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Please join me on Wednesday, September 20th at 15:30 GMT for Art in Conversation, a multidisciplinary seminar. The University of St. Andrews is hosting this online event in collaboration with The IASAS, the International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists. The link to join is here: Art in Conversation.

I feel so fortunate to be featured in Aurore Dupont-Sagorin’s mini-documentary about mirror pain. Aurore is a fellow mirror-sensory synesthete and filmmaker. Her BBC Reel Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia: feeling other people’s pain is a beautifully crafted short film about the joys and struggles of living with the conflated sensations of MTS. I am glad to know…

Which to take? The blue pill? The white pill?

For the first time in my 30-year manual therapy career, I’ve given a client a code name: Italian Beauty. She is indeed gorgeous and has ties to Calabria, on the “heel” of Italy’s boot. But, my reasons are not about her visage or heritage. My neurocognitive differences have long fostered problems for me at work,…

May 6th 2023 marked the coronation of King Charles III in London, and across the pond, the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby. I didn’t watch either, but I did take Monday’s New York Times quiz on headwear to see if I could accurately pick which hats were worn at Westminster Abbey, and which at…

Grapheme-color synesthetes, what is the color of your letter M?

True confession: I still have my Christmas tree up. It’s perched in the corner of my living room, glitzy, glorious, and connected to a smart device that allows me to activate the lights with a simple command. I plan to keep it in place until February 1st and have it down before midnight on Candlemass…

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on an essay about my childhood experiences with Tourette Syndrome. There are many misconceptions about Tourette and scientific accuracy is important to me, so I’ve been diving into reliable publications for facts and statistics about this neurocognitive difference. Typically, my resources for projects like this are the…