Does anyone have synesthesia and attend, or attended college? I don’t know too many people who have this issue, but it would be nice to get advice on how others manage with it in school.
When I hear words and sounds I can often taste them, smell them, or they have a texture that I can physically feel.
When I hear classical or instrumental music, each note has a specific color in my head that never changes, so it’s like Fantasia going on. Which can sometimes be beautiful and relaxing.
In my head numbers and letters have their own colors, and even personality. I can recite pi for almost five minutes straight because I see it as this beautifully painted sunset, almsot like a paint by number kind of thing. Months, weeks, and days appear to be a calendar in my head that I can visually see and manipulate. I can recall many past events with great detail, and I hardly forget things. I know others who have synesthesia who can do very, very complex mental math in their head in seconds.
Anyway, in college I take mostly math and physics classes so this issue is very distracting to me, and even prevents me from listening and learning in lectures. I’ve asked some of my teachers if they can just write in black ink, due to the mix up and anxiety that happens in my brain when I see some things in blue ink on the board, and some had no problem. Others think if I can see it fine, then it doesn’t matter. There’s no current medication for this, and therapy in the past hasn’t worked either.
I am signed up with disabled services at my school and use it for a distraction free testing environment, and they assign someone to take notes for me in some classes since my note taking can be slow or incomplete due to this issue. I record lectures already, but taking pictures of the board and switching it to black and white sounds really helpful. Thank you for your response