Hi all,
I just had my assessment draft report this week. The totally screwballed sensory aspects of my profile seem to be ones causing all my woes and I certainly know now that they are a huge part of what is causing all of my medical and body phobias. I have Irlen's, alexithymia, rubbish proprioception, a pain response swinging between hyper and hypo sensitive ...the list goes on.
In addition, my assessors think I may have an usual form of synaesthesia; you know, where one sense triggers another not normally associated with it, such that you hear colour or touch noise etc.
A small percentage of the population has it, apparently. You don't have to be autistic to have it and not every one who is autistic does have it, but like a lot of other things, it's apparently a LOT more common in people who have some form of neurodivergence.
So, do you and what are you experiencing?
One of my recommendations was to volunteer for the research project on synaesthesia at the University of Sussex. Link below for anyone likewise interested. I've signed up, you but might simply want a poke around their pages on their research too.
Homepage : Synaesthesia research : University of Sussex
I've also just ordered a couple of books which look as though they might be illuminating. Any one read them and what did you think? The blurb suggest for both that they cover all sorts of sensory difference, not just synaesthesia.
