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Is synesthesia common with ADHD?
Despite the commonality of these neurological conditions, ADHD affects approximately 4.1 percent of adults in a given year (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-numbers-count-mental-disorders-in-america/index.shtml) and Synesthesia is estimated to be as common as every 1 of 23 people (Sacks, 179), they are …
How can you tell if you have synesthesia?
What Is Synesthesia?
- See or hear a word and taste food.
- See a shape and taste food.
- Hear sounds and see shapes or patterns.
- Hear sounds after you smell a certain scent.
- Hear sounds and taste food.
- Feel an object with your hands and hear a sound.
- Feel a touch when seeing someone else being touched.
What does synesthesia feel like?
If you have synesthesia, you might notice that your senses tend to intertwine, giving your perceptions of the world an additional dimension. Perhaps every time you bite into a food, you also feel its geometric shape: round, sharp, or square.
Can synesthesia cause depression?
Current depression was not associated with synesthesia.
Is synesthesia linked to intelligence?
The synesthetes showed increased intelligence as compared with matched non-synesthetes. The personality and cognitive characteristics were found related to having synesthesia (in general) rather then to particular synesthesia subtypes.
Is Synesthesia rare or common?
Synesthesia is rare. It is a genetically linked trait estimated to affect only 5\% of the general population. People who experience this during their lifetime are termed synesthetes; they tend to visualize numbers or music as colors, taste words, or feel a sensation on their skin when they smell certain scents.
Do synesthetes see the same colors?
Is a given number always linked to the same color across different synesthetes? No. One synesthete might see 5 as red, another might see that number as green. But the associations are not random either.
Does everyone have synesthesia?
Everyone is potentially born with synaesthesia, where colours, sounds and ideas can mix, but as we age our brains become specialised to deal with different stimuli. Such synaesthetes have a one-to-one association linking letters and numbers with a certain colour.