Everyone with synesthesia has a different combination of senses, Dr. His particular form is called “Mirror Touch.” But chances are, if they have one form, they have another. “It’s like my brain is under the assumption that whoever I am looking at is my reflection,” Salinas said. “I might see someone experiencing a headache and feel like I have a headache. I might see someone get punched and feel like I got punched.” I might see someone have nausea and feel like I have nausea. He is therefore a doctor who can literally feel his patients’ pain. It’s something he has learned to work around. From fairy, to Stepford, to teaĮlliott has sensed things the way she does for as long as she can remember.įriday Elliott, the tea maker, however, has not only learned to work around her synesthesia, she works it to her advantage. She credits her family for encouraging her to use it. “My parents actually met in Star Trek club and I was raised on, essentially, a commune with a bunch of hippy, herbalist types,” she said. When she began expressing her unique experiences as a child, her family simply told her that she must be a fairy of some kind.
She never realized that her senses were unique. “It wasn’t so much, ‘You have an ailment, but we are going to tell you that you are a fairy creature,’” she said. “It was more, ‘You got these quirks that we don’t have words for. That’s cute, and it matches up with a lot of fairy lore, so you are probably just a changeling.’ Who knows how much of that was a joke – I was like 6.”īut then her family moved away from the farm to a far away, bizarre land: Redmond.
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“It was full on Stepford and being other than was unacceptable,” Elliott said. “Moving from this ‘Who you are is great and you are a beautiful snowflake’ environment to a ‘Hey what’s wrong with you? I don’t understand what you are saying, you are a freak and we don’t like you’ was absolute culture shock.” Star trek online nerve tonic full# Her peers in middle and high school would say if they liked a book, or not. She then engaged in what she calls "Hermoine Granger level of study." Elliott would talk about how it tasted and be met with confused looks.Įlliott became a chef in her 20s, spending years in the industry before she discovered the world of tea blending. She made her own blends for 14 years before a friend asked her to make a few custom teas for an Alice in Wonderland tea party. She made a Queen of Hearts tea and a Wonderland blend – each based on how she experiences the story and the characters. “People flipped out, they loved it,” Elliott said. “They were like, ‘How can we get more of these cute, themed tea blends?’ And at the time, fandom blends weren’t a thing.
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