Happy Pride everyone! Join Maike as she meets Jaime Prada, founder of the art platform carriedaway.uk. In this empowering episode, these two neurodivergent queers delve into the intersections of activism and art, highlighting the significance of platforms like carriedaway.uk. A place that aims to foster representation and reclaim identities within marginalized groups. With a focus on their shared experiences in Edinburgh, Maike and Jaime explore the power of art in amplifying diverse voices and the importance of embracing and celebrating one's true self.

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Maike meets Anton Sidoroff-Dorso, a psychologist, linguist, and researcher from Moscow. Anton shares fascinating insights about his research on the synaesthesia quotient, unique perspectives and events within the Russian synaesthesia community and worldwide.

Then, get ready to meet Yelena Lastovina, a multi-talented poet, synaesthete, and journalist from Volgograd. Yelena is a very active member of the Russian synaesthesia community, offering a glimpse into it. Discover how her taste-synaesthesia shapes everyday experiences, and be inspired by her heartfelt hopes for the future of synaesthetes around the world.

https://iasasevents.com/home/

https://www.journeythroughthesenses.org/

https://artinconversation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/

Guests:

Anton Sidoroff-Dorso

Yelena Lastovina

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Join Maike this week as she sits down with Candin Phillips, a licensed therapist and ADHD coach from the United States. In this episode, they explore the realms of ADHD, synaesthesia, and medication, delving into the unique phenomenon of sequence space synaesthesia that brought them together. Get ready for personal stories, insightful discussions, listener questions, and the exciting announcement of the "Synnie of the Month" winner for May!

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@humanity_hive

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In this episode, we're going to hear about "The Possibility of Colour," a play written by Pete Carruthers, who is a writer, actor, and researcher. Pete will share how the play came about and discuss his relationship with voice-hearing, synaesthesia, autism, and AI. Maike and Pete will also delve into the impact of using theatre and film in nurse training, emphasising the significance of asking challenging, uncomfortable, and courageous questions about society's pressing issues and our desired way of living.

Story read out by: Jessica Lagerwall

Comments on the play by: Kyle Charnley, Donna Day & James Wannerton

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@tree_fish_productions

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On this week's episode Maike meets Dr Sean A. Day - founding president of the International Association for Synaesthetes, Artists and Scientists. Sean shares his own story of witnessing one of the biggest earthquakes, developing PTSD and losing his synaesthesia as part of that. They also cover what it's like to live with very strong forms of taste- and odour-to visual-synaesthesia.

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On this episode Maike meets Kaitlyn Hova. The two have a chat about how they each experience the world through their synaesthesia and ways to make it tangible. They cover person-to-colour-synesthesia, product ideas and the Hovalin! This is a 3D printed violin that glows in the colours Kaitlyn sees for music - so cool!

Kaitlyn playing the Hovalin

Kaitlyn's website

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In today's episode Maike meets Nina Slottke. Nina is a psychotherapist for children and young people based in Germany. Together they discuss a paper on wellbeing differences in child synaesthetes and what those findings mean for the psychological practice. They also brainstorm ideas on how to speak to kids about synaesthesia and give advice to care givers on how to support child synaesthetes and children with sensory processing difficulties.

link to the paper discussed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33048782/

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We're WRAPPING UP SEASON ONE by looking back on the exciting first 9 episodes. Maike is joined by one of her favourite people & great helper in the background Daniel Woods. He's also known as Mr Outro! Dan is interviewing Maike on the regrets she has, what she's learned so far and what season two will look like!

If you wanna submit your story for "Synnie of the month" send an e-mail, instagram direct message or use the episode's question field on spotify.

Season two will start next week without any interruption - That's Tuesday, April 18th.

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On July 2nd 2023 the very first synaesthesia awareness day will take place!! Todays guest is Stephen Melton, the clever brain behind this new awareness day. He'll tell us how it all came about and what his mission and hopes for the global synaesthesia community are.

Wanna get involved or connect with Stephen? @synesthesiaawarenessday

www.synesthesiaawarenessday.com

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It's the PhD-Edition! Corin Anderson and Clara Isabelle Soto Rodriguez, two synaesthetes from different parts of the world decided to study synaesthesia and to dedicated their PhD to it. We hear both their stories of having synaesthesia and what their theses are about:

Corin Anderson is Scottish and a PhD student at the Edinburgh Napier University in the UK. His researched topic is called "A compositional exploration of Auditory-Visual-Synaesthesia". On instagram you can find him under @musiccoriander. AND he's also the clever brain behind the sounds used in this podcast. Thank you so much for the collaboration, Corin!

Clara Isabelle Soto Rodriguez is Mexican and a PhD student at the Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico. Her thesis is a "comparative analysis similarities in colored auditions: case study as a reference towards an understanding of musical synesthesia and the neural mechanisms of human multisensory perception" . You can find Clara on instagram under @claraisabellee.

Expert-Information by Dr Duncan Carmichael, Psychology lecturer at Napier University, Edinburgh

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