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"Seeing" the words when you speak?
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ReneeMona
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03 May 2010 at 3:37am | IP Logged

tay.alexander wrote:

This happens to me with numbers, I see colors and shapes assigned to each one. This used to also happen with a
bunch of other words (usually months and days of the week) when I was younger, but those have decreased over
time. A close friend of mine "tastes" every word she says- talk about distracting.

Both you and your friend probably have different forms of synesthesia. Have you ever done some research on it?

I have grapheme-colour synaesthesia (among other forms) and I see every word I say in my mind as well, with every letter and punctuation mark having its own colour. When I speak in Dutch or English I speak so fast that I don't notice this anymore but because I still struggle when speaking French, I am very aware of the long pauses and awkward corrections in the flow of the language in my head. Seeing these things automatically in my head does help though, because I can see the overall grammatical structure and I notice my mistakes quite easily because of that.

Edited by ReneeMona on 13 May 2010 at 9:38pm
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16 April 2011 at 4:57am | IP Logged

You mean other people don't see the words they say? Weird.
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16 April 2011 at 5:15am | IP Logged

Levi wrote:

You mean other people don't see the words they say? Weird.

Apparently not. I was told that this is a form of synaesthesia called "ticker-tape" and I have it too.
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16 April 2011 at 12:24pm | IP Logged

Actually reading skills are a kind of acquired synaesthesia ...
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18 April 2011 at 3:01am | IP Logged

I pretty much only see black characters. Also, it only happens when I'm reading.

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