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Monday, July 11, 2011

My Colored Alphabet

I have synesthesia. I've been talking about how I view the world a lot tonight, so I thought I'd share what colors letters appear to me as. Words are generally a blend of the the letter's colors. Lower cases are a few shades lighter.

(NOTE: I don't use very fancy words for colors. I never will, even in my art class, I'll just yell out, "Pass me the yellow!" or whatever. Also, some letters are close in shades, but slightly off, one may be darker than the other and I'll mark that.)

A- Very light blue. Kind of like the sky with very thin clouds.
B- Dark brown. Like my eyes in the sunlight, if you've seen them.
C- Tan. Like sand.
D- Lime green. Plastic light. Reminds my of my friend's iPod cover.
E- Black. Darkens any word.
F- Steel.
G- Light orange. More of a mix of yellow and orange.
H- Dark Purple.
I- Tree roots. That really dark brown.
J- Dark grey.
K- Light blue. Lighter than A, darker than T. Like the sky totally clear.
L- Light. It follows whatever color the next letter is, only it seems like there's a layer of film over it.
M- Forest Green.
N- Gray blue. (Gray, with an A, is lighter than grey.)
O- White.
P- Feather. Kind of blends out. Doesn't really have a color, but it has hints of the color of the word.
Q- Gold. A shining gold.
R- Fiery orange. Way more red.
S- Brick red. More scarlet with blue letters with it.
T- Navy.
U- Yellow. Like the sunset.
V- Rusty gold.
W- Neon green.
X- Dark. Like L only it makes the words darker.
Y- Bright/neon/highlighter yellow.
Z- The darkest blue before black. It's like I and E, I can't really pick out the colors well, I just get hints of blue and really dark.

And there it be. My alphabet.

UPDATE/EDIT: I was asked by a friend if anything other than words and letters are like this for me. Numbers also appear as certain colors for me too. The words and the actual number (2, 7, 5, etc) can be a few shades off also. Like the lower case letters.

There's another part of synestesia, where people can have a taste or a smell because of a nose, word, letter, you get the point. For certain words, I smell or taste something in that back of my throat. For example, when I hear the word cereal or read it or whatever, I smell Lucky Charms. When someone mentions Trix though (a type of cereal), I smell my art room.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Me, Me, And Me, Again

So, this is the awkward first post that has to go on every blog. I wish there was some way around it, but there isn't. For that, I'm sorry. I feel your pain, I really do.

For the next few weeks, I'll be fiddling around with stuff, pretending to be tech suave and cool. My secret? I'm totally not. I'm a writer who made this blog to help her writing and to try and create a fan base for if I ever get published.

Which is one of my dreams. By the way.

And that's what this blog is about. My trials and tribulations (I've always wanted to say that) with writing manuscripts and trying to find and agent and get published. This blog, and my many friends and family, will be where I go to cry when I get rejected.

So yeah, I hope you like it and we become a tight knit family. I mean, I'm going to be crying on your shoulder, we're going to have to trust each other here.

Farwell, my loves! I'm off to eat my chicken wings and work on my Camp NaNo. Ta ta!