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Oh, I would say there is definitely a connection. I have been giving a lot of thought lately to the possibility that ADHD and Autism are connected. I never connected the dots with synesthesia until now though. Makes perfect sense.
What doesn’t make perfect sense is the descriptions I read here of how calendars look and numbers that make turns and switchbacks and go on to infinity. That is really bizarre to me. But then, I don’t have synesthesia.
What I do have is a lot of Autistic tendencies. And I see images vividly in my head when I read and hear all the different voices and everything. Each member of the forum has their own distinct voice in my head. And I “see”all of you too. But I never thought that was an unusual thing. I just thought everybody did it.
I also have left-right confusion, in both senses of the term. I have to think about which way is left or right and really concentrate when I am giving directions. And I also do some things with my right hand and some things with my left. I was born right handed and it is my dominant hand, but I become left handed for certain things, like playing musical instruments. And I can write and draw with my left hand too, albeit slowly.
I probably partly caused this myself. When I was a kid my brother had a friend who had lost the fingers on his right hand in an accident and had to learn how to do everything with his left. So I decided that I should learn to use my left hand just in case I ever needed to. I also used to walk around blindfolded so I could learn what it was like to be blind, just in case.
I was a strange child.
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