color when it comes to letters and numbers. For example, the letter A is red and B is brown. The number 5 is blue and 8 is purple. I didn’t know there was a name for it until my doctor told me that I have synesthesia. It is basically a doubling of your senses. There are other kinds of ways to have synesthesia as some people can see music, but colors are it for me. The main letters of a word can even fill up the entire word with one color. For weekdays, Tuesday is orange and Wednesday is green, but some words have multiple colors. For the word eat, E is green, A is red, and T is black.

Some people are fascinated by this. For me though it has always been natural. I didn’t even realize not all people think like this. When someone mentions a letter or number I don’t think about the color because if I did then I would never be able to catch up on what anyone was saying. I have to think the letter or number myself for it to work.

Other people who have synesthesia might not have the same colors as me. I’ve had the same colors for as long as I could remember. I didn’t choose the color because they always felt like the right ones and there are some letters that don’t even have colors such as C and R. Some letters slipped under the surface and now it feels odd suddenly thinking of a color for them.

I wouldn’t go as far to say my synesthesia is a superpower because those are meant to benefit the world. However, it might lead to me doing something great. Maybe not save the Earth from doom, but something that will help someone, somehow.