A Mango Shaped Space

“A Mango Shaped Space” is about a girl named Mia and her experience with synesthesia. Synesthesia is the mixing of two senses. So in Mia’s case, she sees color and shape when she hears noise, or music, and black and white words have color. Also, names have color as well. Mia figures out about her synesthesia and learns more about, while dealing with school, life and a horrible loss.

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“Hello?” “Is this on?” “Ahem” “Okay” “My name is Mia Winchell and I am 13 years old.” “And I have a thing called synesthesia” “It’s like different senses that mix with each other.” “Or at least, that’s what Dr. , I mean Mr. Jerry said.” “And, I didn’t tell my best friend about it, and she got super mad at me” “So then, I told her and she got, yet again, super mad at me” “Sometimes, I just don’t understand people”

(In background)“Mia!”

“Just a sec mom!” (Voice recording ends)

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“Okay, sorry, had to help my mom” “Anyway, I started going to these acupuncture sessions, and they were amazing!” “I saw colors and auras I didn’t even know existed!” “I also went to a synesthesia meeting and got to meet people who were just like me!” “Except, some people had different forms of synesthesia.” “And guess what?” “Most of us are left handed! ”It’s apparently a thing for people who have synesthesia. ”And, I think this boy , Billy, has synesthesia too.” “But his mom doesn’t believe me.” " I'm going to try to talk to her some more and convince her"“Anyway, got to go, I will talk to you soon!” “Mia Winchell, out”