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*graphia (chromagraphia, facetographia, etc.) is the same basic thing as *graphemia (chromagraphemia, facetographemia, etc.); synesthetic qualities are tied to specific shapes (in general, "visual objects"). In my case, just about everything I look at has a personality (even though most personalities are somewhat nondescript): different notebooks have different personalities, my shampoo and conditioner have different personalities, doorframes have personalities, foods have personalities... the list could go on forever. But you name it, and it has a personality of some sort to me. Some objects also have color and sex, much like my graphemes. Things that are otherwise exactly alike but are different in color have different personalities to me. Things of this nature, oddly enough, often adopt their personalities and sexes from my graphemes that closely match up in color to them.
It does not matter whether objects are animate or inanimate. Most things seem either neuter/androgynous to me, making it difficult for me to tell if it's just the objects' personalities I'm experiencing or if sex is also included in what I'm looking at. At college one year, I occasionally studied with a friend of mine who had a small [, hypoallergenic!], white, curly-haired, male dog named Elvis. I referred to the dog as "it", and she would often correct me to "he". It only occurred to me at the time of writing this, but I referred to it that way (Oops; there I go again!), because to me it really is an "it", in that when I look at it, my mind considers the shape of the dog, etc., to be basically neuter.
Simple shapes have always had a colors, personalities, ages, and sexes. Ovals are generally medium-dark red, female, and mothers of circles (or 'the circle', considering a circle can't be any other shape, and therefore there can be only one). A circle is red, female, motherly, and in her 30s. A square is blue, male, and perhaps in his 20s, but I'm not quite sure on the age; it might be older. Rectangles are bluish or brown (somewhat like the letter D), male, and also perhaps in their 20s. Diamonds are generally a fairly light shade of blue. An equilateral triangle is green, has qualities of mostly male but slightly neuter, and I am unsure of his sex, but it is younger than the others, I think. I could go on with others, but these are my "strongest" shapes.
More elaborate shapes can also have color, etc., to me, such as the political boundaries of countries and states. Below are the United States' states in my colors. A few are not particularly accurate (Arizona, Oklahoma, Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts, etc.), but as I was creating the graphic, I was at a loss as to how to make them moreso. The states are all very much androgynous to me, but their personalities are absolutely distinct.
I have been to:
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
West Virginia
Wyoming
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I've not been to:
Alaska
California
Connecticut
Delaware
Hawai‘i
Idaho
Louisiana
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Montana
New Hampshire
Oregon
Rhode Island
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin
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My fingers and toes, when I look at them, have personalities, sexes, and colors. (You can imagine how I "get along" with toe socks that have a [wrong!] color for each toe! =) Unlike my chromagraphemia, I do not project colors onto my fingers or toes; I merely get a "feeling" of color when I look at them. Now, the interesting thing about this is that my thumbs are yellowish, my pointer fingers are orange, my middle fingers are green, my ring fingers are blue, and my pinkies are pink. These colors correspond perfectly with my colors for 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The personalities of my fingers match up in a basic sense to the numbers, although 5 is much younger (maybe 5 years old?). Either the thumbs or the third fingers are the oldest on each hand, and now that I think about it, they are "the most important finger" and the longest finger, respectively. Their being eldest in age may therefore not be a coïncidence. The colors are the same for each hand, and the personalities are only slightly different for each hand [in that there's something like a "left" versus "right" personality].
Before I quit the general topic, objects can interact in my imagination, through my memory of synesthesia, just as animals, such as people, in real life can. What I mean as, just as you can consider the sexes and personalities of two people you know and think of those two people interacting with each other, it is the very same way with my graphemes and, usually to a lesser extent, graphs. Mine is an interesting universe.
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