Dyspraxic Adults

Hey, I was wondering if Dyspraxia has been known to cause Colour Blindness or Synaesthesia. I have both of these and figured it could because of the misinterpretation of signals. You know, like a cross-over between the senses or perceiving green as read and vice-versa.

Just curious, that's all.

Synaesthesia: that must be interesting - bananas tasting an arresting shade of blue - that sort of thing.

I'm also colour-blind (dichromatic protanopia) and I know it's a genetic defect carried on the x chomosome; hence inherited from either parent, however, women only tend to display colour blindness when both of their parents are colourblind so there is no way of the child of either sex to avoid inheriting the gene but if parent has daughters, potentially colourblindness can be perpetuated down the line without manifesting itself until the first XY kid shows up. If that child inherits the gene from the parent, then they will be colour-blind.

I've no idea if Synaesthesia is X-linked as well.

I don't think there is a correlation between dyspraxia and colour-blindness, but this is certainly a co-incidence, so maybe - who knows?

Synaesthesia is neurological in nature (owing to the cross-cutting of pathways in the brain accounting for the intersection of sensations and experience), so I wouldn't rule it out, but I suspect while the three conditions co-exist in you, they can exist separately in others so making them not dependent on one and other.

Lithium_joe wrote:Synaesthesia: that must be interesting - bananas tasting an arresting shade of blue - that sort of thing.

I'm also colour-blind (dichromatic protanopia) and I know it's a genetic defect carried on the x chomosome; hence inherited from either parent, however, women only tend to display colour blindness when both of their parents are colourblind so there is no way of the child of either sex to avoid inheriting the gene but if parent has daughters, potentially colourblindness can be perpetuated down the line without manifesting itself until the first XY kid shows up. If that child inherits the gene from the parent, then they will be colour-blind.

I've no idea if Synaesthesia is X-linked as well.

I don't think there is a correlation between dyspraxia and colour-blindness, but this is certainly a co-incidence, so maybe - who knows?

Synaesthesia is neurological in nature (owing to the cross-cutting of pathways in the brain accounting for the intersection of sensations and experience), so I wouldn't rule it out, but I suspect while the three conditions co-exist in you, they can exist separately in others so making them not dependent on one and other.

Thanks for the info. My little sister is Colourblind (though, not as bad as I am) We're both Red/Green Deficient.
My Synaeshesia in Ordered Personification (mostly). That means that I assign Sex, Personalities and other Human traits to things that are shown in orders (Days, Months, Numbers) Though, I get a visual representation of smells (I don't actually see them, but I know what they look like).

Dyspraxia gives me a sensitivity to smells, and Synaesthesia gives me visualization of smells and I've discovered that I don't like smells that I categorize as being wavy in shape (example: Lavender, it is a wavy strip of light blue, about as thick as the cover of a hard book and with holes in it and droplets of colour its above) Other trends pop up too, I like round smells and large ones.

Sorry, I tend to ramble

I've always had synesthesia, or more specifically grapheme. I associate certain letters, words and numbers with varying colours, I'm the only dyspraxic in my family and I'm also the only family member affected by grapheme, I figure they're probably highly likely to be linked.

Icarus wrote:

Lithium_joe wrote:Synaesthesia: that must be interesting - bananas tasting an arresting shade of blue - that sort of thing.

I'm also colour-blind (dichromatic protanopia) and I know it's a genetic defect carried on the x chomosome; hence inherited from either parent, however, women only tend to display colour blindness when both of their parents are colourblind so there is no way of the child of either sex to avoid inheriting the gene but if parent has daughters, potentially colourblindness can be perpetuated down the line without manifesting itself until the first XY kid shows up. If that child inherits the gene from the parent, then they will be colour-blind.

I've no idea if Synaesthesia is X-linked as well.

I don't think there is a correlation between dyspraxia and colour-blindness, but this is certainly a co-incidence, so maybe - who knows?

Synaesthesia is neurological in nature (owing to the cross-cutting of pathways in the brain accounting for the intersection of sensations and experience), so I wouldn't rule it out, but I suspect while the three conditions co-exist in you, they can exist separately in others so making them not dependent on one and other.

Thanks for the info. My little sister is Colourblind (though, not as bad as I am) We're both Red/Green Deficient.
My Synaeshesia in Ordered Personification (mostly). That means that I assign Sex, Personalities and other Human traits to things that are shown in orders (Days, Months, Numbers) Though, I get a visual representation of smells (I don't actually see them, but I know what they look like).

Dyspraxia gives me a sensitivity to smells, and Synaesthesia gives me visualization of smells and I've discovered that I don't like smells that I categorize as being wavy in shape (example: Lavender, it is a wavy strip of light blue, about as thick as the cover of a hard book and with holes in it and droplets of colour its above) Other trends pop up too, I like round smells and large ones.

Sorry, I tend to ramble

See it's interesting you saying your sensitivity is to smells and your synaesthesia is smell related, my dyspraxia gives me over sensitivity to taste and temperatures but my synaesthesia has nothing to do with taste or temperatures.

I often associate numbers and times with colours.