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Originally Posted by dyna mo
my stating it was not innvented/discovered until a couple years ago is tantamount to meaning that it was not known in the mainstream or by non-researchers until it made the news and people then claimed they have it.
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Got it. So you stating incorrectly that it was invented (which is clearly is not) or discovered a "couple years ago" which it clearly wasn't, and explaining the "cause" which is clearly wrong on every level, was actually meant to be interpreted as "since it was discovered, many people claim to have it". Obviously, i am the one with poor communication skills - thanks for pointing that out.
Let me walk you through another fundamentally common phenomena of psychology that you are having trouble with.
People don't know what it is, until they know what it is. People don't know others have it until they know others have it. People can't say they have something if they don't know what to call it. People don't often announce things about themselves that they feel ashamed of or that makes them feel different or freakish until they feel safe or comfortable in doing so, and many never do.
Synethesia (in all its various forms as with Agnosia) is a great example of that very thing and why it is also poorly studied in spite of also being very common. People aren't in the habit of running around telling others they see faces in colors or days of the week in colors or experience distinct tastes when they touch various surfaces/textures or seeing numbers floating in space in front of them in a specific location and orientation. They do however start coming out when they start to understand they are not alone and when they know what to call it and know how to explain it and learn to understand it themselves.