The Big Picture by Lennie Peterson for October 19, 2022

I have Tourette Syndrome and, believe me, isn’t a piece of cake

I gotta say, when you draw yourself in this comic, you come very close to the real you. I was surprised at the resemblance!

I have synesthesia as well, although it may be more subtle than yours. I can hear touch, smell shapes, see sounds and smells, and the alphabet and numbers have colors. I would think that living in a world without synesthesia would be very bland.

That’s

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while we wait for the official link to show up. It’s not even geoblocked!

Most of us have to take acid to enjoy synesthesia.

Very cool. Thank you for sharing, Mr. Peterson.

It’s what makes you, you. (So glad you’re back.)

Thanks to those who posted links. Have a blessed day and many bowls of gazpacho.

That’s so wonderful! Thanks for sharing

Just watched and I am fascinated by this phenomenon. Your art work is beautiful.

Crazy? He was crazy enough to adopt you, Homeslice. And kind and generous enough.

Excellent! Thanks for sharing..

Very interesting. Some of my favorite people seem to have it. We saw Billy Joel in Madison Sq. Garden just before “lock down” here in NJ. He had his daughter sing. I wonder if it was passed down to her.

I think a world where I’d have my senses on like that would have me institutionalised. While I have no issues with visual stimulation, I can close my eyes, I do with hearing. Some sounds or sound combinations agitate me quickly e.g. some jazz where people seem to be playing from different songs/composers, some country that gets a to “twangy”, some rock, etc. I prefer to have no sound or only one person talking/singing.

On a side note, the guy they’re interviewing says there are five senses. There are not—there are six, but the sixth is so ingrained from all the way back to when babies are studying their hands and feet moving that we’re not aware of it: proprioception is the ability to tell where different parts of your body are in space and relative to each other. Mine was damaged by a brain injury at 31 and I have to be really careful about trying to, say, brush a hair off my face when I’m mostly asleep because I can miss and smack my eyeball a good one. (Did that two nights ago.) Or my nose. Also, I don’t have synesthesia, but my brain does fill in music for just about anything: everything can have an instant sound track. One time several years ago I turned on the CD player, sat down to knit on a big project, listened to a favorite album, my needles keeping in rhythm with the songs, got up to change the CD when it was done—and was astonished to find I’d never actually hit Play.

Wonder if this is the origin of calling the blues “blues”?