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Tuesday June 19, 2012. Met with my ACA sponsor at Citizen Cafe. (ACA: Adult Children of Alcoholic and Otherwise Dysfunctional Families.)

Citizen Cafe is decorated with posters from The Good Old Days: mostly the 1940s and 1950s. Nostalgia for the period when I was growing up, packaged for people mostly born decades later. This amuses me.

***"TSOL - Friday Jun 15, 2012 at 11:44 am [article comment]
"I’ve seen many, many hot hipster girls reading Ayn Rand on the subway in NY. Only one or two guys though."
http://tinyurl.com/bnfrfc7 These Are the Books That Make You Totally Undateable by Emily Temple.

I hadn't realized "hipster" was in current use.

***Photo of non-alcoholic vodka, from Google Plus. http://tinyurl.com/7sx9exk

My Synesthesias

My Synesthesias

"Synesthesia is the general name for a related set (a "complex") of various cognitive states. Synesthesia may be divided into two general, somewhat overlapping types. The first, which I sometimes call "synesthesia proper", is as described above, in which stimuli to a sensory input will also trigger sensations in one or more other sensory modes. The second form of synesthesia, called "cognitive" or "category synesthesia", involves synesthetic additions to culture-bound cognitive categorizational systems. In simpler words, with this kind of synesthesia, certain sets of things which our individual cultures teach us to put together and categorize in some specific way – like letters, numbers, or people's names – also get some kind of sensory addition, such as a smell, color or flavor....

"Synesthesia is additive; that is, it adds to the initial (primary) sensory perception, rather than replacing one perceptual mode for another...." Sean A. Day
http://www.daysyn.com/Definition.html

My synesthesias include:

Sound to touch and sight (texture stronger than color)

Sight to touch

Ticker tape: When I speak, hear others speak, or think in words, I "see" the words written out. Note: It seems to never been in the same typeface twice in a row.

Much of my thinking is in kinesthetic/tactile/visual diagrams in three or four dimensions; occasionally five dimensions.