Hi. I’m in seventh grade now.
Unless you’re a psychologist or neurologist, or you know me personally, or you know about this because you were on the internet for five hours and stumbled upon it (I’m going to guess the latter), you probably have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about. Like, how can she associate colors… with letters and numbers?
No, I’m not insane. Well, at least, I’m not insane about this.
It’s a little thing called synesthesia.
The Google definition is “the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body”.
Which doesn’t explain it at all.
The scientific definition of it is that in some people’s minds, their senses are intertwined, which results in interesting abilities that mostly have to do with colors.
My kind is called grapheme-color synesthesia. A grapheme is a fancy name for letter or number. So in essence, this means that I associate letters and numbers with colors.
Do you think I’m weird yet?
I’m not super happy about saying this, but basically nobody reads my blog, so…
Here’s my alphabet (I put smileys next to ones I like):
A = bright cherry red 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
B = it’s mostly purple, but can be dark blue sometimes (it’s kind of weird)
C = a very light cream yellow
D = another purple
E: darkish green 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
F = definitely periwinkle 🙂
G = dark purple
H = a weird orange-yellow
I = definitely yellow, lemon yellow 🙂 🙂
J = yellow with the tiniest hint of green
K = tiger orange
L = mostly light blue, with a hint of grey (and yes that is how I spell grey I’m British) 🙂 🙂
M = pale yellowish-orange
N = carrot orange
O = midnight blue, which apparently is weird, because most people see it as orange or clear 🙂
P = tangerine orange
Q = navy blue-purple
R = rusty orange 🙂
S = honey yellow 🙂 🙂
T = a mix of baby blue and teal 🙂
U = baby blue 🙂
V = an ugly pale orange-yellow-green
W = sapphire blue 🙂
X = squash orange
Y = similar color to V, more of a yellow. V is a pointy orange which makes it ugly (that probably makes absolutely no sense to you)
Z = a very dark grey
And here are my numbers (0-9. any numbers past that are just mixtures of the colors 0-9):
0 = an almost translucent white
1 = as black as black can get
2 = very light grey
3 = emerald green 🙂
4 = fire orange
5 = sunny yellow
6 = dark amethyst purple 🙂
7 = sky blue 🙂
8 = bright apple red 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 (this has always been my favorite number for this reason)
9 = about the same color as J, maybe a bit greener
So there you go. My little weirdness. BTW I don’t pick these colors, they’re just… there…