Others could see music (sounds induced sensation of colours), sense weekdays and months as objects laid out in space some could even taste emotions. Another dyslexic adult reported seeing numbers as 3D structures resembling boxes. The digit 5 always produced the sensation of whiteness and made other digits disappear from the page 8 was always blue, and 9 was particularly attractive: light purple with a pink aura. The same girl would experience a sensation of greenness when she looked at a printed number 3, although 33 induced more of a brown colour. A young golf player I supported for dyslexia described any golf course as a sea of digits 3, intermingling and constantly moving, bopping up and down, as she tried to focus on hitting a golf ball. letters or numbers may induce an involuntary and overwhelming sensation of colour. Synesthesia means a union of senses that are normally experienced separately, e.g. And then I confessed I had a professional crush on a relatively rare yet overwhelmingly fascinating group of people with synesthesia. I decided that the only way to justify my professional bias was to blame it on Kahneman and Tversky’s idea of emotive bias (unconscious reliance on high emotions when logic would fare better). Worse than my poor sense of humour was the realisation that I actually am guilty of creeping favouritism, although not between dyslexic and autistic brains, both wired to produce extraordinary processing outcomes linked to the dyslexia and autism advantage. A question not without merit, yet I declined to answer, saying I was not a cannibal. A colleague asked me over lunch whether I preferred the brains of dyslexic or autistic people.
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