Today was brought to you by Yellow!

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Yesterday was all about late Thanksgiving with some old old old friends. We do Lost Soul's Thanksgiving every year and have for over a decade. There was lots and lots and lots of food. Thus... Today was all about Synesthesia. Yellow was the bane of my existence today. It was prickly and awful, which is a pain in the ass as it's usually one of my favorite colors so I have a lot of it around. Oh, and the bathroom is yellow. Yay for a physical discomfort brought on by color? The color thing is odd and not common. I have some others that happen all the time. Like car alarms. They're always a smell to me. Like rotted garbage really. I've never heard a car alarm. So wrong, and so completely confusing. Mostly because until recently I wasn't even aware of even having synesthetic triggers or behaviors. If you've always experienced something that way it doesn't seem odd until someone else notices and points it out to you. Like the car alarm. That smell is a car alarm, so aside from the wrinkling of my nose, I react like everyone else because hey! It's a car alarm. They're annoying. Most people hear them and grumble. I smell them and grumble. When I was young and asked, "Wow, what is that?" when the car alarm went off, someone said, "Car alarm." I accepted that. Now, that smell equals car alarm in my head. My mom and my doctor noticed it long before I did. And it wasn't until recently that anyone pointed it out. Weird, huh?

My doctor mentions a connection between food and Autism every time I go to see him. He wants me to cut gluten out of my diet entirely. He says it'll help. On one hand I'd love my life to be easier, on the other hand, I like wheat products. Cutting them out adds stress which makes it worse. Keeping it makes yellow prickly. Which way do you go? Suck it up with prickly yellow, I think. I've cut down, and it does help, but every time I try to quit entirely, well let's just say that it was easier to quit smoking after twelve years of that habit, than to quit bread. O.o And I just want to shake my doctor and inform him that of course studies have shown that having a gluten free diet is helpful to Autistic children. They aren't attached to their diet. I'm thirty! I've got a bloody attachment to that dinner roll at thanksgiving! It's tradition. I know it's childish and melodramatic, but it's not a small thing, changing your diet so completely.