Comments on: It’s Not Beginning to Look/Sound/Smell/Feel/Taste A Lot Like Christmas http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/2006/12/25/its-not-beginning-to-looksoundsmellfeeltaste-a-lot-like-christmas/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Kendra http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/2006/12/25/its-not-beginning-to-looksoundsmellfeeltaste-a-lot-like-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Kendra Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:14:11 +0000 http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/2006/12/25/its-not-beginning-to-looksoundsmellfeeltaste-a-lot-like-christmas/#comment-174 Ms. Duffy, Thank you very much for the correction. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Synesthesia would be much more accurately described as a gift. Brightest Wishes to You, Kendra The Island Med Student Ms. Duffy,

Thank you very much for the correction. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Synesthesia would be much more accurately described as a gift.

Brightest Wishes to You,
Kendra
The Island Med Student

]]> By: Patricia Lynne Duffy http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/2006/12/25/its-not-beginning-to-looksoundsmellfeeltaste-a-lot-like-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Patricia Lynne Duffy Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:29:52 +0000 http://www.islandmedstudent.com/home/2006/12/25/its-not-beginning-to-looksoundsmellfeeltaste-a-lot-like-christmas/#comment-173 I, too, am a great appreciator of the 'wondrous water works' of synesthetic photographer Marcia Smilack. As a synesthete, myself, and as a researcher into the phenomenon, I feel it important to say that very few synesthetes "suffer" from synesthesia. Rather, the vast majority of synesthetes I interviewed in the course of my research would not want to "be cured" of their special form of perception. Colorful wishes, Patricia Lynne Duffy author, "Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color their Worlds" (Henry Holt & Company 2001) I, too, am a great appreciator of the ‘wondrous water works’ of synesthetic photographer Marcia Smilack. As a synesthete, myself, and as a researcher into the phenomenon, I feel it important to say that very few synesthetes “suffer” from synesthesia. Rather, the vast majority of synesthetes I interviewed in the course of my research would not want to “be cured” of their special form of perception.

Colorful wishes,

Patricia Lynne Duffy
author, “Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color their Worlds” (Henry Holt & Company 2001)

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