"But if I show you a green A, you hate it. I've had to change the colours of fonts on my power point slides in the past when giving presentations to synaesthetes."
I can't even look at pictorial depictions that run opposite to mine--gives me a headache. Completely different ones don't bother me though.
time-space variant is one of three types that has only been properly described within the last few years.
So I guess I wasn't really meant to find out until now, because, if I had googled it years ago, I might not have found it.
When she thinks of a date she feels herself travel along the calendar to the right spot. She has a separate, hoop-shaped calendar for days of the week. Both have been part of her life for as long as she can remember.
I never travel along, but I do see the spot and I can point to it regardless of what year it's in.
“Ovals of time: time-space associations in synaesthesia”,
Mine runs opposite to these!
When someone mentions a year, I see the oval with myself at the very bottom, Christmas day to be precise. As soon as a month is given, I see exactly where that month is on the oval. As I move through the year, I am very aware of my place on the oval at the current time, and the direction I am moving in.”
This is very similar to what I experience!