I may be a little crazy..

so I learned something new about myself that is kinda crazy. My boss was talking about how he had colors for numbers and saw them in sort of a graph. I really didn't understand why he thought it was so strange that he thought that way. I told him I did the same thing.

When I think about how I percive numbers, it's kind of crazy sounding. I didn't think there was a name for it. (no I'm not nuts) but Numbers to me all have colors. I group them into groups of 10. I only really do this for the numbers 1-10 but they have genders and personalities attached to them.
1 is yellow, 2 is red, 3 is green, 4 is purple, 5 is yellow, 6 is red, 7 is blue, 8 is yellow, 9 is red, and 10 is green. I won't explain the personalities or genders but they all are associated with one.
When I see numbers in my head its graphed out in sort of a steps pattern up to 100. Then it sort of starts over after 100. I see this graph in my head when I count. I even see it when I'm working out and counting.

I don't have personalities and colors attached to letters per say but they are graphed out in my head too.
My months are all colored, no personalities but they are in a sort of rectangle that goes counter clockwise.
my days of the week are viewed in a straight line and are grouped from mon-fri and sat-sun. they all have colors too.

What this is called is synesthesia. Its were your brain is sort of cross wired and you can associate color with numbers to things like hearing or taste. for instance you hear a door creak and you see purple. Or you eat mash potatoes and it makes you think of the color blue. I just associate color with numbers and I also see personalities with them. Its somewhat hereditary, which is funny because my mom has always said she sees colors with sounds.

It makes me sound like a wack job but I never thought it was abnormal really. I thought every mapped out numbers and such in their minds. I did think the personalities and colors for the numbers was weird. I don't project the way i think about numbers out in the world. It's not like I'll freak out if someone draws a blue 5.

I really didn't know that it was a nuerological condition and of course I'm not diagnosed by a doctor but from what I've read I have the Ordinal linguistic personfication branch I guess. It's really weird but kinda cool.

well I hope people don't think I'm a nutso now, but that's just how I view things. It doens't affect my life by any means but it may explain why I SUCK at math. but you should definetly google synesthesia. its pretty cool to ready about..