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Patrick Stump, I did not need your distractions this morning. I'm supposed to be finishing a late assignment and prepping for a final and surviving this bloody dental pain.
But! Patrick has discovered that he's a synaesthete - welcome to the pack, sweetie :)
And while managing to copy an entire sentence about neurology from Wikipedia, he also seems to have mangled the word "grapheme" into "Grampane." Sometimes, having coloured numbers and letters can just seem like individualized dyslexia. Bet he had fun in school :)
Synaesthesia has been such a huge thing in my life, and it was the thing I was completely closeted about growing up. I only started being open about it the last few years, which has coincided with me getting serious about writing, but it can be the twistiest thing to talk or write about. Trying to decode the thought patterns and sensations you experience when thinking or writing, while experiencing those same sensations because you're, you know, thinking and writing.... I know it's not a traumatic discovery for most people, but *hiding* my syn was a big part of my fucked-upedness growing up, and I'm just so glad that it's easier for people to find out about things like this now. Yay internets!
Probably have a whole new crop of people who have something new to think about today. I think the current estimate is that 1 in 28 people have some kind of synaesthesia. Happy Syn Day to any and all of you who might be in the club :)
ETA: So, within 48 hours of Patrick self-diagnosing from a Wikipedia article (although I wonder what sent him there...), the article itself has been changed to include Patrick's self-diagnosis. And they've mispelled *his* mispelling and created a page-that-does-not-yet-exist for "Graphame." omg internets your hurrting me.
ETArgh: And they've changed Patrick's wikipedia page to say that he "suffers" from synaesthesia. *screams*