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Holly Baxter is a freelance journalist who writes regularly for The Guardian and The New Statesman. She is also one half of The Vagenda and releases a book on the media in May 2014.
Synaesthesia can be anything from seeing words in colours to full-on visual disturbances – and scientists are still learning why.