Jun 16
one thing people don't tell you about ticker tape synesthesia is that it misspells things sometimes
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one thing people don't tell you about ticker tape synesthesia is that it misspells things sometimes
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ticker tape synesthesia culture is being really good at spelling people's foreign-language names on the first try
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ticker tape synesthesia culture is not noticing when the captions turn off
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Ticker taping culture is not knowing whether you have pretty good auditory processing or whether your auditory processing is actually terrible, but you can just read lectures and conversations off your subtitles
(This may not actually be how brains work at all! That’s the problem, though—there’s so little research about ticker taping that I don’t know whether it uses auditory processing pathways or not.)
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ticker-tape synesthesia culture is misspelling a word in your mind's eye and not being able to understand what you're hearing until you correct the spelling!
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do you take submissions about ticker tape synesthesia? I just found out there's a name for what I have (I always called it "seeing subtitles") but I know not everyone considers it to be a form of synesthesia rather than its own thing
Funny little story - I experience this too pretty much any time someone is speaking, and one time I looked it up and found the term ticker tape synesthesia. I personally am not sure if, individually, it is its own form of synesthesia. However, considering it's a sort of internal sensory experience caused by an external one, I'd say it falls into the realm of a lot of our experiences. So, short answer: yes, I will take submissions about it!
Intro to Ticker Tape Synesthesia
One of my types of synesthesia is called ticker tape synesthesia (which is associative, like all my types of synesthesia). Essentially, my life has subtitles. Participating in a conversation? Everyone’s words (including my own, plus there’s my thoughts) are literally spelled out in my brain. Same thing happens if I’m listening to a song with lyrics, so it’s like having an instant lyric video (with colors, shapes, etc. courtesy of my sound-color synesthesia/chromesthesia.) These “mental subtitles” aren’t something I can help, but they come in handy more often than not, so I’m okay with that.
I didn’t even realize that ticker tape wasn’t normal until a few months ago. I also didn’t realize that some synesthetes with ticker tape see different fonts than me. I spent a while comparing different fonts to my brain’s, and the closest I can get is actually the same font as this post: Helvetica Neue. I didn’t know that until I got Tumblr a couple of weeks ago or so, so my best guess before now was Times New Roman (mostly because they actually got the “I” right so it doesn’t look like an “L”, plus a few other reasons). While not all the letters in either font are exactly what I see, finding a similar font is the best way I have to describe it to other people and make visual representations of what I see.
The words are usually white against a black background, though the background depends on the music I’m listening to, the speaker’s voice, or if I’m just lost in my own thoughts.Â
This post is getting a bit long, so I’m going to end it here.Â
Iiaat/neurodivergent thing to actually visualize answers? I feel like the misconception of Autistics/“brainiacs” on television having floating equations around their head actually does represent /kinda/ what happens with me. Even since I was little I’ve been able to “look up into the sky” and see the answers to things/equations (according to my mother). Especially with harder problems I see the chart/numbers/variables like the TV thing.
This sounds like it could be a variation on ticker tape synesthesia.  Synesthesia isn’t an autism thing, but does seem to be more common among autistic people than the general population.
-Liz