![]() ![]() My senses are intertwined via synaesthesia, a neurocognitive difference, which informs my writing, my visual art, my costume design, and my long career in manual therapy. I'm a neurodiversity advocate, an artist, an author, and a licensed massage therapist. If you’re a synesthete who’s encountered misconceptions about your experiences, I’d love to hear about it. I’ll likely add to this list as I encounter additional myths about synesthesia. Even if our synesthesia is sometimes confusing, alluring, or frightening, it’s not the same as tripping on LSD or mescaline. I believe this is true for other synesthetes as well. It’s not like I walk around all day in the equivalent of a hallucinatory stupor. But I can speak for the experience of synesthesia, and say that my conflated senses are so tightly interwoven into my perception of the world, it hardly feels “trippy”. ![]()
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