Seeing Life in A Different Way

Summary: The video was about how people with synesthesia can taste food and it relate to a shape, how different words can leave a taste in your mouth, and how different notes can be different colors. It shows a woman by the name of Laura Rosser who plays the piano. She tells the reporter all the different colors she sees with different notes. He asks if they appear one at a time while the note is being played or if it just jumbles together and she says that they just swirl together in front of her. The reporter then takes a test to see if he can find a shape made up of twos in a bunch of fives. It takes him a while to do it but he figures it out. When he asks Laura and two other girls to do it they immediately point it out. He asked them how they found it so quickly. The girls then told the reporter that all their fives were red and their twos were yellow or orange. Laura goes on to explain how she sees synesthesia as a gift, as a spiritually thing instead of just a disorder in her brain.
Connection: I really liked this video because she explains a lot about her disorder. I like it because she doesn’t let the fact that she has a disorder effect her in any way. It shows people that just because you have something like synesthesia doesn’t mean that your life will end or that you will have to live so differently from other people. People with synesthesia can go on living relatively normal lives. The only thing that is different for them is the way they perceive things.