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Accommodations for Neurodiversity in the Workplace

2020

An introduction for supervisors looking to accommodate autistic or neurodiverse employees in the workplace. Over 80% of autistic adults are unemployed or underemployed, this video touches on some strategies for helping them be successful at work.

15:47 min

Billie Eilish Says Her Synethesia Inspires Her Creative Process

She also told Jimmy Fallon he appears to her as a “vertical brown rectangle.”

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Bria McNeal
2021
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Tasting the Universe: People Who See Colors in Words and Rainbows in Symphonies

What happens when a journalist turns her lens on a mystery happening in her own life? Maureen Seaberg did just that and lived for a year exploring her synesthesia.

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Maureen Seaberg
2011
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Autism May Be Linked to Mirror-Touch Synesthesia, the Ability to Physically Feel What Others Feel

Although synesthesia is not as rare as it was once believed, synesthetes (people who experience synesthesia) typically don’t realize their unique abilities are not common to everyone. Another fun fact: it’s also believed synesthesia could be linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

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Andréas RB Deolinda
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The Mirror-Touch Synesthetes Who Can Literally Feel Your Pain

People with the unique neurological condition aren't just sensitive to the emotions and physical sensations of others—they feel them like it's their own.

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Layla Haidrani
2017
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The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

What we perceive to be absolute truths of the world around us is actually a complex internal reconstruction by our minds and nervous systems.

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Dr. Guy Leschziner
2025
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What Happens When Our Brain Lets Us Taste Words?

Our five senses evolved to help us know the world. But sometimes, a tripped wire or two in the brain lets us perceive in completely bizarre ways.

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Guy Leschziner
2022
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We Are All Synesthetes

Given the right circumstances.

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Bence Nanay
2019
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Is Synesthesia a Brain Disorder?

In a provocative review paper, French neuroscientists Jean-Michel Hupé and Michel Dojat question the assumption that synesthesia is a neurological disorder.

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Neuroskeptic
2015
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The Many Types of Synesthesia Explained

Research and understanding of synesthesia are currently quite fluid, with new findings being regularly reported. The scientific community has, however, established somewhat consistent descriptions of the most common ways in which the various types of synesthesia manifested.

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Nicola Kirkpatrick
2021
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‘We Can Literally Feel Our Patients’ Pain’: From a Neuroscientist to a Massage Therapist, We Speak to Some of the Rare Few Healthcare Professionals with ‘Mirror-Touch Synesthesia’

Mirror-touch synesthesia is a rare neurological trait that makes people highly empathic, allowing them to feel what others do by looking at or touching them.

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Natalie Rahhal
2018
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