I did something a bit out of character, because I should have also done L for Language, but I wanted everyone to see L for LudoSport, so instead of L for language, I’m doing M for Magic, and being a bit sneaky and talking about L for language instead. But it’s also magic, and I’ll explain why.
It’s magic to me at least.
Did you know that every organised communication, written, oral or organised (math, code, music, linguistics) are all types of language to me. I love to talk about math as a language because I get funny looks, but we recently discovered that as I consider music as a language, AND I have a weird thing called synaesthesia (I see colours that connects with tone – I tend to say music, but it’s really….everything. From speech to rain, to the cat miaowing (that’s a unsurprisingly sparkly yellow for Eiryss, and a diamond white for Haley (she doesn’t talk much)) so, really, colour is also, kinda language.
It’s important at this point to acknowledge that I’m (a) on the spectrum, and b) because of the idea that all things can be organised into language.
I don’t know if it’s an inspiration or not, but, I know it’s integral to how I work. And I love that. And it’s something I wanted to explain.
I think it’s part of the reason I’m actually ok with a couple of things to do with my mental health. I know a lot of what I do is to do with how I feel, and i know I feel the way I do because my brain engages more than one sense. And when it’s good it’s magic. (when it’s bad, it’s a curse, but I’m also pagan – everything in balance).
I don’t know if others will see it quite the same way, so I’ve got another M post for today – M for Meditation.
And on Typing A Blank, I’m doing M for Migraine, cause anyone that knows me knows I’ve been … learning to make space for that in my life.
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Kai is a writer, author and avid reader. A mental health advocate, Ludosport athlete and coder. She’s the mother of two young adults, owned by two cats, and lives with her beloved in the Cotswolds.
I read a book about a person that had synesthesia and I thought I had a friend with it. The book is set in the 1930s and 40s when we were just learning about it.
For the longest time, I thought it was part of my mental health issues – Dr C, who is a lovely man, told me that actually, no, it’s just a quirk of how my brain works.
I’ve grown to like it – it and fireworks with classical music is an experience – and I think it’s probably the closest people that don’t see it might understand. I don’t…see the colours exactly. It’s not like music plays and there’s an overlay of colour – it’s just my brain tells me ‘that’s blue, that’s yellow, that’s an odd burnt umber’. I have two forms though – the kinda benign but distracting colour for music and I also unfortunately have a trigger related form of Misophonia, but it’s kinda part of the way I see my psychosis too, so it’s not something I tend to dwell on. Funnily enough, those sounds don’t have pleasant colours either. So, when I get to P for, I’ll maybe explain how I handle neutralising stuff. It might end up in T for triggers though.