I recently wrote a
post about Math as Characters. As a follow-up, I wanted to post a picture that Meredith drew me a few months ago...I just found it. It shows her numbers zero through nine as she thinks of them, including their color. Perceiving numbers, days or the week, or other sequential items as people is called Ordinal-Linguistic Personification, or OLP. It is a subtype of synesthesia.
I will try to describe her numbers' personalities the best I can here. She could probably write pages about each number since they have many independent stories. For one example, once they had a cooking competition among themselves that lasted for a few weeks. They divided up into groups and they each had one type of food to work with.
Merebith and Dogot were the judges...
Perceiving numbers, days or the week, or other sequential items as people is called Ordinal-Linguistic Personification, or OLP. It is a subtype of synesthesia.
1 - God Boy Since he is "number one" or "numero uno" as they say, he is pretty full of himself. He has a halo and wings.
2 - Confused Girl She is confused because she is made up of both curves and straight lines. She's kind of dumb.
3 - Partyboy Boy Since he's made of curves, he's really fun and hyper.
4 - Normal Girl She is holding a snail that is branded with the number four. All of her snails are branded with the number four because they are like her "herd." She's pretty average because she is made of straight lines.
5 - Cool Boy He's cool because he has a "cool" curve.
6 - Lonely Girl She is lonely without her number 1 because she likes to be with other people and her favorite number is 16. She is in a wheelchair because she is clumsy without her partner (number 1).
7 - Innocent Boy You can tell he is innocent from his little propeller hat and ice cream cone.
8 - Twin Boys They are named twin boys because they are conjoined twins. The smaller brother sits on top of the bigger brother. Their symbol is Gemini.
9 - Alien Girl Alien Girl is a tom-boy. She is always
CRAZY!!!* She annoys everybody.
0 - Fun Boy He is hyper and likes being happy.
*Meredith wrote that as you can tell by the use of color!