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were ppl really butthurt? it seemed like some people were ;_; that they weren't mentioned or known for anything, but they weren't too butthurt. people who get super butthurt at least have board personalities and aren't wallpaper imo. tbh i skimmed the thread. haw.

if someone said i was a specialist at being butthurt i would be pretty butthurt

deej: being butthurt

lol

kinda accepted my dilletante status awhile ago tbh

lol and ordinarily i am an orthographic whiz except i just misspelled "dilettante"

(crosses Donna Rouge off orthographic whiz list)

deej: being butthurt

― dark link (roxymuzak), Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

butthurt about this post tbh

consistently misunderestimated

never knowingly undersold

http://shelobs.com/img/backside.gif

shit

http://shelobs.com/img/backside.gif

there we go

yah 10 things is totally quality. it is also the only movie i know of that has alex mack in it!

Roxy, synesthesia is not a disease or a disorder but a condition ie: there is nothing wrong with you. Synesthetes have more neural connections between sensory brain centers. In the case of color grapheme the grapheme and color areas sit right next to each other in the visual cortex. The neural connections between these areas are not only increased in c-g synesthetes but they also pass through a binding center and hence the binding of color and numbers or letters.

Let me ask you - C-G synesthetes say that if they see for example B as red and someone drew a black B on a red piece of paper it doesn't disappear. Is that a shade thing? Like if the paper was the EXACT shade of red would it disappear?

Another: If i were to write you a note in red ink would you know its it red ink or would you still see the same colors for each letter you always do? ALSO: say if you saw C as green and E as purple, but in my hand writing my Es look more like Cs, do those Es look green??

Second last question: ill you do this mapping thing and either post or email me the result? Pleeeease??
http://www.steverudolfi.com/synesthesia/mapper.php

Last question: Don't you get a headache reading????

dayo - how to use my camera apparently

and scandinavian history

geir hongro - contrarianism

oh casuistry used to be v good at that too

omg dont get me started

KBP and I are your go-to for Daryl Somers facts and the Vengabus North->Ibiza route.

autumn almanic - redundance

shit

tbrr i already had poignant misspellings

sunny, maybe i'm not color-grapheme, cause that doesn't sound like me at all! i don't actually see the color on the paper in front of my face, i mentally visualize the particular color associated with each letter as I read or hear or whatever; certain words take on mental hues bc of the letter/color combo, also if a particular word (or more often, name) is associated with a color it's usually because of the starting letter. its kind of a helpful mnemonic, and i think everyone does it to some degree. if you get people talking about it they usually say they at least associate the days of the week w/ certain colors - that's not far removed at all imo.

because i don't literally see the colors in the letters most of your Qs don't apply to me, but re: the c's and e's thing, the e's are the same color no matter what they're shaped like as long as i can recognize it as an e. it's to do with its relationship to the rest of the word, kinda.

i've done a mapping thing before. it's fun and i'll do that one and send it to you!

Roxy: That (or a similar) was a method that many vaudeville mnemonists used for their acts.

rox do you associate colors with ilx0rs

Still amused that I was tagged as the SCOTUS guy when I boast no law degree.

lol mook!

how about mediaeval philosophy xp

please associate me with brown

i think all us older ppl associate gareth w/ brown

Roxy, that still sounds like synesthesia to me. It comes in many different variations.
My understanding is that the following are fairly good signs you have color grapheme synesthesia:
1. the color isnt an association made by a past event.eg you didnt have colored ABCs on your wall as a kid etc
2. the colors are generic ie they are always the same for each grapheme
3. the synesthetic perception is stronger than the initial perception eg like how you use the color to remember a name rather than just remembering the name
4. someone in your family probably has some form of synethesia.

also this line from your post is very common for developmental synesthetes because they were born with it, and often have family members with it, it doesnt occur to them that most people dont:

...certain words take on mental hues bc of the letter/color combo, also if a particular word (or more often, name) is associated with a color it's usually because of the starting letter. its kind of a helpful mnemonic, and i think everyone does it to some degree.

Pretty sure most people dont do that ^^^

i think i have a mild form of ordinal linguistic personification synesthesia (where you assign personality to letter, numbers, time etc.) the story goes: One day many years ago I was complaining to a friend that i hate even numbers because they are so arrogant and preferred odd numbers because they had a humble vibe about them. she replied that i was very wrong and that it was the odd numbers that were arrogant and 'shiny' and even numbers that were humble. We argued about this for years and when we asked others to mediate they acted like we had a few hundred screws loose. Anyway, when I finally found out about synesthesia i was understandably 'oooooooooh well okay'.

You should do some googling on time space synesthesia. mind blowing stuff.

haha i can totally see odd numbers as arrogant. so many evens just seem round and personable by comparison.

i had a similar conversation about a school friend named George Brown, and whether his name should be pictured as green and brown or rusty red.

oh no way odd numbers are totally better. evens are all goody-goody

i don't have any type of synthesthesia or anything, but I have an aversion to odd numbers. like if I have an odd number of windows open in IE, and it shows me the # and it's like a 7 or a 9, I always find one to close so that it is even. just a compulsion of mine.

hilarious. i have always preferred evens. esp 4 and 8.

also have a weird ritual in which I knock on my bed post in two sets of 37 before going to sleep.

It's bizarre, I never did this until I turned 22, have no idea where the ritual came from, I think it was something I dreamed one night and began doing and I have probably done it every night for 8 years.

Now that I think of it I sort of think as odd numbers as point and even numbers as flat but like doens't everyone sort of maybe do that in a sense?

possibly

also have a weird ritual in which I knock on my bed post in two sets of 37 before going to sleep.

well most of them anyway. I'm sure there are people at work who secretly wonder 'why's he always tapping that wall' etc.

I thought I had OCD when was 19 and even took Luvox for it but I (and my shrink at the time ) suspected I have more of an obsessive personality than actual OCD. my mom has some crazy weird behavior issues tho, like talking to herself, which she passed on to me

Don't want to derail so I'll keep this brief: I've been diagnosed OCD twice so I don't wonder about it anymore. Also recently I heard & read some stuff about Asperger that described me so closely it sort of scared the shit out of me (not sure what to do about that tbh).

dont worry unduly about it imo

I talk to myself all the time! Didn't know it was crazy D:

I don't think it is, but when people catch me doing it they make mad fun of me.

You need a new job and new life IMO

Yeah I talk to myself out loud freely when I'm alone.

When I'm in public, I think to myself furiously and sometimes realise I'm kind of almost-whsipering and i have to really watch out I dont end up one of those muttering nutters.