I'm going to start paying more attention to neurology and brain differences. It appears that people with mirror touch synesthesia have less grey matter in the corresponding area of their brain. 

Speaking of brain stuff, a year or so ago I also figured out that I may have misophonia, at least to a degree after a friend described it. So now I feel OK that certain sounds bother me and I'm not "sensitive" or "crazy". 

It's just nice to be reminded that we're evolving as a species and we get wired differently as "stuff happens" whether it's genetic, something that just goes awry as we are in development, or environmental factors. This stuff is quite fascinating! 

If you're interested scroll down to the podcast titled **Entanglement**: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia

I don't mind being different so much, it's just finding ways to adapt with what I have to coexist with society in a way that I feel healthy and happy (well general contentment, or fulfillment, not being "happy" all the time).

I guess acceptance (being OK or I guess "Radical Acceptance) of being different and not necessarily understood by others makes it easier. I feel like the difference between my generation and my grandparents was that they were more accepting of situations and what happened to them, they just adapted or figured out a solution. Somehow that skill got lost, it seems to have progressively disappeared from the baby boom generation forwards. People seem to have a lot more trouble adapting to situations, being effective rather than perfect, and seem to need other people to tell them what to do and manage their emotions for them.