Number and Letter Colour and Gender

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This may seem a bit weird, but I have always thought of numbers and letters having genders. 1 is female, 2 is female, 3 is male, 4 is female, A is female, B is male, C is female etc. I don't know why.

I have read that some people associate number with colours.

Oh, and they also have personalities. 9 is a bit of a pain. 4 is in love with 5. 3 likes 4, but 4 doesn't like 3, but they're stuck next to each other. 3 has a thing for 4 like the Claw did for Penelope Pit Stop.

Anyone else out there?

Sure, I always saw numbers as having faces or expressions.

Me, too.

oh my gosh. yes. to me, odd numbers are male and even numbers and female. only certain colors have personalities to me. orange, purple, blue have the most, according to the way i see them.

I've never really thought of numbers like that, but letters, yes. I came up with that myself when I was like 7.

That's an interesting synesthesia.

it is indeed synaesthesia. ever since i was small, i "see" numbers and letters in my head as assigned certain colors. some are obvious associations, some have no explanation.

here's my list - unchanged since childhood:

a-red
b-blue
c-yellow
d-an autumny orange
e-gunmetal blue
f-grey-green
g-brown
h-yellow
i-yellow
j-greyish lilac
k-light blue
l-yellow
m-brown
n-yellow
o-orange
p-green
q-greyish lilac
r-red
s-yellow
t-brown
u-lighter brown
v-greyish lilac
w-brown
x-greyish lilac
y-yellow
z-greyish lilac

1-yellow
2-yellow
3-brown
4-olive green
5-gunmetal blue
6-orange
7-yellow
8-red
9-orange
10 -yellow, yet, weirdly, zero by itself is greyish-lilac.

For me I associate gender with music notes.

starting from middle C and going up...
Middle C is male
D is male
E is female
F is male
G is female
A is male
B is female
Anything higher than that is female (high pitch, so it makes sense )

going down from middle C...
B is male
A is male
G is female
Anything below that is male

Car brands:
All pickup trucks are male
School Buses are female
All big rigs and dump trucks are male
Don't have the time to go thru each car brand individually

To me:

0 - White
1 - Black
2 - Dark Blue
3 - Olive
4 - Red
5 - Green
6 - Violet
7 - Orange
8 - Dark Brown

:D:D

I would love the synaesthesia that makes letters and numbers coloured. Would make spelling so much easier!!

Seeing numbers with personality, that is an unusual synaesthesia.

I think of numbers with colors, in two diferent formats, even. FDAVM and resistor band

0 green black
1 pink brown
2 black red
3 yellow orange
4 purple yellow
5 red green
6 grey blue
7 brown purple
8 blue grey
9 orange white

EDIT: I should add, I guess it's more associating the colors with the numbers, because I work with those two systems regularly.

There are personality types I associate with numbers, too. I think it has something to do with a math cartoon we were shown in elementary school. Nine is a bit formal and judgemental, six is a comfortable sort, five is a bit shifty but I like him, two is female and friendly, three is very pleasant, seven is angry, etc. I mentioned it to my daughter and she admitted that she does this, too. It's perhaps not all that uncommon among people who aren't particularly mathematically inclined.

Edit: Okay, apparently it is a form of synesthesia called Ordinal-Linguistic Personification.

Thank goodness for that! When I wrote the post yesterday I wondered how crazy I was going to sound. Finally, I know that I am not alone.

Seven's orange to me
Three's red and 5 is blue.

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