[bksvol-discuss] Re: about braille
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 23:33:23 -0700 (PDT)
Okay, I'll donate it the next time I'm in the office. Carrie
--- "Joshua M. Swatosh" <josh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I for one would be interested in your book on synesthesia.
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> I know this is off-topic, but I can't resist. My daughter has the most
> common form of synesthesia, where all letters and digits are different
> colors. She once commented to me that of course the microwave was named
> Zachary, because z's were shiny black to her and the microwave was shiny
> black, so there we are. It was very obvious to her, but I, in my
> ignorance, was unaware that the microwave even had a name, let alone
> that
> it was Zachary. Sounds very similar to your experiences. There are
> people who study synesthesia, and there's a book on it too. Maybe I
> should donate my book on synesthesia to Bookshare? Anyone else
> interested
> in this?
>
> Carrie
>
> --- Kellie Hartmann <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have a sort of synesthetic weirdness too, between touch and sound,
> but
> > only with certain types of objects. When I was little the names of all
> > my
> > toys were based on this. When I was very little I didn't realize that
> > this
> > was uncommon and would call things by names that seemed obvious to me
> > but
> > which no one around me understood. Everyone just thought I was weird,
> > which
> > is true. <lol> When I realized that I was the only person on the
> planet
> > with
> > this characteristic I ceased allowing myself to manifest it, and only
> > learned what it was when I heard a program about it on Npr in high
> > school.
> > Interestingly the objects that cause me to think of names or sounds
> are
> > the
> > only things I can get a clear tactile image of in my mind. I can also
> > mentally tactilize braille, but it doesn't happen naturally. If I am
> > remembering something that I read, even in braille, I only have the
> > words
> > and ideas, I don't remember anything about the text. In one of my
> > interpreting classes we read a lot of material on improving memory,
> and
> > one
> > suggestion was that it is useful to picture certain kinds of detailed
> > information, like phone numbers or statistics, written in your mind.
> > I've
> > started to do this, imagining the numbers in braille, and I think it
> > does
> > help me. Maybe I'll stop having the irritating experience of
> remembering
> > that I've read statistics on a given subject, and knowing everything
> > about
> > it except the relevant numbers. <lol>
> > Ok, that's probably way too much information about my weird brain.
> > <grin>
> > Kellie
> >
> >
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