Neurodiversity (mainly synesthesia)

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I am a polysynesthete which means that I have several types of synesthesia. For example, I see all sounds, tactile sensations, smells, tastes, numbers, letters and punctuation marks in colors assigned by my mind (of course, if something is written in a given color, my eyes and my brain process these colors correctly – but in my mind there is always a „link” to a specific, never-changing color). I can also see the shapes of sounds. Synesthesia, according to the PWN dictionary, is „receiving sensory impressions of various types with a stimulus acting on only one sense”. This phenomenon consists in an increased number of neural connections in the brain, which results in greater sensory and emotional sensitivity. Some call it „hypersensitivity”, but it’s just genetically determined high sensitivity, which I like very much 🙂 According to the well-known psychologist Jeanne Siaud-Facchin, synesthetes belong to the group of overintelligent people, and this overintelligence is not based on a higher IQ, but another dimension. However, when I took IQ tests, they always scored high (as it turns out, my Binet and Cattell scores mean very high intelligence) (not that I’m bragging – it’s just out of context to deny the fact!). That’s just out of curiosity. After all, the synesthete brain is definitely non-neurotypical, neurodivergent, and that too has its downsides that I won’t go into here. So, synesthesia has caused me an increased interest in the human mind since 2013, since I learned that not everyone has it.