She learned to embrace her neurodiversity, but not soon enough

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When Jenalene Antony listens to music, she sees colour. 

She has synesthesia, which means one sense overlaps with another. In her case, certain musical notes are associated with specific colours in her mind.

Studies have shown about four per cent of the general population has some form of synesthesia, with auditory and visual being the most common forms.

Antony says growing up in rural Saskatchewan, she was asked to think and act differently, and be more “normal.”

She says

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