Q: What is a Disability? A: A disability is when a person can't function their body or mind to the full capacity. You can either be born with a certain disability or aquirre the disability through life. Q:What is Synesthesia? A: Synesthesia is the combination of all the five senses that are stimulated when another sense occurred. The most common frm of Synesthesia is when the Synesthete sees colors when sound occurs. However theres other types of synesthesia hen sound sounds and sights activate taste. Q:Are they blinded by colors? A: No, they can live normal lives and still manage to walk around. However, some have trouble in math and most decide to no to listen to music while driving. (The colors distract them). Most synesthetes experience the colors not in front of their face but about a foot away. Q: Is Synesthesia a contagious disease that I can catch? A:The answer to that is definetely not! Synesthesia can't be caught like a common flu. You can only get Synesthesia if you have one blood relative who had or has synesthesia. Q:Why are most synesthetes women? A:The reason is that Synesthesia is passed down through the X chromosone. Therefore there's a greater chance of woman getting synesthesia since woman have two X chromosones compared to men's one. Q: What's the chances of me having synesthesia? A: It's very unlikely. It ranges between one in one thousand to one and one hundred thousand.
A: A disability is when a person can't function their body or mind to the full capacity. You can either be born with a certain disability or aquirre the disability through life.
Q:What is Synesthesia?
A: Synesthesia is the combination of all the five senses that are stimulated when another sense occurred. The most common frm of Synesthesia is when the Synesthete sees colors when sound occurs. However theres other types of synesthesia hen sound sounds and sights activate taste.
Q:Are they blinded by colors?
A: No, they can live normal lives and still manage to walk around. However, some have trouble in math and most decide to no to listen to music while driving. (The colors distract them). Most synesthetes experience the colors not in front of their face but about a foot away.
Q: Is Synesthesia a contagious disease that I can catch?
A:The answer to that is definetely not! Synesthesia can't be caught like a common flu. You can only get Synesthesia if you have one blood relative who had or has synesthesia.
Q:Why are most synesthetes women?
A:The reason is that Synesthesia is passed down through the X chromosone. Therefore there's a greater chance of woman getting synesthesia since woman have two X chromosones compared to men's one.
Q: What's the chances of me having synesthesia?
A: It's very unlikely. It ranges between one in one thousand to one and one hundred thousand.