*grin* You miss my point. That was the joke--synesthetes are notoriously dogmatic about their associations and will have sometimes heated, sometimes just mock-heated arguments about the colors. It baffled the leading expert on the subject at first, until he realized that, to a synesthete, saying the letter o is not red is like saying it's not round--it makes no sense.
We know that this cover isn't objectively wrong, but by god, you try telling our crossed wires that.
DSPS is also very difficult to treat, which is why it's different from jet lag. That's why it's defined as a syndrome. I still don't think it counts as a disability, but I find it a lot more difficult to work with than synesthesia.
Notice that I wasn't complaining about the word "condition." That's actually the one I prefer because it's the most neutral--although even then, it has taken on negative connotations in our normal registers. The thing that surprised me was that this book won an AWARD for portraying a DISABILITY. That seems pretty markedly crazy.
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Date: 2009-08-05 11:14 pm (UTC)We know that this cover isn't objectively wrong, but by god, you try telling our crossed wires that.
DSPS is also very difficult to treat, which is why it's different from jet lag. That's why it's defined as a syndrome. I still don't think it counts as a disability, but I find it a lot more difficult to work with than synesthesia.
Notice that I wasn't complaining about the word "condition." That's actually the one I prefer because it's the most neutral--although even then, it has taken on negative connotations in our normal registers. The thing that surprised me was that this book won an AWARD for portraying a DISABILITY. That seems pretty markedly crazy.