Just had the most amazing conversation with 6yo ds1. Synesthesia

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We were talking about accents and he said he would like to live where my sister lives in England. I said that he would develop an English accent if he lived there and then asked if there was anyone in his class with an English accent.

He said that yes there was, and that she had an orange voice. I asked what he meant by an "orange" voice and he said that when he hears her voice, he sees orange. I asked if everyone had a colour and he said that they did, and he went on to list all sorts of people and the colours of their voices.

He and I are both yellow, dh is brown, ds2 is pink, apparently because he has a cute voice (he's 2.5yo).

His favourite colour of voice is yellow, and voices go black if they shout. Crying is blue and so it went on.

I find this absolutely fascinating! Anyone else have this, or their dcs?

Wow, I didn't know this was actually a condition. For me the days of the week have always had different colours. Same for months. I am not particularly musical though... Cannot sing very well and only play the flute (not very well) either. Still amazing to read about this..

Tuesday is yellow and I see no problem or weirdness with this :)

Dh has this with numbers, although he is utterly terrible at maths.I find it fascinating and he finds it bizarre that not everyone sees 7 as light blue. He is amazingly musical.