Letters to the Editor
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@Nicepieceofdonkey and @ifiddle
You said:
Asperger's certainly seems to exist without synesthesia.
How do you know that? Many people here have commented that they never knew that they were different, special, etc. until they come across something about synaesthesia. Asperger's people may have been talking all along about "purple E's" and people may have just dismissed their comments and told them to "Focus on the task!" It may well be true that many, if not most, Asperger's people experience it and just never say anything because they don't know it's unique to them.
Also to reference ifiddle, who claims that Alison Buckholtz could never have "turned off" her synaesthesia, well, many people turn off perceptions of pain, ignore the car alarm going off all day in front of their building, use biofeedback to lower their own blood pressure, etc. etc. Why would you think that it would be impossible? It may be still THERE, and she probably just means that she learned to ignore it, not that she willed it to actually go away.