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To: M. Thatcher
I'd heard of this before and I'd give my eye-teeth to experience it. Tell us any more interesting stories about your daughter - it is truly fascinating. I wonder in what shape she would see me? Do the people shapes she sees have anything to do with personality types? I wonder if any of the famous artist had synesthesia?
30 posted on 03/18/2002 8:43:53 PM PST by Libertina
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To: Libertina
Do the people shapes she sees have anything to do with personality types?

I don't think so. They just "are." She sees people having shapes kind of like we see hair color. I remember when I was going to meet her first grade teacher my daughter told me, "She's a circle." I assumed she meant the woman was plump. After I'd met this slim, slight woman, I came home and had one of the conversations that over time I came to recognize:

"Honey, Ms. S isn't fat. I thought you told me she was round."

"No, she's not round. She's a circle. It's her shape."

"But she's thin."

"No, her SHAPE."

Pause.

"What shape am I?"

"Silly, you're a triangle, Mommy."

Eventually there were enough of these odd conversations that I was able to put it all together, and after doing some research discovered the phenomenon had a name. As I said, it hasn't really affected anything, although I do know my daughter finds it rather embarrassing now, and does NOT mention these things to people until she gets to know them really well.

33 posted on 03/19/2002 4:40:13 AM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: Libertina
I wonder if any of the famous artist had synesthesia?

Picasso, perhaps? He used some pretty interesting shapes in his portraits of people...

35 posted on 03/19/2002 9:10:17 AM PST by lsee
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To: Libertina
I'd heard of this before and I'd give my eye-teeth to experience it.

You probably have, at some level.

For example, have you ever experienced the "texture" of a musical piece?

Or perhaps you've done a math or logic proof and seen the problem laid out in "spatial" form, or perhaps different approaches to the problem have a different color or texture to them.

42 posted on 03/19/2002 9:47:12 AM PST by r9etb
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