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Would someone who had synesthesia really be so ostracized? I mean, I know kids get picked on for all sorts of things, but her mom flies off the handle about it more than I think is necessary. She's treating it as if her daughter can see ghosts or something.
— Jan 08, 2012 01:15PM
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Hmm. I had a feeling that's the direction things were going, but I was hoping I was wrong.
— Jan 14, 2012 10:32PM
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He leaned forward, elbows braced on his knees and one long hand clasping the other. "Have you ever heard of a condition known as synesthesia?"
Panic snaked through me, squeezing the breath from my lungs. I'd never dared to investigate why my senses were different from other people's—I'd been too afraid of what it might mean.
— Jan 08, 2012 08:03PM
Panic snaked through me, squeezing the breath from my lungs. I'd never dared to investigate why my senses were different from other people's—I'd been too afraid of what it might mean.
Really? I find that hard to believe. I google everything related to my health.
Shannon
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Home. Even whispered, the word spread like maple syrup over my dry tongue. I missed slipping into my father's study and curling up in the armchair while he graded essays. I missed the taste of my mother's pot roast, which always had the right shape to it even when everything else between us was wrong.
Maybe it was irrational, but I truly believed that if I could just go home, everything would be all right.
— Jan 08, 2012 06:16PM
Maybe it was irrational, but I truly believed that if I could just go home, everything would be all right.
Shannon
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No matter how many times I tried to push Tori's death to the back of my mind, the memory of that day still haunted me. But I could taste my father's hopefulness like powdered sugar on my tongue, and I knew that deep down, he still believed I was his good little girl. Maybe even believed, in spite of everything, that I was sane.
I couldn't bear to let him down.
— Jan 08, 2012 06:10PM
I couldn't bear to let him down.
Shannon
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And now she's worried that nurses/doctors in a psychiatric ward would think she's crazy because of her synesthesia. Um, I would hope not, considering it's something they should know exists.
— Jan 08, 2012 01:18PM
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Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. Her hair flowed like honey and her eyes were blue as music. She grew up bright and beautiful, with deft fingers, a quick mind, and a charm that impressed everyone she met. Her parents adored her, her teachers praised her, and her schoolmates admired her many talents.
This is not her story.
Unless you count the part where I killed her.
— Jan 07, 2012 12:19PM
This is not her story.
Unless you count the part where I killed her.
O__O
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In this particular instance, the girl is a toddler and she tells her mother to clang together spoons to make "stars." Her mother then slaps her and tells her not to talk about it ever, so she learns to hide it for the most part.In the present day she pretty much has every type of synesthesia - words have tastes, colors, and emotions. Sounds and colors can be painful. People's names convey overall feelings. Numbers have colors ... and so on. She knows she's not "normal" and I would think, by 16, she'd research at these one of these things.
Oh okay, well yeah, I imagine initiating a search-fu on stuff that concrete would be a good idea. Is she normal otherwise?
As far as I can tell.
There's a more in-depth explanation of why her mother finds it so frightening later in the book.
I don't think it's a very consistent disorder -- it's experienced in lots of different ways and to lots of different degrees so for example a person who has colour synesthesia might not actually have a consistent experience of it: one day it might be triggered strongly by, say, a flickering movement and the next day by a waving one. I imagine it's quite difficult to investigate yourself if you're never quite sure what to look for.