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Anyone else know someone who's in denial about having synesthesia?

So, certain people in my family don't believe I have synesthesia because I figured it out after reading "A Mango Shaped Space" and they know this. Also, "none of them have synesthesia" which is blatantly wrong for reasons shown below. A few times a year something like this will happen.

Family member: you don't have synesthesia, you just read that book and thought it sounded cool, stop making stuff up.

Same family member: argues with me for 15 minutes on whether O is yellow-orange or dark twilight blue.

Reactions when confronted was, "Oh that's just associations, everyone has that, it's not synesthesia".

Anybody else know someone like this?

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u/TheDNDCat0643 — 2 days ago

▲ 13 r/Synesthesia

Does anyone else "tune out" their synesthesia?

I have grapheme-color/grapheme-image synesthesia. I noticed that unless I focus on a specific grapheme, I don't actually notice its color. I could be reading a book and I won't be noticing colors, but as soon as I think about my synesthesia, focus on a specific letter, or do something else that reminds me of it - BAM suddenly graphemes have colors again. For a while this made me think my synesthesia was associative, but I'm pretty sure it's actually projective. I think my brain just pushes it to the back of my mind so I can actually focus on whatever I'm reading/doing. Does this happen to any other synesthetes or is it just me?

Edit: I just did some research and it turns out I have associative grapheme-color, not projective, but my mind's eye makes me see the colors as "under" the letter (sort of) and I can switch that off

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u/TheDNDCat0643 — 5 days ago

▲ 3 r/fakemon

Alica (California-based region) Grass Starter and Region plotline

Grass starter:

Desprout: the bulbil pokemon -> Joshualoe: the joshua tree pokemon -> Yuccombat: the yucca pokemon, Grass/Fighting, basically a yucca plant where each of the 6 leaves ends in a flower that's actually a fist, also it's wearing a ghee which I think ties it all together.

My idea for this region was to kind of split it up into 5 mini regions, based on the moutains, desert, coastline, and central valley of California along with a mini region for Silicon Valley. Each area would have a resource that it produced that was essential for pokemon training. All the mini-regions are very close to war, enough that they have all stopped trading with each other and are hoarding materials for the inevitable crash. You would start in the mountains region, which was the most devastated by the shutdown, and move up through the regions, beating the gym leader for each. The least affected region, the coastline, is where you battle the main boss, a crazy gym leader that caused all this mess with his need to hoard water. (Sidenote: the water hoarding got bad enough that the streets in the coastline area are all flooded.) Probably the first three mini-regions would be in Pokemon Feast and the last two in Pokemon Famine, which is kind of contradictory to what's actually happening in those areas.

u/TheDNDCat0643 — 14 days ago

▲ 37 r/fakemon

Mega Mimikyu based on Arceus

When exposed to Mimikite, Mimikyu evolves into Mega Mimikyu. Description: Mimikyu has set its sights on becoming something better than a rodent. Unfortunately, it didn't have quite enough cloth.

u/TheDNDCat0643 — 15 days ago